Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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Google’s (attempt to create an) encyclopaedia of web development.
A.O. by Mark Pilgrim of “Dive into” fame.
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Standards, best practices and actual open source libraries for developing (self-hosted) social media applications.
From the people behind findmeon.org, see http://www.mediaslate.org/wp/2008/04/25/dataportability-in-motion-podcast-episode-5/ for a podcast.
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Tip for Firefox/Opera users with wide screens!
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- skip login screen by adding”&skipauth=true”
- direct link to download for non-logged in users: http://docs.google.com/MiscCommands?command=saveasdoc&exportFormat=ppt&docid=ID
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“We processed 1,024,908,267,229 words of running text and are publishing the counts for all 1,176,470,663 five-word sequences that appear at least 40 times. There are 13,588,391 unique words, after discarding words that appear less than 200 times.”
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Google extracts the most important locations from web pages and lets you see the search results on a map. To restrict your search to web pages, you need to click on “Show search options” and select “Mapped web pages” from the new drop-down.
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If incorporated in Google Apps for your domain, another blow to traditional enterprise software… (from Official Google Gadgets API Blog)
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