Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

Great quote on the failed AI-efforts and the success of statistics-based approaches:
"No one alive as these words are being written will live to see a computer pass the Turing Test. What's more, the idea of a humanlike computer will increasingly come to be seen as a kitschy, mid-20th-century idea, like hovercraft and dinner pills on The Jetsons"
(Pet subject of Google's Peter Norvig as well)

Yet another…. converts standard text areas to richt text editing.
Offers hosted javascript, so you only have to include their snippet.
Created by a 22yr old guy, donationware.

Wired period piece on the Google versus Facebook struggle:
"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline. In Zuckerberg's vision, users will query this "social graph" to find a doctor, the best camera, or someone to hire—rather than tapping the cold mathematics of a Google search."

Long article, simple idea: analyse the backlinks of sites that are high in the SERPS for your niche to see how they did it.

Fascinating how visible an impending crisis is in email patterns:
"the number of active email cliques, defined as groups in which every member has had direct email contact with every other member, jumped from 100 to almost 800 around a month before the December 2001 collapse. Messages were also increasingly exchanged within these groups and not shared with other employees.
[...] may have identified a characteristic change that occurs as stress builds within a company: employees start talking directly to people they feel comfortable with, and stop sharing information more widely."

Google resource center on performance optimization.
Articles, videos and downloadable tools.
Includes tips on how to optimize CSS declarations, how to optimize JavaScript code and avoid memory leaks, how to use the best image format and prefetch resources.
Also released Google equivalent of YSlow, Yahoo's Firefox extension for performance tips.

MS version of Google Translate