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Copyright Reform Act tries fixing fair use with seven words
incidental uses, non-consumptive uses, and personal, non-commercial uses.
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Measuring Measures: Social Networks Without the Networking
Great blog post. It's not about your friends, it's about their content.
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What You Need To Know About the Palm App Distribution Program - webOSdev - Palm
Web distribution. Recognizing the value of the web community and the web as a promotional channel, Palm will invest in the tools and services that help you utilize the web and other online channels as powerful promotional opportunities for webOS applications. This approach also addresses feedback we’ve heard from developers who are frustrated by a review-first, publish-later process.
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First subpixel typeface, ever | Typophile
Impressive and creative: First subpixel typeface, ever
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Why does everything suck?: Memo To The Semantic Web: Drop “Semantic” And Become The “Graph Web”
Second, we must simplify our terminology. The expression “graph database” is a single solid term. RDF, triple stores, and SPARQL are diffuse terms as well as being more abstract and harder to understand. When describing what this is all about and you need to use three terms to get your point across, people’s eyes glaze over.
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pushing pixels with canvas at hacks.mozilla.org
Great post on updates to createImageData in Firefox 3.5.
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Dailymotion Blog » Archive du blog » Watch Video…without Flash
Dailymotion is excited to launch a new R&D platform dedicated to open video formats and web standards: openvideo.dailymotion.com. You don’t need the Adobe Flash plugin to watch videos on this platform - the only requirement is the latest version of Firefox, 3.5 beta, available here.
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The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
Amazing article by Kevin Kelly about the rise of "The New Socialism".
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Ajaxian » Someone at Apple, please review stance on PhoneGap
The PhoneGap API implemented in your application is an external framework.
This is just wrong.
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- apple
- iphone
- evil
- web
- javascript
- development
- drm
- rights
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The Rise Of Social Distribution Networks
Today there seems to be a new distribution model that is emerging. One that is based on people’s ability to publically syndicate and distribute messages — aka content — in an open manner. This has been a part of the internet since day one — yet now its emerging in a different form — it's not pages, it's streams, its social and so its syndication. The tools serve to produce, consume, amplify and filter the stream.
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Making video a first class citizen of the Web - Standblog
Making video a first class citizen of the Web. Super cool screencast showing a Firefox 3.5 demo.
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The Future of Mobile (Live from the Web 2.0 Expo) - ReadWriteWeb
The question that Grisby raised during his presentation is an important one: are native applications really the future of the mobile web? Applications built specifically for one device, such as the iPhone, aren't necessarily any more capable than those built using web technology. In fact, they can even tap into the functionality of the phone's hardware itself like the accelerometer and geolocation features. (Really!)
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mySociety » Welcome to mySociety.org
Hello! We are mySociety – we run most of the UK’s best known democracy websites.
Using our services, 200,000 people have written to their MP for the first time, over 8,000 potholes and other broken things have been fixed, nearly 9,000,000 signatures have been left on petitions to the Prime Minister, and at least 77 tiny hats have been knitted for charity.
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Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Given that regular drop-down menus are rife with usability problems, it takes a lot for me to recommend a new form of drop-down. But, as our testing videos show, mega drop-downs overcome the downsides of regular drop-downs. Thus, I can recommend one while warning against the other.
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reCAPTCHA is a freely available CAPTCHA implementation. It distinguishes humans from computers. This may be useful for:
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- programming
- api
- web
- security
- captcha
- webservice

