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40 Beautifully Designed Christian Websites - 0 views

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    After posting 15 Beautiful Christian Website Designs back in September, 08 we came across many more beautifully designed Christian websites, which are worthy of mention. These websites serve as a source of inspiration especially if you are designing a church website. Feel free to mention any we may have missed, in the comment area. After posting 15 Beautiful Christian Website Designs back in September, 08 we came across many more beautifully designed Christian websites, which are worthy of mention. These websites serve as a source of inspiration especially if you are designing a church website. Feel free to ment
Graham Perrin

SemanticWeb - Putting Wikipedia to Work for the Semantic Web - 0 views

  • services such as del.i.cious, Twitter, and Facebook
    • Graham Perrin
       
      … and Diigo (I hope)
  • Semantic tags are in, free text tags are out.
  • August 4, 2009
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  • Semantic tags will be a core building block of the next-generation web
  • leveraging the popular Wikipedia as a vast source of a universal controlled vocabulary
  • Wikipedia can serve as a great controlled vocabulary for tags
  • Every concept is unique, has a unique URI,
  • well-defined.
  • DBpedia did a very good job of extracting the structure or semi-structure
  • and expressing it in RDF
  • or a machine readable way.
  • Faviki helps users remove the ambiguity otherwise surrounding free text tags’ meaning.
  • You can use some concrete concepts as tags
  • yourself as the author as a tag
  • specific organizations or companies or people or specific ideas as tags
  • DBpedia’s linking between the various language versions of Wikipedia
  • users tag in 14 different languages
  • English as the universal reference
  • Common Tag
  • last month, Faviki added the ability for users to use their own keywords or tags in a freeform way
  • and map them to semantic tags
  • connecting tagging with searching to accomplish this.
  • the new release lets users create new tags outside of Wikipedia, using Google returns from the whole world of web pages
  • users collaborate on which URLs are the best candidates for new concepts.
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Smart.
  • URL tags are not so clear as dbpedia
  • a bit more messy
  • a bit more dynamic,
  • but the idea was to make it semi-automatic. People make them and disambiguate them while adding tags
  • some kind of compromise.
  • Next steps for Faviki are around connecting with other services such as del.i.cious, Twitter, and Facebook, to make it easier for users to try it out.
  • Some longer-term plans would be to publish data from Faviki in linked data, to connect to the rest of inked data,
  • making that data queryable to developers via SPARQL.
  • by opening the data, because that’s the idea of the semantic web, to make the data open and connect easily to various sources
  • as much a platform as an application
  • mappings between free tags’ association and some uniquely identified concepts will be very important
    • Graham Perrin
       
      I agree.
  • that kind of data will be interesting to developers.
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    Recommended reading for anyone interested in tagging, semantic tagging or the semantic web.
David Corking

WOW: Facebook Launches a Twitter App |Mashable | August 2009 - 0 views

  • owever, I wouldn’t expect this functionality to be extended to user profiles anytime soon, which would clearly be a bigger win for Twitter than Facebook.
    • David Corking
       
      Why not? Surely Facebook would be glad to discourage you from logging into Twitter, and spend more time on their own site.
  • by giving users the ability to update both services via Facebook, they’re clearly hoping that the Facebook Page will become the first stop for admins.
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Gov 2.0: It's All About The Platform - 0 views

  • But as with Web 2.0, the real secret of success in Government 2.0 is thinking about government as a platform. If there’s one thing we learn from the technology industry, it’s that every big winner has been a platform company: someone whose success has enabled others, who’ve built on their work and multiplied its impact. Microsoft put “a PC on every desk and in every home,” the internet connected those PCs, Google enabled a generation of ad-supported startups, Apple turned the phone market upside down by letting developers loose to invent applications no phone company would ever have thought of. In each case, the platform provider raised the bar, and created opportunities for others to exploit.
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    But as with Web 2.0, the real secret of success in Government 2.0 is thinking about government as a platform. If there's one thing we learn from the technology industry, it's that every big winner has been a platform company: someone whose success has enabled others, who've built on their work and multiplied its impact. Microsoft put "a PC on every desk and in every home," the internet connected those PCs, Google enabled a generation of ad-supported startups, Apple turned the phone market upside down by letting developers loose to invent applications no phone company would ever have thought of. In each case, the platform provider raised the bar, and created opportunities for others to exploit.
Graham Perrin

DevHawk - The Last Mile of the Internet - 5 views

  • August 27, 2009
  • The Last Mile of the Internet
  • NAT/Firewall issue makes any async messaging based approach useless for clients
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  • Polling sucks. We think a decentralized pubsub layer is a fundamental, missing layer in the Internet architecture today
  • a fundamental design that looks like this: This picture leaves out multiple publishers and subscribers and the subscriber registration process, but you get the basic idea
  • fine for server subscribers (like, say Google Reader) but not for client subscribers (like, say TweetDeck).
  • the only way to enable client subscribers to play in this async messaging world is via some type of relay service
  • In this approach, the client subscriber makes an outbound connection to some type of relay infrastructure
  • technically feasible
  • Yes, having to relay messages sucks. But the question is
  • which sucks worse: polling or relaying?
  • Harry Pierson
abigail caitlin

Fizzer Worm Targets Email, KaZaA Users - 0 views

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    Discovered on May/08/03, Fizzer (a.k.a. W32/Fizzer@MM, W32/Fizzer.A, and Worm/Fizzu.A worm) spreads via email and the KaZaA P2P network. According to antivirus vendor F-Secure, Fizzer contains a built-in IRC backdoor, a DoS (Denial of Service) attack tool, a data stealing trojan, an HTTP server and autoupdating capabilities. The worm also has the ability to disable certain antivirus programs.
Graham Perrin

Google My Stuff May Rise From The Dead - 0 views

  • My Stuff
  • stored and shared online. Flickr for photos. YouTube for videos. Zoho and Slideshare for office docs, etc.
  • aggregate those files
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  • APIs for the various third party services
  • one web based
  • My Stuff may have simply have evolved
  • Google may be prepared to unveil
  • merged with GDrive, Google’s long (long) awaited cloud storage
  • not so sure
  • cloud storage just isn’t so novel
  • The solution that Evernote are pushing is a sensible approach
Michelle Hapich

theitclassroom: Top 25 Back to School Web 2.0 Tools/Sites - 29 views

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    New back to school list for 2010!
Jungle Jar

JungleJar | 38 Really Quality Websites to Find Free Photoshop Brushes - 0 views

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    If you use Adobe Photoshop, whether you're a graphic designer, a website designer, a print media designer -- okay, a designer of just about any sort, then you know how useful and helpful a quality website that offers free Photoshop brushes can be. In this article I've gathered a list of my absolute favorites, and in my opinion, having this list means you no longer have to go searching Google or follow blind links for high quality Photoshop brushes.
Andrew Long

BREAKING: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed | Mashable - 0 views

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    "Huge news in the world of social media today: FacebookFacebook has acquired online activity aggregator FriendFeedFriendFeed."
Jungle Jar

JungleJar | Featured Web Application: PHPanywhere.net - 0 views

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    This is an extremely cool and useful web application, and if it hasn't been thought of before, I'm absolutely shocked, because it makes so much sense. Essentially, PHPanywhere is a web based free Integrated Development Environment or IDE for the PHP language. In other words it is a web based application that provides PHP developers a PHP code editor that mocks a desktop application, and it does so very well.
Graham Perrin

Instapaper: A $5 App That Justifies Your iPhone Purchase | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

  • Instapaper
  • one of two* killer apps for the iPhone
  • Instapaper started out as a simple web service
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  • “Read Later” bookmarklet
  • automatically reformatted (all excess HTML and graphics are stripped out)
  • highly-readable text
  • view all those saved articles in an iPhone-friendly format
  • On my commute, in the evening, during the odd moments of downtime
  • super-convenient mini-reading tablet
  • reading long-form articles
  • catching up on the news
  • downloads articles in the background
  • Instapaper Pro
  • handles the “graphical version” (with photo) of articles better
  • archive articles that you’ve read more easily
  • reversed mode
  • light text on a dark background
  • tilt-scrolling
  • for anyone who commutes by public transit
  • lock out rotation
  • read in bed
Willis Wee

8 Reasons Why Businesses Avoid Using Social Media | Penn Olson - 0 views

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    You will probably find an increasing number of businesses putting their brand presence in social media sites. Several big brands (and also small brands) are using Twitter and Facebook to build relationships with their fan base. Conversely, there are also many businesses who are (very) skeptical about this whole idea. Are you that stubborn businessman who is unwilling to try new social media tools? If you are, you will most probably agree with the points below but look out for the counter-arguments!
Willis Wee

Social Media Best Practices | Penn Olson - 0 views

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    "After studying the top most engaging brands on the web and going in depth to see how Starbucks and Dell did it, I have gathered some tried and tested best practices businesses can apply into their own social media efforts."
Andrew Long

Zuckerberg Admits Facebook Now Has 200 Million Users | Techcrunch - 0 views

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    Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook growth is still increasing, particularly 35+ age group (watch out kids your parents are coming!).
Jungle Jar

JungleJar | 5 Useful Web Applications For Webmasters - 0 views

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    Being a webmaster, you've got your hands full, and I should know; I'm obviously one myself. So, anytime I come across applications to make the job easier, especially web applications, I'm quick to try them out and promote their greatness. In this article we have a social network popularity scanner, a 'people' scanner with real-time statistics (somewhat different than an analytical scan), a community based web application set for your business or website and more.
Lasto adri

Gender and Blogging in the Arab World : Gender and Technology - 0 views

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    Kolena Laila is listed
Hendy Irawan

Exploring OAuth-Protected APIs :: Drive-by Digressions - 0 views

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    " From time to time I need to debug OAuth-protected APIs, checking response headers and examining XML and JSON payloads. curl generally rocks for this sort of thing, but when the APIs in question are protected with OAuth, things break down. Likewise for benchmarking (ab, httperf, etc.) and exploration-isn't it nice to browse APIs that return XML in Firefox? This needn't to be the case. Enter oauth-proxy This is why I wrote oauth-proxy. It does what it says on the tin: it acts a proxy server that transparently adds OAuth headers to requests."
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