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Since both the blogosphere and the traditional media is abuzz today with the news about a cyberattack against Georgian official websites presumably organized by Russia (and I have already claimed that I believe the Russian hackers really did not need any special request to get started with the DDoS attack), I thought I'd mention another aspect of the situation that is remotely related to this one and proves my point again

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You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. However, it's forbidden to sell them. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word. This iconset was designed by Helen Gkizi from http://www.webtoolkit4.me/ especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Any site can be a social network. What will schools do?

I have been facing the problem of which online bookmarking service to use for quite some time now. This is due to the fact that I have the StumbleUpon and Google toolbars installed on Firefox, and also have accounts on deli.cio.us, blinklist and digg (and possibly some others which I can't remember right now :-). Too diversified for my own good you say. Well my thoughts exactly. So, if you have any suggestions or comments be my guest.

At the start of this year, I sat down to write the "Errors and Debugging" chapter of Simply JavaScript. I cracked my fingers, dove into the landscape of JavaScript debugging tools, and emerged very disappointed several hours later. At the time, Firefox was the only browser with a JavaScript debugging tool worth writing about: Firebug. Less than a year later, the landscape has changed dramatically. Every major browser has introduced new development tools that make it easier to diagnose problems with your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code right inside the browser in question. But can any of these tools stack up against the slick and effortlessly powerful tools provided by Firebug? Let's take a look.

NXP Semiconductors launched the NXP SAA8510 a mobile multimedia TV-out processor to enable TV-output on any mobile device having a standard LCD interface.

A browser extension that lets you comment right next to any text or image that you find on the web. Currently only support Firefox 2 & 3 or Internet Explorer 7.

Access, Manage, and Monitor Messages From All Your Email and Social Networking Accounts Through Any Inbox You Already Use. NutshellMail Transforms Your Most Commonly Used Email Account Into a Universal Inbox. NutshellMail is Free, Easy, and Secure

Folksonomies are at the pinnacle of Web 2.0 technology. But is there any room for improvements? The disadvantages of folksonomy tagging can be improved upon by semantic 'type-tags.'

tunesBag is an online audio library where you can upload your own music. The product enables you to listen to your tracks and playlists from any computer connected to the internet. tunesBag can only be used to manage music you already have. You can share your library with friends according to the law in Austria (Privatkopie).

Ask any question in conversational English from a cell phone. Call 800-2ChaCha or text 242242 and get the answer as a text message in a few minutes. Learn more.

"... a web destination that aggregates, filters, and customizes all the relevant player and team content available at any time on the Internet." "FanNation.com provides this up-to-date information in a community setting with a user-friendly design. Users, the Fans, blog about anything and everything in sports, network with other sports fans, create groups of interest, track favorite players and teams, and communicate with friends."

What is "White Label" Software? This is software you can brand and integrate tightly into your existing domain. The user experience should be near seamless, therefore any company can have their own MySpace.

WELCOME TO BIGCARROT, A NEW WAY TO DEMOCRATIZE innovation and advocate for the causes you believe in. The site allows people with a common interest to come together and pool their contributions to create an inducement prize. Anyone can start a prize on any topic-from large social issues to smaller personal pursuits-and anyone with the ability to claim the prize can submit a solution. It's the best way to achieve real results.

An experimental matrix of Web 2.0 mashups.
Usage: Hover the cursor over any cell in the matrix. A small box gives details on mashups for that API combination. Top links in hover box bring you to that API's reference page. Links in body of hover box take you directly to the mashup. Not all combinations have mashups & only those with the 'º' indicator currently have entries. Cells at the intersection of same API (ex: Amazon+Amazon) list any other examples for that API.

Note that there are two views into the matrix: the default view shows only those APIs for which mashups have been added to the database. The second view shows all APIs regardless of whether there's currently a mashup registered. It's big. Definitions: What is a mashup anyway? As always, it's good to check Wikipedia's definition, but essentially a "mashup" is a web-based application built through (creative) combination of data from multiple sources. Often, but by no means always, this data is retrieved by using a vendor's API such as those listed here. (An API? Also at Wikipedia.) Some recent press may also help explain: BusinessWeek's "Mix, Match and Mutate", The Economist's "Mashing the Web". Background: This is an experiment. It is intended to be both a reference point and also a visualization. What you see here today will change both in content and form shortly. I am quite interested in seeing the 'space' in which mashups exist. Clearly, some APIs such as Google Maps, appear to be more widely used than others. UI Issues: Cross-browser support is good but not complete. Sometimes it can b

nferring and Visualizing Social Networks on IRC screenshot PieSpy is an IRC bot that monitors a set of IRC channels. It uses a simple set of heuristics to infer relationships between pairs of users. These inferrences allow PieSpy to build a mathematical model of a social network for any channel. These social networks can be drawn and used to create animations of evolving social networks. PieSpy has also been used to visualize Shakespearean social networks. This page got slashdotted on 11 March 2004, with the site getting 250,000 hits per hour. Thanks to Notnet for making sure it all stayed alive! PieSpy was presented at the Information Visualization conference (IV'04) in July 2004. Read the full paper online. It has also appeared in Computer Weekly, c't magazine, and I was interviewed live on BBC Radio Kent.

"Social tagging services like Faviki and Zigtag also allow end users to tag content using the Common Tag format." - http://www.diigo.com/06cbz

Zigtag's semantic tags allow you to tags with concepts rather than tags. This allows you to tag something in different ways (e.g. New York, newyork, NYC), and have it all mean the same thing. Search using the terms you want, e.g. find pages about New York City using NY, "New York", or even "Big Apple" - any of these will find every page about New York City. Semantic tagging means that Zigtag understands synonyms - we understand that "Big Apple" is the same thing as "New York". Semantic tagging means that everybody is tagging with the same terms that have meaning, which makes it easier for everybody to find what everyone else has tagged.

From building a social networking website to providing a robust corporate intranet for internal collaboration, ConcourseConnect is a flexible solution that can be tailored to virtually any company or organization's needs.

Here's how to get your blog (or any other RSS or Atom feed) sent to popular microblogging platforms: # Decide which network(s) you want to post to twitterfeed can post directly to twitter, identi.ca, custom laconica installations, and via HelloTxt or Ping.fm, simultaneously to the many platforms supported by these services. # Login to twitterfeed using your OpenID OpenID is a standard for providing single sign on between web sites You can register your own OpenID for free, or may even be able to use your existing blog ID [more]. Tell us the URL for your blog's RSS feed, and how often we should post on your behalf