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""The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts. For example, you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, local businesses, friends, or any compilation that makes sense.""

"This guide shows you how to configure the settings and integration points for a Facebook Platform application and configure your host server. It does not discuss the actual development of your application. You can find the code for some sample applications on the Facebook Developer website. You can create an application in minutes using the code for a basic Facebook application in the Developer application (follow the example code link). Follow the sections in this guide to create a Facebook application. The essential steps are: * Preparing yourself and your server. * Adding the Facebook Developer application to your Facebook account. * Setting up your application on Facebook. * Developing your application (beyond the scope of this document). * Managing your application. "

According to Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Team, 40% to 60% of Yahoo!'s users have an empty cache experience and about 20% of all page views are done with an empty cache (see this article by Tenni Theurer on the YUIBlog for more information on browser cache usage). This fact outlines the importance of keeping web pages as lightweight as possible. Improving the engineering design of a page or a web application usually yields the biggest savings and that should always be a primary strategy. With the right design in place, there are many secondary strategies for improving performance such as minification of the code, HTTP compression, using CSS sprites, etc. In terms of code minification, the most widely used tools to minify JavaScript code are Douglas Crockford's JSMIN, the Dojo compressor and Dean Edwards' Packer. Each of these tools, however, has drawbacks. JSMIN, for example, does not yield optimal savings (due to its simple algorithm, it must leave many line feed characters in the code in order not to introduce any new bugs). The goal of JavaScript and CSS minification is always to preserve the operational qualities of the code while reducing its overall byte footprint (both in raw terms and after gzipping, as most JavaScript and CSS served from production web servers is gzipped as part of the HTTP protocol). The YUI Compressor is JavaScript minifier designed to be 100% safe and yield a higher compression ratio than most other tools. Tests on the YUI Library have shown savings of over 20% compared to JSMin (becoming 10% after HTTP compression). Starting with version 2.0, the YUI Compressor is also able to compress CSS files by using a port of Isaac Schlueter's regular-expression-based CSS minifier.

SmartGWT is easy to setup and I simply can't understand why they don't add a few lines into their Getting Started page. Yesterday I found obsolete SmartGWT setup tutorial - but it still works with only one thing missing. As someone mentioned in comments there, you need to add following code into your HTML (before script with your GWT module): Besides this you only need one inherit in your GWT Module XML: And of course - add smartgwt.jar on your classpath for GWT compiler. That's it - now you know how to setup SmartGWT project. (Of course I omitted the coding part, but there is a Showcase with examples.) That's the missing Getting Started. A few lines instead of many links mostly for Eclipse users - with some links not even related to SmartGWT at all.

I'm sure you all know that it's possible to create plugins and extend various aspects of the jQuery JavaScript library but did you know you could also extend the capabilities of it's selector engine? Well, you can! For example, you might want to add a new ':inline' selector which will return those elements that are displayed inline. Have a look:

Interesting way to present things using flowgram. Example given on web2.0 presentation.

OGC Network™ is a window onto the dynamic, constantly changing geospatial web as described by the OpenGIS® Reference Model (ORM). Multiple communities of interest for research in geospatial interoperability are supported, and persistent demonstration capability is provided. Here you will find the latest information on OGC-compatible software, services, and information models (e.g. GML profiles, SLD examples, etc.). From this site you can quickly locate OGC-compatible geospatial web services, the latest XML schema documents, discussion forums, conformance testing resources, and GML profile working areas. Instructions on signing up for authoring privileges are on the help page.

This is a great example of how wonderful social media is doing online. We are seeing things or learning things before the news networks get a hold of it.

Facebook is a wonderful example of the network effect, in which the value of a network to a user is exponentially proportional to the number of other users that network has. Facebook's power derives from what Jeff Rothschild, its vice president of technology, calls the "social graph"--the sum of the wildly various connections between the site's users and their friends; between people and events; between events and photos; between photos and people; and between a huge number of discrete objects linked by metadata describing them and their connections.

collection of javascripts based on mootools

Here are the points I consider important when we're talking about Ajax APIs in JavaScript (Ajax implies that but you'd be surprised how often a REST API is advertised as Ajax): Good documentation / Usage examples to copy + paste / Modularity / Link results to entries / Offer flexible input / Allow for custom object transportation / Cover usability basics

There is still a major fraction of industry that refuses to accept the full efficiency and economy of the Internet. Sure, they might be using email and Google search, but that's about it. I'd like to create a list that spans various cross-sections of industries that are still missing the big picture. Feel free to chirp in with any other examples.

There is a continuous development of computers and intent technologies but in the mean time all these developments on one side leads to the development in the various fields for example education , communication and business, but on the other side it caused several threats on the Internet such as virus, trojan horse, worm, and spyware .

This is a video of a talk that Lawrence Lessig (Professor, Stanford Law School) gave for an unnamed organization. In his talk, Lessig provides a powerful and piercing analysis on the impact that legal restrictions on the re/use of media resources has on creativity and cultural production. During his talk, Lessig shows some remarkably creative mash-up videos on YouTube to exemplify the kind of creativity/cultural production that is possible through ubiquitous digital media, yet is considered copyright violation, for example, in the eyes of Warner Brothers Music Group. Ironically, the organization that hosted the talk received a notice from Warner Bros Music after posting a video of the Lessig's talk on YouTube, which, according to Lessig's blog, "objected to its being posted on copyright grounds." Warner Brother Music Group has implemented content-id algorithms (i.e., technology that detects the digital "fingerprint" of corporate-"owned" copyrighted works) through media hosting services, including YouTube, FaceBook, and others. When the video of Lessig's talk was posted, it was 'dusted' for fingerprints of WBMG copyrighted works. The detection system identified the soundtracks in the YouTube videos Lessig showed, as materials to which they held copyright. Both the video of Lessig's talk and the blog conversation regarding WBMG's objection are must-see resources.

The MEMS technology seems to byte bigger and bigger chunks from the conventional semiconductor market. And although the accelerometer is the first thing that pops into mind when you think of an example, the most widespread MEMS representative is most probably the microphone.

Cascading Style Sheets reference. examples, cross-browser solutions, descriptions

JavaScript reference with examples, descriptions, browser-support and cross-browser solutions.

Cross-browser JavaScript solutions for a most of language elements. Examples and instructions how to make browser independent script.

With Christmas coming up, its time to create some Christmas articles here on Levoltz. Today I've collected Top 20 Well Designed Christmas Wallpapers, to give you the Christmas feeling when you are working on your computer. You can download the full size wallpapers by clicking on the small examples y