ChangeForge | Ken Stewart | Where business and technology collide:
Why is it that sales and support seem to have this stereotypical rift?I’ve typically been categorized as an “IT guy”. I’m OK with that label, because I know people believe labels and categories offer some sense of increased (Read More)
Engadget:
By definition, the Qi Smartbook U1000 isn't a smartbook. It's more like a touchscreen MID, but we'll let the semantics slide (just this once). Based on a 624MHz CPU, Windows Mobile 6.1 and a 5-inch touch panel (800 x 480), th (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a legal analysis query engine that combines artificial intelligence, game theory and semantics to offer advice, conflict prevention and dispute settlement for European law, a (Read More)
Submitted by emmeffe2
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I find myself on the verge of doing, essentially, the last thing I ever wanted to do in my academic career, the thing I most sought to avoid – taking a course, particularly a seminar, on Orientalism.I am to some extent put at (Read More)
Submitted by mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
The last thing the world needs is another damn URL shortener. There is no money to be made in this business, yet a new one launches pretty much every day. They're all mostly the same, offering some basic analytics like how ma (Read More)
Submitted by lionelane
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In social media circles, there’s been a lot of talk recently about online influencers — finding and cultivating this relatively new genre of people in hopes of getting them to mention your business or write something favorabl (Read More)
Mashable!:
One of the hottest controversies on the Web right now involves the rejection of Google Voice from Apple’s iTunes App Store. The FCC is looking into the issue, and Google is working on a workaround to offer Voice as a web-bas (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Dorthy.com, a site we've been hearing about since late last year, has just raised $4 million from angel investors for their "new agey" concept of a search engine for dreams. Currently in private alpha, the site makes fluffy c (Read More)
All Things Digital:
Wenda Millard–calling in to BoomTown HQ from a boat either on the way to or the way from Slovenia, since she said she was not exactly sure, given it was the middle of the night there–wanted to make one thing clear:She is stil (Read More)
Google Operating System:
The most recent Google Chrome dev build added a feature that lets you synchronize your bookmarks with a Google account. Because of a technical issue with Google's new sync technology and because Google Chrome uses folders ins (Read More)
Engadget:
You can tussle over semantics all day long (particularly machine translated semantics), but there's little doubt that Viako's Ion-equipped machine is more than eager to handle whatever high-def material you throw its way. The (Read More)
Webware.com:
Allen Razdow, who wrote Mathcad in 1985, has just released his latest tool for engineers and other numerically-inclined professionals: True Numbers, an online service and specification that lets users see and record the meani (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Words have obvious meanings to most users, and even when knowledge fails, there's an obvious method to compensate: look it up. Numbers also have semantic values, but the (Read More)
Google Operating System:
Google Browser Sync, the Firefox extension that synchronized your bookmarks, cookies, passwords and sessions across multiple computers, is about to be resurrected in Google Chrome.Google works on a feature that will initially (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
MySpace will announce in the next few weeks a major new feature being added to its MySpace ID product that will allow 3rd party websites to write updates into the MySpace activity feed just like Facebook Connect, but will als (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
(New York, NY) Meetup.com is looking to add smart, creative, and experienced front-end coders to our User Interface Engineering team. These are mid and senior level positions on a collaborative, supportive, relaxed, and motiv (Read More)
Alt Search Engines:
Yebol’s mission is to build human-like world’s knowledge base and provide knowledge based search (semantics) and services.Yebol utilizes a combination of patented algorithms paired with human knowledge to build a Web director (Read More)
Submitted by jgmize
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1. Import systemReplace the flat module cache by a set of ModuleTree objects rooted in nodes living on the PYTHONPATH. Apply relative path semantics by default and treat absolute paths as special cases. Internal paths which a (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
In Issue No. 288 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: How to integrate accessibility with front-end development instead of treating it as an afterthought—an item on a checklist. And why not every form of writing can (Read More)
Six Revisions : Web Development and Design:
As developers, we’re naturally obsessed with details, conventions, and semantics. There are only a few professions that I know of that will take the time to avoid moderate compromises like using conditional comment hacks o (Read More)