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MediaShift . Brave Citizen Journalists Provide New Images of Iranian Life | PBS
June 2009
Aged comedy « BuzzMachine
The Fast Company 50 - 2009 | Fast Company
Even in these tough times, surprising and extraordinary efforts are under way in businesses across the globe. From politics to technology, energy, and transportation; from marketing to retail, health care, and design, each company on the following pages illustrates the power and potential of innovative ideas and creative execution. These are the kinds of enterprises that will redefine our future and point the way to a better tomorrow.
Michael(tm) Smith » On privacy protection in Web applications and browser APIs
I feel a lot of anger and frustration in this list.
Some of the items seem fine to me. I would not have written them like this ;). I disagree strongly with the last one, not because of the rationale but the form. It’s an unproven affirmation. There will be cases where it will be indeed the case and some not. :)
About geolocation privacy, the issue has hit the fan already ;) Advertising the user’s location is one way to make aware the user (or users in developping countries) of a mobile device. Blocking access to the location is *not always* a solution either. Sometimes the solution will be in how long the data can be kept, sometimes the solution will be in how the data will be used.
Repeat after me 1000 times: It is not a privacy issue, but a lack (or very thin) opacity issue. The network makes the access to information very quick and easy. There’s no need or no use to block it. There is need to be able to slow down the stream at will.
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Le réseau Twitter émerge comme source d'information pour les médias - Technologies - Le Monde.fr
Obama | One People
Article Skimmer from The New York Times
Unboxing Web-Oriented Architecture: The 6 Aspects Of An Emergent Architectural Style
Transfer Methods. This is at the core of REST and ROA and is the foundation of Web-Oriented Architecture. You can read Roy Fielding's chapter on REST (he conceived of the approach originally) or you can just follow the simple guidelines here. At other times, protocols like BitTorrent can be used if the requirements warrant it, but these are exceptional scenarios that I will cover at some point in the future.
Ne pas citer XMPP dans les "Transfer Methods" quelque jours après l'annonce de Google Wave, et surtout le mettre dans le schéma au niveau des Microformats fait perdre toute crédibilité à l'article.
About Soul of Athens | Soul of Athens 2009
The One Fiber Optic Cable No One on the Dig for Tysons Rail Wants to Hit - washingtonpost.com
And they have snapped, accidentally, dozens of those carriers' lines, because even not-so-secret commercial lines sometimes don't show up on utility maps. Goguen, the utility manager, estimates that the rail project has already hit three dozen lines, sometimes doing no damage and other times grinding work to a halt or cutting power to retailers along Route 7. Even after extensively researching land records and maps and digging more than 600 test holes to determine utility locations, it's hard to avoid accidents on a project of such complexity and in such a busy place, he said.
Voilà ce qui se passe quand on fait de l'agile : ça sprinte, ça sprinte, et 3 ans après, il faut un démineur :-)
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May 2009
New Top-Level Domains Emerging
Twitter dépasse Digg, LinkedIn et le NYTimes.com
Deducing Trip Related Information from Flickr | Semantic Web Dog Food
Uploading tourist photos is a popular activity on photo sharing platforms. These photographs and their associated metadata (tags, geo-tags, and temporal information) should be useful for mining information about the sites visited. However, user-supplied metadata are often noisy and efficient filtering methods are needed before extracting useful knowledge. We focus here on exploiting temporal information, associated with tourist sites that appear in Flickr. From automatically filtered sets of geo-tagged photos, we deduce answers to questions like "how long does it take to visit a tourist attraction?" or "what can I visit in one day in this city?" Our method is evaluated and validated by comparing the automatically obtained visit duration times to manual estimations.
Yahoo! Placemaker™ Beta - YDN
Gigapixel Photography - Creators of High-Resolution Images
April 2009
Manny hits Vegas ready for war
your favourites : un album sur Flickr
All drawings that have been Faved at least 25 times, by your good selves. Thank you, you strange strange people.
