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Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Latitude, now with Location History & Alerts
People also want to know when their friends were nearby, but it's not always convenient to keep checking Latitude to see if a friend has recently shown up near you. After working on this for a while, we realized it wasn't as straightforward as sending a notification every time Latitude friends were near each other. Imagine that you're Latitude friends with your roommate or co-workers. It would get pretty annoying to get a text message every single time you walked in the door at home or pulled into work. To avoid this, we decided to make Location Alerts smarter by requiring that you also enable Location History. Using your past location history, Location Alerts can recognize your regular, routine locations and not create alerts when you're at places like home or work. Alerts will only be sent to you and any nearby friends when you're either at an unusual place or at a routine place at an unusual time. Keep in mind that it may take up to a week to learn your "unusual" locations and start sending alerts.
Phonetikana - the johnson banks thought for the week
Le son est dans la lettre.Multiple trips to Japan and constant frustration at being unable to read the language has sparked off an unusual typographic project at johnson banks. Earlier in the year we started seeing if we could combine the English language and Japanese script in some way.
Weekly column introduces you to a Different neighbouring tree
Légèrement différent de mon projet name a tree. Je vais devoir l'expliquer sur la grangeEach Sunday I will introduce a tree, and you will have the week to get to know it. Whenever possible, I will mention several locations where it can be found.
Royal Ascot Racing-2010
Adobe is Bad for Open Government
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October 2009
Facebook: How to Eliminate “Dead Friend” Suggestions
Last week, in conjunction with its latest redesign, Facebook released “suggestions for helping friends,” a feature that aims to get you to assist your friends that don’t appear to be actively using the site and “reconnect” you with old contacts.
One unfortunate side effect of the feature: it started recommending those you’d rather not connect with, and in some cases, deceased friends.
A Thanksgiving Gift – 7 Days of Source Code | blprnt.blg
When it comes to releasing source code, I’ve always been torn. I really believe in the philosophy of open source, but I’m intimidated by putting my code out there for everyone to see. Underneath it all, I’m probably scared of being exposed as some kind of a charlatan (”You call that programming?”). So, to pre-empt that possibility, I’ll start by saying this: I’m not a great programmer. My code is clean and fairly well-structured, but don’t expect to find any particularly advanced code wizardry or complicated mathematics. I do, however, think that the projects that I’ll be sharing over the week contain some good ideas, and a lot of helpful techniques. Hopefully you’ll find one or all of them useful.
logging – Report status, error, and informational messages. - Python Module of the Week
The logging module defines a standard API for reporting errors and status information from all of your modules. The key benefit of having the logging API provided by a standard library module is that all python modules can participate in logging, so your application log can include messages from third-party modules.
September 2009
Daring Fireball Linked List: Jackass of the Week: U.S. District Court Judge James Ware
Federal judge James Ware orders Google to disable the email account — which belongs to someone who did nothing wrong and was sent the email message by mistake.
En même temps ce n'est pas grave, c'est juste une boîte mail gratuite, il n'y a certainement pas de quoi insulter le juge.
Derek Powazek - How to Publish a Magazine in a Day and a Half
This week the biggest dust storm in 70 years blew through Australia, and the photos of it were stunning. So on Wednesday at noon, I decided to make a photo magazine. It was published on MagCloud Thursday night. All told, it was 31.5 hours from idea to publication, and that’s with a few hours of sleep thrown in.
Rhizome | Only Two Weeks Left!
August 2009
Basic Hip Digital Gold | American records from the 50's, 60's, and beyond | downloads
Week-end de rencontres et d'échanges : devenir paysan, pourquoi pas moi ?
YouTube - UbunTips's Channel
Le monde impitoyable des URL raccourcies - technotes
Leo on the Loose: DIY: One-of-a-kind Trip Map gift
