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12 May 2008 07:00
Open Mashups Studio - blog.mozbox.org
by 1 otherComme quoi on fait des choses bien aussi dans la communauté francophone.Open-Mashups is a Firefox extension based on technologies such as SVG, XBL, XSLT and XPCom. The author of the extension (Fabrice Desré, from Orange Labs - France Telecom) told me a future version of this tool will be based on XulRunner in order to provide a cross platform Desktop widget engine :)
12 May 2008 05:00
Prototype for distributed / decentralised microblogging using semantics at Cloudlands
oooooh, mais cela ressemble furieusement à mon système distribué. Je me demande si Alexandre Passant avait lu mon billet.The prototype uses FOAF and SIOC to model microbloggers, their properties, account and service information, and the microblog updates that users create. A multitude of publishing services can ping one or a set of aggregating servers as selected by each user, and it is important to note that users retain control of their own data through self hosting.
12 May 2008 01:00
Adresse -> Lat/Long API Japon
API for geolocation
L'API n'est pas protégé par un login. Avec une addresse comme
東京都世田谷区北沢1-1
on reçoit en retour:
{"result_select":[[{"text":"東京都世田谷区北沢1-1","lat":"35.660823","weight":2,"type":"address","lng":"139.676925"}]]}
Locosticker - OKI - Livedoor
Livedoor, Oki's Service Detects Location Information in Blog Articles -- Tech-On!
The Livedoor Blog Map finds geographical expressions from blog articles and add their latitude and longitude information to the articles. Accordingly, positions mentioned in blogs can be displayed in the "Livedoor" map, even though blog writers do not provide such information by themselves.
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11 May 2008 14:00
marketing: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Features
With Version 3.0, OpenOffice.org is now able to run on Mac OS X without the need for X11. Thus, OpenOffice.org behaves like any other Aqua application.
Opacity
Opacity is a brand new program for drawing graphics for the screen. It's great for making resolution independent images and icons for applications and the web.
11 May 2008 13:00
nihilogic: Reading EXIF data with Javascript
Binary data is readily available through the responseText property in both Firefox and Safari, it seems, but both IE and Opera pretty much destroy the data.
11 May 2008 10:00
Google Trends: terrorism, torch
11 May 2008 00:00
O'Reilly -- Review: Marantz PMD620 Handheld WAV Recorder
With an exotic display, one-touch controls, good sound, and a friendly price, the Marantz PMD620 aims to be your portable digital audio recorder.
Jock Sturges - Line of beauty and grace
10 May 2008 23:00
Creating An RSS 2.0 Feed Using cElementTree
write a very simplistic RSS 2.0 feed generator
Modest Maps Python ws-compose and ws-pinwin Examples
ws-compose is an HTTP interface (written in Python) to the Modest Maps libraries for fetching and compositing map tiles in to a single static image.
Vintage Soviet Posters & Soviet Propaganda Posters | International Poster Gallery
Lenin created the first truly modern propaganda machine, and its most colorful, dramatic and original form was the poster.
YouPorn Vivid Entertainment Profile - Portfolio.com
DVD sales are in free fall. Audiences are flocking to pornographic knockoffs of YouTube, especially a secretive site called YouPorn. And the amateurs are taking over. What’s happening to the adult-entertainment industry is exactly what’s happening to its Hollywood counterpart—only worse.
isbndb.com - free ISBN database
by 9 othersISBNdb.com project is a database of books in different languages providing on-line and remote research tools for individuals, librarians, scientists, etc. Taking data from hundreds of libraries across the world ISBNdb is a unique tool you won't find anywhere else.
Managing digital rights in the publishing world - bobdc.blog
The management of digital rights, as opposed to their enforcement, is a real problem in the publishing industry, but discussion is usually drowned out by the shouting matches about digital rights enforcement. Here's a typical use case: an editor wants to take an article with six pictures from her magazine's print edition and put it online. Two of the pictures come from a cookbook being reviewed by the article, two were shot for the article by a freelancer, and two come from a stock photo house. Which images can the editor use in the online version?
PyMOTW: imp - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog
The imp module exposes the implementation of Python’s import statement.
Setting up an RDFa file with apache « Ivan’s private site
how to set up the environment so that the right URI-s would lead to the right format, ie, either HTML or RDF.
cart: home page
computer software and documentation for creating density-equalizing maps or "cartograms" using the technique described in the recent paper Diffusion-based method for producing density equalizing maps,
URLs aren’t just for web pages « Derivadow.com
URLs to point at web pages but we too often forget that they can be use for other things too.
Stefanie Posavec “On the Map” (NOTCOT)
by 2 othersuses craft and design to understand the symbolic and representative nature of maps. Works included a dress made of maps, numerous old maps of London, a gorgeous Kerr | Noble representation of the River Thames through graphic design and the words of the John Banck’s Description of London. Seen here:
"c'est quoi un datespace ?", expliqué par Dom - koalie's red page - by coralie mercier
excellente explication du concept de datespace
