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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 :)

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.

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"}]]}

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.

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 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.

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.

With an exotic display, one-touch controls, good sound, and a friendly price, the Marantz PMD620 aims to be your portable digital audio recorder.

write a very simplistic RSS 2.0 feed generator

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.

Lenin created the first truly modern propaganda machine, and its most colorful, dramatic and original form was the poster.

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 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.

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?

The imp module exposes the implementation of Python’s import statement.

how to set up the environment so that the right URI-s would lead to the right format, ie, either HTML or RDF.

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 to point at web pages but we too often forget that they can be use for other things too.

uses 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:

excellente explication du concept de datespace