Ubiquity: this is a big deal (9)
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I’m gonna go out on a limb and do something I don’t typically do, which is guess the fate of something. But my gut tells me Ubiquity, a new project just announced on Mozilla Labs, is going to be a hell of a big deal. Ubiquity, in a nutshell, is a set of functions on top of the browser that allows the user to take data sources existing now, and being created now (i.e like ...
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Jeff said:
Cool demo video - are we beginning to see the platforms that can be built on top of the semantic web?
Clouds and The Distorted Notion of Direct Control [GNUCITIZEN] (1)
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I would like to share a few thoughts on the notion of being in direct control of your environment. This article is a continuation from my previous one and it aims to justify why nowadays individuals and organizations prefer to give away control in order to gain more agility. Needless to say, less control is often equal to less security. Some of you who have been following the blog may be familiar with some of ...
New AT&T iPhone International Data Plans Ream You Slightly Less Hard [IPhone] (1)
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Your current cheap options for international data from AT&T are 20MB for $24.99 or 50 MB for $59.99—ream city, though without them there's no lube at all, as Blam found out when he came back from Brazil, where AT&T's int'l roaming discounts don't apply. AT&T now has two iPhone specific plans: 100MB for $120, and 200MB for $200, a savings of $0 and $40, respectively. Still, ouch. [AT&T]
AT&T adds two international data plans for iPhone, still pricey (3)
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Filed under: Cellphones, HandheldsFollowing new plans geared to the decidedly less fruity phones in AT&T's lineup earlier this month, the carrier has announced a pair of international data packages geared specifically toward the iPhone and iPhone 3G. The bad news is that they still cost more than the average subscriber's entire monthly bill; the good news, though, is that they should still manage to save globetrotters a buck or two (or a thousand) who insist ...
WSJ: The Numbers Guy: MLB Standings Get More Sophisticated (1)
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"For the past month, ESPN.com’s Major League Baseball standings have included postseason probabilities, broken down by chance of winning the division and winning a wild card. It’s a brave step forward for standings, longtime fixtures of newspaper agate and more-recent staples of online sports sites. And ESPN isn’t yet sure playoff probabilities, as supplied by an online standings provider called Coolstandings, are for the long term."
Friends don't let friends use Endnote (1)
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Government Data: File Not Found (1)
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Earlier this month the district attorney in Albany, New York, released thousands of pages of documents related to his investigation of a scandal involving former Gov. Eliot Spitzer. This goes back to the days when Spitzer's alleged improprieties involved misuse of the state police, over-the-top aggressiveness and a lust for smearing political opponents. Not as titillating as the governor's later transgressions, perhaps, but still of interest to those of us who follow the sad state ...
datalibre alive again! (2)
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After a long hiatus due to a wordpress hack, datalibre is back up and running. I did a full reinstall of wp, a full update of the theme files, and put in most of the customization (I think). So we’re back to agitating for data freedom in Canada, to whit: datalibre.ca is a group blog, inspired by civicaccess.ca, which believes all levels of Canadian governments should make civic information and data accessible at no cost ...
Proximus et iPhone : Le record de la facture la plus salée : 3475€/mois! (1)
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Nous vous parlions en nos lignes de cette mésaventure d’un de nos membres ayant reçu une facture de 1700€ suite à l’utilisation de son iPhone à l’étranger… C’est à présent notre membre Grapplerzaki, qui nous fait part de la surprise qui l’attendait ce matin lors de la lévée du courrier… En effet, ce n’est pas moins de 3475€ que la société Proximus lui réclame, suite à un mois d’utilisation de son iPhone 3G; dont la ...
Valid date-time values in sql server. SqlDateTime vs DateTime (2)
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You cannot store every date in sql server. The valid range of dates is from 1/1/1753 (1-1-1753) to 12/31/9999 (31-12-9999). The range of the .NET DateTime type is far larger. So before storing a datetime in a sql server database you have to perform a check. This should be (and is) not to difficult in .NET. But as the documentation of SqlDateTime and other Google results are confusing hereby a quick summary. The .NET framework ...
Tweetake Backs Up Your Tweets to CSV Files [Twitter] (48)
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There's a good chance Twitter might never lose all the messages, replies, following lists, and other data its users have racked up over its short, expansive life—then again, it's not exactly the paradigm of reliable service, either. Even if you don't need (or care) to secure your messages, free service Tweetake does a hack-happy job of grabbing selected parts of your Twitter profile or the whole thing and dumps it into an easily-opened Comma Separated ...
HDTV price drops coming prior to Black Friday? (1)
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Filed under: Industry, Displays, DLP, LCD, PlasmaEarlier this month, we found that North American TV shipments were up a whopping 28% year-over-year, yet some analysts are strongly suggesting that across-the-board price drops are near. Granted, one research institute already predicted that flat-panel prices would decline substantially in 2008, so it's not like this assumption is brand new or anything. Nevertheless, Andrew Abrams, executive director and senior analyst at Avian Securities, is proclaiming that a "substantial" ...
Revealing Useful Data Via Twitter - Interview with Nate Ritter (1)
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How you look at data: Graphics vs. text (4)
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I came across a graphic showing hospital death rates in the United States (from USA Today), and I’d like to ask you to open it up and — as online folks like to say — play with it for a little while. Below are two screen captures (detail) to pique your interest, and below them, some discussion. Above: Detail of the comparison of Florida hospitals, centered on Shands at the University of Florida. Above: Detail ...
Aflac Accidentally Introduces 624 Strangers To Each Other (7)
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We'd hoped that Activision's blunder would be the last one, but it turns out the HR department at Aflac can't find the BCC field either. Reader Corey writes in to let us know he just received an email addressed to him and 623 other people who were interested in jobs with the insurance company. Our guess is some of the recipients won't be so interested in a career with a company that doesn't care about ...
IE 8 Team Nearly Finished Copying Safari 10.3 Feature Set | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD (3)
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Apple’s Safari browser has offered "private browsing" since 2005, Firefox since 2006 (via the Stealther extension), and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) may soon offer it as well. Earlier this week, Natya Nadella, senior VP of Microsoft’s search, portal and advertising platform group, said the company is planning to give IE 8 a privacy feature for erasing search histories and the other data that browsers often log automatically.
Olympic Medal Table Map (1)
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Every four years, I get blown away by the dedication of people who have spent the previous four years focussed on their Olympic Challenge (I find it hard to focus for more than an hour or two on any one thing!) Anyway, I was intrigued to see this post on Google Maps Mania yesterday - Olympic Heat Maps - that displayed the Olympics medal table in the form of a heat map, along with several ...
Make Data Not Look Like Data (15)
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Just about every web page has some sort of data behind it. This blog post, for example, has a title, a date, categories, tags, and the body of the post itself, in addition to some other metadata. All of this data sits in a row in the Webmonkey database, waiting for you to call it up. When we display a blog post, you see the content–usually something new or cool in web development. You don’t ...
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Ben said:
Nice picture. Now if only people were able to look at things from different perspectives. I'll talk to God about that. Maybe get her to work on humans 2.0.
