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Monday, January 31, 2005 |
SmarterChild...Your IM Buddy. The importance of this item isn't the cute toy,
it is, as Marc Oehlert observes, "the integration into
workflow." he writes, "People are already using
IM (Instant Messaging) more and more in their daily routine
so the idea of making automated knowledge bases available
via a well done chat bot is dead on." Along these
lines, James Farmer explores several multiple-Account
IM clients. By Marc Oehlert, e-Clippings,
January 31, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] eliza plus a database of answers is what the lobner prize is about -- ALICE is the current leader with its own XML style -- BL
7:50:23 PM  Google It!.
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Infrae 'Railroad Repository' for Plone or
Zope. Scott Leslie writes, "I am really not sure
why I haven't seen more of this, as the longer I look at
the LOR problem the more sense it makes to me that
'conventional' repositories can be reasonably easily built
on the back of existing (large and relatively stable) open
source Content Management Systems." Gosh yes. I don't
know why I haven't seen more of this either.
By Scott Leslie, Ed Tech Post, January 31, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
7:47:10 PM Google It!.
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ZWeatherapplet used for weather portlet.
With putting ZWeaterApplet in the Product directory and adding the
Pymetar lib 0.5 (not higher) you can add a weather portlet to your
Plone site. It will give the actual weather condition. You can choose
between hunderds of cities around the world. [Plone RSS]
7:41:04 PM Google It!.
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Wellesley College breaks ground, offering free blogs to all alumni. Harvard did this first, but doesn't make such a big deal about it. [Scripting News]
this makes better strategic sense than free email because it provides
the college a greater public presence as well a facilitates learning
communities around the college. -- BL
11:05:55 AM Google It!.
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Activists Urge Open-Source.
Presenters at the World Social Forum in Brazil -- a protest to the
World Economic Forum underway in Switzerland -- push developing nations
to adopt open-source software to avoid dependence on corporate
Microsoft and the expense of Windows. [Wired News]
8:20:18 AM Google It!.
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Teaching Computers to Read.
Creating a computer that can learn at a sophisticated level -- even
that of a 3-year-old with a Dr. Seuss book -- is not easy, though
sci-fi stories portray smartypants computers as villains. But
scientists keep trying [Wired News]
8:18:54 AM Google It!.
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Home PCs Predict Hotter Earth.
British scientists use the distributed computing power of 90,000 PCs to
run the biggest climate simulation ever. Results show a greater
greenhouse effect than expected, resulting in dramatic temperature
increases. By Stephen Leahy. [Wired News]
8:15:33 AM Google It!.
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