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Tuesday, January 21, 2003
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I mean, really! here is something new and dynamic from labs.google.com. (I"ve chose then topic "information visualization". Does it work in the aggregator? On my home page? On your home page? (Press  below)
(seems to work reliably in IE, not in Opera, although its still somewhat interesting...)
12:34:16 PM 
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This seems very obvious in retrospect, but the technique illustrated below seems to have possibilities way beyond surveys. Its a general transclusion mechanism and the synergies with social software (including weblogs) are worth considering. It could be used, for example to allow a single webpage to serve as an aggregator, or to allow one to embed a "live window" into, say, Internet Topic Exchange, or a wiki's RecentChanges page, or....
Surveys from Within the Aggregator: Things that Make You Go Hmmm.....
Loyd's Curiosity
This is totally cool that I could receive and vote for this from within my aggregator. It gives me all sorts of ideas for our blogging + news aggregation grant project! Thanks to jenett.radio for highlighting this! [The Shifted Librarian]
12:16:15 PM
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Perl scripter/teacher preaches gospel of python.
I know these are religous issues, but python strikes me (based on others' comments as well as my experience) as the best tool for many jobs, and the best investment of time for anyone (?) looking for a tool that will last.
small world Python story. The other day Jeff came into my office and said "Do I need to learn Python?" And I couldn't really... [Mike's Digital Laboratory]
10:55:06 AM
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Cohesion. Ken Coar: I'm still trying to get a handle on this whole trackback / pingback / backtrack thing, ... here I am posting about this in my own log, hoping somehow someone will read it, take pity on me, and send me a pointer to something that will Make All Clear. How weird is that?
Here's some thoughts and code. Hope this helps! [Sam Ruby]
10:45:46 AM
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New high-tech sunglasses enable sailors to receive live data on performance.
The Oracle BMW Racing team lost the Louis-Vuitton Cup to the Swiss Alinghi team, but they had a fun technology to test. Jim Doyle reports from Auckland, New Zealand.
Imagine a pair of high-tech sunglasses that not only filters out the ocean's glare and the sun's most harmful rays, but also makes the wearer feel like the Bionic Man.
For sailors of the Oracle BMW Racing team, the future is here. They have tested and utilized a micro-display system that enables them to receive live performance data from the race boat on their sunglasses, directly in their field of vision.
Oracle's cool new shades are related to a technological breakthrough in Formula One auto racing that was recently adapted for use by the San Francisco team in the America's Cup trials. It is similar to a racing helmet that BMW developed for its Formula One driver, Ralf Schumacher.
Here are few more details about the display.
Rob Passaro, BMW's chief engineer on the project, said the micro-display system was designed to optimize the speed and performance of Oracle's racing yacht. He called the system a "perfect example of cross-pollination of technology from Formula One to America's Cup yachting."
The micro-display system operates solely within the perimeter of the race boat. The regatta's rules forbid the yachts to carry any gear during a race capable of receiving or transmitting any communications or signals from outside the yacht.
Source: Jim Doyle, San Francisco Chronicle, January 20, 2003 [Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends]
10:33:33 AM
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Connections.
Make connections, make money?.
David Galbraith: "The three most successful eCommerce sites in terms of number of paid subscribers are Classmates, Match.com and Ancestry.com - this is not surprising, they are all about networks of people and so is the Internet."
James Hong: "I have a theory that the only companies that make money on the net are the ones that serve as 'routers' between two nodes in the decentralized space we call the web."
David Galbraith: Weblogs and bio's:. "In order to link weblogs to bios I am proposing a blogroll format of $name ($blogname): $one_line_bio (maximum 150 characters total). Where this becomes the headline link to either an XML bio or 'about me' page."
[evhead]
[Ross Mayfield's Weblog]
10:32:16 AM
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See the USA with a Wi-Fi array: I'm trying to hard to fit the jingle to the story, but automotive Wi-Fi may take off, with units in the car talking to mobile components to transfer music, misc. Imagine having a gateway in your car that provides an Car Area Network (CAN). Imagine bridging the CAN to GSM/GPRS as needed. Imagine bridging the CAN to a hot spot location when you're near one. Imagine that you can do that today with...a Macintosh running OS X or a Windows XP box with the right hoo-ha. But in-car, permanent components would be better. [via TechDirt] [80211b News]
10:28:38 AM
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