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Widgetoko | Your daily dose of widget-y goodness

http://www.widgetoko.com/ A daily roundup of dynamic widgets you can stick on your blog or website. Kind of neat.

Chatting in the page

One requirement that services like PalTalk - VoIP that integrates directly with social networking sites, among others - raise is for more real-time interactivity actually embedded within web pages. Text chat has existed forever, but sometimes it's handy to be able to call or even videoconference with people;

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Islands, tagging, and an ocean-like inbox

I spent the (unexpectedly long) weekend on a small Cornish island nature reserve where my sister is assistant warden. Downtime is good, but now I'm very much back in action, with a long list of things to do and slightly more time to do it in. One change

Bugs, bugs, everywhere

Sometimes it's easy to get despondent about bugs showing up in software you write. It's possible to spend so long on a project that it almost feels like one of your children; any perceived imperfection hits you at your core. We've been doing some

Live chat in the page

This is pretty neat - stick any URL at the end of gabbly.com/ and you get a personalised chatroom for that page. Click the link to chat on my weblog. Not quite sure what the business model is, but it's pretty neat. I think live chat scratches

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Firefox VoIP

http://lucafiligheddu.blogspot.com/2006/06/firefox-voip_114959011311941395.html From the browser-as-platform department: voice functionality built directly into Firefox.

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Vital Signs

http://www.mosdeux.com/vitalsigns/ A short film told in American Sign Language. Amazing.

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Microsoft and Creative Commons Release Tool for Copyright Licensing

Link The organizations announce availability of Microsoft Office add-in that enables easy access to Creative Commons copyright licenses. This is huge.

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How can I help my young friend?

http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/40483#623656 A fantastic answer to a question on Ask Metafilter about how to talk to "troubled" children, from a 13 year old. Rings very true and highlights important problems; definitely worth a read.

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Is it all over for bloggers?

http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/news/archives/Main/Is+it+all+over+for+bloggers.htm Alan Rusbridger, Editor of The Guardian, defends the ongoing value of newspapers in the face of competition from bloggers. Includes the full lecture in streaming video.

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A new chapter

Life is full of changes. Some of them are mundane (new haircut, new car); some of them are exciting (new job, new family). One of the most exciting things you can do is take something you love and transform it from the seed of an idea into something much bigger,

Be careful what you say

Posted without comment, although it fits very well with the things Dave and I have been writing for the past month or so about how your data can be misused if you don't have control of your system: Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites.