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Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
http://developer.yahoo.net/ypatterns/ Best usage principles for a bunch of different development scenarios. Valuable.
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eyeOS
http://www.eyeos.org/Languages/English EyeOS is a free, cross-platform Personal Content Manager System based upon the style of a Desktop Operating System. The base package includes the whole Operating System structure and ten applications.
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Send it down in your notebook, my wannabe Harriet the Spy
I learned about some of the perils of weblogging at a very young age - before there was really a web to speak of (although Tim Berners Lee was already experimenting over at CERN). I spent fifth grade in Parkwood, a suburb of Durham, North Carolina. It was a nice school
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The Lit List / Stories
http://www.thelitlist.com/ "The Lit List is a site where readers can submit links to online fiction from around the web and vote for their favorites." I've been looking for something like this for a while.
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AOL still don't get the Internet
http://benwerd.newsvine.com:80/_news/2006/03/03/117573-aol-still-dont-get-the-internet Lately there's been a furore about online community heavyweight America OnLine's decision to allow companies to pay to avoid being placed in the 'Spam' bin.
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AOL still don't get the Internet
http://benwerd.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/03/117573-aol-still-dont-get-the-internet Lately there's been a furore about online community heavyweight America OnLine's decision to allow companies to pay to avoid being placed in the 'Spam' bin.
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How specific content for search engines may be destroying the web - and information
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114116587424585798-0qH9qUYuUug__vRSFKGvxIEwLGw_20070301.html?mod=blogs "In fact, search engines are more like a TV camera crew let loose in the middle of a crowd of rowdy fans after a game. Seeing the camera, everyone acts boorishly and jostles to get in
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Celebrity in social networks: how can we avoid the power law distribution?
In any information ecosystem, there is an observable tendency for a few sources on a topic - be they journals, websites or people - to have a massive following, a significantly smaller number to have a medium number of followers, and then a final, largest group to have a much smaller number
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Scuttle: Online Bookmarks Manager
http://scuttle.org/ A GPL del.icio.us clone written in PHP/MySQL.
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Working hard (with beer)
Working hard (with beer), originally uploaded by Ben Werdmuller. The things we do for Elgg - after a hard day presenting and consulting, we retired to the bar to do yet more project work. It's a busy life! (Photo taken by Dave on my slightly grainy Nokia phone.)
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MySpace and collective knowledge
Bill Fitzgerald put me onto this talk by Danah Boyd: Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace. It's a good overview to the cultural issues surrounding teens on MySpace. It's a small Internet: I'm already familiar with Danah through her excellent
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Greetings from the snow
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