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POPSFreebase - a database about everything Part of what makes this open database unique is that it spans domains, but requires that a particular topic exist only once in Freebase -- even if it might normally be found in multiple databases. For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger would appear in a movie database as an actor, a political database as a governor, and in a bodybuilder database as a Mr. Universe. In Freebase, however, there is only one topic for Arnold Schwarzenegger that brings all these facets together. The unified topic is a single reconciled identity, which makes it easier to find and contribute information about the linked world we live in.
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POPSMichelle Obama Demands Racial Loyalty From African Press Intl.
. . . in the spotlight. How sad for him to go out like this. We know he respects and admires John McCain. We know, from campaign finance records, that Powell contributed the max individual contribution allowed to McCain, not to Obama as the race progressed. But, as soon as he said it wasn't about race, he blew his game. Michelle Obama, the Closer, was earlier in the campaign in charge of setting the talking points of the day on the trail. She told audiences she has never been proud of her country until her husband was doing well in this race, that America is a mean country, and that she's just a regular working mom. API is "an international news agency headquartered in Norway with 19 corespondents in North, East, West and South Africa as well as in the United Kingdom. It is widely respected for its political independence and even handedness." That description from Rudi Stettner. http://www.rudistettner.com/2008/10/michelle-obama-invokes-racial-loyalty.html
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POPSCelebrity Meter Although there are a few different standards for highlighting links like these, most social networking sites, blog software and hosting services support one or more. They're relying on site builders to highlight such links by using special markup. Google uses this information to build a graph of all sites and their links to one another. Rather than request the API from each site individually (Twitter followers, MySpace friends, etc.), Google provides a single RESTful API to send a simple query in one shot. While there are limits to this data (Facebook info is currently not available in this widget), the information we're getting is real and the friend information we're getting isn't a simple number but a list of live URLs that Google has vetted for us.
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POPSFring -- Free Mobile VoIP, IM and More Fring is a peer-to-peer Mobile VoIP based internet telephony network which enables users to interact with social networks and to call and chat for free. Recently it also launched an API, allowing third-party developers to develop new applications for the community.
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POPSFacebook to open-source platform This is an exciting time as the web 2.0 companies jostle not only with each other, but with the big three: Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft. In what feels like a good old NASCAR race, the FB/MS team just fell into a drafting position behind the Open Socials...but its still early in the race.
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POPSAmazon Image Hacks First, this shows that the flexible, homegrown, URL-based image delivery solution Amazon developed for their site is a programming masterpiece. But then the way this guy reverse-engineered the parameters and took the results to the next level is something to behold. Remember, he tricked the Amazon servers into generating verbatim all the images you see here!
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POPSClassic Cinema Posters: 1960s Horror Hammer Horror is back from the dead. Thirty-two years after its last diabolical despatch from the dark side (Christopher Lee disgracing the cloth as a heretic priest in To the Devil… a Daughter), one of the most cherished franchises in British film history is about to return with Beyond the Rave, a blood-spattered tale of vampires on the rampage among hardcore dance fans. These posters represent some of the classic films by Hammer together with some directed by Roger Corman for API. Bonus poster featuring Spencer Tracy included.
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POPSGoogle to make big changes I used to really enjoy "googling" and Gmail is the best.. But then I read that the son of Rupert Murdock has bought into google .....I would hate to see google turn into the internet version of Fox.
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POPSInternet Acronym Server The search engine didn't carry across in the clip, but at the site the search engine has acronyms collected over two decades. There is also a field for submitting new ones. So many times I've seen acronyms without trying to find out what they mean. Most of the time when they are explained it is well worth the trouble, By the way <NO>OOXML refers to the plan to use Microsofts open office format OOXML as an ISO standard. i.e. Vote no. I didn't find the answer on the acronym server <*> might have been a problem , but google, which is offered as an alternate search did.
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