.. are really impressive. A few weeks back I watched several of the video presentations (that page is also probably the best writeup!) from Young Rewired State, and then last Saturday I got to meet some of the people from the teams at OpenT...

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A few weeks ago I got the chance to be the first to make use of our innovation time. After watching a demo on hacks.mozilla.org I wanted to experiment with HTML5 and Firefox's new support for drag and drop of files from your d...

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I almost feel bad about this, but it seems like this sacred cow is more like Shambo. sometimes the elders are right, and the youngsters really are too young to know the history of the idea they think that they’ve just invented. Unfortunately

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The “notorious” Marc Canter has written a piece called Breaking the Web Wide Open! in which he talks about the difficulties facing larger companies when it comes to opening access to their data, the nub being: Should they adopt these tools and standards, painfully cannibalizing their existing revenue...

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if you decide to visit [the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge] you can grab yourself an ‘eGuide’ – a handheld computer and an earpiece – to carry around the galleries as you go. …there are infrared tags beside the featured exhibits, and you simply point at the tag and click just like you would use a TV remote. Hurray! And not too long after I suggested

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Un clone de Firefox vient d’apparaître, il s’agit de smartfox. Aucune différence avec Firefox 0.8 à part le changement de nom et un njouveau logo, mais c’est le premier navigateur dérivé de Firefox, l’initiative est intéressante Wow, incredible! I think what I don’t get is why they’re bundling under a different name instea...

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Scientists are developing innovative soaps and deodorants to make us even cleaner. – is this just plain mad or what? I thought we were already too clean and suffering because our bodies didn’t build up strong enough immune systems? One day War of the Worlds will happen but it’ll be _us_ dying because we can’...

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