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British website owners could face extradition to the US ... even if their operation has no connection to America and... which is most probably legal in the UK, the official lea...
The US's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE ...
As long as

Facebook Export uses the Facebook Open Graph protocol to... Facebook data to an xml file. Facebook Export does not s... about you. You can then use this xml file to import your... services and websites that support the Facebook Export (...

Bounded Rationality: A Response to Rational Analysis
Simon criticizes Anderson's proposed rational analysis a ...
Humans are not optimal and only in some cases locall ...
Assumptions made by cognitive modelers about how an ...
... theory based u

Code Drop: VisualSearch.js
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Jun 23rd, 2011
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... t, so you don’t have to manually re-parse it yourself.

Today we’re open-sourcing a JavaScript library for vis...
A guider is a dialog box that guides a user through your ...
This example guider is not attached to any element and h ...
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An example guider attached to the "Add Varia

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into Jav... all of those embarrassing braces and semicolons, JavaScr... a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an... the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

(Reuters) - China must boost its cyber-warfare strength ... Pentagon push, the country's top military newspaper said... weeks of friction over accusations that Beijing may have... of Internet hacking attacks.

African governments are turning to more sophisticated te... internet sites and bloggers who they perceive to be a th...
That is the conclusion of The Committee for the Protecti ...

An individual is the only ethical integration point for ...
Our purpose is to catalyze a Personal Data Ecosystem whe ...
The Startup Circle - for startups committed to putti ...
1 Million People for Personal Data - gathers people ...
Industr

WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suit... make Web content and Web applications more accessible to... disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content a... interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript... technologie

The enterprise cloud database from salesforce.com
Designed for the next generation of apps
Cloud: auto elasticity, auto security & auto backups
Open APIs & Authentication: REST, SOAP & OAuth
... Secure: Trusted by 87,000+ businesses & governme

Was 2010 the year of the API? Some have claimed this eac... years, with the next always eclipsing the previous. Ther... APIs added to our API directory in 2010, two times the n... 2009. Greater trends on the web are being played out, as... the most po

API providers can list their JSON APIs, which using Mash... in turn auto-generate five client libraries - PHP, Ruby,... Objective-C, and Java. The new billing tool lets develop... monthly price, API call limits, and the price per additi...
Consumers c

Microdata is a proposed feature of HTML 5 that allows se... information to be embedded within the markup of a web pa...
Why PHP Microdata?
One of the most interesting features of the Microdata sp ...
The library allows one to parse out the structured Mi

So all those companies advertising for a Data Scientist,... this to say…
You want a Dancer not a Scientist.

On display, I spotted a book written by one of the Briti...
It was entitled Kansha - The Land of Maybe - which it se ...
Back at the airport I told Magni Arge, the chief executi ...
"Kansha means more than maybe," he explained.
... and respecting their a

Five hundred musical instruments, powered only by the wi...
The sound made by the instruments, some conventional and ...
French composer Pierre Sauvageot, along with French grou ...
He explains how it works and how his team went about ins ...
"Harmonic F

“My name is Erasto B Mpemba, and I am going to tel... discovery, which was due to misusing a refrigerator.”
With those words, Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba entere ...

The project deals with data from a list of the social re... the Danish people. The list is the result of an opinion ... consultancy company in Denmark. I have used the context ... opinion polls within each interest to shape and design d... so the rece

On March 21, 2011, my MacBook was stolen from my apartme... I reported the crime to the police and even told them wh... they couldn't help me due to lack of resources. Meanwhil...
Update: (May 31, 8:37 PM PST) ARRESTED! An Oakland polic ...
Update: (Ma

When you activate tracking, Hidden will locate your stol... anywhere on the planet, collect photos of the thief and ... the computer in use. (We also collect lots of nerdy netw... but we won’t bore you with the details!)

This paper provides insights into the concepts underlyin... framework for open reference linking in the web-based sc... information environment. The discussion starts by briefl... problems with reference linking that were initially desc... addressed a

We covered the Newstweek, a wall-wart sized box that inj... stories over public WiFi connections last February, but ... great walk through and it seems our doubts about this pr...
The Newstweek uses ARP spoofing to change the text displ ...
Aside from

The growth of both the types and the amount of data gene... users, and applications have resulted in a number of rec... innovations: NoSQL, rise of popularity of Hadoop, and do... higher-level map-reduce frameworks. However, the batch-p...
What if we

I have been playing with GData since I was on the Google... in 2005/2006. My experiences with GData can be summarize... graph:

The Internet's impact on global growth is rising rapidly... accounted for 21 percent of GDP growth over the last fiv... developed countries MGI studied, a sharp acceleration fr... contribution over 15 years. Most of the economic value c... Internet fa

In other words, we live in a global economy that is larg... making. And today, the competition for the best jobs and... countries that are free-thinking and forward-looking; co... most creative, innovative, entrepreneurial citizens.
That gives nations

SEMIC.EU is a participatory platform and a service by th... Commission that supports the sharing of assets of intero... used in public administration and eGovernment