- The Financial Times Launches Its Own Business News Search Engine (Newssift).
"The Financial Times Group, which is owned by the British publisher Pearson, is not exactly the place you’d expect to find the latest search engine. But a startup deep within the bowels of the organization called FT Search is launching one at 8PM ET tonight called Newssift. It is a semantic search engine that sifts through business news, and it is not half bad, especially for bigger companies and broader topics." (search ft endeca )
- Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Building Fast Client-side Searches
"Yesterday we released a new people selector widget (which we’ve been calling Bo Selecta internally). This widget downloads a list of all of your contacts, in JavaScript, in under 200ms (this is true even for members with 10,000+ contacts). In order to get this level of performance, we had to completely rethink how we send data from the server to the client." (performance flickr javascript )
- jkOnTheRun » Blog Archive Palm Pre Webcast Tidbit: Browser Nearly 4x Faster than iPhone (Updated with video) «
Pre-release video shows the Palm Pre renders web pages very, very fast: "The Pre had fully rendered the complex site in around 8 seconds. Same site on my iPhone? About 30 seconds. Obviously, I don’t know if the Palm Pre Webkit browser caches web pages from prior usage. I know my iPhone doesn’t, so even if this page load speed was based on cache, it’s still a function not offered on my iPhone. Again, I saw this in real-time. [...] I’m not losing sight of the fact that my iPhone hardware is nearly 2 years old, but the performance that I saw when browsing on the Pre was staggering." (palm_pre video demo browser speed )
- Hitwise Intelligence – Robin Goad – UK: Twitter and UK newspaper websites
"As the chart below illustrates, last week Twitter received more UK Internet visits than the homepages of the Guardian, Times, Sun and Telegraph. It also over took Google News UK. Of the main newspaper homepages, only the Daily Mail received more UK Internet visits than Twitter last week. [...] As you can see, the Guardian currently receives more traffic than any of its competitors." (twitter guardian Stats hitwise )
- An extraordinary gentleman | Books | guardian.co.uk
"Novelist, magician and 'guru of the graphic novel' Alan Moore discusses Watchmen, the dark side of Hollywood and the morality of pornography" (interview alan_moore comics )
- How to lose Twitter followers in 10 steps. » Nerd Mag
"We have all read about strategies to get you followed on Twitter, but what about those that get you unfollowed? I’ve compiled a list of 10 things that are guaranteed to shed you some followers, gleaned both from my experience of people unfollowing me and from people I’ve had to stop following to prevent me from killing them." (twitter humour )
- Qwitter: Catching Twitter quitters
"Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter" (tools twitter )
- SXSWi | Technology | guardian.co.uk
The Guardian has a page on SXSW Interactive. (sxsw )
- Why won’t news sites link? » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
"Is it stubbornness? Lack of training? Inertia? Not enough time? Back-end systems not optimized for linking? [...] Yes, things are better than they were when newspapers first toddled online in 1995, but not much." Unfortunately, no answers. (newspapers journalism linking )
- We found the chip inside the new iPod headphones…but is it DRM? – Boing Boing Gadgets
Possible DRM chip found inside iPod Shuffle headphones: "You'd never guess it was there—a tiny chip, barely a millimeter square, hidden inside the headphone module on the third-gen iPod shuffle. [...] What we found is a mystery to us: we're not electrical engineers. For all we know, it could be something the FCC made them put in so that it doesn't interfere with whalesong. [...] If it's not an "authentication chip", then, what could it be?" (apple ipod ipod_shuffle drm headphones )
- Disable Restart Now Message after Windows Updates in XP | Windows XP Guides | Windows Tools, Help & Guides
How to stop Windows XP forcing a restart on you after it's downloaded its automatic updates. (tips windows restart annoyances )
- BBC NEWS | UK | British military fatalities in Afghanistan and Iraq
A terrific visual dashboard of fatalities of British forces in the two current major warzones. Yet more evidence that the definition of journalism has expanded. (bbc visualisation war )
- Palm Developer Network Blog » Developing Applications for WebOS slides
"We had a few requests for the slides to the Developing Applications for WebOS webcast. I’ve uploaded them to Slideshare, and they’re now available for those that wanted them." (programming presentation palm_pre )
- JavaFX Plugin for Eclipse: Wiki: GettingStarted — Project Kenai
(plugins eclipse javafx )
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