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September 12, 2007  10:21 AM

A-Space and Intellipedia: Spy agencies go all Web 2.0



Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
AJAX, applications, new media, news, participation, social networking, Web 2.0, Web applications, wiki

Birds do it, bees do it... Well, ok -- that wasn't true. Birds and bees aren't getting into wikis and social networking yet but almost everyone else is. Even spies are all over it. Last year the feds launched a wiki for the 16 US intelligence agencies (Did you know there were that many? I didn't.)...

August 29, 2007  1:43 PM

Latin phrase cheatsheets to impress your friends and colleagues



Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
cheatsheet, culture, free, fun, humor, information, languages, lifehack, useful, word meanings

Last week I sent out a quiz about Latin-derived terms: Quiz: For Latin Lovers Latin is a dead language, As dead as it can be. First it killed the Romans And now it's killing me. Years ago, when Latin...


August 27, 2007  12:26 PM

Facebook: A social network evolves into a social utility



Posted by: GuyPardon
applications, business, buzz, buzzword, collaboration, college, community, creativity, culture, data, directory, discussion board, education, entrepeneurship, innovation, interesting, Internet, mashup, new media, portal, privacy, programming, public domain, recruiting, Security, Silicon Valley, social, social networking, social publishing, startup, trend, Web 2.0, Web applications

What can I say about Facebook that hasn't been said? Newsweek has placed Mort Zuckerberg, the founder of the social networking giant


August 20, 2007  6:06 PM

WikiScanner: How Googlebombing Virgil led to radical transparency for Wikipedia editing everywhere



Posted by: GuyPardon
academics, applications, collaboration, community, controversy, cool, free, hacks, humor, innovation, interesting, Internet, programming, search engine, Silicon Valley, tool, tracking, useful, Web applications, wiki

Sometime this past summer, future CalTech grad student (and self-styled"disruptive technologist") Virgil Griffith decided that he wanted to see if he could elevate his personal home page to the top of search results for "


August 15, 2007  2:13 PM

Got a minute? Create (or edit) a solar system at Galaxiki.



Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
AJAX, applications, blog, community, cool, creativity, free, fun, interesting, Internet, participation, science, visual, Web 2.0, wiki

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ~ Carl Sagan

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July 30, 2007  5:11 PM

Picnik: Free web-based photo editing in real-time



Posted by: GuyPardon
applications, community, cool, creativity, freeware, image, Internet, resource, tool, useful, Web applications

Up until the wonderful moment that my camera was exposed to the wonders of North Atlantic wave action a few weeks ago, I'd enjoyed over half a decade of great digital pictures from my...


July 23, 2007  1:58 PM

Touched By An Angel (-Wish)



Posted by: SarahCortes
AJAX, mashup, Web 2.0

According to the web site Angelwish.org, "Every 60 seconds, a child dies of an AIDS related illness."  The Angelwish web site (and accompanying organization) touches the lives of many, many children - and today, I'm proud to say that they're my latest discovery.  Here is how the web site...


July 23, 2007  11:24 AM

News rivers: Dave Winer makes mobile feed browsing brilliantly easy



Posted by: GuyPardon
aggregator, buzzword, cool, feeds, free, hacks, information, Internet, lifehack, Mobile, RSS, Technology, tool, trend, XML

Dave Winer, generally considered the father of RSS, has been playing with different ways of organizing, aggregating and displaying feeds for years.


July 9, 2007  6:17 PM

Code to Joy’s 7 Wonders of Programming Languages



Posted by: GuyPardon
code, command line, controversy, conversation, Development, fun, interesting, programming, Ruby on Rails, Technology

It's been quite a week for wonders of the world. First, the online world got together and voted for seven modern wonders of the world, provoked by the lonely status of the Pyramids as the last...


July 2, 2007  3:56 PM

uMouse: Control your computer using gestures and a webcam, not a mouse



Posted by: GuyPardon
applications, code, cool, creativity, freeware, fun, gadgets, hacks, interesting, interface, invention

This past weekend's iPhone launch has introduced hundreds of thousands of users to a new paradigm for mobile computing interfaces, multi-touch....