March 14, 2008  1:40 PM

Happy Pi Day!



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Yes, today is March 14, 2008, abbreviated as 3.14. Mathematicians everywhere celebrate today as Pi Day. You can join the fun over at PiDay.org.


March 13, 2008  10:08 AM

Video: New Features in the Next C++ Standard



Posted by: GuyPardon
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This Google Tech Talk addresses each of the new features in the upcoming standard for C++. You can read more about them in depth at the Wikipedia entry for the new standard,


March 11, 2008  9:35 AM

Video: Ted Nelson, hypertext and the Web



Posted by: GuyPardon
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In this Google TechTalk, Ted Nelson discusses implementing the original hypertext concept and how transclusion should be used now to fulfill its original...


March 7, 2008  10:16 AM

Video: How to log into websites using OpenID



Posted by: GuyPardon
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One of our newest definitions explains OpenID:

"OpenID is a decentralized single sign-on authentication system for the Internet. The goal of the OpenID initiative is to allow users to log in...


March 6, 2008  2:35 PM

Video: Twitter in Plain English



Posted by: GuyPardon
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CommonCraft.com is already well known in the blogosphere and social media world for creating brilliant, lucid short videos that explain tricky concepts. The two-person team that make up CommonCraft (

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January 23, 2008  9:00 PM

It’s Greek to Me (Or so said the community)



Posted by: SarahCortes
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It's hard to miss the social media and Web 2.0 trends that have spawned numerous venture-backed start-ups over the past few years.  It's also hard to miss the emergence of the "flat world", where our kids can be tutored (online) on their fourth grade math ... from a teenager in Bangalore,...


September 28, 2007  2:31 PM

What are the 45 best freeware design programs?



Posted by: GuyPardon
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snap2objects.com knows. In fact, Mauricio Duque's list of the 45 best freeware design programs is just the thing to help...


September 17, 2007  1:49 PM

Andreesen on the three kinds of platforms, the cloud and the future of the Internet



Posted by: GuyPardon
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One of my favorite discoveries of the past year has definitely been Marc Andreessen's blog. From the moment he first started posting long, chewy, thoughtful discussions of his thoughts on technology,


August 29, 2007  3:06 PM

Notes on pronunciation in IT: AAA server and SQL



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Permanence is both fleeting and intractable on the Internet. In the print world, once the newspaper, magazine or book has been proofed and fact-checked to the point where the law of diminishing returns kicks...