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These awards honor corporations, governmental and nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, media outlets, and individuals who are innovating the use of social media, ICT, mobile media, online communities and virtual worlds and collaborative technologies in the areas of business, media, and professional communications, including advertising, marketing, public relations and corporate communications, as well as entertainment, education, politics, and social initiatives.
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Need to monitor Linux server performance? Try these built-in command and a few add-on tools.
links for 2009-07-22
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mycmd 2>&1 | othercmd
Predicty: Mobile Magic App built with HTML5
Here’s another fun mobile app I helped implement recently using all the latest greatest visual tricks offered by HTML5, CSS, Javascript and Webkit (aka Mobile Safari).
Ryan Oakes, a talented professional magician and proprietor of Solid Oak Productions, spied me sitting in a coffee shop one day working on some code, and asked me if I knew how to build iPhone apps and if I liked magic. Always up for a new and interesting challenge, I said yes, and now, “ta-da!”, anyone can learn and perform a great trick using their iPhone…
Here’s a little more about Predicty:
Finally, a professional-looking magic trick specifically designed for the mobile phone! Designed by a professional magician to make YOU look like the star… not the phone. It doesn’t look like the phone does all the work, but it does! So easy to do, yet people will be totally amazed.
Perform it for friends! Perform it for your family! Perform it in a bar to break the ice with strangers!
Two versions included in app: “Think-a-Drink” and the family-friendly “Predict-a-Pet”
links for 2009-07-08
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Akvo's work is safety critical. A leak through which money escapes without doing good harms somebody's health and is a statistical risk of death. This is a harsh statement of the problem, but in the event that "wired aid" programs like Akvo or Kiva wind up discredited because of rampant fraud, a lot of people are going to suffer. It is therefore imperative that the integrity of the business process is maintained.
links for 2009-07-07
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A while back, we wrote an article describing a technique we came up with to use JavaScript to scrape data from an HTML table and generate charts using the HTML 5 Canvas element.
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Members of the XML Schema Working Group include representatives from the Minnesota Office of Revisor of Statutes, XMaLpha Technologies, and Thomson Reuters. This working group was created out of discussions in a Minnesota Partners meeting, who felt that creating an XML schema would be beneficial.
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Yahoo! Placemaker is a freely available geoparsing Web service. It helps developers make their applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content – feeds, web pages, news, status updates – and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup.