More cool stuff, there is a lot of work being put into making a good Flash frontend for Google: The initial thread on were-here 720 Flash frontend (google.public.web-apis announcement) David Burrows PHP Flash to Google API Bridge Flash Google Interface implemented at flash-db.com
I hope you get to check out the Google Box I have added, using Sebastian Bergmann’s excellent Google API PHP class together with PEAR’s SOAP client (soon to get a homepage). Ohh, BTW: I can’t wait till someone connects Moveable Type with the Google spellcheck. The spellcheck Paolo Valdermarin calls “The most democratic dictionary” (well worth a read for an insight to the spellcheck / dictionary and how it possibly works). Until someone gets the spellcheck wired into MT, I guess I will have to live with Hypertext Webster Gateway.
Scott is covering and taking part in the wiring of the Google API to the web. Latest news is hot wiring Mozilla with its SOAP client to the Google API via JavaScript. Cool stuff.
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Russ Lipton writes about documentation. I must say I share many of the same thoughs about the lack of documentation for a lot of products/technologies. (Hey John, are you reading this?). I haven’t really gone deep into Radio, but what I have seen – is that they are using their own tool (eating their own dog food) for documentation. Not sure if I like it or not, I must say that in everyday work I put in high regards the documentation for PHP – which to me is a meeting
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Marc Rotenberg revisits Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: Fahrenheit 451 is not simply about book burning. This is a world where the culture of censorship has permeated the public and the where the culture of censorship has permeated the public and the private. There is no intellectual life. There is no political life. Interactive broadband technology provides endless entertainment through the full-screen images that appear on the walls of a parlor room. Words of meaning cannot be transmitted in any physical media. They must be memorized and passed on as they
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Well written by Hanan Cohen about the situation in Israel and the west bank: INFO.ORG.IL – Death does not justif Death
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Los Angeles Times writes: What if you could take a pill and stretch your day–by skipping sleep? That sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but a drug called Provigil could make it possible. Studies have shown that this new medication allows people to remain awake and attentive when their bodies normally crave shut-eye, without suffering the unpleasant side effects and risk of addiction associated with caffeine, amphetamines and other stimulants. A Pill to Stretch Your Day
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A few implementations of the Google API has surfaced: SoapWare.Org : Services > Google API > Implementations And Dave Winer has some thoughts about
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Finnaly gotten around to update Moveable type today, so now we are at version 2.0 :-) I did it in part to be able to include searches from Google directly in my weblog, through the Google API – Josh Cooper has made available a hack for Moveable Type to make Google’s API work with it. I can get it to work, the only problem is that the building of the pages never stops, and that the process that it starts continues to hug as much cpu as possible from the
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Wired has an interesting article in their latest issue, about 6 machines that changed the music world. Its all about how technology made to do one thing, ends up doing something completely different and at the same time makes a small revolution. Almost like some other technologies I am involved with.. Wired 10.05: Six Machines That Changed The Music World