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Processing Hits 1.0: Create Stunning Animations the Easy Way 
Scott Gilbertson via Wired: Compiler on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Lookout Flash, the increasingly popular Processing language, which was designed in part to turn visual artists into programmers, has announced its long-awaited 1.0 release.
Processing has long been a favorite of animators — the language has been used for everything from
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Developer Rebuilds Twitter in a Week
Adam DuVander via Wired: Compiler on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make Twitter better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.”
That’s the speech I imagine Niall Kennedy giving himself recently when he decided to rewrite Twitter’s front end using web best practices. The result is a
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Share Your Mundane Details
Adam DuVander via Wired: Compiler on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
The web has all sorts of data, but it’s sorely missing yours. If you request an account from Daytum, you can change that.
The site lets its users collect data about themselves and share it via beautiful charts. Track your coffee consumption,
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TypePad Takes On Disqus With New Distributed Comment System
Scott Gilbertson via Wired: Compiler on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Six Apart, makers of blogging platforms Movable Type and Typepad, have announced a new distributed blog comment system that offers a very simple way of integrating comments into any page.
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TypePad Takes On Disqus, WordPress With New Distributed Comment System
Scott Gilbertson via Wired: Compiler on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Six Apart, makers of blogging platforms Movable Type and Typepad, have announced a new distributed blog comment system that offers a very simple way of integrating comments into any page.
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Yahoo Improves Its OpenID Support
Adam DuVander via Wired: Compiler on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Yahoo continues to make strides to improve its OpenID implementation. Thursday it announced limited testing for Simple Registration, which supplies profile data once a user logs in with their Yahoo OpenID. Currently it is only testing Plaxo and Jyt
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Mac Viruses Continue to Lag Behind Windows Counterparts
Scott Gilbertson via Wired: Compiler on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
Quite a few software makers routinely release Windows versions ahead of Mac flavors — Skype, Google Chrome and Adobe Photoshop Elements to name a few — and now it seems that poor Mac users can’t even get a decent virus that’s on par w
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Google Spices Up Your Inbox With New Gmail Themes
Scott Gilbertson via Wired: Compiler on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
Gmail has always been notable for its very all-business approach to e-mail, but with the service well established in the mainstream, Google has decided to add some more fun-oriented features. The latest is a series of them
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Songbird Inches Toward 1.0, Solves iTunes Import Problems
Scott Gilbertson via Wired: Compiler on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
The team behind the Firefox-base Songbird media player has announced a second release candidate for the upcoming Songbird 1.0. While Songbird 1.0 is still not a final release, the latest version solves a big
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Adobe Improves AIR Platform, Hints at Flash 10’s Mobile Future
Scott Gilbertson via Wired: Compiler on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
The world of web-desktop hybrid apps is looking up — Adobe has released an important update for its AIR platform — and those apps may soon be migrating from your PC to your favorite mobile device.
In addition to the new version of AIR, Adobe has announced it will part
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Intense Debate’s Return Brings Better Comments to WordPress
Scott Loganbill via Wired: Compiler on Thu, 13 Nov. 2008
It took less than two months after it was bought by WordPress’ parent company, Automattic, but Intense Debate is back. Of course, WordPress now enjoys the benefit of its purchase by integrating Intense Debate’s commenting system.
Shortly after its purchase in late September, Intense Debate dropped into an invite-
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Hotmail Users Slam Microsoft’s Redesign
Scott Gilbertson via Wired: Compiler on Thu, 13 Nov. 2008
Nothing is guaranteed to incur the wrath of internet users like a design makeover. Most of Microsoft’s planned changes to its Windows Live services are still limited beta previews, but the revamped Hot
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Google Reader’s New Translate Feature Helps Overcome Language Barriers
(unknown author) via Wired: Compiler on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
Shared by Ben Shoemate
wow.
It’s easy to forget, especially in the U.S.-centric tech press, that its called the world wide web for a reason — there’s a ton of content from around the globe. The problem is that a lot of that content may not be wri
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Google Trends Takes on the Flu
Scott Gilbertson via Wired: Compiler on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
Do you head the web at the first sign of the flu, curiously plugging your symptoms into Google to search for a cure for what ails you? Congratulations, you’re helping Google predict flu outbreaks.
The search giant found that, by combing through searches looking for flu-related terms, it was able to pred
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Dashboard Shows Our Open Data Future
(unknown author) via Wired: Compiler on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
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"What if we all had a dashboard like this"? I suspect some of us would have seizures, but I would probably wet my pants (after or perhaps during my seizure).
Sprint’s beautiful dashboard is
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Build an App With Yahoo Pipes
Adam DuVander via Wired: Compiler on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
Yahoo’s data plumbing application, Pipes, lets you turn RSS feeds and output from APIs into data you can use. It’s extremely powerful.
One cool feature I hadn’t noticed is that it has the ability to output to a web service. So, you can set up a page on your own se
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Google Reader’s New Translate Feature Helps Overcome Language Barriers
Scott Gilbertson via Wired: Compiler on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
It’s easy to forget, especially in the U.S.-centric tech press, that its called the world wide web for a reason — there’s a ton of content from around the globe. The problem is that a lot of that content may not be written in your native language. This being the 21st Century an
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First Look: Parallels 4 Offers Mac Fans Blazing-Fast Windows Virtualization Tools
Scott Gilbertson via Wired: Compiler on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
The Windows-on-a-Mac virtualization race is heating up again. Parallels has just unveiled version 4 of its virtualization software for Mac OS X, which brings some much-needed speed boosts, better support for top-end Apple hardware, the ability to run Mac OS X Server and some 50 other changes and tweaks.
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Someday You Will Not Hate the CSS3 Advanced Layout
Adam DuVander via Wired: Compiler on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
At first glance you’re going to hate the “advanced layout” that is currently a W3C working draft. Maybe it’s the similarity to table-based layouts, of which we all still have nightmares. Mainly, you’ll likely cringe just because it’s such a foreign way to write CSS. I think you’ll eventually come around.
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BlueTrip: CSS Framework Combines the Best of Several Worlds
Scott Gilbertson via Wired: Compiler on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
Love them or hate them, there’s no denying that CSS frameworks are here to stay. Frameworks make rapidly sketching out a website design much easier by handling lots of boilerplate tasks for you — positioning elements, setting typography defaults and more.
A relative newcomer that’s quickly earned a place
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