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The Digg Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners interact programmatically with Digg.

See apidoc.digg.com

A list of the hidden Skype emoticons, smileys, icons or whatever you want to call them. :)

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Google Data

• GData is a new protocol based on the Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0 syndication formats, plus the Atom Publishing Protocol. [...]
• All sorts of services can provide GData feeds, from public services like blog feeds or news syndication feeds to personalized data like email or calendar events or task-list items. [...]
• GData provides a general model for feeds, queries, and results. You can use it to send queries and updates to any service that has a GData interface. [...]
• Google Data API Supports JSON [...]

…on YouTube.

For example: Google Data APIs

or YouTube APIs

See all videos…

After fifteen months of hard work, the Camino Project is pleased to announce the release of Camino 1.5, a substantial update to the popular Camino 1.0 web browser.

(see www.caminobrowser.org/blog/)

(see Google Reader)

After using the launching tool Quicksilver (and before this Launchbar) for a long period of time, i moved to Butler, because Quicksilver crashed several times. And i have to say:

• Butler is faster than the other tools
• Butler is much more stable (especially than Quicksilver ;)
• Butler has more features (you can discover everyday something new and cool). Example: multiple clipboards.
• Butler has a very nifty iTunes control
  
• Butler is free (Quicksilver too, but Launchbar isn’t)

Install Munin on Debian and running it under Apache

Munin is a great tool, which generates graphs and shows you the server’s memory usage, number of MySQL queries and a lot of other information (see http://munin.projects.linpro.no/).
This short tutorial shows the steps for installing Munin on a Debian server.

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The Movable Type Open Source Project was announced in conjunction with the launch of the Movable Type 4 Beta on June 5th, 2007. The MTOS Project is a community and Six Apart driven project that will produce an open souce version of the Movable Type Publishing Platform that will form the core of all other Movable Type products.

(see http://www.movabletype.org/opensource)

Microsoft Photosynth & Photo Tourism

• PhotoSynth is the first prototype to come out of the new Microsoft Live Labs and is a great example of cool technologies made possible by corporate largess. [...]
• Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. [...]
• takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next. [...]
• access gigabytes of photos in seconds [...]
• Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP [...]

• Photo Tourism is a system for browsing large collections of photographs in 3D. [...]
• Our photo explorer interface enables the viewer to interactively move about the 3D space by seamlessly transitioning between photographs, based on user control. [...]

Whow, just saw a presentation by Blaise Aguera y Arcas about  Microsoft’s Photosynth. What a amazing software!

HSQLDB is the leading SQL relational database engine written in Java. It has a JDBC driver and supports a rich subset of ANSI-92 SQL (BNF tree format) plus SQL 99 and 2003 enhancements. It offers a small (less than 100k in one version for applets), fast database engine which offers both in-memory and disk-based tables and supports embedded and server modes. Additionally, it includes tools such as a minimal web server, in-memory query and management tools (can be run as applets) and a number of demonstration examples.

(see hsqldb.org)

Install PHP5, Apache2 on Mac OS X

Install Apache in /usr/local/apache2

$ curl http://apache.linux-mirror.org/httpd/httpd-2.2.4.tar.gz -O

$ tar xvfz httpd-2.2.4.tar.gz

$ cd httpd-2.2.4

# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2/ --enable-module=most --enable-shared=max

# make

# make install

Install PHP in /usr/local/apache2/php
(Assumption: MySQL in /usr/local/mysql)

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… i have deactivated the comments on the semanticpool.

Just found krugle. A nifty search engine which helps you finding source-code by searching through projects which are available in the internet. It also allows you to add comments to the code.

Krugle helps programmers find existing source code and the information they need to evaluate, deploy and fix code.

There is a demo-video which shows all the features.

Expectnation is intended to replace the ad-hoc collection of emails, spreadsheets, documents and hacks that hold together the organization of most conferences. The aim is to improve the quality and reliability of communication between the organizers, speakers and attendees.

(see “Launching Expectnation” @ Edd Dumbill’s Weblog)