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Herbivores and omnivores are not known for their linguistic ability. Although it has been discovered that tortoises have expansive general knowledge. (via Google Translate for Animals)
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Digg: Internet faster and more instant
At its annual South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) party Saturday night, Digg announced that it will soon launch a significantly revamped version of its service that is faster and has instant Digging and instant submissions.
Just before Digg founder Kevin Rose and his Diggnation partner Alex Albrecht took the stage at Stubb’s BBQ here, CEO Jay Adelson got in front of the audience of hundreds and took the opportunity to introduce, for the first time, what he said was “five years” of major work on the popular headline aggregation system.
Among the new features, Adelson said, are that any keyword can be its own category; that submissions will be a one-click process; that users will no longer have to log in to Digg something; that people’s Digg home pages will be affected by their own interests; that the service is bringing back leader boards; and that it is ripping out its MySQL back end and moving to a infrastructure that will be “very, very fast.”
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Unreadable Captcha
Unreadable Captcha
Forcing me to type
Small distorted characters
To prove I am realAre my words garbled
Or somehow unfit for your
Spam proof discussion?Verification
To tell human from machine
Comes in many formsDetection of spam
Using Bayesian filters
Only gets so farRetinal scanning
But I was born without eyes
So you can’t scan meMust access control
Such selective restriction
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Secret Project Launched!!
This is a total Life 2.0 kind of story. I noticed last week on Facebook that my old friend Annvi would soon be launching a website for her new business. She was asking the sorts of questions I knew the answers to, so I piped up. As we conversed it became clear that the site was fully conceptualized and content-ready, but it was nowhere close to actually being built. I volunteered to put it together and in less than a week produced this: Barkin’ Doggie Biscuits. Annvi and Tobiah are great and easy to work with, and because they knew exactly what they wanted, the geographical barrier and time difference (Houston, USA to London, UK) was not really an issue.
My favorite part of the site is the Testimonials section where people can upload pictures of their own dogs eating the yummy looking biscuits. Okay, it’s kind of empty now, but it’ll grow. These dog treats will be up for sale online pretty soon. I can’t wait to get some for Jessie.
For you Life 2.0 types, BDB is active on Twitter, Facebook, and Annvi writes an entertaining dog themed blog.
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Baltimore’s got murders
As an admirer of data visualization and interactivity, I can respect the effort Baltimoresun.com developer Stephen Mekosh put into developing this handy Google Maps mashup. In one click of a button, users can plot the locations of murders over the last three years atop an interactive Google Map of Baltimore.
Select options from the dropdown lists below and click “Show Results”. The map below will display points for each homicide in Baltimore City that meets your search criteria. Click on a point to get details about that homicide.
There have been 163 homicides in 2009 to date.
You can even drill down to each particular murder’s location and get the dead person’s name, race, age, and cause of death. Each of the deceased has a unique profile page, kind of like a Facebook profile, but for dead people.
Here is the tool: http://essentials.baltimoresun.com/micro_sun/homicides/
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Stars? Bars? Thermometers?
A work related post today because I’m really proud of what we’re putting together as a small team over the past couple of days. Ideas become wireframes; wireframes become mockups; graphics are integrated; soon we’ll be hard at work developing the newly improved interface on www.travelfusion.com.
We are having office debates over the best way to indicate the score of each flight result relative to the other results in the set. There are various ways we’ve thought of doing this, from star ratings, rankings, bars, colours, thermometers, thumbs up/down, etc. Maybe you can help me solve this problem by tweeting back at me (@facemark) or via email (markellison@gmail.com). The question: what makes most sense to you??
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