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Google introduces Latitude, a way of sharing your location with others. I think I'll probably find myself using this more than I use FireEagle, mostly because Google own my ass right now — via apps, docs and email — so I'm much more likely to be in a position to update it regularly and closely control friend's and colleague's access to my locus.
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Turns out it’s a combination of navigational and direct text string search, presenting the user with a set of results, and progressively reducing those results through user choices.
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NYTimes.com has announced its Article Search API. It allows you to query 28 year’s worth* of information by date range, field search (e.g.title, byline) and conjunction and disjunction (AND and NOT) operations. In addition, you can order results by relevance, and date. *That’s over 2.8 million articles. And each article has 35 searchable fields.
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@medisisthriving is a Twitter feed of good news from the media industry ( a counterpoint to @themediaisdying )
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Dylan Loewe at The Huffington Post explains why Tom Daschle’s withdrawal as nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary is a shot in the foot for America.
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The Republican Party in the US has been busy — they’ve also released their GOP.gov Anywhere API. The API includes methods for members, bills, votes and documents. The documentation and examples are particularly clearly explained, and the site is a great example to governments and political parties of the value of sharing data.
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The Republican Party in the US has recently added about 40 RSS feeds to their website, including news, committee information, videos, photos and the ominous sounding ’solutions’.
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Excellent set of infographics showing how much tax notionally UK-based businesses are paying, compared to how much they should really be paying, as a result of their manipulation of the tax laws. Beautifully presented and easy to understand. This data came from serious amounts of ongoing financial research by The Guardian, and what’s amazing is that the data has been made available in XML format here: http://business.guardian.co.uk/guardiantaxdb.xml A big win for freedom of information and availability of important data.
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The Republican Party in the US has recently added about 40 RSS feeds to their website, including news, committee information, videos, photos and the ominous sounding ’solutions’.
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Hi, I'm Paul Carvill, I'm a web developer. I'm currently working as Technical Lead at LBi, Europe's largest digital agency.
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