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Steve Vai: Explanation of Lotus Feet
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From Vai.com, two articles explaining the title of the song ‘Lotus Feet’. The first is called The Sublime Essense of the Lotus Feet. The second is Pamposh, or Lots About the Lotus.
O’Reilly: What Is Web 2.0
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Tim O’Reilly answers the question “What Is Web 2.0?”
Check Out GeoBloggers.com
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Check out GeoBloggers.com if you want to see a really cool application that was written around the Google Maps and Flickr API’s. I haven’t quite figured out how to use it, but it looks really interesting and is a good example of what is possible when systems are designed with service orientation in mind.
The Anatomy of a Search Engine
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For nostalgia sake, here’s the first paper Sergey Brin and Larry Page wrote on the PageRank algorithm, called The Anatomy of a Search Engine
Google’s Patents Reveal Strategy To Beat Microsoft
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Google’s Patents Reveal Strategy To Beat Microsoft – interesting article about how Microsoft is currently in the position that IBM was with them when it comes to Google. Could Google threaten Microsofts dominance?
Actor Don Adams Dies At 82
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Unique Developer Build Environments
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Ed Gibbs talks about the pain of not insisting that builds be buildable from any environment.
A Cognitive Analysis of Tagging
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Rashmi Sinha has written an article called A Cognitive Analysis of Tagging. This is as much a note to me to read as it is you, as I only started reading it this morning and got part way through. I found this one on the DrunkandRetired web site. Benjamin Booth has written a response called The Present Failure of Tagging as well.
WP-Admin-Tiger plugin from orderedlist.com
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I installed the WP-Admin-Tiger plugin for WordPress this morning. Nice! Gives a whole new fresh look to the WordPress admin area.