Daily Links - 2007/03/11

• Online finds help save time before travel - Update your bookmarks here is a sampling of Web sites designed to provide travelers with advice or inspiration.
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• SXSW: Web 2.0, Semantic Web & Scientific Publishing
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Daily Links - 2007/03/08

• Wikipedia founder says to challenge Google, Yahoo - The on-line collaboration responsible for Wikipedia plans to build a search engine to rival those of Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. , the founder of the popular Internet encyclopaedia said on Thursday.
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• Microsoft moves to replace JPEG with HD Photo - Microsoft claims its lightweight algorithm creates higher-quality images that are half the size of JPEG.
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• Social Media Now: Sony and Viacom Go Social
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Daily Links - 2007/03/07

• Google updates desktop search tool - Google Desktop 5 offers new preview feature and security enhancements to combat phishing.
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• Oracle pays $3.3bn for Hyperion - Last week, Oracle, one of the industry giants, announced that it has agreed to buy Hyperion Solutions Corporation, by no means a small ISV, for $52 per share - thereby valuing the acquisition at approximately $3.3bn.
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• Microsoft Readies Public Beta Test of VoIP Server - Microsoft will release a public beta of new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) server software by the end of March. The software smoothly integrates with legacy phone networks and its Office application suite, the company said.
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• 20 must-have Firefox extensions - These plug-ins give you souped-up functionality, better look and feel, and streamlined development tasks. And some are just plain cool.
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Daily Links - 2007/03/06

• IBM sees green in environmental tech - The computing and consulting giant is building up a business to chase “green dollars,” or money spent by corporations that are looking to conserve natural resources and reduce waste.
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• Microsoft Fights Google Book-Scanning Project - Microsoft Is Taking Aim at Google’s Book-Scanning Project, Saying It Violates Copyrights.
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• Fake professor in Wikipedia storm - Internet site Wikipedia has been hit by controversy after the disclosure that a prominent editor had assumed a false identity complete with fake PhD.
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Prosper: Townhall Meeting

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Daily Links - 2007/03/04

• New Web sites connect lenders and borrowers - A Web site based in Britain, Zopa.com, and another in the United States, Prosper.com, have started businesses that connect individuals eager to borrow money to other people willing to lend, offering both sides better interest rates than banks.
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• YouTube builds network of content providers - YouTube, the video social-networking website owned by Google, is building a vast network of content providers, a company spokesman told AFP.
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• Three Minutes With eBay Innovator Max Mancini - EBay has big plans to provide more programming tools, like new SDKs (software development kits) and APIs (application programming interfaces), to its community of about 45,000 third-party developers. The goal is to help external developers increase the volume and variety of applications they create for the company’s marketplace, and in particular to increase applications for eBay buyers.
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• Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 1: Widgets, badges, and gadgets
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• Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 2: Mass customization, mashups, and recombinant Web apps
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• Lessons from Project Management: 101 ways to organize your life
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Daily Links - 2007/03/01

• Identity brings Microsoft and Internet 2.0 together - Microsoft isn’t the only one taking an interest in Open ID. AOL, Yahoo! and Digg have all announced they’ll accept Open ID credentials as a way of identifying users online.
  But for Microsoft this is more than just a technology partnership. It could be the first real step towards creating the multi-platform, multi-system identity metasystem. Oh, and it could mean one less headache for web developers too.
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• Google says advertisers face minimal click fraud - Google, on Wednesday disclosed data showing that while its pay-per-click Web advertising system is under regular attack from fraudsters, virtually all such tricks are automatically detected, rebuffing critics who say its online ads are a magnet for fraud.
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• Oracle Acquires Hyperion Solutions - Oracle announced a deal today to acquire Hyperion Solutions, which makes software that allows corporations to analyze and track their performance, for about $3.3 billion.
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• Morfik’s Ajax Platform Set To Challenge Google, Adobe, Microsoft
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Daily Links - 2007/02/28

• IBM teams up with Google over gadgets - IBM and Google are teaming up to bring mini applications called gadgets from the consumer Web to corporate networks.
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• What Should Our Web Site Measure? - With 8 million customers around the globe ordering business cards, letterhead and other printed materials from its online venue, VistaPrint executives understand the power of Web analytics for uncovering customer trends. Getting the most of out their data was a matter of measuring — and acting on — the right metrics.
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• Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, February 2007
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Daily Links - 2007/02/27

• OpenMake frees up Mojo for process automation - OpenMake Software plans next week to offer process automation software free for software development teams.
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• Business Internet Users Go Wireless - According to a new Pew Internet & American Life Project study, one-third of Internet users have used a wireless connection around the house, at their workplace, or some place else. Analysts expect that group to grow in Corporate America in the coming years as Wi-Fi security gets stronger and coverage range improves.
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• The Seven Deadly Sins of Web Analytics - he sin of vanity will whisper in your ear, telling you how impressive your stats are. It’s easy to get caught up with the number of hits your Web site has gained or how many referrers you’ve added or even which keywords are most popular. But if you get buried in the numbers and lose sight of your customer, there’s a downside as well.
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Daily Links - 2007/02/25

• Google’s Bosworth: Why AJAX Failed (Then Succeeded) - When it comes to software development, Google’s Adam Bosworth has a need for speed. In a talk entitled “Physics, Speed and Psychology: What Works and What Doesn’t in Software, and Why,” Bosworth, a vice president at Google, discussed why technologies such as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), PDAs and natural language failed to catch on in the past but are successful today. Bosworth spoke at Google’s offices here as part of the Google NYC Speaker Series on Jan. 29.
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• Alfresco Moves from Mozilla-Style License to GPL - Alfresco Software Inc., an open-source enterprise content management software company, announced Feb. 23 that it will offer its next release under the GNU GPLV2 (General Public License version 2).
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• Solving the 1:10:100% problem - Participation is the biggest challenge to the success of Enterprise 2.0 in an organization — as it is for any knowledge-sharing exercise in an enterprise. If you can’t get the people with the knowledge to participate in whatever mechanisms you build for sharing it, then it’s patently apparent that you’ll fail in that objective.
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