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This morning Yahoo! launched the first fourteen OpenSocial applications for users of My Yahoo!, though as TechCrunch pointed out they did a bit of forking OpenSocial for their HTML-ish markup. It's not all that surprising considering that OpenSocial's support for this sort of markup (OSML) is relatively new, Yahoo! has been working on their application platform for quite awhile and OSML is just a bit strange.

For instance, the small view (i.e. the widgets which actually appear on the MyYahoo page) must be...

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On Obama's Inauguration Day the world watched... and called each other. And those calls were voluminous and corresponded to parts of his speech. To see just how the world reached out to each other MIT's Senseable City Lab and ATT teamed up to a...

A light flickers from two distinct points in time. As a child in the early-1970s, one of my toys was a View-Master, a binoculars-like device for viewing 3D images (called stereograms), essentially a mini-program excerpted from popular destinatio...

OSCON 2009 is just around the corner, this year in San Jose, California. When I spoke at the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group last night, they asked me for a few highlights. It's tough to pick from over 200 sessions, all the best-of-the-best out of 800 submissions (and there were at least 100 more I wish I could have fit in). But, a few of the talks I'm particularly looking forward to are "Situation Normal, Everything Must Change" by Simon Wardley on the cloud computing apocalypse and its implications for o...

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