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Monday, December 14, 2009



Weekly Ten (12-14-2009)

Posted: 14 Dec 2009 05:24 AM PST

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:


1. Twitter finally in the money with Google link
Biz Stone, a co-founder of Twitter, was in the audience at the launch this week of Google's new weapon in the search engine wars.
More @ TimesOnline

2. When Javascript became the world's new CPU
The computing world is always very unpredictable. That must be why there is a small number of people who make large amounts of money from it: they are in the right (unpredictable) place, at the right (unpredictable) time.
More @ FreeSoftwareMagazine

3. Damned Pirates: Hollywood Sets $10 Billion Box Office Record
Claims by the MPAA that illegal downloads are killing the industry and causing billions in losses are once again being shredded. In 2009, the leading Hollywood studios made more films and generated more revenue than ever before, and for the first time in history the domestic box office grosses will surpass $10 billion.
More @ TorrentFreak

4. Word Clock redux

More @ HackaDay

5. Two new features enhance search beyond the results page
On Monday, when Amit Singhal introduced Google real-time search, he talked about bringing you information at the speed of light. But speed isn't just about the time it takes the results to load, or even the time it takes us to index new information — it's about the time it takes to get you the information you're looking for.
More @ Googleblog

6. The New FOSS Frontier: The Database Market
What's the next area of IT in which open source will go mainstream? To get an idea on the future, let's look at the past. In places where open source has succeeded before, two main factors have been present: Unity against vendord lock-in, and a large, diverse and thriving community.
More @ LinuxInsider

7. Social network searches could be a hacker's dream
The race to include up-to-the-minute postings from popular social networks atop search results from Google, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo Search should trigger a boon — for spammers and cybercriminals.
More @ USAToday


8. The Google Phone: what we know... and what we don't

More @ Engadget

9. Code tutorial: make your application sync with Ubuntu One
Canonical recently launched Ubuntu One, a cloud storage service that synchronizes data between computers. In this programming tutorial, we will show you how to use the service to add cloud syncing capabilities to your own software.
More @ ArsTechnica

10. Top 10 Best Books For Inquiring Minds
We have done a number of previous book lists that have featured some very popular books. It seems, with Christmas just around the corner, that we ought to do a special list of books that are perfect as gifts for the kinds of people that frequent out site – people seeking after new knowledge and trivia.
More @ Listverse

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