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I had a chance to catch up with the Internet this evening so I thought I’d share with you what I consider newsworthy.
1. Technorati has revamped their website and categorised blog posts into 6 main sections – Business, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Politics, Sports and Technology.
2. Google, the mother of all search engines, was feeling [...]

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The results are in for the Open Source Content Management System Award, 2007.
2007 Overall Open Source Content Management System Award:
1. Drupal
2. Joomla!
3. CMS Made Simple
Most Promising Open Source Content Management System:
1. MODx
2. TYPOlight, dotCMS
Best PHP Open Source Content Management System:
1. Joomla!
2. Drupal
3. e107
Best Other Open Source Content Management System:
1. mojoPortal
2. Plone
3. Silva
Best Open Source [...]

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Google launched OpenSocial on Novemeber 1, 2007 and I was made aware of it by a colleague at work. OpenSocial is a social networking platform which will allows application developers to work with social data from the participating social networks. OpenSocial, unlike any other social networking site is, not another social networking site. [...]

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The keywords from Day 2 are: innovation, accessibility, usability, project management, social network, mobile and data.

To allow innovation at workplace, management should not be destructively critical when mistakes are made (Ref: William L. McKnight, 3M)
Having a clean and organised data structure for your web site is important
Mobile social networks are coming to [...]

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The keywords from Day 1 are: web 2.0, standards, social media, web apps, mash-ups, APIs, web services, mobile, users

Social systems are built to serve people’s selfishness
No matter how boring your startup website may be, as long as there is a need for it, people will use it
Mobile 2.0 is the next big thing and mobile [...]

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I am sure you have heard of all the hype about the fastest growing social networking site, Facebook. Facebook has become very popular, so much so it even creates new jobs in IT & T industry. How do I know, I hear you ask. Have a look at this job [...]

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The source code of Facebook (a popular social networking website) homepage was exposed on the Internet yesterday due to server misconfiguration. The following is an unofficial response made by Brandee Barker from Facebook:
Some of Facebook’s source code was exposed to a small number of users due to a bug on a single [...]

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WordPress has launched a new service called Jobs at WordPress, which is a job board for all things WordPress. According to their FAQs, the service is currently in beta and it will be free while in beta. Jobs are categorised into:

General positions
WordPress blogger positions
WordPress design positions and
WordPress programmer positions

There are already a [...]

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I saw this interesting article Ghosts in the Machine: 12 Coding Languages That Never Took Off on softwaredeveloper.com via digg programming and thought you might also find it interesting.
The programming languages that many people have not heard of are:

ALGOL 68: ALGOrithmic Language 1968
brainfuck
Befunge
REBOL: Relative Expression Based Object Language
ColdFusion (I think this is going [...]

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5 July 2007 — A consortium of PHP developers has announced today that several leading Open Source PHP projects will be dropping support for older versions of PHP in upcoming releases of their software as of February 5, 2008 as part of a joint effort to move the PHP developer community fully onto PHP [...]

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