Monthly Archives: January 2008

End-to-end in standards and software

Two things. Both relate to Microsoft but that is just by coincidence. The first Apparently IE8 will allow the HTML author to specify the name and version number of the browser that the page was designed for. For example, the … Continue reading

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Canadian podcasts

Sometimes our government surprises me. The Government of Canada has created a list of Canadian podcasts.

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The XMPP snowball is speeding up

More and more of the tech community seems to be talking about XMPP and how it fits into the future of the Internet. One example: XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services

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everyblock.com

everyblock.com What a great idea for a web application. Large scale mashups/aggregators like this have real potential to change how we interact with our communities.

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CBC’s Spark and Search Engine

CBC has been doing a fantastic job of making most of its programming available as podcasts. More recently, CBC has also upped their Internet cool factor by adding two excellent new shows: Spark and Search Engine. Both of these shows … Continue reading

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