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Friday, 20th April 2007

The New Upcoming. No more metros! Upcoming is now hooked in to Yahoo!’s WhereOnEarth data, meaning plenty of geocoded brilliance.

# 12:13 am / geocoding, upcoming, whereonearth, yahoo

The website to web application gradient. Jeremy snapped this cunning illustration at my JavaScript Libraries panel at the Web 2.0 Expo.

# 12:30 am / alex-russell, brettaylor, dojo, flickr, gwt, javascript, jeremy-keith, john-resig, jquery, matt-sweeney, web2expo, web2expo07, yui

Full Java Stack In Ubuntu. JDK6, Glassfish, NetBeans and Java DB are all available in the Multiverse repository for Ubuntu 7.04.

# 12:37 am / java, simon-phipps, ubuntu

disinfographics. These really are pretty remarkable.

# 4:15 am / disinfographics, michal-migurski

I've always said that setting up a web site for most folks is scary and intimidating - but myspace, with all your friends there, lends itself to a helping culture. Everyone shares how to do whatever with their circles of friends... they get by with a little help from their friends.

Phil Torrone

# 4:37 am / myspace, phil-torrone

libketama (via) A consistent hashing algorithm for memcache clients, from the team at last.fm.

# 6:50 am / hashing, lastfm, les-orchard, memcache

How to Moderate a Panel. By Derek Powazek. I tried to follow this advice a couple of days ago.

# 7:41 am / derek-powazek, moderation, panel, speaking

Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image (via) Microsoft have made free VPC images of IE 6 and IE 7 available for testing, but they expire in August.

# 4:47 pm / ie, ie7, microsoft, testing, virtualization

There's a simple rule of thumb: Every ten minutes of commuting results in ten per cent fewer social connections. Commuting is connected to social isolation, which causes unhappiness.

Robert Putnam

# 5:39 pm / commuting, qualityoflife

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