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These are the 15 javasript snippets i can try out some of them in holidays.
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The Concurrent Versions System (CVS), also known as the Concurrent Versioning System is an open-source version control system invented and developed by Dick Grune in the 1980s. CVS keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, typically the implementation of a software project, and allows several (potentially widely separated) developers to collaborate. CVS has become popular in the free software and open-source worlds and is released under the GNU General
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Freebase launches today, a new startup that intends to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. If that last bit sounds familiar, it’s because it’s actually Google’s mission, but Freebase seems intent on doing it, too.
Like Google Base, Freebase is a massive
database. The purpose of the database is to centralize as much data as possible, and allow participants to freely add and access data - developers can extract information from Freebase via a
of APIs and add it to their web applications. It also builds relationships between highly structured pieces of data, something that can’t easily be done with distributed data controlled by different entities. Tim O’Reilly gives a great and in depth overview of the service and why it’s important. The Time’s John Markoff explains it to the masses.
O’Reilly says:
But hopefully, this narrative will give you a sense of what Metaweb [the company that created Freebase] is reaching for: a wikipedia like system for building the semantic web. But unlike the W3C approach to the semantic web, which starts with controlled ontologies, Metaweb adopts a folksonomy approach, in which people can add new categories (much like tags), in a messy sprawl of potentially overlapping assertions.
Now, the really powerful thing about this is that all these categories, these data types and the web of fields that define them, provide new hooks for applications that will be able to extract meaning from the data. That’s what makes Metaweb a kind of semantic web application.
If Metaweb gets this right, this bottom up approach will build new connections between data, new categories and ways of thinking. It will likely be messy and contradictory for a while, but as I told John Markoff for the story on Metaweb that he was preparing for the New York Times tonight, they are building new synapses for the global brain.
Freebase has already sucked in data from Wikipedia and other sources, and individuals can fill in their own data, too. No word yet on how bad data will be purged from the system.
Freebase looks to be what Google Base is not: open and useful. I imagine there will be more than one forehead self-smacked at Google HQ tomorrow, as they think “We could have done this.”
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(upgrade URL)I had the opportunity to meet with Tapan Bhat (VP, Front Doors) and
David White (Director, My Yahoo) and see a demo of the new product
yesterday. There is also a screencast of the demo here, led by White.
The new My Yahoo has been redesigned to look more like the recently updated Yahoo homepage.
But the most significant changes are are under the hood. Instead of
presenting a default set of content to new users to start them off, My
Yahoo is now analyzing known data about the user (zip code from IP
address and the areas of Yahoo that the user visits often) to create a
customized version right at signup. So, for example, if the user tends
to go to the Yahoo Movies property occasionally, a Yahoo Movies module
will be auto added when they create a new My Yahoo account.
Yahoo is also adding new sharing features. Any page that a user
creates can be shared with other My Yahoo users via email or IM. If
accepted, that page is added to the new user’s My Yahoo account as
well. In the future, the team says, they’ll be allowing users to
publish their own pages, as Pageflakes does today.
Users can also choose between a 2, 3 or 4 column layout and a number of themes.
There are a couple of areas where My Yahoo is still lagging
competitors like Netvibes. Widgets cannot be added to the site,
although that is coming eventually, the team says. Users also can no
longer have bookmarks linked right from the main page - that feature
has been moved to a drop down control panel. That makes some sense from
a user interface perspective, but I’ll miss being able to access
bookmarks with a single click. Finally, My Yahoo has a large ad unit on
the site that cannot be removed - something none of the other services
force on users.
Overall this is a very welcome step forward for My Yahoo. And from
what the team is saying, there are a lot of additional features to be
rolled out in the near future as well.
Like most Yahoo product upgrades, this is being rolled out to users
slowly. If you’d like to test it out, you can create an account or
upgrade your existing one at cm.my.yahoo.com/upgrade.
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