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Call centers might be able to teach “chat bots” a thing or two about passing the Turing Test.
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the NME’s Alex Needham is championing the format to supersede CD. “I think it’s very possible that the CD might become obsolete in an age of download music but the vinyl record will survive,”
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When technology brings us to the point where we’re used to sharing our thoughts and feelings instantaneously, it can lead to a new dependence, sometimes to the extent that we need others in order to feel our feelings in the first place.
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It allows the user to easily add maps and geo-coded locations to their posts. Blog posts can also be organized by location. Embedded locations and addresses are inserted as microformats and are syndicated out in GeoRSS 1.0
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Ruby-on-Rails application that integrates other open source components including Community MapBuilder, Typo, Hieraki, and Opinion.
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Opinion is a Ruby on Rails based Forum system that tries to approximate a “blog <-> comment” system rather than imitating busy and noisy traditional forum solutions that already exist.
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he is moving the GIS app beyond the traditional WHEN, WHERE to geo-story-telling and adds WHO+WHY. It easily allows for the type of storytelling usually seen on sites like 43places and Platial to a realtime mapping site, not on platforms.
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Each MobiTracer can also be followed in real-time moving over the map. In addition the MobiTracer can send track-annotations in the form of media (images/video/audio/text) ratings (e.g. road-conditions) and Points of Interest (POIs) to the server
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Web 2.0 isn’t about wisdom of crowds, new models of behavior, or being more social. And it certainly isn’t about altruism and giving valuable things such as knowledge and time away for free. The real Web 2.0 is about control.
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Openness is not only the technological structure of the net but also its reigning ideology. But it would be a naive mistake to assume that economic interest will inevitably lose out to technological structure in determining the future shape of the commerc
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Absolute openness makes for great ideological dogma, but until someone convincingly demonstraes how absolute openness without any control makes for great business, I’m going to stake my tent next to Google in the DMZ between the land of openness and the