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MySpace Opening Door to Developers
Following on the heels of Facebook who opened the door for developers to begin making widgets and programs to work on the Facebook platform last October, MySpace has announced their own developer platform will go live next week letting potentially thousands of developers begin writing code people will be able to use on their Myspace [...]
Have You Caught the WoW Disease?
Two years ago a virtual plague unintentionally spread across the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft now researchers want to study the dynamics of the virtual plague to see if it can help scientists model and predict the spread of real world diseases. Ars Technica: “There were a number of features in the virtual outbreak that [...]
Companies and Feds Caught With Their Hand in the Wikipedia Cookie Jar
Do you believe everything you read on Wikipedia? You wouldn’t if you knew who was changing what. Recently Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith did a little sleuthing and uncovered some very scary data on who is editing articles on Wikipedia and what they are changing. Griffith created a searchable database tying [...]
Removable Tattoos? We’re Not Talking Kid Stuff Here
A New York company has developed what they hope to be the next generation tattoo ink that makes the popular body embellishment removable with only 1 laster treatment instead of the current 6-7. Discovery News: The process starts with pigments free of heavy metals and other toxins that can induce an allergic reaction or produce [...]
Canonical to Release Web-based Desktop and Server Administration Tool
Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, is looking to capture the business market by releasing a tool to administrate servers and desktop machines across a broad network. This is the first time a Linux distributor has sought to directly infiltrate the office environment largely held by Microsoft. ArsTechnica: “Landscape makes it possible [...]
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