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Computers and the Internet have improved the speed and efficiency of so many tasks – buying groceries, applying for a job, writing letters and sharing information; but recent controversies related to electronic voting in Florida and North Carolina indicate that maybe efficiency isn’t always the best route. Indeed, the use of technology to count ballots puts the political process into a “black box,” which may raise significant questions about the integrity and accuracy of what is happening.
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37signals have announced an upcoming project named Sunrise that will be a “CRM-ish tool for small businesses” on it’s Signal vs Noise blog. Previous projects include Backpack and Basecamp which we’ve spewed love for in the past. Sunrise, I suspect, may be the one that helps tip them from darlings of the blogosphere to an even wider audience. A simple CRM is something that a lot of business people could really use.
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It seems that every day another dozen web2.0 sites arrive in alpha or beta form, Google on it’s own releases one or two ‘beta’ products a month. So how can a person interested in this frenzy of releases keep up with the ten different gift list applications that have been released in the past two weeks without spending all their time surfing the Web? Easy, you just find a few other people that have more time than you do and piggyback on them.
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OK...we are going to have high definition television, the question, as always, is when. According to a story in the New York Times, the House of Representatives has mandated February 17, 2009, as the date that broadcasters must give up their old analog licenses and start broadcasting a high definition signal. Of course, the Senate still has to approve the measure, so it is not written in stone yet.
Be warned. There have been many past deadlines that were extended, and extended again. This story discusses what, I think, was the first May 2002 deadline for the HDTV switchover. At the rate the transition is moving, the first HDTVs I bought will have worn out by the time I am actually able to use them for viewing any extensive HDTV programming.
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AJAX is still kicking around as a buzz worthy topic and along comes AHAH trying to steal some of it’s thunder. AHAH is a simpler implementation of AJAX eliminating the X(ml), which the creator claims will still deliver 90% of what AJAX would have with less work for the developer. The Microformats Wiki describes it as “...a very simple technique for dynamically updating web pages using JavaScript. It involves using XMLHTTPRequest to retrieve (X)HTML fragments which are then inserted directly into the web page, whence they can be styled using CSS.”
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