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Free GMail Accounts per Textmessage/SMS
Google’s handing out free GMail accounts per textmessage/SMS. But only if you have an American phonenumber! Funny thing though… if you go to the localised version of the page like let’s say the French, German, Spanish or Dutch version most of the text is already translated. But you still need an American phonenumber though. 🙁…
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The Joys of Shared Hosting
… are of course the low price tag and not having to maintain the server yourself. The downside however, is that you are at the mercy of your mostly unknown neighbours. Who happen to reside on the same server. So what happened? ThinkLemon.com was out of service for quite a while. 14 hours straight to…
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Just a thought.
The present: Most people come to you via a search engine (probably through Google, although Yahoo! is on the return). Some people come via Technorati, Bloglines or other RSS feed engine. And some are family, friends, co-workers, affiliates, … the people you meet in real life. All 6 of them. 😉 Given the state of…
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MediaWiki and Google Sitemaps, the script
I have put the Sitemap script I put together for my MediaWiki installation online. You’ve asked for it so here it is. 🙂 MediaWiki:Google Sitemaps Please follow the instructions and please take note of the Disclaimer. Feedback is welcome.
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Atom 1.0 specs official
The Internet Engineering Taskforce has decided: It’s official, Atom 1.0 is here. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-format-11.txt
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Enough with the RSS, just call it webfeeds!
I’ve been following the ‘discussion’ a.k.a. mud-slinging for some time now. And sorry for mister Winer, but it’s everything against the name. Acronyms are fine, just as long as there’s something simple to back it up. A CD is a shiny silver disc that holds (expensive) music. A DVD is a shiny silver disc that…
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MyGuestmap, powered by Google Maps
What do you get when you cross an ordinary guestbook (who still uses them these days?) with Google Maps? You’ve guessed it, a guestmap! See my guestmap in a popup. See it quick before the service crumbles under its own success. Or build your own guestmap. (Export to Google Earth included) If inspired you may…
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Google Earth: Impact Structures
I’ve spent the better part of my sunday examining the network link feature of Google Earth. For those who don’t know. You can share your placemarks. And you can do it in a way, in case of an update, that everyone ‘subscribed’ will be automatically updated. Network links give you the power to serve content…
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Macromedia Studio 8
If you were camping out in Siberia for the past year you may have missed the Adobe & Macromedia merger. Well, it boils down to a 3.5 BILLION dollar transaction in which Adobe takes over Macromedia. That is, IF the stockholders agree on August 24 and the DOJ does not intervene. Anyway, it did not…
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RSS Statistical facts
While we’re on the subject of RSS. It appears that “only 2% of online adults and 5% of online teens in North America use RSS, according to Forrester.” They are also mainly male, spend more time online than non-RSS readers, technically interested, surf broadband and/or wireless, mainly read news, research products and publish/maintain blogs. (In…