Jure Cuhalev

In the last few days, there have been a number of stories about Twitterank and the way it asks you for your Twitter username and password in order to calculate something it calls “PageRank for Twitter”.
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The issue here, as you might have guessed already, is that the service requires you to [...]

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What is Wikimedia Commons:
 

Central resource for Wikimedia
Wiki – anyone can edit, be bold, etc.
Media – it’s not text, it’s especially images
Multilingual – all the languages inside the single wiki
Free Content – all the files are availalbe under Free Licenses
Community – lots of people who consider this their “wiki home”

 
It’s a rapidly growing project [...]

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Marko Samastur – Easy deployment of site-extensions with a browser plugin.
Starting with Zemanta presentation, since it’s relevant for the presentation. Zemanta is a tool for contextual matching for blogging platforms and has to support a wide variety of platforms.
The limitations of XHR was a problem because of limitations of security-model that [...]