Archive for November 29th, 2007

The original PowerPoint presenter

[link] Thursday, November 29th, 2007

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Mellow fruitfulness

[link] Thursday, November 29th, 2007

We have a lovely crab-apple tree. We always leave the fruit on it so that the birds can pick it clean during cold spells in the winter.

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This morning’s headlines

[link] Thursday, November 29th, 2007

No sign of Gordon Brown anywhere. Hmmm… on second thoughts: that’s next month‘s headline.

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Pollution 2.0

[link] Thursday, November 29th, 2007

MapEcos is very interesting — an application that superimposes location and emission data on Google maps. Go to a location and see where the local polluters are. Click on one of them and up pops date from the EPA database.

It works only for the US at present, but it’s a really neat application of Web 2.0 tools.

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Andreessen on Facebook

[link] Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Marc Andreessen has written a terrific analysis of Facebook as a ‘platform’.

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