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Google TV update adds Android Market – The H Open Source: News and Features

If your data practices were made public, would you be nervous? – O’Reilly Radar

High Scalability – High Scalability – 15 Ways to Make Your Application Feel More Responsive under Google App Engine

Dennis Ritchie’s legacy of elegantly useful tools – O’Reilly Radar: “We need more people who share Dennis Ritchie’s spirit.”

Learning SPARQL – O’Reilly Media: “Querying and Updating with SPARQL 1.1” An update alert came in from O’Reilly. The hope grows, that SPARQL may be the elegant solution to my current web harvesting / page scraping task. Update 2011-11-02 Started reading the book installing the software and the samples running a few samples looks as if SPARQL…

Canonical, Dell bring Ubuntu laptops to 220 Chinese retail stores – The H Open Source: News and Features: Canonical and Dell have announced the launch of a new retail programme to bring computers with Ubuntu pre-loaded on them to more than 200 retail locations in China

JRuby update improves Ruby 1.9 support – The H Open Source: News and Features: Version 1.6.5 of JRuby continues to improve compatibility with the 1.9.x branch of Ruby and brings a number of other changes

Apple open sources its ALAC lossless audio codec – The H Open Source: News and Features: Apple has released its ALAC lossless audio codec, which compresses digital audio files without losing any of the original information, as open source under the Apache Licence

Understanding Algorithmic Journalism | Snurblog