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News map

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Antonio Vantaggiato

News Map News map displays the latest news about the place selected on a world map (through Google maps). Nice example of open synergies: maps are from Google, news items are from Yahoo!

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Imagin’

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Antonio Vantaggiato

A tech note: In my previous post I wanted to show Democracy Now’s logo. I downloaded it from the website, in the full splendor of 1629 x 1004 pixels, which is a bit too much of a resolution for this … Continue reading →

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PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Antonio Vantaggiato

PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer In the age of the iPod and the PocketPC, what is the need to carry around pieces of paper? Ins’t it better and greener no to use paper at all? well, some of us … Continue reading →

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From Academic Commons

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Academic Commons announces that the Metropolitan Museum and ARTstor have just started a pioneering initiative to provide high-def digital images to scholars at no charge. The service is available through ARTstor: See the AC blog. Also from Academic Commons: the … Continue reading →

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Values of n

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Antonio Vantaggiato

values of n is a software group who has clear ideas on how to develop good programming for the people. “Software so elegantly implemented it becomes an extension of the person using it.” Their first product, Stikkit, is the very … Continue reading →

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