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Rapportive -- a simple social CRM built into Gmail. They replace the ads in Gmail with photos, bio, and info from social media sites. (via ReadWrite Web) Best Practices in Web Development with Django and Python -- great set of recommendations. (via Jon Udell's article on checklists) These and...

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Ronald Bradford has been guiding DBAs through key aspects of database integration for years. In this Q&A, he discusses the pros and cons of migrating from Oracle to MySQL (hint: it's not just about cost savings). He also weighs in on how Oracle's acquisition of Sun will shape the future...

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Check out our free PDF book samplers from these new and upcoming books: Tap Happy: Designing Great iPhone Apps Being Geek Power Your House Personal Investing: The Missing Manual Your Money: The Missing Manual ...

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Gov 2.0 Online Conference — Gov 2.0 International: Global Innovation Meeting Local Challenges. Gov 2.0 is a worldwide revolution, you don't want to miss this event. The agenda includes: Beyond Borders: Improving Global Diplomacy and Citizen Empowerment with Gov 2.0, Open Government in Canada, Israel Gov 2.0: from Awareness to...

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Fundamental Constants and the Problem of Gravity -- huge variation uncertainty in different fundamental constants: we know one to 1 part in 100 million, but another to only 1 in 10 thousand. Led me to wonder whether anyone's done project estimation with error bars, analysing past projects to figure...

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Guest blogger Marie Bjerede examines field projects that are studying the educational use of cell phones. In one limited example, 50 percent of students doing lessons by cell phone had higher math proficiency than classmates who learned the same material from the same teacher. ...

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It seems to me that there is a big culture of misinformation in both the Flex and Silverlight camps regarding how the other gets the job done. I figured the best way to bridge the divide was to investigate how Silverlight, and XAML, does the RIA thang. Through this article,...

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I'm in Atlanta for the biggest US conference in health care IT, run by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Although many people have been saying that the medical field would benefit from a Silicon Valley approach to technology, it's coming to seem that even more important...

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The Army launches Apps for Army. Contest or harbinger of the hybrid enterprise that combines planning and emergence under one roof? Apps for Army looks to uncork the Army's cognitive surplus and let soldiers start solving their own problems in code without the personal risk of going off reservation...

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Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors (MITRE) -- I could play bingo with this on some of the programs I wrote when I was learning to code. Now, of course, I am perfect. *cough*cough*. This and more in today's Four Short Links. ...

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Asia's share of the more than 400 million active Facebook users recently surged past 15%. With a market penetration of 1.7% in Asia and Africa, the company has barely scratched the surface in both regions. While the company continued to add users in Southeast Asia, there were an additional...

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Success stories were an important (if overblown) part of the iPhone App Store's development. It looks like the Android Market could be following a similar path. Edward Kim, creator of the Car Locator app, saw his daily revenue jump from around $100 per day to more than $400 per...

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