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Exclusive: Facebook Blocked API Access to Ping After Failure to Strike Agreement, So Apple Removed Feature After Launch | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD- It's not as mysterious as it seems, this mini-controversy about find friends on Facebook for Apple's new social music network called According to sources familiar with Facebook's platform, the social networking giant essentially denied Apple's Ping access to application programming interfaces that would allow it to search for an iTunes user's friends on Facebook who also had signed up for Ping. So Apple shut the feature down.
- Drunken Bigot Tries to Commit Anti-Muslim Hate Crime, Gets His Ass Kicked Instead « SpeakEasy
- Earth 'facing mass extinction'
- The world is facing a mass extinction event that could be greater than that of the dinosaurs, new Australian research shows.
- Happy Birthday Chrome, You're About To Overtake Firefox On TechCrunch
- As we pointed out earlier, today is Google Chrome's second birthday. Since it launched in beta on September 2, 2008, it has come a long way (it's already 6 versions deep). Back then, it was Windows-only, with official Mac and Linux support only coming late last year. But now it's on the verge of another milestone: becoming the top browser coming to this site.
I've checked out our logs over the past few years to see how well Chrome has been doing compared to its rival browsers. The numbers are shockingly strong for such a new entry -- particularly in the past year. Obviously, TechCrunch has a tech-centric audience, but I don't think it's off-base to say that you're also a leading audience of early adopters that often point to where the general public will be in the future.
- The Office Staff Wants Harvey Keitel To Replace Steve Carell
- "He's probably the only guy who can do it, and he's doing TV now [ABC's Life on Mars]. That's what a very smart eager man once called a "win-win-win."
- Arizona Senator Chokes During Opening Statement
- "This is what she gets for hiring Basil Marceaux to write her speech."
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- 15 Cancelled PlayStation 3 games that should have never been cancelled
- It really hurts me that some of these games had so much potential and they got canned for a ton of different reasons. Here are 15 games on the PlayStation 3 that got canned. I am pretty much sure that you must have either forgotten many of these or have never heard about them. Check the list out.
- Twitter To Roll Out URL Shortener To All By End Of Year
- Twitter Mobile Usage Skyrocketed With Official Apps [STATS]
- Another oil rig explosion, and the science of dispersants
- Another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded today. All crew members survived. Right now, nobody knows whether or not the explosion caused a leak in any of the seven wells that the rig collects from. There have been reports of an oil slick on the water near the fire, but that could just as easily be from the finite amount of oil stored on the rig—which would still a spill, but a significantly less problematic one.
Other than that, there's not really much information out about this right now. If anybody's learned anything from Deepwater Horizon it seems to be that you're better off, PR-wise, if you don't have to correct everything you say two days later.
To give you something to chew over in the meantime, though, Deep Sea News has been doing a really interesting series on the science (such as it is) of oil dispersants. It's interesting, not just because of the basic facts, but also because it gets into the details of why we don't know more.
Dispersants must be applied successfully and have a high effectiveness once in ocean waters. This sounds easy, in principle--once you've perfected your Corexit formula in the lab, just spray it from a helicopter, and voila! Except there are a lot of factors which you also have to take into account: the composition of the oil spilled, sea energy, whether the oil has been subjected to weathering at all, exact type of dispersant used and the amount which you sprayed, and ocean temperature/salinity.
Thank goodness for all those lab tests over the years which figured all this stuff out, you say. Um, well actually it seems like even designing simulation experiments is difficult, and different tests can report different effectiveness scores for the same dispersant. It is difficult to accurately scale up lab tests in order to predict dispersant action on real spills. Older studies used methods and analyses which have since been discredited. Wave-tank tests can probably provide upper limits on dispersant effectiveness, but there are SEVENTEEN (!!) critical factors that require strict control for accurate results (Fingas 2002). Field tests in open ecosystems are even worse for measuring the fate of oil and controlling variables. In terms of measuring dispersant effectiveness, tank tests, field tests, and lab tests all disagree. Awesome.
Part 1: How effective are dispersants on real oil spills?
Part 2: How toxic are dispersants?
Part 3: Do dispersants really promote degradation of oil?
Image of a random oil rig: Some rights reserved by kenhodge13
- Toshiba Recalls 41,000 Satellite Notebooks Due To Burn Hazard
- Zing! Burn! Ouch! We know, it's too easy, but we just had to. Sony, HP and lots of others have dealt with burn-related recalls in the past, and now it's Toshiba's turn. Today, the company has issued a voluntary recall on their T Series notebook computers due to a
- DGA Files Complaint Against Fox News For Illegal Contribution To GOP Candidate
- Keeping up its war with Fox News, the Democratic Governors Association on Thursday filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission accusing the network of making an illegal in-kind contribution to gubernatorial candidate John Kasich (R-OH). The complaint, clocking in at seven pages and signed by the DGA's Executive Director Nathan Daschle, makes some far-reaching charges.
- Saturday Night Live May Finally Hire Another Black Person
- If you're keeping score at home -- and you probably are -- it has been seven years since Saturday Night Live hired a new African American cast member, an unhappy distinction that proved to be quite the hindrance two years...
- Batman...and The Penguin (PIC)
- Is it true that Batman is just a reflection of his arch-enemies?
- Chicks Dig Guys That... (PIC)
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Worldpress.it
- 買収
- 知人の主要取引先が他の企業に買収されると。
パイ精 -> オムロン
なんですけどね。
- まだ7時前
- たまには早起きも良いでしょう。
今日の予定は知人の家にPCのサポートのみ。
- NIS2002
- 我が家では
Norton Internet Security 2002 を
全てのマシンに入れている。
更新期限が切れたというので「次へ」をクリックしてみると、
もう延長はできないらしい。
まいった。
- 誕生日
- さて今日は誕生日。
去年の誕生日、なにしてたろう。
今年は、どうなるかな。
紅茶のシフォンケーキが食べたい。
- IE Tab
- GyaO でBON JOVI のライブでも観ようかと思い、IE Tab を入れた。
便利だ。
送り手側が不便なことするから、受け手側で工夫しなきゃな。
- ソフトバンクがボーダフォン日本法人を買収
- 今のところ、ソフトバンクのケータイは欲しくないなぁ。
どこ使うかなんて、イメージですよ。
「今のところ」だけど。
- 確定申告
- やっと書類が完成した。
だから、もう寝よう。
- Thumbstacks.com!
- 場合によっては使うかも。TechCrunch : Thumbstacks - Ajax/Flash Web PowerPointthat allows users to build presentations online and present them via a permanent URL. It uses both Flash and Ajax - it uses Flash if its installed, and defaults to Ajax if not.ブラウザ使ってオンラインでスライド作って、保存や更新もできて、
みんなにはリンク先を教えてあげれば見てくれるのか。
でもやっぱり、ppt や pdf とか swf のが便利なんですけど。
Thumbstacks.com!
- defaultで行こう
- ここを作って、2ヶ月ちょっと。
作ったまま放置してたんだけど、今日は少しいじくってみようかなと。
以前から使っていた色々なブログサービス系のところへ行ってみると、
ほとんど全部が進化しちゃってびっくり。
Technorati Japanは、ちゃんとスタートして稼動してたんですね。
FeedBurner まで日本版があるし。
Blogpeople にも登録したし、今日はこのへんで。
- 2006/01/22
- てすとてすとてすと
- start
- そろそろこちらへの投稿もはじめようかね。
- 4th post
- 基本設定はOK かなぁ。
- 3rd Post
- だめか。
様子見てsqlite に変更か。
- 2nd Post
- 2回目です。
- 1st Post
- してみる。
