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Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Windows Phone Next App Star finalists, vote for your favorite and win

Here's a tidbit for the online retailers out there: If a shopper on your website is using Firefox with Windows XP, the odds of him being a fraudster go up sixfold.

Not you of course, but everyone else sucks at searching, which is why usability expert Jakob Nielsen believes you should re-think your website's search tools. "Having varied vocabulary words spring from their foreheads wasn't a survival skill for ice age hunters," writes Nielsen, "so most people today can't think up good queries without help."

Understanding ARIA Widgets

Liz: We're very close to being able to release the $25 add-on camera board for the Raspberry Pi now. Dave Plowman has been doing a lot of the work on imaging and tuning. He's very kindly agreed to write a couple of guest posts for us explaining some more for the uninitiated about the process of engineering the camera module.

The highly contentious proposal to map the entire output of a human brain just got a huge boost yesterday. Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia published the first partial Brain Activity Map (BAM) of any creature ever recorded.

The MongoDB Engineering Team is pleased to announce the release of MongoDB 2.4. This is the latest stable release, following the September 2012 release of MongoDB 2.2. This release contains key new features along with performance improvements and bug fixes. We have outlined some of the key features below.

MongoDB may be the most popular NoSQL database out there. Demand for the open source database is growing faster than every job skill other than HTML5, according to job search site Indeed.com. Like other NoSQL databases, Mongo is designed house large amounts of data across many computer servers.

video is available in the full version of this article (see link below)] A salamander's locomotion is controlled by neural circuits distributed along its spinal cord. When it chooses whether to swim or walk, its decision depends on the intensity of the electrical signals sent from the brain to the spinal cord circuits.

How do you choose between the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S4? On the one hand, the iPhone 5 is an entirely known entity that just works. You might not be getting the most exciting or feature-rich smartphone, but at least you know exactly what you're getting.

Other investors in Sift Science include Max Levchin (PayPal, Slide, Affirm), Chris Dixon (SiteAdvisor, Hunch), Marc Benioff (Salesforce CEO), First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Founder Collective, SV Angel, Start Fund, Alex Rampell (SiteAdvisor, TrialPay), Kevin Scott (AdMob, Google, LinkedIn), Lee Lindon (Karma Science, Facebook), Harj Taggar (Y Combinator), Garry Tan (Posterous, Y Combinator), Alexis Ohanian (Reddit, Y Combinator), and Rich Barton (Zillow, Expedia).

By Brian Cairns, Software Engineer Google Drive lets users create Docs, Sheets, and Slides, collaborate on them in real time, and have their changes saved automatically. With the new Google Drive Realtime API, you can now easily add some of the same real-time collaboration that powers Google Drive to your own apps.

You asked for them and now Mozilla's Firefox developer tools team is hard at work building a slew of new tools for web developers. A few weeks back Mozilla's Paul Rouget asked developers what they'd like to see in future versions of Firefox's developer tools.

There are many options for publishing your source code to Windows Azure Web Sites today. For example, you can publish from development tools like Visual Studio or Web Matrix, or push code from a local Git repository on your computer, or even set up continuous deployment from a provider like Team Foundation Service, GitHub, CodePlex, or Bitbucket.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 9:30AM Who's Hiring? Fitbit is hiring a Site Operations Lead to help us on our mission to make the world a healthier place! Fitbit's wearable fitness devices are worn by people across the world, each syncing with the web site, wirelessly and automatically, every 15 minutes.

Last month, the Web Speech API brought voice recognition to Chrome users in more than 30 languages. We thought it would be fun to demonstrate this new technology by using an old one: silent film. The Peanut Gallery lets you add intertitles to old black-and-white movie clips just by talking out loud while you watch them.

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Our first year. A new web conference - - Scott Hanselman

There's a new web conference happening in Vegas next month and you should join us. John Papa, myself and our friends pulled in the speakers from a combination of invitations and submitted talks. It's called anglebrackets.org and I hope to see you there.

AWS GovCloud (US) Region Announces Amazon SWF

AWS GovCloud (US) Region Announces Amazon SWF We are delighted to announce that Amazon Simple Workflow is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region! Amazon Simple Workflow provides customers with the building blocks and processing engine to handle the complexity of application infrastructure programming and state machinery.

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