Monthly Archives: October 2010

Where Good Ideas Come From

We often use citations as a proxy for quality; this is true both in academia and the world of search engines (Google’s PageRank algorithm famously gives a higher rank to documents that are widely linked). This technique from Princeton looks … Continue reading

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Tab-Closing Roundup

Mozilla Rainbow is an experimental add-on for Firefox (only works with current bleeding-edge nightlies, and only on the Mac release) that integrates audio and video recording right in the browser. It sticks the resulting files right in the HMTL5 DOM … Continue reading

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Methought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more!”

Phono – jQuery Phone Plugin   This lets you add voice functionality to any web page with a few lines of code.  It looks similar to Twilio, but the API isn’t nearly as nasty (at least if you’re using jQuery). … Continue reading

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