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"On Monday, Microsoft is set to unveil its plans to counter the attack Google previously had launched on it with Google Docs. Yes, Microsoft Office is going to the cloud." - huixing from Bookmarklet

The Data Portability wars just got a little more interesting. Power.com, the service that lets users aggregate their social networks into a single hub, is countersuing Facebook for restricting users' ability to export and move their own data. - huixing

Judging by the fact that Evan Williams, Caterina Fake and Matt Mullenweg just invested in Small Batch Inc's upcoming TypeKit, font designers might just get the recognition (and possibly pay) they deserve. While we're unsure how this project will take shape, thanks to a TypeKit blog post, we do know that Small Batch is "working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license." - huixing

FriendFeed sucks on most mobile systems. Twitter and Facebook don’t. Enough said. - huixing

"Google engineers Brad Fitzpatrick and Brett Slatkin will show a demo of a new push protocol called pubsubhubub, Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini will demo his similar RSS Instant Update Hub, and WordPress engineer Andy Skelton will show off a Jabber client which uses the XMPP protocol to push blog headlines into an IM-like environment faster than RSS." - huixing from Bookmarklet

They should have mentioned http://superfeedr.com : that is exactly what we do ;) - Julien

If you are using either Google Chrome 2.0+ or Mozilla FireFox 3.5+, you’ll now notice a little dot in the upper left-hand corner of Maps, just above the Street View guy. If you click that dot, Google Maps will show you your location on the map. It does this using the W3C Geolocation API standard, according to Google. - huixing

为了获取可以回收利用的金属和元器件并从中获利，在这个位于潮阳区西部的粤东小镇里，数万人从事着焚烧废电器和塑料的回收和分解工作，他们用硫酸水冲洗电路板，并焚烧那些无法再回收的垃圾，让这个小镇成了世界闻名的废旧电子电器拆解基地和再生五金塑料的集散地。“富庶，遍地的电子垃圾和作坊，是我对贵屿的初步印象，”一位2008年7月曾经在贵屿采访的记者回忆说，“但由于每天涌入大量的电子垃圾，贵屿镇的生活环境变得非常的糟糕。” - huixing

Yahoo has moved forward with a great improvement to its Yahoo Query Language (YQL) platform. think of queries that look like: select id from flickr.photos.search where text='car'. Until recently, the YQL platform only supported read operations, which meant that developers could only pull data from the web. Now Yahoo has expanded YQL to support INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations. - huixing

John Woo, hot off the success of his Red Cliff duo of films, will now be directing a World War II epic called 飞虎英雄 "Flying Tigers," about the volunteer American pilots who flew against the Japanese from bases in Yunnan. - huixing

TweetTranslate is a great service for those interested in restaurant and entertainment recommendations. The service integrates with your Twitter profile and allows you to translate your tweets into more than 40 languages. - huixing

Firefox上受欢迎的匿名代理插件gladder的作者自称“gladder已成往事”。 gladder的总下载量超过50万，但最近有许多用户报告功能失效。作者分析之后发现：防火墙现在能对“gladder选用的PHProxy代理一般使用两种URL加密方法：Rotate13和Base64”进行解密，这“意味着现在所有使用PHProxy搭建的在线代理网站都没有用武之地了。 - huixing

"SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites – accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links – and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences." - huixing from Bookmarklet

"TwoQuick 是可以同时搜索 Google 和 Twitter 的搜索引擎 Mashup，结合两个搜索引擎的优势。但是 Twitter 搜索的中文支持问题一直没有很好解决，所以 TwoQuick 还是更合适用来搜索英文内容。" - huixing from Bookmarklet

"Mozilla has launched a new project called Electrolysis that aims to bring multiprocess browsing to Firefox. According to Mozilla, splitting up the page rendering workload into multiple processes will improve the browser's performance, security, and stability." - huixing from Bookmarklet

After being rumoured and showcased at @media Ajax 2008 by Jake Archibald in a pretty epic presentation (audio) the BBC now finally went through all the red tape needed and Glow is available as open source. - huixing

Glow is a JavaScript library used extensively across BBC Online, and now available for anyone to download and use on their own sites. Put simply, Glow allows web developers to easily manipulate web pages, create animations and add sophisticated "widgets" to their pages. The library has a comprehensive and easily navigated set of documentation. - huixing from Bookmarklet

"Google has not encouraged netbook makers to use Android. The company appears to be positioning Chrome OS as its preferred operating system for netbooks, though it said competition between the two systems would likely drive innovation." - huixing from Bookmarklet

"In a sudden, if not unexpected, announcement this morning, Google said it would release an open-source operating system based on its Chrome browser. The OS will be free, geared (at first) toward netbooks, and focused on "speed, simplicity, and security."" - huixing from Bookmarklet

Ars has learned from two separate sources, one inside the company and one outside of it, that Google is preparing to deliver a Chrome-focused operating system that targets netbooks. - huixing

"Taedonggang Beer Factory has been making the brew since buying a British brewery and shipping it lock, stock and barrel from the UK in 2002. The beer has been occasionally available in South Korea and is said to be of high quality." - huixing from Bookmarklet

The Telegraph reports that workers on the Keihin Electric Express Railway will soon be required to monitor their smiles using a smile scan software made by Omron. Basically, the company wants all their employees to look cheery on the job, so it's going to take photos of them, rate their smile on a scale of zero to 100. - huixing