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"How can you get started with the inclusion principle? Imagine starting your adventure with a black screen as in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Imagine your website. Now, take it a step further and imagine listening to your website rather than looking at it. This will help you to stop treating your website like a book. We sometimes forget that the web is a colloquial medium, and its narrative is not inseparable from its form."
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"The name is “world wide web”, but it’s not always. What are some of Google’s services that will only work in one country, or a limited set of countries? (Unless perhaps you route around the block – geolocation by IP, as it’s often implemented, is not an impossible hurdle.)"
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"In total, three venture accelerators where chosen by the steering board, which was lead by Mr. Risto Siilasmaa, Chairman, founder and former Chief Executive Officer of F-Secure Corporation, Member of the Board at Nokia and a prominent business angel among other things. It seems that the Vigo steering board was looking into finding teams to cover various different industries and compliment each other instead of creating competition into the Finnish venture capital scene. They seems to have found three such ‘mutually exclusive’ teams to fit the bill, namely Lifeline Ventures, Lots and Veturi Venture Accelerator. Here’s a short description of each in turn."
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"Vanish is a research system designed to give users control over the lifetime of personal data stored on the web or in the cloud. Specifically, all copies of Vanish encrypted data — even archived or cached copies — will become permanently unreadable at a specific time, without any action on the part of the user or any third party or centralized service. "
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"IE6 saw life in 2001. True, it took Microsoft about 5 years to release the next one, but this is 2009. IE8 is here along with loads of other good browsers. It's time to move on!
Robin Wauters on TechCrunch points out that Youtube will stop supporting the old browser soon. A brave step by a giant, but will that be enough? Digg did a little test. And guess what? 70% of IE6 users are forced to use it by their IT department at work. They want to upgrade, they just can't. The problem is not the users, it's the IT guy at work. "
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"It certainly makes things easier. But the more technology at our fingertips, of course, the more novel the idea that a guy—or girl—would be willing to go the extra mile. "My friends and I have found that it's the men who do not use these easy forms of communication that we find most attractive," says Vojtko. And it's the girls the guys find most attractive, says Heinzinger, for whom they'll make that extra effort."
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"Avustusviranomaisten toiminnan lähtökohtana ei voi eikä saa olla se, että
hankkeille myönnetyt avustukset käytetään moniin erilaisiin alkuperäisestä
hankesuunnitelmasta poikkeaviin uusiin tarkoituksiin, jotta avustus
saataisiin käytettyä loppuun. Avustusviranomaisten ohjeiden mukainen
velvollisuus on keskeyttää sellaiset hanketoteutukset, joilla ei ole edellytyksiä
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"Taloussanomat uutisoi Valtiontalouden tarkastusviraston tuoreesta raportista (pdf-muodossa) jossa työ- ja elinkeinoministeriön harjoittama yritysten tukeminen on osoittautunut tehottomaksi. Raportti onkin aika masentavaa luettavaa. Tarkoitus on ollut usein hyvä ja paljon on kaikenlaisia hankkeita pistetty pystyyn, mutta joukossa on ihan käsittämättömiä projekteja ja suoranaista tukirahojen tuhlaamista. "
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"Google is testing a prototype in which the underlines are gone from links on result pages. When hovering over a link, the underline will show, though."
My opinion? Shit. Don't hide the underlines. If your graphic designer wants to hide them, don't hide them. If your boss wants to hide them, don't hide them.
Just let them be.
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"As a result, the space program has been killing time for 40 years with a series of orbital projects … Skylab, the Apollo-Soyuz joint mission, the International Space Station and the space shuttle. These programs have required a courage and engineering brilliance comparable to the manned programs that preceded them. But their purpose has been mainly to keep the lights on at the Kennedy Space Center and Houston’s Johnson Space Center — by removing manned flight from the heavens and bringing it very much down to earth. The shuttle program, for example, was actually supposed to appeal to the public by offering orbital tourist rides, only to end in the Challenger disaster, in which the first such passenger, Christa McAuliffe, a schoolteacher, perished."
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