Catching up with 1 week holidays (part 1) as well as Where2.0 and AllThingsD announcements. Quite a collection from geo and python stuff to a descriptin logic reasoner and a facet browser wirtten in java, so some visualization and virtualization stuff and the website of the CIA’S( yes you read right) investment arm:
Geo:
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Google Mapplets are mini-applications that you can embed within the Google Maps site. Mapplets are Google Gadgets that can manipulate the map using Javascript calls that are derived from the Google Maps API.
Python:
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OLAP aggregation engine with MDX support, web interface (slice & dice) and relational database backend. See “Documentation” for more. Presentation: http://cubulus.sourceforge.net/. See online demo courtesy of Webfaction, http://alxtoth.webfactional.com
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multitask allows [WWW] Python programs to use [WWW] generators (aka coroutines) to perform cooperative multitasking and asynchronous I/O. Applications written using multitask consist of a set of cooperating tasks that yield to a shared task manager whenev
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‘The Python Papers’ represents the efforts of Python enthusiasts who are excited by the technology and want to help it flourish. We are looking to mix in reader stories and feedback, articles addressing specific areas of python (such as recipes) etc, cod
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KeyJnote is a program that displays presentation slides. But unlike OpenOffice.org Impress or other similar applications, it does so with style.
Java:
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JSpace is a tool for exploring complex information spaces in ways that make sense for people. It is a 100% pure Java application which draws inspiration from mSpace and is capable of using mSpace model files combined with RDF datasources to provide users
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Pellet: An Open Source OWL-DL Reasoner in Java
Pellet is an open-source OWL-DL reasoner written in Java, originally developed at the University of Maryland’s Mindswap Lab, and funded by a diverse group of organizations. Pellet is based on the tableaux algorithms developed for expressive Description Lo
Visualization:
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A Digital Remake – a Master Degree Thesis in visual communication design @ Politecnico di Milano, an open source project, a typographic exploration and experimentation.
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decodeunicode.org . Last Entries
Unicode 5.0 encodes 51,980 graphic characters on the Basic Multilingual Plane.
Here you can see them all.
Through a wiki function, we collect information on every single character
Virtualization:
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With LINA, a single executable written and compiled for Linux can be run with native look and feel on Windows, Mac OS X, and UNIX operating systems.
CIA:
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n-Q-Tel was established in 1999 as an independent, private, not-for-profit company to help the CIA and the greater US Intelligence Community (IC) to identify, acquire, and deploy cutting-edge technologies. I