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Entries from March 2008

Google contacts API & calendar sync

March 11th, 2008 No Comments

Last week Google released two very important pieces of technology:

Google Contacts API
Google Calendar Sync

These two developments will hugely help to break Google-stored data out of the locked silo. Given that I have two laptops (Windows XP for work and a MacBook for personal use) and two smart-phones (Blackberry Pearl for work and Nokia N70 [...]

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Great quote from Stephen Jay Gould

March 9th, 2008 No Comments

I came across this quote from the great scientist , Stephen Jay Gould, recently:

In science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

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Shirkey returns

March 6th, 2008 No Comments

A few month ago I blogged that Malcolm Gladwell had returned to the blogosphere. Well, now it’s the turn of Clay Shirkey. If you’re not familiar with him, check it out – one of the best tech writers on the net, I think.

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