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links for 2008-04-07

April 7, 2008
  • Report backs freer use of data | Technology | The Guardian

    “work is under way on a government “information incubator” to encourage experiments with “mashups” and other innovative uses of government data”

    (tags: forblog freedata government uk web2.0)

  • Using SimpleDB and Rails in No Time with ActiveResource

    (tags: activeresource amazon databases simpledb thecloud)

  • Should I be worried about piracy? | New Music Strategies

    “The overwhelming cry from the independent musician twenty years ago was ‘How can I just get my music out there?’ Problem solved. Now what are you going to do?”

    (tags: futuremusictalk music)

  • itunes-rails - Google Code

    “iTunesRails was designed to provide an easy way for people sharing a work space and local computer network to control a common iTunes instance and shared music collection.”

    (tags: itunes office rubyonrails sharedmusic)

  • Google Spreadsheets Data API - Google Code

    “The Google Spreadsheets Data API allows client applications to view and update Spreadsheets content in the form of Google Data API (“GData”) feeds.”

    (tags: api googledocs spreadsheets)

  • mySociety » Blog Archive » Richard Pope’s GroupsNearYou.com launches

    “GroupsNearYou.com is an entirely user generated API-queryable database of the location and nature of local online communities, irrespective of the platform they are hosted on.”

    (tags: api database groups locality)

  • RubyForge: Morph: Project Info

    “Morph helps you generate class definitions through calling assignment methods. Unlike OpenStruct, it’s not a wrapper around a hash, but instead dynamically adds methods to a class. Mix with Hpricot for screen scrapping fun.” – could be very ha

    (tags: morph openstruct ruby scraping)

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