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  1. congrats @natbat @simonw on launching @lanyrd for conferences, with #microformats too! http://lanyrd.com/people/t

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  2. improved tantek.com design thanks to some skill-swapping with @Han (and a few tips from @DBurka).

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  3. Keyboard Shortcut to Open Mac OS X System Preferences

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    Hannah: I wish there was a keyboard shortcut to open system preferences.

    Tantek: That would be useful, wouldn't it. ... Your wish is granted.

    On Mac OS X 10.6 (likely works on previous versions)

    1. From the Apple () menu, choose System Preferences...
    2. On the Hardware row, click Keyboard
    3. At the top of the window, click Keyboard Shortcuts
    4. In the left column, click Application Shortcuts
    5. Click the [+] (plus sign) button just underneath the right column
    6. Make sure the Application: pop-up shows All Applications (or pick it)
    7. In the Menu Title: field type System Preferences... (case-sensitive!)
    8. Tab/click/activate the Keyboard Shortcut: field
    9. Press the shift command comma keys simultaneously
    10. You should see ⇧⌘, appear in the field
    11. Click the Add button and close the System Preferences window
    12. Click on the Apple () menu and note the System Preferences... ⇧⌘, menu item

    Now no matter what application you're in, if you simply hold down the shift key and press command-comma (the normal application preferences shortcut), it will open System Preferences instead.

    Afterwards I found this article on Macworld which explains pretty much the same thing in prose, however they recommend command-option-dash as a shortcut.

    I prefer shift-command-comma for the System Preferences... keyboard shortcut because my muscle memory is already trained to think command-comma for the application Preferences menu item, and it's easier to just think "shift" (like shift-up to the level of the whole system) for system-wide preferences.

    Update: On Mac OS X before 10.6, you may need to type in an actual ellipsis character (…) in step 7 System Preferences… (via @ljharb: 1, 2).

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  4. heading to The Crown Tavern at 43 Clerkenwell Green for a bite and a pint at 17:00Z+1. http://plancast.com/a/4ky9

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  5. quite enjoyed Techmosis talking with @lastfm on CASSIS NewCalendar NewBase60 Whistle Falcon RelMeAuth NewBase64 OctalGeo

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  6. Heathrow Express train from LHR to central London has free T-Mobile wifi. @SFBART @Caltrain please add free wifi.

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  7. Dear London friends, I'll be in your lovely city soon for several days. Dinner Sunday night? DM/IM/email/txt me.

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  8. OH: I'd been into web design for a while before I got RSI in high school. #csswg

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  9. productive @CSSWG meeting, interviews with @lifus computerworld.no and @haraldbro @digi_no, then FAT16 USB drive fail :/

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  10. as promised: W3C CVS For Dummies - ~3k word draft tutorial for @w3c @csswg members http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/cvs

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  11. "Excuse me, could we have one conversation please?" - @svgeesus imitating chair @glazou, @W3C @CSSWG f2f meeting.

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  12. committed ed draft of http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-ui/ - next: W3C CVS for Dummies. Yes I'm the alpha-test-dummy.

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  13. boarding a 747, hearing the #Inception soundtrack. Not 1st class, nor returning to children, so I know it's not a dream.

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  14. 10 years since Oslo, 2 since London/Brighton. still have the maps. wondering how this orbit will differ.

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  15. Diaspora talk @MozHQ. Q: When can I follow you @joindiaspora on a Diaspora instance? A: September when code is released.

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  16. accidentally hit the "block" link instead of "message" on a @Twitter profile Web UI, anyone else do this? cc: @k

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  17. The Creamery (4th + Townsend) is everything they say. good food, great Ritual coffee, outside seating, fast wifi.

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  18. comets slow near the sun, near enough to share a warming drink, before flying off in different directions.

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  19. Design is hard, let's go shopping! (@ Westfield Foodcourt w/ @arielwaldman @mattb) http://4sq.com/54YBQK (I hear imitating @Foursquare is all the rage these days).

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  20. heading to H&M, then @microformats + Activity Streams dinner: 7pm @ Westfield http://j.mp/ufd231 Plancast, FB longurls: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146478945381262 http://plancast.com/a/4fga http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/6632346 so who's working on a realtime cross-site event distribution/consolidation web app?

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  21. RSVPing for #openwebfoo.

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  22. Bringing Back The Blog

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    8 years ago this month I started blogging my thoughts on tantek.com. That lasted just 6 years; there was no seventh year of blogging.

    I continued publicly posting to Twitter, Pownce (moment of silence), Flickr (currently 7 months behind), my PBWiki, and comments on others' blogs. But it wasn't the same. I had gone from owning (most of) my content, to digital sharecropping.

    The past two years I watched lifechanging, brilliant, and some longlived sites get killed by owners that knew not what they had, or just gave up. Even Twitter, one of my favorites, was unreliable enough, often enough, to be frustrating.

    Last year I told myself this year would be different. Among personal struggles perhaps I'll recount someday, I thought about how should personal publishing work? How did I want it to work?

    Inspired by the works of others, yet focused on scratching my own itch, I finally built Falcon and launched it on tantek.com this past January (using the open source CASSIS language/framework), and subsequently conceptualized my thoughts on the future of independent publishing.

    Encouraged by the energy, enthusiasm, and optimism of the implementers at the Federated Social Web Summit (presentation) a month ago, I decided little text notes were not enough, it was time to rebuild my blog.

    It's simple, it's undesigned, and it's got plenty that can be improved. But I can now write posts, have Falcon show them on my home page and their own permalink pages, PuSH them with a multi-object-type Activity Stream to realtime subscribers, and snowflake syndicate them to Twitter.

    It's a start.

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  23. @Falcon fetching, rendering, and syndicating of blog posts coded and tested. Throwing the switch... #ownyourdata

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  24. Look, @BenWard schools @Twitter on OAuth permissions UI: http://blog.benward.me/post/968515729 please make it so!

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  25. ATTN Web Workers: help reinstate #HTML5 <cite> for speakers http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Cite add opinions.

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  26. submitted all my known #HTML5 issues to the WHATWG list. 15min deleting/blocking uf wiki spam. vCard4 feedback tomorrow.

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  27. You know what Episodes I-III did not compromise on? The soundtrack. Thank you John Williams. #do #thereisnotry

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  28. ATTN web workers: let's improve HTML5 <time> http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Time read proposals, add opinions.

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  29. pints+baseball+Easy Star All-Stars worked. @Falcon fetches naked posts from hAtom storage. now to dream a simple design.

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  30. @BenWard intros me to Reggae versions of Pink Floyd + Radiohead while we sit on the couch and code. a bit odd, but good.

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  31. deployed a Whistle implementation to handle b shortlinks, now to train the @Falcon to respond. but first, dinner.

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  32. finally setup .htaccess to 301 redirect "www." requests per http://no-www.org/faq.php?q=class_b You should too.

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  33. awoke to finished Whistle b code and photo uploads; IM from Japan "something better is just around the bend" into dreams

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  34. misty and cold in SF = time for hot lentil soup with yogurt, spinach salad with tomatoes, carrots, mushrooms, parmesan.

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  35. "I *love* this idea!" - @mickipedia

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  36. LOL just saw @CSSquirrel Comic 69: The Curse of the Werefive http://j.mp/comic69 with @zeldman @jcroft #HTML5 longurl: http://www.cssquirrel.com/comic/?comic=69

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  37. renewing my San Francisco Bicycle Coalition membership http://sfbike.org/. thanks @sfbc for all your great work.

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  38. Want an eBook on HTML5? (cc @ciberch) The @HTML5Now DVD http://ttk.me/html5 has a beautiful 96 page color PDF completely searchable, copy-pasteable, and with hyperlinks to boot. http://tantek.com/html5now

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  39. this morning I dreamt I awoke to http://ttk.me/i/a/2H6K40 , then woke-up "for real" very disoriented #inception #warning

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  40. thanks @dalmaer @brucel for adding to wiki.whatwg.org suggested #HTML5 improvements. More soon, e.g. <time> fixes.

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  41. got 1st ** review on http://ttk.me/html5now their only other is ** on a Kathy Sierra book. At least I'm in good company.

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  42. @ryanchris better: SEVERE THUNDERSTORM + FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS in Utah: http://j.mp/UTstorms screenshot that! longurl: http://www.abc4.com/weather/alerts.aspx

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  43. love that @GavinNewsom was one of the first to tweet Prop8 being struck down. ruling: http://j.mp/prop8fails longurl: http://www.scribd.com/doc/35374462/Prop-8-Ruling-FINAL

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  44. new wakeup track "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" by Edith Piaf http://ttk.me/i/a/2H6K40 #Inception #notonthesoundtrack

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  45. hello August, I know we just met but you've already shifted my perspective. challenges and encouragement. let's do this.

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  46. writing posts in others' comments: @zeldman http://j.mp/HTML5z @jcroft http://j.mp/HTML5j I need to rebuild my blog. longurls: http://www.zeldman.com/2010/08/01/html5-test/#comment-56095 and http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2010/aug/02/term-html5/#c166231

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  47. goodbye July, you've helped in more ways than you'll know. comforts and fond memories, appreciated for what they were.

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  48. received info fragment 24 hours ago, inferred idea planted, slept to reflect before acting on it, and overnight it grew.

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  49. beautiful #Inception timeline infographic http://j.mp/dre4ms (via @dutchashell (via @girlonetrack)) longurl: http://dehahs.deviantart.com/#/d2unnlj

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  50. WTF standards: Unicode Emoticons vs W3C EmotionML (bit.ly j.mp also down for maintenance? #ownyourdata) URLs:
    http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.0.0/charts/versioned/U1F600.pdf (via @pauloppenheim) vs http://w3.org/TR/emotionml (via @bcherry)

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  51. "Twitter... sched maintenance 11PM PT... ~5hrs" http://t.co/zRm5Ghb good time for @Falcon coding #ownyourdata longurl: http://status.twitter.com/post/887078739/scheduled-downtime-duration

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  52. just read "Shark vs. Train" to my nephews ( http://ttk.me/i/a/~2SHzN ) When did kids books get so awesome?

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  53. going to: #IxDASF Designers with Drinks http://plancast.com/a/3zcp 18:00-20:30 tonight (2010-209) at 111 Minna.

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  54. Congratulations @malarkey on finishing "Hardboiled Web Design" @itshardboiled! Looking forward to reading it.

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  55. Amazon has @HTML5Now "In Stock" with a "One-Day Shipping" option! http://ttk.me/html5 Who's received it already?

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  56. Tweet Less, Kiss More http://j.mp/kissmore longurl: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/17/opinion/17herbert.html

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  57. posted short URL thoughts/design/implementation http://ttk.me/w/Whistle - edited thanks to @jsmarr prodding #fsws

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  58. @robdolin thanks! @Falcon project site is http://ttk.me/w/Falcon, no photo/link support yet, but it does auto-link text notes. Not quite ready for install/setup on more domains, but most of it is open source in http://cassisproject.com/ if you want to take a look at work in progress.

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  59. PROGRAM CLU RETRIEVE DATA REPLACE X START 1 TO 6 http://blogs.1077theend.com/files/2010/07/daftX.mp3 END OF LINE.

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  60. #TRON Legacy Daft Punk tracks posted by 107.7 The End blog http://j.mp/dpTRON longurl: http://blogs.1077theend.com/internbryce/2010/07/22/new-daft-punk-zomg/

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  61. in which I ask ActivityStreams about Zawinsky on social software, is single, verbs, objects http://j.mp/asvsr longurl: http://groups.google.com/group/activity-streams/browse_thread/thread/c51d2ab2e025d9e2

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  62. We're replacing their regular SMTP+LDAP with ActivityStreams+PuSH and WebFinger+hCard. Let's see if they notice.

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  63. free 2011 macworldexpo.com pass til 26th. be creative in forms: e.g. Interested in Other Hardware: flux capacitor

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  64. added activitystrea.ms object-type note to @falcon, tantek.com. cc: @robdolin @chrismessina @apparentlymart #fsws

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  65. @veganstraightedge as requested, (dorky) photo with me and @HTML5Now thanks to @JimPurbrick: http://flic.kr/p/8km2h4

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  66. FedEx dropped off a package. Now holding an actual *physical* @HTML5Now DVD box and reference guide in my hands!

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  67. #fsws coders challenge: Do you use your code to publish your site? If not, why not, when will you? #throwingdown

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  68. enjoyed the #fsws social-web-coders focus. helped keep conversations practical and based on real-world examples.

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  69. met a lot of smart optimistic coders at #fsws yesterday including the @joindiaspora guys. great can-do attitudes.

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  70. we (@daveman692 @evanpro + I) just came up with a #fsws Social Web Acid Test (SWAT) v0 draft. full description, challenge: user A takes a photo of B from their phone and posts it, B gets notified that they are in a photo, C who follows A gets the photo and leaves a comment, A and B get notified of the comment, where users are on at least 2 (ideally 3) different services each of which is built with a different code base. drafted here: http://federatedsocialweb.net/wiki/FSWS2010_Next_Meeting_and_FSWS2011 - challenge: 2+ pieces of software that pass this test by 2010-09-30.

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  71. posted my #fsws talk directly to the federatedsocialweb.net wiki as @evanpro requested http://j.mp/fswst longurl http://federatedsocialweb.net/wiki/2010-199-tantek-fsws-talk

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  72. at federatedsocialweb.net summit #fsws, lots of good talks by smart people, but no demos yet (only screenshots).

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  73. #owc2 #HTML5 @microformats S5 slides http://tantek.com/presentations/2010/07/html5-owc/ thanks @johnfoliot @stanford for organizing @openwebcamp, and thanks @webfolk @nodkoo @mollydotcom for the kind words and for tweeting the session.

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  74. @robdolin @fabyan65 check out @html5now, my #HTML5 tutorial video/guide shipping 7/27: http://tantek.com/html5now

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  75. getting ready to talk about #HTML5, @microformats, S5 and You @openwebcamp 2:30pm at Stanford building 200 #owcii

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  76. "Why do we fall? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up." - Batman Begins http://ttk.me/i/a/i7X7

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  77. Yesterday I got a new bicycle. Today I found its traction limits. Scrapes + toughened clothes, I'm ok. But missed lunch.

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  78. http://youtu.be/J5gCeWEGiQI Star Wars Subway Car by Improv Everywhere. hat tip: @aysan.

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  79. last.fm decided to teach me about (recommend) "post-rock" and I am an eager learner. http://last.fm/tag/post-rock

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  80. words needed said, apologies, forgivenesses. we stumble, hurt, learn, heal - ever forward. peace and progress.

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  81. Brett Slatkin rocked another #PubSubHubbub talk at #ICSF. http://pubsubhubbub.googlecode.com if you syndicate, use this.

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  82. pleased that audience at #ICSF got and laughed at XKCD I showed re open formats http://xkcd.com/743 #html5 #video

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  83. @amandapey real kbd + BBM = fastest + most reliable IM anywhere. txts, iPhone IM-apps slow+flakey in comparison.

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  84. iCal.app UI FAIL - alarm pop-up in middle of a PowerPoint preso (not me obviously, S5 all the way) #kanyeui #icsf

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  85. just did a brief #HTML5 panel at Connect SF #ICSF. slides: http://tantek.com/presentations/2010/07/html5-connect/

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  86. OTOH web-distributed address book? Google's UI: http://j.mp/diadrui Please add hCards! cc @jsmarr @bradfitz longurl: http://www.google.com/s2/search/social

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  87. Google Groups FAIL: don't make me create account just to unsub. How did you genuises make worse UI than Mailman?

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  88. 2010 @dconstruct sold out! Last chance: buy workshop ticket, like @adactio on HTML5 http://2010.dconstruct.org/workshops

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  89. happy to be home yet already missing all the amazing people met and conversations had at #moz10. #firefox #future

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  90. Facebook joins the distributed social web #DiSo by supporting rel-me + representative hCard microformats! URLs: screenshot + instructions: http://flic.kr/p/8h8ChM + http://flic.kr/p/8hbW39; @microformats details: http://ufs.cc/w/relme http://ufs.cc/w/representative-hcard-authoring

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  91. great #moz10 sessions today on JetPack (future of add-ons), P2PU School of Webcraft, and Mozilla Account Manager.

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  92. Where did 5 years go? @microformats org Two Billion Pages With hCards, 94% of Rich Snippets http://j.mp/ufs5yrs longurl: http://microformats.org/2010/07/08/microformats-org-at-5-hcards-rich-snippets

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  93. great @michaelrhanson #moz10 Mozilla Contacts demo, aggregating contacts from services + pages with microformats!

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  94. amazing #moz10 Firefox javascript perf demos: NES, realtime audio FFT, text to speech. JS will eclipse server langs too.

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  95. invisible metadata claims are trivially debunked. cant trust it or its proponents = why SemWeb has Trust problems

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  96. nice #moz10 summit day 1, so many smart+nice people. retired to make travel plans, from days to months into the future.

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  97. making plans for @dConstruct 2010 - you should too. tickets on sale, going fast. also go for @adactio's #HTML5 workshop.

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  98. "Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel." (After the game is before the game.) -Sepp Herberger

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