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Doloto
Doloto is an AJAX application optimization tool, especially useful for large and complex Web 2.0 applications that contain a lot of code, such as Bing Maps, Hotmail, etc. Doloto analyzes AJAX application workloads and automatically performs code splitting of existing large Web 2.0 applications. After being processed by Doloto, an application will initially transfer only the portion of code necessary for application initialization.

The rest of the application’s code is replaced by short stubs—their actual function code is transferred lazily in the background or, at the latest, on-demand on first execution. Since code download is interleaved with application execution, users can start interacting with the Web application much sooner, without waiting for the code that implements extra, unused features.

In our experiments across a number of AJAX applications and network conditions, Doloto reduced the amount of initial downloaded JavaScript code by over 40%, or hundreds of kilobytes resulting in startup often faster by 30-40%, depending on network conditions.

• the web client cannot ‘Call’ a desktop client
• the web client cannot send or receive files
• the desktop client cannot send or receive files with another Jabber client even if the Jabber client is signed into Google Talk

  Dow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels, a start-up company, are set to announce Monday that they will build a demonstration plant that, if successful, would use algae to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol as a vehicle fuel or an ingredient in plastics.

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Plant Would Let Algae Turn Carbon Dioxide to Fuel - NYTimes.com

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Volcano photos captured from space


June 24: The crew of the International Space Station, who found themselves directly over an erupting volcano in the North Pacific, snapped some shots of the shock wave from the eruption. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

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Latino + Bhangra

Ricky Martin - Juramento (The Way To Love)

Spanglish 2004 Sony BMG Music Entertainment. Columbia (C) 2003 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (Holland) B.V.

Jerry Seinfeld convinces Bill Gates to try and connect with everyday people the old fashioned way. 

New Family - Jerry Seinfeld Bill Gates (Long Version)

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Jerry Seinfeld happens upon Bill Gates in a mall and trades shoe knowledge for insights into the future of technology.

  Shoe Circus

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Interesting statistics - http://billionsconnected.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/global_im_market_share_stats_july_08.pdf

Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches...What if it controlled your life?

Nice piece of fiction by Cory Doctorow that imagines a world in which Google is evil.

Read Scroogled.

Not quite yet, but this sure looks promising -

http://ibnlive.com/news/indian-doc-develops-enzyme-that-can-destroy-hiv/48654-17.html

BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) is a built-in Windows Service that transfer files using idle bandwidth, thereby causing minimal disruption to your normal tasks. Windows Update is the main user of this feature.

Users have not been able to use this Service to download other files because there was no user interface to do so. BITSAdmin, which ships with Vista and is available as a download for Windows XP is a command-line tool that lets you use BITS to download files from any location.

More details in this blog post.

Video: Bank of the future