links for 2007-03-26

• BlueLink of the day: Avalon Cabernet
  (tags: wine)
• Griffin Technology: PowerMate – USB Multimedia Controller
  (tags: hardware stuff)
• New bike
  what makes a good commuter bike…
  (tags: stuff)
• Menu Foods Income Fund – Annual General Meeting
  pet food recall lists
  (tags: animals)
• Artificial Intelligence, With Help From the Humans – New York Times
  on mechanical turk etc.
  (tags: software/social)
• Apple – Support – Discussions – My 14 year-old cat has beaten iBook …
  (tags: amusements cats)
• Race To Build The “Distributed Bookings” Platform For Services
  (tags: business web_services)
• Scribd – Home
  “Scribd is a free online library where anyone can upload”
• City Police Spied Broadly Before G.O.P. Convention – New York Times
  before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest at the convention, according to police records
  (tags: law usa privacy politics)
• Netimperative – Will social networks and vertical search combine to challenge Google?
  (tags: comment search software/social verticals)
• ScienceDirect – Information Processing & Management, Volume 43, Issue 4, Pages 849-1148 (July 2007)
  (tags: research information_management information_processing academia)
• The end of federated search?
  (tags: search database information_integration deep_web)
• Gmail Craze: 30 + Tools and Hacks for Gmail » MakeUseOf.com
• Xenomachina: Easier Links with Google AJAX Search API
• Study: Chocolate improves blood vessel function – CNN.com
  (tags: chocolate hah health research)
• Scientific American: Need Fiber? Have Some Coffee
  A new study shows that brewed coffee contains soluble fiber, the roughage found in oatmeal and apples that aids digestion, helps the body absorb vital nutrients and keeps a lid on cholesterol.
  (tags: coffee health research hah)
• GeoPress
  (tags: geotagging wp)
• O’Reilly Radar > Different Approaches to the Semantic Web
  (tags: semantic_web)
• WordPress › Blog » Plugin Directory
  (tags: wp)
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Freebase: the Web 3.0 machine