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The Tour de France is on it's third stage and we finally compiled a first version of our live tracker app. The recent track is plotted on a Google map and live data (such as eart beat, speed, stress points, distance, power and current position) will be displayed next to each driver.

Position data is currently computed by driver's distance cover. But hopefully the exact GPS dataset will be online soon! Thanks to SRM for their great technical work!

... http://www.ubilabs.net/tdf/

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Das kann ja wohl nicht wahr sein was sich da wieder über die gängigen News-Kanäle verbreitet. Damit wäre dann Web2.0 gestorben...
"Das US-Patent 7,000,180 räumt den Internet-Design-Spezialisten von Balthaser das Recht ein, für die Erzeugung von "Rich Media"-Applikationen über das Internet künftig Lizenzgebühren zu verlangen. Derlei Anwendungen laufen als Eingabeprogramm in Form eines mit AJAX oder Flash angereicherten Webbrowsers oder eines Java-Programms auf dem Rechner des Benutzers und sind über das Internet mit der eigentlichen Applikation auf einem zentralen Server verbunden - entsprechen also in etwa der Sun-Vorstellung des Network-Computings." [via heise online - Patent auf "Rich Media"-Technik erteilt]

Pan & Scan is a so called "giant-ass image viewer" realised with javascript. similar to gogle maps, you can easily around large images. as the image is dragged, tiles are repositioned and images re-requested to maintain the illusion of smooth scrolling. works in mozilla & safari.

Technorati has updated their layout and added a lot of new features to it. There are a many new gimmicks to discover and it is nice to see how they combined the new clean style and advanced web-technologies. (Eg. tThe way you can watch your blogs seems to be done using AJAX). So Technorati is the growing authority on what's going on in the world of weblogs. Go on surfing here:

... http://beta.technorati.com/

The very impressive Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX.

All the components in the Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

Furthermore they provide access to their Design Pattern Library under a Creative Commons license. Worth to check it out!