Anyone who works as a freelancer these days has to be at least a bit familiar with techie things. But it isn’t just that. When I was a kid and those vaguely SF puppet shows were on the television and all the other kids wanted to be Greg Gogetem or Steve Savetheuniverse, I wanted to be the guy in a white coat and glasses called Doc or Brains. Here are some technology-related feeds I find useful and/or entertaining.
ProgrammableWeb
Google Says Goodbye to API Keys with New Geocoding API
Google has released a new geocoding web service that is sure to bring a smile to map mashup developers working with the Google Maps API. Announced this week on the Google Geo Developers Blog, version 3 of the popular geocoding web service has been released, with several improvements and new features that will make it easier geolocate addresses. The new geocoding … [Link]
Celebrate Your Developers: a Lesson From Mobypicture
If you’re looking to run a successful developer program, you should probably pay attention to Mathys van Abbe. He’s the founder of Mobypicture, which has just celebrated its 500th developer (our Mobypicture API profile). Mobypicture isn’t exactly a household name and 500 isn’t a huge number, so you might not be impressed. But that’s still a major accomplishment for any API. … [Link]
Wired Top Stories
Google Launches Web Store for Cloud-Based Apps
App stores aren't just for mobile phones anymore. Google has launched a store that lets Google Apps customers add third-party browser-based apps to their existing stack of Google's productivity tools.
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Playlist: Gorillaz, Freelance Whales and a Tribute to Mark Linkous
Hear a track from Dark Night of the Soul, a collaboration between the late Sparklehorse leader, David Lynch and Danger Mouse. Also on the podcast: more music from The Ferocious Few, Flying Lotus and Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings.
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Slashdot
Man Threatened Spam Attack In $200,000 Extortion Plot
52-year-old Anthony Digati was arrested for trying to extort $200,000 from an insurance firm by threatening to spam them with six million emails unless they paid up. Digati said he would use a spam service and his amazing talents as a "huge social networker" to drag the company "through the muddiest waters imaginable" and presumably unfriend everyone. He added that … [Link]
Code Bubbles — Rethinking the IDE's User Interface
kang327 writes "As Java developers we are used to the familiar file-based user interface that is used by all of the major IDEs. A team at Brown University has developed an IDE for Java called Code Bubbles that makes a fairly radical departure from current IDEs — it is based on fragments instead of files. The idea is that you … [Link]
O'Reilly News
Truly Open Data
I'm kicking myself. I have spent a non-trivial number of hours talking to government departments and scientists about open data, talking up an "open source approach" to data, pushing hard to get them to release datasets in machine readable formats with reuse-friendly licenses. I've had more successes than failures, met and helped some wonderful people, and now have more mail … [Link]
Four short links: 10 March 2010 – Publishing Business, Google Apps Marketplace, iPad Design, and Visual Communication
Google Apps Enterprise Marketplace — this is sweet. It looks like the play is to become the home page for authenticated apps rather than to make commissions from selling the apps themselves. This may be the Google business model vs the Apple business model in a nutshell. This and more in today's Four Short Links. [Link]
Bad Science
Is it okay to ignore results from people you don’t trust?
Ben goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 6 March 2010 If the media were actuarial about drawing our attention to the causes of avoidable death, your newspapers would be filled with diarrhoea, Aids, and cigarettes every day. In reality we know this is an absurd idea. For those interested in the scale of our fascination with rarity, one [...] [Link]
Obvious quacks: the tip of a scary medical iceberg
Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 27 February, 2010 After the Science and Technology committee report this week, and the jaw dropping stupidity of “we bring you both sides” in the media coverage afterwards, you are bored of homeopathy. So am I, but it gives a very simple window into the wider disasters in all of medicine. Homeopathy, [...] [Link]
Pogue's Posts
A Closer Look at Windows Live
There are a couple of whopping great features Windows Live, available to everyone (even non-Windows people), that are totally underpublicized. [Link]
Marketers on Facebook Find Photo Tagging
Marketers are making inroads into Facebook. [Link]
Geek Culture
Forum Tidbits worthy of a click or two.
SpazGirl goes Woo Hoo!, … TheMoMan wonders Does a Union Label stand for a better product?, … Callipygous presents Patti Smith, … wsr64 liked the Battery Life, … and Tech Angel taps out Dancing with…Buzz Aldrin?! [Link]
OK Go. OK, you keep outdoing yourselves!
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The Joy of Tech
JoT 1364: Hurting the one you surf?
Do any websites garner your support?Click here to visit the comic. [Link]
JoT 1363: The human honeypot.
Abductions just aren't working like they used to.Click here to visit the comic. [Link]
New Scientist – Online News
Accidental origins: Where species come from
Organisms gradually grow apart until they become different species – right? If new research is correct, it's more often down to tricks of fate 
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Obesity: Food kills, flab protects
Disease and obesity go hand in hand, but an increase in body fat may actually be part of our body's attempts to protect itself from the effects of unhealthy eating 
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Lifehacker
Walmart Bests Whole Foods in Blind Taste Tests [Saving Money]
In a series of blind taste tests performed by The Atlantic's Corby Kummer, he found, to his surprise, that much of Walmart's new locally-grown fruits and vegetables taste just as good as (and… [Link]
Put Together a Rock Solid Home Tool Kit [Tools]
A well-stocked toolbox is indispensible for DIY projects and home repairs. Use this guide to select versatile and dependable tools that will help you with a lifetime of projects. For starters,… [Link]
Codswallop
Mashable!
Mac For Translators
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