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Author(s): Jesse FeilerISBN: 9780071496278Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne MediaEdition: 1Date: 24 Sep 2007Pages: 320 Want to supercharge your website with the latest searching, mapping, shopping, and imaging tools? Now you can build amazing mashups with help from this step-by-step guide.

I don’t know about you, but every once in a while I want to find some new people to follow on Twitter. Here are some of the best ways to find new people to follow on twitter, without spending too much time searching for them. One: Twubble Twubble is a free service that searches your friends’ friend lists for people that many of your friends follow, but you don’t.

Social Media came of age after the Tsunami. It showed its power to provide vital information very quickly when the official channels could not. With Gustav a day away from landfall many of the most experienced people in the field are coalescing on a Ning site that will aggregate as much information as possible in one place.

Remember to add a post to your blog about this week’s activity! Further reading (and watching and listening). Podcasting in Plain English from the Common Craft show – all you need to know about podcasting in three minutes.

Next week, I’ll fulfil a long-running ambition when I attend the Office 2.0 conference for the first time — I’m moderating a panel on Platform as a Service, with speakers from LongJump, Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors and Zoho.

In case you missed it elsewhere, check out Mozilla Lab's video and blog post on Introducing Ubiquity - 'An experiment into connecting the Web with language'.It's a framework that brings together lots of the bits of functionality that are available with browser extensions and bookmarklets and lets the user run them with natural language commands.

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Ubiquity The overall goals of Ubiquity are to explore how best to: * Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find.

Did you ever imagine what is the most powerful community developed software. True, it’s Linux. But more often than not Firefox just keeps fascinating me with stuff that’s beyond my pitty imagination. Sometime back I wrote about Snowl. If that was not enough, Mozilla now comes out with something which for me is just out of this world.

So, What is Mozilla Ubiquity? Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension, from Mozilla Labs, that gives you a powerful new way to interact with the Web. This public prototype aims to empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions.

Two days ago in upper Austria, the BarCamp Traunsee, subtitled “Social Media Review Camp”, took place, which I had co-organized and which was co-sponsored by our own lil’ Semantic Web Company. Andreas Blumauer (also SWC) joined me on the first day, hosting a session about and giving an introduction to Linked Data.