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Lack of accessibility should kill CAPTCHAs, but where's the replacement?
Several Australian consumer groups have combined to call for an end to CAPTCHAs across the web.
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Were you hit by the leap second?
It caused more damage than Y2K, and lasted for a solitary second. Were you caught up in this weekend's leap second carnage?
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Oh great, Facebook wants our apps now too
Facebook has announced its own version of an app store, and it has the potential to steamroll all others.
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Linux.conf.au 2012 wrap
Australia's leading open-source conference is over for another year. Here's the list of our entire coverage in one place.
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Microsoft opens up Messenger with XMPP access
An XMPP interface has been exposed for Windows Live Messenger, allowing standards-compliant communication clients to make use of the MSN protocol.
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LinkedIn turns presentation to dust.js
The social network for professionals has moved its presentation layer from off the server to the client via the dust.js library.
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Using Twitter to power registration systems
Why spend time writing, testing and maintaining your site's registration system when you can have third parties do all the heavy lifting for you?
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Social apps still in solitary
The CEO of social application developer TheBroth.com says he has yet to see interoperability advantages from OpenSocial, Google's common API for social networking applications.
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Google embraces and extends Facebook apps
With less effort than negotiating for a 1.6% stake in Facebook, has Google simply outmanoeuvred everybody with their write once, run anywhere approach to social applications?
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So you want to buy Facebook?
$500 million is an awful lot of money for a small stake in a Web site -- so I thought I'd make a list of things that Microsoft could spend its money on instead.