After months of promises (and third party tools), Digg finally announced that their recommendation engine is being released this week. Today, Digg has delivered the goods to private beta testers. Here are the first screenshots of the new digg recommendation engine features, along with a video guide.

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Below are some of our favorite places to learn by watching on the web.

Thanks for this compilation! I'm fond of watching a variety of screencasts, not just for the educational content within, but also to be entertained. Some hosts are fantastic. I'll add these to the list:

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At tomorrow's Google I/O conference, the App Engine team will be making a number of announcements.

While all of this is great progress, we're sure that many will be disappointed that App Engine is still limited to Python Apps. Shortly after launching Google App Engine, we created an interactive game that asked you to both predict what…

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Twitter is getting more popular, every glitch in the service is now felt more acutely. Going without Twitter for many people is even harder than going without email, and so outages lead to complaints. Complaints p

This is very simple, and of course it does not scale. As the tables grow, even if everything is indexed, doing all the look ups via this set of tables can not work. What kills this solution is that all information of all users is sitting in these…

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How useful can communication limited to 140 characters be for serious journalism? It turns out that the short messages you find on Twitter have proven wildly useful for some writers penning larger pieces.

The questions we asked for our post titled “APIs and Developer Platforms: A Discussion of the Pros and Cons', for example, recieved answers via Twitter from people like Esther Schindler, senior online editor at CIO.com, Ray Valdes,…

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Google announced today that they would be adding the ability for users to work offline in their popular web office suite Google Docs. Offline support will be powered by the Google Gears API, which is a browser extension that allows developers to store application data offline and sync it back up again later when users are reconnected.

So what has been taking Google so long? Why isn't it eating its own dogfood and releasing more of its web apps with Gears support? What about Gmail? These are some important questions. The longer Google waits, the more time its competitors…

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Adobe announced today that the pre-release alpha version of AIR for Linux is available immediately on the Adobe Labs site. Adobe shipped the 1.0 version of AIR for Windows and Mac last month but was forced to delay the Linux release.

AIR for Linux has been promised by Adobe “in upcoming releases” for a few months, and though Linux support won't provide AIR with a huge bump in users, it does help Adobe to demonstrate their commitment to the open source community….

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MySpace leading the pack right now…but how long will that last looking at this data!?

The following graphic, credited to Raimo van der Klein (who runs a cool Mobile Web blog here), is a representation of where the main action is in Mobile Web. It shows that the intersection of Mobile with Communication is where the…

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Last.fm is generally acknowledged to be one of the best web apps of this era - its music recommendation system literally creates a personalized radio station for you. Well, Last.fm also has an API that is used by many external services to add value and enjoyment for end users.

This service generates a tag cloud of artists similar to the one you’ve input, based on Audioscrobbler data. I generally don’t find such tag clouds to be overly useful, because music is very subjective - e.g. Bryan Adams isn’t very…

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