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+ More on The Wikipedia in China + By brady Yesterday, it was reported that Wikipedia was now available in China. This is impressive news, but is not the full [...] for. This is a great step forward for tourists, expats, and English-speaking natives, but there appears to be a long way to go.

+ Uploading & Geotagging Photos from Phone + By brady Tom Coates has posted a thorough tutorial for Zonetag , Yahoo! Research's cameraphone Flickr uploader. In his post [...] and photos (for geotagging). I want this and I am glad that software providers will be ready when the hardware catches up.

+ Ballmer on the Web + By brady In an interview on Businessweek, Steve Ballmer, CEO of MS, talks about the web, business models, XBOX, and Zune. It's [...] In the last three or four years, we have competed very well by extending our value. Open source never goes away as a business model or

+ Meebo Hitting Milestones + By brady Meebo is a web-based IM site (see my post & Nat's post ). They provide web access to your MSN, [...] be an interesting experiment. If you have a thought about Meebo (or anything else) say "Hi"; I'll be online a lot.

+ League of Technical Voters + By allison This weekend (Oct. 13-15th) in Austin, Texas, a group of Drupal developers are gathering to write code for the [...] source development is all about coding for the good of humanity, but we often lose sight of the greater social impact of that work.

+ Rentometer, + By brady This is the type of site that shows why maps mashups are so popular; when the right data is displayed on a map [...] their data sources clearer, but the data doesn't seem to be outrageous for the areas that I checked. [via Providence Geeks ]

+ WorldChanging Book Release + By brady Congrats to the Worldchanging team for the completion of their book, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st [...] Vancouver, D.C., San Francisco, L.A., Chicago, ad other North American cities. More info on the book after the jump.

+ VCs with low expectations + By marc I love looking at the "What they'll invest" lines from this Business 2.0 article about ideas some VCs want to fund: [...] a much healthier view of what web software startups need today. Update: VC Fred Wilson has a good take on this issue .

+ Jumpword, a Mobile Tool Kit + By brady Last week I spoke with Jason Kaufman, one of the brains behind Tada Inc and GumSpots (featured at Where [...] your friends to subscribe to your blog via their phone. They just write to this module with the word "join" to subscribe to your thoug

+ You Can't Buy Publicity Like This + By nat Did you catch the cover of Javascript: The Definitive Guide in the background of Weird Al Yankovic's White and Nerdy ? [...] the New Zealand public understand nerd culture: here the middle word in the show's title is pronounced "it" not "eye-tee". Sad!).

+ Multimap adds Javascript API + By nat Multimap , one of the leading commercial online LBS provider for UK and Europe, has finally offered a Javascript API. It [...] app . I suspect their business model is to drive traffic and interest to their commercial geocoding and other pay-to-play services.

+ Location Awareness in Hardware + By brady Location, location, location. Location awareness is going to become standard on newer gadgets (just as it is becoming [...] the camera's location via the nearby MAC addresses. The application inserts the geotags directly into your photos. So now your auto-g

+ Thoughts on unconferences + By brady People love unconferences like Foo Camp, Seattle Mind Camp (quick plug: tickets are on sale now), and Bar Camp, where [...] shepherd - visible, as involved as necessary, a beacon of sanity (or insanity depening on the topic). * Don’t walk

+ The data mining dilemma + By nikolaj A couple of days ago I pointed to Justin Hall's call for more intense datamining to enhance the web experience , and [...] movie discussion board posts. Bonus link: Another Tech Talk on how to publish minable data without privacy risks .

+ Mobile 2.0: Nokia launches WidSets + By nikolaj Nokia today announced the release of WidSets , a mobile widget platform available for Java MIDP 2.0 phones, [...] the pipe is enough of a standard, giving further traction to RSS and the arguments Ray Ozzie put forward at this spring's Etech .