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• SurveyMonkey.com - Powerful tool for creating web surveys. Online survey software made easy!
  Intelligent survey software for serious primates of all species. / web pfi work
• Emily Chang - The Agile Web Design Manifesto, An Introduction
  - Design the system not the surface - Design as evolutionary and user-driven - There is no page, only pathways - Rapid and iterative over final - Simplicity over complexity - Collaborative and open design / design web
• What’s Up? - an indispensable tool for the global newsjunkie
  Flash-based news mashup / rss news media maps flash
• Business Mirror - Rice info just a text away
  INFORMATION about rice may now be accessed through texting via mobile phone.
  When asking for information on rice, just type “palay,” a designated keyword and send it to 700RICE, or 7007423, then presto! Experts will give the desired information within 24 / agriculture pfi news

• Attention Developers: FeedFlare Open API
  FeedBurner releases the API and documentation for FeedFlare, a feature that allows publishers to “build interactivity into the content they create.” / feeds programming
• priceless.com - Film Festival - Now Showing
  ‘Priceless’ videos. I lurve “Home” and MacGyver. via Teknolohiya / video fun
• The Korea Times : Korea Plans to Build ‘Mobile Paradise’
  ‘South Korea plans to construct a “mobile paradise,” a special district next year, where people will be able to enjoy a seamless service from the world’s latest wireless technologies.’ / news wireless wifi tech

Today in Pinoy Tech Blog, I’ve posted about a speculation that Google will be doing mail hosting for domains. Cool, but the p-word raises eyebrows.

Now, Google is always speculation-material (Google Linux comes to mind), but they’ve also been known for creating innovations that somehow change the way people use the web.

Via Boing Boing:

At the recent KinnerNet 2005 [Israeli version of Foo Camp], [co-founder Yossi] Vardi and his pals Shimon Schocken and Ami Ben-Basat demonstrated that snails can be faster at data delivery than both ADSL and pigeons.

Called SNAP (SNAil-based data transfer Protocol), the system uses “biological carriers, and, for the first time, taking advantages of the unique merits of the wheel for data transfer.” Test results showed that SNAP (at 37,000 kbps) is significantly faster than ADSL (1,500 kbps) and WiFly TCP (Transmission by Carrier Pigeons, also known as “IP over Avian Carrier”) (2,270 kbps), which has a glaring limitation of not being able to “fly through Windows”.

A distinct disadvantage of SNAP is the risk of DOS (denial-of-service), “most notably in France, (where) culinary habits may pose a risk — French users will have to choose whether they want to be served data-ex-cargo or an escargot.”

• LEGO Technic Difference Engine
  Babbage Difference Engine done in Lego. Complete with details. / math hardware geek toys cool fun
• Vint Cerf on “Network Neutrality”
  Before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. ‘Allowing broadband carriers to control what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success.’
  / internet