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Making an O’Reilly RSS iPhone App with TapLynx

Elisabeth Robson, O’Reilly Broadcast: “After hearing about TapLynx, I immediately wanted to try it for myself, and within a couple of hours one afternoon went from knowing nothing about it to having a functioning O’Reilly RSS-based app on my phone.”

The article also includes an interview...

Tim O’Reilly on the Whitehouse.gov Switch to Drupal

More than just a win for Drupal, it’s a win for open source software in general.

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Scott Stevenson Is Writing a Cocoa Book for O’Reilly

I’m looking forward to this one. Sounds like he’s given a lot of thought to one of the toughest problems facing anyone writing a Cocoa book: how much C do you assume the reader knows?

I decided to teach a core set of C concepts that apply directly

to Mac and iPhone programming, leaving ...

A New Search Engine for Finding Similar Web Sites

Similar-site.com is a new search engine that lets you find web sites akin to one you’re interested in by pulling up a list of sites with matching web tags. For example, if you input gigaom.com into the search box on similar-site.com, it will bring up a list of blogs including TechCrunch, ReadWr...

Fox Nation Still Promoting Discredited ACORN Video

Despite the fact that the latest video from biggovernment.com has been proven to be a sham, Fox Nation is still promoting it as "New Undercover Video! Beck and O'Reilly Break Down the ACORN Scandal!" The article quotes Glenn Beck saying that the ACORN employee shown in the video "is also a former...