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bosse··on It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web
Yeah, _you_ can probably do it, but providing a public tool for scraping Facebook (or digging through caches) might be against the terms and conditions, and would probably get the hammer from Facebook counsel.
bosse··on Poll: Is linkedin only for consultants and the unemployed?
Google seems to do lots of things to keep track of potential hires. A year ago, I received an email from a Google recruiter that gave the impression of being written personally and directly to me, with wording like "we've reviewed your resume", "the engineering team think you'll fit in" and "they would like to talk to you". It was almost perfectly crafted to create the illusion that a team of people in my specific profession had spent time looking at my information, and really wanted to talk to me. The illusion was broken by looking at the email address they sent the email to - it was a tagged address that only had been used once in a Debian mailing list many years ago.

I asked the recruiter for an explanation about this practice, but they never got back to me.

bosse··on Real-time map of Dutch rail traffic
There's also one for ships, using real GPS data from AIS - http://marinetraffic.com/ais/

and another one for planes http://www.flightradar24.com/

bosse··on 13% of international calls now go via Skype
I use SIP with Localphone as long as I don't need the video features of Skype, mainly because it's more flexible for me (SIP integrated in my desk phone, Ekiga and my S60 phone) and for the called party (not needing a computer)
bosse··on Tell HN: Giving away programming books to HN members
I'd like [8], emailing you.
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