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Yahoo Will Show Graphical Ads on Mobile News, E-Mail (Update1)
They will start appearing this week on Yahoo's mobile home page, in news stories and e-mails, Michael Bayle, a Yahoo senior director, said in an interview. Clients will pay based on visits to Yahoo's sites. Sales of mobile phones outnumbered personal computers last year, spurring Yahoo and Google Inc. to add more services for cell phones and find ways to show ads. Sunnyvale, California- based Yahoo last month started selling ads linked to search results on mobile phones. Google, the most-used Internet search engine, added new e-mail software for phones last week. ``We want to make it as easy as possible for the advertiser,'' Bayle said. The ads will initially be static images. The company will investigate offering animated ads in the future, he said. Yahoo and Google and other Internet companies have created stripped-down versions of their sites for cell phone screens.
Robin Williams Interview, Man of the Year
From 1987's wartime comedy "Good Morning, Vietnam" to 1997's current-events satire "Wag the Dog," Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson's films have often drawn their humor from a rich comedy source – the political arena. He has examined our politicos' decisions and deceptions…and helped guilty voters laugh as we share with our elected leaders the fallout of some pretty bad choices. Now in his new comedy, "Man of the Year," the writer-director asks us to ponder a "what-if" scenario that doesn't seem so far-fetched in 2006: what would happen if a computer voting error allowed one of the nation's funniest men to become its president? On October 13, 2006, Oscar winner Robin Williams reunites with the filmmaker to answer just that question. As we rapidly approach November 7 and the mid-term elections, Levinson explores the convergence of U.S.
July 23rd, 2008 02:30 PM
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Practical Django Projects
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Chromodromic writes "Apress's newest Django offering, Practical Django Projects by James Bennett, weighs in lightly at 224 pages of actual tutorial content, but trust me, they're dense pages. Filled with pragmatic examples which directly address the kinds of development issues you will encounter when first starting out with Django, this book makes an important addition to the aspiring Django developer's reference shelf. In particular, the book's emphasis on demonstrating best practices while building complete projects does an excellent job of accelerating an understanding of Django's most powerful features — in a realistic, pragmatic setting — and which a developer will be able to leverage in very short order." Read below for the rest of Greg's review. 
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July 23rd, 2008 09:00 AM
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Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web
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Incon writes "Builder AU reports that Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL. Drizzle will have a micro-kernel architecture with code being removed from the Drizzle core and moved through interfaces into modules. Akers has already selected particular functionality for removal: modes, views, triggers, prepared statements, stored procedures, query cache, data conversion inserts, access control lists and some data types." 
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