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  Facebook to Let You 'Like' the Entire Web

  JP 12:50 am on March 28, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: application programming interface, facebook (320), web publishers (2)

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  Facebook is getting ready to blanket the entire Web with its “like” functionality. According to TechCrunch, The Good Book will soon introduce tools for Web publishers to add deeper integration with Facebook. Though it may be the largest social network to spread across the Web, Twitter announced earlier this month at SXSW @anywhere, a similar idea that radically simplifies sharing Web content on Twitter.

  Though details are still slim on how exactly “like” will integrate with sites, it’s essentially a way for Facebook to move beyond its blue borders. It will probably be unveiled as part of the company’s upcoming Open Graph API (application programming interface) toolset at the F8 Developer Conference in April. Facebook describes the tools as a way for Web publishers and developers to “enable the transformation of any Web page so it functions similar to a Facebook Page.”

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  Facebook to Let You ‘Like’ the Entire Web originally appeared on Switched on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Google Now Offering Searchable World Bank Database

  JP 12:55 am on November 15, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: America (15), Antigua and Barbuda, application programming interface, Caribbean (4), Denmark, google (193), nbsp (1,691), Netherlands, Read (1,473), Switzerland (2), U.S. The (3), world (13), world bank database, world development indicators

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  Statistics nerds, rejoice! The World Bank, the institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital projects, released an application programming interface (API) for its wealth of statistics shortly after Google introduced searchable public data back in April. Now, the two have married their strengths and brought searchable World Bank data to Google.

  Google Search now has access to 17 world development indicators, including life expectancy, military spending as percentage of GDP, and energy use per capita. (Follow the source link to find the complete list of available indicators.) We’ve already had some fun by checking out who in the world has a higher percentage of Internet use than the U.S. The fact that the always progressive Denmark, Switzerland, and Netherlands bested the America’s 72-percent doesn’t come as much of a surprise — but the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda’s 76-percent rate of use did throw us for a loop. Scroll over the country names in the chart above to see their individual statistics.

  Unfortunately, there’s currently no way to overlay different indicators’ data points on the same chart (if you want to see fertility rates compared to CO2 emissions per capita, for example), but that can’t be too far out. The ease of accessing and displaying this information really ratchets up the case for the Internet as a place of learning rather than polemical disinformation. As Google’s blog notes, the purpose of incorporating the World Banks’ data into searches is “to encourage debate based on fact rather than intuition.” We can get behind that. [From: The Official Google Blog]

  Google Now Offering Searchable World Bank Database originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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