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Britain’s Top 10: Bendiest/Twistiest roads

Here’s an article from Msn which tell’s you Britan’s top 10 bendiest/twisted roads! Britain’s bendiest road exerts as much G-force on drivers as a rollercoaster or a racetrack according to scientific research. A one-mile stretch of the B3081 between Cann Common in Dorset and Tollard Royal in Wiltshire has been named the twistiest by Continental Tyres. Rather than test all

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New Kosmix Search Engine to Challenge Google

Kosmix the Search Engine as been around for a couple of months now, I my self tested it out a while back, but it’s is only now that it’s starting to get mentioned more around the Net, read more below. Two students that studied with Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford could end up being Google’s biggest challenger Larry

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Amazon Contextual Advertising

It appears that Amazon are planning to launch a contextual advertising network much like Google’s AdSense Amazon is apparently looking into the feasibility of starting their own ad network like Adsense. They’ve been contacting select members of their associates programs, including myself, asking if we’d like to be beta testers. The way they want the beta test to work is

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AJAX Design Patterns

Here’s another Ajax tutorial on the web this time from Snyke’s Blog. By now the entire World has heard about AJAX, even those who don’t care about Web-Development have seen the potential of this new technology. Everybody is tired of endless introductions on how cool AJAX is and those endless lists of good examples like Google Suggest, GMail and alike,