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Fresh Links

• Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Introducing Rich Snippets 2009/05/15
  Google's leading out on ending the needless debates on *how* to express useful data in you web markup, and starting to build vocabularies of *what* is useful while allowing people to use either microformats or RDFa. Check it out an get involved.
• The Sweet Life of Rubyists (La Dulce Vita Rubyista) by Alan Whittaker 2009/05/13
  A phenomenal, unconventional talk at MointainSest RubyConf 2009 about Ruby, the Ruby Way, Resistance, Energy and a whole lot more. Very engaging.
• Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com 2009/04/27
  Checkout the cool projecting wearable computer that lets you dial your phone on your hand. While I'm still keeping my iPhone, there's some interesting research and cool ideas for future applications here.
• Steve Souders: "High Performance Web Sites: 14 Rules for Faster Pages" 2009/04/23
  YSlow is an excellent static analysis tool that will help you know how to improve your website performance. In this video, performance guru Steve Souders talks about the reasoning behind YSlow's rules.
• Rails Searchable API Doc 2009/04/22
  A beautifully styled, wonderfully searchable version of the Rails RDoc. Javadoc, eat your heart out. :-)