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Unfortunatelly I didn't make it for the PHP & Ajax presentation organised by phpArchitect. However Marco Tabini is really nice and makes it available for free on his blog:

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Here is an interesting mysql optimization tutorial:http://support.atmail.com/mysqloptimize.html This MySQL optimization guide is simple and from a clean&practical point ofview. Key points:- Things to avoid with MySQL- Tricks to give MySQL more information to solve things better- How to find out how MySQL solves a query - How the MySQL table cache works

Check out the new Google personalised homepage. Drag and drop works smoothly, RSS support is about to come. It's a really clever approach to the yahoo-like cluttered all-in-one environment. Basically you get to the cluttered environment by stuffing pieces yourself. Google avoids the yahoo trap by giving power to the user.

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Another Science Fiction dream scenario comes partially true: Self replicating robots become a reality: Scientists develop robot capable of replicating itself. Still dependant on humans, and only programmed to replicate, but opening interesting new ways of thinking. Although this news is no news, one possible application area would be the MNT (molecular nanotechnology) implications, or long-term space exploration.

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The key issue here is not the cleaning process; this is natural tendency. The main point here is looking at the motivations; understanding them and finding approvable ways to fund these gozilla-websites. It's easy to teach ethics when you are a global company (see Google corporate policy: do no evil), but when you need money to run a useful website, spam used to be an option. While each webmaster goes on trying to justify his unethical seo spamming methods, google found the way to filter sub-domain spamming sites out of its index. This radically changes the equation of the entire technique, and the quick effect will be one of a "cleaner web". The websites that tried to inflict their high pagerank over spamming sub-domain link-farms will get completelly punished by google. Instead of more Adsense revenue generation farms, we'll witness a cleaner web.

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some recent studies runned in the UK by HP have a surprising result: seems that using the Internet reduces our intelligence:

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The Google suggest Beta is a recent feature from their labs, providing an instant assistance on typed queries. It's a really useful feature especially for long and common queries, saving keystrokes and giving a result overview before even launching the query back to google.

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quite recently, google released its google web accelerator, which became fast a target of criticism for its aggressive behaviour. Pre-fetching wrong internet pages, privacy issues and the list goes on an on. Unfortunatelly there's a already a prejudice that everything that comes from google is "good" in nature, and people rush in to get it as soon as it's out. Before they take it off completelly, and disable their GWA download page that still works, ISPs and webmasters worldwide should take these steps to disable the web accelerator from google.