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Dear Reader,

The Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose, California is wrapping up (this
event brings together the people, projects, and issues leading the charge
into the location-based technology frontier). An incredible amount of
information has been disseminated over the two-day gathering. I was just
reading the Conference News website, and I am slightly blown away by the
depth and breadth of the posts. Here are just a few examples:

Lauren Gelman on Privacy
Gelman works out of the Center for Internet Society at Stanford University
and she is very knowledgeable about the new technologies being discussed
at Where 2.0, and how they will be pushing the boundaries of existing
privacy law.

A Lot There at the Where Fair
After a mind-bending day of talks and demos, and then a lively and packed
exhibitor hall reception, the hands-on Where Fair event still did not disappoint.

Zopto: An Addressing Scheme That Makes Sense
Ben Nolan from Projectx Technology showed off the company's unique and
simple Zopto location addressing scheme to a very favorable response at
the Where 2.0 conference.

And it goes on and on from there. If you couldn't attend the event in
person, I highly recommend you stop by Conference News to get up to speed.

<http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/where_20/>

Until next time,

-Derrick

Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Editorial Director
derrick@oreilly.com

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Pixie Hunt: A High-Tech Scavenger Hunt
Teams of Where 2.0 attendees hit the streets of San Jose last night on a
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<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/06/13/where-podcast-pixie-hunt.html>

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Natural Language Game Programming with Inform 7
Natural language programming is a huge goal of certain programming
language communities. Unfortunately, it once gave the world COBOL. Graham
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Design Tips for Building Tag Clouds
To give you a sampling of what you'll find in Building Tag Clouds in Perl
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<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/06/08/designing-tag-clouds.html>

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Aging PowerBook Upgrade by a Linux/OS X Geek
Many Mac users railed against chromatic's recent article, Switching Back
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<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/06/07/aging-powerbook-upgrade.html>

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Object-oriented JavaScript
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<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/06/07/object-oriented-javascript.html>

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Achieving Inversion of Control with Eclipse RCP
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