• SAI 25 Live – Real-Time Values – Silicon Alley Insider
  Silicon Alley Insider creates startup valuation index
  (tags: startup web2.0 business statistics entrepreneur)
• TurnTo Networks
  “Your people, where you need them”
  (tags: socialsoftware socialnetworking ecommerce service community)

• At SwitchAbit, Twittergram Shares a Common Future – GigaOM
  “Think of it as a web services switchboard that allows you to plug any type of content from one service (say Flickr) to another (say Twitter) — or even between multiple services.”
  (tags: feeds startup webservices service web2.0 data mashup entrepreneur rss)
• Morgan Stanley’s March Internet Trends Report: Social Applications Dominating
  “Morgan Stanley’s Internet Trends report from [march 2008] takes a big turn from previous reports – the focus is nearly 100% on social applications and how they are taking over the Internet (Yahoo apparently read it). Key takeaways”
  (tags: 2008 web2.0 socialmedia socialnetworking socialsoftware internet trends statistics stats business advertising)
• Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Here Comes Everybody
  “Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, [watching television]” or what I like to call Linear Passive Media
  (tags: tv analysis attention culture internet media community socialmedia)

• Researcher finds new way to hack Oracle database
  “a lateral SQL injection, the attack could be used to gain database administrator privileges on an Oracle server in order to change or delete data or even install software”
  (tags: database research security SQL)

• ModSecurity: Open Source Web Application Firewall
  “ModSecurity™is an open source, free web application firewall (WAF) Apache module.”
  (tags: apache security firewall web opensource development hacking server)

• Using the Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders Backup tool – Outlook – Microsoft Office Online
  “The tool provides a quick and easy way to back up the Outlook information of your choice to your hard disk or network server or share.”
  (tags: microsoft outlook email backup freeware software)
• Third – Portishead – Listen free at Last.fm
  “The much-loved trip hop trio releases their first album in 10 years. Stream it now on Last.fm.”
  (tags: portishead music last.fm mp3 free stream)

• Ten things to know about Microsoft’s Live Mesh | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
  “Live Mesh will be Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie’s “make it or break it” project, given Ozzie has been setting the stage for Live Mesh since October 2005″
  (tags: microsoft mesh livemesh cloud platform services)
• Apple Steams Ahead On Strong Q2 Financials
  “Apple’s Q2 2008 financial results were very strong and above expectations. The bottom line: they are selling a lot of stuff at very good margins.”
  (tags: apple finance business ipod iphone 2008)
• Corporate Information – Google User Experience
  “The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable. Achieving a harmonious balance of these ten principles is a constant challenge.”
  (tags: design ui UX development web)
• GoodyBlog: Smart Kids’ Shoes
  “shoes that grow with your kids’ feet”
  (tags: parenting kids shopping)

• MySocial 24×7 Is An Excellent Tool For FriendFeed Junkies
  “MySocial24×7, which launched early Tuesday morning, is a Firefox extension that allows users to access most FriendFeed functionality via their API directly from the browser sidebar.”
  (tags: firefox extension browser friendfeed socialsoftware)
• DRM sucks redux: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys
  “Microsoft has decided that it’s done supporting the service and will be turning off the MSN Music license servers by the end of this summer.”
  (tags: microsoft music entertainment drm audio)

• Six Apart Launches Ad Network, Moves Into Services
  “The company is now competing with Federated Media Publishing, Glam, the upcoming Technorati ad network and a number of others to get bloggers to join their network.”
  (tags: advertising blogs business media acquisitions)
• Sungevity: Where Solar Rooftops Meet the Internet « Earth2Tech
  “Instead of calling to schedule an installer to physically come to your home and climb up on your roof, you can log onto Sungevity’s website, enter your address and monthly electricity usage, and get a rough estimate back in 24 hours.”
  (tags: green environment mashup maps microsoft services)
• Who Are The Biggest Users of Amazon Web Services? It’s Not Startups.
  “the biggest customers in both number and amount of computing resources consumed are divisions of banks, pharmaceuticals companies and other large corporations who try AWS once for a temporary project, and then get hooked.”
  (tags: amazon aws business cloud enterprise technology)

• Web Worker Daily: Archive The Fax Machine: Reports of its Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated «
  Please! Someone kill the fax machine (finally)
  (tags: fax hardware history technology)
• eCommerce Blog :: Varien :: Open Source eCommerce Development and Consulting Firm
  “Use CSS ya page load quicker, make your client satisfied like they eatin on a Snicker”
  (tags: SEO search video music)

• Why podcasting is failing | The Industry Standard
  I don’t agree… “This disparity between podcasting and online video says a lot about the appeal of podcast programming and the user experience. “
  (tags: podcasting podcast video audio trends business radio)
• AWS Service Health Dashboard
  “Amazon Web Services publishes our most up-to-the-minute information on service availability in the table below.”
  (tags: amazon aws cloud ec2 s3 status dashboard)

• Not A Misprint: AOL’s Platform A Is The Top Advertising Network By Reach
  “New figures released by comScore show that AOL’s Platform A advertising network is the top advertising network in the United States by reach (unique visitors).”
  (tags: advertising AOL google yahoo marketing research business)
• Syncplicity – Syncplicity: Effortless Backup, Synchronization, and Sharing
  “Effortless synchronization, backup & sharing. Access your files anywhere, anytime, online & off, on all your computers or through the web.”
  (tags: backup data desktop sharing)

• Amazon’s cloud computing will surpass its retailing business | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
  Amazon’s real business down the line will be its cloud services. Amazon will be like a book store that sells cocaine out the back door. Books will be just a front to sell storage and cloud computing.
  (tags: amazon aws business cloud computing ec2 services s3)
• Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon’s EC2 – Waxy.org
  This proof-of-concept was built in only four days and can be deployed in virtually any Linux/Unix hosting environment, showing that moving applications off Google’s servers isn’t as hard as everyone thought.
  (tags: amazon appengine aws ec2 google hack)
• Amazon EC2 Adds Persistent Storage – Data Center Knowledge
  Amazon announced last night that it has added persistent storage capabilities to its utility computing platform. This is a feature that Amazon’s developer community has been seeking for some time.
  (tags: amazon aws ec2 storage s3)
• Portishead in Portishead // Current
  “Current TV presents an exclusive premiere of British trip-hop phenomenon Portishead’s studio performance as they unveil seven songs from their new
  album “Third” in Portishead, England. “
  (tags: music online performance video videos)

• The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time – Nerve.com
  “IFC and Nerve.com teamed up to compile a list of the 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches. With sketches from SNL, The State, The Chapelle Show, In Living Color, Mr. Show and Monty Python, the list has something for everyone.”
  (tags: comedy humor funny tv video fun entertainment)

Something is wrong with my RSS/Atom feeds. I’m not sure what’s up, but for some reason the feed does not have any content in the items even though the blog has updated content. I’m still trying to investigate the problem.

Tags: blog, feeds, RSS

• Redirection – Manage 301 redirections without modifying Apache | Urban Giraffe
  Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have.
  (tags: wordpress plugins SEO)
• delicious-firefox-extension : Files
  Delicious Firefox Extension 2-0-39 (alpha) that works with Firefox 3 Beta
  (tags: firefox extension delicious bookmarks extensions software)
• Google Email Uploader
  The Google Email Uploader is a open source desktop utility for Microsoft Windows. It uploads email and contacts from desktop email programs (like Microsoft Outlook ) into your Google Apps mailbox.
  (tags: google gmail googleapps email outlook software tools)