Monthly Archives: May 2008

links for 2008-05-30

Four-way Win: How to Integrate Work, Home, Community and Self – Knowledge@Wharton “Friedman describes the four domains of people’s lives — work, home, community and self — and what individuals can do to integrate these domains and improve their leadership … Continue reading

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links for 2008-05-29

Jeff Bezos, Chairman, President and CEO, Amazon.com | D6 Highlights | AllThingsD Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher interview Jeff Bezos to the D6 AllThingsD conference (tags: amazon work bezos ecommerce online retail conference interview) BrowserPlus “BrowserPlus is a technology for … Continue reading

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links for 2008-05-28

Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform “Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. “ (tags: facebook platform opensource applications api opensocial socialnetworking socialsoftware)

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links for 2008-05-26

6 FREE Tools To Get The Best Keywords For Your Site | MakeUseOf.com “…ist the best of the free tools which can help you research different keywords specific to your site and optimize the site.” (tags: google search seo tools … Continue reading

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links for 2008-05-25

catbird.org: The top 10 craziest things I’ve said as a parent, so far… 1. “Nate, stop licking your brother.” (tags: parenting parenthood kids children funny humor)

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links for 2008-05-24

Web Worker Daily: Get GrandCentral On Your Softphone « “Follow this hands-on guide to enable Gizmo5 to be added as a phone in your GrandCentral set up.” (tags: phone sip voip gizmo grandcentral google howto)

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links for 2008-05-23

Amazon Web Services Blog: Use Amazon SQS to Build Self-Healing Applications “how to use Amazon Simple Queue Service to build self-healing applications. The basic idea is that you can create resilient and self-healing applications by implementing a Services Oriented Architecture … Continue reading

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links for 2008-05-20

Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia “Spoken Wikipedia aims to produce recordings of Wikipedia articles being read aloud.” (tags: audible audio wikipedia wiki podcast spoken podcasting) Pediaphon “Pediaphon is a free service (by Andreas Bischoff) that generates MP3 audio files from Wikipedia articles, … Continue reading

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links for 2008-05-19

Good Food, Eating, and Diet Advice Talk by Michael Pollan (by Jeremy Zawodny) “…Michael Pollan’s… recent talk … at Google in which he discusses the current understanding of food and nutrition as well as what’s wrong with our “system” today.” … Continue reading

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links for 2008-05-18

Marc’s Voice : Blog Archive : I do not compromise “three announcements that happened within a week of each other: MySpace’s Data Availability, Facebook’s Connect and Google’s Friend Connect – ALL THREE had fundamentally the same strategy!” (tags: socialnetworking socialsoftware … Continue reading

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links for 2008-05-17

RSS Stream – Rick’s HideOut “RSS Stream displays your social feeds in a lifestream way.” (tags: wordpress lifestream socialsoftware plugin rss plugins aggregator blog blogging blogs) Adobe – Adobe AIR Marketplace Office & Productivity Tools The Google Analytics Reporting Suite … Continue reading

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links for 2008-05-16

Amazon May Sell $750 Million In Kindles by 2010 (That’s A Lot Of Kindles) Citi expects Amazon to generate between $400 million and $750 million in revenue from the Kindle by 2010, or 1% – 3% of Amazon’s total revenue. … Continue reading

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links for 2008-05-14

Google Friend Connect Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site. (tags: google opensocial openid socialsoftware … Continue reading

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links for 2008-05-10

oEmbed “allows an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse … Continue reading

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links for 2008-05-09

Bike Lanes, Intended for Safety, Become Traffic Battlegrounds – New York Times “bike lanes are merely a token effort on the part of urban planners and city officials.” (tags: cycling bicycle bike safty) 15th Annual 24 Hours of Allamuchy “24 … Continue reading

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