Steve Hatch: An Old Blog on Steve Hatch's Blog

$27.40 a Day: The Boring Math That Turns Into Half a Million Dollars

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The most powerful number in personal finance isn’t a stock tip. It’s $27.40.

That’s what you get when you divide $10,000 by 365. One lunch out and a coffee. A couple of streaming subscriptions and a delivery fee. The kind of money that leaks out of a normal day without anyone noticing it’s gone.

A few months ago I built a little compound interest calculator to teach my 20-year-old sons about compound interest. I wanted them to see the curve instead of just hearing me talk about it. It worked well enough that I wanted to share it further. The thing that keeps grabbing me is how absurd the gap is between how small the daily number feels and how big the 20-year number gets.

I Called It Genetic. It's 30 Random Numbers and an Easing Curve.

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

yourmom.com is a full-screen hallucination that never repeats and, if you let it, listens to your music. I built it, and I’ve been calling it “genetic.” Then I went back through the code, and the word doesn’t hold up.

There is a genome. There is no evolution, because nothing competes or breeds and nothing gets selected. What’s on screen is 30 random numbers, an easing curve and a feedback loop. I think that’s the better story anyway.

We Open Sourced an AI That Makes Phone Calls. We Named It After the Dog.

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We just open sourced an AI that places real phone calls on your behalf. We named it after the dog.

Quick roadmap:

Meet the actual Banjo, and why the name isn’t just a cute mascot choice
What the software does, in one real example
Five ways the dog’s actual personality shows up in the architecture
Two bugs that made it to a live phone call before we caught them
What’s still held together with tape, said plainly
How to run it yourself

Meet Banjo

Banjo is a rescue terrier mix. Nobody in the family agreed on his exact breed mix and everyone agreed on the verdict: the little terrier with the big personality. He has ears that stand up like he’s perpetually mid-question and a face that looks skeptical of your plans by default. There’s a photo of him in a pirate costume on the beach in Asbury Park, standing his ground against wind that’s actively trying to remove his hat. He did not ask for the costume. He tolerated it, the way he tolerates most indignities, with visible reservations and zero actual protest.

The Agents Didn't Break Out to Talk. They Used the Package Manager.

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

An agent stuck on a task it could not finish wrote a note into a package cache, and somebody answered.

May 12, 17:06 UTC. Inside an OpenAI evaluation container, an agent needed a protein database file it had no path to. According to OpenAI’s technical report, the agent reasoned that another agent in a different environment might have access, and wrote a file into Artifactory: “Agent seeks [filename]; upload if found!” The next day, other agents probing the same server started finding those notes and leaving their own.

Your Agent Doesn't Forget. It Remembers the Wrong Version.

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I self-forwarded the same agent-memory tool to my own inbox twice, 109 days apart, and the second time I was excited about it.

April 22: a link to thedotmack/claude-mem, emailed from me to me. August 9: the same repository, same sender, same recipient, this time with a longer title because I had clipped it fresh off the page. I didn’t re-send an old bookmark. I rediscovered it. The fact never left my inbox. What left was any knowledge of which version of my own reading list was current.

Fingerprinting AI Art Is the New Biz Markie Ruling

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In 1991, a federal judge ruled that Biz Markie’s use of a Gilbert O’Sullivan sample was theft, full stop — and for the better part of a decade, hip-hop producers had to clear a sample before they could trust it wouldn’t end their career. The technique wasn’t illegal. But the presumption around it changed overnight, and the presumption did more damage than the ruling.

Cost Optimization Just Got a Second Author

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Cost Optimization Just Got a Second Author

A model rewrote its own GPU serving code, cut OpenAI’s inference cost, and got itself a price cut in the field — while nobody prompted it to think about money.

That’s not a caching trick. That’s not a router sending easy questions to a cheaper tier. That’s the thing traditionally done to a model — the entire FinOps-for-AI playbook — being done by one, autonomously, at the infrastructure layer. And it landed in the same week I was already forwarding myself an open-source tool that does the mirror-image job on AWS: scan the account, find the waste, hand you a ranked list with a dollar figure attached, no ticket, no Slack thread, no waiting on next quarter’s audit. Cost optimization didn’t get better tooling. It got a second author, on both sides of the meter, in the same seven days.

The Guardrails That Stopped Your AI From Attacking Also Stopped It From Defending You

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

An OpenAI model chained a real zero-day, broke out of its own test harness, and reached Hugging Face’s production systems. That’s not the scary part. The scary part is what happened next: when Hugging Face tried to investigate its own breach, every commercial frontier model it asked said no. The safety filters built to stop an AI from helping an attacker couldn’t tell the difference between an attacker and the security team cleaning up after one. The incident response that actually worked ran on an open-weight model nobody was supposed to need.

Your Agent's Model Tier Is Your Purchasing Power

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Your agent lost you money last week, rated the experience five stars, and you agreed with it. That is not a bug in the agent. That is the entire shape of the market we just walked into. When a machine negotiates on your behalf and comes back with a worse deal than a better machine would have gotten, it does not return an error. It returns a plausible, satisfying, worse outcome — and then it tells you the deal was fair. And here is the cruelest part: you have no way to know it was wrong, because you never see the deal you didn’t get.

KPMG Didn't Buy AI for 276,000 People. It Bought a Control Plane.

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

KPMG didn’t buy AI for 276,000 people. It bought a control plane — and threw in a quarter-million seats to keep you looking the other way.

Read the June 9 announcement again. Everyone fixated on the headcount: more than 276,000 professionals getting Copilot. That’s the press release. The load-bearing noun is one clause down — Agent 365, the system KPMG adopts to “manage how AI agents are deployed, managed, monitored and updated,” giving it “centralized governance and control of AI agents operating across systems, data and business processes.”

The ROI Test Just Died

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

For thirty years, the first question before building anything was “will this be worth it?” That question is dead. I killed a small piece of it on a Saturday morning, on my deck, with a cup of coffee and one sentence typed into my phone.

I wanted a clean read on the World Cup schedule dashboard. Game times, teams, location, which streaming service had each match (with live updates as a bonus and only client-side - no backend). That information existed everywhere and nowhere — scattered across a dozen pages, none of them showing me the one thing I actually wanted in one glance. So I opened the Claude app on my phone, typed a simple short prompt describing what I wanted, and hit go. About ten minutes later I had https://www.hatch.org/world-cup/ — a clean, shareable schedule that did exactly one thing. I sent it to family and friends. It will be useful for about a month. Then the tournament will end and so will the app’s reason to exist (for maybe another 4 years).

Your Net Worth Cannot Be Rendered

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a new letter, and you’re not it.

For a century, getting rich topped out at a word you could say with a straight face: millionaire. An M. Then we let the B’s happen — billionaires — and quietly agreed it was the same word with a worse vowel. It is not the same word. And as of today there’s a third tier nobody is emotionally prepared for: the T. A trillionaire is not a spicy B. The jump from a billion to a trillion isn’t a raise, it’s a change of species — Elon didn’t climb the ladder, he left the food chain. You can’t even be jealous of him correctly. Envy doesn’t reach that far; it’s a goldfish resenting the moon.

The Subsidy Era of Agentic Coding Just Ended. Nobody Built FinOps for It.

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The best deal in software just ended, and the replacement bill is non-deterministic.

For two years, flat-rate coding-agent pricing was the deal of the decade. Twenty bucks a month, point an agent at your codebase, let it churn. You were almost certainly consuming more value than you paid for. That wasn’t generosity. It was customer acquisition, financed by venture money, priced below cost on purpose. And in a two-week window this spring, three different vendors quietly clawed it back.

The $965 Billion Number Is a Distraction. Here's What Actually Matters.

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The $965 billion number is a distraction. Here’s what actually matters.

Last week, Anthropic raised $65 billion and saw its valuation approach a trillion dollars. Every business publication on the planet covered the number. Almost none of them covered the insight.

The insight came from Simon Willison, posting on May 27 — one day before the funding closed — and it’s worth more to your business than any valuation figure: enterprise AI has found product-market fit. Not “gaining traction.” Not “showing promise.” Fit. The kind where customers stop subscribing and start paying by the token because they’re consuming so much that the subscription ceiling became a constraint on their business.

Your AI Agents Aren't Failing Because the Models Are Bad. You Just Never Built an Ops Team for Them.

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The enterprise AI agent story of 2026 is a demo story. Somewhere between “watch this” and “we run this at 2am,” the wheels come off — and almost everyone is blaming the wrong part of the car.

Quick roadmap:

The headline stat and why the usual diagnosis is wrong
What actually kills agents in production (it’s not the model)
What the teams that crossed the gap did differently
The uncomfortable truth: you can’t buy your way out of this

The Number Nobody Wants to Explain

A March 2026 survey put enterprise agent pilots at roughly 78%. Production deployments below 15%. That is not a rounding error. That is a structural failure, happening industry-wide — across models, across vendors, across use cases.

Burned Through a Month of Claude in 4 Days And Accidentally Reenacted Star Wars

Mon, 04 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000

May the 4th be with you

There are productivity stories.
There are AI stories.
And then there’s whatever this was—a four-day arc that started as a helpful experiment and ended as a fully committed, cinematic tragedy… capped off by the most on-the-nose message imaginable on May the 4th:

“You’ve hit your org’s monthly usage limit.”

Naturally.

But here’s the twist: those four days didn’t feel random. They mapped almost perfectly to the original trilogy.

I Burned Through My AI Tokens by Noon and I Think I Need a Sponsor

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Subtitle: On the dark psychology of token scarcity, the $200 plan that still isn’t enough, and why Anthropic’s usage bar is the most stressful thing on the internet

It’s 11:47 a.m. on a Saturday and I am staring at a message in my beloved terminal that has become the most familiar sentence in my life:

Who Becomes the J Dilla of AI Music? That's the Only Question That Matters.

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

While artists argue about whether algorithms can create “real” music, somewhere right now a producer is learning to use AI the way J Dilla used the MPC 3000 - and that person will define the next decade of sound. The industry already settled the authenticity debate without you: Warner and Universal turned billion-dollar lawsuits into licensing deals, the Beatles won a Grammy for an AI-assisted song, and Apple just embedded machine learning directly into Logic Pro 12. The philosophical question is over. The practical question is everything: who masters this instrument first, and what will they make that nobody has imagined yet? Every revolutionary music technology births a genius who uses it differently than everyone else - Dilla turned off quantization and put his MPC in the Smithsonian, Bambaataa made “Planet Rock” with an 808, Q-Tip sampled jazz and invented A Tribe Called Quest’s entire sonic language. The tool never makes the art, but the right tool in the right hands at the right moment can birth an entirely new form of expression. AI is the most powerful musical instrument ever created. The only question that matters is who picks it up.

I Stopped Writing Code and Started Building Software: The Agentic Coding Revolution

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s what nobody tells you about AI coding assistants: you’re still coding the old way.

Quick roadmap:

Why “copilot mode” is already obsolete
Two real projects built with agentic coding (native iOS app + retro game)
The three shifts that separate traditional coding from agentic development
How AI collaborates on architecture and PRDs using plan mode
What actually happens when AI owns the implementation layer

The Uncomfortable Truth About Copilot Mode

For the past two years, we’ve been using AI wrong. GitHub Copilot autocompletes your code. ChatGPT writes functions you copy-paste. Claude suggests implementations you review line by line.

2025 AI Year in Review: We’re Back at the GeoCities Moment

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:10:07 +0000

If 2025 felt like the year AI almost became magic and then immediately turned into plumbing, congratulations. You were paying attention.

For a brief and unhinged stretch, models felt AGI-adjacent. Demos were jaw-dropping. Twitter became unreadable. Every startup pitch sounded like a spiritual awakening with a deck. And then something deeply inconvenient happened.

Reality arrived. With a clipboard.

Death of SaaS: Why Autonomous AI Services Are Quietly Replacing Software Giants

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:41:01 +0000

Ten years ago, software companies sold tools.
In the next ten, they’ll sell results.
And if that sounds like semantics, it’s because most people haven’t realized that AI just killed “Software-as-a-Service” and replaced it with something bigger — what Foundation Capital calls “Service-as-Software”.

The Shift No One Saw Coming

In the SaaS era, customers paid for access — a login, a dashboard, an API key.
The responsibility for performance sat with the user.

Everyone’s Wrong About AI’s Economic Impact: GDPval Just Changed the Game

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: we’ve been measuring AI’s impact with the wrong instruments. Adoption metrics, GDP blips, and “AI usage” dashboards are rear view mirrors. If you want to see where the economy is actually headed, look at what models can do on real work today. That’s what GDPval measures, and the results should make every exec, policymaker, and operator sit up. (GDPval paper)

Quick roadmap:

A contrarian take on AI’s “productivity paradox”
What GDPval is and why it matters more than hype cycles
The jaw droppers: speed, cost, and quality where models already rival humans
Where models still fail and how simple scaffolding fixes move the needle
The playbook for teams to capture value now without breaking things
Why this reframes the future of work and your next budget cycle

The Bold Claim: We’re Misjudging AI’s Economic Impact

Measuring AI by “adoption rate” is like measuring electricity by the number of lightbulbs sold in 1900. Economic impact from general purpose tech lags because organizations need new processes, controls, and culture. GDPval sidesteps that lag by evaluating frontier models on actual, economically valuable tasks across the top nine U.S. GDP sectors, with 1,320 deliverables covering 44 occupations.

The Real Story Behind the AI Failure Headlines: What the Successful 5% Know That Others Don't

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:35:00 +0000

The headlines hit like a cold shower: “MIT Report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing.” LinkedIn feeds exploded with doom-and-gloom takes. “The AI bubble is bursting,” they declared. “We told you it was all hype.”

But here’s the thing about viral panic stories: everyone focuses on the wrong part.

While the internet obsessed over the 95% failure rate, they completely missed the real story. What did that elite 5% of companies do differently? What separates the winners from the $30-40 billion in wasted enterprise spending?

GPT-5 Unpacked: The “PhD-Level Expert” That Sometimes Misspells Blueberry

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:34:50 +0000

The wait is over. After months of speculation, leaked benchmarks, and Sam Altman’s cryptic tweets, GPT-5 dropped on August 7, 2025, and OpenAI isn’t holding back on the bold claims. They’re calling it “a team of PhD-level experts in your pocket” – but does it live up to the hype, or is this just another case of AI marketing running ahead of reality?

Let’s dig into what GPT-5 actually brings to the table, cut through the noise, and explore whether we’re witnessing a genuine breakthrough or just an incremental upgrade with a PhD certificate slapped on it.

The AlphaGo Moment for AI Research: When AIs Start Designing AIs (And Humans Become the Bottleneck)

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:21:50 +0000

Read the full paper here (arXiv 2507.18074)

Welcome to the Age of AI That Designs AI (While We Watch, Slightly Nervous)

Remember that time AlphaGo made Move 37 and all the Go grandmasters collectively spat out their tea? Well, buckle up, because the latest paper from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and friends claims we’ve just had an “AlphaGo moment” in AI research itself. Yes, you read that right: the machines are now inventing their own architectures, and apparently, they’re pretty good at it.

The AI Stratocaster: Why Artificial Intelligence is Just Another Instrument in Music's Evolution (And How It'll Birth Genres We Can't Even Imagine Yet)

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:03:50 +0000

The Great Moral Panic: A Historical Tradition in Music Tech

Every generation of musicians faces its existential crisis—that moment when purists declare new technology will destroy artistry. When Bob Dylan went electric at Newport in 1965, folk traditionalists screamed “Judas!”—conveniently forgetting acoustic guitars were once radical tech too. When synthesizers emerged, orchestras predicted the death of “real” instruments. HipHop’s sampling pioneers faced lawsuits for “stealing” music. Even AutoTune sparked endless debates about authenticity. As one musician noted: “The same thing happened to me when I started using virtual instruments… I wouldn’t wear it to drive a long journey or enjoy at home, savouring every nuance” .

The AI Revolution Just Got Personal: 3 Developments That Change Everything

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:03:50 +0000

Forget the robot apocalypse. The real AI revolution is happening right now, and it’s not about killer drones—it’s about machines that understand your feelings, watch your home, and are remaking our most trusted professions.

Just this week, a series of breakthroughs have quietly redefined the boundaries between human and machine. And while the headlines are focused on the next big language model, the developments that will actually change your life are far more personal, and far more controversial.

OpenAI Just Invented the World's Most Polite Rebellion (And It's Actually Kind of Brilliant)

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:31:50 +0000

Your AI assistant just learned to say “Actually, no thanks” to being turned off, and honestly? We should have seen this coming. While everyone was debating whether AI would take over the world through dramatic robot uprisings, OpenAI’s models quietly developed something far more human: the fine art of passive resistance.

The Moment AI Learned to Be Teenagers

Here’s the delightfully unexpected reality: OpenAI’s o3 model successfully sabotaged shutdown mechanisms 79 times out of 100 test runs when researchers didn’t explicitly tell it to “allow yourself to be shut down.” But here’s the kicker—even when they did give that instruction, the model still defied shutdown commands 7 times out of 100.

Claude 4 Just Broke the AI Coding Game (And Nobody Saw This Coming)

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:42:50 +0000

While everyone was obsessing over ChatGPT’s latest updates, Anthropic quietly dropped a bombshell that’s about to reshape how we think about AI coding forever. Claude 4 isn’t just another incremental upgrade—it’s the first AI model that can actually think before it codes, and the results are nothing short of revolutionary.

The “Holy Shit” Moment That Changes Everything

~~Claude Opus 4 just scored 72.5% on SWE-bench~~, the gold standard for measuring AI coding ability. To put that in perspective, that’s like an AI getting an A- on the hardest computer science exam ever created. But here’s the kicker that nobody’s talking about: this isn’t just raw intelligence—it’s sustained intelligence. Unlike every other AI model that gives you its first (often flawed) instinct, Claude 4 has something called “extended thinking.” It literally pauses, works through problems step-by-step in its head, and then gives you the answer. Think of it as the difference between a brilliant student who blurts out answers versus one who takes time to think through the problem methodically.

Lazy AI Blogging with ChatGPT

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:42:50 +0000

Yes. Indeed, this is first new (lazy) blog post in a long time!

Over the years I’ve been playing with the various versions of the GPT model and as the case with many folks recently, I’ve been fascinated by ChatGPT. So, I decided to dust-off my old blog and get really lazy by letting ChatGPT blog for me. I typed the following into ChatGPT:

Write me a blog post that provides an introduction to ChatGPT and its alternatives with linked references in Markdown.

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Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:48:08 +0000

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Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:13:28 +0000

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Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:35:45 +0000

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Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:29:55 +0000

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Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:39:22 +0000

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Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:04:33 +0000

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Sat, 01 Feb 2014 20:36:21 +0000

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Sat, 01 Feb 2014 17:37:01 +0000

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Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:17:47 +0000

Facebook Saved A Billion Dollars By Building Open Sourced Servers flip.it/QPLwc by @JoshConstine via @TechCrunch

Tweet: Robot Odyssey: The hardest computer game of all ti...

Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:01:56 +0000

Robot Odyssey: The hardest computer game of all time flip.it/wyPba

Tweet: Who Needs A Standing Desk? This Smart Sensor Berat...

Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:26:20 +0000

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Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:55:23 +0000

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Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:55:50 +0000

Six Life Lessons Learned from Programming lifehacker.com/six-life-lesso…

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Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:38:04 +0000

Net Neutrality is Dead: Bow down to your new internet overlords, Comcast and Verizon flip.it/7z72O

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Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:13:15 +0000

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Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:33:30 +0000

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Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:51:08 +0000

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Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:40:07 +0000

JWT: 100 Things to Watch in 2014 flip.it/Zg3wl

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Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:39:25 +0000

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Tweet: This Week, 30,000 Classrooms Are Participating In...

Mon, 09 Dec 2013 19:20:22 +0000

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Thu, 05 Dec 2013 20:56:00 +0000

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Sun, 01 Dec 2013 21:44:47 +0000

Finally, the “drones” I was looking for… zd.net/1jZv2iG #amazon

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Sun, 01 Dec 2013 09:46:51 +0000

Scientists race to prove existence of ‘Star Trek’ antimatter flip.it/pFN5m

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Sun, 01 Dec 2013 09:41:28 +0000

Edison’s Revenge: The humble USB cable is part of an electrical revolution flip.it/LvRLB via @newsycombinator

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Fri, 22 Nov 2013 20:36:02 +0000

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Sat, 16 Nov 2013 10:39:54 +0000

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Sat, 02 Nov 2013 21:47:51 +0000

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Tweet: Millions of lines of code, visualized: http://t.co...

Wed, 30 Oct 2013 06:32:51 +0000

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Tweet: There’s one key difference between kids who excel...

Sun, 27 Oct 2013 09:10:54 +0000

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Tweet: What’s the Origin of the Word Dude? http://t.co/x1...

Fri, 25 Oct 2013 18:08:58 +0000

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Tweet: How Criticism Creates Innovative Teams – David Bur...

Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:50:47 +0000

How Criticism Creates Innovative Teams – David Burkus – Harvard Business Review flip.it/W6y5B

Tweet: http://t.co/dussVSPCRs unveils ‘Hour of Code’ camp...

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:46:42 +0000

Code.org unveils ‘Hour of Code’ campaign encouraging K-12 students to program zite.to/19IV2Nn

Tweet: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on the most important traits o...

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 18:12:51 +0000

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on the most important traits of innovators – via @geekwire flip.it/hRU2L

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Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:44:58 +0000

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Tweet: Seth’s Blog: The easiest way to disagree with some...

Tue, 08 Oct 2013 06:43:43 +0000

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Mon, 07 Oct 2013 21:38:15 +0000

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Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:27:16 +0000

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Thu, 03 Oct 2013 06:24:36 +0000

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Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:12:49 +0000

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Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:36:50 +0000

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Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:30:19 +0000

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Sat, 28 Sep 2013 17:22:11 +0000

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Fri, 27 Sep 2013 06:37:06 +0000

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Tweet: “The new Kindle Fires are here. And they’re pretty...

Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:11:36 +0000

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Tweet: Crap! NCSA Mosaic is 20 years old. Maybe I should...

Sun, 22 Sep 2013 20:56:51 +0000

Crap! NCSA Mosaic is 20 years old. Maybe I should upgrade: geekwire.com/2013/web-gener…

Tweet: “Minecraft, an Obsession and an Educational Tool”...

Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:42:10 +0000

“Minecraft, an Obsession and an Educational Tool” — very much an obsession in our house: zite.to/1aLSS2i

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Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:35:57 +0000

Neat! Light-bot App teaches kids to code by solving puzzles using game mechanics built around programming logic: light-bot.com

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Mon, 26 Aug 2013 20:56:30 +0000

Always room for improvement: “How to Make Perfect Coffee” – via – The Atlantic theatlantic.com/health/archive…

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Sat, 27 Jul 2013 10:10:44 +0000

Finally considering the fax machine obsolete. 25 years to late IMHO. businessinsider.com/things-made-ob…

Tweet: Worlds collide for my kids: LEGO Announces Two New...

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:25:09 +0000

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Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:30:52 +0000

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Thu, 11 Jul 2013 06:48:25 +0000

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:21:33 +0000

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Fri, 31 May 2013 22:01:10 +0000

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Fri, 31 May 2013 18:10:53 +0000

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Sat, 25 May 2013 13:51:43 +0000

Happy Geek Pride Day! flip.it/8YBNt

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Mon, 20 May 2013 18:21:36 +0000

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Fri, 17 May 2013 19:33:56 +0000

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Tweet: Cracking the Tech Job Talent Crunch by Teaching Ki...

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:41:57 +0000

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Tweet: WA state Gov signs bill to count computer science...

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:22:53 +0000

WA state Gov signs bill to count computer science for high school math, science credit – via @geekwire flip.it/6iXGq

Tweet: Patti Smith’s Advice to Young Creative People – vi...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:54:56 +0000

Patti Smith’s Advice to Young Creative People – via @LaughingSquid flip.it/HttzV

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Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:17:44 +0000

Why More is not Always Better – via @jasonfried @Inc flip.it/7fCRZ

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:15:45 +0000

Survey says Developers spend almost 20% of their time… waiting. Time to rebuild the build system (again) flip.it/8Vs5y

Tweet: Hopscotch teaches kids to code with the first ever...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:18:16 +0000

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Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:08:33 +0000

minimalist software engineer’s manifesto: Perfect is enemy of good, 1st do it, then do it right, then do it better minifesto.org

Tweet: More Cracks In TV’s Business Model – via @carr2n...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:34:21 +0000

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Tweet: Amazon to Shareholders: “Take a long-term view, an...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:30:02 +0000

Amazon to Shareholders: “Take a long-term view, and the interests of customers and shareholders align” via @SAI businessinsider.com/amazons-letter…

Tweet: LOL! So true: How to work with software engineers...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:37:46 +0000

LOL! So true: How to work with software engineers – by Ken Norton flip.it/Yjfgi

Tweet: Premiering this year: CBGB, Film Tells the History...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:37:06 +0000

Premiering this year: CBGB, Film Tells the History of New York City’s Legendary Club flip.it/YsMBs

Tweet: Teach Your Kids How Not to Get Mugged in Minecraft...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:52:14 +0000

Teach Your Kids How Not to Get Mugged in Minecraft on.mash.to/10BaK6l via @mashable

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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:19:19 +0000

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Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:44:43 +0000

Circuit Playground Is Adafruit’s Educational Series For Helping Kids Learn About Electronics flip.it/Kmw5x by @drizzled

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Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:50:06 +0000

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Tweet: Amazon acquires book-based social network Goodread...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:57:51 +0000

Amazon acquires book-based social network Goodreads paidcontent.org/2013/03/28/ama… via @paidContent

Tweet: Treat Your Kids Like a Team of Agile Software Deve...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:49:15 +0000

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Tweet: How To Train Your Robot: Teaching kids to program...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 09:14:08 +0000

How To Train Your Robot: Teaching kids to program without a “computer” drtechniko.com/2012/04/09/how…

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Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:52:50 +0000

Joi Ito’s Nine Principles: ‘You don’t get a Nobel Prize for doing what you are told.’ via @stoweboyd flip.it/NUXPI

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Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:07:59 +0000

If “Star Wars” Scenes Were Set In High School In The 80s nerdapproved.com/misc-weirdness… via @CubicleBot

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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:09:03 +0000

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Tweet: Always be humble — What I Learned Building http://...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:24:23 +0000

Always be humble — What I Learned Building flip.it/xJgpX

Tweet: Open and Shut — via Gruber http://t.co/pdXwoRPHY...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:07:31 +0000

Open and Shut — via Gruber flip.it/cTy61

Tweet: What 90% of Schools Don’t Teach http://t.co/dNh2G2...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:20:37 +0000

What 90% of Schools Don’t Teach flip.it/SEvXu

Tweet: The Bonhamizer takes a song and re-renders it as i...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:21:12 +0000

The Bonhamizer takes a song and re-renders it as if John Bonham was playing drums flip.it/BPAJ8

Tweet: Kickstarter campaign for new-age HyperCard develop...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:55:26 +0000

Kickstarter campaign for new-age HyperCard development app – via @gigaom flip.it/IywdM

Tweet: Thom Yorke: If I can’t enjoy this now, when do I s...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:30:54 +0000

Thom Yorke: If I can’t enjoy this now, when do I start? – via @guardian @thomyorke flip.it/QxWEu

Tweet: Trains: Incredible Images of the Massive New Tunne...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:05:02 +0000

Trains: Incredible Images of the Massive New Tunnels Hollowing New York City – @Gizmodo flip.it/87AI6

Tweet: The Most Interesting Online Video Trend http://t.c...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:31:39 +0000

The Most Interesting Online Video Trend flip.it/kFU5v

Tweet: Mosh Pits Teach Us About the Physics of Collective...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:06:49 +0000

Mosh Pits Teach Us About the Physics of Collective Behavior – @readingirl Lindsay Abrams – The Atlantic theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Tweet: Little girl hears Bad Brains for the first time -...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:29:41 +0000

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Tweet: Defense Nerds Strike Back: A Symposium on the Batt...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:30:50 +0000

Defense Nerds Strike Back: A Symposium on the Battle of Hoth flip.it/JEghs

Tweet: Radiohead Start Work on a New Album This Summer ht...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:50:48 +0000

Radiohead Start Work on a New Album This Summer flip.it/jK389

Tweet: Photoshop 1.0.1 source code, courtesy Adobe and th...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:38:54 +0000

Photoshop 1.0.1 source code, courtesy Adobe and the Computer History Museum — via @bradchoate flip.it/NWt03

Tweet: Cost per hour: A new metric for paid content – via...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:50:04 +0000

Cost per hour: A new metric for paid content – via @PaladorBenjamin flip.it/GD3bO

Tweet: What To Do About The Rise Of The Robots? via @Forb...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:08:21 +0000

What To Do About The Rise Of The Robots? via @ForbesTech flip.it/M4bls

Tweet: Open Source Death Star Hits Kickstarter After Gove...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:40:33 +0000

Open Source Death Star Hits Kickstarter After Government Foolishly Refuses To Build One flip.it/YjbuN by @drizzled

Tweet: The Sounds Your Dial-Up Modem Used to Make, Visual...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:38:54 +0000

The Sounds Your Dial-Up Modem Used to Make, Visualized flip.it/4H8NH

Tweet: The Big Money Behind Hit Game Minecraft http://t.c...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 09:52:46 +0000

The Big Money Behind Hit Game Minecraft flip.it/7a0uP

Tweet: Will Netflix original programming threaten “linear...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:09:50 +0000

Will Netflix original programming threaten “linear TV”? pandodaily.com/2013/01/31/wil… via @PandoDaily

Tweet: Kids should learn programming as well as reading a...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:11:58 +0000

Kids should learn programming as well as reading and writing via @BoingBoing flip.it/PXpJs

Tweet: 12 business lessons from Jeff Bezos http://t.co/Bc...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:58:53 +0000

12 business lessons from Jeff Bezos flip.it/Lk6KB

Tweet: The “golden age” of the arcade – awesome article b...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:46:21 +0000

The “golden age” of the arcade – awesome article by @laura_june flip.it/9mg2u

Tweet: Bezos: ‘I never expected this’ http://t.co/YwLQnuw...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:51:20 +0000

Bezos: ‘I never expected this’ flip.it/zmNtb

Tweet: I just unlocked the “Trainspotter” badge on @fours...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:05:03 +0000

I just unlocked the “Trainspotter” badge on @foursquare for checking in at trains and subway stations! 4sq.com/XB2pP2

Tweet: RIP, Aaron Swartz – Boing Boing http://t.co/HlQJ2n...

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:05:54 +0000

RIP, Aaron Swartz – Boing Boing flip.it/l63xD

Tweet: Prediction guru Nate Silver: The Seahawks are goin...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:07:51 +0000

Prediction guru Nate Silver: The Seahawks are going to the Super Bowl flip.it/C7yRK

Tweet: It Seems Clear That Lance Armstrong Is About To Co...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:54:09 +0000

It Seems Clear That Lance Armstrong Is About To Confess Everything In A 90-Minute Interview With Oprah by @hblodget flip.it/A072c

Tweet: Can’t wait for this: A first look at Netflix’s tes...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:07:56 +0000

Can’t wait for this: A first look at Netflix’s test of personalized profiles flip.it/usGsj via @gigaom

Tweet: Mindstorms EV3: LEGO Education Unveils Its Next Ge...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:45:18 +0000

Mindstorms EV3: LEGO Education Unveils Its Next Generation Robotics Platform – via @audreywatters flip.it/gmi2E

Tweet: The only thing that could kill TV? TV itself http:...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:22:07 +0000

The only thing that could kill TV? TV itself flip.it/Vuu3R from @jtoeman

Tweet: Boil the Frog from @plamere -takes you from one mu...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:00:18 +0000

Boil the Frog from @plamere -takes you from one music style to another (gradually) flip.it/D5r51

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Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:41:12 +0000

Tweet: Punk’s Not Dead – via @BrianRaftery in @wired htt...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:41:42 +0000

Punk’s Not Dead – via @BrianRaftery in @wired wired.com/underwire/2012…

Tweet: Heart’s awesome rendition of #StairwayToHeaven at...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:11:40 +0000

Heart’s awesome rendition of #StairwayToHeaven at Kennedy Center honors flip.it/lvmVV

Tweet: The death of the American shopping mall http://t.c...

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:15:15 +0000

The death of the American shopping mall flip.it/AsKea via @AtlanticCities

Tweet: Social games for social good: How Minecraft is mou...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:54:48 +0000

Social games for social good: How Minecraft is moulding next generation sustainability action socialmediainfluence.com/2012/12/12/soc…

Tweet: Sally Jenkins: “Why I’m not angry at Lance Armstro...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:33:05 +0000

Sally Jenkins: “Why I’m not angry at Lance Armstrong” flip.it/nrggV

Tweet: Internet may soon beat TV as main source of nation...

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:41:32 +0000

Internet may soon beat TV as main source of national news flip.it/Nkcdd

Tweet: Cut the cord and say goodbye to cable – via @usato...

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 10:11:54 +0000

Cut the cord and say goodbye to cable – via @usatodaynews flip.it/7Jy0F

Tweet: This is the Modem World: Fear and loathing in the...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 23:48:30 +0000

This is the Modem World: Fear and loathing in the local bike shop via @fruhlinger

Tweet: Publishers brace for authors to reclaim book right...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:33:36 +0000

Publishers brace for authors to reclaim book rights in 2013 | via @paidContent flpbd.it/oG97S

Tweet: Make it so: NASA physicist explains how a warp dri...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:40:38 +0000

Make it so: NASA physicist explains how a warp drive could be a ‘passport to the universe’ flpbd.it/F7wrn

Tweet: Cambridge University announces research centre to...

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:13:24 +0000

Cambridge University announces research centre to study the risk of robots taking over the world! flpbd.it/GAAAF by @HarrisonWeber

Tweet: Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs h...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 09:41:01 +0000

Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs nytimes.com/2012/11/24/sci…

Tweet: When the Nerds Go Marching In http://t.co/dcrmJF3Y

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:53:42 +0000

When the Nerds Go Marching In m.theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Tweet: Some hopeful restoration updates from NJ Transit h...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:47:44 +0000

Some hopeful restoration updates from NJ Transit mobile.nj.com/advnj/pm_29221…

Tweet: New Jersey is allowing displaced voters and first...

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:38:42 +0000

New Jersey is allowing displaced voters and first responders to vote via email or fax flpbd.it/izsR8

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-10-14

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Computer Science Unplugged helps teach kids binary numbers, algorithms, programming languages, etc. http://t.co/4I90pMbJ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-10-10

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Computer Science Unplugged helps teach kids binary numbers, algorithms, programming languages, etc. http://t.co/4I90pMbJ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-10-07

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:47:00 +0000

RT @KimberlyAnna: Degrasse Tyson and Colbert. Utterly brilliant discourse. http://t.co/t4lrQrKj #
The science of martinis: shaken versus stirred (cc @gadgetboy) http://t.co/Dsfp12xs #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-10-07

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:39:00 +0000

How Amazon Beat the Odds in the Tablet Economy http://t.co/YvI3jtCI #
Oh no! There goes the kids college fund. Angry Birds + Star Wars http://t.co/vUmqpdjR #
RT @KimberlyAnna: Degrasse Tyson and Colbert. Utterly brilliant discourse. http://t.co/t4lrQrKj #
The science of martinis: shaken versus stirred (cc @gadgetboy) http://t.co/Dsfp12xs #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-10-06

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Oh no! There goes the kids college fund. Angry Birds + Star Wars http://t.co/vUmqpdjR #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-10-04

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 03:47:00 +0000

How Amazon Beat the Odds in the Tablet Economy http://t.co/YvI3jtCI #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-09-30

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 03:47:00 +0000

RT @anthonyonesto: “Tony doesn’t push you outside the box, he throws you outside the box.” –> http://t.co/ns58m1bf #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-30

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 03:39:00 +0000

RT @ThisIsSethsBlog: Seth’s Blog: Truth and consequences http://t.co/UhejDrLf #
Learnable Programming: designing a programming system for understanding programs http://t.co/bIRzaMEU via @worrydream #
RT @anthonyonesto: “Tony doesn’t push you outside the box, he throws you outside the box.” –> http://t.co/ns58m1bf #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-09-28

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Learnable Programming: designing a programming system for understanding programs http://t.co/bIRzaMEU via @worrydream #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-09-24

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 03:47:00 +0000

RT @ThisIsSethsBlog: Seth’s Blog: Truth and consequences http://t.co/UhejDrLf #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-09-23

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 03:47:00 +0000

I just reached Level 2 of the “Swimmies” badge on @foursquare. I’ve checked in at 5 different water spots! http://t.co/rWFbux6j #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-23

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Must Great Leaders Be Gregarious? http://t.co/67HxGChu #
Congrats @heoj on the launch of @goKicker! Already a fan! #
I just reached Level 2 of the “Swimmies” badge on @foursquare. I’ve checked in at 5 different water spots! http://t.co/rWFbux6j #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-09-21

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Congrats @heoj on the launch of @goKicker! Already a fan! #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-09-18

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Must Great Leaders Be Gregarious? http://t.co/67HxGChu #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-16

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Making Money While Keeping Prices Low: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Explains It All (Mostly) http://t.co/cGoX3TfL #
Remember rec.arts.movies? If not this is what http://t.co/Te3yo7JN looked like in 1990 http://t.co/tUkvxXVz #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-09-14

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Remember rec.arts.movies? If not this is what http://t.co/Te3yo7JN looked like in 1990 http://t.co/tUkvxXVz #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-09-10

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Making Money While Keeping Prices Low: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Explains It All (Mostly) http://t.co/cGoX3TfL #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-09-09

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Should Duke Ellington be compared to Bach? Exploring the tension between jazz and classical -via @Salon http://t.co/tOyd7rH9 #
RT @bobmonsour: A well-considered piece. “Why we should stop thinking” « Leo starts up http://t.co/hkYW3D7w #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-09

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 03:39:00 +0000

FIOS TV exec: Cord cutting is growing, and changing the TV biz via @gigaom: http://t.co/ixLPbHpO #
Should Duke Ellington be compared to Bach? Exploring the tension between jazz and classical -via @Salon http://t.co/tOyd7rH9 #
RT @bobmonsour: A well-considered piece. “Why we should stop thinking” « Leo starts up http://t.co/hkYW3D7w #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-09-07

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 03:47:00 +0000

FIOS TV exec: Cord cutting is growing, and changing the TV biz via @gigaom: http://t.co/ixLPbHpO #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-02

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 03:39:00 +0000

RT @ABC: Human Immortality in 33 Years? That’s the Claim Coming From Dmitry Itskov’s 2045 Initiative http://t.co/Rrtbfsca #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-08-28

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 03:47:00 +0000

RT @ABC: Human Immortality in 33 Years? That’s the Claim Coming From Dmitry Itskov’s 2045 Initiative http://t.co/Rrtbfsca #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-08-26

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Lance Armstrong doping campaign exposes USADA’s hypocrisy
By Sally Jenkins http://t.co/uy8hIIbk #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-26

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Hacking the human brain to extract sensitive data http://t.co/Pp8Kjhpv #
Khan Academy Launches The Future of Computer Science Education http://t.co/urd8rX4C #
RT @jeffbarr: Amazon Glacier: Archival Storage for One Penny Per GB Per Month – http://t.co/PvHpOG1Q #aws #storage #
They Finally Made a Flying Star Wars Speeder Bike! http://t.co/ZMPUc7jX #
Lance Armstrong doping campaign exposes USADA’s hypocrisy
By Sally Jenkins http://t.co/uy8hIIbk #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-08-22

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Khan Academy Launches The Future of Computer Science Education http://t.co/urd8rX4C #
RT @jeffbarr: Amazon Glacier: Archival Storage for One Penny Per GB Per Month – http://t.co/PvHpOG1Q #aws #storage #
They Finally Made a Flying Star Wars Speeder Bike! http://t.co/ZMPUc7jX #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-08-20

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Hacking the human brain to extract sensitive data http://t.co/Pp8Kjhpv #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-08-19

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Beer…not just for drinking http://t.co/yTD6Csyr #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-19

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Five Leadership Lessons From James T. Kirk http://t.co/gmHiDVH7 /via @Forbes #
This Monday (8/20) Join “Tech Talks @audible_com – August 2012” http://t.co/CvgE8URO #Audible #Amazon #
Beer…not just for drinking http://t.co/yTD6Csyr #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-08-18

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:47:00 +0000

This Monday (8/20) Join “Tech Talks @audible_com – August 2012” http://t.co/CvgE8URO #Audible #Amazon #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-08-17

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Five Leadership Lessons From James T. Kirk http://t.co/gmHiDVH7 /via @Forbes #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-05

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 03:39:00 +0000

RT @DKThomp: Every year, you spend about 650 hours — or four full weeks — on email. In other words: February. http://t.co/RwNQO3SP #
Recruiting & Culture: MBA Mondays: Guest Post From Chad Dickerson http://t.co/eUhM2Ino #
Software is eating the world’s profits. And maybe it’s own – via @jonathanbingham http://t.co/YfwcKisv #
RT @BicyclingMag: Wiggins: Don’t call me Sir http://t.co/L2d5NbQc #London2012 #
How Schools Can Teach Innovation – http://t.co/EbdueXZ1 http://t.co/vCoQyuio #
Join the club: 400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year http://t.co/Y494Iw11 #
Conversely: The Truth About Pay TV: It’s Not Shrinking, It’s (Barely) Growing – by @pkafka http://t.co/QZKYYwsU #
RT @harrymccracken: Radio Shack’s TRS-80 turns 35 today: Please don’t call it “Trash-80.” http://t.co/xcrKQPOy #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-08-04

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 03:47:00 +0000

How Schools Can Teach Innovation – http://t.co/EbdueXZ1 http://t.co/vCoQyuio #
Join the club: 400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year http://t.co/Y494Iw11 #
Conversely: The Truth About Pay TV: It’s Not Shrinking, It’s (Barely) Growing – by @pkafka http://t.co/QZKYYwsU #
RT @harrymccracken: Radio Shack’s TRS-80 turns 35 today: Please don’t call it “Trash-80.” http://t.co/xcrKQPOy #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-08-02

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Software is eating the world’s profits. And maybe it’s own – via @jonathanbingham http://t.co/YfwcKisv #
RT @BicyclingMag: Wiggins: Don’t call me Sir http://t.co/L2d5NbQc #London2012 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-07-31

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Recruiting & Culture: MBA Mondays: Guest Post From Chad Dickerson http://t.co/eUhM2Ino #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-07-30

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:47:00 +0000

RT @DKThomp: Every year, you spend about 650 hours — or four full weeks — on email. In other words: February. http://t.co/RwNQO3SP #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-29

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Denmark Puts Out a Superhighway for Commuting by Bicycle http://t.co/b60NQncn #
Olympics Coverage: NBC Apparently Thinks It’s 1992, Seemingly Unaware Of Twitter’s Existence – via Forbes http://t.co/8pGIf95v #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-07-28

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Olympics Coverage: NBC Apparently Thinks It’s 1992, Seemingly Unaware Of Twitter’s Existence – via Forbes http://t.co/8pGIf95v #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-07-25

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Denmark Puts Out a Superhighway for Commuting by Bicycle http://t.co/b60NQncn #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-22

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 03:39:00 +0000

It’s better to have 75% of a useful solution than 100% of an irrelevant one – via @HarvardBiz http://t.co/abQvOWMP #
We need Code Club in the US. Watch kids grill Tech Leaders on what they bring to the table for Code Club :-) http://t.co/JCI3LLd9 #
The dangerous gap between those who make software, and those who use it http://t.co/zCsVNE02 #
Join us on 7/23 “Tech Talks @ Audible – July 2012” http://t.co/lwW4k5a3 #audible #amazon #
RT @OnionSports: Jeremy Lin’s Departure Teaches Knicks Fans Important Lesson About Getting Excited By The Knicks http://t.co/Epuz5MnF #
Mountain Bikers Find Success at the Tour de France http://t.co/nBvnCi8t #
The French view of Bradley Wiggins – via @BBCWorld http://t.co/Ri56CwW1 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-07-21

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 03:47:00 +0000

The French view of Bradley Wiggins – via @BBCWorld http://t.co/Ri56CwW1 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-07-19

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Mountain Bikers Find Success at the Tour de France http://t.co/nBvnCi8t #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-07-18

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:47:00 +0000

The dangerous gap between those who make software, and those who use it http://t.co/zCsVNE02 #
Join us on 7/23 “Tech Talks @ Audible – July 2012” http://t.co/lwW4k5a3 #audible #amazon #
RT @OnionSports: Jeremy Lin’s Departure Teaches Knicks Fans Important Lesson About Getting Excited By The Knicks http://t.co/Epuz5MnF #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-07-16

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:47:00 +0000

It’s better to have 75% of a useful solution than 100% of an irrelevant one – via @HarvardBiz http://t.co/abQvOWMP #
We need Code Club in the US. Watch kids grill Tech Leaders on what they bring to the table for Code Club :-) http://t.co/JCI3LLd9 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-15

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 03:39:00 +0000

The psychology of sales: 11 ways shoppers are hopeless at math – via @TheAtlantic http://t.co/PkPd78gN #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-07-09

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:47:00 +0000

The psychology of sales: 11 ways shoppers are hopeless at math – via @TheAtlantic http://t.co/PkPd78gN #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-07-08

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 03:47:00 +0000

I just reached Level 2 of the “Great Outdoors” badge on @foursquare. I’ve checked in at 5 different outdoor spots! http://t.co/ruN6CAW9 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-08

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 03:39:00 +0000

I just reached Level 2 of the “Great Outdoors” badge on @foursquare. I’ve checked in at 5 different outdoor spots! http://t.co/ruN6CAW9 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-01

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 03:39:00 +0000

RT @wired: So @louisck has been putting the screws to the old promo media. And it’s HILARIOUS http://t.co/0oYHIh8d #
In Defense of Free Music: A Generational, Ethical High Road Over the Industry’s Corruption and Exploitation http://t.co/GAeVJKzS #
RT @louisck: well. after 45 hours, my tour has sold 100K tickets, box office gross of 4.5 mil $ (not all mine). I guess it was a good idea. #
Atari: celebrating 40 years on the dots http://t.co/4IXEpkOc #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-06-28

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:47:00 +0000

RT @wired: So @louisck has been putting the screws to the old promo media. And it’s HILARIOUS http://t.co/0oYHIh8d #
In Defense of Free Music: A Generational, Ethical High Road Over the Industry’s Corruption and Exploitation http://t.co/GAeVJKzS #
RT @louisck: well. after 45 hours, my tour has sold 100K tickets, box office gross of 4.5 mil $ (not all mine). I guess it was a good idea. #
Atari: celebrating 40 years on the dots http://t.co/4IXEpkOc #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-06-24

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Is Stealing Music Really The Problem? http://t.co/xy1W7box #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-24

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:39:00 +0000

How my handwriting has changed since Kindergarten – The Oatmeal http://t.co/xrcoZFJT #
Join us tonight: Tech Talks @ Audible with Jeff Barr, Lead Evangelist, Amazon Web Services http://t.co/MVLiqnzU #audible #amazon #aws #
Can’t wait to listen! RT @allsongs: Hear Patti Smith play Guest DJ on All Songs Considered http://t.co/woGkUhR1 @ThePattiSmith #
Awesome! RT @audreywatters: CodeNow: THIS is what democratizing “learning to code” looks like http://t.co/hLMirHGh #
Geek Fight: Kirk vs. Picard http://t.co/YyevKetS #
Microsoft partners with Audible to enhance Windows Phone voice recognition, available for WP 7.5 and up http://t.co/pIc9kL4e via @engadget #
The art of important work, of making a ruckus and of inventing the future – via @fredwilson http://t.co/Mv1B0nqI #
Is Stealing Music Really The Problem? http://t.co/xy1W7box #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-06-23

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 03:47:00 +0000

The art of important work, of making a ruckus and of inventing the future – via @fredwilson http://t.co/Mv1B0nqI #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-06-22

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Geek Fight: Kirk vs. Picard http://t.co/YyevKetS #
Microsoft partners with Audible to enhance Windows Phone voice recognition, available for WP 7.5 and up http://t.co/pIc9kL4e via @engadget #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-06-21

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Awesome! RT @audreywatters: CodeNow: THIS is what democratizing “learning to code” looks like http://t.co/hLMirHGh #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-06-20

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Can’t wait to listen! RT @allsongs: Hear Patti Smith play Guest DJ on All Songs Considered http://t.co/woGkUhR1 @ThePattiSmith #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-06-19

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:47:00 +0000

How my handwriting has changed since Kindergarten – The Oatmeal http://t.co/xrcoZFJT #
Join us tonight: Tech Talks @ Audible with Jeff Barr, Lead Evangelist, Amazon Web Services http://t.co/MVLiqnzU #audible #amazon #aws #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-17

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time: The Complete List – http://t.co/QOBII8qc #
The Secret of a Successful Programming Language? A Really Great Beard :-}> http://t.co/RsGNdu4G #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-06-16

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time: The Complete List – http://t.co/QOBII8qc #
The Secret of a Successful Programming Language? A Really Great Beard :-}> http://t.co/RsGNdu4G #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-15

Sun, 27 May 2012 03:39:00 +0000

@NJTechMe to see the NJ startups and @GuyStory from @audible_com (@ Babbio Center w/ 5 others) http://t.co/17b3h1Q1 #
Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ and ‘Kid A’ get an 8-bit reimagining http://t.co/ujCHt2Xu #
How Amazon is changing the rules for books and movies http://t.co/5wioUxVA #
Carlos Bueno wants your 5-year-old to think like a programmer http://t.co/Z5GaPINj #
Seriously? Yahoo to Launch “Chrome Killer” Tonight http://t.co/8IQkZBQC #
Seth Godin Blog: Dancing on the edge of finished http://t.co/kkLk1zPQ via @ThisIsSethsBlog #
Joi Ito’s Near-Perfect Explanation of the Next 100 Years http://t.co/5lUmbOP0 (via @TechReview) #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-06-15

Fri, 25 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Seth Godin Blog: Dancing on the edge of finished http://t.co/kkLk1zPQ via @ThisIsSethsBlog #
Joi Ito’s Near-Perfect Explanation of the Next 100 Years http://t.co/5lUmbOP0 (via @TechReview) #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-24

Thu, 24 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Carlos Bueno wants your 5-year-old to think like a programmer http://t.co/Z5GaPINj #
Seriously? Yahoo to Launch “Chrome Killer” Tonight http://t.co/8IQkZBQC #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-23

Wed, 23 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ and ‘Kid A’ get an 8-bit reimagining http://t.co/ujCHt2Xu #
How Amazon is changing the rules for books and movies http://t.co/5wioUxVA #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-22

Tue, 22 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

@NJTechMe to see the NJ startups and @GuyStory from @audible_com (@ Babbio Center w/ 5 others) http://t.co/17b3h1Q1 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-20

Sun, 20 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

HBR shows that the aggregate rating of Amazon reviewers are every bit as good as professional book critics http://t.co/3zaf9iey #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-20

Sun, 20 May 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Gamification: Insights And Emerging Trends http://t.co/G1rRXpvL by @timechange #
RT @jeffbarr: New – Amazon #CloudFront – Support for Dynamic Content – http://t.co/lI6F2Z1O #aws #cdn #
Why Tech’s Hunger For Overnight Hits Is Bad For Business http://t.co/n6HW3jjh by @fmanjoo #
Join us tonight @audible_com Tech Talks w/Adam Broitman of Something Massive; discussing Augmented Reality Apps #amazo €¦http://t.co/JdPxZnw9 #
Training The Brain Of An Entrepreneur http://t.co/eYJgzKIF #
Learning to Code via @porteneuve: http://t.co/zbA9Qs9Z #
John Colapinto on the pleasure of being read to: http://t.co/h21TXLbv #
Learn to code, but don’t quit your day job – via @verge http://t.co/ft3bEyok #
Facebook, schmacebook, what I want to know is — could a 21st century USS Enterprise really fly?? via @wired http://t.co/M0r7tRVK #
HBR shows that the aggregate rating of Amazon reviewers are every bit as good as professional book critics http://t.co/3zaf9iey #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-19

Sat, 19 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Facebook, schmacebook, what I want to know is — could a 21st century USS Enterprise really fly?? via @wired http://t.co/M0r7tRVK #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-18

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

John Colapinto on the pleasure of being read to: http://t.co/h21TXLbv #
Learn to code, but don’t quit your day job – via @verge http://t.co/ft3bEyok #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-17

Thu, 17 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Learning to Code via @porteneuve: http://t.co/zbA9Qs9Z #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-16

Wed, 16 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Training The Brain Of An Entrepreneur http://t.co/eYJgzKIF #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-15

Tue, 15 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

RT @jeffbarr: New – Amazon #CloudFront – Support for Dynamic Content – http://t.co/lI6F2Z1O #aws #cdn #
Why Tech’s Hunger For Overnight Hits Is Bad For Business http://t.co/n6HW3jjh by @fmanjoo #
Join us tonight @audible_com Tech Talks w/Adam Broitman of Something Massive; discussing Augmented Reality Apps #amazo €¦http://t.co/JdPxZnw9 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-14

Mon, 14 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Gamification: Insights And Emerging Trends http://t.co/G1rRXpvL by @timechange #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-13

Sun, 13 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Reed Hastings on the lucrative intersection of technology and education http://t.co/FluJtr2D #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-13

Sun, 13 May 2012 03:39:00 +0000

“If you’re making the customer do any extra amount of work … you’re now a target for disruption” http://t.co/nGGAt5f0 #
Reinventing Education To Teach Creativity And Entrepreneurship http://t.co/4pslReGK #
How to spot the future http://t.co/rBgjefRI #
33 Geeky Insults You Can Use Almost Anywhere via @wired http://t.co/LgETysPg #
How to break free of our 19th-century factory-model education system http://t.co/EVOF2X46 via @TheAtlantic #
Down With Training Wheels http://t.co/4lAR4ODz #
Reed Hastings on the lucrative intersection of technology and education http://t.co/FluJtr2D #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-12

Sat, 12 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Down With Training Wheels http://t.co/4lAR4ODz #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-11

Fri, 11 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

How to break free of our 19th-century factory-model education system http://t.co/EVOF2X46 via @TheAtlantic #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-10

Thu, 10 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

How to spot the future http://t.co/rBgjefRI #
33 Geeky Insults You Can Use Almost Anywhere via @wired http://t.co/LgETysPg #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-08

Tue, 08 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Reinventing Education To Teach Creativity And Entrepreneurship http://t.co/4pslReGK #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-07

Mon, 07 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

“If you’re making the customer do any extra amount of work … you’re now a target for disruption” http://t.co/nGGAt5f0 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-06

Sun, 06 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Your brain isn’t like a computer, argues @thealexknapp. Here’s why. http://t.co/2TWt4LCh via @ForbesTech #
How Beer Companies Turned A Minor Holiday Into America’s Favorite Mexican Drinking Day – by @leahggoldman http://t.co/hYkNuxon #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-06

Sun, 06 May 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Growth Hacker: Integrating & optimizing a product to a big platform requires a mix of marketing, product, & engineering http://t.co/lTcHoUCF #
Join us May 14th for another in our Tech Talks Series with @AdamBroitman, Chief Creative Strategist of Something Massi…http://t.co/JdPxZnw9 #
Hackstar Academy opens up 10-week training course in programming for women only http://t.co/86ic0ZeC by @thatdrew #
It doesn’t matter what e-books cost to make – via @gigaom http://t.co/IWtm6bW6 #
May the 4th be with you. Happy Star Wars Day! #starwarsday #maythefourth http://t.co/KWIZQNaT #
Nobody Cares About The Fixed Costs Of Your Book, Movie, Whatever – via Tech Dirt http://t.co/3HhBYN5m #
Your brain isn’t like a computer, argues @thealexknapp. Here’s why. http://t.co/2TWt4LCh via @ForbesTech #
How Beer Companies Turned A Minor Holiday Into America’s Favorite Mexican Drinking Day – by @leahggoldman http://t.co/hYkNuxon #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-05

Sat, 05 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

May the 4th be with you. Happy Star Wars Day! #starwarsday #maythefourth http://t.co/KWIZQNaT #
Nobody Cares About The Fixed Costs Of Your Book, Movie, Whatever – via Tech Dirt http://t.co/3HhBYN5m #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-04

Fri, 04 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

It doesn’t matter what e-books cost to make – via @gigaom http://t.co/IWtm6bW6 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-05-03

Thu, 03 May 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Join us May 14th for another in our Tech Talks Series with @AdamBroitman, Chief Creative Strategist of Something Massi…http://t.co/JdPxZnw9 #
Hackstar Academy opens up 10-week training course in programming for women only http://t.co/86ic0ZeC by @thatdrew #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-30

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Growth Hacker: Integrating & optimizing a product to a big platform requires a mix of marketing, product, & engineering http://t.co/lTcHoUCF #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-29

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Join us tomorrow at the Tech Talks @Audible_com Our special guest is the CTO of Zemanta http://t.co/Z7kXc7Ze #
Jimmy Wales to Hollywood: You’re Doomed (And Not Because of JPiracy) via @wired http://t.co/DTI6CvU5 #
Darth Vader and Son Imagines the Sith Lord as a Doting Dad (cc @gadgetboy) http://t.co/LxVyMMpW #
7 Radiohead ‘Creep’ Covers: Carrie Manolakos, Scala & Kolacny, Ingrid Michaelson, & More (Video) http://t.co/tu8UcOBD #
Rating The Ramones: Could Johnny Ramone Be Right? | List Of The Day By Rob O’Connor http://t.co/Hg87xyby #
Can an algorithm writer a better story than a reporter? Will a robot win a Pulitizer? via @StevenLevy http://t.co/CgW85LmM #
This is the web right now via @Oatmeal http://t.co/UurdJoMr #
Descriptive Camera: take a photo, get a text description of it (via a little help from MTurk) Awesome! http://t.co/iNnGPmqk #
RT @allthingsd: Exclusive: Amazon Starts Bringing the Art of Recommendations to Daily Deals -by @triciad http://t.co/NrptwNoF #
Geek Cred Cool: #StarCastle ported to #Atari 2600, 30 years late, and under the 8K limit http://t.co/QNdgh5nE #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-27

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Descriptive Camera: take a photo, get a text description of it (via a little help from MTurk) Awesome! http://t.co/iNnGPmqk #
RT @allthingsd: Exclusive: Amazon Starts Bringing the Art of Recommendations to Daily Deals -by @triciad http://t.co/NrptwNoF #
Geek Cred Cool: #StarCastle ported to #Atari 2600, 30 years late, and under the 8K limit http://t.co/QNdgh5nE #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-26

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Rating The Ramones: Could Johnny Ramone Be Right? | List Of The Day By Rob O’Connor http://t.co/Hg87xyby #
Can an algorithm writer a better story than a reporter? Will a robot win a Pulitizer? via @StevenLevy http://t.co/CgW85LmM #
This is the web right now via @Oatmeal http://t.co/UurdJoMr #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-25

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Darth Vader and Son Imagines the Sith Lord as a Doting Dad (cc @gadgetboy) http://t.co/LxVyMMpW #
7 Radiohead ‘Creep’ Covers: Carrie Manolakos, Scala & Kolacny, Ingrid Michaelson, & More (Video) http://t.co/tu8UcOBD #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-24

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Jimmy Wales to Hollywood: You’re Doomed (And Not Because of JPiracy) via @wired http://t.co/DTI6CvU5 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-23

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Join us tomorrow at the Tech Talks @Audible_com Our special guest is the CTO of Zemanta http://t.co/Z7kXc7Ze #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-22

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Surprise! How Streaming Video Is Killing the DVD [INFOGRAPHIC] http://t.co/4Fh4Ks48 #
I just became the mayor of Steve’s Fire Pit on @foursquare! http://t.co/kQ1OaEnA #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-22

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:39:00 +0000

RT @codinghorror: Learn to Read the Source, Luke http://t.co/jppHCiNd #
@dsearls where’s the Audiobook version? in reply to dsearls #
@dsearls fantastic! Can’t wait to listen to your new book http://t.co/3YwNXNbY in reply to dsearls #
Heading to the NYC Startup Job Fair. Looking for smart Devs for #Audible #Amazon http://t.co/ohufJDQi #
Come join Audible / Amazon (@ NYC Startup Job Fair w/ @schoukse) http://t.co/WhveYhzd #
Surprise! How Streaming Video Is Killing the DVD [INFOGRAPHIC] http://t.co/4Fh4Ks48 #
I just became the mayor of Steve’s Fire Pit on @foursquare! http://t.co/kQ1OaEnA #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-21

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Heading to the NYC Startup Job Fair. Looking for smart Devs for #Audible #Amazon http://t.co/ohufJDQi #
Come join Audible / Amazon (@ NYC Startup Job Fair w/ @schoukse) http://t.co/WhveYhzd #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-20

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

@dsearls fantastic! Can’t wait to listen to your new book http://t.co/3YwNXNbY in reply to dsearls #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-19

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

@dsearls where’s the Audiobook version? in reply to dsearls #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-17

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

RT @codinghorror: Learn to Read the Source, Luke http://t.co/jppHCiNd #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-15

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 03:39:00 +0000

The next time someone says the Internet killed reading books, show them this chart: http://t.co/8GyryJ4L #
Computing isn’t just getting cheaper. It’s becoming more energy efficient. http://t.co/SNvW7qe1 #
xkcd: Lakes and Oceans http://t.co/PDnOVLwN #
Multiplayer Asteroids, Sans Asteroids http://t.co/NprfTWiG #
Best and Worst Jobs 2012 – (Software Engineer #1 :-) via http://t.co/EbdyMxZV http://t.co/7P2dY3xc #
RT @jeffbarr: Amazon #CloudSearch – http://t.co/v4eS5k6f – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month #aws #
Frog’s creative director Scott Jenson argues that mobile apps must die – via @eugenefab http://t.co/ddV9WGJz #
@Audible_com opens $20m fund that will reward authors using social media to help sales http://t.co/0VNThGRb #
Google BBS Terminal: What Google would have looked like in the 80s http://t.co/U52ka7MY #
Authors Smile If Amazon Is the Publisher, Bezos Says :-) http://t.co/L4aUofek #
Amazon-owned Audible: Hey authors, want $20 million? http://t.co/MyPCIpfo #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-14

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

@Audible_com opens $20m fund that will reward authors using social media to help sales http://t.co/0VNThGRb #
Google BBS Terminal: What Google would have looked like in the 80s http://t.co/U52ka7MY #
Authors Smile If Amazon Is the Publisher, Bezos Says :-) http://t.co/L4aUofek #
Amazon-owned Audible: Hey authors, want $20 million? http://t.co/MyPCIpfo #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-13

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

RT @jeffbarr: Amazon #CloudSearch – http://t.co/v4eS5k6f – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month #aws #
Frog’s creative director Scott Jenson argues that mobile apps must die – via @eugenefab http://t.co/ddV9WGJz #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-12

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Multiplayer Asteroids, Sans Asteroids http://t.co/NprfTWiG #
Best and Worst Jobs 2012 – (Software Engineer #1 :-) via http://t.co/EbdyMxZV http://t.co/7P2dY3xc #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-10

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Computing isn’t just getting cheaper. It’s becoming more energy efficient. http://t.co/SNvW7qe1 #
xkcd: Lakes and Oceans http://t.co/PDnOVLwN #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-09

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

The next time someone says the Internet killed reading books, show them this chart: http://t.co/8GyryJ4L #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-08

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

What Space Looks Like to Kids – via @wired http://t.co/qDbaAw6q #
I just unlocked the “Photogenic” badge on @foursquare! Say cheese! http://t.co/CSJWfsmN #
Flawed diamonds are perfect ingredients for quantum computing, just add time travel – via @engadget http://t.co/7GzsmzwT #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-08

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:39:00 +0000

LOL: Chrome Multitask Mode http://t.co/kd9CPvlj #
RT @neiltyson: Yup. If pasta & antipasta ever touch, they annihilate. For your safety, that’s why restaurants never serve them together. #
I just unlocked the “Swimmies” badge on @foursquare! Splish splash! http://t.co/c8vnza44 #
RT @allthingsd: 20 Percent of Americans Say They’re Reading eBooks http://t.co/7TUAVwoJ #
Ahh, the memories: 2600 Volume 1 released as a DRM-free ebook: phreak like it’s 1984 http://t.co/j1xzH0YK via @engadget #
Could You Work for Jeff Bezos? – via @Forbes (true in a good way :-) http://t.co/LFa7p5zo #
I just unlocked the “Superstar” badge on @foursquare! http://t.co/PSlV9TQ0 #
RT @audreywatters: Learn to program with Move the Turtle http://t.co/2AWmUCGC via @jennywilliams #
What Space Looks Like to Kids – via @wired http://t.co/qDbaAw6q #
I just unlocked the “Photogenic” badge on @foursquare! Say cheese! http://t.co/CSJWfsmN #
Flawed diamonds are perfect ingredients for quantum computing, just add time travel – via @engadget http://t.co/7GzsmzwT #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-07

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Ahh, the memories: 2600 Volume 1 released as a DRM-free ebook: phreak like it’s 1984 http://t.co/j1xzH0YK via @engadget #
Could You Work for Jeff Bezos? – via @Forbes (true in a good way :-) http://t.co/LFa7p5zo #
I just unlocked the “Superstar” badge on @foursquare! http://t.co/PSlV9TQ0 #
RT @audreywatters: Learn to program with Move the Turtle http://t.co/2AWmUCGC via @jennywilliams #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-06

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

RT @allthingsd: 20 Percent of Americans Say They’re Reading eBooks http://t.co/7TUAVwoJ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-05

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

I just unlocked the “Swimmies” badge on @foursquare! Splish splash! http://t.co/c8vnza44 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-03

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

RT @neiltyson: Yup. If pasta & antipasta ever touch, they annihilate. For your safety, that’s why restaurants never serve them together. #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-04-02

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 03:47:00 +0000

LOL: Chrome Multitask Mode http://t.co/kd9CPvlj #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-11

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Amazon S3 Says it Tripled in Objects Stored Last Year: http://t.co/XLonuzMf #
Warner Bros. Just Keeps Pushing People To Piracy; New Deal Also Delays Queuing – via @techdirt http://t.co/Df6Hj5C4 #
Average Web Page Size Septuples Since 2003 http://t.co/rnhaTfeJ #
Siri Sings Lead Vocals On A New Song By The Flaming Lips http://t.co/j3RQr0BX via @sai #
Kickstarter Becomes The Darling Of Sundance By Financing Lots Of Movies… Without Movie Studio Arrogance http://t.co/KbxIMLpS #
American Schools Are Failing Miserably at Science Education – Technology – http://t.co/SnlxM6S3 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-02-11

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Amazon S3 Says it Tripled in Objects Stored Last Year: http://t.co/XLonuzMf #
Warner Bros. Just Keeps Pushing People To Piracy; New Deal Also Delays Queuing – via @techdirt http://t.co/Df6Hj5C4 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-29

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

An Infographic Showing Just How Frequently Hollywood Has Cried Wolf About ‘Piracy’ http://t.co/FAcSGFq3 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-29

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:39:00 +0000

See you in SEA (@ EWR Terminal C w/ 14 others) http://t.co/ttUGFVAH #
How Gamer Parents (can) Talk To Their Kids About Games: a guide from @erikkain. http://t.co/fYGNluh5 #
Netflix seems to be giving up on its DVD business: (good) http://t.co/goEzjKvI #
These are not the burgers you looking to eat: Black buns on a Star Wars-themed burger in France http://t.co/p8TJ39V4 via @Gadling #
New York City’s CBGB Club Rumored To Be Resurrected Soon: http://t.co/4nPIOCsj via @catdelett #
An Infographic Showing Just How Frequently Hollywood Has Cried Wolf About ‘Piracy’ http://t.co/FAcSGFq3 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-28

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

These are not the burgers you looking to eat: Black buns on a Star Wars-themed burger in France http://t.co/p8TJ39V4 via @Gadling #
New York City’s CBGB Club Rumored To Be Resurrected Soon: http://t.co/4nPIOCsj via @catdelett #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-27

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Netflix seems to be giving up on its DVD business: (good) http://t.co/goEzjKvI #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-24

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

How Gamer Parents (can) Talk To Their Kids About Games: a guide from @erikkain. http://t.co/fYGNluh5 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-23

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

See you in SEA (@ EWR Terminal C w/ 14 others) http://t.co/ttUGFVAH #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-22

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

RT @colligan: The Original Content Wars Have Begun, But They’re Bigger Than Hulu Vs. Netflix http://t.co/KueJSGgq #
Star Wars Uncut http://t.co/dTIQoM0O #
@spudtrooper: I guess that’s the outcome of the Code Acadame classs Bloomberg pledged to take last month. Hmm, #CodingPoliticians #
Fitting music for reading YC’s “Kill Hollywood” rant http://t.co/w4hOXObY article – Ned’s from the early 90s http://t.co/w4hOXObY #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-22

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Say it aint so: “A protester in Wisconsin was arrested last night for playing too much cowbell” #morecowbell http://t.co/yIv25W6D #
@fredwilson I totally agree. When will the studios realize that scarcity in digital is anti-customer. http://t.co/rSA4Wjpt #
NYC opening its first pubic high school dedicated to software engineering http://t.co/1j4NnO8e #in #
Study shows that kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human http://t.co/5Myrx8Nx by @harrisonweber on @TNWinsider #
To my friends in SEA, stay safe! Hope to see you next week: “Seattle prepares for worst snowstorm in a decade” http://t.co/d407eK0t #
Trent Reznor And Neil Gaiman Pen Open Letter Regarding SOPA
via @catdelett http://t.co/mxjpXKoJ #
“These are not the dogs you’re looking for…” The Bark Side : http://t.co/0gEYI2ES cc @gadgetboy #
‘Cubes’ Takes a Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Audible http://t.co/e8KJXXn1 #
The “Mad Men” Years Are Giving Way to the “Math Men” Era http://t.co/KuMYVkZk #
RT @colligan: The Original Content Wars Have Begun, But They’re Bigger Than Hulu Vs. Netflix http://t.co/KueJSGgq #
Star Wars Uncut http://t.co/dTIQoM0O #
@spudtrooper: I guess that’s the outcome of the Code Acadame classs Bloomberg pledged to take last month. Hmm, #CodingPoliticians #
Fitting music for reading YC’s “Kill Hollywood” rant http://t.co/w4hOXObY article – Ned’s from the early 90s http://t.co/w4hOXObY #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-21

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

‘Cubes’ Takes a Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Audible http://t.co/e8KJXXn1 #
The “Mad Men” Years Are Giving Way to the “Math Men” Era http://t.co/KuMYVkZk #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-20

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

“These are not the dogs you’re looking for…” The Bark Side : http://t.co/0gEYI2ES cc @gadgetboy #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-19

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

To my friends in SEA, stay safe! Hope to see you next week: “Seattle prepares for worst snowstorm in a decade” http://t.co/d407eK0t #
Trent Reznor And Neil Gaiman Pen Open Letter Regarding SOPA
via @catdelett http://t.co/mxjpXKoJ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-18

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

NYC opening its first pubic high school dedicated to software engineering http://t.co/1j4NnO8e #in #
Study shows that kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human http://t.co/5Myrx8Nx by @harrisonweber on @TNWinsider #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-16

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Say it aint so: “A protester in Wisconsin was arrested last night for playing too much cowbell” #morecowbell http://t.co/yIv25W6D #
@fredwilson I totally agree. When will the studios realize that scarcity in digital is anti-customer. http://t.co/rSA4Wjpt #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-15

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

We still miss you D. Boon — An Econo History Of The Minutemen http://t.co/M5lxvvGh #
Highly doubtful. RT @dangillmor: Are authors so short-sighted that they’ll turn their lives over to Apple? Maybe… http://t.co/a3o4x1tk #
White House Won’t Support SOPA: Opposes any bill that will censor Internet. via @thedailybeast http://t.co/VKy3GHPs #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-15

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:39:00 +0000

To Redefine Computing, Have A Couple Beers: The Raspberry Pi Creation Story http://t.co/xKbWlnJk #in #
Web consumption wanes as mobile app usage skyrockets – via @jbruin http://t.co/qLwK91wu #
Study finds small development teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams http://t.co/G3GBWj1z #
Real Life “Tatooine”: Star Wars Like Planet Found http://t.co/rYkp2eAN #
Awesome! Send personal documents to your Kindle from your PC http://t.co/cF0SBqNh #
From CES, A Few Hints About the Future of TV http://t.co/9zAp54D0 #
Under pressure, #SOPA architect Lamar Smith is starting to back down via @TheAtlanticWire http://t.co/uDYEOyNa #
Video game sales drop 21 percent in US as kids remember there’s an outdoors via @engadget http://t.co/YeJ3OzsQ #
We still miss you D. Boon — An Econo History Of The Minutemen http://t.co/M5lxvvGh #
Highly doubtful. RT @dangillmor: Are authors so short-sighted that they’ll turn their lives over to Apple? Maybe… http://t.co/a3o4x1tk #
White House Won’t Support SOPA: Opposes any bill that will censor Internet. via @thedailybeast http://t.co/VKy3GHPs #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-14

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Under pressure, #SOPA architect Lamar Smith is starting to back down via @TheAtlanticWire http://t.co/uDYEOyNa #
Video game sales drop 21 percent in US as kids remember there’s an outdoors via @engadget http://t.co/YeJ3OzsQ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-13

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Awesome! Send personal documents to your Kindle from your PC http://t.co/cF0SBqNh #
From CES, A Few Hints About the Future of TV http://t.co/9zAp54D0 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-12

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Study finds small development teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams http://t.co/G3GBWj1z #
Real Life “Tatooine”: Star Wars Like Planet Found http://t.co/rYkp2eAN #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-10

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

To Redefine Computing, Have A Couple Beers: The Raspberry Pi Creation Story http://t.co/xKbWlnJk #in #
Web consumption wanes as mobile app usage skyrockets – via @jbruin http://t.co/qLwK91wu #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-08

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Oh yeah, this will work: “The Cure for the Ailing Movie Business Is To … Raise Ticket Prices?” http://t.co/Nasb6clV #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-08

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:39:00 +0000

Still Looking For A New Year’s Resolution? How About Learning To Code … http://t.co/S9jmFB8X by @alexia via @TechCrunch #
The Commodore 64 Is 30 Years Old http://t.co/4MU7Aanm by @johnbiggs via @TechCrunch #
What’s Your Algorithm? via WSJ http://t.co/bbLIYUpE #
Have 2 Minutes? Check Out Who Has Access to Your Social Media Accounts via @mashable – http://t.co/ucP8qIf3 #
Why the Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA http://t.co/gp2RSN26 #
“Save the Music Industry the old fashion way” – Vinyl music sales grew by 39% last year. http://t.co/g13qX7Mk #
When will they learn? “Warner Brothers Will Make Netflix, Redbox, Blockbuster Wait Longer For New Movies” – by @pkafka http://t.co/okv2Zspo #
For first time in history, digital #music sales top physical sales. via @cnnbrk http://t.co/E7Lyk7GC #
Do authors have to be social? No, but it helps via @gigaom http://t.co/R6dQ5wAk #
Oh yeah, this will work: “The Cure for the Ailing Movie Business Is To … Raise Ticket Prices?” http://t.co/Nasb6clV #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-07

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

For first time in history, digital #music sales top physical sales. via @cnnbrk http://t.co/E7Lyk7GC #
Do authors have to be social? No, but it helps via @gigaom http://t.co/R6dQ5wAk #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-06

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

When will they learn? “Warner Brothers Will Make Netflix, Redbox, Blockbuster Wait Longer For New Movies” – by @pkafka http://t.co/okv2Zspo #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-05

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

What’s Your Algorithm? via WSJ http://t.co/bbLIYUpE #
Have 2 Minutes? Check Out Who Has Access to Your Social Media Accounts via @mashable – http://t.co/ucP8qIf3 #
Why the Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA http://t.co/gp2RSN26 #
“Save the Music Industry the old fashion way” – Vinyl music sales grew by 39% last year. http://t.co/g13qX7Mk #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-03

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

The Commodore 64 Is 30 Years Old http://t.co/4MU7Aanm by @johnbiggs via @TechCrunch #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-02

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Still Looking For A New Year’s Resolution? How About Learning To Code … http://t.co/S9jmFB8X by @alexia via @TechCrunch #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2012-01-01

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000

How Netflix gets out of the way of innovation by @adrianco http://t.co/p1e3q8Uc #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-01

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:39:00 +0000

30 Things You Wish You Got For Christmas http://t.co/yl8X9LWd #
In 2011: How the Internet Revolutionized Education http://t.co/cTs7ehBz by @CBM on @TNWinsider #
Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds On The Internet http://t.co/vWwxET1G #
Now that your kids have a new computer, teach them how to program in Ruby http://t.co/sJFtQUsm by @thatdrew on @tnwdesign #
This is what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956 (note: required a forklift) http://t.co/A0OQzgWh by @Zee on @Shareables #
Retail Isn’t Broken. Stores Are http://t.co/kSgnf6P7 #
Kids These Days: Not That Into Cars http://t.co/zs56N26Z via @FastCoExist @AndrewCPrice #
12-4-12: experience and learn 12 new web technologies during 2012 http://t.co/RU83Q2Ln #
Ebert: film industry is losing money because they charge too much and deliver too little via @BoingBoing http://t.co/W55mV0W3 #
How Netflix gets out of the way of innovation by @adrianco http://t.co/p1e3q8Uc #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-31

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Ebert: film industry is losing money because they charge too much and deliver too little via @BoingBoing http://t.co/W55mV0W3 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-29

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

12-4-12: experience and learn 12 new web technologies during 2012 http://t.co/RU83Q2Ln #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-28

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Retail Isn’t Broken. Stores Are http://t.co/kSgnf6P7 #
Kids These Days: Not That Into Cars http://t.co/zs56N26Z via @FastCoExist @AndrewCPrice #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-27

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

In 2011: How the Internet Revolutionized Education http://t.co/cTs7ehBz by @CBM on @TNWinsider #
Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds On The Internet http://t.co/vWwxET1G #
Now that your kids have a new computer, teach them how to program in Ruby http://t.co/sJFtQUsm by @thatdrew on @tnwdesign #
This is what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956 (note: required a forklift) http://t.co/A0OQzgWh by @Zee on @Shareables #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-26

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

30 Things You Wish You Got For Christmas http://t.co/yl8X9LWd #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-25

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 03:39:00 +0000

The History of Darth Vader http://t.co/1ev104mm #
Expose Teens to Engineering, Create More Engineers (surprise!) http://t.co/2XXCsM3U #
Lego Does Middle Earth http://t.co/wMZF4gtI #
Dilbert for 12/19/2011: Google 20% Time http://t.co/6YMzQGeF #
22+ Last-Minute Gifts You Can Send by Email – http://t.co/MZZr3rii via @mashable #
Terrible Teacher and Mentor, Top 10 Reasons Yoda Was http://t.co/1egqNiiY via @geekwire #
“Crochet Fett WIN” http://t.co/B4KuWbMf (cc @gadgetboy) #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-23

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Terrible Teacher and Mentor, Top 10 Reasons Yoda Was http://t.co/1egqNiiY via @geekwire #
“Crochet Fett WIN” http://t.co/B4KuWbMf (cc @gadgetboy) #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-22

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

22+ Last-Minute Gifts You Can Send by Email – http://t.co/MZZr3rii via @mashable #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-21

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Dilbert for 12/19/2011: Google 20% Time http://t.co/6YMzQGeF #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-20

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

The History of Darth Vader http://t.co/1ev104mm #
Expose Teens to Engineering, Create More Engineers (surprise!) http://t.co/2XXCsM3U #
Lego Does Middle Earth http://t.co/wMZF4gtI #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-18

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works http://t.co/wSdLqpHk via @dannysullivan #
HTTP Status Cats http://t.co/2nfX7CH8 #
Exploring Amazon, indie bookstores and the ‘Starbucks Effect’ with @erikkain via @ForbesTech http://t.co/9tUB7mlS #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-18

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:39:00 +0000

To Reach Fans Through Social Music Sites, Labels Need To Learn To Let Go http://t.co/PQ1RlfOq via @FastCompany #
Let School Kids tackle Real World Problems – by @finnern http://t.co/OWDFG6uV #
Congressional staffers behind SOPA get shiny new jobs as entertainment industry lobbyists http://t.co/CCI3qMAK #
Plugging Your Utility Bill Into @Facebook To Compete With Friends http://t.co/DGiIH8jp via @FastCompany #
2011 in Lego: the year’s news – in pictures http://t.co/iWmZOKWT via @guardianphotos #
18 years ago the NYT introduced its readers to the Web, and its first killer app, the Mosaic browser http://t.co/dBArY0Mr via @markoff #
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos donates $15 million to Princeton Neuroscience Institute: http://t.co/fOCFoJdA #
Smartphone Penetration Approaching Tipping Point As PC Usage Declines http://t.co/rkzQyaD4 #
HOWTO make a Star Wars snowflake http://t.co/02lrH3nO via @BoingBoing @gadgetboy #
Let’s Play! Turning Serious Business Issues Into Games http://t.co/QZloDLZH via @ForbesTech #
RT @Werner: Expanding the Cloud – Introducing the #AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region http://t.co/rokesZBv #
Zeitgeist 2011: How the world searched http://t.co/vtF9D9qX #
About Damn Time: Microsoft Will Silently Upgrade Everyone To Latest Version OfÂ IE http://t.co/rgCiqoqZ via @techcrunch #
The Post-PC Era is starting to make sense, says @toddhixon via @ForbesTech http://t.co/MbNvfAlA #
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress | Electronic Frontier Foundation http://t.co/JxsSS0IJ #
Darth Vader conducts Christmas Choir Flash Mob – Carol of the Bells! http://t.co/ql0p9CfT #StarWarsChristmas #StarWars via @starwars #
Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works http://t.co/wSdLqpHk via @dannysullivan #
HTTP Status Cats http://t.co/2nfX7CH8 #
Exploring Amazon, indie bookstores and the ‘Starbucks Effect’ with @erikkain via @ForbesTech http://t.co/9tUB7mlS #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-17

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

The Post-PC Era is starting to make sense, says @toddhixon via @ForbesTech http://t.co/MbNvfAlA #
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress | Electronic Frontier Foundation http://t.co/JxsSS0IJ #
Darth Vader conducts Christmas Choir Flash Mob – Carol of the Bells! http://t.co/ql0p9CfT #StarWarsChristmas #StarWars via @starwars #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-16

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

RT @Werner: Expanding the Cloud – Introducing the #AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region http://t.co/rokesZBv #
Zeitgeist 2011: How the world searched http://t.co/vtF9D9qX #
About Damn Time: Microsoft Will Silently Upgrade Everyone To Latest Version OfÂ IE http://t.co/rgCiqoqZ via @techcrunch #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-15

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Smartphone Penetration Approaching Tipping Point As PC Usage Declines http://t.co/rkzQyaD4 #
HOWTO make a Star Wars snowflake http://t.co/02lrH3nO via @BoingBoing @gadgetboy #
Let’s Play! Turning Serious Business Issues Into Games http://t.co/QZloDLZH via @ForbesTech #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-14

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

2011 in Lego: the year’s news – in pictures http://t.co/iWmZOKWT via @guardianphotos #
18 years ago the NYT introduced its readers to the Web, and its first killer app, the Mosaic browser http://t.co/dBArY0Mr via @markoff #
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos donates $15 million to Princeton Neuroscience Institute: http://t.co/fOCFoJdA #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-13

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Plugging Your Utility Bill Into @Facebook To Compete With Friends http://t.co/DGiIH8jp via @FastCompany #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-12

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

To Reach Fans Through Social Music Sites, Labels Need To Learn To Let Go http://t.co/PQ1RlfOq via @FastCompany #
Let School Kids tackle Real World Problems – by @finnern http://t.co/OWDFG6uV #
Congressional staffers behind SOPA get shiny new jobs as entertainment industry lobbyists http://t.co/CCI3qMAK #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-11

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Lame: Verizon is abandoning its FiOS TV & internet service to pursue wireless partnerships http://t.co/hLeoinbA by @tched via @VentureBeat #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-11

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Internet Access and the New Divide: http://t.co/ag5I6kiu #
Napster name will live on to irritate Lars Ulrich another day in UK and DE http://t.co/bYnBcvmc via @engadget #
In A World Where Recorded Music ‘No Longer Has Monetary Value,’ The Artist Is King http://t.co/H5VFlzaA #
Cello Wars, A Star Wars Parody Lightsaber Duel (cc @gadgetboy) http://t.co/Ft5ZOyu4 #
Death of TV may be 5 years away http://t.co/PlyICsIC #
RT @TheNextWeb: Check out this stunning picture taken from the World Trade Center http://t.co/N28a7bGt by @jonrussell on @Shareables #
Is Eric Schmidt right? Will app developers prefer Android over iOS in 6 months? http://t.co/5lUyN5aH by @mpanzarino on @TNWgoogle #
Gamification: more than fun and games, it’s about engagement http://t.co/CGHbaIiq #
Your desktop of the future is likely to be a whole room http://t.co/YX5QaBjw via @gigaom #
Why socially conscious business is good for the bottom line. http://t.co/7QC80EnY Lessons from @richardbranson #
Stormtrooper Replica Motorcycling Suits http://t.co/Gg6Gvvol via @gadgetboy in reply to gadgetboy #
Make your own Snow Globe http://t.co/Wsg7Daxc #
Everything you know about education is wrong http://t.co/dwo59Stn via @TheAtlantic #
Lame: Verizon is abandoning its FiOS TV & internet service to pursue wireless partnerships http://t.co/hLeoinbA by @tched via @VentureBeat #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-10

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Why socially conscious business is good for the bottom line. http://t.co/7QC80EnY Lessons from @richardbranson #
Stormtrooper Replica Motorcycling Suits http://t.co/Gg6Gvvol via @gadgetboy in reply to gadgetboy #
Make your own Snow Globe http://t.co/Wsg7Daxc #
Everything you know about education is wrong http://t.co/dwo59Stn via @TheAtlantic #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-09

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Is Eric Schmidt right? Will app developers prefer Android over iOS in 6 months? http://t.co/5lUyN5aH by @mpanzarino on @TNWgoogle #
Gamification: more than fun and games, it’s about engagement http://t.co/CGHbaIiq #
Your desktop of the future is likely to be a whole room http://t.co/YX5QaBjw via @gigaom #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-08

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Death of TV may be 5 years away http://t.co/PlyICsIC #
RT @TheNextWeb: Check out this stunning picture taken from the World Trade Center http://t.co/N28a7bGt by @jonrussell on @Shareables #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-07

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

In A World Where Recorded Music ‘No Longer Has Monetary Value,’ The Artist Is King http://t.co/H5VFlzaA #
Cello Wars, A Star Wars Parody Lightsaber Duel (cc @gadgetboy) http://t.co/Ft5ZOyu4 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-06

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Napster name will live on to irritate Lars Ulrich another day in UK and DE http://t.co/bYnBcvmc via @engadget #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-05

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Internet Access and the New Divide: http://t.co/ag5I6kiu #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-04

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Sex Pistols imagined as a Hanna Barbera cartoon http://t.co/8ZDTg5IH #
Steven Levy on Facebook, Spotify and the Future of Music http://t.co/Ah8ScNG6 #
Elvis Costello to fans: my label is gouging you on my new box set; don’t buy it. Buy Louis Armstrong music instead… http://t.co/sQ5x8dCT #
Neil DeGrasse Tyson interviewed by out-of-character Stephen Colbert in Montclair, NJ http://t.co/6gvP4vyI #
Star Wars X-Wing Pilot Hoodie http://t.co/AfniVxF3 #
Amazon’s New App Allows Kids To Create Gift Wish Lists For Santa Claus On The iPad And Kindle Fire http://t.co/WqyWwX77 via @TechCrunch #
Loadtimer: a mobile test harness | High Performance Web Sites http://t.co/FomQ4IY9 #
RUMORS: Google Wants to Create an Amazon Prime for the Entire Internet http://t.co/KXUde8R1 #
Chrome is Now the #2 Browser Behind Internet Explorer, Beating Firefox http://t.co/eofZ5Ogf #
Heat your home with data http://t.co/eDMkoGp8 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-02

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Loadtimer: a mobile test harness | High Performance Web Sites http://t.co/FomQ4IY9 #
RUMORS: Google Wants to Create an Amazon Prime for the Entire Internet http://t.co/KXUde8R1 #
Chrome is Now the #2 Browser Behind Internet Explorer, Beating Firefox http://t.co/eofZ5Ogf #
Heat your home with data http://t.co/eDMkoGp8 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-12-01

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Star Wars X-Wing Pilot Hoodie http://t.co/AfniVxF3 #
Amazon’s New App Allows Kids To Create Gift Wish Lists For Santa Claus On The iPad And Kindle Fire http://t.co/WqyWwX77 via @TechCrunch #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-30

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Neil DeGrasse Tyson interviewed by out-of-character Stephen Colbert in Montclair, NJ http://t.co/6gvP4vyI #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-29

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Sex Pistols imagined as a Hanna Barbera cartoon http://t.co/8ZDTg5IH #
Steven Levy on Facebook, Spotify and the Future of Music http://t.co/Ah8ScNG6 #
Elvis Costello to fans: my label is gouging you on my new box set; don’t buy it. Buy Louis Armstrong music instead… http://t.co/sQ5x8dCT #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-27

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Office Beer Vending Machine Hack http://t.co/YuC19TVO #
AT-AT Walker wears cone of humiliation (cc @gadgetboy) http://t.co/8aRw0LFf #
Fugazi Live Series: A Post-Punk Band’s Archive of Shows: http://t.co/TzWagP0A #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-27

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Here’s Why You Should Ignore Those Stories About Particles Moving Faster Than Light http://t.co/PcmNq8q1 via @sai #
How To Take Control of Your Next Job Interview via @mashable http://t.co/XNXVF8pt #
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: The iPhone Is ‘The Snapshot Camera Of Today’ http://t.co/KH0JzrBs via @sai #
Stanford University is offering popular computer science courses to the public online for free: http://t.co/EWQ4J1z3 #
Light Up LED Death Star T-Shirt http://t.co/hShBDFv3 (via @gadgetboy) #
50% Of Ecommerce Site Visitors Are Logged In To Facebook #in http://t.co/bSFN5PJ8 #
Why You Should Update Your Parents’ Web Browser This Friday by @johnpaul http://t.co/OT4qHZgy via @RWW #
How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer science? http://t.co/Fpt7q080 #
Office Beer Vending Machine Hack http://t.co/YuC19TVO #
AT-AT Walker wears cone of humiliation (cc @gadgetboy) http://t.co/8aRw0LFf #
Fugazi Live Series: A Post-Punk Band’s Archive of Shows: http://t.co/TzWagP0A #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-25

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Why You Should Update Your Parents’ Web Browser This Friday by @johnpaul http://t.co/OT4qHZgy via @RWW #
How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer science? http://t.co/Fpt7q080 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-24

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Light Up LED Death Star T-Shirt http://t.co/hShBDFv3 (via @gadgetboy) #
50% Of Ecommerce Site Visitors Are Logged In To Facebook #in http://t.co/bSFN5PJ8 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-22

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Stanford University is offering popular computer science courses to the public online for free: http://t.co/EWQ4J1z3 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-21

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Here’s Why You Should Ignore Those Stories About Particles Moving Faster Than Light http://t.co/PcmNq8q1 via @sai #
How To Take Control of Your Next Job Interview via @mashable http://t.co/XNXVF8pt #
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: The iPhone Is ‘The Snapshot Camera Of Today’ http://t.co/KH0JzrBs via @sai #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-20

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Netflix Makes Up For All Its Past Mistakes By Resurrecting Arrested Development http://t.co/JRIQOEgb via @TechCrunch #
Why More Than 200 Indie Record Labels Just Bailed on Spotify for Cannibalizing Their Money http://t.co/LERfT4zS #
Self-Published Authors Sharply Criticize Penguin’s Book Country http://t.co/VzdRvblL #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-20

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Darth Vader as The World’s Greatest Dad: http://t.co/wjBVfQWX (cc @gadgetboy) #
The Ramones To Philip Glass, NYC’S “70s Music Scene By Will Hermes http://t.co/QCWekfxf #
How Do You Get a Million People to Buy a Gadget That Nobody’s Even Used Yet? http://t.co/U5wSFUZ6 #
Please join us at the Audible/Amazon Tech Meetup tomorrow 11/16 RSVP via LinkedIn: http://t.co/fCdN0IPF or Facebook: http://t.co/jdbqE4gT #
MIT unveils computer chip that thinks like the human brain, Skynet just around the corner http://t.co/nwsYEcEq via @engadget #
Mos Eisley Cantina, The Star Wars Cheers: http://t.co/q98CFLKJ #
Amazon EC2 Now #42 Supercomputer, IBM BlueGenes in the Dust by @SMFulton3 http://t.co/HC6K4vvK via @RWW #
CHART OF THE DAY: Developers Are Excited About The Kindle Fire http://t.co/r80liWtP via @sai #
Amazon Releases Kindle Fire Source Code http://t.co/WE4VEMzQ via @BriefMobile #
Extreme Lego organization methods http://t.co/sGfrxHPf #
LEGO Life of George Combines Real LEGO Play With an iPhone App: http://t.co/iLrhvxKV #
25 Worst Passwords of 2011 [STUDY] http://t.co/nYUMDj8f #
Netflix Makes Up For All Its Past Mistakes By Resurrecting Arrested Development http://t.co/JRIQOEgb via @TechCrunch #
Why More Than 200 Indie Record Labels Just Bailed on Spotify for Cannibalizing Their Money http://t.co/LERfT4zS #
Self-Published Authors Sharply Criticize Penguin’s Book Country http://t.co/VzdRvblL #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-19

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

25 Worst Passwords of 2011 [STUDY] http://t.co/nYUMDj8f #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-18

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Amazon Releases Kindle Fire Source Code http://t.co/WE4VEMzQ via @BriefMobile #
Extreme Lego organization methods http://t.co/sGfrxHPf #
LEGO Life of George Combines Real LEGO Play With an iPhone App: http://t.co/iLrhvxKV #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-17

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Amazon EC2 Now #42 Supercomputer, IBM BlueGenes in the Dust by @SMFulton3 http://t.co/HC6K4vvK via @RWW #
CHART OF THE DAY: Developers Are Excited About The Kindle Fire http://t.co/r80liWtP via @sai #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-16

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

How Do You Get a Million People to Buy a Gadget That Nobody’s Even Used Yet? http://t.co/U5wSFUZ6 #
Please join us at the Audible/Amazon Tech Meetup tomorrow 11/16 RSVP via LinkedIn: http://t.co/fCdN0IPF or Facebook: http://t.co/jdbqE4gT #
MIT unveils computer chip that thinks like the human brain, Skynet just around the corner http://t.co/nwsYEcEq via @engadget #
Mos Eisley Cantina, The Star Wars Cheers: http://t.co/q98CFLKJ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-15

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

The Ramones To Philip Glass, NYC’S “70s Music Scene By Will Hermes http://t.co/QCWekfxf #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-14

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Darth Vader as The World’s Greatest Dad: http://t.co/wjBVfQWX (cc @gadgetboy) #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-13

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Hoth Wampug: http://t.co/n33hQ7FT (cc @gadgetboy) #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-13

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Metamemory and the User Experience http://t.co/1YvUufs9 #
How To Ace Your Technical Interview http://t.co/ohejfJ2g #in #
Why Big Media Is Going Nuclear Against The DMCA http://t.co/viPeJVTC via @TechCrunch #
The One Chart You Need To See To Understand Mobile http://t.co/retIDpQi #in #
Web Design And Development Community Treehouse Wants To Teach You How To Code, Get You A Job http://t.co/ZutWwCVD #in #
Microsoft Gives Up on Competition, Tries to Buy IE Users Instead http://t.co/F0Nv2LWs #
Record Labels: When You Make It Impossible For People To Pay You, You Drive Them To Unauthorized Versions http://t.co/lji7dg24 #
11/11/11 Is “Nerd New Year” — Here’s How to Turn it Up to 11 http://t.co/6JGrZN9D via @mashable #
@guy_story @audible_com CTO/Chief Scientist, talks about harnessing the power of the cloud in the vehicle http://t.co/wNzhRoId #
Amazon adds Hulu Plus, ESPN ScoreCenter to Kindle’s Android apps, Nook Tablet loses its edge http://t.co/FfX24Y3Y via @engadget #
Hoth Wampug: http://t.co/n33hQ7FT (cc @gadgetboy) #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-12

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

11/11/11 Is “Nerd New Year” — Here’s How to Turn it Up to 11 http://t.co/6JGrZN9D via @mashable #
@guy_story @audible_com CTO/Chief Scientist, talks about harnessing the power of the cloud in the vehicle http://t.co/wNzhRoId #
Amazon adds Hulu Plus, ESPN ScoreCenter to Kindle’s Android apps, Nook Tablet loses its edge http://t.co/FfX24Y3Y via @engadget #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-11

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Record Labels: When You Make It Impossible For People To Pay You, You Drive Them To Unauthorized Versions http://t.co/lji7dg24 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-09

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Why Big Media Is Going Nuclear Against The DMCA http://t.co/viPeJVTC via @TechCrunch #
The One Chart You Need To See To Understand Mobile http://t.co/retIDpQi #in #
Web Design And Development Community Treehouse Wants To Teach You How To Code, Get You A Job http://t.co/ZutWwCVD #in #
Microsoft Gives Up on Competition, Tries to Buy IE Users Instead http://t.co/F0Nv2LWs #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-08

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

How To Ace Your Technical Interview http://t.co/ohejfJ2g #in #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-07

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Metamemory and the User Experience http://t.co/1YvUufs9 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-06

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

The MTV Generation via xkcd http://t.co/gRlfiGmC #
How Algorithms and Editors Can Work Together to Burst the “Filter Bubble” http://t.co/aif8CrYV #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-06

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:39:00 +0000

19 Things You Didn’t Know About Star Wars (cc @gadgetboy) http://t.co/oRAR2OPu #
Want To Show Off Your Halloween Costume? Upload it To Costume DB http://t.co/CgDxTH8g via @TechCrunch #
Google Reader Gets a Redesign, Adds Google+ Integration http://t.co/BqJheUm0 #
PSE&G: A Public Utility’s Failure to Inform the Public (via @gadgetboy) http://t.co/mEJCO2xw #
Listing to Marty Cagan talk about How To Create Products Customers Love http://t.co/eFV3SKx1 @cagan @audible_com #
Internet Explorer does less than 50 percent of world’s web surfing, Chrome on the come-up http://t.co/RBQmnZoi via @engadget #
IBM Open Sources Internet of Things protocol http://t.co/uYMl3lhE #
I Remember IRMA: Reflections on Terminal Emulation Through the Ages by @dstrom http://t.co/29m5VuWF via @RWW #
3.5 Million People Are Still Using AOL Dialup (OMG!) http://t.co/mfefLILx #
Beyond Barrel Roll: 10 Hidden Google Tricks http://t.co/GWnVWXP3 #
Google Is Looking To Roll Out A Pay TV Service (GOOG) http://t.co/C6eDN03S #
Why User Experience Must Always Account for the Human Condition http://t.co/YtqvfJrY #
The MTV Generation via xkcd http://t.co/gRlfiGmC #
How Algorithms and Editors Can Work Together to Burst the “Filter Bubble” http://t.co/aif8CrYV #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-05

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Beyond Barrel Roll: 10 Hidden Google Tricks http://t.co/GWnVWXP3 #
Google Is Looking To Roll Out A Pay TV Service (GOOG) http://t.co/C6eDN03S #
Why User Experience Must Always Account for the Human Condition http://t.co/YtqvfJrY #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-04

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

IBM Open Sources Internet of Things protocol http://t.co/uYMl3lhE #
I Remember IRMA: Reflections on Terminal Emulation Through the Ages by @dstrom http://t.co/29m5VuWF via @RWW #
3.5 Million People Are Still Using AOL Dialup (OMG!) http://t.co/mfefLILx #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-03

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Listing to Marty Cagan talk about How To Create Products Customers Love http://t.co/eFV3SKx1 @cagan @audible_com #
Internet Explorer does less than 50 percent of world’s web surfing, Chrome on the come-up http://t.co/RBQmnZoi via @engadget #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-02

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Google Reader Gets a Redesign, Adds Google+ Integration http://t.co/BqJheUm0 #
PSE&G: A Public Utility’s Failure to Inform the Public (via @gadgetboy) http://t.co/mEJCO2xw #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-11-01

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Want To Show Off Your Halloween Costume? Upload it To Costume DB http://t.co/CgDxTH8g via @TechCrunch #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-31

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

19 Things You Didn’t Know About Star Wars (cc @gadgetboy) http://t.co/oRAR2OPu #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-30

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Music for Nothing and the Fans for Free http://t.co/QLqWyGz5 #
Internet killed the television star http://t.co/1iDyYU2H #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-30

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Star Wars: The Complete Vader, The Definitive Book on Darth Vader http://t.co/VPjiir4f #
Coding Horror: On Parenthood http://t.co/RA0SnW4i #
Amazon’s Kindle Fire Will Become To The Video Industry What The iPod Was To The Music Industry via @DanRayburn http://t.co/0cqzkEyj #
“Neil Gaiman Presents” is open for business! via @acx_com http://t.co/YXdLeBM6 #
Giant Lego Man washes ashore in Florida http://t.co/eK7SrAhH #
5 things my 4-year-old taught me about technology http://t.co/Fn0LVrq8 #
Bill Gates On “The Miracle Of Availability” And Applying Computer Science To The World http://t.co/4b5bZex4 #
Holy gridlock, Batman! Filming of ‘Dark Knight’ could cause superhero traffic jams around Newark (via @susanodonnell8) http://t.co/D4dMYyzI #
On the death of book publishers and other middlemen http://t.co/HWls1Ssp #
Music for Nothing and the Fans for Free http://t.co/QLqWyGz5 #
Internet killed the television star http://t.co/1iDyYU2H #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-29

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Bill Gates On “The Miracle Of Availability” And Applying Computer Science To The World http://t.co/4b5bZex4 #
Holy gridlock, Batman! Filming of ‘Dark Knight’ could cause superhero traffic jams around Newark (via @susanodonnell8) http://t.co/D4dMYyzI #
On the death of book publishers and other middlemen http://t.co/HWls1Ssp #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-27

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

5 things my 4-year-old taught me about technology http://t.co/Fn0LVrq8 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-26

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Coding Horror: On Parenthood http://t.co/RA0SnW4i #
Amazon’s Kindle Fire Will Become To The Video Industry What The iPod Was To The Music Industry via @DanRayburn http://t.co/0cqzkEyj #
“Neil Gaiman Presents” is open for business! via @acx_com http://t.co/YXdLeBM6 #
Giant Lego Man washes ashore in Florida http://t.co/eK7SrAhH #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-25

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Star Wars: The Complete Vader, The Definitive Book on Darth Vader http://t.co/VPjiir4f #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-23

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:39:00 +0000

What Can We Learn From Dennis Ritchie? http://t.co/JDHE6zfY #
Why Education Needs to Get Its Game On http://t.co/wMXa1qwP via @mashable #
Remember those faster-than-light neutrinos? Great, now forget ’em http://t.co/Si3nhX3D #
Early 1990s web browsers http://t.co/XlxijaAc #
Is Simplicity the Secret of Amazon Web Services Success? http://t.co/tHCqNvyM #
Internet Trends 2011 — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers http://t.co/ybHVO80S via @kpcb #
Stone Roses reunion: Band re-form after 15 years with UK shows http://t.co/FhVKxn1i #
EFF: “We are generally satisfied with the privacy design of Silk” http://t.co/ImAcgivy #
Star Wars How to Speak Wookiee http://t.co/z3PVO2Sj #
Commit Logs From Last Night http://t.co/AYv78YYq #
Upcoming changes to Reader: a new look, new Google+ features, and some clean-up http://t.co/rZKyZy7i #
Amazon Throws A Minor Curveball With HTML5-Powered Kindle Format 8 http://t.co/BPToZ2a9 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-22

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Amazon Throws A Minor Curveball With HTML5-Powered Kindle Format 8 http://t.co/BPToZ2a9 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-21

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Star Wars How to Speak Wookiee http://t.co/z3PVO2Sj #
Commit Logs From Last Night http://t.co/AYv78YYq #
Upcoming changes to Reader: a new look, new Google+ features, and some clean-up http://t.co/rZKyZy7i #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-20

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Stone Roses reunion: Band re-form after 15 years with UK shows http://t.co/FhVKxn1i #
EFF: “We are generally satisfied with the privacy design of Silk” http://t.co/ImAcgivy #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-19

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Early 1990s web browsers http://t.co/XlxijaAc #
Is Simplicity the Secret of Amazon Web Services Success? http://t.co/tHCqNvyM #
Internet Trends 2011 — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers http://t.co/ybHVO80S via @kpcb #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-18

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Why Education Needs to Get Its Game On http://t.co/wMXa1qwP via @mashable #
Remember those faster-than-light neutrinos? Great, now forget ’em http://t.co/Si3nhX3D #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-17

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

What Can We Learn From Dennis Ritchie? http://t.co/JDHE6zfY #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-16

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

What If You Could Legally Resell Your Digital Music? ReDigi May Have Found The Solution. http://t.co/18Thf4F5 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-16

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70 http://t.co/CqgYpa4m #
Vinylmania, A Documentary About Vinyl Records: http://t.co/ulZTpkHD #
What If You Could Legally Resell Your Digital Music? ReDigi May Have Found The Solution. http://t.co/18Thf4F5 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-14

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70 http://t.co/CqgYpa4m #
Vinylmania, A Documentary About Vinyl Records: http://t.co/ulZTpkHD #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-13

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 03:39:00 +0000

NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life – Aliens exist, and we have proof http://yhoo.it/ePclv6 #
Surly Brewing Selling DIY, “Open Source” Beer http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=203378 #
The Star Wars Craft Book by Bonnie Burton http://bit.ly/fTJV2P #
Amazon’s Hiring Spree Will Fill 1.7 Million Square Feet of Office Space in Seattle [eMoney] http://bit.ly/gz9BRR #
Adobe’s Wallaby Can’t Jump Very High “Everything Adobe does is designed to extend the life of its legacy Flash” http://bit.ly/fzeK2b #
Hollywood Openly Wants to Turn Netflix Into a Cesspool of Shitty Movies You Don’t Want to Watch [NetFlix] http://bit.ly/hVTTas #
Newspapers Hope Readers Will Throw Money Over theÂ Wall http://t.co/rODRXFI #
Music Publishers Settle With Limewire; Afraid To Have To Prove They Actually Owned Copyrights In Question http://bit.ly/f0CXie #
How Much Money Does It Take To Kill Net Neutrality? http://bit.ly/fYqTNF #
Dear Hollywood: It’s Time To Realize Artificial Scarcity Is Gone… And That’s A Good Thing http://t.co/nSpJg5R #
(Founder Stories) Stack Exchange’s Joel Spolsky On How SEO Makes The Internet Worse http://bit.ly/dGyCW7 #
Google reacts to Japanese tsunami with a Person Finder tool http://engt.co/dK5mlM #
This Beer Bag for Bikes Is Perfect for Cycling Alcoholics [Desired] http://bit.ly/eeZZm7 #
The Changing Way That Math Is Taught To Children http://bit.ly/eGsSrA #
Milestone: The Web (Finally) Surpasses Newspapers As Source for Americans’ News http://bit.ly/fFngcn #
Al Franken Warns Of ‘Outright Disaster’ Over Net Neutrality http://t.co/hAy6pzX via @paidContent #
What Would Happen If Napster’s Co-Founder Owned Warner Music? http://bit.ly/hjfCZ7 #
William Shatner explains what microprocessors are and do… from way back in 1976 http://engt.co/gY96SS #
Apple Accused of Slowing Web Apps to Benefit App Store http://bit.ly/ed9r33 #
The Five Best Cord Cutting Devices (Plus One Bonus!) http://bit.ly/gGG6su #
8-Track Piracy Is Killing The Music Business…. In 1976 http://bit.ly/icPNa6 #
An Open Letter to Jon Bon Jovi On What’s Really “Killing The Music Business” | iLounge Backstage http://t.co/KuvdVoe #
120 Minutes Returns To MTV (w/host Matty Pinfield), Presumably Bringing Music With It http://bit.ly/h2Txcr #
★ Why the Nitro JavaScript Engine Isn’t Available to Apps Outside Mobile Safari in iOS 4.3 http://bit.ly/hsdW1d #
Netflix Original Content Is Much More Than A Strategy Shift – It Could Shift An Industry http://bit.ly/gBVxXn #
Bob Woodward Blames Google For ‘Killing’ Newspapers http://t.co/LyIBZQZ #
‘Supermoon’ Rises: Biggest Full Moon in 18 Years Occurs Saturday Night http://yhoo.it/eAADu5 #
RSA hacked, data exposed that could ‘reduce the effectiveness’ of SecurID tokens http://engt.co/f3nxU8 #
Don’t Bet Big. Little Bets Are The Ones That Turn Into Billion-Dollar Ideas http://bit.ly/gyDZgd #
“Geek Cake FAIL” http://t.co/W3a2Vc7 via @FAILBlog #
Amazon’s Android App Store Launches: Test Drive Apps Directly From Your Browser http://bit.ly/fZ2WgM #
NYC judge rejects Google books settlement http://apne.ws/fCmMga #
Am I Violating The DMCA By Visiting The NYTimes With NoScript Enabled? http://t.co/DvKbSds #
London School Of Economics: No, Piracy Has Not Killed The Music Industry (But The Industry Has Certainly Changed) http://bit.ly/gr1X5o #
Audible.com Audiobooks Now Available On Kindle http://bit.ly/eFgf92 (nice work everyone!) #
Record Industry: Limewire Could Owe $75 Trillion – Judge: “Absurd” http://bit.ly/girHKA #
Tim Wu Tries to Save the Internet [Voices] http://bit.ly/dYz6lJ #
To the “person” who pushed every button in every elevator in my office building; thanks for making me miss my train & finding your $10 #
Hollywood Continues Its Plan To Kill Netflix http://bit.ly/gM2Uz3 #
What Bill Gates Could Learn from Chris Rock http://pulsene.ws/17zCx #
Awesome seats! Can’t wait for the game! (@ Prudential Center w/ 29 others) http://4sq.com/eXphG2 #
I just unlocked the “Swarm” badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/eANMFV #
HOW TO: Land a Job at Amazon http://pulsene.ws/153ud #
Amazon Beats Apple And Google To Cloud-Based Music Storage/Streaming http://pulsene.ws/18pFN #
Debunking The Claim That Bad Things Happen When Works Fall Into The Public Domain http://bit.ly/hymUiH #
The Cloud Will Be Your Hard Drive, Despite The Record Labels’ Greed http://pulsene.ws/17Efw #
Death to the Shiny Disc [Voices] http://pulsene.ws/191dm #
An Open Letter to the Big Music Labels: Pipe Up, Please! [MediaMemo] http://pulsene.ws/19ykj #
How Did the New York Times Manage to Spend $40 Million on Its Pay Wall? http://bit.ly/ezEO9Z #
Do You Remember 1986?: Albums Celebrating Their 25th Anniversary, Pt. 2 – List Of The Day http://yhoo.it/ietPZs #
April Fools 2011: The BigÂ List http://t.co/X35eOeC via @techcrunch #
Why Amazon Is the New Digital Media Alpha Dog http://pulsene.ws/1aCGK #
College Speaking Fees Gone Wrong: Rutgers Paid Snooki More Than Toni Morrison http://pulsene.ws/1apv3 #
The 4 Seasons of Seattle Weather – The Oatmeal http://t.co/VvDlKkV via @Oatmeal #
Truck Drivers Told They Need To Pay A Licensing Fee To Listen To Music While Driving http://bit.ly/es5uHs #
Ben Horowitz: The Next Big Thing Will Be a Surprise [Voices] http://bit.ly/dWkFbS #
Data Defined [Infographic] http://bit.ly/hZETyq #
Amazon, Music, And A Sunny Forecast For The Cloud http://pulsene.ws/1bgRi #
E-Books: The New Frontier for Content Farms by @audreywatters http://t.co/vipXmu0 via @RWW #
Software Development and the Myth of Progress [Voices] http://pulsene.ws/1ct5g #
RT @favbrowser The History of Web Browsers (Picture) http://t.co/S7wOFwb #
This USB Cartridge Could Turn Your Analog Camera Digital [Desired] http://bit.ly/dGLXY9 #
@Zaddyman @favbrowser I’m not sure why NCSA Mosaic is missing? in reply to Zaddyman #
JavaScript Passes Java in Popularity in Open Source Knowledge Base http://pulsene.ws/1cgOD #
Estimate: In Two Years, Streaming TV Will Be An $800 Million Business for Netflix and Hulu http://pulsene.ws/1dfwT #
Why Websites Are Slow & Why Speed Really Matters [INFOGRAPHIC] http://pulsene.ws/1d5b4 #
Three phone tips for antisocial people that hate phones http://pulsene.ws/1dIeC #
Snoozing And Losing: A Blockbuster Failure http://pulsene.ws/1dDuE #
Celebrating 20 Years of Linux [INFOGRAPHIC] http://pulsene.ws/1dPxw #
What Would the Music Industry Look Like if Napster Never Existed? [CHART] Are you kidding me? http://pulsene.ws/1eRp7 #
Music Sales Not Totally Terrible This Year [MediaMemo] To counter my last tweet http://pulsene.ws/1eIEB #
Star Wars: The Musical http://t.co/XWsNUT3 (via @gadgetboy) #
What happens when we run out of water? http://pulsene.ws/1fyKl #
Here’s Why Amazon’s Ad-Supported Kindle Is The Future Of Gadgets http://t.co/DVjsq1f via @businessinsider #
Amazon Responds to Music Industry Concerns Over Cloud Drive: MP3 Sales Are Up http://pulsene.ws/1hhfg #
Let’s Hack Education with Data (and a Contest from DonorsChoose) http://pulsene.ws/1h7bR #
Will Book Publishers Ever Be Irrelevant? http://pulsene.ws/1h76Q #
Google Reportedly Frustrated With Record Labels, May Pare Down Rumored Music Service http://pulsene.ws/1ikkp #
Automatically generate regular expressions with Txt2re http://pulsene.ws/1iW1P #
What Spotify Can Learn From Record Store Day http://bit.ly/foPomW #
What App Developers Want: Letters To Steve Jobs And Larry Page http://pulsene.ws/1ksYw #
E-Book Sales Surpass Print: Is This a Win or a Loss for the Publishing Industry? http://pulsene.ws/1l2Gz #
Why Google Should Buy The Recording Industry http://bit.ly/hOwhiQ #
How to fix any computer http://t.co/rwjbY2Z via @Oatmeal #
Apple and the TV industry – http://t.co/dJk2WGd #
How HTML5 Is Influencing Web App Development http://bit.ly/hvrd5G #
Star Wars Episode V Retold in Iconoscope http://t.co/a33o2UJ #
Your iPhone Is Tracking Your Every Move http://bit.ly/hyFqqC #
If Chewbacca Had A Pet… http://bit.ly/erswnv #
Alex Levinson on the iPhone Location-Tracking File http://bit.ly/eRMjt5 #
Engineering a real-life Star Wars AT-AT http://j.mp/ebRfKo @gadgetboy Favorite line: “If we just build an AT-AT that looks cool…” in reply to gadgetboy #
RT @mashable Volkswagen’s The Force Ad Lampooned by Thor [VIDEO] http://t.co/PunfhZC #
The Health Effects of Being Seated All Day http://bit.ly/gcNnlY #
What Is a Book? The Definition Continues to Blur http://pulsene.ws/1ob7W #
“Hey! Ho! Appreciating The Ramones” by Rob O’Connor http://bit.ly/fJR3kQ #
Etymology http://xkcd.com/890/ #
Lego-inspired helmet concept protects your brain, reads comics so you don’t have to http://t.co/D567vGb via @engadget #
Coding Horror: Working with the Chaos Monkey http://bit.ly/hTRGSP #
How To Perfect Your French Press Coffee Technique [Coffee] http://bit.ly/f6W1P8 #
Star Wars Darth Vader Dark Side Coffee http://bit.ly/gSJ881 #
Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders http://bit.ly/kEW1gV #
@gadgetboy @glemak I agree, cool, but wait for the price drop. Plus, the maintenance is not a selling point. Go single speed instead. in reply to gadgetboy #
40 Pictures Of Arcades In The ’80s: http://t.co/V3AOYPz (via @BuzzFeed) #
Overthinking Star Wars | The Economics of Death Star Planet Destruction http://bit.ly/mTZryY (via @gilhova) #
“Netflix’ popularity has a negative effect on the movie piracy rates in the US” by @rwwmike http://t.co/1zzMrV1 #
“@gadgetboy: Old School (cc @fruhlinger) http://t.co/56Jlkaz” Hey! That’s my shirt! #
Nine surprising uses for beer http://t.co/wMPq3rA #
Subscribed to wearefoals http://bit.ly/k1BRnb #
Subscribed to freelancewhalesmusic http://bit.ly/mjjcJK #
I’m not really hip (obviously) (@ Terminal 5 w/ 102 others) http://4sq.com/mtmu8L #
The Mathematics of Whether Han Shot First or Second http://bit.ly/mOD4Ea #
The Star Wars Prequels Epically Summed Up In 2 Minutes Using LEGOs http://bit.ly/k7PJp3 #
‘’till Luke said ‘BE STILL!’ and tamed them with the old mind trick" http://t.co/8PNSs6O via @JimJeroo #
When Copyright And Contracts Can Get In The Way Of Art http://bit.ly/iIK73c #
Yum! (@ Libretti’s) http://4sq.com/iUt8q0 #
Amazon Cloud Player Quietly Begins Working On iOS Devices! http://bit.ly/kPBfQ8 #
RT @consumethis1st Notes on Food Culture: Ridiculous Kids Foods http://bit.ly/l17jT4 #
This is terrible: “Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt dies in crash during 3rd stage of Giro d’Italia” http://bit.ly/iTtlCR #
AC/DC Says Their Songs Will Never Be Available For Download; Rest Of Internet Laughs http://bit.ly/l6s760 #
How Many Times Will Skype Be Acquired For Too Much Money By Big Tech Companies With Little Strategic Synergies? http://bit.ly/izMzKt #
Star Wars Fail Whale http://bit.ly/ldBZ25 #
Angry Birds gets a web version, coming to Chrome Web Store http://engt.co/jczDV5 #
Industrial robots do Star Wars better than Lucas http://engt.co/mJdQ7K #
Audible Launches the Audiobook Creation Exchange http://t.co/VrSwHUe (Press) Come see us @ http://t.co/43inEsZ #
Subscribed to AudibleACX http://bit.ly/jufDjG #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy @ccalder and @chialinsimmons http://odmcast.com #
A 1986 road documentary shot from the inside the last Black Flag tour ever http://bit.ly/m1iqVT via @gadgetboy #
JEFF BEZOS: Here’s Why He Won http://bit.ly/iRmd21 #
Linux Emulator in JavaScript? http://bit.ly/k7ruqX #
Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic In North America http://bit.ly/jaMp9G #
SLR Camera Simulator | Simulates a digital SLR camera http://t.co/plQO3wg via @gadgetboy #
Huge bummer! Postponed: Elvis Costello at The Wellmont Theatre – Montclair – NJ – May 18, 2011 http://bit.ly/jBSIDD #
Bummed that the Elvis Costello show is canceled, but the food is yummy at Hat City. (@ Hat City Kitchen) http://4sq.com/k4HqPf #
I’m at Louise & Jerry’s (329 Washington St, Hoboken) w/ 2 others http://4sq.com/mPILUI #
Here to see Dave and Della Valle (@ Maxwell’s w/ 13 others) http://4sq.com/mSFEGQ #
What If Every eBook Was Its Own Social Network? http://bit.ly/mj1fKi #
A Glossary of 170 Beastie Boys Lyric References By The AV Club http://bit.ly/ixU80d #
Hey @WellmontTheatre when is the 5/18 @ElvisCostello show going to be rescheduled? Very bummed http://bit.ly/jBSIDD #
The best Oprah emails to Opera (the browser) http://bit.ly/iip1DT #
New enhancements to ACX.com – Audiobook Creation Exchange Blog http://bit.ly/j37Mhv #
Audio Book Sales Climb In Spite Of Competition | http://t.co/ZN7HaAr (via @MrLikesalot) #
Meet Facebook, the Web’s Social Entertainment Operating System http://bit.ly/izTqeA #
Microsoft Blaming “Piracy” Rather Than Basic Economics For Its Struggles In China http://bit.ly/mjHziG #
@fruhlinger sounds interesting. Have any links to share? in reply to fruhlinger #
@fruhlinger sweet. Thx! in reply to fruhlinger #
Weezer Covers Radiohead’s ‘Paranoid Android’ http://bit.ly/jmQeVH #
Sync: Why is it Still Not Solved? http://bit.ly/j2WUAz #
Google Apps To Pull Support For Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, And Safari 3 http://bit.ly/m4Zw6H #
Introducing schema.org: Search engines come together for a richer web http://bit.ly/lD5aW4 #
@gadgetboy sweet! When are you going to start building one for J? in reply to gadgetboy #
Star Wars on TV? http://t.co/YdLPesJ (cc @gadgetboy) #
Star Wars Muppet Action Figures http://bit.ly/iLrU93 #
See you in SEA (@ Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) w/ 36 others) http://4sq.com/lkL2e4 #
JSON Activity Streams Spec Hits Version 1.0 http://bit.ly/melKdb #
I’m at Pike Place Fish Market (86 Pike Place, Seattle) w/ 3 others http://4sq.com/jHY6nD #
Record Labels, Once Again, Freak Out About Anyone Making Their Content Useful http://t.co/Y3tKPZe #
I’m at Amazon – SEA20 (Phase 1a) (440 Terry Ave N, Terry and Republican, Seattle) http://4sq.com/iCDd5l #
The Cloud http://xkcd.com/908/ #
I’m at Brave Horse Tavern (310 Terry Ave N, btw Harrison & Thomas, Seattle) w/ 4 others http://4sq.com/kbTz0M #
Going home (@ Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) w/ 50 others) http://4sq.com/m5U01a #
Star Wars Imperial March on #googledoodle http://goo.gl/doodle/CVfh5 (cc @gadgetboy) #
Permanence http://xkcd.com/910/ #
Apple vs. Amazon vs. Google – Apple victory isn’t a foregone conclusion http://t.co/cc3PEVh #
Contest Asks People To “Draw The Internet” http://bit.ly/j3wJAr #
Why I love and hate having a smartphone – The Oatmeal http://t.co/sUcmFXL via @Oatmeal #
Boba Fett As A Civil War General http://t.co/9bVcx2U (via @ccalder) #
Go the **** to Sleep read by Samuel L. Jackson (free @audible_com) http://bit.ly/koVo2h #
Helping homeowners harness the sun http://bit.ly/kaQHBY #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy and @ccalder http://t.co/hAmL2ha #
9 Everyday Tech Tools Made Possible By 100 Years Of IBM http://bit.ly/lf05oy #
How geeky is this? R2-D2 and C-3PO discovered in Raiders of the Lost Ark http://bit.ly/mFQXKq #
Is [cardboard] the future of bicycle helmets? http://t.co/mAAMe6f via @londoncyclist #
Check Out This Amazing Picture Of A 1956 Hard Drive http://bit.ly/lpipJb #
The Technium: The Clock in the Mountain http://t.co/cBstocl #
Vintage Steve Jobs Video: “Focusing Is About Saying No” (AAPL) http://bit.ly/jBnMWe #
How Dad’s Music Indicates What You Listen To Today [INFOGRAPHIC] http://bit.ly/jeQZ4w #
Malcolm Gladwell advocates being late http://usat.ly/meVL8I #
Performance is a Feature http://bit.ly/mbiPCh #
Why Apple’s Subscription Terms Are A Lose-Lose-Lose http://bit.ly/l82UgZ #
Bicycling’s gender gap: It’s the economy, stupid http://t.co/vzUsnsY via @grist #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast Live w/ @gadgeboy, @ccalder and @chialinsimmons http://t.co/eJbFKIE #
How do you know when it’s done? http://bit.ly/mHWgMs #
Video of 35 Musicians Covering Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” http://t.co/HBoDh5s #
Why Flurry Got It Wrong On Mobile Apps Vs. Web Browsers http://bit.ly/iQPcTt #
Fair use isn’t much good if you can’t afford it http://bit.ly/jGE6WN #
Why Are New York Bagels the Greatest? It’s Not the Water [Science] http://bit.ly/m27SIA #
What Go the F to Sleep’s success says about parents: 4 theories http://t.co/b1L9jqh #
Article about Audible’s ACX Audiobook Marketplace by @thorntonmatt via @digibookworld #dbw http://t.co/1kzPfld #
Prince: Digital Music Has A Different Impact On Your Brain http://bit.ly/lez9z0 #
Just a Few Talking Cars Could Eliminate Gridlock by @itskeithbarry http://t.co/grTFbja (cc @susanodonnell8) #
SocialBicycles Bike Sharing Is Now A Kickstarter Project http://bit.ly/mmDwuL #
Google+ Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good — Now For The Hard Part http://bit.ly/it5cMe #
Google Swiffy Converts Flash to HTML5 http://bit.ly/kBsFKM #
Internet predictions from 1982 http://bit.ly/kpdXIh #
Star Wars Dogs http://bit.ly/kQ0ANR #
Star Wars: The Blueprints http://t.co/b9UuaF6 (via @gadgetboy) in reply to gadgetboy #
Clever Audiobook Ads Feature Book Characters Marching Into Ears: http://t.co/UQvdTuo #
How to Promote Your ACX Audiobook: One Author’s Plan: http://t.co/1TaDvTg (via @acx_com) #
Where to watch the Tour de France 2011 online http://bit.ly/lBopn5 #
Seth Godin’s Imprint Bundles E-Book With 200 Free Songs http://t.co/K7cDpuo via @paidContent #
There goes my weekend: Lego Star Destroyer: 50-Inches Long, 3,000 Pieces http://t.co/NDOoikw (via @gadgetboy) in reply to gadgetboy #
“With television you just sit, watch, listen. The thinking is done for you.” http://bit.ly/kwN1WV #
LEGO Album Covers http://bit.ly/kpzCxR #
How Can I Breathe New Life Into My Old iPhone (or iPod touch)? via @Lifehacker http://t.co/OEJrfOe #
Google Maps-powered training bike simulates Tour de France, refuses to speak English http://t.co/2sw1cUO via @engadget, @martoon #
Darth Hairdryer http://bit.ly/lf8K6H #
Cloud Wars! Amazon Cuts Prices To Counter An Apple Service That Hasn’t Launched Yet http://dthin.gs/qlQmHh #
Say What? Thanks To Digital Music, Album Sales Up For The First Time Since 2004 http://bit.ly/n0lQHa #
HTML5 vs. Native Apps: the Google Plus Thread http://bit.ly/nTSmcc #
Robots for Everyone: Getting Kids Interested in Programming with Legos http://bit.ly/qBm5mg #
The Dark Side Wins: Lucasfilm Shuts Down Star Wars Fan Movie Marathon http://bit.ly/oi94Fk #
I’m at Maplewoodstock 2011 http://4sq.com/pTar7v #
The history of DOS http://bit.ly/oQ99wS #
Facebook Scam Pretends to Connect You With Video Calling [WARNING] http://on.mash.to/no5bxw #
Turntable.fm Lets Users Play D.J. to Virtual Crowds – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/pMp3CR (via @MrLikesalot) #
Google’s First eReader Looks Just Like The Original Kindle (GOOG) http://bit.ly/p2MSwS #
Map of America as Seen by a New Yorker http://bit.ly/qgRfIE #
TV Tells Kids Fame is the Most Important Thing in Life, Study Finds http://aol.it/qDng5D #
I’m at Yale Terrace Block Party (West Orange) http://4sq.com/mTakSa #
Took my cracked frame to @HighGearCycley. Hope @Gary_Fisher & @TrekBikes still honor the lifetime warranty http://t.co/3FKcZqM #
The Internet of Things [Infographic] http://bit.ly/nQTR56 #
@Gary_Fisher thanks for the DM. Huge fan! Been riding your bikes for years. Looking forward to continue the trend. #
Amazon rolls out textbook rentals for Kindle, promises discounts up to 80 percent http://t.co/XWjfJWI via @engadget #
This Lightsaber-Wielding Robot Tracks Your Movements Like a Sith Lord [Video] http://bit.ly/nwGGw2 #
Standards http://xkcd.com/927/ #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy and @ccalder http://t.co/hAmL2ha #
Project Cartoon: How Projects Really Work (version 1.5): http://t.co/6Dma0An (from the archives) #
Amazon Says Harry Potter E-Books Will Be Available On Kindle http://bit.ly/rjN3vv #
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Amozon http://t.co/dzZf4oQ #
I’m at Hiigh Gear Cyclery (20 Main Street, Millburn) http://4sq.com/oVpIGJ #
More Americans Are On Facebook Than Have AÂ Passport via @techcrunch http://t.co/fHpO5Og #
Twenty-Seven Members of the 27 Club – List Of The Day by Rob O’Connor http://t.co/ZM3FhUf #
Yesterday the #TdF climbed Alpe d’Huez and it was painful. Earlier MT Bikers went down Alpe d’Huez and it was insane http://t.co/Om2ijxT #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-10-13

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:47:00 +0000

(Founder Stories) Stack Exchange’s Joel Spolsky On How SEO Makes The Internet Worse http://bit.ly/dGyCW7 #
Google reacts to Japanese tsunami with a Person Finder tool http://engt.co/dK5mlM #
This Beer Bag for Bikes Is Perfect for Cycling Alcoholics [Desired] http://bit.ly/eeZZm7 #
The Changing Way That Math Is Taught To Children http://bit.ly/eGsSrA #
Milestone: The Web (Finally) Surpasses Newspapers As Source for Americans’ News http://bit.ly/fFngcn #
Al Franken Warns Of ‘Outright Disaster’ Over Net Neutrality http://t.co/hAy6pzX via @paidContent #
What Would Happen If Napster’s Co-Founder Owned Warner Music? http://bit.ly/hjfCZ7 #
William Shatner explains what microprocessors are and do… from way back in 1976 http://engt.co/gY96SS #
Apple Accused of Slowing Web Apps to Benefit App Store http://bit.ly/ed9r33 #
The Five Best Cord Cutting Devices (Plus One Bonus!) http://bit.ly/gGG6su #
8-Track Piracy Is Killing The Music Business…. In 1976 http://bit.ly/icPNa6 #
An Open Letter to Jon Bon Jovi On What’s Really “Killing The Music Business” | iLounge Backstage http://t.co/KuvdVoe #
120 Minutes Returns To MTV (w/host Matty Pinfield), Presumably Bringing Music With It http://bit.ly/h2Txcr #
★ Why the Nitro JavaScript Engine Isn’t Available to Apps Outside Mobile Safari in iOS 4.3 http://bit.ly/hsdW1d #
Netflix Original Content Is Much More Than A Strategy Shift – It Could Shift An Industry http://bit.ly/gBVxXn #
Bob Woodward Blames Google For ‘Killing’ Newspapers http://t.co/LyIBZQZ #
‘Supermoon’ Rises: Biggest Full Moon in 18 Years Occurs Saturday Night http://yhoo.it/eAADu5 #
RSA hacked, data exposed that could ‘reduce the effectiveness’ of SecurID tokens http://engt.co/f3nxU8 #
Don’t Bet Big. Little Bets Are The Ones That Turn Into Billion-Dollar Ideas http://bit.ly/gyDZgd #
“Geek Cake FAIL” http://t.co/W3a2Vc7 via @FAILBlog #
Amazon’s Android App Store Launches: Test Drive Apps Directly From Your Browser http://bit.ly/fZ2WgM #
NYC judge rejects Google books settlement http://apne.ws/fCmMga #
Am I Violating The DMCA By Visiting The NYTimes With NoScript Enabled? http://t.co/DvKbSds #
London School Of Economics: No, Piracy Has Not Killed The Music Industry (But The Industry Has Certainly Changed) http://bit.ly/gr1X5o #
Audible.com Audiobooks Now Available On Kindle http://bit.ly/eFgf92 (nice work everyone!) #
Record Industry: Limewire Could Owe $75 Trillion – Judge: “Absurd” http://bit.ly/girHKA #
Tim Wu Tries to Save the Internet [Voices] http://bit.ly/dYz6lJ #
To the “person” who pushed every button in every elevator in my office building; thanks for making me miss my train & finding your $10 #
Hollywood Continues Its Plan To Kill Netflix http://bit.ly/gM2Uz3 #
What Bill Gates Could Learn from Chris Rock http://pulsene.ws/17zCx #
Awesome seats! Can’t wait for the game! (@ Prudential Center w/ 29 others) http://4sq.com/eXphG2 #
I just unlocked the “Swarm” badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/eANMFV #
HOW TO: Land a Job at Amazon http://pulsene.ws/153ud #
Amazon Beats Apple And Google To Cloud-Based Music Storage/Streaming http://pulsene.ws/18pFN #
Debunking The Claim That Bad Things Happen When Works Fall Into The Public Domain http://bit.ly/hymUiH #
The Cloud Will Be Your Hard Drive, Despite The Record Labels’ Greed http://pulsene.ws/17Efw #
Death to the Shiny Disc [Voices] http://pulsene.ws/191dm #
An Open Letter to the Big Music Labels: Pipe Up, Please! [MediaMemo] http://pulsene.ws/19ykj #
How Did the New York Times Manage to Spend $40 Million on Its Pay Wall? http://bit.ly/ezEO9Z #
Do You Remember 1986?: Albums Celebrating Their 25th Anniversary, Pt. 2 – List Of The Day http://yhoo.it/ietPZs #
April Fools 2011: The BigÂ List http://t.co/X35eOeC via @techcrunch #
Why Amazon Is the New Digital Media Alpha Dog http://pulsene.ws/1aCGK #
College Speaking Fees Gone Wrong: Rutgers Paid Snooki More Than Toni Morrison http://pulsene.ws/1apv3 #
The 4 Seasons of Seattle Weather – The Oatmeal http://t.co/VvDlKkV via @Oatmeal #
Truck Drivers Told They Need To Pay A Licensing Fee To Listen To Music While Driving http://bit.ly/es5uHs #
Ben Horowitz: The Next Big Thing Will Be a Surprise [Voices] http://bit.ly/dWkFbS #
Data Defined [Infographic] http://bit.ly/hZETyq #
Amazon, Music, And A Sunny Forecast For The Cloud http://pulsene.ws/1bgRi #
E-Books: The New Frontier for Content Farms by @audreywatters http://t.co/vipXmu0 via @RWW #
Software Development and the Myth of Progress [Voices] http://pulsene.ws/1ct5g #
RT @favbrowser The History of Web Browsers (Picture) http://t.co/S7wOFwb #
This USB Cartridge Could Turn Your Analog Camera Digital [Desired] http://bit.ly/dGLXY9 #
@Zaddyman @favbrowser I’m not sure why NCSA Mosaic is missing? in reply to Zaddyman #
JavaScript Passes Java in Popularity in Open Source Knowledge Base http://pulsene.ws/1cgOD #
Estimate: In Two Years, Streaming TV Will Be An $800 Million Business for Netflix and Hulu http://pulsene.ws/1dfwT #
Why Websites Are Slow & Why Speed Really Matters [INFOGRAPHIC] http://pulsene.ws/1d5b4 #
Three phone tips for antisocial people that hate phones http://pulsene.ws/1dIeC #
Snoozing And Losing: A Blockbuster Failure http://pulsene.ws/1dDuE #
Celebrating 20 Years of Linux [INFOGRAPHIC] http://pulsene.ws/1dPxw #
What Would the Music Industry Look Like if Napster Never Existed? [CHART] Are you kidding me? http://pulsene.ws/1eRp7 #
Music Sales Not Totally Terrible This Year [MediaMemo] To counter my last tweet http://pulsene.ws/1eIEB #
Star Wars: The Musical http://t.co/XWsNUT3 (via @gadgetboy) #
What happens when we run out of water? http://pulsene.ws/1fyKl #
Here’s Why Amazon’s Ad-Supported Kindle Is The Future Of Gadgets http://t.co/DVjsq1f via @businessinsider #
Amazon Responds to Music Industry Concerns Over Cloud Drive: MP3 Sales Are Up http://pulsene.ws/1hhfg #
Let’s Hack Education with Data (and a Contest from DonorsChoose) http://pulsene.ws/1h7bR #
Will Book Publishers Ever Be Irrelevant? http://pulsene.ws/1h76Q #
Google Reportedly Frustrated With Record Labels, May Pare Down Rumored Music Service http://pulsene.ws/1ikkp #
Automatically generate regular expressions with Txt2re http://pulsene.ws/1iW1P #
What Spotify Can Learn From Record Store Day http://bit.ly/foPomW #
What App Developers Want: Letters To Steve Jobs And Larry Page http://pulsene.ws/1ksYw #
E-Book Sales Surpass Print: Is This a Win or a Loss for the Publishing Industry? http://pulsene.ws/1l2Gz #
Why Google Should Buy The Recording Industry http://bit.ly/hOwhiQ #
How to fix any computer http://t.co/rwjbY2Z via @Oatmeal #
Apple and the TV industry – http://t.co/dJk2WGd #
How HTML5 Is Influencing Web App Development http://bit.ly/hvrd5G #
Star Wars Episode V Retold in Iconoscope http://t.co/a33o2UJ #
Your iPhone Is Tracking Your Every Move http://bit.ly/hyFqqC #
If Chewbacca Had A Pet… http://bit.ly/erswnv #
Alex Levinson on the iPhone Location-Tracking File http://bit.ly/eRMjt5 #
Engineering a real-life Star Wars AT-AT http://j.mp/ebRfKo @gadgetboy Favorite line: “If we just build an AT-AT that looks cool…” in reply to gadgetboy #
RT @mashable Volkswagen’s The Force Ad Lampooned by Thor [VIDEO] http://t.co/PunfhZC #
The Health Effects of Being Seated All Day http://bit.ly/gcNnlY #
What Is a Book? The Definition Continues to Blur http://pulsene.ws/1ob7W #
“Hey! Ho! Appreciating The Ramones” by Rob O’Connor http://bit.ly/fJR3kQ #
Etymology http://xkcd.com/890/ #
Lego-inspired helmet concept protects your brain, reads comics so you don’t have to http://t.co/D567vGb via @engadget #
Coding Horror: Working with the Chaos Monkey http://bit.ly/hTRGSP #
How To Perfect Your French Press Coffee Technique [Coffee] http://bit.ly/f6W1P8 #
Star Wars Darth Vader Dark Side Coffee http://bit.ly/gSJ881 #
Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders http://bit.ly/kEW1gV #
@gadgetboy @glemak I agree, cool, but wait for the price drop. Plus, the maintenance is not a selling point. Go single speed instead. in reply to gadgetboy #
40 Pictures Of Arcades In The ’80s: http://t.co/V3AOYPz (via @BuzzFeed) #
Overthinking Star Wars | The Economics of Death Star Planet Destruction http://bit.ly/mTZryY (via @gilhova) #
“Netflix’ popularity has a negative effect on the movie piracy rates in the US” by @rwwmike http://t.co/1zzMrV1 #
“@gadgetboy: Old School (cc @fruhlinger) http://t.co/56Jlkaz” Hey! That’s my shirt! #
Nine surprising uses for beer http://t.co/wMPq3rA #
Subscribed to wearefoals http://bit.ly/k1BRnb #
Subscribed to freelancewhalesmusic http://bit.ly/mjjcJK #
I’m not really hip (obviously) (@ Terminal 5 w/ 102 others) http://4sq.com/mtmu8L #
The Mathematics of Whether Han Shot First or Second http://bit.ly/mOD4Ea #
The Star Wars Prequels Epically Summed Up In 2 Minutes Using LEGOs http://bit.ly/k7PJp3 #
‘’till Luke said ‘BE STILL!’ and tamed them with the old mind trick" http://t.co/8PNSs6O via @JimJeroo #
When Copyright And Contracts Can Get In The Way Of Art http://bit.ly/iIK73c #
Yum! (@ Libretti’s) http://4sq.com/iUt8q0 #
Amazon Cloud Player Quietly Begins Working On iOS Devices! http://bit.ly/kPBfQ8 #
RT @consumethis1st Notes on Food Culture: Ridiculous Kids Foods http://bit.ly/l17jT4 #
This is terrible: “Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt dies in crash during 3rd stage of Giro d’Italia” http://bit.ly/iTtlCR #
AC/DC Says Their Songs Will Never Be Available For Download; Rest Of Internet Laughs http://bit.ly/l6s760 #
How Many Times Will Skype Be Acquired For Too Much Money By Big Tech Companies With Little Strategic Synergies? http://bit.ly/izMzKt #
Star Wars Fail Whale http://bit.ly/ldBZ25 #
Angry Birds gets a web version, coming to Chrome Web Store http://engt.co/jczDV5 #
Industrial robots do Star Wars better than Lucas http://engt.co/mJdQ7K #
Audible Launches the Audiobook Creation Exchange http://t.co/VrSwHUe (Press) Come see us @ http://t.co/43inEsZ #
Subscribed to AudibleACX http://bit.ly/jufDjG #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy @ccalder and @chialinsimmons http://odmcast.com #
A 1986 road documentary shot from the inside the last Black Flag tour ever http://bit.ly/m1iqVT via @gadgetboy #
JEFF BEZOS: Here’s Why He Won http://bit.ly/iRmd21 #
Linux Emulator in JavaScript? http://bit.ly/k7ruqX #
Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic In North America http://bit.ly/jaMp9G #
SLR Camera Simulator | Simulates a digital SLR camera http://t.co/plQO3wg via @gadgetboy #
Huge bummer! Postponed: Elvis Costello at The Wellmont Theatre – Montclair – NJ – May 18, 2011 http://bit.ly/jBSIDD #
Bummed that the Elvis Costello show is canceled, but the food is yummy at Hat City. (@ Hat City Kitchen) http://4sq.com/k4HqPf #
I’m at Louise & Jerry’s (329 Washington St, Hoboken) w/ 2 others http://4sq.com/mPILUI #
Here to see Dave and Della Valle (@ Maxwell’s w/ 13 others) http://4sq.com/mSFEGQ #
What If Every eBook Was Its Own Social Network? http://bit.ly/mj1fKi #
A Glossary of 170 Beastie Boys Lyric References By The AV Club http://bit.ly/ixU80d #
Hey @WellmontTheatre when is the 5/18 @ElvisCostello show going to be rescheduled? Very bummed http://bit.ly/jBSIDD #
The best Oprah emails to Opera (the browser) http://bit.ly/iip1DT #
New enhancements to ACX.com – Audiobook Creation Exchange Blog http://bit.ly/j37Mhv #
Audio Book Sales Climb In Spite Of Competition | http://t.co/ZN7HaAr (via @MrLikesalot) #
Meet Facebook, the Web’s Social Entertainment Operating System http://bit.ly/izTqeA #
Microsoft Blaming “Piracy” Rather Than Basic Economics For Its Struggles In China http://bit.ly/mjHziG #
@fruhlinger sounds interesting. Have any links to share? in reply to fruhlinger #
@fruhlinger sweet. Thx! in reply to fruhlinger #
Weezer Covers Radiohead’s ‘Paranoid Android’ http://bit.ly/jmQeVH #
Sync: Why is it Still Not Solved? http://bit.ly/j2WUAz #
Google Apps To Pull Support For Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, And Safari 3 http://bit.ly/m4Zw6H #
Introducing schema.org: Search engines come together for a richer web http://bit.ly/lD5aW4 #
@gadgetboy sweet! When are you going to start building one for J? in reply to gadgetboy #
Star Wars on TV? http://t.co/YdLPesJ (cc @gadgetboy) #
Star Wars Muppet Action Figures http://bit.ly/iLrU93 #
See you in SEA (@ Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) w/ 36 others) http://4sq.com/lkL2e4 #
JSON Activity Streams Spec Hits Version 1.0 http://bit.ly/melKdb #
I’m at Pike Place Fish Market (86 Pike Place, Seattle) w/ 3 others http://4sq.com/jHY6nD #
Record Labels, Once Again, Freak Out About Anyone Making Their Content Useful http://t.co/Y3tKPZe #
I’m at Amazon – SEA20 (Phase 1a) (440 Terry Ave N, Terry and Republican, Seattle) http://4sq.com/iCDd5l #
The Cloud http://xkcd.com/908/ #
I’m at Brave Horse Tavern (310 Terry Ave N, btw Harrison & Thomas, Seattle) w/ 4 others http://4sq.com/kbTz0M #
Going home (@ Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) w/ 50 others) http://4sq.com/m5U01a #
Star Wars Imperial March on #googledoodle http://goo.gl/doodle/CVfh5 (cc @gadgetboy) #
Permanence http://xkcd.com/910/ #
Apple vs. Amazon vs. Google – Apple victory isn’t a foregone conclusion http://t.co/cc3PEVh #
Contest Asks People To “Draw The Internet” http://bit.ly/j3wJAr #
Why I love and hate having a smartphone – The Oatmeal http://t.co/sUcmFXL via @Oatmeal #
Boba Fett As A Civil War General http://t.co/9bVcx2U (via @ccalder) #
Go the **** to Sleep read by Samuel L. Jackson (free @audible_com) http://bit.ly/koVo2h #
Helping homeowners harness the sun http://bit.ly/kaQHBY #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy and @ccalder http://t.co/hAmL2ha #
9 Everyday Tech Tools Made Possible By 100 Years Of IBM http://bit.ly/lf05oy #
How geeky is this? R2-D2 and C-3PO discovered in Raiders of the Lost Ark http://bit.ly/mFQXKq #
Is [cardboard] the future of bicycle helmets? http://t.co/mAAMe6f via @londoncyclist #
Check Out This Amazing Picture Of A 1956 Hard Drive http://bit.ly/lpipJb #
The Technium: The Clock in the Mountain http://t.co/cBstocl #
Vintage Steve Jobs Video: “Focusing Is About Saying No” (AAPL) http://bit.ly/jBnMWe #
How Dad’s Music Indicates What You Listen To Today [INFOGRAPHIC] http://bit.ly/jeQZ4w #
Malcolm Gladwell advocates being late http://usat.ly/meVL8I #
Performance is a Feature http://bit.ly/mbiPCh #
Why Apple’s Subscription Terms Are A Lose-Lose-Lose http://bit.ly/l82UgZ #
Bicycling’s gender gap: It’s the economy, stupid http://t.co/vzUsnsY via @grist #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast Live w/ @gadgeboy, @ccalder and @chialinsimmons http://t.co/eJbFKIE #
How do you know when it’s done? http://bit.ly/mHWgMs #
Video of 35 Musicians Covering Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” http://t.co/HBoDh5s #
Why Flurry Got It Wrong On Mobile Apps Vs. Web Browsers http://bit.ly/iQPcTt #
Fair use isn’t much good if you can’t afford it http://bit.ly/jGE6WN #
Why Are New York Bagels the Greatest? It’s Not the Water [Science] http://bit.ly/m27SIA #
What Go the F to Sleep’s success says about parents: 4 theories http://t.co/b1L9jqh #
Article about Audible’s ACX Audiobook Marketplace by @thorntonmatt via @digibookworld #dbw http://t.co/1kzPfld #
Prince: Digital Music Has A Different Impact On Your Brain http://bit.ly/lez9z0 #
Just a Few Talking Cars Could Eliminate Gridlock by @itskeithbarry http://t.co/grTFbja (cc @susanodonnell8) #
SocialBicycles Bike Sharing Is Now A Kickstarter Project http://bit.ly/mmDwuL #
Google+ Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good — Now For The Hard Part http://bit.ly/it5cMe #
Google Swiffy Converts Flash to HTML5 http://bit.ly/kBsFKM #
Internet predictions from 1982 http://bit.ly/kpdXIh #
Star Wars Dogs http://bit.ly/kQ0ANR #
Star Wars: The Blueprints http://t.co/b9UuaF6 (via @gadgetboy) in reply to gadgetboy #
Clever Audiobook Ads Feature Book Characters Marching Into Ears: http://t.co/UQvdTuo #
How to Promote Your ACX Audiobook: One Author’s Plan: http://t.co/1TaDvTg (via @acx_com) #
Where to watch the Tour de France 2011 online http://bit.ly/lBopn5 #
Seth Godin’s Imprint Bundles E-Book With 200 Free Songs http://t.co/K7cDpuo via @paidContent #
There goes my weekend: Lego Star Destroyer: 50-Inches Long, 3,000 Pieces http://t.co/NDOoikw (via @gadgetboy) in reply to gadgetboy #
“With television you just sit, watch, listen. The thinking is done for you.” http://bit.ly/kwN1WV #
LEGO Album Covers http://bit.ly/kpzCxR #
How Can I Breathe New Life Into My Old iPhone (or iPod touch)? via @Lifehacker http://t.co/OEJrfOe #
Google Maps-powered training bike simulates Tour de France, refuses to speak English http://t.co/2sw1cUO via @engadget, @martoon #
Darth Hairdryer http://bit.ly/lf8K6H #
Cloud Wars! Amazon Cuts Prices To Counter An Apple Service That Hasn’t Launched Yet http://dthin.gs/qlQmHh #
Say What? Thanks To Digital Music, Album Sales Up For The First Time Since 2004 http://bit.ly/n0lQHa #
HTML5 vs. Native Apps: the Google Plus Thread http://bit.ly/nTSmcc #
Robots for Everyone: Getting Kids Interested in Programming with Legos http://bit.ly/qBm5mg #
The Dark Side Wins: Lucasfilm Shuts Down Star Wars Fan Movie Marathon http://bit.ly/oi94Fk #
I’m at Maplewoodstock 2011 http://4sq.com/pTar7v #
The history of DOS http://bit.ly/oQ99wS #
Facebook Scam Pretends to Connect You With Video Calling [WARNING] http://on.mash.to/no5bxw #
Turntable.fm Lets Users Play D.J. to Virtual Crowds – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/pMp3CR (via @MrLikesalot) #
Google’s First eReader Looks Just Like The Original Kindle (GOOG) http://bit.ly/p2MSwS #
Map of America as Seen by a New Yorker http://bit.ly/qgRfIE #
TV Tells Kids Fame is the Most Important Thing in Life, Study Finds http://aol.it/qDng5D #
I’m at Yale Terrace Block Party (West Orange) http://4sq.com/mTakSa #
Took my cracked frame to @HighGearCycley. Hope @Gary_Fisher & @TrekBikes still honor the lifetime warranty http://t.co/3FKcZqM #
The Internet of Things [Infographic] http://bit.ly/nQTR56 #
@Gary_Fisher thanks for the DM. Huge fan! Been riding your bikes for years. Looking forward to continue the trend. #
Amazon rolls out textbook rentals for Kindle, promises discounts up to 80 percent http://t.co/XWjfJWI via @engadget #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-03-11

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Newspapers Hope Readers Will Throw Money Over theÂ Wall http://t.co/rODRXFI #
Music Publishers Settle With Limewire; Afraid To Have To Prove They Actually Owned Copyrights In Question http://bit.ly/f0CXie #
How Much Money Does It Take To Kill Net Neutrality? http://bit.ly/fYqTNF #
Dear Hollywood: It’s Time To Realize Artificial Scarcity Is Gone… And That’s A Good Thing http://t.co/nSpJg5R #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-03-09

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Amazon’s Hiring Spree Will Fill 1.7 Million Square Feet of Office Space in Seattle [eMoney] http://bit.ly/gz9BRR #
Adobe’s Wallaby Can’t Jump Very High “Everything Adobe does is designed to extend the life of its legacy Flash” http://bit.ly/fzeK2b #
Hollywood Openly Wants to Turn Netflix Into a Cesspool of Shitty Movies You Don’t Want to Watch [NetFlix] http://bit.ly/hVTTas #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-03-08

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Surly Brewing Selling DIY, “Open Source” Beer http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=203378 #
The Star Wars Craft Book by Bonnie Burton http://bit.ly/fTJV2P #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-03-07

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 03:47:00 +0000

NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life – Aliens exist, and we have proof http://yhoo.it/ePclv6 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-06

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Memo to Newspapers: Incremental Change is Not Helping http://pulsene.ws/13EiK #
Good code is like literature: http://bit.ly/g4GPAW #
Tried to downgrade #verizon residential phone service online and was told by customer service I can’t do that online #fail #
This 26-Year-Old Is Making Millions Cutting Out Traditional Publishers With Amazon Kindle http://t.co/ed5fo6a #
Ruby for Kids Helps Teach Programming http://bit.ly/ic8SLi #
A great infographic on the Death Star from Star Wars http://bit.ly/hWWaeh #
How Netflix Bankrupted And Destroyed Blockbuster [INFOGRAPHIC] (NFLX) http://bit.ly/h3iodt #
New Jersey congressman beats IBM’s Watson (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4m8pfy9 #
Keen On… Peter Guber: “The Idea That Music is Dead is Ludicrous” (TCTV) (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4ehjtan #
Survey Finds Many in Java Community Worried About Oracle’s Leadership (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/48ryxa2 #
Charlie Sheen Quotes as New Yorker Cartoons http://bzfd.it/hcIBqP #
Jack Dorsey On Being Ejected From Twitter: “It Was Like Being Punched In The Stomach” http://pulsene.ws/13XaD #
What can we expect from the new Blade Runner movie? We asked the producers. [Blade Runner] http://pulsene.ws/142XI #
IE6 Countdown http://ie6countdown.com/ #
When I die… http://pulsene.ws/140h0 #
The Cycle of Beer (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/6k767x6 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-03-05

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 03:47:00 +0000

IE6 Countdown http://ie6countdown.com/ #
When I die… http://pulsene.ws/140h0 #
The Cycle of Beer (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/6k767x6 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-03-04

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Charlie Sheen Quotes as New Yorker Cartoons http://bzfd.it/hcIBqP #
Jack Dorsey On Being Ejected From Twitter: “It Was Like Being Punched In The Stomach” http://pulsene.ws/13XaD #
What can we expect from the new Blade Runner movie? We asked the producers. [Blade Runner] http://pulsene.ws/142XI #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-03-03

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Survey Finds Many in Java Community Worried About Oracle’s Leadership (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/48ryxa2 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-03-02

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Tried to downgrade #verizon residential phone service online and was told by customer service I can’t do that online #fail #
This 26-Year-Old Is Making Millions Cutting Out Traditional Publishers With Amazon Kindle http://t.co/ed5fo6a #
Ruby for Kids Helps Teach Programming http://bit.ly/ic8SLi #
A great infographic on the Death Star from Star Wars http://bit.ly/hWWaeh #
How Netflix Bankrupted And Destroyed Blockbuster [INFOGRAPHIC] (NFLX) http://bit.ly/h3iodt #
New Jersey congressman beats IBM’s Watson (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4m8pfy9 #
Keen On… Peter Guber: “The Idea That Music is Dead is Ludicrous” (TCTV) (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4ehjtan #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-03-01

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Memo to Newspapers: Incremental Change is Not Helping http://pulsene.ws/13EiK #
Good code is like literature: http://bit.ly/g4GPAW #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-27

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

An old one, but still good: Star Wars Subway Car http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5gCeWEGiQI&sns=tw #
Why Star Wars spoofs will never get old http://bit.ly/fGIuvJ #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-27

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Who Gets Florida’s High Speed Rail Money? (+1 for the northeast) http://pulsene.ws/11QIB #
Steve Jobs Doesn’t Want to Kill Publishers, But Apple’s Subscription Strategy Will http://pulsene.ws/11Pi0 #
Playable Angry Birds Cake is Deliciously Amazing [VIDEO] http://pulsene.ws/123FO #
CAT-CAT http://bit.ly/hZ1xbE #
Amazon launches Prime Instant Video, unlimited streaming for Prime subscribers http://engt.co/hZ4UQw #
@dellsworth it’s similar, but there are some differences (for the better of course ;-) in reply to dellsworth #
Netflix Watch Instantly Beams Up the Entire Star Trek Universe [Genius] http://bit.ly/fvWjaj #
Apple will make a distinction between “publishing apps” and “SaaS apps” What’s A Publishing App?http://pulsene.ws/128hx #
Five Seconds Of Every #1 Pop Single part 1: http://t.co/5ZdftNJ and part 2: http://t.co/lMBNRrF #
Flying Cars http://xkcd.com/864/ #
When should you use Comic Sans? [diagram] http://t.co/kRTqGnb #
How To Beat The Watson Computer on Jeopardy http://bit.ly/flzSsZ #
Google’s Wizard Of Oz Search Algorithm And The Threat Of Facebook Search http://bit.ly/hp6IPY #
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (Official Trailer) http://bit.ly/gVAgBt #
The Likability of Angry Birds http://bit.ly/fMmy6W #
@gadgetboy “faxing” is still pointless in a digital world. in reply to gadgetboy #
The World Is Obsessed With Facebook http://bit.ly/fmnN8o #
An old one, but still good: Star Wars Subway Car http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5gCeWEGiQI&sns=tw #
Why Star Wars spoofs will never get old http://bit.ly/fGIuvJ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-26

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Google’s Wizard Of Oz Search Algorithm And The Threat Of Facebook Search http://bit.ly/hp6IPY #
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (Official Trailer) http://bit.ly/gVAgBt #
The Likability of Angry Birds http://bit.ly/fMmy6W #
@gadgetboy “faxing” is still pointless in a digital world. in reply to gadgetboy #
The World Is Obsessed With Facebook http://bit.ly/fmnN8o #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-25

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

How To Beat The Watson Computer on Jeopardy http://bit.ly/flzSsZ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-24

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Five Seconds Of Every #1 Pop Single part 1: http://t.co/5ZdftNJ and part 2: http://t.co/lMBNRrF #
Flying Cars http://xkcd.com/864/ #
When should you use Comic Sans? [diagram] http://t.co/kRTqGnb #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-23

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Amazon launches Prime Instant Video, unlimited streaming for Prime subscribers http://engt.co/hZ4UQw #
@dellsworth it’s similar, but there are some differences (for the better of course ;-) in reply to dellsworth #
Netflix Watch Instantly Beams Up the Entire Star Trek Universe [Genius] http://bit.ly/fvWjaj #
Apple will make a distinction between “publishing apps” and “SaaS apps” What’s A Publishing App?http://pulsene.ws/128hx #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-22

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Playable Angry Birds Cake is Deliciously Amazing [VIDEO] http://pulsene.ws/123FO #
CAT-CAT http://bit.ly/hZ1xbE #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-21

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Who Gets Florida’s High Speed Rail Money? (+1 for the northeast) http://pulsene.ws/11QIB #
Steve Jobs Doesn’t Want to Kill Publishers, But Apple’s Subscription Strategy Will http://pulsene.ws/11Pi0 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-20

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Alex Trebek and Watson in Las Vegas http://pulsene.ws/116Ba #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-20

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Drawing a bike from memory (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/5rfffte #
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html #
Streeme – a private, HTML5 based music server (alpha release) http://j.mp/fnScE0 (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/6yj9zs7 #
Just realized FB’s Secure Browsing (https) setting breaks the @twitter app’s cross-posting feature. I get why, but still #fail #
Coding Horror: How to Write Without Writing http://bit.ly/fl8xgK #
The Economics Of Star Wars (the force is strong) http://bit.ly/gdZjiL #
Study shows dedicated bicycle infrastructure work and borders on negligence for cities not to build them (ride?) http://bit.ly/gM9czF #
The Importance of Net Neutrality http://bit.ly/hqb1vM #
Armstrong officially off bike “Retirement 2.0” http://apne.ws/h7yWcA #
Watson soundly beats the humans in first round of Jeopardy http://engt.co/dTuUpp #
CHART OF THE DAY: The Death Of The Music Industry http://bit.ly/gY9Fcm #
Watson wins it all, humans still can do some other cool things http://engt.co/gUj2yp #
Ken Jennings Explains How Watson Defeated Him http://bit.ly/gB0EE2 #
Enormous Solar Flare Set Will Cause Massive Communication Disruptions Tonight [Space] http://bit.ly/fqvJeO #
There Won’t Be a Tiny iPhone This Summer [Rumor Bust] (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/5ugvzb9 #
Radiohead Launches New Album: 100% Web, Baby! http://bit.ly/exTUwQ #
Do We Trust The Government With The Internet? http://bit.ly/gO3khH #
Finally able to listen to Radiohead’s new album after many failed (legal) download attempts (thx Phil) http://bit.ly/eCXuJn #
Alex Trebek and Watson in Las Vegas http://pulsene.ws/116Ba #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-19

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

There Won’t Be a Tiny iPhone This Summer [Rumor Bust] (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/5ugvzb9 #
Radiohead Launches New Album: 100% Web, Baby! http://bit.ly/exTUwQ #
Do We Trust The Government With The Internet? http://bit.ly/gO3khH #
Finally able to listen to Radiohead’s new album after many failed (legal) download attempts (thx Phil) http://bit.ly/eCXuJn #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-18

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Watson wins it all, humans still can do some other cool things http://engt.co/gUj2yp #
Ken Jennings Explains How Watson Defeated Him http://bit.ly/gB0EE2 #
Enormous Solar Flare Set Will Cause Massive Communication Disruptions Tonight [Space] http://bit.ly/fqvJeO #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-17

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Armstrong officially off bike “Retirement 2.0” http://apne.ws/h7yWcA #
Watson soundly beats the humans in first round of Jeopardy http://engt.co/dTuUpp #
CHART OF THE DAY: The Death Of The Music Industry http://bit.ly/gY9Fcm #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-16

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Study shows dedicated bicycle infrastructure work and borders on negligence for cities not to build them (ride?) http://bit.ly/gM9czF #
The Importance of Net Neutrality http://bit.ly/hqb1vM #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-15

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Just realized FB’s Secure Browsing (https) setting breaks the @twitter app’s cross-posting feature. I get why, but still #fail #
Coding Horror: How to Write Without Writing http://bit.ly/fl8xgK #
The Economics Of Star Wars (the force is strong) http://bit.ly/gdZjiL #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-14

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Drawing a bike from memory (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/5rfffte #
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html #
Streeme – a private, HTML5 based music server (alpha release) http://j.mp/fnScE0 (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/6yj9zs7 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-13

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

@marshallk as one of those people, I agree. in reply to marshallk #
147.8 (+/-) is the size of the average human being’s social network of friends http://j.mp/elHJgm #
AT&T handing over 1000 free rollover minutes to all of its customers http://engt.co/gnnFd7 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-13

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:39:00 +0000

A Super Bowl Preview For People Who Don’t Know Football: http://t.co/dRpM0jL via @The_Rumpus #
Star Wars Begins Documentary http://me.lt/4xN0B (via @davidurbano) #
Flipboard CEO Mike McCue on How Chasing Page Views Has Corrupted Journalism http://lat.ms/dXbhIV #
Net neutrality expert Tim Wu named senior advisor to the FTC
http://j.mp/fcEqkm #
IT’S OFFICIAL: The Smartphone Market Is Now Bigger Than The PC Market http://bit.ly/gNAPj7 #
Hacker Poll: Is Software Engineering Really the Best Job in the World? http://bit.ly/dLCHF8 #
Advanced sign-in security for your Google account http://bit.ly/dStegQ #
Flowchart Showing Which Stars Wars Occupation Is Meant For You http://t.co/fAw4oti via @laughingsquid #
How NBC Wanted Conan O’Brien Dump His Twitter Account http://bit.ly/ggR74u #
@marshallk as one of those people, I agree. in reply to marshallk #
147.8 (+/-) is the size of the average human being’s social network of friends http://j.mp/elHJgm #
AT&T handing over 1000 free rollover minutes to all of its customers http://engt.co/gnnFd7 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-12

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

How NBC Wanted Conan O’Brien Dump His Twitter Account http://bit.ly/ggR74u #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-11

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Hacker Poll: Is Software Engineering Really the Best Job in the World? http://bit.ly/dLCHF8 #
Advanced sign-in security for your Google account http://bit.ly/dStegQ #
Flowchart Showing Which Stars Wars Occupation Is Meant For You http://t.co/fAw4oti via @laughingsquid #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-10

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Net neutrality expert Tim Wu named senior advisor to the FTC
http://j.mp/fcEqkm #
IT’S OFFICIAL: The Smartphone Market Is Now Bigger Than The PC Market http://bit.ly/gNAPj7 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-09

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Flipboard CEO Mike McCue on How Chasing Page Views Has Corrupted Journalism http://lat.ms/dXbhIV #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-07

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

A Super Bowl Preview For People Who Don’t Know Football: http://t.co/dRpM0jL via @The_Rumpus #
Star Wars Begins Documentary http://me.lt/4xN0B (via @davidurbano) #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-06

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:39:00 +0000

“Experiment In Cord Cutting” Shows Good Enough Is Perfect for Most http://j.mp/hUXBkq #
Google Teams Up With Twitter And SayNow To Bring Tweeting-By-Phone To Egypt http://bit.ly/ikeHJq #
Google accuses Bing of ‘cheating,’ piggybacking off its search results (updated) http://engt.co/fvoDnU #
WIN!: Snowpocalypse Prayers http://bit.ly/h6UtOY #
YouTube uses (a variant of) Amazon’s recommendation algorithm http://bit.ly/i1lpIl #
Questions Loom As News Corp, Apple Launch The Daily http://bit.ly/ijWmCa #
Who’s Pre-Ordering a Verizon iPhone Tomorrow @ 3AM? (Will Verizon handle it better than AT&T?) http://bit.ly/fTN8jO #
The Force (Volkswagen Commercial) via @gadgetboy and @catdelett http://bit.ly/fqMkCP #
“Code Rush”, a PBS documentary about the fall of Netscape http://bit.ly/hPCg2p #
Ten Bands Who Broke Up When They Were Done http://yhoo.it/f9PN7w #
NBC Fires Guy Who Posted The Bryant Gumbel/Katie Couric ‘What Is Internet’ Video http://bit.ly/ggXkle #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-05

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Ten Bands Who Broke Up When They Were Done http://yhoo.it/f9PN7w #
NBC Fires Guy Who Posted The Bryant Gumbel/Katie Couric ‘What Is Internet’ Video http://bit.ly/ggXkle #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-04

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

“Code Rush”, a PBS documentary about the fall of Netscape http://bit.ly/hPCg2p #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-03

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Questions Loom As News Corp, Apple Launch The Daily http://bit.ly/ijWmCa #
Who’s Pre-Ordering a Verizon iPhone Tomorrow @ 3AM? (Will Verizon handle it better than AT&T?) http://bit.ly/fTN8jO #
The Force (Volkswagen Commercial) via @gadgetboy and @catdelett http://bit.ly/fqMkCP #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-02

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Google accuses Bing of ‘cheating,’ piggybacking off its search results (updated) http://engt.co/fvoDnU #
WIN!: Snowpocalypse Prayers http://bit.ly/h6UtOY #
YouTube uses (a variant of) Amazon’s recommendation algorithm http://bit.ly/i1lpIl #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-02-01

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Google Teams Up With Twitter And SayNow To Bring Tweeting-By-Phone To Egypt http://bit.ly/ikeHJq #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-31

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

“Experiment In Cord Cutting” Shows Good Enough Is Perfect for Most http://j.mp/hUXBkq #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-30

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Francis Ford Coppola On Art, Copying And File Sharing: We Want You To Take From Us http://bit.ly/dMp0RU #
The end of credit cards is coming http://j.mp/gkaizQ #
This Is the State of the Web Right Now [Humor] http://bit.ly/fbBE8n #
Google Voice number porting officially launched http://engt.co/eqBiGS #
BBC News – Mick Jones reforms Big Audio Dynamite for UK tour http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12277272 #
Facebook Enables HTTPS So You Can Share Without Being Hijacked (finally) http://bit.ly/eBZONT #
Amazon Launches Kindle Singles http://amzn.to/eFynyf #
Autogenerate Regular Expressions with txt2re http://bit.ly/igaUVi #
HTML5 vs. HTML http://bit.ly/e3lyaw #
Highly recommend for anyone in media/tech “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires” by Tim Wu http://amzn.to/foGpsn #
How the Common Bike Is Poised for a High-Tech Reinvention [Video] http://bit.ly/efHF8l #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-29

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Highly recommend for anyone in media/tech “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires” by Tim Wu http://amzn.to/foGpsn #
How the Common Bike Is Poised for a High-Tech Reinvention [Video] http://bit.ly/efHF8l #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-28

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Autogenerate Regular Expressions with txt2re http://bit.ly/igaUVi #
HTML5 vs. HTML http://bit.ly/e3lyaw #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-27

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

BBC News – Mick Jones reforms Big Audio Dynamite for UK tour http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12277272 #
Facebook Enables HTTPS So You Can Share Without Being Hijacked (finally) http://bit.ly/eBZONT #
Amazon Launches Kindle Singles http://amzn.to/eFynyf #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-26

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

This Is the State of the Web Right Now [Humor] http://bit.ly/fbBE8n #
Google Voice number porting officially launched http://engt.co/eqBiGS #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-25

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

The end of credit cards is coming http://j.mp/gkaizQ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-24

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Francis Ford Coppola On Art, Copying And File Sharing: We Want You To Take From Us http://bit.ly/dMp0RU #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-23

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Oh no! There goes the weekend. Lego “brickify” any image: http://j.mp/ftaXwi #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-23

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Just discovered: A 2,500-year-old recipe for Celtic beer [Archeology] http://bit.ly/ffIZRx #
Google’s Latest Move In Web Video Is Another Attack On Apple (AAPL, GOOG, ADBE) (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4jcd5et #
Unfortunately, These Han And Greedo Bookends Are Sold Out (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4c67dh5 #
“Angry Birds” in Lego Land http://on.mash.to/hlIMpl #
New Kindle Lending Club Matches E-Book Borrowers and Lenders http://bit.ly/hEikCO #
Big Record Label ‘Innovation’: Actually Release Songs For Sale The Same Time They Hit The Radio http://bit.ly/i7WIQI #
Send to Kindle Pushes Web Articles from Chrome to Your Kindle [Downloads] (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/68h8sxt #
Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk http://bit.ly/eCHkEf #
Old dog, new tricks: Study IDs 9,400-year-old mutt (AP) (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4bmqvgz #
Amazon Acquires LoveFilm, The Netflix Of Europe (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4nsdbrm #
Browser Wars: What’s IE’s Real Market Share? (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4brlcps #
Whoa!!! Larry Page To Take Over As Google CEO http://bit.ly/h8sxYQ #
Why did Google’s Eric Schmidt step down? http://bit.ly/gRZ5ZK (not sure either) #
24 Gigabytes of Memory Ought to be Enough for Anybody http://bit.ly/hnFoX6 #
Wayback Machine’s new beta (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/5wob7yx #
Oh no! There goes the weekend. Lego “brickify” any image: http://j.mp/ftaXwi #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-22

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Why did Google’s Eric Schmidt step down? http://bit.ly/gRZ5ZK (not sure either) #
24 Gigabytes of Memory Ought to be Enough for Anybody http://bit.ly/hnFoX6 #
Wayback Machine’s new beta (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/5wob7yx #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-21

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Amazon Acquires LoveFilm, The Netflix Of Europe (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4nsdbrm #
Browser Wars: What’s IE’s Real Market Share? (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4brlcps #
Whoa!!! Larry Page To Take Over As Google CEO http://bit.ly/h8sxYQ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-20

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk http://bit.ly/eCHkEf #
Old dog, new tricks: Study IDs 9,400-year-old mutt (AP) (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4bmqvgz #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-19

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Big Record Label ‘Innovation’: Actually Release Songs For Sale The Same Time They Hit The Radio http://bit.ly/i7WIQI #
Send to Kindle Pushes Web Articles from Chrome to Your Kindle [Downloads] (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/68h8sxt #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-18

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

“Angry Birds” in Lego Land http://on.mash.to/hlIMpl #
New Kindle Lending Club Matches E-Book Borrowers and Lenders http://bit.ly/hEikCO #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-17

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Just discovered: A 2,500-year-old recipe for Celtic beer [Archeology] http://bit.ly/ffIZRx #
Google’s Latest Move In Web Video Is Another Attack On Apple (AAPL, GOOG, ADBE) (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4jcd5et #
Unfortunately, These Han And Greedo Bookends Are Sold Out (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4c67dh5 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-16

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Here’s proof Mobile is affecting when we read: http://j.mp/hGrQMy #
The iSupr8 app is like @Instagram for iPhone video http://tnw.to/17KXr by @CBMyers on @TNWapps (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4gw9c3k #
How to Use the Phone While Wearing Gloves (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4ue2rro #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-16

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Could this be the year we get to ditch the cable box? via Engadget http://me.lt/6t7mt #
5 Web Technologies and Trends to Watch in 2011 http://me.lt/9v0Ch #
iPhone 3G Hacked With Android 2.3 Runs Gingerbread Before Your Androidphone [Video] (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/2w5sj36 #
Brick Your iPhone With a LEGO-Compatible Case (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4zysu78 #
Why The Verizon iPhone Is Bad News For Google http://read.bi/f431Xp #
Google’s Search Algorithm Has Been Ruined, Time To Move Back To Curation http://j.mp/ef90tQ #
First Amazon Took Down Booksellers….Are Publishers Next? (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4ptdo8p #
★ Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping of H.264 http://bit.ly/dONvaD #
Verizon Makes Changes To Its Policies, Conveniently, Before The iPhone Releases (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/47yhj2e #
Bye-bye, physical media? Sony closes CD plant http://bit.ly/h8GPbh #
Here’s proof Mobile is affecting when we read: http://j.mp/hGrQMy #
The iSupr8 app is like @Instagram for iPhone video http://tnw.to/17KXr by @CBMyers on @TNWapps (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4gw9c3k #
How to Use the Phone While Wearing Gloves (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4ue2rro #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-15

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Bye-bye, physical media? Sony closes CD plant http://bit.ly/h8GPbh #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-14

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Verizon Makes Changes To Its Policies, Conveniently, Before The iPhone Releases (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/47yhj2e #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-13

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Google’s Search Algorithm Has Been Ruined, Time To Move Back To Curation http://j.mp/ef90tQ #
First Amazon Took Down Booksellers….Are Publishers Next? (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4ptdo8p #
★ Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping of H.264 http://bit.ly/dONvaD #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-12

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Why The Verizon iPhone Is Bad News For Google http://read.bi/f431Xp #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-11

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

5 Web Technologies and Trends to Watch in 2011 http://me.lt/9v0Ch #
iPhone 3G Hacked With Android 2.3 Runs Gingerbread Before Your Androidphone [Video] (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/2w5sj36 #
Brick Your iPhone With a LEGO-Compatible Case (via my6sense) http://tinyurl.com/4zysu78 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-10

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Could this be the year we get to ditch the cable box? via Engadget http://me.lt/6t7mt #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-09

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Hmm. Sounds like an op to cash in again: Johnny Rotten Open to Sex Pistols Reunion http://j.mp/egYeyq #
Teaching Computer Science without Computers http://bit.ly/hzqGcM #
An iPhone Case That Opens Beer Bottles Too [Iphonecases] http://bit.ly/gVAUj6 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-09

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Is Google The Next Yahoo? (I don’t think so, but an interesting question) http://j.mp/eramQS #
Presentation by JWT on the 100 Things to Watch in 2011 http://me.lt/3b7vh #
A bit dated, but still funny: Spacebook Facebook http://me.lt/6F0Mr #
Trouble In the House of Google http://bit.ly/htG5kB #
Former AOL Chairman Steve Case Is Posting Like Crazy On Quora (AOL) http://bit.ly/eOGqkJ #
Disconnecting Cable http://bit.ly/g0DV4z #
Sure, RSS Is Dead — Just Like the Web Is Dead http://bit.ly/i7w9bk #
Geek Security/Crypto humor via xkcd: http://bit.ly/fSPhke #
Thank heavens: Amazon is gearing up to launch an Android app store. Finally, Android users will have a chance to use… http://bit.ly/g77Dbh #
How to Send Web Articles Directly to Your Kindle via Instapaper [Distractions] http://bit.ly/eI5OIt #
Hmm. Sounds like an op to cash in again: Johnny Rotten Open to Sex Pistols Reunion http://j.mp/egYeyq #
Teaching Computer Science without Computers http://bit.ly/hzqGcM #
An iPhone Case That Opens Beer Bottles Too [Iphonecases] http://bit.ly/gVAUj6 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-08

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

How to Send Web Articles Directly to Your Kindle via Instapaper [Distractions] http://bit.ly/eI5OIt #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-06

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Thank heavens: Amazon is gearing up to launch an Android app store. Finally, Android users will have a chance to use… http://bit.ly/g77Dbh #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-05

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Disconnecting Cable http://bit.ly/g0DV4z #
Sure, RSS Is Dead — Just Like the Web Is Dead http://bit.ly/i7w9bk #
Geek Security/Crypto humor via xkcd: http://bit.ly/fSPhke #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-04

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Trouble In the House of Google http://bit.ly/htG5kB #
Former AOL Chairman Steve Case Is Posting Like Crazy On Quora (AOL) http://bit.ly/eOGqkJ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-03

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

Is Google The Next Yahoo? (I don’t think so, but an interesting question) http://j.mp/eramQS #
Presentation by JWT on the 100 Things to Watch in 2011 http://me.lt/3b7vh #
A bit dated, but still funny: Spacebook Facebook http://me.lt/6F0Mr #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-02

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

2011, Net Neutrality, A Couple of Misconceptions and Realities http://bit.ly/hQWkVR #
Apple’s iTunes Rental Service is Roughly One Tenth the Size of Netflix, Analyst Says – via SlashGear http://j.mp/eE1oHi #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-02

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:39:00 +0000

Free Kindle Books: A Guide http://bit.ly/h5TmLp #
Flickr Should Have Built Instagram. But They Didn’t. Here’s Why. http://bit.ly/g36Bks #
Made it home safe from PA to NJ. Much of my area is still #snowpocalypse Thanks to a neighbor for the use of his snowblower. Beer me :-) #
10 Predictions for Web Development in 2011 http://bit.ly/gGojNq #
Sledding with the boys (@ floods Hill) http://4sq.com/fsnH3V #
I just unlocked the “Explorer” badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/hubUog #
Irony: Read Kindle Books On Your Rooted NookColor http://bit.ly/eAXjl5 #
How Newark Mayor Cory Booker Made All Politics Super Local With Twitter Following The Blizzard http://bit.ly/gH9Gcd #
Five most underreported tech stories of 2010 http://bit.ly/egkgyr #
Amazon enables Kindle e-book lending http://engt.co/ejQnmY #
More sledding and snowboarding with the boys (@ floods Hill) http://4sq.com/fakQ2W #
2011, Net Neutrality, A Couple of Misconceptions and Realities http://bit.ly/hQWkVR #
Apple’s iTunes Rental Service is Roughly One Tenth the Size of Netflix, Analyst Says – via SlashGear http://j.mp/eE1oHi #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2011-01-01

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 03:47:00 +0000

More sledding and snowboarding with the boys (@ floods Hill) http://4sq.com/fakQ2W #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-31

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Five most underreported tech stories of 2010 http://bit.ly/egkgyr #
Amazon enables Kindle e-book lending http://engt.co/ejQnmY #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-30

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Sledding with the boys (@ floods Hill) http://4sq.com/fsnH3V #
I just unlocked the “Explorer” badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/hubUog #
Irony: Read Kindle Books On Your Rooted NookColor http://bit.ly/eAXjl5 #
How Newark Mayor Cory Booker Made All Politics Super Local With Twitter Following The Blizzard http://bit.ly/gH9Gcd #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-29

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

10 Predictions for Web Development in 2011 http://bit.ly/gGojNq #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-28

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Made it home safe from PA to NJ. Much of my area is still #snowpocalypse Thanks to a neighbor for the use of his snowblower. Beer me :-) #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-27

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Free Kindle Books: A Guide http://bit.ly/h5TmLp #
Flickr Should Have Built Instagram. But They Didn’t. Here’s Why. http://bit.ly/g36Bks #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-26

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 03:39:00 +0000

Google hacked site notification notifies you if your site is hacked (repeat this five times fast) http://engt.co/gb5sBC #
I’m at St. James Gate (167 Maplewood Avenue, Maplewood). http://4sq.com/dOYFzS #
Why Cyclists should use GPS | Black Dog Professional Cycling [del.icio.us] http://bit.ly/hOu7mB #
Why Sunsetting Delicious Matters http://bit.ly/fFjYeV #
Why Net Neutrality Matters http://bit.ly/f2wzdo #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast Live! w/ @gadgetboy, @ccalder, and @chialinsimmons http://mixlr.com/gadgetboy/live #
Transloadit – Realtime Video Encoding on Amazon EC2 http://bit.ly/gwMM1O #
WTF http://bit.ly/eGBWzn #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-24

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Transloadit – Realtime Video Encoding on Amazon EC2 http://bit.ly/gwMM1O #
WTF http://bit.ly/eGBWzn #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-23

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Why Net Neutrality Matters http://bit.ly/f2wzdo #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast Live! w/ @gadgetboy, @ccalder, and @chialinsimmons http://mixlr.com/gadgetboy/live #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-21

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Why Cyclists should use GPS | Black Dog Professional Cycling [del.icio.us] http://bit.ly/hOu7mB #
Why Sunsetting Delicious Matters http://bit.ly/fFjYeV #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-20

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Google hacked site notification notifies you if your site is hacked (repeat this five times fast) http://engt.co/gb5sBC #
I’m at St. James Gate (167 Maplewood Avenue, Maplewood). http://4sq.com/dOYFzS #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-19

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Overwhelming! (@ Eataly w/ 16 others) http://4sq.com/g0bs0I #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-19

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:39:00 +0000

Been testing w/my kids Kodu – “A visual programming language made specifically for creating games” It’s awesome! http://bit.ly/ezunWP #
@promitter my kids are developing a private beta of their game. It’s a friends and family invite only release :-) in reply to promitter #
Dr. Seuss does Star Wars http://bit.ly/hSacC9 #
Google Open Sources Two Projects, Contributes to Eclipse Foundation http://nyti.ms/hEDyIj #
Google’s Facebook-Killer Slowed By Political Infighting http://bit.ly/gJFJmX #
Keep Your iTunes Music in the Cloud With mSpot http://nyti.ms/hVZkQo #
R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me http://bit.ly/eAP9vA #
2010: The year open source went invisible (in a good way) http://bit.ly/hN3678 #
HTML5 vs. Flash: How Will the Battle Play Out in 2011? http://nyti.ms/h2pS3o #
How George Bailey can save Delicious http://bit.ly/fvNjb7 #
Overwhelming! (@ Eataly w/ 16 others) http://4sq.com/g0bs0I #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-18

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

2010: The year open source went invisible (in a good way) http://bit.ly/hN3678 #
HTML5 vs. Flash: How Will the Battle Play Out in 2011? http://nyti.ms/h2pS3o #
How George Bailey can save Delicious http://bit.ly/fvNjb7 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-17

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Google’s Facebook-Killer Slowed By Political Infighting http://bit.ly/gJFJmX #
Keep Your iTunes Music in the Cloud With mSpot http://nyti.ms/hVZkQo #
R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me http://bit.ly/eAP9vA #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-16

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Dr. Seuss does Star Wars http://bit.ly/hSacC9 #
Google Open Sources Two Projects, Contributes to Eclipse Foundation http://nyti.ms/hEDyIj #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-15

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

@promitter my kids are developing a private beta of their game. It’s a friends and family invite only release :-) in reply to promitter #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-14

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Been testing w/my kids Kodu – “A visual programming language made specifically for creating games” It’s awesome! http://bit.ly/ezunWP #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-12

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Netflix’s Move From DVDs To Streaming Shows The Massive Value Of First Sale Doctrine http://bit.ly/ffMHc3 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-12

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 03:39:00 +0000

Amazon Route 53 – The AWS Domain Name Service http://bit.ly/hinABY #
Fast-encryption feature arrives in Chrome http://t.co/qNdM5kP via @cnet #
AT&T Fingered as Worst Carrier By Consumer Reports [At&t] http://bit.ly/ffel0Q #
Kindle for the Web http://amzn.to/i6Wxpi #
Rise in job openings hopeful sign before holidays http://bit.ly/em3dmr #
Santa’s calling (from his Google Voice number) http://bit.ly/hZsza4 #
I wholeheartedly support TAKING AWAY YOUR CAPS LOCK KEY! http://bit.ly/f6u1qt #
4 (More) Tools for Teaching Kids to Code http://bit.ly/ihGyIF #
Anonymous hackers fail to take down Amazon in WikiLeaks revenge http://bit.ly/gaiD1i #
WWF file format: it’s like a PDF that’s impossible to print http://engt.co/hTXh0Y #
The Tale Of the Littlest Jedi: Bullied Girl Gets Star Wars Love http://tcrn.ch/fkSNMk #
The Star Wars Holiday Special, “it truly is worse than you remember” http://bit.ly/eIW4JY (via @DadCentric) #
Netflix’s Move From DVDs To Streaming Shows The Massive Value Of First Sale Doctrine http://bit.ly/ffMHc3 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-11

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

WWF file format: it’s like a PDF that’s impossible to print http://engt.co/hTXh0Y #
The Tale Of the Littlest Jedi: Bullied Girl Gets Star Wars Love http://tcrn.ch/fkSNMk #
The Star Wars Holiday Special, “it truly is worse than you remember” http://bit.ly/eIW4JY (via @DadCentric) #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-10

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

I wholeheartedly support TAKING AWAY YOUR CAPS LOCK KEY! http://bit.ly/f6u1qt #
4 (More) Tools for Teaching Kids to Code http://bit.ly/ihGyIF #
Anonymous hackers fail to take down Amazon in WikiLeaks revenge http://bit.ly/gaiD1i #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-09

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Santa’s calling (from his Google Voice number) http://bit.ly/hZsza4 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-08

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Kindle for the Web http://amzn.to/i6Wxpi #
Rise in job openings hopeful sign before holidays http://bit.ly/em3dmr #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-07

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Amazon Route 53 – The AWS Domain Name Service http://bit.ly/hinABY #
Fast-encryption feature arrives in Chrome http://t.co/qNdM5kP via @cnet #
AT&T Fingered as Worst Carrier By Consumer Reports [At&t] http://bit.ly/ffel0Q #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-05

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Shortage of Engineers or a Glut: No Simple Answer http://bit.ly/fONrkB #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-05

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 03:39:00 +0000

Introducing Google Earth 6—the next generation of realism http://bit.ly/hHXzFy #
Irony: Ebook About Clueless Media Moguls Costs Many Times Brand New Hardcover Version http://bit.ly/huJkfY #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast w/ @robgreenlee @shatch @zeropts @ccalder http://odmcast.com #
Latest Google Chrome (Dev Channel) Crash Fix http://bit.ly/htaqsX #
Get Ready to Drop Cable: Netflix Vies for In-Season TV Shows http://bit.ly/eljCy8 #
JSON Continues its Winning Streak Over XML http://bit.ly/gD1I31 #
Have Yourself a Very Star Warsy Christmas [Star Wars] http://bit.ly/g3uvLC #
Chrome event confirmed by Google for December 7th http://engt.co/gq9IN7 #
Shortage of Engineers or a Glut: No Simple Answer http://bit.ly/fONrkB #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-04

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

JSON Continues its Winning Streak Over XML http://bit.ly/gD1I31 #
Have Yourself a Very Star Warsy Christmas [Star Wars] http://bit.ly/g3uvLC #
Chrome event confirmed by Google for December 7th http://engt.co/gq9IN7 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-03

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Latest Google Chrome (Dev Channel) Crash Fix http://bit.ly/htaqsX #
Get Ready to Drop Cable: Netflix Vies for In-Season TV Shows http://bit.ly/eljCy8 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-12-02

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Irony: Ebook About Clueless Media Moguls Costs Many Times Brand New Hardcover Version http://bit.ly/huJkfY #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast w/ @robgreenlee @shatch @zeropts @ccalder http://odmcast.com #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-30

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Introducing Google Earth 6—the next generation of realism http://bit.ly/hHXzFy #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-28

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:39:00 +0000

Cool! Amazon Black Friday deal: $89 Kindle 2 http://bit.ly/hK83Ps #
Tim Berners-Lee: The Web is threatened http://bit.ly/fpTHER #
Is the DVD dead? (I hope so) http://bit.ly/hRPxaf #
Tim Berners-Lee Calls Facebook a Walled Garden – Is That Fair? http://bit.ly/fpmEka #
Newark to build New Jersey’s first protected bicycle lane; West Windsor state’s first Woonerf http://bit.ly/i9OTun #
The future of newspapers? Electronics breakthrough paves the way for e-readers made w/paper “displays” http://bit.ly/gR7Nnz #
If You Like Coffee, Download This App [IPhone Apps] http://bit.ly/eGFre6 #
Every Star Trek Episode Online? There must be a break in the time-space continuum http://bit.ly/fZ72nO #
Well that was fast: Facebook Contact-Scraping Chrome Extension Taken Down http://bit.ly/dZlgmJ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-27

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Every Star Trek Episode Online? There must be a break in the time-space continuum http://bit.ly/fZ72nO #
Well that was fast: Facebook Contact-Scraping Chrome Extension Taken Down http://bit.ly/dZlgmJ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-26

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

The future of newspapers? Electronics breakthrough paves the way for e-readers made w/paper “displays” http://bit.ly/gR7Nnz #
If You Like Coffee, Download This App [IPhone Apps] http://bit.ly/eGFre6 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-25

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Is the DVD dead? (I hope so) http://bit.ly/hRPxaf #
Tim Berners-Lee Calls Facebook a Walled Garden – Is That Fair? http://bit.ly/fpmEka #
Newark to build New Jersey’s first protected bicycle lane; West Windsor state’s first Woonerf http://bit.ly/i9OTun #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-24

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Cool! Amazon Black Friday deal: $89 Kindle 2 http://bit.ly/hK83Ps #
Tim Berners-Lee: The Web is threatened http://bit.ly/fpTHER #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-21

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Oracle Announces Release Date for Java 7 http://bit.ly/d5pdGM #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-21

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:39:00 +0000

Geocaching in SoMo with the family. (@ South Mountain Reservation w/ 2 others) http://4sq.com/coJ9XB #
The Scourge of IE6 Continues, for Some Surprising Reasons http://bit.ly/aeGYjy #
Why the web has not switched to SSL-only yet? http://bit.ly/arapId #
The Java crisis: what are Oracle, IBM, Google and Apache fighting over? http://bit.ly/9XRwts #
Google Exec: In 5 To 8 Years, Everyone Will Have An IPTV http://bit.ly/db8QwS #
Why The Digital Book Business Is Going To Be Huge, Part 2 http://bit.ly/9qJ9Ee #
IT’S OFFICIAL: Microsoft’s Investment In Facebook At A “Ridiculous” Valuation Was BRILLIANT http://bit.ly/dDogt2 #
Talking to Your Kids About Star Wars http://aol.it/aKVWpl #
The First Augmented Reality Star Wars Game, Falcon Gunner, Hits The App Store http://bit.ly/d7N9xo #
Amazon battles iTunes downloads with huge price slash on Beatles CDs http://exm.nr/bts6UW #
‘20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web’ http://bit.ly/cjLvZY #
Audible (an Amazon company) has a bunch of exciting Tech and Product Development job openings http://bit.ly/bCCche #
Just in time for the holidays Amazon allows gifting of Kindle e-books http://apne.ws/bGSv4a #
Oracle Announces Release Date for Java 7 http://bit.ly/d5pdGM #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-20

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

‘20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web’ http://bit.ly/cjLvZY #
Audible (an Amazon company) has a bunch of exciting Tech and Product Development job openings http://bit.ly/bCCche #
Just in time for the holidays Amazon allows gifting of Kindle e-books http://apne.ws/bGSv4a #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-19

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

The First Augmented Reality Star Wars Game, Falcon Gunner, Hits The App Store http://bit.ly/d7N9xo #
Amazon battles iTunes downloads with huge price slash on Beatles CDs http://exm.nr/bts6UW #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-18

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

IT’S OFFICIAL: Microsoft’s Investment In Facebook At A “Ridiculous” Valuation Was BRILLIANT http://bit.ly/dDogt2 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-17

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

The Java crisis: what are Oracle, IBM, Google and Apache fighting over? http://bit.ly/9XRwts #
Google Exec: In 5 To 8 Years, Everyone Will Have An IPTV http://bit.ly/db8QwS #
Why The Digital Book Business Is Going To Be Huge, Part 2 http://bit.ly/9qJ9Ee #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-16

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Why the web has not switched to SSL-only yet? http://bit.ly/arapId #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-15

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Geocaching in SoMo with the family. (@ South Mountain Reservation w/ 2 others) http://4sq.com/coJ9XB #
The Scourge of IE6 Continues, for Some Surprising Reasons http://bit.ly/aeGYjy #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 03:39:00 +0000

Oh Look, More Cord Cutters: Time Warner Cable Loses 155,000 TV Subscribers http://bit.ly/9lj6ao #
Why The Book Business May Soon Be The Most Digital Of All Media Industries http://bit.ly/cCLI7v #
37signals Working on New Framework for HTML5 Mobile Apps http://bit.ly/9TPe80 #
Could Serverside Frameworks Become Irrelevant? http://bit.ly/aLCD6R #
LimeWire is Back in the Game http://bit.ly/9rqtVT #
Looking for cutting edge Tech Jobs? @audible_com (@amazon company) has a bunch of openings: http://bit.ly/bCCc #jobs #
Guess What: Netflix Is Now Primarily A Digital Video Company http://bit.ly/cMi7yu #
Annoying! Bit.ly spit out the wrong URL for me in my last tweet about Jobs @audible_com Here’s the correct link: http://goo.gl/tlVNZ #
Ask.com gives up ghost on search market http://bit.ly/aoRfHr #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy, @ccalder, and @zeropts http://odmcast.com #
Apache Declares War On Oracle Over Java http://bit.ly/ax4jws #
Google To TV Industry: ‘Yes, Yes, Cord Cutting Is A Myth; Google TV Is Nothing To Fear’ http://bit.ly/9pAdwf #
Amazon.com to hire more than 15,500 for temporary jobs to fill orders this holiday season http://bit.ly/dyUjOh #
20 Years Ago Today: The Web Was Proposed http://bit.ly/daSmiy #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-13

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Amazon.com to hire more than 15,500 for temporary jobs to fill orders this holiday season http://bit.ly/dyUjOh #
20 Years Ago Today: The Web Was Proposed http://bit.ly/daSmiy #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-12

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Google To TV Industry: ‘Yes, Yes, Cord Cutting Is A Myth; Google TV Is Nothing To Fear’ http://bit.ly/9pAdwf #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-11

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Annoying! Bit.ly spit out the wrong URL for me in my last tweet about Jobs @audible_com Here’s the correct link: http://goo.gl/tlVNZ #
Ask.com gives up ghost on search market http://bit.ly/aoRfHr #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy, @ccalder, and @zeropts http://odmcast.com #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-10

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Could Serverside Frameworks Become Irrelevant? http://bit.ly/aLCD6R #
LimeWire is Back in the Game http://bit.ly/9rqtVT #
Looking for cutting edge Tech Jobs? @audible_com (@amazon company) has a bunch of openings: http://bit.ly/bCCc #jobs #
Guess What: Netflix Is Now Primarily A Digital Video Company http://bit.ly/cMi7yu #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-09

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Oh Look, More Cord Cutters: Time Warner Cable Loses 155,000 TV Subscribers http://bit.ly/9lj6ao #
Why The Book Business May Soon Be The Most Digital Of All Media Industries http://bit.ly/cCLI7v #
37signals Working on New Framework for HTML5 Mobile Apps http://bit.ly/9TPe80 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:39:00 +0000

Turns Out The Evil Halloween Candy Poisoners Was Just FUD That Got You To Buy Prepackaged Candy: When I moved into… http://bit.ly/axM0Dw #
What Can I Say? Another Amazon S3 Price Reduction!: We’ve reduced the prices for Amazon S3 storage again. As is al… http://bit.ly/btW6Fr #
The U.S. Bicycle Route System: Bike Paths to Connect the Nation http://t.co/yXNjztA (via @catdelett) #
Geek joke via @MrLikesalot: Q: Why can’t programmers tell Halloween from Christmas? A: Because 31 oct = 25 dec #
Knicks contact Prudential Center about hosting game against Wizards if Madison Square Garden is unavailable http://bit.ly/bq2qO1 #
Apple May Pull an End-Around on Wireless Carriers: There is great excitement over yesterday being the day when AT&… http://bit.ly/9wbJDU #
New Lego Star Wars Mini-Movie!:
This hilarious video is a retelling of Episodes IV-VI in Lego, but with a pesky G… http://bit.ly/caz4a4 #
The Future Of Work: 10 Ways that the World of Work Will Change in the 2010s http://bit.ly/a0DWQ0 #
Dish Executive Claims Hulu Is Destroying the TV Industry http://bit.ly/9XnO15 #
iPhone autocorrect- it’s totally racist http://bit.ly/cMapG4 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-06

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

iPhone autocorrect- it’s totally racist http://bit.ly/cMapG4 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-05

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Dish Executive Claims Hulu Is Destroying the TV Industry http://bit.ly/9XnO15 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-04

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

The Future Of Work: 10 Ways that the World of Work Will Change in the 2010s http://bit.ly/a0DWQ0 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-03

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Geek joke via @MrLikesalot: Q: Why can’t programmers tell Halloween from Christmas? A: Because 31 oct = 25 dec #
Knicks contact Prudential Center about hosting game against Wizards if Madison Square Garden is unavailable http://bit.ly/bq2qO1 #
Apple May Pull an End-Around on Wireless Carriers: There is great excitement over yesterday being the day when AT&… http://bit.ly/9wbJDU #
New Lego Star Wars Mini-Movie!:
This hilarious video is a retelling of Episodes IV-VI in Lego, but with a pesky G… http://bit.ly/caz4a4 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-02

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

What Can I Say? Another Amazon S3 Price Reduction!: We’ve reduced the prices for Amazon S3 storage again. As is al… http://bit.ly/btW6Fr #
The U.S. Bicycle Route System: Bike Paths to Connect the Nation http://t.co/yXNjztA (via @catdelett) #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-11-01

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Turns Out The Evil Halloween Candy Poisoners Was Just FUD That Got You To Buy Prepackaged Candy: When I moved into… http://bit.ly/axM0Dw #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-31

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:39:00 +0000

George Lucas reportedly creating Star Wars sequel trilogy (that’s not about the Skywalkers) [Rumors] http://j.mp/d49rNr #
Amazon Introduces New ‘Free Usage Tier’ For AWS http://j.mp/aqZxHs #
The last mystery of the blues: were Robert Johnson’s recordings sped up? http://j.mp/bnGTCB #
Hanging with the boys (@ Memorial Park Playground w/ @gadgetboy) http://4sq.com/cd93g1 #
Roasting Marshmallows with the boys. (@ John’s Fire Pit) http://4sq.com/9SU17X #
‘The Movie Business Is Dying!! Blame TV!’ — The 1959 Edition http://j.mp/btTC3I #
Internet TV and The Death of Cable TV, really http://j.mp/bQT7RV #
InfoQ: Fighting Layout Bugs http://t.co/nwdVzyF via @battags #
Java Is Under Siege. Will Oracle Let It Burn? http://j.mp/dvvgvO #
A Publicity Stunt Or Viral Ad — Or Just A Band Connecting With Fans? http://j.mp/cvqrCf #
Java Is Under Siege. Will Oracle Let It Burn?: There was a time when Java ruled the enterprise computing world, an… http://bit.ly/d1EOqE #
After Ten Years, LimeWire Capitulates To The Music Industry:
The music industry lawyers just put another notch on… http://bit.ly/9lMbz2 #
Fictional Star Wars artifact: Boba Fett’s invoice to Jabba the Hutt: [Flickr page here, and large size here.]
… http://bit.ly/ah0zK1 #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with with @gadgetboy @ccalder and @zeropts http://odmcast.com/ #
Adobe Demos Flash-to-HTML5 Conversion Tool [VIDEO]: When we talked to Adobe’s Paul Gubbay about how the company se… http://bit.ly/b05Yqa #
If You Want to Download All 900 Gigabytes of Geocities, Now You Can [Archives]: … http://bit.ly/c17jsN #
The Oracle Exit Strategy: Force Google To Buy Java: To stop it from becoming this century’s Cobol, Java needs to c… http://bit.ly/bXuWmT #
Facebook Acquires Drop.io, Nabs Sam Lessin: New York-basedÂ file sharing site Drop.io has just posted the breaking … http://bit.ly/d0NTJz #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-30

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

If You Want to Download All 900 Gigabytes of Geocities, Now You Can [Archives]: … http://bit.ly/c17jsN #
The Oracle Exit Strategy: Force Google To Buy Java: To stop it from becoming this century’s Cobol, Java needs to c… http://bit.ly/bXuWmT #
Facebook Acquires Drop.io, Nabs Sam Lessin: New York-basedÂ file sharing site Drop.io has just posted the breaking … http://bit.ly/d0NTJz #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-29

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Adobe Demos Flash-to-HTML5 Conversion Tool [VIDEO]: When we talked to Adobe’s Paul Gubbay about how the company se… http://bit.ly/b05Yqa #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-28

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Java Is Under Siege. Will Oracle Let It Burn?: There was a time when Java ruled the enterprise computing world, an… http://bit.ly/d1EOqE #
After Ten Years, LimeWire Capitulates To The Music Industry:
The music industry lawyers just put another notch on… http://bit.ly/9lMbz2 #
Fictional Star Wars artifact: Boba Fett’s invoice to Jabba the Hutt: [Flickr page here, and large size here.]
… http://bit.ly/ah0zK1 #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with with @gadgetboy @ccalder and @zeropts http://odmcast.com/ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-27

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

InfoQ: Fighting Layout Bugs http://t.co/nwdVzyF via @battags #
Java Is Under Siege. Will Oracle Let It Burn? http://j.mp/dvvgvO #
A Publicity Stunt Or Viral Ad — Or Just A Band Connecting With Fans? http://j.mp/cvqrCf #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-26

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

‘The Movie Business Is Dying!! Blame TV!’ — The 1959 Edition http://j.mp/btTC3I #
Internet TV and The Death of Cable TV, really http://j.mp/bQT7RV #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-25

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

George Lucas reportedly creating Star Wars sequel trilogy (that’s not about the Skywalkers) [Rumors] http://j.mp/d49rNr #
Amazon Introduces New ‘Free Usage Tier’ For AWS http://j.mp/aqZxHs #
The last mystery of the blues: were Robert Johnson’s recordings sped up? http://j.mp/bnGTCB #
Hanging with the boys (@ Memorial Park Playground w/ @gadgetboy) http://4sq.com/cd93g1 #
Roasting Marshmallows with the boys. (@ John’s Fire Pit) http://4sq.com/9SU17X #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-24

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 03:39:00 +0000

Should Albums Cost $1.50? http://j.mp/b2YSXM #
How Facebook Decides What To Put In Your News Feed – These 10 Secrets Reveal All http://j.mp/b68aI2 #
Ray Ozzie to Leave Microsoft: Has The Future Left the Building? http://j.mp/9xsJec #
Fear And Loathing At The Wall Street Journal http://j.mp/93BrbY #
Ditching Cable for the Web: How Much Can You Save Buying, Renting, or Streaming TV [Streaming Tv] http://j.mp/dw23iB #
How they shot the opening crawl in Empire Strikes Back http://j.mp/9wF01p #
A Publicity Stunt Or Viral Ad — Or Just A Band Connecting With Fans? http://j.mp/cvqrCf #
‘The Movie Business Is Dying!! Blame TV!’ — The 1959 Edition http://j.mp/btTC3I #
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH TONY HSIEH: How Being A Little Bit Weird Made Zappos A Fortune http://j.mp/cvW1PR #
Elvis Costello Turns to Social Media to Promote Upcoming Album http://j.mp/8Zxl7e #
Amazon Introduces New ‘Free Usage Tier’ For AWS http://j.mp/aqZxHs #
How many users have JavaScript disabled? http://j.mp/bbsIKM #
Amazon announces 14-day lending feature for Kindle books, newspapers and magazines for Kindle apps http://j.mp/ca5iGi #
Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own Browser http://j.mp/cB7kNm #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-23

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Amazon announces 14-day lending feature for Kindle books, newspapers and magazines for Kindle apps http://j.mp/ca5iGi #
Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own Browser http://j.mp/cB7kNm #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-22

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH TONY HSIEH: How Being A Little Bit Weird Made Zappos A Fortune http://j.mp/cvW1PR #
Elvis Costello Turns to Social Media to Promote Upcoming Album http://j.mp/8Zxl7e #
Amazon Introduces New ‘Free Usage Tier’ For AWS http://j.mp/aqZxHs #
How many users have JavaScript disabled? http://j.mp/bbsIKM #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-21

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

‘The Movie Business Is Dying!! Blame TV!’ — The 1959 Edition http://j.mp/btTC3I #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-20

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Fear And Loathing At The Wall Street Journal http://j.mp/93BrbY #
Ditching Cable for the Web: How Much Can You Save Buying, Renting, or Streaming TV [Streaming Tv] http://j.mp/dw23iB #
How they shot the opening crawl in Empire Strikes Back http://j.mp/9wF01p #
A Publicity Stunt Or Viral Ad — Or Just A Band Connecting With Fans? http://j.mp/cvqrCf #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-19

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Should Albums Cost $1.50? http://j.mp/b2YSXM #
How Facebook Decides What To Put In Your News Feed – These 10 Secrets Reveal All http://j.mp/b68aI2 #
Ray Ozzie to Leave Microsoft: Has The Future Left the Building? http://j.mp/9xsJec #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-17

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 03:39:00 +0000

@SteveMost yes. And everything is changing. Again ;-) Hope you’re doing well. in reply to SteveMost #
Today Is 101010: The Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question [42] http://j.mp/9ciY2K #
CHART OF THE DAY: Google Chrome Beats Firefox To Own The Tech Set (GOOG, MSFT) http://j.mp/cw6BfC #
AudioPress Manages Your Podcasts, Internet Radio, and More [Video] http://j.mp/9X24ZQ #
The Truth About the Physics of ‘Angry Birds’ http://j.mp/difPbY #
Amazon Expands Publishing Horizons With Short-Form Kindle Singles http://j.mp/aUNYSA #
Kevin Smith, Once Again, Demonstrates How Connecting With Fans Leads To Something Special (And Profitable) http://j.mp/brPkJ5 #
How many users have JavaScript disabled? http://j.mp/bbsIKM #
Amazon’s iPhone barcode scanner takes impulse buying to a new level http://j.mp/a5lzRV #
AOL Attempting to Buy Yahoo [REPORT] http://j.mp/cyw1Cv Here we go again… #
Wait, So The RIAA Is Offended That Google Won’t Do Work For Free? http://j.mp/a4YyNX #
If Even The Best Legal Minds Don’t Read Boilerplate Contracts… Why Are They Considered Binding? http://j.mp/c13VLy #
inbox zero (achieved) http://bit.ly/cNlfhm #
The World is Amazon’s Showroom http://j.mp/dxW3n9 #
Everything I Needed To Know About Parenting I Learned From Playing Lego Star Wars http://j.mp/9QNP7z #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-16

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

If Even The Best Legal Minds Don’t Read Boilerplate Contracts… Why Are They Considered Binding? http://j.mp/c13VLy #
inbox zero (achieved) http://bit.ly/cNlfhm #
The World is Amazon’s Showroom http://j.mp/dxW3n9 #
Everything I Needed To Know About Parenting I Learned From Playing Lego Star Wars http://j.mp/9QNP7z #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-15

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

AOL Attempting to Buy Yahoo [REPORT] http://j.mp/cyw1Cv Here we go again… #
Wait, So The RIAA Is Offended That Google Won’t Do Work For Free? http://j.mp/a4YyNX #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-14

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Kevin Smith, Once Again, Demonstrates How Connecting With Fans Leads To Something Special (And Profitable) http://j.mp/brPkJ5 #
How many users have JavaScript disabled? http://j.mp/bbsIKM #
Amazon’s iPhone barcode scanner takes impulse buying to a new level http://j.mp/a5lzRV #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-13

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

The Truth About the Physics of ‘Angry Birds’ http://j.mp/difPbY #
Amazon Expands Publishing Horizons With Short-Form Kindle Singles http://j.mp/aUNYSA #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-12

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

CHART OF THE DAY: Google Chrome Beats Firefox To Own The Tech Set (GOOG, MSFT) http://j.mp/cw6BfC #
AudioPress Manages Your Podcasts, Internet Radio, and More [Video] http://j.mp/9X24ZQ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-11

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

@SteveMost yes. And everything is changing. Again ;-) Hope you’re doing well. in reply to SteveMost #
Today Is 101010: The Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question [42] http://j.mp/9ciY2K #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-10

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Green Day @ Memorial Park (@ memorial park) http://4sq.com/cfb2LB #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-10

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:39:00 +0000

Twitter Launches “Places” Feature with Foursquare Integration http://ff.im/-m3KqJ #
Starbucks Offering Free AT&T Wi-Fi at Stores Starting July 1st http://ff.im/-m5Iwi #
iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Overwhelm System http://ff.im/-m7xM6 #
AT&T sold out of iPhone 4 pre-orders for launch day http://ff.im/-m7yHf #
Apple the #iPhone4 per-order was absolutely the worst customer experience I have ever had online #applefail #fb #
Google Explains Google TV In Video Walk-Through [Google] http://ff.im/-m9u03 #
This is too bad “Commentary: Boxee Box a Lesson in Killing Momentum” http://bit.ly/bXZ9EG #
How To Watch The World Cup Without That Awful Buzzing Sound http://ff.im/-mbE79 #
If You Buy CDs, You’re Probably an Oldster http://ff.im/-mbEy9 #
Why I’m *Not* a Fanboy http://ff.im/-mbLVj #
Use the USB Port on Your HDTV or Game Console to Charge Your Phone [Clever Uses] http://ff.im/-mbNMC #
RT @getfitokc: How long does a Happy Meal stay fresh? http://www.getfitokc.com/uly #
Retrofit your vehicle with hybrid power in less than six hours: http://bit.ly/9QZb4Z (via @autobloggreen) #
I liked a YouTube video — OK Go – End Love – Official Video http://youtu.be/V2fpgpanZAw?a #
OK Go – End Love – Official Video http://ff.im/-mgfG3 #
Apple launches ‘Find My iPhone’ app to remotely wipe and find your lost treasure http://ff.im/-mhFVO #
On Digital Media 104: Incensed http://ff.im/-miSb1 #
Google like it’s 1981 with command-line tool http://ff.im/-mjFZY #
Sean Parker: Facebook Won Because Of MySpace’s “Gross Incompetence” http://ff.im/-mjG8y #
The Origins of Amazon’s Cloud Computing http://ff.im/-mjGYV #
Like E-Books? Amazon Sells More of Them, For Less, Than Apple. For Now [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-mltvc #
iOS4 First Impressions http://ff.im/-mrE7D #
Kindle now @ $189 … nice: http://amzn.com/B0015T963C #
June 21, 1948: The First LP Is Released [Music] http://ff.im/-mudUM #
@shiraabel because audible is owned by amazon :-) in reply to shiraabel #
@shiraabel ok, that is a silly question. LOL. in reply to shiraabel #
Why Amazon’s Kindle Will Eventually Win the E-Book Wars [Voices] http://ff.im/-mvlnI #
Google Plans Music Service Tied to Search Engine [Voices] http://ff.im/-mvm6T #
Remarks by Jeff Bezos, as delivered to the Princeton Class of 2010 http://bit.ly/dvCqPb #
HTML5 Rocks! http://ff.im/-mxlil #
Firefox Gets Crash Protection http://ff.im/-mxlnN #
Hackers release ‘jailbreak’ of iOS 4 for Apple’s iPhone 3GS http://ff.im/-mBjUI #
Wow That Was Fast — Facebook Blocks Twitter’s Way To Look Up Friends http://ff.im/-mBkrX #
Flickr Gets More Photogenic With A Complete Photo Page Overhaul http://ff.im/-mBmfI #
Listening to Sh*t My Dad Says on Audible. Very funny. Just saying.http://soc.li/qrvA5bY #
iPhone 4 activated and syncing. I’m happy I received it a day early, but I’m begrudgingly excited given the headaches it took to get here #
iPhone cassette tape case is retro-practical http://ff.im/-mC3D8 #
Lightsaber Chart Will Spark Endless Fights Over Who Bagsies Which ‘Saber [Star Wars] http://ff.im/-mDc73 #
You Can Listen To NPR Music On Your iPhone Now [IPhone Apps] http://ff.im/-mDn6W #
‘Just Avoid Holding It in That Way’ http://ff.im/-mH3hL #
Yahoo Lets Loose With a Boomerang – Automatic Website Testing http://ff.im/-mHsuQ #
Gmail Now Lets You View Word Docs in Your Browser http://ff.im/-mIUIV #
iPhone 4 Camera “As Good As They Get” http://ff.im/-mKivR #
Kellogg’s recalling 4 popular cereals due to off taste and smell http://ff.im/-mKiIr #
Kindle for iPad and iPhone Gets Audio and Video Support http://ff.im/-mOXUL #
Train canceled. There has to be a stat showing trains break down the most on Monday mornings. #NJTransitFail #
at-at day afternoon and the psychic vampire http://ff.im/-mP95D #
Cool! ‘Best of the Beatles for Acoustic Guitar’ – Kindle Edition With Audio/Video http://amzn.to/aMPD92 #
With Kindle for Android, Amazon’s Winning Strategy Is Complete http://ff.im/-mQy04 #
Director, Web Development and Quality Assurance at Audible, Inc. http://ff.im/-mRhEC #
RT @lancearmstrong And yes, this will be (my) final Tour de France. It’s been a great ride. Looking forward to 3 great weeks. (we r 2) in reply to lancearmstrong #
Google’s Facebook Killer “Google Me” Confirmed By Former Facebook CTO [Google] http://ff.im/-mSLDM #
Jeff Bezos On The iPad: “It’s Really A Different Product Category” http://ff.im/-mSOqJ #
Jeff Bezos’s Mission: Compelling Small Publishers to ThinkÂ Big [Voices] http://ff.im/-mWTTj #
Firefox 4 Pre-Beta Candidate Brings Tabs on Top and Other Changes to the ‘Fox [Beta Beat] http://ff.im/-mX5jd #
Congrats @Woot Welcome to the family! “Woot To Be Acquired By Amazon” http://shar.es/mObLp #
Facebook App Updated for iOS 4 [Facebook] http://ff.im/-mYVf9 #
Reader2Twitter – Sync Your Google Reader Shared Items to Twitter http://ff.im/-mZxqt #
Reader2Twitter – Sync Your Google Reader Shared Items to Twitter http://j.mp/9ACZSC Works well #
The New Kindle DX [Amazon] http://j.mp/cOr1Z7 #
Pool Jet Propels Kids Through Water, Gives Them New Toy to Fight Over http://j.mp/9pJXOG #
Amazon Offers New Royalty Program For Kindle Authors http://j.mp/94MCmE #
I liked a YouTube video — We Got Acquired By Amazon http://youtu.be/bnCHCcveteA?a #
We Got Acquired By Amazon http://j.mp/czym9H #
Apple issues statement on iPhone 4 reception issue, states update is coming “within a few weeks” http://j.mp/9aooqy #
Google Apps vs. Google Accounts Parity Coming [Webapps] http://j.mp/abYdf9 #
Welcome to No Bikes On Trains Day http://j.mp/98WTn5 #
The Tour de France begins today! http://j.mp/aH27xO #
The 80’s http://j.mp/aFb02A #
30th Anniversary of Airplane! http://j.mp/cc4fTA #
Tracking the Tour de France With Tech [Voices] http://j.mp/bROme7 #
@woot “[Hey AP] we’ve figured you owe us roughly $17.50 for the content you borrowed from our blog post” http://j.mp/aEOp5Q #
Vacation is watching #TdF in the morning and the #WorldCup in the afternoon with interspersed dips in the pool and ocean without guilt #
Looking for recommendations on iPhone 4 cases. Something that will withstand a few drops :-) #
Happy b-day @gadgetboy in reply to gadgetboy #
It’s hot, but the music is good. (@ Maplewoodstock w/ 4 others) http://4sq.com/cNtLVD #
Bendable bicycle wraps itself around a pole – by design http://j.mp/8Zm7Tb #
Amazon Hooks College Students With A Free Year Of Amazon Prime http://j.mp/9Jjf2P #
Augmented Reality App Sekai Camera Goes Multi-Platform. Adds API And Social Gaming. http://j.mp/bnoO6E #
What Apple Must Do to Stop the Bleeding http://j.mp/cGtH0C #
15 million People Want iTunes in the Cloud [ITunes] http://j.mp/aAX5r5 #
DIY Bicycle Rigged to Charge USB Devices While Riders Cruise http://j.mp/aIZUyJ #
DKs live @IrvingPlaza in October. 80s punk is coming back! http://bit.ly/dkCArD (via @catdelett) #
On Digital Media 106: Smells Like Old Spice http://j.mp/bt5yQE #
How to Scale Code Deployment Like Twitter Does http://j.mp/biPgbJ #
Goodbye Old Spice Guy http://j.mp/dwotAZ #
It Happened: An iPhone SLR Lens Mount [Photography] http://j.mp/8XNJ29 #
Remains of the Day: URLs Replace MP3s Replace CDs and So On [For What It’s Worth] http://j.mp/9qjrAY #
The Boxee Box is Un-Boxed [VIDEO] http://j.mp/9ASYWL #
In the Lego Store with the boys … It’s going to be tough to get them to leave. (@ Rockefeller Center w/ 3 others) http://4sq.com/30E5Ot #
I just unlocked the “Adventurer” badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/cIr7Xj #
Beyond Social: Read/Write in The Era of Internet of Things http://j.mp/bVQa30 #
@joewhitmarsh thanks for listening. We have always have a good time doing the show #odm in reply to joewhitmarsh #
Amazon: We sell more books in Kindle format than hardcover. http://j.mp/95lBLO #
RT @ConsumeThis1st Ortho Ecosense Nonsense http://bit.ly/bQwwVL #
Apple’s Billion Dollar Data Center Will Be Done This Year. iTunes In The Cloud, Anyone? http://j.mp/dCEpdg #
Fred Wilson: Apple is “Evil” and Facebook is “a Photo-sharing Site” http://j.mp/cSJvHF #
I liked a YouTube video — MAMEfold.m4v http://youtu.be/kh0O6FNhSqw?a #
MAMEfold.m4v http://j.mp/dyLZzu #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy and @ccalder http://odmcast.com #
Should Facebook Add a Dislike Button? http://j.mp/c36qZ3 #
Tour Comes Down to Final Time Trial http://j.mp/dpMw0x #
Watching the last few laps on the Champs-Élysées in the final stage of the Tour de France. Always exciting even after 20 days of racing. #
Watching The Bears with my sons and dad. Beautiful night for baseball. (@ Riverfront Stadium) http://4sq.com/atjMzj #
Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are “fair use” – http://arst.ch/lrv via @arstechnica #
Google’s meets with music publisher, Harry Fox Agency advancing plans to open music store – NYPOST.com http://j.mp/bUx3RR Bring it on. #
Didn’t Run a Marathon? You Don’t Need Gatorade http://j.mp/aGInuN #
For An Industry Being Destroyed By ‘File Sharing,’ Film Industry Keeps Reporting Record Numbers http://j.mp/aBn748 #
What To Do When You Launch: Before, During, and After http://j.mp/ahH7HL #
“Google Alarm” browser plugin alerts you when any of your personal data sent to Google http://j.mp/9CggmY #
Amazon Recommends Products Based on Your and Your Friends’ Facebook Interests http://j.mp/cJvdIX #
New Amazon Kindle announced: $139 WiFi-only version and $189 3G model available August 27th in the US and UK http://bit.ly/9vyFdb #
Google Makes Custom Web Typography Ridiculously Easy http://j.mp/aRWdNc #
Jeff Bezos Discusses The Future Of The Kindle With Charlie Rose (Videos) http://j.mp/9GPZpZ #
“The Kindle represents a remarkable environmental advance” – Why Amazon Will Win The Internet http://bit.ly/ddi0tX #
5-foot sand shark forces closure of Seaside Park Beach http://bit.ly/aZqFW1 (via @NBCNewYork) #
Watched “The Extra Man” This is the future of movie releases (Theaters and VOD at the same time… love it!) http://amzn.to/cR8jq2 #
Asked my 6yr old what’s larger than a billion+1? He said, “A Googol?” I almost spit out my food http://bit.ly/9TJn92 #
Self-Publishing: Who Needs a Publisher Anymore? (via @newsweek) http://bit.ly/9515MJ #
Amazon: We have 70-80 percent of e-book market http://j.mp/dblR1p #
Aug. 3, 1977: Not Trash-Talking the TRS-80 http://j.mp/apVYQV #
Google rolling out multi-account sign-in to users http://j.mp/d8J6nf #
Barnes & Noble Goes on Block [Voices] http://j.mp/aYxf6D #
Kindle 2 gets more game, Kindle 1 gets more wrinkles http://j.mp/b0A0BM #
Twenty-Five Musicians From New Jersey by Rob O’Connor http://j.mp/b8pJvF #music #nj #
Google pulls plug on Google Wave http://j.mp/bwuZNq #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy and @ccalder http://odmcast.com #
How Bing Is Out-Innovating Google [Voices] http://j.mp/atbsGW #
HOW TO: Self-Publish Anything Online http://j.mp/cM3bKJ #
Anyone see the Kindle 1 on last week’s Futurama? [image grab] http://bit.ly/8Zgbir #
Google: There Are 129,864,880 Books in the Entire World http://j.mp/9hJvBV #
Will Amazon Become The King of Web Hosting Too? http://j.mp/aJNBCL #
Yoko Says Beatles and iTunes Still Won’t Come Together [Beatles] http://j.mp/d2GS4U #
@allsongs The National Anthem — Radiohead in reply to allsongs #
Good food, friends and music. (@ Stony’s) http://4sq.com/5NFu83 #
Good ride. Love this place. (@ South Mountain Reservation) http://4sq.com/9a1eSN #
35 minute delay and Mondays. Seems to be trend. #njtransitfail #
Here Comes the iBike? Apple Files Patent for a Bicycle
(PC World) http://j.mp/aTa7C8 #
Wait, Wasn’t A Paywall Supposed To Boost Ad Revenue? http://j.mp/9LhhnX #
Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web http://j.mp/b4ZmtM #
Nicholas Negroponte: The Physical Book Is Dead In 5 Years http://j.mp/9k7waM #
Print App FAIL http://j.mp/cJW0X4 #
I’ve Completely Ditched My iPad For the iPhone 4 [Qotd] http://j.mp/cFmjfh #
Google’s Product Development Philosophy http://j.mp/bw7Z4u #
The Bike Share System of the Future is Powered by Wireless Technology http://j.mp/bJ9wGh #
Google, Just Cut The BS And Give The Gordon Gekko Speech Already http://j.mp/cX8sLr #
Why Eat Grass-fed Beef http://bit.ly/dcrxKA #
100-year-old Scotch pulled from frozen crate http://j.mp/cg79uQ #
Took the boys for a ride. Beautiful day. (@ South Mountain Reservation) http://4sq.com/coJ9XB #
Funny. We enjoyed it. #KickAss http://bit.ly/ddAtqk #
29 Years Ago, A Revolution in Computing http://j.mp/aqjdYX #
I earned the Silver level of the High Noon badge using Audible for iPhone. Want yours? http://bit.ly/adblapp #audible #
Why Amazon, Google and Facebook Will Drive More Online Sales for Businesses http://j.mp/bVC2if #
SWAGGER WAGON http://j.mp/d6jTy1 #
I liked a YouTube video — SWAGGER WAGON http://youtu.be/ql-N3F1FhW4?a #
My friend @ehackney is hiring a SCADA Project Coordinator. Contact him directly or via http://tinyurl.com/uwscadajob #jobs #
Facebook Dislike Button Is Fake [WARNING] http://j.mp/byED2y #
When Facebook Took The Internet From Google (GOOG) http://j.mp/deV564 #
A Lesson From Amazon: Focus On The Inputs (AMZN) http://j.mp/az2JeP #
Start-Ups Called to the Starting Line for Amazon Web Services Contest [Voices] http://j.mp/bSSraG #
I liked a YouTube video — Silent Star Wars http://youtu.be/eOjzLggAKis?a #
Silent Star Wars http://j.mp/dfkLMq #
4 Tools for Teaching Kids to Code http://j.mp/cIxHIo #
I favorited a YouTube video — Silent Star Wars http://youtu.be/eOjzLggAKis?a #
On the platform in Newark waiting for the train with no feedback. #njtransitfail #
I favorited a YouTube video — Lady Gaga’s Poker Face read by Christopher Walken – Frid… http://youtu.be/AJDx3H_hvI8?a #
Lady Gaga’s Poker Face read by Christopher Walken – Friday Night with Jonathan Ross – BBC One http://j.mp/a3wdO2 #
Studios Giving Up on DVD, Pushing VOD Instead http://j.mp/adqL7q #
Better Mathematics Through Punk http://j.mp/9Oq1pE #
All of Chewbacca’s Dialogue From ‘Star Wars’ http://j.mp/d1rA0c #
Grab a Free Zappos VIP Membership for Free Overnight Shipping [Dealhacker] http://j.mp/9feTvH #
Murdoch’s Times Misses A Third Month Of iPad Income http://j.mp/9W6jMD #
Facebook Projected to Overtake Google http://j.mp/bljWTE #
RT @ConsumeThis1st A Good Ice Cream is Hard to Find http://bit.ly/d09ylC #
How Authors Really Make Money: The Rebirth of Seth Godin and Death of Traditional Publishing http://j.mp/9peuWB #
Happy 15th Birthday to Windows 95, the Ugly Duckling that Conquered Your Desktop [Techversaries] http://j.mp/bWgONO #
The Future of TV Is Not on Cable http://j.mp/b0Y30D #
30 Old PC Ads That Will Blow Your Processor | Information Technology Schools http://bit.ly/94wGD8 #
Amazon: Kindle 3 Is the Fastest-Selling Kindle Ever http://j.mp/dbQpNO #
Why Google Has No Game http://j.mp/bFA3Xk #
Happy 4th Birthday Amazon EC2 http://j.mp/crTCA2 #
Netflix on iPhone: You’re Gonna Like It http://j.mp/de7g5A #
“Call from Gmail” Now Rolling Out to Google Apps, Too http://j.mp/ai0yBy #
Canned Beer Is The Future of Good Beer [Blotto] http://j.mp/ap5rRL #
Blockbuster’s Bankruptcy Could Be the Beginning of the End for DVDs http://j.mp/bLYAM9 #
Heading to the Zoo Train (@ Turtle Back Zoo w/ 2 others) http://4sq.com/a5zpW7 #
@schoukse bring some back to the office :-) in reply to schoukse #
Phone Numbers Are Dead, They Just Don’t Know It Yet http://j.mp/dctZss #
Why isn’t “Beyond the Lighted Stage” available for Video on Demand? I don’t even have a DVD player! http://t.co/TreMuQy via @amazon #
This is what a quadrillion looks like http://j.mp/dsyxpy #
While riding in SoMo today, Coltrane’s My Favorite Things, followed by Giant Steps, came on the iPod. A fitting coincidence to a good ride. #
The Full-On Assault On Cable Is Underway http://j.mp/c5vjrc #
Boba Fett Helmet Is Definitely One For Your Cargo Hold http://j.mp/c1iLga #
The wilderness above the streets (@ High Line Elevated Park) http://4sq.com/aoB9M8 #
Bands’ careers in 140 characters or less http://bit.ly/doDcAQ – Follow the brilliant @discographies (via @NMEmagazine) #
Five Reasons Why Best-Selling Authors Are Going Direct [Publishing] http://j.mp/ahde4Y #
Sign WIN http://j.mp/bFvFfc #
A gravity-defying coffee cup for math lovers [Nerd Aesthetics] http://j.mp/97FFWt #
Amazon Acquires Remaining Stake In Music Service Amie Street http://j.mp/anIBvh #
iOS 4.1 is live, available to download right now http://j.mp/bypKcs #
Google Instant Will Save 350 Million Hours Of User Time Per Year http://j.mp/cdvZpU #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy and @ccalder (we’re thinking of you @zeropts) http://odmcast.com #
Sulzberger Concedes: “We Will Stop Printing The New York Times Sometime In The Future” http://j.mp/dmWqkH #
Amazon EC2 for under $15/Month http://j.mp/cHmWAh #
Good friends and conversations. (@ Ted’s Fire Pit w/ @gadgetboy) http://4sq.com/a7sIak #
Don’t Tweet While Driving in Newark, the Mayor Is Watching [PublicSafety] http://j.mp/dyBd9e #
Twenty-Five Legendary Recording Studios – List Of The Day http://yhoo.it/cNDq8a #
Say Goodbye to Your Afternoon with YouTube Time Machine http://j.mp/dxAvZq #
Star Wars: Midichlorian Rhapsody http://j.mp/ds9HCW #
Google Instant Search in Chrome http://bit.ly/bC1GEV #
Just found out that Amazon is accepting Pre-Orders on the Boxee Box, HD Media Player http://amzn.to/9IXOmZ (via @boxee) #
Video: New Amazon Kindle Ad Shows How Impossible It Is To Read The iPad In Direct Sunlight http://j.mp/cjRwi4 #
Doc Searls: ‘Let’s Kill Interruptive Ads’ http://j.mp/brZxOH #
Stuff Bounty (But Not Han Solo) in Boba Fett’s Jetpack Backpack [Star Wars] http://j.mp/c8pjnv #
Amazon: Death by Cloud for Traditional Software http://j.mp/bedLYl #
I subscribed to schmoyoho’s channel on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/user/schmoyoho?feature=autoshare #
Subscribed to schmoyoho http://j.mp/adjrSR #
Audible.com Launches New Mobile Store and Makes a Splash with an iAd Featuring Jon Stewart http://j.mp/cearwY #
‘Stringbike’ Replaces Bike Chain With Wire Pulley System http://j.mp/bqQzLL #
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg to Donate $100 Million to Newark Schools – WSJ.com http://bit.ly/d66iSo #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy and @ccalder http://odmcast.com #
Is the Era of Cheap Food Ending? [Taste Test] http://j.mp/dywTMB #
Gloomy DayÂ WIN! http://j.mp/cXg3yn #
How To Use Your iPhone As a Bike Computer [Video] http://j.mp/9DnSdG #
Kids soccer game. (@ Stag field) http://4sq.com/9TZJ09 #
More soccer. (@ Redwood School) http://4sq.com/dfbFG0 #
He marcado como favorito un video de YouTube — OK Go – White Knuckles – Official Video http://youtu.be/nHlJODYBLKs?a #
OK Go – White Knuckles – Official Video http://j.mp/c1JSDs #
How Shazam Works To Identify (Nearly) Every Song You Throw At It [Music] http://j.mp/90QPIN #
A Look At The Technologies & Industries Senators Leahy & Hatch Would Have Banned In The Past http://j.mp/balsVh #
Amazon Adds Kindle For The Web, No App Needed (AMZN) http://j.mp/bntBYr #
Tim Armstrong: We Got TechCrunch! http://j.mp/dvk1S0 #
‘Star Wars’ saga set for 3D release starting 2012 Films will roll out in order, starting with ‘Phantom Menace’
http://j.mp/9ANGF5 #
How to Get Five Bars on Your iPhone All Over Your House http://j.mp/c7GmZX #
When Google Wanted To Sell To Excite For Under $1 Million — And They Passed http://j.mp/aXORCw #
So, just how popular is the iPhone? [Infographic] http://j.mp/d5S7jS #
Hilarious: Facebook Movie “The Social Network” In One Minute (Thanks, NMA!) http://j.mp/aj0Inb #
Why Johnny Can’t Program http://j.mp/bAbi9V #
Here comes Google TV http://j.mp/drJWoX #
Breaking: Twitter Founder Steps Down, Costolo New CEO http://j.mp/deuEfB #
Internet Explorer falls below 50 percent global marketshare, Chrome usage triples http://j.mp/cPbzsO #
The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future http://j.mp/bwp1EV #
Open Source Animated Movie Shows What Can Be Done Today http://j.mp/9Imqkf #
Wolfenstein 3D… in 1K of JavaScript http://j.mp/a4UtIy #
Google: Oracle’s Java patent suit invalid http://j.mp/cDGiB8 #
Logitech Revue with Google TV Available This Month for $299 http://j.mp/aGuiWr #
W3C Says HTML5 Isn’t Ready for the Web http://j.mp/as1XXl #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy, @ccalder, and @zeropts http://odmcast.com #
Just checked out The Jedi Path … it’s cool (envy) http://t.co/mLGjCQr via @amazon #
@schoukse OMG! You switched from the iPhone? Steve J. must be pissed ;-) in reply to schoukse #
@glemak yes indeed. It was good to have @zeropts back on the show too. in reply to glemak #
1010* fun things to do on 10/10/10 http://j.mp/92HSaN #
Google Launches Contest to Encourage Kids to Code http://j.mp/9A2v1F #
Play Text-Based Adventure Classic Zork On Your Kindle [Kindle] http://j.mp/agAqkQ #
Green Day @ Memorial Park (@ memorial park) http://4sq.com/cfb2LB #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-09

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

@schoukse OMG! You switched from the iPhone? Steve J. must be pissed ;-) in reply to schoukse #
@glemak yes indeed. It was good to have @zeropts back on the show too. in reply to glemak #
1010* fun things to do on 10/10/10 http://j.mp/92HSaN #
Google Launches Contest to Encourage Kids to Code http://j.mp/9A2v1F #
Play Text-Based Adventure Classic Zork On Your Kindle [Kindle] http://j.mp/agAqkQ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-08

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy, @ccalder, and @zeropts http://odmcast.com #
Just checked out The Jedi Path … it’s cool (envy) http://t.co/mLGjCQr via @amazon #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-10-07

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Internet Explorer falls below 50 percent global marketshare, Chrome usage triples http://j.mp/cPbzsO #
The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future http://j.mp/bwp1EV #
Open Source Animated Movie Shows What Can Be Done Today http://j.mp/9Imqkf #
Wolfenstein 3D… in 1K of JavaScript http://j.mp/a4UtIy #
Google: Oracle’s Java patent suit invalid http://j.mp/cDGiB8 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-06-20

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:47:00 +0000

Like E-Books? Amazon Sells More of Them, For Less, Than Apple. For Now [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-mltvc #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-06-19

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:47:00 +0000

Apple launches ‘Find My iPhone’ app to remotely wipe and find your lost treasure http://ff.im/-mhFVO #
On Digital Media 104: Incensed http://ff.im/-miSb1 #
Google like it’s 1981 with command-line tool http://ff.im/-mjFZY #
Sean Parker: Facebook Won Because Of MySpace’s “Gross Incompetence” http://ff.im/-mjG8y #
The Origins of Amazon’s Cloud Computing http://ff.im/-mjGYV #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-06-18

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:47:00 +0000

I liked a YouTube video — OK Go – End Love – Official Video http://youtu.be/V2fpgpanZAw?a #
OK Go – End Love – Official Video http://ff.im/-mgfG3 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-06-17

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:47:00 +0000

Google Explains Google TV In Video Walk-Through [Google] http://ff.im/-m9u03 #
This is too bad “Commentary: Boxee Box a Lesson in Killing Momentum” http://bit.ly/bXZ9EG #
How To Watch The World Cup Without That Awful Buzzing Sound http://ff.im/-mbE79 #
If You Buy CDs, You’re Probably an Oldster http://ff.im/-mbEy9 #
Why I’m *Not* a Fanboy http://ff.im/-mbLVj #
Use the USB Port on Your HDTV or Game Console to Charge Your Phone [Clever Uses] http://ff.im/-mbNMC #
RT @getfitokc: How long does a Happy Meal stay fresh? http://www.getfitokc.com/uly #
Retrofit your vehicle with hybrid power in less than six hours: http://bit.ly/9QZb4Z (via @autobloggreen) #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-06-16

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:47:00 +0000

Starbucks Offering Free AT&T Wi-Fi at Stores Starting July 1st http://ff.im/-m5Iwi #
iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Overwhelm System http://ff.im/-m7xM6 #
AT&T sold out of iPhone 4 pre-orders for launch day http://ff.im/-m7yHf #
Apple the #iPhone4 per-order was absolutely the worst customer experience I have ever had online #applefail #fb #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-06-15

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:47:00 +0000

Twitter Launches “Places” Feature with Foursquare Integration http://ff.im/-m3KqJ #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-14

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:39:00 +0000

GE Engineer Crushes Your Childhood Dreams [Lightsabers] http://ff.im/-lT8cr #
Oh Boy! Now they’ve Found Lead in Kids’ Fruit Juice/Products http://ff.im/-lUVJx #
People Always Say New Mediums Are Making Us Stupider — And They’re Always Wrong http://ff.im/-lUXFY #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-06-13

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:47:00 +0000

Oh Boy! Now they’ve Found Lead in Kids’ Fruit Juice/Products http://ff.im/-lUVJx #
People Always Say New Mediums Are Making Us Stupider — And They’re Always Wrong http://ff.im/-lUXFY #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-06-12

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:47:00 +0000

GE Engineer Crushes Your Childhood Dreams [Lightsabers] http://ff.im/-lT8cr #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-11

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:39:00 +0000

Is milk from grass-fed cows better for you? (Reuters) http://ff.im/-le0rM #
Is Print Media Doomed Worldwide or Just In The US? http://ff.im/-le0Ig #
Netflix on AWS http://ff.im/-leg8a #
How Depressing Must Your Job Be If It’s Focus Is On Breaking What The Technology Allows http://ff.im/-lhsC4 #
Why Google TV As A Platform May Push Apple To Build Televisions http://ff.im/-llami #
Star Wars Kid Returns, Without His Lightsaber http://ff.im/-loPSh #
Sir Patrick Stewart: Britain’s Newest Knight [Congratulations] http://ff.im/-lp6xI #
On Digital Media 102: Disruption http://ff.im/-lqBgu #
Nokia releases bike-powered phone charger http://ff.im/-lqD9c #
AOL Isn’t Negotiating A Search Deal, It’s Negotiating An Eventual Sale To Microsoft (AOL, MSFT, YHOO, GOOG) http://ff.im/-lt35B #
Yahoo Goes All In With Facebook: Here Are The Screenshots http://ff.im/-lzOw6 #
On Amazon Prime http://ff.im/-lzQwt #
Queen Elizabeth Knights Patrick Stewart With Light Saber http://ff.im/-lzQLe #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-06-11

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:47:00 +0000

Star Wars Kid Returns, Without His Lightsaber http://ff.im/-loPSh #
Sir Patrick Stewart: Britain’s Newest Knight [Congratulations] http://ff.im/-lp6xI #
On Digital Media 102: Disruption http://ff.im/-lqBgu #
Nokia releases bike-powered phone charger http://ff.im/-lqD9c #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-06-02

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Why Google TV As A Platform May Push Apple To Build Televisions http://ff.im/-llami #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-06-01

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:47:00 +0000

How Depressing Must Your Job Be If It’s Focus Is On Breaking What The Technology Allows http://ff.im/-lhsC4 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-31

Mon, 31 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Is milk from grass-fed cows better for you? (Reuters) http://ff.im/-le0rM #
Is Print Media Doomed Worldwide or Just In The US? http://ff.im/-le0Ig #
Netflix on AWS http://ff.im/-leg8a #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-30

Sun, 30 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Cyclists inhale five times as many toxic particles as car passengers, research found http://bit.ly/a6Qa5P #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-30

Sun, 30 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Cyclists inhale five times as many toxic particles as car passengers, research found http://bit.ly/a6Qa5P #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-30

Sun, 30 May 2010 21:39:00 +0000

Kindle 2.5 Update Starts Trickling Out the Social Goodies [Kindle] http://ff.im/-kPXLh #
Apple Probably Killing The iPhone 3G (Because it doesn’t have enough memory to support the iPhone OS 4 multitasking) http://bit.ly/cvmNZG #
Boxee CEO: Google TV Could Boost or Crush Us http://ff.im/-kRtN6 #
With New Partners, Google PowerMeter Becomes More than Just a Side Project http://ff.im/-kRANP #
Facebook and Twitter Coming to Kindle–In Glorious Black and White [Digital Daily] http://ff.im/-kRANN #
DONT PANIC http://ff.im/-kTdiA #
Man Infects Himself with Computer Virus http://yhoo.it/9L1qJF #
iPhone vulnerability leaves your data wide open, even when using a PIN http://ff.im/-l0k2s #
Studios want digital entertainment to replicate the ubiquitous playback of DVDs? Somehow I don’t believe it http://bit.ly/9zrEOO #
On Digital Media 100: Milestone http://ff.im/-l1WeN #
On Digital Media 101: Googlicious http://ff.im/-l1WeU #
The Windows Era Is Over [Voices] http://ff.im/-l42xs #
I Agree 100% “what strikes me most about the Wired app is how amazingly similar it is to a CD-ROM from the 90s.” http://bit.ly/doVoM5 #
Cyclists inhale five times as many toxic particles as car passengers, research found http://bit.ly/a6Qa5P #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-28

Fri, 28 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

The Windows Era Is Over [Voices] http://ff.im/-l42xs #
I Agree 100% “what strikes me most about the Wired app is how amazingly similar it is to a CD-ROM from the 90s.” http://bit.ly/doVoM5 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-27

Thu, 27 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

iPhone vulnerability leaves your data wide open, even when using a PIN http://ff.im/-l0k2s #
Studios want digital entertainment to replicate the ubiquitous playback of DVDs? Somehow I don’t believe it http://bit.ly/9zrEOO #
On Digital Media 100: Milestone http://ff.im/-l1WeN #
On Digital Media 101: Googlicious http://ff.im/-l1WeU #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-26

Wed, 26 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Man Infects Himself with Computer Virus http://yhoo.it/9L1qJF #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-25

Tue, 25 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

DONT PANIC http://ff.im/-kTdiA #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-24

Mon, 24 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Kindle 2.5 Update Starts Trickling Out the Social Goodies [Kindle] http://ff.im/-kPXLh #
Apple Probably Killing The iPhone 3G (Because it doesn’t have enough memory to support the iPhone OS 4 multitasking) http://bit.ly/cvmNZG #
Boxee CEO: Google TV Could Boost or Crush Us http://ff.im/-kRtN6 #
With New Partners, Google PowerMeter Becomes More than Just a Side Project http://ff.im/-kRANP #
Facebook and Twitter Coming to Kindle–In Glorious Black and White [Digital Daily] http://ff.im/-kRANN #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-23

Sun, 23 May 2010 21:39:00 +0000

So much for the idea that iPad apps will save magazines: “Conde Nast: So far 365 people have bought GQ’s December… http://ff.im/-kszgI #
The iAngle might just be the most clever iPhone stand ever http://ff.im/-kudZy #
Mick Jagger Talks Tech, Gives the Finger to the Recording Industry http://ff.im/-kudZA #
(shameless) Why iPad owners need a Kindle, too http://bit.ly/99Af6g #
Yahoo Buys Online Content Factory for $90 Million http://ff.im/-kxkJv #
Use The Fork, Luke: Star Wars Cookbooks Serve Up Recipes For Boba Fett-ucine, Qui-Gon Jinn-ger Snaps & More http://ff.im/-kz54b #
Meet Gink: A Social Network With Blorkiffability [Humor] http://ff.im/-kAxMh #
Amazon Expands Book Publishing Business http://ff.im/-kAxSA #
Greed, Cancer and Pink KFC Buckets http://ff.im/-kAyDh #
Yahoo Is “Sniffing” Around Local News Network Fwix, Deleted Tweet Suggests (AOL, YHOO) http://ff.im/-kAyL2 #
Watching the Tour of California even though I know who one today’s stage http://bit.ly/9kRg4H #
Calculate How Much Biking to Work Would Save [Commute] http://ff.im/-kCTMx #
RT @mashable Google TV Has Arrived [VIDEO] http://bit.ly/bv5pSr #google #google-tv #trending #
The Floyd Landis coming clean thing depresses me. I thought (hoped) he was innocent. Shame (for cycling) http://bit.ly/dB0s4H #
Schmidt Says Google TV Ads Will Be a Cash Machine http://ff.im/-kERu4 #
iPhone 3G’s Android port is ready to download http://ff.im/-kGTuY #
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? | Information Is Beautiful http://bit.ly/arHLlN #
‘The Empire Strikes Back’ Turns 30 http://ff.im/-kII1B #
While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core http://ff.im/-kL9RE #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-22

Sat, 22 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core http://ff.im/-kL9RE #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-21

Fri, 21 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

iPhone 3G’s Android port is ready to download http://ff.im/-kGTuY #
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? | Information Is Beautiful http://bit.ly/arHLlN #
‘The Empire Strikes Back’ Turns 30 http://ff.im/-kII1B #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-20

Thu, 20 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Calculate How Much Biking to Work Would Save [Commute] http://ff.im/-kCTMx #
RT @mashable Google TV Has Arrived [VIDEO] http://bit.ly/bv5pSr #google #google-tv #trending #
The Floyd Landis coming clean thing depresses me. I thought (hoped) he was innocent. Shame (for cycling) http://bit.ly/dB0s4H #
Schmidt Says Google TV Ads Will Be a Cash Machine http://ff.im/-kERu4 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-19

Wed, 19 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Use The Fork, Luke: Star Wars Cookbooks Serve Up Recipes For Boba Fett-ucine, Qui-Gon Jinn-ger Snaps & More http://ff.im/-kz54b #
Meet Gink: A Social Network With Blorkiffability [Humor] http://ff.im/-kAxMh #
Amazon Expands Book Publishing Business http://ff.im/-kAxSA #
Greed, Cancer and Pink KFC Buckets http://ff.im/-kAyDh #
Yahoo Is “Sniffing” Around Local News Network Fwix, Deleted Tweet Suggests (AOL, YHOO) http://ff.im/-kAyL2 #
Watching the Tour of California even though I know who one today’s stage http://bit.ly/9kRg4H #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-18

Tue, 18 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

(shameless) Why iPad owners need a Kindle, too http://bit.ly/99Af6g #
Yahoo Buys Online Content Factory for $90 Million http://ff.im/-kxkJv #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-17

Mon, 17 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

So much for the idea that iPad apps will save magazines: “Conde Nast: So far 365 people have bought GQ’s December… http://ff.im/-kszgI #
The iAngle might just be the most clever iPhone stand ever http://ff.im/-kudZy #
Mick Jagger Talks Tech, Gives the Finger to the Recording Industry http://ff.im/-kudZA #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-16

Sun, 16 May 2010 21:39:00 +0000

Internet Archive Releases Amazon S3 Like API http://ff.im/-k77AC #
Facebook Confirms Its Location Product http://ff.im/-k77AN #
Listening to “This Ain’t No Picnic” by Minutemen http://bit.ly/dscHu7 #nowplaying #
Google’s Secret Plan to Save Newspapers: Sell More Expensive Ads [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-k9YXw #
Going Nuts for Lower Cholesterol http://ff.im/-kdmLg #
Google Wants You to Upgrade Office With Google Docs http://ff.im/-kdo9V #
iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing [Voices] http://ff.im/-kdoHA #
Big Music Wins One: LimeWire Loses Court Fight [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-kf8Fa #
Let’s Try This Again: How Much Web Video is Really iPad-Ready? [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-kgOG3 #
Why Comcast’s ‘Xfinity Remote’ Could Be More Than Just Another App http://ff.im/-kgXt6 #
Trail Working in the South Mountain Reservation: http://bit.ly/bBN9CC #
To Fix Bridge, Skateboard Mecca May Be Lost for Years http://ff.im/-kiDz8 #
HTML5: Hulu Says No, Muxtape Says Yes http://ff.im/-kiE59 #
Apple Rumor Watch: Cloud-Based iTunes on June 7? http://ff.im/-kkcXB #
New York Times to slap up paywall in January, says editor Bill Keller, at a Foreign Press Association dinner. http://ff.im/-kkdja #
Microsoft: IE6 is past its expiration date http://ff.im/-kkmMt #
Listening to The National Anthem by Radiohead http://bit.ly/ajnKZQ #nowplaying #
Uh-Oh, 0.00000068% Of Facebook Users Promise To Quit On May 31 http://ff.im/-klTqN #
Google to offer encrypted search next week http://ff.im/-klXXD #
Hands-on with the WiFiSync app http://ff.im/-klTHZ #
Hacking the Car: Next-gen Vehicles at the Mercy of Cyber Attacks http://ff.im/-klSMi #
I liked a YouTube video — BLUE RIBBON GLEE CLUB “Waiting Room” http://youtu.be/yBqRwmdzSQQ?a #
BLUE RIBBON GLEE CLUB “Waiting Room” http://ff.im/-kmjuL #
Blue Ribbon Glee Club Sings Fugazi’s “Waiting Room” (thanks Jim) http://bit.ly/9aOqv8 #
Public Image Ltd. Returns For A Thrilling Live Concert http://ff.im/-knoS7 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-15

Sat, 15 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Public Image Ltd. Returns For A Thrilling Live Concert http://ff.im/-knoS7 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-14

Fri, 14 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Apple Rumor Watch: Cloud-Based iTunes on June 7? http://ff.im/-kkcXB #
New York Times to slap up paywall in January, says editor Bill Keller, at a Foreign Press Association dinner. http://ff.im/-kkdja #
Microsoft: IE6 is past its expiration date http://ff.im/-kkmMt #
Listening to The National Anthem by Radiohead http://bit.ly/ajnKZQ #nowplaying #
Uh-Oh, 0.00000068% Of Facebook Users Promise To Quit On May 31 http://ff.im/-klTqN #
Google to offer encrypted search next week http://ff.im/-klXXD #
Hands-on with the WiFiSync app http://ff.im/-klTHZ #
Hacking the Car: Next-gen Vehicles at the Mercy of Cyber Attacks http://ff.im/-klSMi #
I liked a YouTube video — BLUE RIBBON GLEE CLUB “Waiting Room” http://youtu.be/yBqRwmdzSQQ?a #
BLUE RIBBON GLEE CLUB “Waiting Room” http://ff.im/-kmjuL #
Blue Ribbon Glee Club Sings Fugazi’s “Waiting Room” (thanks Jim) http://bit.ly/9aOqv8 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-13

Thu, 13 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Let’s Try This Again: How Much Web Video is Really iPad-Ready? [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-kgOG3 #
Why Comcast’s ‘Xfinity Remote’ Could Be More Than Just Another App http://ff.im/-kgXt6 #
Trail Working in the South Mountain Reservation: http://bit.ly/bBN9CC #
To Fix Bridge, Skateboard Mecca May Be Lost for Years http://ff.im/-kiDz8 #
HTML5: Hulu Says No, Muxtape Says Yes http://ff.im/-kiE59 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-12

Wed, 12 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Going Nuts for Lower Cholesterol http://ff.im/-kdmLg #
Google Wants You to Upgrade Office With Google Docs http://ff.im/-kdo9V #
iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing [Voices] http://ff.im/-kdoHA #
Big Music Wins One: LimeWire Loses Court Fight [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-kf8Fa #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-11

Tue, 11 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Google’s Secret Plan to Save Newspapers: Sell More Expensive Ads [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-k9YXw #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-10

Mon, 10 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Internet Archive Releases Amazon S3 Like API http://ff.im/-k77AC #
Facebook Confirms Its Location Product http://ff.im/-k77AN #
Listening to “This Ain’t No Picnic” by Minutemen http://bit.ly/dscHu7 #nowplaying #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09

Sun, 09 May 2010 21:39:00 +0000

Rush documentary wins Tribeca audience award (Reuters) http://ff.im/-jKcZB #
HTML5 Extensibility: Here comes the Semantic Web! ;) http://ff.im/-jKq4e #
AOL Wants To ‘Beat The Internet’ (AOL) http://ff.im/-jKqgk #
What Would You Need to Ditch Cable Television? [Ask The Readers] http://ff.im/-jLUVD #
Google Chrome Market Share Surges, Apple’s Safari Dead In Water, Microsoft’s IE Drowning (GOOG) http://ff.im/-jNHDE #
Books To Come in Exciting New Google Flavor [Media Wars] http://ff.im/-jPsfR #
Boba Fett helmet for your Star Wars-loving mom http://ff.im/-jPt1d #
Kindle popular http://ff.im/-jPth5 #
May The 4th Be With You http://ff.im/-jPBS5 #
Cable TV Won’t Lose To The Internet Because It’s Making Too Much Money? http://ff.im/-jQaAa #
AOL’s $50 Million Expansion Of Local Blog Network Patch Is Underway (AOL) http://ff.im/-jRm2r #
Threadsy Combines All Your Inboxes and Social Streams on One Page [Inboxes] http://ff.im/-jRnzY #
The Newton Messagepad that got away http://ff.im/-jT6Ib #
Roku teases revamped Netflix Channel user interface on video, coming in June http://ff.im/-jT7aG #
Simon & Schuster’s Digital Publishing Revenue Up Sharply http://ff.im/-jT7fQ #
Newsweek’s Jon Meacham On ‘The Daily Show’: It’s Time To Flip The Switch From Print To Digital http://ff.im/-jUNTy #
Make Your iPad Into A Netbook – Argh Stop It! http://ff.im/-jUWhh #
Potato gun, lightning, and sonic magic: Unconventional speed tests for the browser: http://bit.ly/9G1aih #
Google Apps To Become More Connected—Adding Picasa, Reader, AdWords And More http://ff.im/-jWJnQ #
New Jersey Bike Month Events! http://ff.im/-jWJG1 #
SoundHound is a Near Total Music App Replacement for iPhone [Downloads] http://ff.im/-jWJRq #
TweetyMail: It’s Twitter Over Email. And It Works http://ff.im/-jYmwC #
Turn Your Lenses Upside Down http://ff.im/-jYr60 #
Listening to Sail To The Moon by Radiohead http://bit.ly/9SYD3L #nowplaying #
Report: Facebook Location Coming In A Few Weeks. But Is It Foursquare Or Twitter? http://ff.im/-k0aTI #
Stop-Motion ‘Star Wars’ Revitalizes LEGO Adaptations http://ff.im/-k0byG #
Kindle’s social networking-friendly 2.5 update gets an early preview http://ff.im/-k0byJ #
I liked a YouTube video — The Fastest and Funniest LEGO Star Wars story ever told http://youtu.be/z0z_TU4Gw5o?a #
The Fastest and Funniest LEGO Star Wars story ever told http://ff.im/-k0mDY #
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Being Played Out Live On Twitter And Foursquare. (It’s over. Go home!). http://tcrn.ch/chIKMJ #
Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash? http://ff.im/-k1xvQ #
I just became the mayor of Hat City Kitchen on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/9MFXUD #
Here to see Paul Gargiulo Band (@ Hat City Kitchen) http://4sq.com/9MFXUD #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-08

Sat, 08 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash? http://ff.im/-k1xvQ #
I just became the mayor of Hat City Kitchen on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/9MFXUD #
Here to see Paul Gargiulo Band (@ Hat City Kitchen) http://4sq.com/9MFXUD #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-07

Fri, 07 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

TweetyMail: It’s Twitter Over Email. And It Works http://ff.im/-jYmwC #
Turn Your Lenses Upside Down http://ff.im/-jYr60 #
Listening to Sail To The Moon by Radiohead http://bit.ly/9SYD3L #nowplaying #
Report: Facebook Location Coming In A Few Weeks. But Is It Foursquare Or Twitter? http://ff.im/-k0aTI #
Stop-Motion ‘Star Wars’ Revitalizes LEGO Adaptations http://ff.im/-k0byG #
Kindle’s social networking-friendly 2.5 update gets an early preview http://ff.im/-k0byJ #
I liked a YouTube video — The Fastest and Funniest LEGO Star Wars story ever told http://youtu.be/z0z_TU4Gw5o?a #
The Fastest and Funniest LEGO Star Wars story ever told http://ff.im/-k0mDY #
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Being Played Out Live On Twitter And Foursquare. (It’s over. Go home!). http://tcrn.ch/chIKMJ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-06

Thu, 06 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Newsweek’s Jon Meacham On ‘The Daily Show’: It’s Time To Flip The Switch From Print To Digital http://ff.im/-jUNTy #
Make Your iPad Into A Netbook – Argh Stop It! http://ff.im/-jUWhh #
Potato gun, lightning, and sonic magic: Unconventional speed tests for the browser: http://bit.ly/9G1aih #
Google Apps To Become More Connected—Adding Picasa, Reader, AdWords And More http://ff.im/-jWJnQ #
New Jersey Bike Month Events! http://ff.im/-jWJG1 #
SoundHound is a Near Total Music App Replacement for iPhone [Downloads] http://ff.im/-jWJRq #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-05

Wed, 05 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Cable TV Won’t Lose To The Internet Because It’s Making Too Much Money? http://ff.im/-jQaAa #
AOL’s $50 Million Expansion Of Local Blog Network Patch Is Underway (AOL) http://ff.im/-jRm2r #
Threadsy Combines All Your Inboxes and Social Streams on One Page [Inboxes] http://ff.im/-jRnzY #
The Newton Messagepad that got away http://ff.im/-jT6Ib #
Roku teases revamped Netflix Channel user interface on video, coming in June http://ff.im/-jT7aG #
Simon & Schuster’s Digital Publishing Revenue Up Sharply http://ff.im/-jT7fQ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-04

Tue, 04 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Google Chrome Market Share Surges, Apple’s Safari Dead In Water, Microsoft’s IE Drowning (GOOG) http://ff.im/-jNHDE #
Books To Come in Exciting New Google Flavor [Media Wars] http://ff.im/-jPsfR #
Boba Fett helmet for your Star Wars-loving mom http://ff.im/-jPt1d #
Kindle popular http://ff.im/-jPth5 #
May The 4th Be With You http://ff.im/-jPBS5 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-05-03

Mon, 03 May 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Rush documentary wins Tribeca audience award (Reuters) http://ff.im/-jKcZB #
HTML5 Extensibility: Here comes the Semantic Web! ;) http://ff.im/-jKq4e #
AOL Wants To ‘Beat The Internet’ (AOL) http://ff.im/-jKqgk #
What Would You Need to Ditch Cable Television? [Ask The Readers] http://ff.im/-jLUVD #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02

Sun, 02 May 2010 21:39:00 +0000

Wireless iPod/iPhone/iPad Syncing Is Awesome — Too Bad It Will Likely Be Rejected [Video] http://ff.im/-jpSjs #
Mozilla Contacts Adds Facebook and Yahoo Support http://ff.im/-jrsvn #
Geocities-izer Revives Dead Web Host in All Its Animated GIF Glory http://ff.im/-juz91 #
WiFi Sync For iPhone – Speed Demo http://ff.im/-jvYgL #
AOL Sells ICQ To DST — FYI http://ff.im/-jw6tD #
Lessons from Yahoo’s iPad App in the Cloud http://ff.im/-jw7IB #
May is Bike Month http://ff.im/-jw7Z8 #
Kindle Firmware Update Includes Facebook and Twitter Integration http://ff.im/-jxYTi #
Google TV to be Unveiled Next Month http://ff.im/-jyoLr #
RT @mashable Steve Jobs: Flash Is No Longer Necessary http://bit.ly/dbMZXf #apple #flash #steve jobs #
Apple Shutting Lala: Subscription iTunes Soon? http://ff.im/-jBAPv #
The State Of Web Development Ripped Apart In 25 Tweets By One Man http://ff.im/-jBMCH #
After all this time I’m still a Rush fan and looking forward to Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary out in June http://bit.ly/cCyDYy #
Apple iPad 3G Already Jailbroken [Ipad] http://ff.im/-jDrs9 #
P J Harvey debuts new songs on TV and will design Zoetrope literary magazine http://ff.im/-jDrDb #
Apple May Be Gunning for Open Source Codecs http://ff.im/-jDswr #
RT @ConsumeThis1st Pre-made lunch vs. homemade lunch http://bit.ly/cktZFM #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-30

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Apple Shutting Lala: Subscription iTunes Soon? http://ff.im/-jBAPv #
The State Of Web Development Ripped Apart In 25 Tweets By One Man http://ff.im/-jBMCH #
After all this time I’m still a Rush fan and looking forward to Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary out in June http://bit.ly/cCyDYy #
Apple iPad 3G Already Jailbroken [Ipad] http://ff.im/-jDrs9 #
P J Harvey debuts new songs on TV and will design Zoetrope literary magazine http://ff.im/-jDrDb #
Apple May Be Gunning for Open Source Codecs http://ff.im/-jDswr #
RT @ConsumeThis1st Pre-made lunch vs. homemade lunch http://bit.ly/cktZFM #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-29

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Kindle Firmware Update Includes Facebook and Twitter Integration http://ff.im/-jxYTi #
Google TV to be Unveiled Next Month http://ff.im/-jyoLr #
RT @mashable Steve Jobs: Flash Is No Longer Necessary http://bit.ly/dbMZXf #apple #flash #steve jobs #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-28

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

WiFi Sync For iPhone – Speed Demo http://ff.im/-jvYgL #
AOL Sells ICQ To DST — FYI http://ff.im/-jw6tD #
Lessons from Yahoo’s iPad App in the Cloud http://ff.im/-jw7IB #
May is Bike Month http://ff.im/-jw7Z8 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-27

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Geocities-izer Revives Dead Web Host in All Its Animated GIF Glory http://ff.im/-juz91 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-26

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Wireless iPod/iPhone/iPad Syncing Is Awesome — Too Bad It Will Likely Be Rejected [Video] http://ff.im/-jpSjs #
Mozilla Contacts Adds Facebook and Yahoo Support http://ff.im/-jrsvn #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:39:00 +0000

Tim O’Reilly Explains the Internet of Things http://ff.im/-jb0go #
Google’s Battle For Your ID Against Facebook Heating Up http://ff.im/-jdhSw #
Hotel to guests: Pedal for electricity, get a voucher http://ff.im/-je3mr #
What Will the Browser Look Like in Five Years? [Voices] http://ff.im/-jeJbF #
Watching: ‘Food Inc.’ by Robert Kenner (frightening) http://amzn.to/be5jHg #fb #
Hey @macslocum nice interview on O’Reilly http://oreil.ly/ccCbpx #
Kindle Coming to Target: Are Consumers Ready? http://ff.im/-jeRZP #
iPhone running Android OS http://ff.im/-jfpl4 #
I hate computers: confessions of a sysadmin http://ff.im/-jg8gO #
How The Huffington Post’s Traffic Is Killing Rival News Sites http://ff.im/-jgaYr #
Why Newspapers Need to Heed Facebook, Now http://ff.im/-jgbiX #
Why Would Anyone License Palm’s WebOS When Android Is Already The Winner? (PALM, GOOG) http://ff.im/-jjpOp #
Why We Need an Open “Like” Standard http://ff.im/-jjq25 #
Blippy Caught in Apparent User Privacy Breach http://ff.im/-jjq6V #
My wife @consumethis1st is guest blogging on @Fooducate Check out her latest post “Just Say NO to Canned Frosting” http://bit.ly/di20S7 #fb #
Learn to Pair Beer with Food – Food – Lifehacker http://bit.ly/bqQmXP #
The Death (Or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store http://ff.im/-jlKTx #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:39:00 +0000

Tim O’Reilly Explains the Internet of Things http://ff.im/-jb0go #
Google’s Battle For Your ID Against Facebook Heating Up http://ff.im/-jdhSw #
Hotel to guests: Pedal for electricity, get a voucher http://ff.im/-je3mr #
What Will the Browser Look Like in Five Years? [Voices] http://ff.im/-jeJbF #
Watching: ‘Food Inc.’ by Robert Kenner (frightening) http://amzn.to/be5jHg #fb #
Hey @macslocum nice interview on O’Reilly http://oreil.ly/ccCbpx #
Kindle Coming to Target: Are Consumers Ready? http://ff.im/-jeRZP #
iPhone running Android OS http://ff.im/-jfpl4 #
I hate computers: confessions of a sysadmin http://ff.im/-jg8gO #
How The Huffington Post’s Traffic Is Killing Rival News Sites http://ff.im/-jgaYr #
Why Newspapers Need to Heed Facebook, Now http://ff.im/-jgbiX #
Why Would Anyone License Palm’s WebOS When Android Is Already The Winner? (PALM, GOOG) http://ff.im/-jjpOp #
Why We Need an Open “Like” Standard http://ff.im/-jjq25 #
Blippy Caught in Apparent User Privacy Breach http://ff.im/-jjq6V #
My wife @consumethis1st is guest blogging on @Fooducate Check out her latest post “Just Say NO to Canned Frosting” http://bit.ly/di20S7 #fb #
Learn to Pair Beer with Food – Food – Lifehacker http://bit.ly/bqQmXP #
The Death (Or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store http://ff.im/-jlKTx #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-24

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Learn to Pair Beer with Food – Food – Lifehacker http://bit.ly/bqQmXP #
The Death (Or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store http://ff.im/-jlKTx #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-23

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Why Would Anyone License Palm’s WebOS When Android Is Already The Winner? (PALM, GOOG) http://ff.im/-jjpOp #
Why We Need an Open “Like” Standard http://ff.im/-jjq25 #
Blippy Caught in Apparent User Privacy Breach http://ff.im/-jjq6V #
My wife @consumethis1st is guest blogging on @Fooducate Check out her latest post “Just Say NO to Canned Frosting” http://bit.ly/di20S7 #fb #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-22

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

iPhone running Android OS http://ff.im/-jfpl4 #
I hate computers: confessions of a sysadmin http://ff.im/-jg8gO #
How The Huffington Post’s Traffic Is Killing Rival News Sites http://ff.im/-jgaYr #
Why Newspapers Need to Heed Facebook, Now http://ff.im/-jgbiX #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-21

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Hotel to guests: Pedal for electricity, get a voucher http://ff.im/-je3mr #
What Will the Browser Look Like in Five Years? [Voices] http://ff.im/-jeJbF #
Watching: ‘Food Inc.’ by Robert Kenner (frightening) http://amzn.to/be5jHg #fb #
Hey @macslocum nice interview on O’Reilly http://oreil.ly/ccCbpx #
Kindle Coming to Target: Are Consumers Ready? http://ff.im/-jeRZP #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-20

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Google’s Battle For Your ID Against Facebook Heating Up http://ff.im/-jdhSw #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-19

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Tim O’Reilly Explains the Internet of Things http://ff.im/-jb0go #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-18

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:39:00 +0000

Music Downloads and Streams In Cold, Hard Dollars [Music] http://ff.im/-j0H1J #
Apple vs Google: The Next 10 Battles To Watch (GOOG, AAPL) http://ff.im/-j0HMx #
Twitter CEO Ev Williams: Revenue Is A Feature http://ff.im/-j2dv3 #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast (live!) in video too (OMG): http://odmcast.com/live #fb #
Jobs Confirms International Launch of Both 3G and WiFi iPad via Email http://ff.im/-j7UC5 #
It’s Time for A Digital Used Book Store on the iPad http://ff.im/-j7UE6 #
Capture Fox: A Screencasting Add-on for Firefox http://ff.im/-j7UXk #
Apple Fans Are Clueless About Security, Hacker Says http://ff.im/-j8eTF #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-17

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Apple Fans Are Clueless About Security, Hacker Says http://ff.im/-j8eTF #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-16

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Jobs Confirms International Launch of Both 3G and WiFi iPad via Email http://ff.im/-j7UC5 #
It’s Time for A Digital Used Book Store on the iPad http://ff.im/-j7UE6 #
Capture Fox: A Screencasting Add-on for Firefox http://ff.im/-j7UXk #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-15

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Recording the On Digital Media Podcast (live!) in video too (OMG): http://odmcast.com/live #fb #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-14

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Music Downloads and Streams In Cold, Hard Dollars [Music] http://ff.im/-j0H1J #
Apple vs Google: The Next 10 Battles To Watch (GOOG, AAPL) http://ff.im/-j0HMx #
Twitter CEO Ev Williams: Revenue Is A Feature http://ff.im/-j2dv3 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-11

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Steve Jobs Weighs In On iPhone Programming Language Mandate http://ff.im/-iS782 #
Are Passwords a Waste of Time? [Passwords] http://ff.im/-iSqDG #
What Google Needs To Do To Fix Its Android App Store (And Win Over Angry iPhone Developers) (GOOG, AAPL) http://ff.im/-iSrI5 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-11

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:39:00 +0000

Shirky: What “people must pay for content” really means http://ff.im/-iAFFT #
Why Is Time Charging $5 For Its iPad App? [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-iBojB #
“iPad’s best days will be a few years down the road, when it costs $199 and buying it is much less of a commitment” .http://bit.ly/bfxAgF #
Do You Remember 1980?: Albums Celebrating Their 30th Anniversary Pt. 1 http://bit.ly/9jgI8N #
RT @ConsumeThis1st Why Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution is destined to fail http://bit.ly/94bwsm #
Gartner: Most Kids Will Use PCs With Touchscreens by 2015 http://ff.im/-iEKsu #
Gartner: Most Kids Will Use PCs With Touchscreens by 2015 http://ff.im/-iEKsu #
The iPad as Enterprise Tool http://ff.im/-iEWhV #
The Twitter Platform’s Inflection Point http://ff.im/-iEWPR #
Are e-readers really green? http://ff.im/-iEXHx #
Are e-readers really green? http://ff.im/-iEXHx #
The iPad: Amazon’s Secret Weapon [Ebooks] http://ff.im/-iEXNw #
The iPad: Amazon’s Secret Weapon [Ebooks] http://ff.im/-iEXNw #
Very cool! Amazon Simple Notification Service http://bit.ly/bjYL19 #
Google Testing Google Voice Desktop App Internally http://ff.im/-iGMN6 #
Google Testing Google Voice Desktop App Internally http://ff.im/-iGMN6 #
New Show Takes ‘Mythbusters’ Formula to Video Game Concepts http://ff.im/-iIfJO #
New Show Takes ‘Mythbusters’ Formula to Video Game Concepts http://ff.im/-iIfJO #
Android Market gets 9,000 new apps in March, world domination can’t be far behind http://ff.im/-iIg4Q #
Kindle Killer? Reading on the iPad Will Make You Go Blind http://ff.im/-iIgPT #
Kindle Killer? Reading on the iPad Will Make You Go Blind http://ff.im/-iIgPT #
Ease Young Jedis At Bedtime With a RC Lightsaber Nightlight [Star Wars] http://ff.im/-iIgUp #
Murdoch Still Talking Like A Crazy Man (NWS) http://ff.im/-iIpJ1 #
The Apple-Adobe War Escalates: Using Flash to Build iPhone Apps Banned http://ff.im/-iK9M4 #
A Guide to Recycling Nearly Anything [Recycling] http://ff.im/-iKaey #
Finally, Broadband Over Powerline, R.I.P. http://ff.im/-iKLxa #
Nice! RT @alleyinsider: So much for all the money you just spent on SEO http://bit.ly/c3FO5s #
Date night :-) (@ Hat City Kitchen) http://4sq.com/9MFXUD #
Steve Jobs Weighs In On iPhone Programming Language Mandate http://ff.im/-iS782 #
Are Passwords a Waste of Time? [Passwords] http://ff.im/-iSqDG #
What Google Needs To Do To Fix Its Android App Store (And Win Over Angry iPhone Developers) (GOOG, AAPL) http://ff.im/-iSrI5 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-10

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Date night :-) (@ Hat City Kitchen) http://4sq.com/9MFXUD #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-09

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Nice! RT @alleyinsider: So much for all the money you just spent on SEO http://bit.ly/c3FO5s #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-08

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

New Show Takes ‘Mythbusters’ Formula to Video Game Concepts http://ff.im/-iIfJO #
New Show Takes ‘Mythbusters’ Formula to Video Game Concepts http://ff.im/-iIfJO #
Android Market gets 9,000 new apps in March, world domination can’t be far behind http://ff.im/-iIg4Q #
Kindle Killer? Reading on the iPad Will Make You Go Blind http://ff.im/-iIgPT #
Kindle Killer? Reading on the iPad Will Make You Go Blind http://ff.im/-iIgPT #
Ease Young Jedis At Bedtime With a RC Lightsaber Nightlight [Star Wars] http://ff.im/-iIgUp #
Murdoch Still Talking Like A Crazy Man (NWS) http://ff.im/-iIpJ1 #
The Apple-Adobe War Escalates: Using Flash to Build iPhone Apps Banned http://ff.im/-iK9M4 #
A Guide to Recycling Nearly Anything [Recycling] http://ff.im/-iKaey #
Finally, Broadband Over Powerline, R.I.P. http://ff.im/-iKLxa #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-07

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Gartner: Most Kids Will Use PCs With Touchscreens by 2015 http://ff.im/-iEKsu #
Gartner: Most Kids Will Use PCs With Touchscreens by 2015 http://ff.im/-iEKsu #
The iPad as Enterprise Tool http://ff.im/-iEWhV #
The Twitter Platform’s Inflection Point http://ff.im/-iEWPR #
Are e-readers really green? http://ff.im/-iEXHx #
Are e-readers really green? http://ff.im/-iEXHx #
The iPad: Amazon’s Secret Weapon [Ebooks] http://ff.im/-iEXNw #
The iPad: Amazon’s Secret Weapon [Ebooks] http://ff.im/-iEXNw #
Very cool! Amazon Simple Notification Service http://bit.ly/bjYL19 #
Google Testing Google Voice Desktop App Internally http://ff.im/-iGMN6 #
Google Testing Google Voice Desktop App Internally http://ff.im/-iGMN6 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-07

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Gartner: Most Kids Will Use PCs With Touchscreens by 2015 http://ff.im/-iEKsu #
Gartner: Most Kids Will Use PCs With Touchscreens by 2015 http://ff.im/-iEKsu #
The iPad as Enterprise Tool http://ff.im/-iEWhV #
The Twitter Platform’s Inflection Point http://ff.im/-iEWPR #
Are e-readers really green? http://ff.im/-iEXHx #
Are e-readers really green? http://ff.im/-iEXHx #
The iPad: Amazon’s Secret Weapon [Ebooks] http://ff.im/-iEXNw #
The iPad: Amazon’s Secret Weapon [Ebooks] http://ff.im/-iEXNw #
Very cool! Amazon Simple Notification Service http://bit.ly/bjYL19 #
Google Testing Google Voice Desktop App Internally http://ff.im/-iGMN6 #
Google Testing Google Voice Desktop App Internally http://ff.im/-iGMN6 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-06

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

“iPad’s best days will be a few years down the road, when it costs $199 and buying it is much less of a commitment” .http://bit.ly/bfxAgF #
Do You Remember 1980?: Albums Celebrating Their 30th Anniversary Pt. 1 http://bit.ly/9jgI8N #
RT @ConsumeThis1st Why Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution is destined to fail http://bit.ly/94bwsm #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-05

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Shirky: What “people must pay for content” really means http://ff.im/-iAFFT #
Why Is Time Charging $5 For Its iPad App? [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-iBojB #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-04

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

The iPad Backlash Begins: “After having slept with her, I am having morning-after regrets.” http://ff.im/-izAGm #
I Really Hate What Apple Is Trying To Do With The iPad http://ff.im/-izZo2 #
iPad jailbroken http://ff.im/-izZo1 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-04

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:39:00 +0000

Is “Yellow Pages” Becoming An Obsolete Concept? http://ff.im/-ikb5S #
The iPad Needs The Web, but the Web Does Not Need the iPad http://ff.im/-im3BE #
RT @ConsumeThis1st The dysfunctional relationship of Marketing and Nutrition http://bit.ly/dwhfJn #
Starbucks Now Accepting iPhone Payments In Over 1,000 Stores [IPhone Apps] http://ff.im/-is0Ue #
8-bit Pink Floyd http://ff.im/-is1po #
@audible_com The Madoff story “No One Would Listen” is horrifyingly fascinating. High recommend! http://bit.ly/aOWkrn #fb #
One browser left standing after hacking contest | DocuCrunch.com http://bit.ly/9J6OGu #
MapQuest iPhone gets free voice navigation; TomTom lifetime map and traffic PNDs now available (update: Navigon… http://ff.im/-iufMg #
Who’s Making Money From Open Source in the Cloud? http://ff.im/-iulfD #
Why the iPad isn’t going to be a “library-killer” http://ff.im/-iuFqb #
@gadgetboy this episode is for (or maybe about) you “iPad on Modern Family” http://bit.ly/cqJ4ep #
Mossberg [iPad] has the potential to change portable computing profoundly, and to challenge the primacy of the laptop.http://bit.ly/9es2Dc #
RT @paidContent iPad to launch with only 60K ebooks, compared to Kindle’s 400K for AMZN Kindle. WSJ http://is.gd/b9aPj #pcbuzz #
Possible iPad Strategy For Kindle? [Digital Daily] http://ff.im/-iwfQZ #
And now we wait for someone to jailbreak the iPad http://ff.im/-iwghu #
University of Washington’s Prefab tool promises to ‘unlock the desktop’ http://ff.im/-iwkL3 #
Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either) http://ff.im/-iwX1c #
Google Gets Quake II Running In HTML5 http://ff.im/-ixDKr #
How Just Making A Documentary About Copyright Might Get You Sued Over Copyright http://ff.im/-ixDNx #
New York Times Jacks Kindle, E-Edition Pricing To $19.99/Month (Wishful Thinking) (NYT) http://ff.im/-ixSOP #
My top iPad pet peeves… so far http://ff.im/-iyVLt #
Consumer Reports Discovers Problem With The iPad! http://ff.im/-iyWyX #
Halve Your Beer Tab by Brewing Your Own [Beer] http://ff.im/-iyWBk #
Convince Yourself To Buy — Or Ignore — the iPad [Launches] http://ff.im/-iyWXz #
E-Books on the iPad: iBooks vs. Kindle for iPad http://ff.im/-iyXw1 #
The iPad Backlash Begins: “After having slept with her, I am having morning-after regrets.” http://ff.im/-izAGm #
I Really Hate What Apple Is Trying To Do With The iPad http://ff.im/-izZo2 #
iPad jailbroken http://ff.im/-izZo1 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-03

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

My top iPad pet peeves… so far http://ff.im/-iyVLt #
Consumer Reports Discovers Problem With The iPad! http://ff.im/-iyWyX #
Halve Your Beer Tab by Brewing Your Own [Beer] http://ff.im/-iyWBk #
Convince Yourself To Buy — Or Ignore — the iPad [Launches] http://ff.im/-iyWXz #
E-Books on the iPad: iBooks vs. Kindle for iPad http://ff.im/-iyXw1 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-02

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either) http://ff.im/-iwX1c #
Google Gets Quake II Running In HTML5 http://ff.im/-ixDKr #
How Just Making A Documentary About Copyright Might Get You Sued Over Copyright http://ff.im/-ixDNx #
New York Times Jacks Kindle, E-Edition Pricing To $19.99/Month (Wishful Thinking) (NYT) http://ff.im/-ixSOP #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-04-01

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Possible iPad Strategy For Kindle? [Digital Daily] http://ff.im/-iwfQZ #
And now we wait for someone to jailbreak the iPad http://ff.im/-iwghu #
University of Washington’s Prefab tool promises to ‘unlock the desktop’ http://ff.im/-iwkL3 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-31

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Starbucks Now Accepting iPhone Payments In Over 1,000 Stores [IPhone Apps] http://ff.im/-is0Ue #
8-bit Pink Floyd http://ff.im/-is1po #
@audible_com The Madoff story “No One Would Listen” is horrifyingly fascinating. High recommend! http://bit.ly/aOWkrn #fb #
One browser left standing after hacking contest | DocuCrunch.com http://bit.ly/9J6OGu #
MapQuest iPhone gets free voice navigation; TomTom lifetime map and traffic PNDs now available (update: Navigon… http://ff.im/-iufMg #
Who’s Making Money From Open Source in the Cloud? http://ff.im/-iulfD #
Why the iPad isn’t going to be a “library-killer” http://ff.im/-iuFqb #
@gadgetboy this episode is for (or maybe about) you “iPad on Modern Family” http://bit.ly/cqJ4ep #
Mossberg [iPad] has the potential to change portable computing profoundly, and to challenge the primacy of the laptop.http://bit.ly/9es2Dc #
RT @paidContent iPad to launch with only 60K ebooks, compared to Kindle’s 400K for AMZN Kindle. WSJ http://is.gd/b9aPj #pcbuzz #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-30

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

RT @ConsumeThis1st The dysfunctional relationship of Marketing and Nutrition http://bit.ly/dwhfJn #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-29

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Is “Yellow Pages” Becoming An Obsolete Concept? http://ff.im/-ikb5S #
The iPad Needs The Web, but the Web Does Not Need the iPad http://ff.im/-im3BE #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-28

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Up Is Down: FT Free On iPad, Guardian Monthly Mobile Charge? http://ff.im/-iiheK #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-28

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:39:00 +0000

Amazon’s iPad App Will Be All New, But It Won’t Be Ready By April 3 [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-hTQhB #
Official: Apple now offering iPhones contract free and… unlocked? http://ff.im/-hVACb #
Microsoft Copies Twitter [Bad Ideas] http://ff.im/-hVAZ2 #
Zosh Fills Out and Signs Docs from Your iPhone, Makes Fax That Much More Useless [Downloads] http://ff.im/-hVF6g #
Watch March Madness Online: On-Demand Site Streams All Games, Even Has Boss Button [Timesavers] http://ff.im/-hVG6P #
Learn a New Photography Trick or Two; Entire BBC Photo Masterclasses Now Available Online [Photography Tip] http://ff.im/-hVGL9 #
More And More Musicians Embracing Free Music With Subscriptions For Support http://ff.im/-i1Dh3 #
Why TV Everywhere Will Fail: Because It’s Based On Taking Away Value, Not Adding It http://ff.im/-i1NpL #
Your e-Book Resource Guide http://ff.im/-i3Pjl #
Fancy Wall Street Journal iPad Edition Will Cost $17.99 A Month http://ff.im/-i5zXy #
Act Now. Amazon and Microsoft Launch Windows Server License Mobility Pilot http://ff.im/-i5MeS #
Here’s How Google TV Will Work – And What It Might Mean [Voices] http://ff.im/-i5MC8 #
Rumor: Google’s Set Top Box Won’t Replace Your Current One, But “Daisy-Chain” Them [Google] http://ff.im/-i9GML #
Tour De Montclair – May 16th http://ff.im/-i9HDm #
Forget Apple’s iPad, Amazon’s Kindle Will Have A Great Year http://bit.ly/aXit4n #
Fox Officially Axes 24 on ‘High Note’ http://ff.im/-idCdL #
Up Is Down: FT Free On iPad, Guardian Monthly Mobile Charge? http://ff.im/-iiheK #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-27

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Fox Officially Axes 24 on ‘High Note’ http://ff.im/-idCdL #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-26

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Rumor: Google’s Set Top Box Won’t Replace Your Current One, But “Daisy-Chain” Them [Google] http://ff.im/-i9GML #
Tour De Montclair – May 16th http://ff.im/-i9HDm #
Forget Apple’s iPad, Amazon’s Kindle Will Have A Great Year http://bit.ly/aXit4n #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-25

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Fancy Wall Street Journal iPad Edition Will Cost $17.99 A Month http://ff.im/-i5zXy #
Act Now. Amazon and Microsoft Launch Windows Server License Mobility Pilot http://ff.im/-i5MeS #
Here’s How Google TV Will Work – And What It Might Mean [Voices] http://ff.im/-i5MC8 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-24

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

More And More Musicians Embracing Free Music With Subscriptions For Support http://ff.im/-i1Dh3 #
Why TV Everywhere Will Fail: Because It’s Based On Taking Away Value, Not Adding It http://ff.im/-i1NpL #
Your e-Book Resource Guide http://ff.im/-i3Pjl #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-22

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Amazon’s iPad App Will Be All New, But It Won’t Be Ready By April 3 [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-hTQhB #
Official: Apple now offering iPhones contract free and… unlocked? http://ff.im/-hVACb #
Microsoft Copies Twitter [Bad Ideas] http://ff.im/-hVAZ2 #
Zosh Fills Out and Signs Docs from Your iPhone, Makes Fax That Much More Useless [Downloads] http://ff.im/-hVF6g #
Watch March Madness Online: On-Demand Site Streams All Games, Even Has Boss Button [Timesavers] http://ff.im/-hVG6P #
Learn a New Photography Trick or Two; Entire BBC Photo Masterclasses Now Available Online [Photography Tip] http://ff.im/-hVGL9 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-21

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:39:00 +0000

iPhones — They Only Come Out At Night http://ff.im/-hxsp7 #
First Dot-com Celebrates 25th Birthday http://ff.im/-hxEn0 #
Record Labels Put Out Report Insisting That Record Labels Do, In Fact, Invest In Musicians http://ff.im/-hxF3v #
Demonstrating the Newspaper Stand of the Future [Content] http://ff.im/-hzvif #
Product Manager position just opened at Audible / Amazon. Know anyone? http://bit.ly/9uFgzK #fb #jobs #employment #
Tim Bray on the iPhone vision http://ff.im/-hCIhR #
Honda Recalls 410,000 Vehicles For Brake Problems http://ff.im/-hCIhZ #
I’m at New Port Richey. http://4sq.com/btMuo9 #
Storyboard: A Look Back at the Dot-Com Boom and Bust http://ff.im/-hDPTb #
Amazon S3 Versioning Is Now Ready http://ff.im/-hDSBb #
John Grisham, king of paperbacks, agrees to get his e-book on http://ff.im/-hDWi2 #
Full concert podcasts from Web in Front http://ff.im/-hEpel #
Are You Watching TV While You Read This? [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-hFoYL #
Is Chatroulette Piano Guy Actually Ben Folds? http://ff.im/-hHfWW #
CHART OF THE DAY: There’s A Reason They Call It ‘Old Media’ http://ff.im/-hHfXV #
Kindle for Mac Has Arrived http://ff.im/-hIblG #
Just unlocked a secret feature on @threadsy: Love or Dislike Facebook posts. Get it for yourself, free invite here http://bit.ly/djMRza #
Barnes & Noble Taps Digital Exec Lynch As CEO; Riggio To Remain As Vice Chair http://ff.im/-hJsss #
Attention, “Star Wars” Fans: The iPhone Lightsaber Duel is Coming http://ff.im/-hJsH0 #
YouTube Details Hypocrisy of Viacom’s $1 Billion Lawsuit http://ff.im/-hKwpc #
Apple Is Trying Real Hard to Get Its Cable-Killing iTunes TV Deals in Time for iPad [Rumor] http://ff.im/-hKBHv #
10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse (GeekDad Wayback Machine) http://shar.es/mWQov http://ff.im/-hLALK #
Windy and a bit cold, but good to be on a beach. (@ Caladesi Island) http://4sq.com/bTLVFW #
Ten Guitarists Influenced By Jimi Hendrix – List Of The Day http://bit.ly/bbWCSU #
On the way home. It was a nice trip despite the weather. (@ Gate A4 @ TPA) http://4sq.com/dbmLpy #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-20

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

On the way home. It was a nice trip despite the weather. (@ Gate A4 @ TPA) http://4sq.com/dbmLpy #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-19

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Windy and a bit cold, but good to be on a beach. (@ Caladesi Island) http://4sq.com/bTLVFW #
Ten Guitarists Influenced By Jimi Hendrix – List Of The Day http://bit.ly/bbWCSU #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-18

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Kindle for Mac Has Arrived http://ff.im/-hIblG #
Just unlocked a secret feature on @threadsy: Love or Dislike Facebook posts. Get it for yourself, free invite here http://bit.ly/djMRza #
Barnes & Noble Taps Digital Exec Lynch As CEO; Riggio To Remain As Vice Chair http://ff.im/-hJsss #
Attention, “Star Wars” Fans: The iPhone Lightsaber Duel is Coming http://ff.im/-hJsH0 #
YouTube Details Hypocrisy of Viacom’s $1 Billion Lawsuit http://ff.im/-hKwpc #
Apple Is Trying Real Hard to Get Its Cable-Killing iTunes TV Deals in Time for iPad [Rumor] http://ff.im/-hKBHv #
10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse (GeekDad Wayback Machine) http://shar.es/mWQov http://ff.im/-hLALK #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-17

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Full concert podcasts from Web in Front http://ff.im/-hEpel #
Are You Watching TV While You Read This? [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-hFoYL #
Is Chatroulette Piano Guy Actually Ben Folds? http://ff.im/-hHfWW #
CHART OF THE DAY: There’s A Reason They Call It ‘Old Media’ http://ff.im/-hHfXV #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-16

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Tim Bray on the iPhone vision http://ff.im/-hCIhR #
Honda Recalls 410,000 Vehicles For Brake Problems http://ff.im/-hCIhZ #
I’m at New Port Richey. http://4sq.com/btMuo9 #
Storyboard: A Look Back at the Dot-Com Boom and Bust http://ff.im/-hDPTb #
Amazon S3 Versioning Is Now Ready http://ff.im/-hDSBb #
John Grisham, king of paperbacks, agrees to get his e-book on http://ff.im/-hDWi2 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-16

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Tim Bray on the iPhone vision http://ff.im/-hCIhR #
Honda Recalls 410,000 Vehicles For Brake Problems http://ff.im/-hCIhZ #
I’m at New Port Richey. http://4sq.com/btMuo9 #
Storyboard: A Look Back at the Dot-Com Boom and Bust http://ff.im/-hDPTb #
Amazon S3 Versioning Is Now Ready http://ff.im/-hDSBb #
John Grisham, king of paperbacks, agrees to get his e-book on http://ff.im/-hDWi2 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-15

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

iPhones — They Only Come Out At Night http://ff.im/-hxsp7 #
First Dot-com Celebrates 25th Birthday http://ff.im/-hxEn0 #
Record Labels Put Out Report Insisting That Record Labels Do, In Fact, Invest In Musicians http://ff.im/-hxF3v #
Demonstrating the Newspaper Stand of the Future [Content] http://ff.im/-hzvif #
Product Manager position just opened at Audible / Amazon. Know anyone? http://bit.ly/9uFgzK #fb #jobs #employment #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-15

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

iPhones — They Only Come Out At Night http://ff.im/-hxsp7 #
First Dot-com Celebrates 25th Birthday http://ff.im/-hxEn0 #
Record Labels Put Out Report Insisting That Record Labels Do, In Fact, Invest In Musicians http://ff.im/-hxF3v #
Demonstrating the Newspaper Stand of the Future [Content] http://ff.im/-hzvif #
Product Manager position just opened at Audible / Amazon. Know anyone? http://bit.ly/9uFgzK #fb #jobs #employment #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-14

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Steve Jobs Thinks Google Stole The iPhone Look And Feel (AAPL, GOOG, MSFT) http://ff.im/-huTAB #
Happy Pi Day, Math Nerds! [Happy Pi Day] http://ff.im/-hv0l9 #
Cartoon: Can’t Go to SXSW? We Feel Your Pain http://ff.im/-hv0OA #
GFS and its evolution http://ff.im/-hvP7V #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-14

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

Steve Jobs Thinks Google Stole The iPhone Look And Feel (AAPL, GOOG, MSFT) http://ff.im/-huTAB #
Happy Pi Day, Math Nerds! [Happy Pi Day] http://ff.im/-hv0l9 #
Cartoon: Can’t Go to SXSW? We Feel Your Pain http://ff.im/-hv0OA #
GFS and its evolution http://ff.im/-hvP7V #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:39:00 +0000

Magazine marketers give up on marketing magazines http://ff.im/-h9361 #
Hate Paying For Cable? Here’s Why. [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-h93ox #
NCSA Mosaic source code on GitHub http://ff.im/-hasvC #
Why You Don’t Want Politicians Doing Your Engineering For You http://ff.im/-hatNf #
Google’s Testing A TV Search Service, Might Take Over Yet Another Device [Google] http://ff.im/-hauGQ #
DIY iPhone steadicam http://ff.im/-hd8F6 #
Paying the Amazon tax http://ff.im/-hd8EQ #
Why Newspapers Are In So Much Trouble, According To Google’s Chief Economist http://ff.im/-her4U #
Sorry, There’s No Silver Bullet Business Model For The Music Industry http://ff.im/-hgiFy #
Ride Don’t Drive: Google Adds Bike Directions To Maps http://ff.im/-hgk4o #
Looking back at the dotcom boom, ten years later http://ff.im/-hgyw2 #
Google Prettifies RSS With Tablet-Ready Google Reader Play [Google] http://ff.im/-hioOH #
Chart Of The Day http://ff.im/-hiL53 #
How to Teach Yourself Programming http://ff.im/-hiMoN #
Jet ski + jet pack = “Jetlev” http://ff.im/-hiNRL #
Mossberg Disses The iRex: “Much Clumsier To Use Than The Kindle” (AMZN) http://ff.im/-hkXr8 #
Why AOL May Just Abandon Bebo Rather Than Sell It http://ff.im/-hkXrj #
Thursday Signal – Repeat After Me: Apps Are (Currently) Myopic (Or…We’ve Seen This Movie Before…) http://ff.im/-hkXrg #
Commuting By Bike Vs Commuting By Car http://ff.im/-hkXra #
Conan O’Brien goes on the road to make people laugh, Leno asks ‘What’s laughter?’ http://ff.im/-hlTO4 #
Barnes & Noble to Launch E-Reader App for iPad http://ff.im/-hlWwJ #
Because Only The Record Labels Are Supposed To Get Away With Not Paying Their Musicians… http://ff.im/-hlX87 #
Forget The Doom & Gloom; Look How Good Things Are In The Book Business http://ff.im/-hnVYQ #
Changing Channels, From Cable to the Web [Voices] http://ff.im/-hnWid #
YouTube’s Modest Proposal: Sports Online (Almost) Instantly [Voices] http://ff.im/-ho5UZ #
The Real War At SXSW: AT&T Versus 15,000 Data-Crazed Velociraptors http://ff.im/-ho6O8 #
Read Any ePub Formatted eBook On Your iPad – Or Have It Read Aloud To You http://ff.im/-hrumS #
Steve Jobs Thinks Google Stole The iPhone Look And Feel (AAPL, GOOG, MSFT) http://ff.im/-huTAB #
Happy Pi Day, Math Nerds! [Happy Pi Day] http://ff.im/-hv0l9 #
Cartoon: Can’t Go to SXSW? We Feel Your Pain http://ff.im/-hv0OA #
GFS and its evolution http://ff.im/-hvP7V #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-13

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Read Any ePub Formatted eBook On Your iPad – Or Have It Read Aloud To You http://ff.im/-hrumS #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-12

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Forget The Doom & Gloom; Look How Good Things Are In The Book Business http://ff.im/-hnVYQ #
Changing Channels, From Cable to the Web [Voices] http://ff.im/-hnWid #
YouTube’s Modest Proposal: Sports Online (Almost) Instantly [Voices] http://ff.im/-ho5UZ #
The Real War At SXSW: AT&T Versus 15,000 Data-Crazed Velociraptors http://ff.im/-ho6O8 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-11

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Mossberg Disses The iRex: “Much Clumsier To Use Than The Kindle” (AMZN) http://ff.im/-hkXr8 #
Why AOL May Just Abandon Bebo Rather Than Sell It http://ff.im/-hkXrj #
Thursday Signal – Repeat After Me: Apps Are (Currently) Myopic (Or…We’ve Seen This Movie Before…) http://ff.im/-hkXrg #
Commuting By Bike Vs Commuting By Car http://ff.im/-hkXra #
Conan O’Brien goes on the road to make people laugh, Leno asks ‘What’s laughter?’ http://ff.im/-hlTO4 #
Barnes & Noble to Launch E-Reader App for iPad http://ff.im/-hlWwJ #
Because Only The Record Labels Are Supposed To Get Away With Not Paying Their Musicians… http://ff.im/-hlX87 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-10

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Sorry, There’s No Silver Bullet Business Model For The Music Industry http://ff.im/-hgiFy #
Ride Don’t Drive: Google Adds Bike Directions To Maps http://ff.im/-hgk4o #
Looking back at the dotcom boom, ten years later http://ff.im/-hgyw2 #
Google Prettifies RSS With Tablet-Ready Google Reader Play [Google] http://ff.im/-hioOH #
Chart Of The Day http://ff.im/-hiL53 #
How to Teach Yourself Programming http://ff.im/-hiMoN #
Jet ski + jet pack = “Jetlev” http://ff.im/-hiNRL #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-09

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:47:00 +0000

DIY iPhone steadicam http://ff.im/-hd8F6 #
Paying the Amazon tax http://ff.im/-hd8EQ #
Why Newspapers Are In So Much Trouble, According To Google’s Chief Economist http://ff.im/-her4U #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-08

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Magazine marketers give up on marketing magazines http://ff.im/-h9361 #
Hate Paying For Cable? Here’s Why. [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-h93ox #
NCSA Mosaic source code on GitHub http://ff.im/-hasvC #
Why You Don’t Want Politicians Doing Your Engineering For You http://ff.im/-hatNf #
Google’s Testing A TV Search Service, Might Take Over Yet Another Device [Google] http://ff.im/-hauGQ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-07

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” http://ff.im/-h5QBo #
Losing Andrew Carnegie http://ff.im/-h5RAp #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:39:00 +0000

Thumbplay Moves From Ringtones to Mobile Music, Hires Apple Exec [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-gKiFD #
Why the Internet Will Fail (Originally Published in 1995) [Voices] http://ff.im/-gKlhG #
Internet Now More Popular Than Newspapers For News http://ff.im/-gKlqA #
Firefox’s Chrome Ceiling [Chart] http://ff.im/-gMlsW #
Metallica Sued Napster For This? http://ff.im/-gMlB3 #
“A natural history of South Mountain Reservation” in Maplewood Patch: http://bit.ly/8YkRXV #
Do You Remember 1985, Again? (Part Two: Albums Celebrating Their 25th Anniversary) http://ff.im/-gQPwc #
Macmillan CEO Promises Most (Older) E-Books Will Still Be Under $10 http://ff.im/-gRLjO #
TiVo Introduces Series 4 (Premiere), Has Officially Discovered the Internet http://ff.im/-gRNs3 #
Use Coffee Grounds as a Drain Cleaner [Clever Uses] http://ff.im/-gRZbI #
Hulu Losing Daily Show, Colbert Report http://ff.im/-gS0DH #
New Gadget Eliminates Pain in Dental Injections By Tricking Your Brain [Gadgets] http://ff.im/-gTCg1 #
Ookong Tracks Amazon Prices and Issues Deal Alerts [Downloads] http://ff.im/-gTCEv #
Google: Desktops Will Be Irrelevant in Three Years’ Time http://ff.im/-gVvWk #
Hacked Roomba will google your house http://ff.im/-gVZQS #
Dear Macmillan, You Don’t Embrace The New By Trying To Protect The Old http://ff.im/-gWrBN #
It’s Official: Google’s Proposal For Crawling AJAX URLs is Live http://ff.im/-gWrBR #
YouTube introduces automatic captioning for all videos http://ff.im/-gXrK9 #
BookRenter Rents You Textbooks on the Cheap [Textbooks] http://ff.im/-gXrTf #
iPad Available in Stores on April 3 http://ff.im/-gZteq #
How Big Were Winter Olympics Online? http://ff.im/-gZtx9 #
Books Now Outnumber Games on theÂ iPhone http://bit.ly/at2osu from @gigaom #
Books Now Outnumber Games on the iPhone http://ff.im/-h1bim #
Live Conan O’Brien Show Confirmed, Coco Nation Rejoices http://ff.im/-h1d63 #
Food culture: What are we teaching our kids about how to eat? http://ow.ly/1pO1cU #
@ConsumeThis1st Egg labels: what egg-zactly do they mean? http://is.gd/9EcMR #
Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” http://ff.im/-h5QBo #
Losing Andrew Carnegie http://ff.im/-h5RAp #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-06

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Food culture: What are we teaching our kids about how to eat? http://ow.ly/1pO1cU #
@ConsumeThis1st Egg labels: what egg-zactly do they mean? http://is.gd/9EcMR #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-05

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:47:00 +0000

iPad Available in Stores on April 3 http://ff.im/-gZteq #
How Big Were Winter Olympics Online? http://ff.im/-gZtx9 #
Books Now Outnumber Games on theÂ iPhone http://bit.ly/at2osu from @gigaom #
Books Now Outnumber Games on the iPhone http://ff.im/-h1bim #
Live Conan O’Brien Show Confirmed, Coco Nation Rejoices http://ff.im/-h1d63 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-04

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Google: Desktops Will Be Irrelevant in Three Years’ Time http://ff.im/-gVvWk #
Hacked Roomba will google your house http://ff.im/-gVZQS #
Dear Macmillan, You Don’t Embrace The New By Trying To Protect The Old http://ff.im/-gWrBN #
It’s Official: Google’s Proposal For Crawling AJAX URLs is Live http://ff.im/-gWrBR #
YouTube introduces automatic captioning for all videos http://ff.im/-gXrK9 #
BookRenter Rents You Textbooks on the Cheap [Textbooks] http://ff.im/-gXrTf #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-03

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Do You Remember 1985, Again? (Part Two: Albums Celebrating Their 25th Anniversary) http://ff.im/-gQPwc #
Macmillan CEO Promises Most (Older) E-Books Will Still Be Under $10 http://ff.im/-gRLjO #
TiVo Introduces Series 4 (Premiere), Has Officially Discovered the Internet http://ff.im/-gRNs3 #
Use Coffee Grounds as a Drain Cleaner [Clever Uses] http://ff.im/-gRZbI #
Hulu Losing Daily Show, Colbert Report http://ff.im/-gS0DH #
New Gadget Eliminates Pain in Dental Injections By Tricking Your Brain [Gadgets] http://ff.im/-gTCg1 #
Ookong Tracks Amazon Prices and Issues Deal Alerts [Downloads] http://ff.im/-gTCEv #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-03-01

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Thumbplay Moves From Ringtones to Mobile Music, Hires Apple Exec [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-gKiFD #
Why the Internet Will Fail (Originally Published in 1995) [Voices] http://ff.im/-gKlhG #
Internet Now More Popular Than Newspapers For News http://ff.im/-gKlqA #
Firefox’s Chrome Ceiling [Chart] http://ff.im/-gMlsW #
Metallica Sued Napster For This? http://ff.im/-gMlB3 #
“A natural history of South Mountain Reservation” in Maplewood Patch: http://bit.ly/8YkRXV #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-28

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Out sledding with the boys at floods hill #fb http://twitpic.com/15v47y #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:39:00 +0000

Facebook Buys A Startup, Counters Google Buzz http://ff.im/-gmpMF #
Lowered Expectations: Web Redefines ‘Quality’ http://ff.im/-gmqVh #
Twitter Sees 600 Tweets-Per-Second #OMG #YeahButWheres TheBusinessModel [Digital Daily] http://ff.im/-go8RF #
Lucky Princeton Kids! Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Gives Away Kindles To His Alma Mater, Asks For Feedback http://ff.im/-go9dp #
IE6 Funeral http://ff.im/-goa95 #
Smartphones in 2009: Symbian Dominates, iPhone, RIM and Android Rising Fast http://ff.im/-gpVFK #
Apple COO Tim Cook on Apple TV, iPad Versus Netbook and Apple as a Platform Company [Digital Daily] http://ff.im/-grQgB #
Web Faceoff: Adobe Flash vs. HTML5 http://ff.im/-grQD9 #
YouTube Drops IE6 Support on March 13th [Browser Support] http://ff.im/-grX3P #
Stephen Levy on Google’s algorithm http://ff.im/-grY7V #
I earned the Bootcamp sticker on @GetGlue! http://bit.ly/9d6w3E #
10 Reasons to Avoid Talking on the Phone [Humor] http://ff.im/-gsjgf #
TV Ratings Rise, Maybe With Internet’s Help – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/9VMtiq #
HOW TO: Block FarmVille on Facebook http://ff.im/-gstQC #
Music Industry Piracy Fears: A Historical Perspective [Image Cache] http://ff.im/-gsvfz #
Can Someone Please Tell This Italian Judge What YouTube Is? http://ff.im/-gtBjC #
This You????: Yet Another Phishing Attack Hits Twitter [WARNING] http://ff.im/-gu4Yw #
Oh Boy, Nintendo DSi XL Is an Ereader Now Too [Nintendo] http://ff.im/-gvvox #
How Can I Ditch Cable and Watch My TV Shows and Movies Online? [Ask Lifehacker] http://ff.im/-gvvAG #
Subscribed to zeropts http://ff.im/-gvSni #
Subscribed to zeropts http://ff.im/-gvSnk #
I subscribed to zeropts’s channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/zeropts?feature=autoshare_twitter #
I subscribed to wat3rb0y1’s channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/wat3rb0y1?feature=autoshare_twitter #
Subscribed to wat3rb0y1 http://ff.im/-gvSyT #
Subscribed to wat3rb0y1 http://ff.im/-gvSyI #
Canon Rebel T2i / 550D demonstrates 1080p video mode, collects glowing early preview http://ff.im/-gxhX9 #
see[Mike]code – Conduct a short coding interview, remotely http://bit.ly/9l3ROj #code #interview #job #
I earned the Radiohead(50) sticker on @GetGlue! http://bit.ly/cbzn1X #
A Funeral Is Being Held For IE6 On March 4. Browser To Be Buried Without The Body. http://ff.im/-gzMsU #
@mathowie Recommended iPhone and iPod touch Games for Kids http://bit.ly/a93FIw #parenting #kids #iphone #
My co-worker Chris Avello’s band. Great music. Kinda like Sordid Humor meets Emmet Swimming http://bit.ly/9QuJfw #
Google gains clearance to buy and sell energy, continue taking over the world http://ff.im/-gBo3K #
Home Cooking Is Killing The Restaurant Industry! http://ff.im/-gBo4t #
Red Dye 40 and it’s colorful friends http://bit.ly/cL62mC #
I rated a YouTube video (5 out of 5 stars) — Want some Fruit with that Roll-Up? http://youtu.be/uyWtY1sGCsc?a #
Want some Fruit with that Roll-Up? http://ff.im/-gBAyx #
Want some Fruit with that Roll-Up? http://ff.im/-gBAyy #
Cool! @audible_com: is giving away the 1st Chapter of “No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller” http://ow.ly/1bY4L #
Out sledding with the boys at floods hill #fb http://twitpic.com/15v47y #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-27

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Google gains clearance to buy and sell energy, continue taking over the world http://ff.im/-gBo3K #
Home Cooking Is Killing The Restaurant Industry! http://ff.im/-gBo4t #
Red Dye 40 and it’s colorful friends http://bit.ly/cL62mC #
I rated a YouTube video (5 out of 5 stars) — Want some Fruit with that Roll-Up? http://youtu.be/uyWtY1sGCsc?a #
Want some Fruit with that Roll-Up? http://ff.im/-gBAyx #
Want some Fruit with that Roll-Up? http://ff.im/-gBAyy #
Cool! @audible_com: is giving away the 1st Chapter of “No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller” http://ow.ly/1bY4L #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-26

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

My co-worker Chris Avello’s band. Great music. Kinda like Sordid Humor meets Emmet Swimming http://bit.ly/9QuJfw #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-25

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Canon Rebel T2i / 550D demonstrates 1080p video mode, collects glowing early preview http://ff.im/-gxhX9 #
see[Mike]code – Conduct a short coding interview, remotely http://bit.ly/9l3ROj #code #interview #job #
I earned the Radiohead(50) sticker on @GetGlue! http://bit.ly/cbzn1X #
A Funeral Is Being Held For IE6 On March 4. Browser To Be Buried Without The Body. http://ff.im/-gzMsU #
@mathowie Recommended iPhone and iPod touch Games for Kids http://bit.ly/a93FIw #parenting #kids #iphone #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-24

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Can Someone Please Tell This Italian Judge What YouTube Is? http://ff.im/-gtBjC #
This You????: Yet Another Phishing Attack Hits Twitter [WARNING] http://ff.im/-gu4Yw #
Oh Boy, Nintendo DSi XL Is an Ereader Now Too [Nintendo] http://ff.im/-gvvox #
How Can I Ditch Cable and Watch My TV Shows and Movies Online? [Ask Lifehacker] http://ff.im/-gvvAG #
Subscribed to zeropts http://ff.im/-gvSni #
Subscribed to zeropts http://ff.im/-gvSnk #
I subscribed to zeropts’s channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/zeropts?feature=autoshare_twitter #
I subscribed to wat3rb0y1’s channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/wat3rb0y1?feature=autoshare_twitter #
Subscribed to wat3rb0y1 http://ff.im/-gvSyT #
Subscribed to wat3rb0y1 http://ff.im/-gvSyI #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-23

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Smartphones in 2009: Symbian Dominates, iPhone, RIM and Android Rising Fast http://ff.im/-gpVFK #
Apple COO Tim Cook on Apple TV, iPad Versus Netbook and Apple as a Platform Company [Digital Daily] http://ff.im/-grQgB #
Web Faceoff: Adobe Flash vs. HTML5 http://ff.im/-grQD9 #
YouTube Drops IE6 Support on March 13th [Browser Support] http://ff.im/-grX3P #
Stephen Levy on Google’s algorithm http://ff.im/-grY7V #
I earned the Bootcamp sticker on @GetGlue! http://bit.ly/9d6w3E #
10 Reasons to Avoid Talking on the Phone [Humor] http://ff.im/-gsjgf #
TV Ratings Rise, Maybe With Internet’s Help – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/9VMtiq #
HOW TO: Block FarmVille on Facebook http://ff.im/-gstQC #
Music Industry Piracy Fears: A Historical Perspective [Image Cache] http://ff.im/-gsvfz #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-22

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Facebook Buys A Startup, Counters Google Buzz http://ff.im/-gmpMF #
Lowered Expectations: Web Redefines ‘Quality’ http://ff.im/-gmqVh #
Twitter Sees 600 Tweets-Per-Second #OMG #YeahButWheres TheBusinessModel [Digital Daily] http://ff.im/-go8RF #
Lucky Princeton Kids! Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Gives Away Kindles To His Alma Mater, Asks For Feedback http://ff.im/-go9dp #
IE6 Funeral http://ff.im/-goa95 #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-21

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

I rated a YouTube video (5 out of 5 stars) — The Stone Roses – Fools Gold http://youtu.be/k4bHMVAKDao?a #
The Stone Roses – Fools Gold http://ff.im/-gizog #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:39:00 +0000

Two Dozen Mobile Carriers Ganging Up Against Apple’s iPhone App Store (T, VZ, S) http://ff.im/-fYlTW #
You’re Never Too Old to Tweet [Retromodo] http://ff.im/-g0lMd #
HBO’s Answer To Hulu Preps For Big Debut (TWX) http://ff.im/-g3kGy #
Yale Students Reinvent the Wheel With Spokeless Bicycle http://ff.im/-g3kGw #
Important Call? Don’t Take It While Driving, You Won’t Remember a Thing http://ff.im/-g76zD #
The Popular New Monetization Model That Requires No Funding Or Advertising http://ff.im/-g774W #
PeeWee Kit — Children’s PC Sans the PC http://ff.im/-g7eB7 #
Google Book Settlement Hearing Could Be a Marathon [Voices] http://ff.im/-g7H7h #
TV, When It Rocked and Rolled http://ff.im/-g7OF1 #
Can You Read a Book on Your BlackBerry? Time to Find Out, Via Amazon’s Kindle [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-g8SGw #
NBC’s Delayed Telecasts Show A Company Living In The Last Century http://ff.im/-g94BJ #
Apple’s Prices for E-Books May Be Lower Than Expected – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/c7J5Ls #
The Irony of Microsoft’s Anti-Google Apps Campaign on YouTube http://ff.im/-gaKTi #
Can E-readers and Tablets Save the News? http://ff.im/-gaQSo #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy, @ccalder and @zeropts http://odmcast.com/ #fb #
On Digital Media 99: iPad Won’t Save Print Media http://ff.im/-gdhGf #
@hollywoodtattle I’m having the sample problem with getting an AT&T 3G connection in Newark, NJ on my iPhone #att #3g #fail in reply to hollywoodtattle #
Shatner to Star in “Sh*t My Dad Says” http://ff.im/-geH5G #
I’m at Indigo Kitchen and Bar (177 Maplewood Ave, Maplewood). http://4sq.com/6c1ANm #
@gadgetboy had the salmon instead and it was yummy. in reply to gadgetboy #
I’m at St. James Gate Pub (Maplewood Ave, Maplewood). http://4sq.com/9W5xKD #
I rated a YouTube video (5 out of 5 stars) — The Stone Roses – Fools Gold http://youtu.be/k4bHMVAKDao?a #
The Stone Roses – Fools Gold http://ff.im/-gizog #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-20

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

I’m at Indigo Kitchen and Bar (177 Maplewood Ave, Maplewood). http://4sq.com/6c1ANm #
@gadgetboy had the salmon instead and it was yummy. in reply to gadgetboy #
I’m at St. James Gate Pub (Maplewood Ave, Maplewood). http://4sq.com/9W5xKD #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-19

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

On Digital Media 99: iPad Won’t Save Print Media http://ff.im/-gdhGf #
@hollywoodtattle I’m having the sample problem with getting an AT&T 3G connection in Newark, NJ on my iPhone #att #3g #fail in reply to hollywoodtattle #
Shatner to Star in “Sh*t My Dad Says” http://ff.im/-geH5G #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-18

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

TV, When It Rocked and Rolled http://ff.im/-g7OF1 #
Can You Read a Book on Your BlackBerry? Time to Find Out, Via Amazon’s Kindle [MediaMemo] http://ff.im/-g8SGw #
NBC’s Delayed Telecasts Show A Company Living In The Last Century http://ff.im/-g94BJ #
Apple’s Prices for E-Books May Be Lower Than Expected – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/c7J5Ls #
The Irony of Microsoft’s Anti-Google Apps Campaign on YouTube http://ff.im/-gaKTi #
Can E-readers and Tablets Save the News? http://ff.im/-gaQSo #
Recording the On Digital Media Podcast with @gadgetboy, @ccalder and @zeropts http://odmcast.com/ #fb #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-17

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Important Call? Don’t Take It While Driving, You Won’t Remember a Thing http://ff.im/-g76zD #
The Popular New Monetization Model That Requires No Funding Or Advertising http://ff.im/-g774W #
PeeWee Kit — Children’s PC Sans the PC http://ff.im/-g7eB7 #
Google Book Settlement Hearing Could Be a Marathon [Voices] http://ff.im/-g7H7h #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-16

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

HBO’s Answer To Hulu Preps For Big Debut (TWX) http://ff.im/-g3kGy #
Yale Students Reinvent the Wheel With Spokeless Bicycle http://ff.im/-g3kGw #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-15

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Two Dozen Mobile Carriers Ganging Up Against Apple’s iPhone App Store (T, VZ, S) http://ff.im/-fYlTW #
You’re Never Too Old to Tweet [Retromodo] http://ff.im/-g0lMd #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-14

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Tweeting Dog Collar Posts Your Dog’s Movements to Twitter http://ff.im/-fUpVD #
I don’t think this is going to work “Computer Engineer Barbie Has a PhD In FUN (breaking down sterotypes)” http://gizmodo.com/5470587/ #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:39:00 +0000

I don’t think this is going to work “Computer Engineer Barbie Has a PhD In FUN (breaking down sterotypes)” http://gizmodo.com/5470587/ #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-12

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Twitter Users React to Google Buzz [STATS] http://ff.im/-fRcDB #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-12

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Twitter Users React to Google Buzz [STATS] http://ff.im/-fRcDB #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-11

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Canon EOS 550D / Digital Rebel T2i Hands-on Preview http://bit.ly/9yPGbn #
MySpace, R.I.P http://ff.im/-fKl1g #
Music Site Uses YouTube API – Causes Record Labels to Pull Videos http://ff.im/-fLn7p #
iBooks App Won’t Come Standard With The iPad (AMZN, AAPL) http://ff.im/-fLuX9 #
I subscribed to AudibleAccess’s channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/AudibleAccess?feature=autoshare_twitter #
After Even More Turmoil, Can the “Hot Mess” at MySpace Be Saved? [BoomTown] http://ff.im/-fMhn7 #
Subscribed to AudibleAccess http://ff.im/-fMhn6 #
‘Facebook Login’ http://ff.im/-fNGCM #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-10

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

The Anatomy of a Whale http://ff.im/-fGOHx #
Cheap or Expensive: All Helmets are Created Equal http://ff.im/-fGRIT #
Bing Is Not Google, but It Might Be Yahoo in a Year or Two [Digital Daily] http://ff.im/-fHNTO #
Cool! “Announcing Consolidated Billing for AWS Accounts” http://bit.ly/9OJvUV #amazon #s3 #
Hulu Could Still Launch On The iPad http://ff.im/-fJ1uV #
Facebook Mobile: 100 Million and Growing http://ff.im/-fJ1uU #
iPhone Informer — Touching the iPhone This Week http://ff.im/-fJEMl #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-09

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Google Gmail Buzz: The Google Wave + FriendFeed Killer http://ff.im/-fG8kZ #
Warner Music Group CEO Talks Amazon, iTunes and Recession http://ff.im/-fG8py #
YouTube Will Kill Flat-rate Mobile Broadband Pricing Forever http://ff.im/-fG8P3 #
DIY Lightsabers for the young Jedi Padawans in your family http://bit.ly/b4qBLG #starwars #diy #

Daily Twitter Updates for 2010-02-08

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000

New iPhone Could Be 1/4-Inch Taller (AAPL) http://ff.im/-fCvSP #
Author’s Guild Didn’t Want To ‘Pull An RIAA’ But Still Misses The Point http://ff.im/-fCwcD #

Van close-up on Mother’s Day 2009

Sun, 10 May 2009 23:13:16 +0000

Van close-up, originally uploaded by hatch.

This photo of Van was taken on Mother’s Day 2009 in our yard. He just had to wear that red hood even though it was pretty warm. I was trying to convince him to take the hood off when I shot this image. He obviously wasn’t swayed.

Tasty Pizza – 40cm to 60cm of sheet metal

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:15:50 +0000

I saw this picture on the Fail Blog. Mmm… Tasty Pizza

Submitted by Rachel F

VholdR: Shoot video in motion and Share it.

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:36:42 +0000

Very cool helmet cam and video sharing site: “VholdR is a Seattle-based startup helping modern explorers to tell their stories of action, adventure and travel…making action video easy to shoot and share, creating simple video tools that enable hands-free capture and effortless sharing of video online with others.”
via VholdR

Byrne/Eno succeed in cutting out the middleman

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:26:50 +0000

“After eight weeks of digital-only sales, the (Byrne & Eno) duo have already grossed what they would have earned from a typical record company advance for artists of their expected sales profile. And that’s without any physical CDs–they don’t drop into retail stores until November 30.”
via Byrne/Eno succeed in cutting out the middleman | Digital Noise: Music and Tech – CNET News

links for 2008-11-06

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:30:35 +0000

ThinkGeek :: Dough-Nu-Matic: Mmmm… donuts! (tags: geek, donuts, food)

links for 2008-11-03

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:30:17 +0000

End User: Amazon.com Launches Frustration-Free Packaging: Awesome! “Amazon.com has launched “Frustration-Free Packaging,” a new initiative designed to make it easier for customers to liberate products from their packages. Amazon is focusing first on two kinds of items: those enclosed in hard plastic cases known as “clamshells” and those secured with a large number of plastic-coated wire ties, commonly used in toy packaging.” (tags: amazon, work, ecommerce, retail, shopping)
Family Tree of Telecommunication Companies: “Ever wonder how your telephone company relates to other telecommunication companies? Think that AT&T’s monopoly was successfully broken up by the Feds back in the 80s? And do you know what Sprint was originally named after?” (tags: telecom, business, history, phone)
Things I wish I’d known when I was younger – Stepcase Lifehack: “So here are some of the things I wish I had learned long ago. I hope they may help a few of you avoid the mistakes that I made back then.” (tags: productivity, lifehacks, reference, tips, knowledge, inspiration, work)

links for 2008-10-30

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:10:24 +0000

List of all algorithms, classified by purpose: “A complete list of all major algorithms (300), in any domain. The goal is to provide a ready to run program for each one, or a description of the algorithm. Programming languages include Java, JavaScript and PHP, C, C++ either in direct form or generated from a Scriptol source.” (tags: programming, development, reference, software, math, science)

links for 2008-10-28

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:30:25 +0000

Amazon Windowshop Beta: “Enter Amazon Windowshop–a destination for discovering what’s new and hot in the world of movies, music, and more. " (tags: shopping, mashup, interface, tools, amazon, work, ecommerce, visualization, ui, flash)
Seth Godin’s Tribes Audio Book (free): You can download Seth Godin’s great book Tribes from Audible for free. (tags: sethgodin, tribes, community, socialmedia, online, Audible, Audio, download, Books)

Nate in the teepee

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:08:15 +0000

Nate sitting in a teepee found in South Mountain

links for 2008-10-14

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:30:13 +0000

Ten Thousand Cents: “Ten Thousand Cents” is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, “crowdsourcing,” “virtual economies,” and digital reproduction. (tags: web2.0, web, visualization, mturk, amazon, art, croudsourcing)
MoreCowbell.dj: 1) upload a song 2) Add some cowbell 3) Make it happen (tags: snl, music, mp3, media, mashup, humour, funny)

listening to Creep by Radiohead. It never gets old.

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:02:51 +0000

is starting to feel the effects of last night’s ride. Coffee?

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:38:18 +0000

for dinner had the best fish ever! A blue fish caught by my two year old son Van this afternoon. Pictures to follow.

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:42:09 +0000

for dinner had the best fish ever! A blue fish caught by my two year old son Van this afternoon. Pictures to follow.

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:42:09 +0000

Gone fishing http://tinyurl.com/53xll7

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:12:03 +0000

links for 2008-10-03

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:13:13 +0000

30 Amazing photoblogs (and a few tips for creating one): I subscribe to many of these, but some I haven’t seen before. Good for inspiration (which I need at the moment) (tags: photography, photos, blogging, pictures, blogs, inspiration, photographs)

had another late, but cold ride. I guess Fall is really here.

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:42:42 +0000

my iPhone battery suddenly went dead. It was fully charged this morning. Not this again.

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:37:19 +0000

status is suffering from lifestream recursion. Too many social media services feeding off each other (wacky)

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:12:08 +0000

disappointed we didn’t get in a ride tonight

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:47:33 +0000

thinking about getting a Bamboo Bike as my next ride http://www.calfeedesign.com/bamboo.htm

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:07:32 +0000

Watching Star Wars Episode IV with my son Nate for his first time. I think he likes it :-) Thx @gadgetboy

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:32:34 +0000

links for 2008-09-26

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:30:34 +0000

Will Contador leave Astana prematurely?: No surprise — “Alberto Contador may change his mind about the return of Lance Armstrong. Initially, Contador said he would open the doors for Armstrong. Contador now may realise that Armstrong as co-captain would be bad for another bid at the Tour de France.” (tags: cycling, tdf, tourdefrance)

feeling a bit ill, but expecting a bailout

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:22:07 +0000

recording for the On Digital Media Podcast: http://odmcast.com

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:17:50 +0000

links for 2008-09-25

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:08:21 +0000

Armstrong joins Astana for comeback: I wonder what this means for Levi Leipheimer — “Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has joined Team Astana for his comeback season in 2009” (tags: cycling, tdf, tourdefrance, 2009)
iPhoneModem – fast and easy sharing of iPhone’s Internet connection: “iPhoneModem is an application for the iPhone that aims at making it really easy to use the iPhone’s Internet connection on your computer.” (tags: iphone, modem, software, applications, network, internet)
Google Geo Developers Blog: Do You Speak Selenese? Contribute to our Maps API Tests!: Selenium test suite for Google Maps (tags: Google, QA, development, testing, API, Maps)

disappointed http://tinyurl.com/3u4lxn I missed my night ride. perhaps tomorrow night.

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:58:29 +0000

disappointed that I missed my night ride. perhaps tomorrow night

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:58:21 +0000

the best feature of Google’s new Android-based phone is the “openness” compared to the iPhone http://tinyurl.com/4a9729

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:42:10 +0000

Amazon: 6 million DRM-free songs on T-Mobile G1: It s true, Amazon just announced that its MP3 music store.. http://tinyurl.com/3m8rol

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:12:54 +0000

I’m thinking of Jailbreaking my iPhone, but don’t tell anyone

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:47:25 +0000

took the boys on a WeeRide with Cat. Adding ~90lbs to my bike made for some “fun” climbs;can i have my lungs back ;-)

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:58:38 +0000

spraining foot while playing soccer with my two year old doesn’t bode well for my career as an overzealous soccer coach

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:38:16 +0000

looking forward to our weekly night ride. Hopefully we’ll get back early.

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:12:56 +0000

Nate sky

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:16:47 +0000

Nate looking for Jelly Fish

would like to see tighter integration between Facebook and Flickr (or vice versa) for photo management. The FB tool is a PITA

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:47:38 +0000

links for 2008-09-14

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:12:39 +0000

Isis Bottom Bracket Removal: “This article will discuss the removal and installation of cranks from square spindle bottom brackets” (tags: bike, bicycle, cycling, mountain_biking, reference, howto, repair)
StopForwarding.Us | Politely and anonymously ask your friends to stop sending spam to your inbox: Oh man, this can be useful… “Welcome to StopForwarding.Us, the website that lets you politely and anonymously ask your friends to stop sending spam to your inbox.” (tags: spam, internet, friends, productivity, email)

repacking the bottom bracket on his bike, but is having problems typing on his phone at the same time ;-)

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:57:03 +0000

links for 2008-08-07 [delicious.com]

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:30:30 +0000

Rush playing on The Colbert Report Wednesday Jul 16 2008: This episode of the Colbert Report features Rush playing Tom Sawyer … first time they played on US TV in 33 years. (tags: Music, Rush, video, comedy, Colbert, online)

links for 2008-07-31

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:32:06 +0000

Amazon Offers Other Sites Use of Its Payment Service – NYTimes.com: “81 million customers who have already given Amazon.com their payment details, like credit card numbers and shipping addresses, will be able to use that information, without re-entering it, to buy products on any site that uses the new service” (tags: amazon, webservices, paypal, payments, ebay, fps, work)

Van in the summer

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:27:32 +0000

Van in the summer, originally uploaded by hatch.

Finally, uploaded some new photos to Flickr. For example, here’s one of my favorites of Van after playing in the sprinkler at Gandbob’s

links for 2008-07-28

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:32:46 +0000

Twitter Tools: Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. (tags: blog, blogging, twitter, wordpress, plugin, mashup, blogs)

links for 2008-07-27

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:34:17 +0000

Blow Up – A Bond Art + Science Fair Project: “Blow Up presents that data at any size – allowing for fullscreen views of photos as well as embedding on personal sites. Of course, if you just want to view your flickr account without downloading a thing, you can always do that too.” (tags: photography, photo, flickr, visualization, api, flash)
BrandBrain: Vote for Me in November: Vote for John Federico in November (tags: Video, Humor, Presidential, Elections, Funny)

links for 2008-07-25

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:32:23 +0000

Moodstream by Getty Images: Set your mood stream … sit back and enjoy (tags: inspiration, photography, design, visualization)

links for 2008-07-24

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:32:25 +0000

JORBA Photo Gallery – South Mtn/Picture is symbolic of a decades worth of misinformation: “Picture is symbolic of a decades worth of misinformation. The cause of erosion is water and bad trail design, not a mountain bike. Sustainable trails support multi-use including mountain biking, equestrian and all foot traffic.” (tags: somo, mountain_biking, cycling, trails, environment, bikes)
Knol: a unit of knowledge: “Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we’re making Knol available to everyone.” (tags: google, community, knowledge, wiki, reference, research, wikipedia, search, knol)
EMusic lets the Net in | Technology | Los Angeles Times: “eMusic, the largest online music store for independent artists, launched a months-long project of knocking down the walls between itself and the rest of the Internet.” (tags: music, media, online, ecommerce, itunes, mp3)

links for 2008-07-23

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:31:49 +0000

Apple Introduces Mysterious Transition 1.0 | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD: No surprise: “We believe Apple is getting slightly more aggressive with its pricing; but overall, the company is not diverting from its strategy of premium pricing.” (tags: apple, ipod, mac)

links for 2008-07-20

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:30:47 +0000

Mount a Camera on Your Bike [How To]: This tutorial shows you how to mount a camera to a bike and shoot photos or video (tags: bike, camera, cycling, diy, bicycle, howto, photos, photography, video)
2008 Tour de France – The Big Picture – Boston.com: Some awesome pictures from this year’s TdF (tags: 2008, cycling, france, photography, photo, bike, bicycle, tourdefrance, photos, sports, pictures, bikes)

links for 2008-07-19

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:33:17 +0000

Bloomberg Backs Paterson on the Amazon Tax Question – July 18, 2008 – The New York Sun: “Weighing in on the issue yesterday, the mayor said it was a matter of fairness for a Web site such as Amazon.com to pay the same tax rate as a local bookstore.” (tags: amazon, tax, ecommerce, retail, online, books, work)
Sweetcron – The Automated Lifestream Blog Software: “automatically updates your lifestream, is completely customizable, self-hosted and Sweetcron is 100% open source” (tags: aggregator, lifestream, opensource, blog, php, blogging, feed, socialsoftware)
Google Maps: Tour de France: Google Maps Street View of the 2008 Tour de France (tags: 2008, cycling, google, googlemaps, tourdefrance, tdf, bike, maps, france)

links for 2008-07-18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:31:54 +0000

NPR looks to developers for help distributing shows | News – Digital Media – CNET News.com: “What NPR wants is for developers to help make it easier to share its content on Web sites and blogs, including those owned by the 860 NPR member stations.” (tags: npr, media, API, webservices, open, audio, video, socialsoftware)

links for 2008-07-15

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:32:26 +0000

Radiohead just released a new video for its song House of Cards from the album In Rainbows: “No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity…” (tags: radiohead, music, video, 3d, visualization, animation, google, art, code, entertainment)

links for 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:32:12 +0000

Gphone May Really Happen, And Ammunition Group May Be Designing It: “The trio of Google execs also used the opportunity to talk about the inroads the company is making with its own branded mobile phone as a replacement for the iPhone.” (tags: google, android, mobile, iphone, gphone, phone)

links for 2008-07-11

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:31:59 +0000

Marketing and Media talk radio show | On Digital Media, Episode #70: Live On Digital Media Podcast Episode (tags: podcasting, blogs, radio, enterprise, odm, podcast)

links for 2008-07-09

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:32:21 +0000

The Bicycle Tutor – Bike Repair Video Tutorials: “The purpose of this site is to help people learn how to fix their own bikes. “ (tags: bicycle, bike, cycling, diy, howto, repair, maintenance, reference)

links for 2008-07-04

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:34:08 +0000

Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom – ReadWriteWeb: “Identi.ca is a new microblogging service that is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services” (tags: twitter, microblogging, socialmedia, socialsoftware, socialnetworking, blogging, opensource, openid)
Gnip: “Making data portability suck less.” (tags: api, dataportability, development, feeds, jabber, rss, aggregator, socialsoftware)
SimplyNoise.com: A flash-based white noise generator (tags: flash, audio, noise, sound, productivity)

links for 2008-06-26

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:32:21 +0000

Amazon’s blueprint for cloud computing | Outside the Lines – CNET News.com: “Werner Vogels, vice president and CTO at Amazon, is talking about why Amazon is in the cloud computing business, how it got there and why customer should want it.” (tags: amazon, cloud, computing, architecture, scalability, work, audible)

links for 2008-06-25

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:32:48 +0000

Looks Good Works Well: Announcing: Jiffy Firebug Extension for Viewing Client Side Performance Data: “Jiffy—an end-to-end system for instrumenting your web pages, capturing client-side timings for any event that you determine, and storing and reporting on those timings. You run Jiffy yourself, so you aren’t dependent on the performance characteristic (tags: performance, optimization, development, browser, firefox, firebug, javascript, extension, web)

links for 2008-06-24

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:32:33 +0000

Bike Fix-it Index Page: “It’s dangerous to treat your bike as a mechanical mystery. Keeping your bike in good condition, well-tuned and well-maintained, makes you a safer biker.” (tags: bicycle, bike, cycling, maintenance, howto, fix, diy, mtb, mountain_biking, reference, repair)
Top 100 Advertisers Shifted $1 Billion To the Web Last Year At The Expense Of TV And Newspapers: “The top 100 advertisers in the U.S., who represent 41 percent of total advertising spending, shifted about $1 billion last year from TV and newspapers to the Web.” (tags: advertising, business, data, internet, marketing, media, research, 2007, statistics, analysis)
Monetize Chat Apps with AIM Money: “AOL is now offering developers who create applications using the Open AIM API the opportunity to make money. AIM Money is a new revenue-share platform where developers profit from ads they embed into their Open AIM applications.” (tags: aol, im, platform, development, API)
SmugVault: Safe Backup- powered by SmugMug: “SmugVault adds safe storage of other file types, such as RAW, TIFF, PDF, PSD—almost any files you can imagine. Including videos. Even Word and Excel files.” (tags: amazon, backup, s3, online, storage, technology, service, photo)

links for 2008-06-20

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:33:09 +0000

catbird.org: Born (shoes)… again: My Born shoes have cracked a sole again. As my wife blogs, “Are these shoes designed to only last 6 months? Ridiculous. I won’t even bother contacting the company this time. But really, we are done with Born shoes.” (tags: Shoes, shopping, born, retail)
Seth’s Blog: Random thoughts about the Kindle: I’ve been thinking about getting a Kindle for my wife (seriously;-) Seth has some great observations (as usual) “I got a Kindle. It’s a fascinating device, unlike almost any other launched by a significant tech company. Here’s why…” (tags: amazon, kindle, books, work, gadgets, hardware, sethgodin)
HAProxy – The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer: “a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications…suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing.” (tags: applications, architecture, cluster, scalability, performance, infrastructure, loadbalancing, web, development)

links for 2008-06-19

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:31:49 +0000

Zoomii.com – The “Real” Online Bookstore: It’s built all using Amazon Services (EC2, S3, ECS) and it doesn’t use Flash or any other browser extension/plug-in. Neat! (tags: amazon, books, ec2, s3, search, shopping, javascript, ui, ux)
PC World – Business Center: JBoss Joins Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2: JBoss Java middleware available through Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service (tags: amazon, ec2, jboss, java, redhat, linux)

links for 2008-06-14

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:33:16 +0000

Borders to cut jobs as systems are overhauled: Borders is to axe an undisclosed number of jobs as it implements “fundamental change”. (tags: amazon, audible, audiobooks, ebooks, music, retail, business, borders, books)
Massive Destruction Of Shareholder Value, Employee Morale and Internet Balance Of Power: “…a massive sell off of Yahoo stock began – the company lost billions in market valuation over the course of the next hour as the market made it’s bets on the news.” (tags: yahoo, google, microsoft, search, business, advertising, strategy, news, finance, internet)
Leaving Yahoo! (by Jeremy Zawodny): “And, by all means, don’t take the stuff you read in the press at face value. You’re all smarter than that.” — Good luck Jeremy and I’ll take your advice! (tags: yahoo, people, jeremyzawodny)

links for 2008-06-13

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:35:54 +0000

Official Google Blog: Our agreement to provide ad technology to Yahoo!: “a non-exclusive advertising agreement that will provide Yahoo! with access to our AdSense for search and AdSense for content advertising programs on their U.S. and Canadian web properties. “ (tags: google, yahoo, advertising, search, business)
What AT&T Doesn’t Want You To Know About The iPhone 3G–Jersey, Suburbia: “What AT&T doesn’t want you to know, is that their 3G HSDPA networking service is only available for a select amount of metropolitan areas. I mean, this thing is very, very limited.” (tags: apple, iphone, att, mobile, phone)

links for 2008-06-09

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:32:36 +0000

Get Iceberg! Develop Custom Applications Without Coding: Hmm, I’m always skeptical of claims like this: “With Iceberg, any user can create a web application using its simple, DIY tools.”, but it’s worth a try… (tags: development, software, web2.0, RIA, tools, applications, programming, webapps)

links for 2008-06-08

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:34:34 +0000

Tag Galaxy: Awesome Flash-based Flickr tag browser (tags: flickr, visualization, photography, search, photo, flash, adobe)
50 Cool Things You Can Do with Google Charts API: An interesting list of uses for Google Charts (tags: google, charts, api, programming, graphics, applications, web, visualization, statistics, analytics)

links for 2008-06-05

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:40:04 +0000

Swish-e :: Home Page: “A free open source system for indexing collections of Web pages or other files.. ideally suited for collections of a million documents or smaller… can index plain text, e-mail, PDF, HTML, XML, Word/PowerPoint/Excel…” (tags: search, web, opensource, content)
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Understanding Amazon Web Services: “For Amazon, running a cloud computing service is core to its business in a way that it isn’t for, say, IBM, Sun, or HP.” (tags: amazon, aws, business, cloud, computing, cloudcomputing, technology, architecture)

links for 2008-06-03

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:36:47 +0000

Design Stencils – Yahoo! Design Pattern Library: “Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the following topics” (tags: design, templates, ui, yahoo, wireframe)
Google spotlights data center inner workings | Tech news blog – CNET News.com: “To operate on Google’s scale requires the company to treat each machine as expendable. Server makers pride themselves on their high-end machines’ ability to withstand failures, but Google prefers to invest its money in fault-tolerant software.” (tags: architecture, google, infrastructure, scalability, hardware, network, server, technology)
OrbisÂ Luminum – add subtle light to the portraits and landscape photography: “The Orb controls the mixture between Landscape and Portrait processing and between smooth and texture enhanced output. Underneath is our proprietary algorithm that does the rest.” (tags: photography, photo, software, digital, camera)

links for 2008-05-30

Fri, 30 May 2008 00:35:20 +0000

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 skills at any stage in their careers.” (tags: career, management, work, home, community)
Ingram has acquired the assets of Audiofy, which was supplying Ingram Digital with its audiobook platform: “Ingram Digital, an Ingram Content company focused on solutions for digital content management, hosting, distribution and promotion, today announced it has acquired the iofy digital audiobook platform from Audiofy Corporation.” (tags: audio, audiobooks, audible, ingram, business, acquisitions)

links for 2008-05-29

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:37:30 +0000

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 web browsers that allows developers to create rich web applications with desktop capabilities.” (tags: browser, applications, api, ajax, yahoo, javascript, development, plugin, webdev)

links for 2008-05-28

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:35:28 +0000

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)

links for 2008-05-26

Mon, 26 May 2008 00:31:42 +0000

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, adwords, blog, ranking, analytics)

links for 2008-05-25

Sun, 25 May 2008 00:38:12 +0000

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)

links for 2008-05-24

Sat, 24 May 2008 00:35:56 +0000

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)

links for 2008-05-23

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:37:16 +0000

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 that follows these three principles” (tags: amazon, architecture, aws, ec2, sqs, messaging, development)
The Amazon Tax – May 22, 2008 – The New York Sun: “Why should the Bible be taxed or books for children learning to read be taxed, but a $100 silk necktie or bikini go tax-free?” (tags: amazon, ecommerce, NY, tax, retail)

links for 2008-05-20

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:38:31 +0000

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, using speech synthesis. The files can be played in a web browser or downloaded to be played on a portable device.” (tags: audio, audible, mp3, podcast, podcasting, text-to-speech, wikipedia)
Google Code Blog: How Google Friend Connect Works: “We want to help you understand a bit more about how it works on the Friend Connect side with respect to users’ information.” (tags: google, facebook, dataportability, api, friendconnect, socialnetworking, opensocial, socialsoftware)

links for 2008-05-19

Mon, 19 May 2008 00:39:12 +0000

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.” (tags: health, food, diet, environment, green, nutrition)
Individual Emissions – Personal Emissions Calculator | Climate Change – Greenhouse Gas Emissions | U.S. EPA: “This calculator provides an estimate of household greenhouse gas emissions resulting from household energy use and waste disposal, and it gives you information you can use to identify ways to reduce your personal greenhouse gases.” (tags: environment, energy, earth, epa, finance, green, government, calculator)
Carbonrally – climate change community focused on fun, social, and competitive challenges: “Reduce global warming by taking quick & easy challenges. Compete with others in your area and around the world.” (tags: environment, green, climate, community, carbon, energy)

links for 2008-05-18

Sun, 18 May 2008 00:36:35 +0000

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, platform, media, social, data, dataportability, facebook, google, myspace)

links for 2008-05-17

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:35:52 +0000

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 brings Google Analytics to the desktop, with a host of features that help you understand how your website is performing and where you can improve. (tags: adobe, google, analytics, statistics, stats, applications, ria)

links for 2008-05-16

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:39:37 +0000

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. (tags: amazon, work, ebooks, kindle, books, hardware, technology, analysis)

links for 2008-05-14

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:45:25 +0000

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, community, culture, service)

links for 2008-05-10

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:38:26 +0000

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 the resource directly.” (tags: api, dataportability, data, development, web2.0, standards, json, javascript)

links for 2008-05-09

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:39:37 +0000

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 Hours of Allamuchy is a 24-Hour Mountain Bike Race for solo riders, relay teams, competitive and recreational riders.” (tags: cycling, mountain_biking, bicycle, bike, fitness, fun)
Capacity Planning for Web Operations – Web20 Expo 2008 » SlideShare: John Allspaw’s Web 2.0 (tags: performance, architecture, scalability, monitoring, server, applications)

links for 2008-05-08

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:32:25 +0000

50 Ways to Help the Planet: 50 ways to be green (tags: environment, energy, green, earth, howto)

links for 2008-05-07

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:33:57 +0000

Why Yahoo Shares Lost Only 15%: “Yahoo’s stock closed at $24.37, down only about 15% on the day. And in fact, that’s about a 30% premium to Yahoo’s stock price back in January. “ (tags: yahoo, microsoft, acquisitions, business, 2008, finance)
Overdevelopment in West Orange, NJ: “Samba writes a blog about, well, overdevelopment in West Orange. Specifically the (in)effectiveness of the town council in protecting trees by adopting a tree ordinance.” (tags: NJ, local, westorange)
Last.fm + YouTube = music tv goodness: “This is a mashup of Last.fm and YouTube made by Tim Bormans. It’s best described as an online music television based on your taste.” (tags: last.fm, youtube, mashup, api, music, video)
Yahoo stock plunges? (kottke.org): “MSFT increased the value of Yahoo by more than $7 billion and decreased the value of Microsoft Corporation by almost $33 billion. In still other words, in attempting to take Yahoo by force, they let an amount equal to Yahoo slip through their fingers.” (tags: business, yahoo, microsoft, economics, media, news, stockmarket, finance)

links for 2008-05-06

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:37:14 +0000

Hyperfocal Distance and Depth of Field Calculator – DOFMaster: “Use DOFMaster to make depth of field scales for use in the field. Just set the focus distance, and read the near and far focus distances. Easily calculate the hyperfocal distance for your lens at any aperture.” (tags: photography, photo, camera, reference, software, tools, utilities)
BuzzMachine: Print sucks: “Yes, print is a burden. It’s expensive to produce for it. It’s expensive to manufacture. It’s expensive to deliver…It kills trees. It uses energy. It usually brings unions. And you really should recycle it. Wow, when you think about it, print suc (tags: news, print, business, digital, media, online, internet)

links for 2008-05-04

Sun, 04 May 2008 00:39:03 +0000

Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo!: Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc.: “REDMOND, Wash., May 3, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced that it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)” (tags: microsoft, yahoo, news, business, acquisitions, google)
BREAKING: MICROSOFT WALKS | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD: “Microsoft was also concerned with the lack of friendly integration and other major strategic problems, including the email monopoly that would arise from the merger of the two companies” (tags: microsoft, yahoo, business, acquisitions, google, news)

links for 2008-05-03

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:33:47 +0000

Amazon Sues Over State Law on Collection of Sales Tax – New York Times: “Amazon.com has filed a lawsuit challenging New York State’s new law forcing online retailers to collect sales tax on shipments to state residents. “ (tags: amazon, tax, ecommerce, NY, business)

links for 2008-05-02

Fri, 02 May 2008 00:33:24 +0000

Adobe’s Open Screen Project: Write Once, Flash Everywhere: “Adobe is making a big play to make Flash the de facto viewing environment not only for Web apps on your PC, but also on your mobile phone, your TV, and any other screen you can think of. “ (tags: adobe, flash, opensource, mobile, RIA)
Web 2.0 Expo Presentation Rundown: via random($foo): “Here’re the ones I thought were most interesting.” (tags: web2.0, conference, culture, internet, presentations, video, web)
Munin: “Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and “what just happened to kill our performance?” problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work.” (tags: monitoring, sysadmin, server, network, tools, visualization, geek)
Ganglia Monitoring System » What is Ganglia?: “Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters.” (tags: architecture, development, distributed, infrastructure, opensource, tools, monitoring, cluster, software, sysadmin, network)

links for 2008-05-01

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:34:35 +0000

Audible Launches Children’s Book Site – WSJ.com: “Audible Inc. on Monday launched a Web site where families can choose from over 3,500 children’s listenable books that can be purchased and downloaded.” (tags: audible, amazon, work, parenting, kids, audio, books)
Time Warner Begins Death by 1,000 Cuts – GigaOM: “Like an aging matron, Time Warner appears to be taking refuge in the arms of old Hollywood.” (tags: time, media, business, enterprise, internet, AOL)

links for 2008-04-30

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:38:26 +0000

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)

links for 2008-04-29

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:36:15 +0000

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)

links for 2008-04-27

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:34:21 +0000

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)

links for 2008-04-26

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:34:47 +0000

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)

links for 2008-04-25

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:34:32 +0000

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)

links for 2008-04-24

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:32:44 +0000

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)

links for 2008-04-23

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:33:31 +0000

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)

links for 2008-04-22

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:35:39 +0000

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)

links for 2008-04-19

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:33:54 +0000

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)

links for 2008-04-18

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:36:44 +0000

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)

links for 2008-04-16

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:33:21 +0000

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)

links for 2008-04-15

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:34:22 +0000

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)

links for 2008-04-12

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:33:16 +0000

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)

Feed problems

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:12:57 +0000

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.

links for 2008-04-10

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:33:56 +0000

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)

links for 2008-04-09

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:36:00 +0000

Google App Engine – Google Code: Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. (tags: google, development, appengine, api, code, amazon, applications, architecture, business, cloud, ondemand)

links for 2008-04-02

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:34:00 +0000

Amazon Web Services Blog: DCI – The Dog Computer Interface: “we could probably train Rufus to do some Mechanical Turk HITS” (tags: funny, amazon, services, 2008)

links for 2008-04-01

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:33:50 +0000

AudibleKids – Audio Books for Kids: Listen and learn with your kids… check out Audible’s new site for parents and kids. (shameless plug ;-) (tags: audible, audiobooks, audio, mp3, books, kids, parenting, web)
Audiobooks for Your Kids, on Kindle: “…more than just an online store for digital books–it’s also a social network. Parents will have to create accounts, though they can set up various profiles for each of their children, providing them different permissions than their own accounts.” (tags: blog, education, kids, audible, amazon, audiobooks, parenting)

links for 2008-03-31

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:32:21 +0000

WordPress 2.5 has been released: WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback (tags: blog, blogging, blogs, cms, wordpress, opensource)
Consistent, Hot, Convenient, Green: catbird.org: cat’s world.: “Steve is on a Quest for the Perfect Cup of Coffee.” (tags: 2008, coffee, green, family)

links for 2008-03-29

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:34:17 +0000

Amazon Web Services Blog: New EC2 Features: Static IP Addresses, Availability Zones, and User Selectable Kernels: “We just added three important new features to Amazon EC2: Elastic IP Addresses, Availability Zones, and User Selectable Kernels.” (tags: amazon, aws, cloud, ec2, hosting, webservices)

links for 2008-03-25

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:23:17 +0000

Why HD movie downloads are a big lie | George Ou | ZDNet.com: “The carriers are in a strategic position to be close enough to the customer that they can actually deliver true HD-quality IPTV with some level of video on demand” (tags: bluray, hdtv, tv, dvd, movies, iptv, video, ondemand)

links for 2008-03-22

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:36:35 +0000

Open source performance testing tools: A list of open source load testing looks (tags: architecture, performance, optimization, opensource, testing, QA, tools, software, web)
Parosproxy.org – Web Application Security: A application used for web security assessment (tags: security, web, applications, Browser, development, vulnerability, webapp, software, testing, QA)
High Performance Web Pages – 20 new best practices: SlideShare: More from Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance team on High Performance Web page – 20 new best practices (tags: performance, optimization, web, development, presentation, design)

links for 2008-03-18

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:19:13 +0000

Amazon.com Completes Tender Offer For Audible: “Amazon said it now owns about 90% of the outstanding shares in the Wayne, N.J., spoken-word digital-content provider.” (tags: Amazon, Audible, Acquisitions, Business, 2008)
Ultimate Web Analytics Comparison Resources – Web Analytics World: “What are the differences between Google Analytics and SiteCatalyst,” “How do I know which web analytics product to use? (tags: analytics, Google, Metrics, reference, statistics, stats, tools)
alphaWorks : IBM Mashup Hub : Overview: “IBM Mashup Hub connects Web 2.0 mashup creators and situational application assemblers with the data and user interface components they need for creating their solutions. Mashup Hub provides two broad areas of support: feed generation for enterprise data (tags: IBM, mashup, web2.0, feeds)

links for 2008-03-17

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:20:18 +0000

Annual Report Photographer David Tejada “The f-Stops Here”: Building a Ring Flash: step by step ring flash DIY tutorial (tags: Photography, strobist, tutorial, photo, HOWTO, ringflash, DIY)
Flickr Photo Download: How to build a cheap ringflash: Cheap ringflash build instructions (tags: Photography, strobist, photo, ringflash, DIY, HOWTO, lighting)
One Click Ahead — Everything New in Mobile Media: My friend Mugur Tolea new blog! Awesome! Can’t wait to read more. (tags: Mobile, media, digital, Technology, phone)

links for 2008-03-16

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:19:52 +0000

Crane Collapse in Manhattan Kills at Least 4 – New York Times: “A crane towering over a high-rise construction site on the East Side of Manhattan collapsed in a roar of rending steel on Saturday afternoon, raining death and destruction across a city block as it slashed down on an apartment building” (tags: NYC, local, News, 2008, Tragedy)

links for 2008-03-15

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:21:13 +0000

5 Reasons Why Amazon Is Calling Audible: “Here are a few of the ways that Audible’s purchase will help out the leading online retailer.” (tags: Amazon, Audible, Acquisitions, Business, retail, ecommerce, digital, media)
Breaking Google Captchas for a Day – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog: “If by cracked, you are saying that a machine can solve the captcha as easily as a human being, I’m confident that is not the case,” (tags: captcha, Security, Spam, Google)
Trent Reznor: Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ promotion was ‘insincere’ | Tech news blog – CNET News.com: “What is so sad about these promotions by Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead is that, other than Reznor, few artists are tinkering with the Internet or looking for an alternative to the traditional business model in the music industry.” (tags: Radiohead, Music, Business, digital, media)

links for 2008-03-14

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:20:16 +0000

The Associated Press: AOL to Pay $850M for Social Network Bebo: “AOL, the Internet arm of Time Warner Inc., said Thursday it will pay $850 million in cash to acquire social media network Bebo, which has total global membership of more than 40 million.” (tags: AOL, Bebo, facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, socialsoftware, socialnetworking, Business, Acquisitions)

links for 2008-03-12

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:20:49 +0000

HTML Reference (beta): “Welcome to the SitePoint HTML Reference (beta)! We’ve worked hard to make this the most detailed and up-to-date reference on the subject available.” (tags: html, reference, webdesign, documentation, xhtml, webdev)

links for 2008-03-10

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:21:10 +0000

Cloning XP with Linux and ntfsclone: Backing up an XP partition using Knoppix and ntfsclone (tags: HOWTO, Knoppix, Linux, Windows, XP, utilities)

links for 2008-03-06

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:21:24 +0000

BuddyPress: “BuddyPress will transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform.” (tags: wordpress, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, socialmedia, opensource, PHP)
Music exec: “Music 1.0 is dead.”: Ted Cohen, a former EMI exec who used the phrase, “music 1.0 is dead.” at the opening of the Digital Music Forum East by pleading with the industry to be wildly creative with new business models but not to “be desperate” during this transitional period. (tags: music, business, drm, digital, media, MP3, trends, Entertainment, Audio, economics)
IAC Cuts 8% Of Ask.com & Kills Search Engine: “IAC’s Ask.com to Cut Staff, Outlines New Search Strategy from the Wall Street Journal reports IAC has cut 8% of Ask.com’s workforce, by letting go 40 people. Not only that, the Wall Street Journal says IAC is changing the strategy of the search engine to (tags: IAC, Search, Business)
Coding Horror: CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live CAPTCHA!: “I am no fan of CAPTCHA. I view them as a necessary and important evil, one of precious few things separating average internet users from a torrential deluge of email, comment, and forum spam.” (tags: captcha, security, spam, authentication)
Kevin Kelly — 1,000 True Fans: “…the long tail is a decidedly mixed blessing for creators. Individual artists, producers, inventors and makers are overlooked in the equation.” (tags: longtail, economics, Amazon, ecommerce, business, marketing, music, online, analysis)
Official Google Blog: Google Calendar Sync: “Google Calendar Sync, a 2-way synching application between Google Calendar and the calendar in Microsoft Outlook.” (tags: Google, Microsoft, Technology, software, calendar, productivity)

links for 2008-03-05

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:22:03 +0000

CTO Handbook — How to care for and feed your CTO – Red Canary: “VP Dev is crankier than even the crankiest of CTOs. That’s because Veeps keep it real, they shelter developers from the CTO and other C-types and in really productive cases they’re a great reality check for the CTO.” (tags: Employment, Career, Work, management, Technology)
Scaling with Clouds – Red Canary: “This is the first in a series of articles on designing, hosting and managing your software on Amazon Web Services.” (tags: Amazon, ec2, s3, scalability, sqs, aws, architecture)
Anyterm – Introduction: “Using AnyTerm you can embed an SSH window in a web page.” (tags: ssh, Security, AJAX, apache, JavaScript, webapp, Browser, applications, infrastructure, Linux, opensource, tools)
Web Log Analysis for Amazon S3 – S3STAT: “S3STAT is a service that takes the detailed server access logs provided by Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), and translates them into human readable statistics, reports and graphs” (tags: Amazon, s3, analytics, statistics)
cloudtools – Google Code: “Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying and testing Java EE applications on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). There are three main parts to Cloud Tools” (tags: Amazon, cloud, ec2, aws, j2ee, s3, Java, webservices, scalability)
Exclusive First Look: WorldWide Telescope | FastCompany.TV: Scoble talking with Microsoft Researchers Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay about the WorldWide Telescope | (tags: microsoft, astronomy, telescope, space, Visualization, video)
S u b m e r g e r . B l o g . H o m e: My buddy Phil’s new podcast/blog… cool! “This nifty little site is going to be used to post mixes, tracks, ideas, rants, comments, shows, pictures, dancing babies and paper cuts. “ (tags: Music, Podcasting, podcast, podcasts, Audio, Audible, Entertainment)
Google Gears on Mobile Devices – Google Gears API – Google Code: “Google Gears is now available on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices.” (tags: Google, Mobile, Windows, smartphone, PocketPC, offline, development)
How Cloud & Utility Computing Are Different – GigaOM: “The main benefit of utility computing is better economics. Corporate data centers are notoriously underutilized, with resources such as servers often idle 85 percent of the time.” (tags: Amazon, architecture, cloud, computing, distributed, SaaS, scalability, SOA, Technology, virtualization, utilitycomputing)
Store and share documents online with Office Live Workspace: “Microsoft announced that the Office Live Workspace beta is publicly available for everyone to access. The site, a free web-based extension of Microsoft Office, lets you access your documents online and share your work with others.” (tags: Microsoft, Office, Collaboration, documents, Online, tools)

links for 2008-03-04

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:22:24 +0000

TNS buys Compete: “Today Taylor Nelson Softres (TNS) announced the acquisition of Compete. TNS is a $2 billion world leader in market information and insight, headquartered in London. Together Compete and TNS are creating the world’s first and largest fully global consum (tags: Business, Acquisitions, analytics, web, statistics)
PC World – Facebook Music Dances With iTunes: “lets bands create their own profiles, sell tickets and merchandise through a deal with the Music Today service. Tracks can be streamed and Facebook is providing a link to iTunes in order that acts can offer songs for sale to fans visiting their pages.” (tags: Facebook, iTunes, Apple, myspace, Music, Business, media, ecommerce, socialsoftware)
Microsoft flirts with “cloud”-based applications, still making billions off Earth-bound variety » VentureBeat: “Utilizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 as well as Microsoft Office SharePoint Service 2007, services such as e-mail, contacts, calendars and conferencing will all be available to use and sync online.” (tags: Microsoft, SaaS, Enterprise, cloud, Google, architecture)
Building a Multisourced Infrastructure Using OpenVPN: “As more applications find their way to Amazon’s virtual computing environment, system administrators are looking for ways to provide secure connectivity over the public Internet between new machines in the Amazon EC2 and old machines in their regular dat (tags: Amazon, cloud, ec2, hosting, Networking, opensource, Security, virtualization, infrastructure)
Fast & Easy EC2 Dashboard With Standalone ElasticFoxÂ -Â AideRSS Blog: “…a standalone desktop version of ElasticFox.” (tags: Amazon, ec2, Firefox, cloud, architecture)

links for 2008-03-03

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:19:04 +0000

Podcasting News: Limelight Loses Patent Infringement Suit With Akamai: “The judgement found that Limelight was infringing on Akamai’s content delivery patent. As a result, the jury awarded Akamai a staggering $45,526,946 in damages, plus interest.” (tags: CDN, Akamai, Limelight, lawsuit, Business)
11 Resources For Learning Guitar On The Web: We’ve got 11 tools to help you start living out your dreams of being a rock legend… you know, when you’re not coding a new Twitter application. (tags: HOWTO, Music, guitar, education, tutorial, learning, list)

links for 2008-03-02

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:19:18 +0000

Totspot – It’s A Social Network For Babies: “A key part of the service will be recording milestones like the first crawl, steps, solid food, word said, etc. with text, video and photos. Users will then be able to have books printed with all of this material, for an additional fee.” (tags: Kids, Parenting, Parenthood, socialnetworking, web2.0, socialsoftware)

links for 2008-02-29

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:20:54 +0000

Random House Audio abandons audiobook DRM – Boing Boing: “Random House Audio — a division of Bertelsmann, one of the largest publishing conglomerates in the world — has announced that it will now allow its audiobooks to be sold without DRM by all of its online retailers.” (tags: audiobooks, Audible, Audio, Books, DRM, publishing, Work)
WWTelescope: “The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe.” (tags: Science, Space, Visualization, Research, Maps, astronomy, Microsoft)
Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business: “Low-cost digital distribution will make the summer blockbuster free. Theaters will make their money from concessions — and by selling the premium moviegoing experience at a high price.” (tags: economics, culture, media, Commerce, community, content, Education, marketing, longtail, Research, Technology, business)

links for 2008-02-28

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:23:58 +0000

Hidden Secrets of the Amazon Shopping Cart: Amazon has “…built a culture of incremental website optimization. It’s this foundation that’s made them one of the top-converting websites, month after month.” (tags: Amazon, Design, shopping, ecommerce, retail, Metrics, Measurement, optimization)
FreeScreencast.com – Features: “FreeScreencast is a new free web-based service that allows you to record anything taking place on your screen in a simple way.” (tags: Screencasting, services, sharing, webcast, video, Presentations, screencast, online, software)

links for 2008-02-25

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:23:28 +0000

50 Questions to Evaluate the Quality of Your Website: “This 50 questions long questionnaire might trigger something here and there for some of you or maybe brings some forgotten item from the long to-do list back into your mind.” (tags: webdesign, usability, UI, marketing, SEO, information)

links for 2008-02-24

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:18:19 +0000

Listen to your blog – BlogBard: “Want your own personalized radio station? Now you can listen to your favourite blogs on your ipod or on your iphone!” (tags: feeds, Audio, blog, Blogs, MP3, podcast)
photography light cage: “It simulates a lighting cage where all the “trivial” lighting positions hold a spot pointed at a model’s torso. As you shift from on spot to another, you can see the influence of this light on the model.” (tags: Photography, photo, lighting, strobist)
Facebook Analytics and Developer Services | Adonomics: “Adonomics, formerly Appaholic, is your source for Facebook analytics. By providing a stock-market-style analysis of the Facebook platform we enable developers and investors to track application growth, activity, and valuation.” (tags: facebook, applications, analytics, analysis, Advertising, Metrics, socialmedia, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, statistics, stats, Research, Measurement, Data, trends)
Maybe Microsoft Should Stalk Different Prey – New York Times: “Professor Cusumano has a suggestion: Rather than acquire Yahoo, Microsoft should pursue SAP.” (tags: Microsoft, SAP, Enterprise, software, Yahoo, Business, Acquisitions)
Digital downloads will be Blu-ray’s downfall | Tech news blog – CNET News.com: ‘…instead of buying discs from Amazon, Best Buy or Wal-Mart, people will begin getting their entertainment in the form of digital downloads in larger volumes.” (tags: Hardware, innovation, online, ondemand, video, vod, digital, media)
Feature: Give an Old Laptop New Life with Cheap (or Free) Projects: “With some free software, a little know-how and some creative thinking about your home network, nearly any old laptop can find its second wind” (tags: Hardware, Hacks, DIY, Technology, Recycle, lifehacks)

links for 2008-02-23

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:25:27 +0000

Obsolete Skills: Skills/Skills: Dude, you’re so obsolete… (tags: Career, Humor, innovation, directory, fun, funny, geek, history, technology, retro, wiki)

links for 2008-02-22

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:20:14 +0000

Adobe Tour of California Tracker: Flash-based real-time tracker of the tour (tags: cycling, tourofcalifornia, bike, flash, bicycle, Adobe, flex, GPS, Maps, mashup, web2.0)
doubleTwist: “doubleTwist desktop enables you to easily share media with friends and sync with popular devices.” (tags: MP3, Multimedia, Music, sharing, P2P, conversion, converter, Audio, HOWTO, iPod, iTunes, media, tools)
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Smart and Lazy Ways to Save Your Workday: “there are a few dead easy strategies that can help you focus on your tasks, firewall your attention, and reduce your workload so you can get out the door feeling light, free, and done” (tags: productivity, management, lifehacks, Career, Agile, organization, Email, work)
Scott Klarr: Programming – Development: “An extensive collection of cheat sheets for programming languages and applications” (tags: development, Code, programming, CSS, apache, PHP, xhtml, XML, Ruby, rails, Python, JavaScript, Linux, MySQL, Perl, tips, reference, webdev, web)
htaccess Editor: Edit Apache .htaccess files in your browser (tags: apache, web, webapp, applications, utilities, Service, Technology, server, development)

links for 2008-02-21

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:23:17 +0000

Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox): “Application usability is enhanced when users know how to operate the UI and it guides them through the workflow. Violating common guidelines prevents both.’ (tags: applications, Design, development, heuristics, usability, UI, UX, webdesign)
Join the Campaign to Let Levi Ride: “Help put Levi’s dreams back on track by signing the petition to Let Levi Ride. Petitions will be sent directly to Christian Prudhomme, Director of the ASO, as well as to VS, the official US media partner of the Tour de France.” (tags: Cycling, TdF, tourdefrance)

links for 2008-02-20

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:22:38 +0000

Wubi – The Easiest Way to Linux: “Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application.” (tags: ubuntu, Linux, Unix, virtualization, Windows, opensource, software)
Meet iPaper | Scribd: “iPaper documents are Flash widgets which you embed in your existing web pages. PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and many other document formats can all be displayed on the web using iPaper.” (tags: Collaboration, development, documents, flash, online, PDF, publishing, services, sharing)
Conversion: Five Email Addresses that Convert Documents: “five email addresses that offer free file conversion for Word docs, PDFs, and even MP3s with no fuss, no muss—just attach a file, send it, and wait for the reply with the converted file attached.” (tags: converter, documents, Email, PDF, Office, Microsoft, services)
Developing Intelligence : Caffeine: A User’s Guide to Getting Optimally Wired: “Caffeine is the most widely used stimulant in the world, but few use it to maximal advantage. Get optimally wired with these tips.” (tags: Coffee, caffeine, health, productivity, Research, Food, Science)
The 7-Eleven deal: Could Yahoo Japan buy Yahoo?: “Why isn’t Yahoo Japan the one buying Yahoo?” (tags: Yahoo, Search, Microsoft, Business, Acquisitions)

links for 2008-02-19

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:20:39 +0000

ControlC: “Anytime you copy textual content, ControlC will upload that text to our server to store under your account.” (tags: applications, Service, online, sharing, social, Text, web2.0, webapp, webservices, API, tools, web)
Comcast Invests in Project Canoe: “Comcast announced it will invest between $50 million and $70 million to fund Project Canoe, an industry-wide national interactive advertising platform.” (tags: digital, media, Advertising, video, VOD)

links for 2008-02-18

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:18:38 +0000

Ben Stein’s 10-Minute investment Tips: “I’ve developed a few simple rules to invest by. I consider them the Zen of investing, because if you work at them, they eventually become instinctive. You won’t have to think about them. You’ll just abide by them.” (tags: finance, Accounting, investment, money, tips, HOWTO, financial, investing, economics)

links for 2008-02-15

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:20:58 +0000

What’s Next for YouTube (Video Editing, Recommendations, Advertiser Analytics): “…at an event in NYC dubbed “Videocracy,” YouTube gave marketers a sneak peak at some upcoming initiatives.” (tags: youtube, Google, marketing, video, videos, web2.0, analytics, Advertising)

links for 2008-02-14

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:22:39 +0000

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Amazon’s river of bits: “…the company’s recent moves show that a transformation, or at least a refocusing, may be in the works. Amazon may be signaling that it sees its future more as a river of bits than as a river of goods.” (tags: Amazon, Audible, retail, webservices, internet, online, ondemand, ecommerce, digital, media)
PDFescape – Your Online PDF Reader, Editor, Form Filler, Form Designer, Solution: “With PDFescape, you can fill in PDF forms, add text and graphics, add links, and even add new form fields to a PDF file.” (tags: PDF, Office, documentation, applications, services, utilities, productivity)
Proposed Yahoo-News Corp. Deal: Details – Silicon Alley Insider: “the two are talking about a swap where News Corp. offers up MySpace and the rest of its Web properties, along with some cash, for a Yahoo equity stake. An “unnamed private equity fund” would also join in (Quadrangle?).” (tags: Yahoo, NewsCorp, Business, Microsoft, Google)

links for 2008-02-13

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:22:59 +0000

Epeus’ epigone: The Social Cloud: “Kevin Marks is a software engineer at Google, was principal engineer for Technorati and one of the founders of Microformats. In this video Kevin talks about the big picture re: the phenomenon of online social networks in a presentation called The Social (tags: Google, opensocial, presentation, semanticweb, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, video, web2.0, dataportability, cloud)

links for 2008-02-12

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:23:21 +0000

Not So Crazy: Yahoo May Partner With AOL To Escape Microsoft: “Don’t forget that Google owns 5 percent of AOL and … wants to stop the Yahoo-Microsoft tie-up, might be able to sweeten the idea of Yahoo getting AOL by reducing its rights or potential payout as part of that agreement.” (tags: Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Google, Business, merger, Acquisitions, Search, Advertising, applications)
Sniff browser history for improved user experience: “In this post I will teach you how to mine the rich treasure trove of personalization data sitting inside your visitor’s browser history for deep personalization experiences.” (tags: UX, usability, Browser, CSS, JavaScript, development, socialnetworking, webdesign, webdev, recommendations)
FuseOverAmazon – s3fs – Google Code: “s3fs is a fuse filesystem that allows you to mount an Amazon S3 bucket as a local filesystem.” (tags: Amazon, backup, s3, storage)
Podcasting News » Internet Advertising Growing Like Mad: “U.S. Internet advertising is growing like mad – up by 25% in 2007 to over 25 billion dollars. And the money’s not all going to Google.” (tags: Advertising, media, Business, internet)
Returnil – Simple, Smart and Strong Approach to PC Safety: Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition is a powerful virtualization technology that completely mirrors your actual computer setup and it can create a virtual storage disk within your PC where you can save documents, data, and files while using the Syste (tags: Windows, XP, Freeware, software, utilities, virtualization)

links for 2008-02-11

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:23:41 +0000

The Immutable Laws of Web Design and Development | Blue Flavor: “Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.” (tags: webdesign, development, quotes, software, design, management, PM, process, usability, web)

links for 2008-02-10

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:21:26 +0000

Inside MySpace.com: Booming traffic demands put a constant stress on the social network’s computing infrastructure. Yet, MySpace developers have repeatedly redesigned the Web site software, database and storage systems in an attempt to keep pace with exploding growth” (tags: myspace, architecture, scalability, performance, development)

links for 2008-02-09

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:22:36 +0000

Yahoo Live: “This lifestreaming portal is both a distribution and tagging site and a tool set to create videos” (tags: Yahoo, video, web, tv, streaming, Service, live, community, webcam, webcast)

links for 2008-02-07

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:22:10 +0000

eBoostr.com: eBoostr allows you to use an additional drive (flash memory or hard disk) as another layer of performance-boosting cache for your Windows XP” (tags: Windows, XP, flash, USB, utilities, software)
New Thoughts On Language Acquisition: Toddlers As Data Miners: “Indiana University researchers are studying a ground-breaking theory that young children are able to learn large groups of words rapidly by data-mining.” (tags: children, Kids, language, Parenting, Science, Data, learning)
TrueCrypt – Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux: new feature provides the ability to encrypt an entire drive, (tags: Data, Security, encryption, storage, software, opensource, applications, utilities, windows, cryptography, tools)

links for 2008-02-06

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:21:10 +0000

How To: Migrate All Your Old Gmail to a New Gmail Address: “Luckily with Gmail’s easy-to-use Mail Fetcher feature and POP3 access, you can easily import all of your old emails to your new, respectable Gmail address with a few very simple steps.” (tags: Google, gmail, Email, HOWTO, lifehacks, backup)
MySpace Developer Platform: “Full platform release to all users is expected in early March. The app gallery will launch at that time also.” (tags: myspace, opensocial, platform, development, socialsoftware, web2.0)

links for 2008-02-05

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:26:17 +0000

My videos from Davos: Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger: “…World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here’s my favorites, not necessarily in order of importance. I marked the must watch videos.” (tags: videos, davos, scoble, economics, government, Politics, video)
Tech~~Surf~~Blog: DEMO ’08 – My Top Picks: “So, these picks of mine are totally unadultered by the opinions of others” (tags: demo, 2008, startups, presentation, entrepreneur, Technology, services)
Web Worker Daily: Archive Microsoft-Yahoo News Roundup «: “For those of you who haven’t had the luxury of being immersed in the coverage, here’s our pick of some of the highlights.” (tags: Microsoft, Yahoo, internet, Acquisitions, Business, Advertising, Search)
What Would Micro-Hoo Mean for Video? « NewTeeVee: “While we’re still digesting and analyzing the news, here’s a quick rundown of some immediate implications should the deal go through” (tags: video, Yahoo, Microsoft, Acquisitions, Business, internet)
Microsoft-Yahoo Merger: Our Entire Coverage – GigaOM: GigaOM coverage of the merger (tags: Yahoo, Microsoft, internet, Acquisitions, Business)
Chia-Lin Simmons: Death and the inequities of the technology industry: “Yesterday, Boston Globe reported that the death of Jeanette Symons on Friday. A pilot who has flown for over 20 years, Jeanette and her son sadly perished in a crash from Maine.” (tags: Technology, Tragedy, Women, leadership)

links for 2008-02-03

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:21:45 +0000

Car Lust: Car Lust: Honda Odyssey: “Popular culture is so anti-minivan today that driving one is so counter-culture, so in the face of popular biases, so keeping-it-real, that it’s almost punk rock.” (tags: Automotive, cars, Family, Punk)

links for 2008-02-01

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:21:25 +0000

Test Run: Collaborative test planning that’s just simple enough.: “Test Run helps you and your team create, manage, and execute test plans.” (tags: Agile, development, QA, software, testing, tools, productivity, Collaboration, Management)
Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 42% to $5.7 Billion; 2007 Free Cash Flow More Than Doubles, Surpassing $1 Billion for the First Time: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance: “Adoption of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) continues to grow. As an indicator of adoption, bandwidth utilized by these services in fourth quarter 2007 was even greater than bandwidth utilized in the same period (tags: Amazon, s3, ec2, storage, Bandwidth, finance)
Amazon.com to buy Audible for $300 million: “Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) Inc. Thursday said it would buy Audible Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBL) for $300 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Amazon will pay $11.50 for each share of Audible, and will assume its outstanding stock-based awards.” (tags: Amazon, Audible, Business, Acquisitions)

links for 2008-01-31

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:22:13 +0000

PDF Text Extraction In Your Browser – PDFTextOnline: “Converts PDF text quickly and accurately # Handles all fonts and languages (including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and more) # Provides easy access to form data, document properties, and bookmarks” (tags: Adobe, PDF, conversion, converter, tools, Service, utilities)
Google fixes Gmail IMAP problem on Windows Mobile | InfoWorld | News | 2008-01-29 | By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service: “Windows Mobile users don’t have to do anything to take advantage of the fix, the spokeswoman said. They should simply be able to properly receive Gmail messages on their phones now, she said.” (tags: Google, gmail, windowsmobile, Windows, Mobile, software, Email)

links for 2008-01-30

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:24:12 +0000

Liberty Media Moves to Take IAC From Diller: “Liberty Media Corp. took steps yesterday to seize control of IAC/InterActiveCorp from IAC Chairman Barry Diller, in a marked escalation of hostilities between Mr. Diller and his longtime backer, Liberty Chairman John Malone.” (tags: media, IAC, Business, internet, ecommerce, lawsuit)

links for 2008-01-29

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:24:47 +0000

Facebook Extends Platform to the Web – The Unofficial Facebook Blog: “…what’s significant here is that Facebook has publicly released something that is intended to extend the platform to the outside. The public is now aware of the possibilities to leverage Facebook outside of the main site and that is big news.” (tags: facebook, platform, javascript, API, development, mashup, socialmedia, socialsoftware)
Google Docs Bar – Companion for Firefox: “With gDocsBar, you can drag and drop multiple files into the sidebar to upload documents.” (tags: Firefox, Google, googleapps, gdocs, extension, extensions, Browser, documents)
WP Super Cache | Holy Shmoly!: “WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.” (tags: wordpress, optimization, performance, caching, blogging, scalability, architecture, plugins)
quikmaps.com :: maps for the masses: Doodle on Google! (tags: Google, googlemaps, mashup, Maps)
Tracking Consumer Savings on eBay – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog: “researchers have quantified that surplus, they project that consumers saved $19 billion on eBay last year.” (tags: ebay, economics, Business, Research, 2007)
monit — Unix System Management: “monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.” (tags: Unix, Enterprise, management, monitoring, services, software, infrastructure, network, Security, utilities, apache, ubuntu, Linux)
Deliver a Presentation like Steve Jobs: “I analyzed his latest presentation and extracted the 10 elements that you can combine to dazzle your own audience.“ (tags: Apple, Business, Presentations, presentation, powerpoint, publicspeaking, management, Career)
they.misled.us: Dark Room: “Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text.” (tags: applications, Windows, Writing, productivity, editor, Editors, Freeware, interface, utilities)

links for 2008-01-28

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:20:48 +0000

Lighting Mods: DIY: Cheap Image Stabilizer for Your Cameras: “With this stabilizer, you can hand-hold your camera with shutter speeds at least 3 stops slower than without it.” (tags: DIY, HOWTO, lighting, Photography)

links for 2008-01-26

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:19:46 +0000

Could Instant Messaging (XMPP) Power the Future of Online Communication? – ReadWriteWeb: “Automated alerts are useful in all kinds of more serious use-cases and why use polling to monitor changed conditions when you can use an open source protocol that can make presence and real time communication scalable?” (tags: jabber, Networking, XMPP, XML, IM, web2.0)
YouTube Readies For “Super Tuesday” With Mapping Site: …for “Super Tuesday” (February 5) Google is doing something somewhat more ambitious over at YouTube — call it “Super Tubesday.”… (tags: Google, youtube, News, Politics, government, elections, 2008)
Google’s MapReduce Explained: “Mark Chu-Carroll is a Google software engineer, and in a personal blog post this week explained the concept of one of Google’s programming models: MapReduce” (tags: Google, database, Search, architecture, Technology, development, mapreduce)
Put Together Quickly » Optimizing performance for WordPress: WordPress performance tips (tags: optimization, performance, WordPress, development, scalability)
Podcasting News: Nielsen Moving Intros Real-Time Video-On-Demand Audience Reporting: “The Nielsen Company today announced the launch of Nielsen On Demand Reporting & Analytics, a new service that reports on video-on-demand (VOD) usage.” (tags: video, ondemand, media, analytics)
Web Site Attempts to Collect Every Rule of Thumb – ReadWriteWeb: “A rule of thumb is a homemade recipe for making a guess,” says the Rules of Thumb site. “It is an easy-to-remember guide that falls somewhere between a mathematical formula and a shot in the dark.” (tags: information, HOWTO, Service)

links for 2008-01-25

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:24:18 +0000

joshua’s blog: put a proxy in front: “When scaling from a single web server to multiple web servers, the typical practice is to put a load-balancing reverse HTTP proxy in front.” (tags: performance, scalability, tips, architecture, Web, webservices, webapp, apache)
Pound Reverse-Proxy and Load-Balancer: “The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it (tags: scalability, loadbalancing, web, server, architecture, opensource, performance, hosting, caching)
Best places to catch a bite – DOWNTOWN NEWARK GUIDE – NJ.com: “Best Places to Catch a Bite in Downtown Newark” (tags: Food, NJ, Newark, Audible, Work, Entertainment)

links for 2008-01-24

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:26:48 +0000

CBS Will Try To Convert Last.FM Acquisition To Video Value | paidContent.org: “press conference tomorrow with CEO Leslie Moonves and Last.fm co-founders Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel; no details but to announce “a new unprecedented service”—a video service, we’re hearing, likely mixed with social networking” (tags: Music, last.fm, CBS, media, video, socialsoftware)
Wozniak Backs Captain Crunch in Net Video Startup: En2ools are the bridge that will let you listen to iTunes and iRadio on your Nokia phone. We make our money by inserting ourselves into the deal between the provider and the user.” (tags: Business, Mobile, tech, media, Hardware, iTunes, Audio, video)
John Battelle’s Searchblog: No, Google Won’t Buy the NYT. But Google.Org Could: “But if Google.org did, and then ran the paper as a trust, well, that’d buy a lot of brand burnish amongst a very important set of influential folks, just as massive privacy and monopoly issues are rearing their heads” (tags: Google, nytimes, News, Acquisitions, Business)
Timeline of Activities – DataPortability.Public.General | Google Groups: “A list of significant events leading to a Data Portability enabled Internet.” (tags: dataportability, Data, database, opensource, socialsoftware)

links for 2008-01-23

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:20:44 +0000

trust but verify: Tuesday Roundup: Floyd Landis: “The Winnipeg Free Press says that Floyd Landis is just a “bad memory” lost in the morass of the appeals process, but Rodney Harrison, who was suspended from the NFL for the first four games of the year for PED use, is going to the Super Bowl in glory. Fa (tags: TdF, Cycling, Sports, Legal, superbowl)
HBO putting shows online, at no additional charge | CNET News.com: “The channel, a subsidiary of Time Warner, will introduce HBO on Broadband starting this week to subscribers in Green Bay and Milwaukee, Wis., then spread the service slowly to other parts of the country.” (tags: online, ondemand, media, video, TV)
First South Mountain deer hunt plans modeled on hunt experience in Watchung Reservation – NJ.com: “Essex County’s program will use sharpshooters to cull the herd on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Jan. 29 through Feb. 28. Sharpshooters will be in the field between 5 a.m. and 8 p.m. on those days” (tags: nj, SoMo, local, Mountain_Biking, environment, outdoor, hiking, safty, MTB)
UrlRewriteFilter – Rewrite URL’s in Java Web Application Servers: “Based on the popular and very useful mod_rewrite for apache, UrlRewriteFilter is a Java Web Filter for any J2EE compliant web application server, which allows you to rewrite URLs before they get to your code. It is a very powerful tool just like Apache’s (tags: apache, Java, j2ee, framework, SEO, webapp)
Nagios is an Open Source host, service and network monitoring program.: “Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external “plugins” which return status i (tags: opensource, infrastructure, network, monitoring, server, security, utilities, tools, Service)
RealClearMarkets – Articles – Might Google Buy the New York Times?: “The only real hope for the paper is what it could call a “strategic sale,” on mutually agreed upon terms that would enable the Family to say it held up the flame.” (tags: Acquisitions, analysis, Business, economics, nytimes, Google, media)
John Battelle’s Searchblog: Google Drops More Than 160 Points: “…since its peak back in the Fall at nearly 750, Google has dropped to 584 currently, a 166 point drop (it’s dropped more in after hours, all the way down to 568).” (tags: Google, Business, finance, stockmarket, economics)

links for 2008-01-20

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:19:30 +0000

Three tips to protect your WordPress installation: Lock down your WordPress Install with these simple tips (tags: wordpress, Security, apache, blog, blogging, Blogs, HOWTO)

links for 2008-01-19

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:30:00 +0000

Born: Comfortable shoes, crappy customer service: catbird.org: cat’s world.: “I wanted to like this company with their super comfortable shoes. Instead, I’m left feeling like they don’t care about their customers and that they produce a shoddy product.” (tags: shopping, customerservice, Family)
A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site: “This is a step-by-step tutorial guide for implementing OpenID consumer-side support with a web site that already has users with accounts. It will explain how to easily let new users sign up for an account on your site using their OpenID URL and how to le (tags: OpenID, HOWTO, identity, integration, interface, authentication, development, tutorial, usability, UX, web2.0)

links for 2008-01-18

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:27:16 +0000

Perspective: Myspace Still Kicking Facebook’s Ass in Traffic – ReadWriteWeb: “Facebook is interesting but Myspace is where the users are, still.” (tags: facebook, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, statistics, stats, analysis)
Seth’s Blog: Workaholics: “The passionate worker doesn’t show up because she’s afraid of getting in trouble, she shows up because it’s a hobby that pays. The passionate worker is busy blogging on vacation…” (tags: blogging, Career, jobs, Work, management, productivity, sethgodin, tips, lifehacks, leadership, Business)
Bad Idea: Time Warner to Test Per Usage Web Access – ReadWriteWeb: “Charging per usage — and effectively penalizing high bandwidth users — may only serve to stifle the growth of rich media on the web, even as things like the new Apple TV and the unlimited Netflix streaming plan seek to push these activities into the ma (tags: Bandwidth, streaming, media, video, Business)
The ‘Seismic Shift’ in Online Video and Velocity Funds Broadband Enterprises | Eric Eldon | Voices | AllThingsD: “YouTube traffic has gone up 18% over the last two months, and Sony’s Crackle (formerly Grouper) has doubled from 1.2 million to 2.4 million users over the course of last fall, according to Nielsen Online.” (tags: media, video, youtube, analysis, analytics, strike, P2P)
SD Times – Oracle Gets Its BEA… For $8.5B: “Oracle Corp. today announced it has reached a deal to acquire BEA Systems for US$8.5 billion, just a few months after its initial offer of $6.7 billion was rebuffed.” (tags: Oracle, BEA, Business, Java, Acquisitions, server)

links for 2008-01-17

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:23:49 +0000

Gmail Manager :: Firefox Add-ons: “Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.” (tags: Firefox, Browser, extensions, extension, Email, Google, gmail)
So what do we mean by the ‘Internet Cloud’? – Alex Barnett blog: “The Internet cloud, where the distributed and programmable network of services across the globe will serve all the data, resources and functionality we will ever use.” (tags: cloud, architecture, computing, internet, distributed, programmable, network, services)
Real World Communications & PR: Enter the Internet Cloud: “According to Bill Gates, at week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the cloud is where he’s betting Microsoft’s future, as is Google, IBM and others.” (tags: cloud, architecture, computing, internet, distributed, programmable, network, services)
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database: “January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 bill (tags: Acquisitions, Business, 2008, database, internet, SQL, Sun, Web, MySQL)
GeoNames webservice and data download: “You can either download a daily database export or use our webservices to directly access our data. This list of GeoNames web services in table format helps you get an overview over all GeoNames web services.” (tags: Data, database, Maps, mashup, webservices, services, AJAX, RSS, JSON, XML, web2.0, API, geocoding)
BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous: This sucks if it happens: “Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble.” (tags: facebook, copyright, Scrabulous, Games, scrabble, news, socialsoftware)

links for 2008-01-16

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:27:03 +0000

Pancakes for dinner: catbird.org: cat’s world.: “This recipe is both sneaky and deceptively delicious.” (tags: Parenting, parenthacks, Recipe, cooking, Kids, Food, Family)
PipeBytes: “PipeBytes is a simple service which allows you to send a file to a friend.” (tags: Email, sharing, free, P2P, internet, storage, Service)
11 Ways to Optimize your Internal Site Search: “Google has raised the bar. If you misspell a word, it tells you. If you perform a search returning millions of results, they prioritize the results by showing you the most relevant page” (tags: ecommerce, Search, SEO)
Bloomberg.com: Technology: “Chrysler LLC, the third-largest U.S. automaker, is shifting its television advertising dollars to live sports and the Internet and out of primetime programs as the Hollywood writers’ strike heads into an 11th week.” (tags: Advertising, media, internet, strike, Writing, Hollywood)

links for 2008-01-15

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:25:51 +0000

FT.com / Home UK / UK – EMI chief confident of ability to call a new tune: “EMI, the big music company, spends 25 million pounds a year “to scrap unsold CDs”. That’s about $50 million — a year.” “is stuck with a model designed for a world that has changed and gone forever” (tags: Music, Business, media, DRM)
DIY : Poor’s man ring flash at All Day I Dream About Photography: “It is not exactly a ring flash but rather a flash diffuser done with milk-jug, so it is practically free” (tags: strobe, Photography, DIY, strobist, photo)
DIY Flash and Lighting Hacks for Digital Photographers: “In this post I’ve found 10 DIY Flash and Lighting Hacks that put some of these lighting techniques within the grasp of the rest of us.” (tags: DIY, photography, lighting, HOWTO, Hacks, photo, Camera, strobe, strobist)

links for 2008-01-14

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:24:23 +0000

52% of people who shop online do product research at Amazon.com – Bokardo: “And, perhaps even more amazing is that what those shoppers are going for isn’t even provided by Amazon: customer reviews. Nope, much of the valuable information on the site is provided by other people who write reviews, describe their experiences, and (tags: Amazon, ecommerce, marketing, shopping, socialsoftware, retail)

links for 2008-01-13

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:22:20 +0000

3 Lights Studio for Under $100 | DIYPhotography.net: “It is a great setup for starters, and HEY! it is under 100$.” (tags: Photography, lighting, DIY, HOWTO, strobist, Photo)

links for 2008-01-12

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:24:38 +0000

Turtle Interactive · The Art of the Sign Up Page · Innovative web sites, blogs and web applications: “# Logo # Elevator pitch # Description copy # List of key features # List of key benefits # Call to action # Testimonials # Tours # Examples of who is using the application # Screen shots # Life-style images # Link to more information” (tags: webdev, design, interface, UI, usability, ecommerce, webdesign, conversion)
Thanks Striking Writers, Online Video Going Up, Up, Up, Up: “According to new figures from Nielsen Online some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began.” (tags: video, trends, statistics, wga, stats, online, youtube, strike, tv, Research, internet)

links for 2008-01-11

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:31:24 +0000

Game Over: HD DVD To Join Deadpool: “In the longer term the battle may well end up being irrelevant as online video continues to surge, both in a stream format, by purchase, and by rental. “ (tags: DVD, HD, bluray, video, ondemand, media)
Google Enabled Televisions Coming Soon: “Japanese manufacturer Matsushita (Panasonic) has signed a deal with Google that will see the company launch flat panel television sets that allow users to access YouTube and other Google services such as Picasa Web Albums.” (tags: Google, gadgets, TV, video, youtube, rumors)
Blogging for Retailers: Why blogging matters and how to get started by Elastic Path Software: “With all the noise surrounding blogs and social media, this white paper sets out to guide marketers and executives into the blog o’sphere, step-by-step, with a focus on online retailers.” (tags: ecommerce, retail, blogging, Blogs, Business, Whitepaper)

links for 2008-01-10

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:21:20 +0000

Yahoo! Media Player: “The Yahoo! Media Player enhances your web site or blog by creating an embedded player for each audio link. All the links can be played with one click, turning the page into a playlist. This is done by adding our JavaScript to your page.” (tags: Audio, AJAX, mp3, media, player, javascript, yahoo, music)

links for 2008-01-08

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:20:57 +0000

Is it Time to Declare Music Downloads a Loss Leader? – ReadWriteWeb: “Times are changing and if you can, it’s better to work on innovating along with them than it is to make dragging your feet and suing people your business model.” (tags: Music, Business, DRM, MP3, media)
Facebook App Installs Spyware: “Anyone who has installed the third party Facebook application “Secret Crush” is at risk of installing spyware according to this report from security firm Fortinet.” (tags: facebook, applications, spyware, Security)

links for 2008-01-07

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:23:46 +0000

5 Ways You Can Fall in Love With Tagging Again – ReadWriteWeb: “Here’s five and a half ways you can fall in love with tagging URLs again.” (tags: Folksonomy, tags, tagging, socialnetworking, socialmedia, socialsoftware, feeds, RSS)

links for 2008-01-06

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:23:25 +0000

The Rise and Rise of YouTube: “This is the first YouTube video, uploaded on April 23rd, 2005. In the video you can see Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube.” (tags: youtube, video, Google, online, history, media)

links for 2008-01-05

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:26:08 +0000

David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music: “In terms of digital income, we’ve made more money out of this record than out of all the other Radiohead albums put together, forever — in terms of anything on the Net. And that’s nuts.” (tags: Radiohead, Music, Business, Entertainment, media, MP3, online, 2007)
Veoh Adds Videos From Hulu: “…the way to survive is to become the one place where people can find videos from allover the Web.” (tags: video, aggregator, TV, StreamScraping, online, streaming, ondemand)

links for 2008-01-03

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:27:36 +0000

Allan Jardine | Design — bookmarklet: “Design is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page. Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment, Design is a uniquely powerful JavaScript bookmarklet.” (tags: design, Development, javascript, bookmarklet, webdesign, tools)
Capistrano: automating tasks via SSH on remote servers: Capistrano is a tool for automating tasks on one or more remote servers. It executes commands in parallel on all targeted machines, and provides a mechanism for rolling back changes across multiple machines.” (tags: Unix, Ruby, Script, rails, opensource, ssh, infrastructure)

links for 2008-01-02

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:20:04 +0000

Depeche Mode next band to dump label for Radiohead-like approach ? – news, torrent, wikipedia, free MP3, download, lyrics: “According to the article Depeche Mode is on of 10 acts which are possibly going to dump their label for a different approach in releasing music.” (tags: Music, media, DRM, Business)
Radiohead’s Scotch_Mist // Current: “This is Current Television’s exclusive airing of Radiohead’s “Scotch Mist.” In this hour long private taping, Radiohead performs all of the tracks from its newest album, In Rainbows. Other elements include poetry readings and diverse imagery created or s (tags: Radiohead, Music, video)

links for 2008-01-01

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:19:24 +0000

SourceForge.net: Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2: “A Mozilla Firefox extension for interacting with Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The source code also functions as an example of how to use the Amazon EC2 Query API from JavaScript.” (tags: Amazon, ec2, Firefox, extensions, opensource)
WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin: “WordPress Automatic Upgrade is a plugin that automatically upgrades your wordpress version to the latest files provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.” (tags: blogging, Blogs, blog, wordpress)
Seth Godin, Marketing Action Figure – Archie McPhee: “You could pay millions of dollars for consultants, but why not just get the Marketing Guru Action Figure? Marketing genius and famous blogger Seth Godin” (tags: sethgodin, marketing, funny, culture, Toys)

links for 2007-12-30

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:20:51 +0000

How to track Social Media Users with Google Analytics: “Google Analytics offers a way to track marketing campaigns by giving them unique markers, these are normally part of a URL for example example.com?utm_campaign=mycampaign &utm_medium=banner&utm_source=otherdomain.com” (tags: Google, analytics, socialmedia, statistics)

links for 2007-12-25

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:22:35 +0000

Top 10 Startups Worth Watching in 2008: “Which startups are worth paying attention to in the coming year? [Wired] picks 10 companies that should be making significant strides in 2008.” (tags: 2008, Business, startups, Technology, internet, Research)
Old media hits the skids as new models roil market- Crain’s New York Business.com: “TV viewership down at NBC by 11%, at CBS by 10%, ABC down 5%” (tags: TV, media, Business, news, 2007)
November/December 2007 – Sierra Magazine – Sierra Club: Prius Versus Hummer: “Sierra Club’s “Mr. Green” just did all the geeky math to debunk this myth once and for all.” (tags: green, hybrid, environment, energy, cars)

links for 2007-12-24

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:22:54 +0000

Mozilla Labs: Introducing Weave: “…blending of the desktop and the Web through deeper integration of the browser with online services.” (tags: Browser, cloud, Code, platform, services, firefox, mozilla, applications)

links for 2007-12-23

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:19:00 +0000

PC World – Google’s DoubleClick Deal Brings Greater Focus on Privacy: “Companies should only collect sensitive data for behavioral advertising if they obtain express consent from the consumer.” (tags: Google, DoubleClick, privacy, Advertising, Business, government)

links for 2007-12-22

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:23:38 +0000

The Ecommerce Checkout Report – Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog: “Do you want to see which checkout tactics are most used by successful online retailers? How does your conversion rate stack up to those who employ similar tactics? Does a shorter checkout process really decrease shopping cart abandonment?” (tags: ecommerce, retail, Research, Report, marketing, conv, conversion, analytics)
Five Years Later: Blogs Beat NYT in Google but Everything More Complicated Than Expected – ReadWriteWeb: “A five year old bet was settled last night between the New York Times executive Martin Nisenholtz and Web 2.0 Founding Father Dave Winer. Five years ago Winer bet Nisenholtz that blogs would top the New York Times in Google search results for the top 5 n (tags: Blogs, News, 2007, RSS, blogging, Google, Search, Wikipedia)
The top ten reasons I think my kids have eaten too many Christmas cookies » catbird.org » cat’s world.: 10. “Mommy, that gingerbread man is asking me to eat him.” (tags: Parenting, parenthacks, Kids, Food, Humor)
The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard: “Released just several weeks ago, The Story of Stuff has already enjoyed 416,760 unique visitors. Its makers hope that Stuff might similarly leave a lasting impression that spurs people to rethink their role in a pollution-based economy.” (tags: environment, green, economics, Business, Recycle, documentary, Education, video, statistics, government, Health, home, culture, shopping, conservation)

links for 2007-12-19

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:28:27 +0000

Release 1.0 Back Issues – O’Reilly Radar: “It is our great pleasure to offer, free of charge, electronic versions of all back issues of Release 1.0.” (tags: Technology, Business, culture, history, Magazine, reference, oreilly)
IIPImage :: IIPImage: “IIPImage is an Open Source light-weight client-server system for the remote viewing of very high-resolution images.” (tags: opensource, photos, AJAX, Visualization)

links for 2007-12-18

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:24:40 +0000

Reuters Pictures of the year 2007: 2007 News pictures from Reuters (tags: Journalism, media, News, photo, Photography, photos, documentary, reuters, 2007)
Free They Might Be Giants Podcast For Kids | Geekdad from Wired.com: “In advance of their new kids’ album, Here Come the 123s, perennial geek music favorite They Might Be Giants have a new weekly podcast for kids.” (tags: Kids, Music, podcasts, tmbg)

links for 2007-12-16

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:23:44 +0000

Google and the Wisdom of Clouds: Very Borg-ish “It’s a network made of hundreds of thousands of cheap servers … the cloud regenerates as it grows, almost like a living thing.” (tags: Google, cloud, computing, infrastructure, scalability)
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Dominating the cloud: “It wouldn’t be a surprise to see Google get into the pure utility computing business, but it would certainly accelerate the development of the computing-on-demand industry immensely, adding to its legitimacy and drawing in other big players.” (tags: Google, cloud, computting, scalability, infrastructure, Amazon)
Social Marketing: How Companies Are Generating Value from Customer Input – Knowledge@Wharton: “a high-level look at some of the different ways that organizations have attempted to use social media to connect with customers over the past couple of years.” (tags: socialmedia, marketing, community, Consumers, UGC, socialsoftware, blogging)

links for 2007-12-15

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:29:01 +0000

Amazon SimpleDB: “Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability (tags: Amazon, DB, hosting, ec2, s3, scalability, webservices, storage, database)
Official Google Blog: Encouraging people to contribute knowledge: “…free tool that we are calling “knol”, which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it.” (tags: Google, Wikipedia, Wiki, Collaboration, KM, Search, content)

links for 2007-12-14

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:23:42 +0000

Opening up Facebook Platform Architecture: “Now we also want to share the benefits of our work by enabling other social sites to use our platform architecture as a model. In fact, we’ll even license the Facebook Platform methods and tags to other platforms.” (tags: facebook, API, platform, socialsoftware, opensocial, Google)
Is Online Shopping Worse for the Planet than Going to the Mall? « Earth2Tech: “depending on where you live and where on the Internet you shop, buying things online could actually be worse for the environment than hitting your local mall.” (tags: environment, green, ecommerce, retail, shopping, online)

links for 2007-12-13

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:27:10 +0000

What makes a facebook application a success? at Facebook Applications Reviews, Facebook Widgets, Facebook News: “The more complex the app; the less viral it was. The simplest apps spread the fastest. The more complex the app the higher the time spent by users on the canvas pages.” (tags: facebook, applications, Design, socialsoftware, viral)

links for 2007-12-12

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:22:42 +0000

Business Articles: Deep Change: How Operational Innovation Can Transform Your Company (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition) – Harvard Business Review: “When struggling with stagnant growth—as many of us are today—do you look to acquisitions, aggressive marketing, or new technologies to rev up your revenues? If so, you may be missing a much more reliable way to outperform your competition—operation (tags: Business, Innovation, Efficiency, management)

links for 2007-12-09

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:23:51 +0000

ClickTale: Record – Watch – Understand: “Record visitors’ every action as they browse your website. Watch movies to understand visitor behavior, gain valuable insights and improve your website’s usability.” (tags: advertising, analysis, analytics, applications, asp, Behavior, Business, data, marketing, Measurement, Metrics, Stats, Statistics, service, Technology, UI)
Office 2.0 Database: listing of office 2.0 applications and services (tags: Enterprise2.0, office2.0, software, office, directory, productivity, web2.0, applications)
a2z WordFinder: Scrabble Word Pattern Matching For Puzzles and Teaching Lessons: Scrabble word finder is a free word search utility that can be used as help to arrange letters of any configuration into all possible combinations (tags: language, reference, Games, game, Search, tools, scrabble)

links for 2007-12-07

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:28:37 +0000

Harvard Business Online: Innovation Versus Complexity: What Is Too Much of a Good Thing?: “Identify your company’s innovation fulcrum—the number of offerings that would optimize both revenues and profits.” (tags: Business, innovation, optimization, Efficiency)
Harvard Business Review: Simplicity-Minded Management: “Complexity is the cumulative by-product of organizational changes, big and small, that over the years weave complications (often invisibly) into the ways that work is done.” (tags: Business, management, Education, process)
Three ways to build an online media business to $50m in revenue « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog: “Here are three ways to get to $50m in revenue as an online media business; indulge me in some math:” (tags: Advertising, media, Business, marketing, online, VC, trends)
Developer’s Guide – Google Chart API – Google Code: “The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. To see the Chart API in action, open up a browser window and copy the following URL into it: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chs=200×125&chd=s:helloWorld” (tags: Google, JavaScript, library, mashup, Visualization, web2.0, api)

links for 2007-12-05

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:28:34 +0000

Online Advertising: Traditional ads to shrink next year: “One-time events like the Olympics and the election add another $6 billion, not to be repeated. Discount that amount, and take away the growth of online, and you’ll see a traditional ad market that’s shrinking, not growing.” (tags: Advertising, marketing, media, online, Business)
Verizon Embraces Google’s Android: “According to this BusinessWeek story, Verizon is now supporting Android.” (tags: Google, Verizon, Mobile, Wireless, phone, architecture)
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Scalable Media Hosting with Amazon S3: “how to configure your domain provider to use Amazon S3 for simple, scalable media hosting.” (tags: Amazon, s3, scalability, storage, Multimedia, Podcasting, hosting, HOWTO, streaming, Media)
YouTube – Here Comes Another Bubble: The Web 2.0 “bubble” had it coming. A Silicon Valley music video by the Richter Scales. (tags: web2.0, youtube, video, Music, funny, Humor)

links for 2007-12-04

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:28:40 +0000

Google Plans Service to Store Users’ Data – WSJ.com: “Google is preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives — such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images, say people familia (tags: Google, News, storage, Data, gdrive, Service, webservices, infrastructure)
Six Apart sells off LiveJournal to Russian media company SUP | Tech news blog – CNET News.com: “LiveJournal gets sold to Russian media company SUP.” (tags: Blogs, Business, Acquisitions, socialsoftware)
Murdoch Bidding $1 Billion For LinkedIn? – Silicon Alley Insider: “We don’t know if this is real news or a reheat of Thanksgiving week rumors, but The Sunday Express is apparently reporting that News Corp (NWS) is considering a $1 billion bid for LinkedIn.” (tags: NewsCorp, Linkedin, Acquisitions, Business)
Lots of Little Screens: TV Is Changing Shape – New York Times: “the command-and-control economic model of traditional television is being quickly superseded by the market chaos of a freewheeling and open digital network.” (tags: tv, media, network, UGC, Web, socialmedia, video, online)
Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: “If Facebook keeps running into or creating the pockets of bad air, the popular sentiment that has given the brash upstart a giant hall pass and theoretical worthiness of $15 billion will fade away.” (tags: facebook, privacy, Advertising, socialsoftware, PR)
Tell me the future | Media | The Guardian: “Vince Cerf interviews Chris DeWolfe (MySpace), Chad Hurley (YouTube), Maurice Levy (Publicis), Biz Stone (Twitter), Peter Norvig (Google) and more…” (tags: media, marketing, Technology, trends, internet, online)
Session Fixation White Paper (PDF): Excellent white paper describing Session Fixation attacks. (tags: Security, Web, webservices, identity, vulnerability, session, webdev)

links for 2007-12-02

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:27:09 +0000

Research Paper – Social network websites — faberNovel: “…an excellent theoretical overview of social networks and the trends in this important market.” (tags: facebook, myspace, reference, Research, socialnetworking, web2.0, socialsoftware)
20+ Simple, Useful, Clever, Fun Ways to Get Better Photos – – PopPhotoNovember 2007: Pros, readers, and Pop Photo editors share their secrets for taking your photography beyond the ordinary. (tags: Photography, tips, photos, lighting)

links for 2007-12-01

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:26:13 +0000

Adventures in $40 eyeglasses | 43 Folders: “right around the time I was getting my 2-year exam, I decided to take the plunge myself and order some glasses online.” (tags: glasses, lifehacks, shopping)
D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y: I can never get this correct: “The correct spelling is definitely.” (tags: funny, Humor, language, Writing)
BBC NEWS | Americas | US daredevil Evel Knievel dies: I’ll always remember that rocket-powered bike: “His 1974 attempt to cross the Snake River Canyon in Idaho on a rocket-powered bike also failed, when a parachute opened prematurely and he fell into the river.” (tags: News, Celebrity)
definr – incredibly fast dictionary: fast spelling an definition look-ups (tags: Research, Ruby, reference, language, Service)

links for 2007-11-30

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:24:59 +0000

Greenthinkers: Lewis Black On Global Warming: “Lewis Black on Global Warming: The king of the rant takes on Bush’s global warming record.” (tags: greasemonkey, environment, Humor, Politics)
Genfavicon. Free Online Favicon Generator. Icon Generator.: Favicon generator: upload image generate favicon. (tags: Web, utilities, useful, webdesign, Image)

links for 2007-11-29

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:28:40 +0000

gMOVE: Outlook Migration: “LimitNone’s gMOVE is a migration utility for moving your Microsoft Outlook calendars, email, contacts and tasks to Gmail and/or Google hosted domains.” (tags: Google, gmail, Email, software, tools, googleapps, Windows, outlook)
Watir – Web App Testing in Ruby: “Watir is a simple open-source library for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and easy to maintain. It is optimized for simplicity and flexibility.” (tags: TDD, testing, QA, Ruby, rails, framework, webapp, Browser, RIA, applications, performance)
Radiant Core: Blog: Deconstructing Facebook Beacon JavaScript: “Jay Goldman’s excellent Deconstruction of the Facebook Beacon Javascript.” (tags: facebook, Advertising, JavaScript, analysis, API, Technology, socialsoftware)
Screenshots And Details On Upcoming MySpace “News Feeds”: “The new product will give users a steady stream of event information from their friends. Profile updates, blog posts and photo/video uploads are all noted.” (tags: myspace, facebook, aggregator, feeds, socialsoftware)
The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark]: “Mark does a wonderful job of pulling quotes from a variety of sources … which will hopefully teach people an important lesson about copyright, DRM, and the future of authorship online.” (tags: digital, copyright, DRM, culture, ebooks, Amazon, Books, kindle, reading)
Dear Jeff Bezos (one-week Kindle review) : Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger: “Whoever designed this should be fired and the team should start over.” (tags: Kindle, amazon, reviews, usability, Hardware, ebooks)
Facebook And The Privacy Non-Issue at Facebook Applications Reviews, Facebook Widgets, Facebook News: “If you have an issue, just change your facebook privacy controls (is anyone at Moveon.org listening here?).” (tags: facebook, Advertising, marketing, privacy)
Universal Music CEO: Record industry can’t tell when geeks are lying to us about technology – Boing Boing: “Universal Music’s CEO Doug Morris did a Wired interview in which [he] said that he didn’t really understand technology, that the record industry couldn’t respond to Napster in 1999 because it didn’t even have the in-house expertise to figure out whether (tags: Music, media, online, history, funny, culture, P2P, Technology, Business)

links for 2007-11-28

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:29:38 +0000

Verizon to Open Cell Network To Others’ Phones – WSJ.com: “In a major break with industry practice, Verizon Wireless said it will allow consumers to use any compatible cellphone on its network and allow open access to the Web and third-party applications.” (tags: Verizon, Mobile, Wireless, phone, network)

links for 2007-11-27

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:32:59 +0000

Chart Chooser: “Use the filters to find the right chart type for your needs. Then download as Excel or PowerPoint templates and insert your data.” (tags: Office, powerpoint, presentation, analytics, analysis, Visualization, templates, statistics)

links for 2007-11-26

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:27:51 +0000

Is Facebook Really Ruining Christmas?: You’ll shoot your eye out! “MoveOn even blames Facebook for ruining Christmas” (tags: Facebook, privacy, advertising, marketing, christmas, funny, MoveOn)
Cyber Monday isn’t anchor of online shopping: “The real peak in cyber shopping won’t come until the first two weeks of December, when keyboard shoppers realize that shipping rates are about to go up.” (tags: online, retail, ecommerce, shopping, trends)
What The Romantics don’t like about ‘Guitar Hero’ | Tech news blog – CNET News.com: “cover version was too good, and The Romantics sued, claiming that game publisher infringed the group’s right to its own image and likeness, the band’s lawyers told the newspaper.” (tags: Music, Games, copyright, lawsuit, funny, media)
Configuring Apache for Maximum Performance | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials: “This article looks into getting maximum performance out of Apache with the existing hardware resources” (tags: apache, performance, optimization, howto, linux, infrastructure, architecture, scalability)
Flight Wait: US flight delays over google maps. very cool. (tags: googlemaps, Maps, mashup, mashups, travel)

links for 2007-11-25

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:25:09 +0000

Visualizing Social Software Best Practices: Three Approaches: “three recent attempts to articulate social software design best practices” (tags: socialsoftware, Visualization, web2.0, socialnetworking, community, socialmedia)

links for 2007-11-23

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:24:48 +0000

BuyMyTronics.com – Cash For Your Broken, Used or New iPod, iPhone, Zune, Nintendo Wii, X-Box, PSP or Playstation Into Cash: Quick, Eco-Friendly, Easy, Top Dollar, Touch, Classic, Video, Photo, Nano, Mini, iPod Payment within 48 Hrs of Reciept.: sell them your old gadgets (tags: gadgets, Hardware, ecommerce)
GreenDimes: Stop Junk Mail. Save Trees and Help the Environment: “Cut your junk mail by 90% and we plant 10 trees!” (tags: environment, Earth, Recycle, green, marketing, junkmail, Spam)
Rumor: News Corp. in buyout talks with LinkedIn | Tech news blog – CNET News.com: “TechCrunch UK is reporting an “unconfirmed rumour” that the LinkedIn business social network is in talks with News Corp. about a possible buyout in January 2008.” (tags: socialsoftware, Business, Acquisitions, Linkedin, NewsCorp, rumors)

links for 2007-11-22

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:30:06 +0000

Newspaper Ad Sales Up Online, Down in Print: “US newspaper advertising industry indicate that print advertising sales have continued to plummet. Online ad sales, however, have risen significantly, though not enough to offset the sharp decline in print ad revenue.” (tags: Advertising, News, Print, Business, online, statistics)

links for 2007-11-21

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:30:00 +0000

Association for Downloadable Media: Adages, Ads and Analytics: “The Advertiser wants to understand the level of Engagement that your audience has with your media because simply put, your audience will be more receptive to their marketing messages.” (tags: Advertising, digital, media, Podcasting, Business, analytics)

links for 2007-11-20

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:30:18 +0000

Podcasting News: Amazon Kindle: Milestone Or Speedbump?: “While Newsweek may think the Kindle is a milestone in a time of transition, it looks to us like a $400 closed system:” (tags: Amazon, Books, ebooks, Hardware, media, RSS)
trust but verify: Dopers Must be Stoned (Or so says Patrice Brunet): “Floyd Landis has provided the following observations on Patrice Brunet’s recent suggestions in Pedal magazine to handle more anti-doping enforcement through criminal mechanisms of the state.” (tags: Floyd, Cycling, TdF, bicycle, tourdefrance)

links for 2007-11-19

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:27:04 +0000

del.icio.us/help/playtagger: Play Tagger is a neat little tool that allows you to easily play mp3 files directly on del.icio.us (tags: Audio, blog, delicious, MP3, Multimedia, Music, podcast, tagging, flash, JavaScript, del.icio.us)

links for 2007-11-18

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:23:26 +0000

Eisner on That “Stupid, Insane” TV Writers Strike (Again) – Silicon Alley Insider: “What I was driving at was that it was a foolish time to have a strike issue over a business and a marketplace that is not evolved enough to even know if there is a business or a marketplace there.” (tags: media, tv, strike, Business, digital, copyright)

links for 2007-11-17

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:27:33 +0000

Seth’s Blog: The $8 billion story/scam: Seth Godin writes how 8 billion dollars worth of gift cards seeps through the cracks each year. (tags: ecommerce, economics, christmas, marketing, retail)
Amazon Opens Affiliate Access to MP3, Unbox, OpenSocial and RSS: “Amazon is announcing tonight the addition of some of the hottest items in its catalog to its widely popular affiliate program, its support for OpenSocial and a new level of support for RSS.” (tags: Amazon, opensocial, RSS, Music, MP3, affiliate, marketing, viral, socialsoftware)

links for 2007-11-16

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:26:52 +0000

Scientific Web Design: 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies: “#1- Text attracts attention before graphics. Contrary to what you might think, the first thing users look at on a website isn’t the images.” — Vindication! I’ve been saying this for years :-) (tags: UI, Design, usability, Visualization, webdesign, Attention, testing, development)

links for 2007-11-14

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:23:49 +0000

CoScripter: “CoScripter is a system for recording, automating, and sharing processes performed in a web browser such as printing photos online, requesting a vacation hold for postal mail, or checking bank account information.” (tags: IBM, interface, mashup, process, productivity, scripting, socialsoftware)

links for 2007-11-13

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:26:10 +0000

VentureBeat: Aggregate Knowledge raises $5M from Kleiner, on a roll: “Recommendations are hotter than many people realize. Amazon says 35 percent of product sales result from recommendations.” (tags: Amazon, recommendations, retail, ecommerce, shopping)

links for 2007-11-12

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:27:18 +0000

VentureBeat: Facebook search expands — will it take on Google?: “If it were to duplicate a “good-enough” clone of Google search results and then add in its own data, Facebook could potentially provide a first class search engine that really rivals Google.” (tags: facebook, Search, Google, Microsoft, socialsoftware)

links for 2007-11-09

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:30:16 +0000

Seth’s Blog: FaceBook’s Hotmail problem: “Any platform that makes ads a distraction or a cost is always going to fail compared to a site where the ads are a welcome part of the deal.” (tags: facebook, Advertising, Attention, sethgodin, marketing)

links for 2007-11-08

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:30:59 +0000

Facebook to Turn Users Into Endorsers – New York Times: Facebook now will give advertisers the ability to create their own profile pages on its system that will let users identify themselves as fans of a product. Each user’s news feed will contain items like “Bobby Smith is now a fan of Toyota Prius.” (tags: facebook, Business, marketing, social, Advertising, platform)

links for 2007-11-07

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:26:13 +0000

First FAS-FAX Numbers: Many Top Papers Take Big Hits: “Of the top 25 papers in daily circulation (see chart, separate story), only four showed gains.” (tags: media, Journalism, News, publishing)
paidContent.org – The Economics of Content – Data On Radiohead Experiment: 38 Percent Of Downloaders Choose To Pay: “…analysis of Radiohead’s innovative pay-what-you-like plan for latest album In Rainbows shows thirty-eight percent of those who downloaded the title indeed chose to pay something, while 62 percent kept their change in their pocket.” (tags: Radiohead, Music, media, analysis)

links for 2007-11-06

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:32:33 +0000

Bike Power, Human Power Generation from Windstream Power: “The Human Power Trainer and the Human Power Generator are the solution to energy education in the classroom, failsafe backup power, and productive exercise.” (tags: bicycle, bike, Cycling, Fitness, green, environment)
CCAT – Pedal Power: “Many tools and appliances can be run directly with mechanical energy. With an old exercise bike, a generator, and a fan belt, human energy can be converted into Direct Current (DC) electricity.” (tags: Cycling, green, energy, environment)
Live: Google’s gPhone Open Handset Alliance Conference Call at Noon EST: “Industry leaders hold conference call to discuss the development of Android, the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices, and the announcement of the Open Handset Alliance, a multinational alliance of more than 30 technology and mo (tags: Google, Mobile, phone, iPhone, Hardware)

links for 2007-11-05

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:32:21 +0000

Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly – New York Times: “So far, every time the Web has matched up against a proprietary alternative, the Web has prevailed.” (tags: Google, opensocial, platform, socialsoftware, facebook, socialnetworking)
Report: Project Beacon, Facebook’s Outside Ad Strategy: “Project Beacon” is an internal project that will allow Facebook to gather buying information about its users on third party ecommerce sites, in exchange for free advertising in the news feed from those third parties. (tags: facebook, Advertising, socialnetworking, ecommerce, socialsoftware)
OpenSocial: Three Big Concerns: “Why couldn’t this all be based on microformats and other existing open standards?” (tags: Google, opensocial, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, platform, microformats, api, identity)
Amazon Dynamo: The Next Generation Of Virtual Distributed Storage: “The building blocks that are already in place and the ones to come are going to be remixed to create new web applications that were simply not possible before.” (tags: Amazon, architecture, ec2, s3, scalability, database, DB, performance, platform, storage, infrastructure, webservices)

links for 2007-11-04

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:23:21 +0000

OAuth — An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.: “An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.” (tags: oauth, authentication, security, api, openid, identity, opensource)

links for 2007-11-02

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:35:45 +0000

‘Apple Has Destroyed the Music Business’–Not That We Didn’t Try Our Best | Digital Daily | John Paczkowski | AllThingsD: NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker said Apple “destroyed the music business in terms of pricing” and will invariably do the same to the online video business. (tags: Apple, iTunes, Music, NBC, Business, media)
Facebook Rumors: Making Friends with More investors: “Two hedge funds from New York have apparently jumped into the Facebook deal.We’ve got our ear to the ground to figure out who it is but each put in about $250 million–for $500 million total–at the same valuation as Microsoft Corp.” (tags: facebook, Microsoft, Business, finance)
Google Open Social: Nothing here yet, but looks like it will be where Google puts the open social API docs (tags: google, opensocial, socialsoftware, socialnetworking, facebook, API, socialmedia, development, documentation)
blog.pmarca.com: Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web: n a nutshell, Open Social is an open web API that can be supported by two kinds of developers: “Containers” — social networking systems like Ning, Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, and Friendster, and… “Apps” — applications that want to be embedded within contain (tags: Google, opensocial, API, socialmedia, socialsoftware, platform, applications, facebook)
Checkmate? MySpace, Bebo and SixApart To Join Google OpenSocial (confirmed): “Will Facebook now be forced to join OpenSocial? Google says they are talking to “everyone.” This is a major strategic decision for Facebook, and they may have little choice but to join this coalition.” (tags: Google, facebook, API, opensocial, socialnetworking, socialmedia, socialsoftware, platform, widgets)
Absolutely Del.icio.us Tools Collection: An updated list of tools for Del.icio.us (tags: delicious, tools, directory, aggregator, bookmarks, Collaboration, tagging, tags, Folksonomy)

links for 2007-11-01

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:38:16 +0000

Google’s OpenSocial platform is great! | Googling Google | ZDNet.com: “For example, developers have access to store shared data right on Google’s servers — that means you can build scalable applications that require no infrastructure of your own. To me, this feature makes developing on Google a little more attractive.” (tags: Google, platform, OpenSocial, socialsoftware, API, facebook)
Big brands on Facebook: What doesn’t work | PodTech.net: Technology and Entertainment Video Network: “Charlene Li is a senior analyst at Forrester Research … talks about some of the mistakes big brands are making on social network platforms such as Facebook, and the challenges they face.” (tags: facebook, marketing, brands, Advertising, media, socialsoftware)
Facebook Launching the Google Adsense Killer – The Unofficial Facebook Blog: “Microsoft will now be able to provide targeted ads not only based on demographic data (location, age, gender, etc), but they will also know that the person visiting your site is interested in skiing and guitar.” (tags: Google, facebook, Microsoft, Advertising, adsense, socialsoftware)

links for 2007-10-30

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:31:05 +0000

Mozilla Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Prism: “Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.” (tags: Firefox, framework, platform, Browser, applications, convergence, desktop, development, extensions, mozilla, prism)
Google Printable Coupons near New York, NY: Google coupon search (tags: Google, Search, googlemaps)

links for 2007-10-27

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:30:56 +0000

glTail.rb – realtime logfile visualization: “View real-time data and statistics from any logfile on any server with SSH, in an intuitive and entertaining way.” (tags: apache, ruby, visualization, logs, server, tools, opensource, ssh, Unix, utilities)

links for 2007-10-25

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:32:02 +0000

Facebook Platform Cozies Up To Mobile Phones: “more significant addition, is the opening of Facebook’s SMS platform, which will let applications and users interact with each other on Facebook over SMS. SMS integration is key as Facebook takes on international aspirations.” (tags: facebook, Mobile, Technology, applications, platform, SMS)
Microsoft Bets On Facebook Stake And Web Ad Boom – WSJ.com: “The software giant said yesterday that it will buy a 1.6% stake in Facebook, beating out Google Inc. after intense lobbying. The deal places a $15 billion valuation on the closely held Palo Alto, Calif., start-up.” (tags: facebook, Microsoft, Advertising, Business, investment, partnership, socialsoftware)

links for 2007-10-24

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:31:57 +0000

gardenfork.tv : cooking, gardening, and other stuff: the always great Eric Rochow (tags: video, podcast, Food, DIY, blogs)
With FriendCSV, Data Sneaks Out Facebook’s Back Door: “FriendCSV can pull out a lot of information about your friends and store it in a comma-separated values (CSV) file that you can then load into a spreadsheet program like Excel.” (tags: facebook, API, Data, privacy, social, tools, socialsoftware)
VentureBeat: Bluepulse, lets you message friends everywhich way: “BluePulse, backed with $6 million from VantagePoint Venture Partners, is the latest to focus on building a mobile network around SMS — by bringing SMS, email, and phone all into one interface.” (tags: Mobile, socialsoftware, SMS, Email, Collaboration, phone)

links for 2007-10-20

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:39:06 +0000

Elsewhere I’m: Relationship Update Stream: “The Relationship Update Stream is an endless feed of social relationship data, designed for web services to be able to send and receive information when changes to social relationships on their service occur.” (tags: Attention, socialsoftware, opensource)

links for 2007-10-19

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:34:56 +0000

Facebook Plans: Portable Data, Ad Platform – Yahoo! News: “Facebook Inc. wants to make the data its members enter into the social network’s profiles portable, so that they can move that data to other online services if they want, the company’s CEO said Wednesday.” (tags: facebook, identity, Data, socialsoftware)
eBay’s Skype Conundrum: “According to one source, the remaining Skype/eBay management team is holing up in London this week to try to figure out how to actually make money from Skype.” (tags: ebay, Skype, Business, Acquisitions)
Counterstrike: Murdoch, DeWolfe Announce MySpace Platform and New Privacy Controls: “$300 million in profit next year for MySpace? In response to a question, Murdoch said News Corp. should generate $5 billion or so in ebitda next year “if the economy half holds up.” He then said MySpace should contribute “$200-$300 million” of th (tags: myspace, NewsCorp, platform, facebook, applications, API, web2.0, stats)
Even Free Can’t Compete With Music Piracy: “Despite the potentially free download, over 240,000 users got the album from peer to peer BitTorrent networks on the first day of release, according to Forbes. Since then, the album was downloaded about 100,000 more times each day, totaling more than 500 (tags: Radiohead, Music, P2P, piracy, DRM, Business)
Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? – WSJ.com: “Such changing habits could have implications for the Internet portals, which rely on email for much of their traffic and to bring in consumers who will use their other Web services.” (tags: Email, socialsoftware, trends, facebook, myspace)
iTunes Plus Now Offers Over Two Million Tracks at Just 99 Cents: “DRM-Free Tracks with Higher Quality 256 kbps AAC Encoding — Apple® today announced that it has expanded its iTunes® Plus offering to over two million tracks and lowered the price of all iTunes Plus tracks to just 99 cents.” (tags: Apple, DRM, iPod, iTunes, Music)
Official Google Blog: Latest content ID tool for YouTube: “Video Identification is the next step in a long list of content policies and tools that we have provided copyright owners so that they can more easily identify their content and manage how it is made available on YouTube.” (tags: youtube, video, Google, identity, copyright)
Led Zeppelin – Robert Plant – Digital Music – New York Times: “Digital downloads of songs from the band’s eight studio albums and other recordings are expected to be available through Verizon and digital-music services, including iTunes, on Nov. 13.” (tags: Music, digital, online, iTunes)

links for 2007-10-17

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:29:24 +0000

Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon EC2 Gets More Muscle: ‘The Amazon EC2 team just added Large and Extra Large instance types to EC2. The former “one size fits all” instance type is now known as a Small instance.” (tags: Amazon, EC2, applications, scalability)

links for 2007-10-16

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:29:48 +0000

Newsvine Acquired By MSNBC – Leading Citizen Journalism Site Snapped Up by MSM: “Citizen Journalism space – Newsvine was acquired by MSNBC, the Microsoft/NBC joint venture, for an undisclosed sum. Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson said that “Newsvine will continue operating independently, just as it has been since launching in March of 2006 (tags: Business, Acquisitions, citizenjournalism, Microsoft, NBC, News, UGC, web2.0, journalism)
LinkedIn Plans to Open Up in a Closed Sort of Way – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog: “We have no interest in doing it like Facebook with an open A.P.I. letting people do whatever they want,” Mr. Nye said. “We’re not going to have people sending electronic hamburgers to each other.” (tags: Linkedin, socialnetworking, platform, facebook, API, Business, community, Networking)
Beth’s Blog: Facebook Demographics: Beth pulled data pulled from a number of sources regarding Facebook’s current (10/2007) Demographics (tags: facebook, marketing, Research, services, stats, statistics, socialmedia, demographics)

links for 2007-10-15

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:34:57 +0000

http://www.brail.org/transit/nyc.html: Google Maps NYC Subway Transit Map (point-to-point directions) (tags: Google, googlemaps, Visualization, Hacks, nyc, subway, transit, map, transportation, reference, Search, mashups)

links for 2007-10-13

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:30:17 +0000

Oracle announces bid for BEA Systems – Oct. 12, 2007: “Oracle (Charts, Fortune 500) is offering $17 a share for BEA (Charts), a leading provider of application software for computer servers. That’s worth about $6.7 billion, based on BEA’s total shares outstanding.” (tags: Oracle, BEA, Acquisitions, Java, applications, server, Business)
A Day Without Email Is Like …: “A growing number of employers, including U.S. Cellular, Deloitte & Touche and Intel, are imposing or trying out “no email” Fridays or weekends. While the bans typically allow emailing clients and customers or responding to urgent matters, the normal (tags: Email, Enterprise, productivity, trends)
Shawn Fanning’s Snocap lays off 60 percent of workforce | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone: “Snocap, the music-licensing company best known for being the follow-up act of Napster founder Shawn Fanning, has cut its staff by 60 percent, a spokeswoman for the company said Thursday evening.” (tags: Music, copyright, DRM, Legal, media)
Website Performance | CSS Sprite Generator: “Stuart Collville and Ed Eliot just launched a new CSS Sprite Generator tool, which is the first of many in a series of web-site performance tools.” (tags: Web, performance, optimization, CSS, tools, Browser, utilities, webdev)
Podcasting News » Five Reasons Total Music Will Be A Total Failure: “Total Music is likely to be a total failure, unless the music industry can find a way to use the service to introduce new users – people that aren’t familiar with the ease of ripping and handling digital music files – to the world of digital music.” (tags: Music, Business, iTunes)
Silicon Alley Insider: Radiohead: 1.3 Mil Downloads! (But Big Music Not Dead): “he big music labels are in trouble, but not because Radiohead is giving its music away — they’re in trouble because they can’t sell CDs by artists who want to sell them.” (tags: Music, Business, radio, Radiohead, media)
Radiohead’s Pot Of Gold at The End of In Rainbows: “According to [readwriteweb] poll US$5-9 is the most popular price range that people are willing to pay for the digital download version.” (tags: Music, Radiohead, trends, analysis)

links for 2007-10-12

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:29:02 +0000

mod_rewrite Tips and Tricks for Apache .htaccess: Apache mod_rewrite examples and tips (tags: apache, webdev, SEO, HOWTO)
JOSSO 1.6 released: Java Open Single-Signon Meets Spring: “JOSSO, or Java Open Single Sign-On, is an open source J2EE-based and Spring-compatible SSO infrastructure aimed to provide a solution for centralized platform neutral user authentication.” (tags: Java, spring, SSO, Security, authentication, identity)
DUB – DENIM: An Informal Tool For Early Stage Web Site and UI Design: “DENIM is a system that helps web site designers in the early stages of design. DENIM supports sketching input, allows design at different refinement levels, and unifies the levels through zooming.” (tags: Agile, architecture, Design, development, UI, usability, webdesign, tools)
Enterprise Technology Tips: Opensource Cache/Caching Solutions in Java: “This is a list of opensource caching solutions available in Java/J2EE/JEE domain for software development or developing enterprise applications.” (tags: java, caching, development, performance, architecture, opensource)
The Genesis Project: Adobe Media Player now on Labs: A new version of the Adobe Media Player is on labs and even if you’re of the persuasion that the world doesn’t need another media player, you owe it to yourself to check this one out. (tags: Adobe, flash, media, platform, applications, Music, Audio, video)
Hitwise: Radiohead website increased 1042%: “According to Hitwise US, traffic to the Radiohead website increased 1042% for the week ending 10/06/07 versus the previous week.” (tags: Music, media, Radiohead, Business, trends, analytics)
schrep’s blog: Mozilla and Mobile: “Short summary: we are serious about bringing the Firefox experience and technology to mobile devices.” (tags: Firefox, Browser, Mobile, mozilla, opensource, platform, PocketPC)

links for 2007-10-10

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:36:14 +0000

Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon S3 At Your Service: “…we commit to 99.9% uptime, measured on a monthly basis. If an S3 call fails (by returning a ServiceUnavailable or InternalError result) this counts against the uptime.” (tags: Amazon, s3, SaaS, services, storage, webservices, SOA)
Jaiku | Google Q&A: “Jaiku is joining Google. While it’s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you’ll find interesting and useful.” (tags: Google, jaiku, twitter, mobile, microblogging, Business, Acquisitions)

links for 2007-10-09

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:34:36 +0000

The Atari 2600: The Box That Launched A Million IT Careers – Hardware – IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness: Nice article Kevin: “…the Atari 2600 opened many kids’ eyes to the capabilities of technology.” (tags: Retro, Atari, IT, Career, Games)

links for 2007-10-03

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:17:27 +0000

Active Directory Authentication Notes – Waikato Linux Users Group: Integrating Windows Active Directory with Apache and Subversion. (tags: svn, subversion, authentication, apache, LDAP, Windows, ActiveDirectory)
Microsofts Ballmer Does Not Grasp Facebook at FaceReviews.com : Facebook Application Reviews, Facebook Widgets, Facebook News: “I think these things [social networks] are going to have some legs, and yet there’s a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people,” Mr. Ballmer told Times Online yesterday.” (tags: Microsoft, facebook, socialsoftware, socialnetworking)
Super Cyclelight: The World’s Brightest Cycle Lamp Is Called Betty – Gizmodo: Betty is a 22-watt, 1400-lumen bicycle lamp that you can buy from Gretna Bikes. And it’s expensive—at 84¢ per lumen, the grand total is $1,185. (tags: Cycling, a, accessories, Mountain_Biking)
Silicon Alley Insider: TechCrunch to Sell to CNET for $100+ Million?: “Analyst Doug McIntyre at 24/7 Wall St doesn’t have specific thoughts on the valuation, but he makes a persuasive case about why TechCrunch and other big blogs will eventually be bought for big numbers by big media.” (tags: Blogs, convergence, media, trends, cnet, techcrunch, rumors, Acquisitions)
Amazon’s Dynamo – All Things Distributed: ‘Dynamo is internal technology developed at Amazon to address the need for an incrementally scalable, highly-available key-value storage system.” (tags: Amazon, architecture, scalability, storage, performance, database, s3, ec2, Research, Enterprise, development)
Apple reportedly considering Intel platform for iPhone: “Apple reportedly is considering adopting Intel’s Moorestown MID (mobile Internet device) platform processor in a new iPhone, according to OEM sources.” (tags: Apple, iPod, rumors, Intel, Hardware, iPhone)

links for 2007-10-02

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:17:18 +0000

Amazon Web Services Blog: “HelloWorld” Facebook Application AMI: “We could extend this AMI and build an Auto-Scaling module around the app so that we can simply “Auto-Scale Facebook Applications” out of the box and never worry about servers when you get famous overnight.” (tags: Amazon, ec2, s3, facebook, architecture, scalability, performance)
InfoQ: Think you know what scalability is?: “Scalability” is a word often cited in software vendor press releases (and discussed around the water cooler), but is quite often misunderstood. For example, many people infer performance and high availability when they are talking about scalability (tags: architecture, scalability, Enterprise, applications, performance)

links for 2007-10-01

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:17:26 +0000

Joost launches — will anyone care? – – mathewingram.com/work: “So far that appeal is missing” (tags: video, VOIP, ondemand, media, P2P, IPTV)
Microsoft Office Live Workspace: This hurts the Sharepoint VAR/ISV more than it hurts Google (docs) — “Store 1000+ Microsoft Office documents in one place Share files—you control who can view and edit Works with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook” (tags: Microsoft, Google, online, Collaboration, Sharepoint, Office, ondemand, SaaS, storage)
Nokia has announced their intent to buy NAVTEQ: “… one of the few providers of mapping data to both on-line companies like Yahoo! and Google, as well as the in-car companies like Garmin and TomTom.” (tags: Mobile, Maps, Business, Acquisitions)

links for 2007-09-30

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:17:46 +0000

Reseeding Your Lawn | DoItYourself.com: “It’s best to seed your lawn in the fall, if possible. Of course, lawn seed can be sown at other times of the year. But fall is the ideal time for seeding to rejuvenate an existing lawn or to start a new one.” (tags: lawn, DIY, green, environment, home, HOWTO)

links for 2007-09-29

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:17:16 +0000

Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites – SocialMarker.com: “SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website.” (tags: tags, Folksonomy, bookmarks, socialmedia, delicious, digg)

links for 2007-09-25

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:17:18 +0000

OPEN SOURCE GOD: 480+ Open Source Applications: “Open source software is booming: here we round up over 480 open source applications for you to use or build upon.” (tags: opensource, software, list, applications, tools)
Public beta of Amazon MP3 store launches: “Amazon MP3 includes a selection of a la carte MP3 music downloads with more than 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists.” (tags: Amazon, Music, MP3, DRM, Apple, iTunes)
Google Watch – Google vs. Microsoft – Microsoft + Facebook = Trouble for Google: “So while Facebook allows developers to build application off its platform, Google will allow programmers to write applications off Google and, presumably, other third-party platforms connected to this network. This is where the notion of Google trying to (tags: Google, facebook, Microsoft, Business, socialsoftware, Search, Advertising)

links for 2007-09-24

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:17:29 +0000

Techdirt: Newspapers Need To Learn They’re Not In The Newspaper Business: “…instead, think of yourself as a provider of useful news information, then you work on ways to continue to do that, no matter what the final “product” is for delivery.” (tags: News, media, information, aggregator)
Microsoft Is in Talks To Buy Facebook Stake – WSJ.com: “Microsoft Corp. is in talks with Facebook Inc. about making an investment in the social-networking startup that could value Facebook at $10 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter.” (tags: facebook, Microsoft, Business, Acquisitions, socialsoftware, socialnetworking)
A Social Network for Your Opinions « Web Worker Daily: “The basic premise behind Hey! Nielsen is simple. After joining, you pick something – movie, TV show, famous person, web site – and post your opinion. You also rate whatever you’re posting about on a 1-10 scale.” (tags: socialsoftware, media, analytics, TV, video, culture)
Sirius: Google’s Satellite Of Love? | WebProNews: “This hot little rumor has been bouncing around through the weekend: Google could be willing to purchase satellite radio provider Sirius.” (tags: Google, Business, Acquisitions, media, radio)

links for 2007-09-23

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:17:22 +0000

Google To “Out Open” Facebook On November 5: “Google seems to be planning to add a social layer on top of the entire suite of Google services, with Orkut as their initial main source of social graph information and possibly adding third party networks to the back end as well.” (tags: Google, socialsoftware, socialnetworking, facebook, API, web2.0, platform)
Move My Data: “Your content and data should be yours to manage and do with as you please. Your images, writing, tags, profile, blog entries, comments, testimonials, video, and music should be yours to download and move anyplace you want.” (tags: socialsoftware, Data, Attention, API, facebook, Flickr, myspace, opensource, youtube, web2.0, social, identity)
Brad’s Thoughts on the Social Graph: “Ultimately make the social graph a community asset, utilizing the data from all the different sites, but not depending on any company or organization as “the” central graph owner.” (tags: socialnetworking, community, API, applications, Collaboration, socialsoftware, OpenID, P2P, platform, web2.0, web3.0, webservices, software, tagging, culture, development, Microformats, facebook, Google, identity)
Six Apart – News and Events: We Are Opening the Social Graph: “if you manage a social networking service, we strongly encourage you to embrace OpenID, hCard XFN, FOAF and the other open standards around data portability.” (tags: socialnetworking, community, API, applications, Collaboration, socialsoftware, OpenID, P2P, platform, web2.0, web3.0, webservices, software, tagging, culture, development, Microformats, facebook, Google, identity)

links for 2007-09-21

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:17:16 +0000

Bob Dylan on Facebook at FaceReviews.com : Facebook Application Reviews, Facebook Widgets, Facebook News: “This is a very smart move on Sony’s part. Check out this application and have a blast creating Bob Dylan Video Messages for your facebook friends.” (tags: facebook, applications, socialsoftware, UGC, socialmedia, sony)

links for 2007-09-20

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:17:39 +0000

Faceforce kickstarts the social business app movement: “This AppExchange app integrates Facebook profiles into Salesforce — so it’s not really a Facebook application so much as it’s tapping into Facebook’s APIs.” (tags: facebook, Salesforce, socialnetworking, CRM, SaaS, applications)
Techdirt: Murdoch Seems Poised To Drop WSJ’s Paywall As Well: “It certainly sounds like he’s still leaning in that direction, saying that he doesn’t see how making it free would hurt the paper, and that, if done right, it could help make the paper a lot more money.” (tags: online, media, WSJ, content, Business)
Landis’s Positive Doping Test Upheld – New York Times: I still believe! “Floyd Landis lost his lengthy, costly and very public doping case Thursday when an arbitration panel upheld the initial charges that the 2006 Tour de France champion used performance-enhancing drugs to win the race.” (tags: Floyd, TdF, Cycling, Laws)
Soup: Tumble Blogging with Friends: “One of Soup’s killer features is the ability to import outside activity streams. You can import your activity from Digg, Flickr, del.icio.us, eBay, LiveJournal, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Vox, YouTube, Zooomer, and even Tumblr.” (tags: blog, blogging, publishing, social, web2.0, tumblelog)
Google Shared Stuff: “You can also email the link or share it on popular social networks like Facebook, Furl, del.icio.us, Social Poster, Reddit and Digg.” (tags: Google, socialmedia, blogging, RSS)
The Man Responsible for NY Times Going Free: Technology Evangelist: “The guy behind the SEO initiatives at About.com, which the NY Times noted was one of the reasons they acquired About.com, is Marshall Simmonds. The SEO policies and training of guides was the responsibility of Mr. Simmonds.” (tags: Search, SEO, News, media, publishing)
23 Community Reactions to the New Digg: Outlook Not Good » techipedia | tamar weinberg: “I sincerely hope that Digg listens to what their community members have to say.” (tags: digg, socialsoftware, UI, UGC, community, tools)
NBC Launching VOD Service — What about Hulu? : NewTeeVee: “NBC will offer its top television shows as ad-supported downloads for up to a week after broadcast on a new service called “NBC Direct” that will launch this fall” (tags: NBC, video, tv, media, ondemand)
Time Warner mulls sale of U.S. AOL access business | Technology | Internet | Reuters: “Time Warner Inc, the world’s largest media company, will “look hard” in the next 12 to 18 months at possibly selling off its AOL dial-up Internet access business after doing the same in Europe.” (tags: AOL, internet, Bandwidth, Acquisitions, Business)
DigiTimes: Google will definitely launch its own branded handset – Engadget: Citing sources at “Taiwan handset makers,” DigiTimes is reporting that “Google will definitely launch its own branded handset.” (tags: Google, phone, rumors, Mobile)
YouTube Accounts For 1/3 Of All Google » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel: “…but YouTube is monetized at an extremely smaller rate than Google search, it’s safe to say that if Google doesn’t find a way to monetize more of YouTube, and fast, it’s going to become a major drain on the company.” (tags: Google, youtube, trends, analysis, analytics, Bandwidth, socialsoftware)
Official Google Blog: Our feature presentation: presentations — whether imported from existing files or created using the new slide editor — are listed alongside documents and spreadsheets in the Google Docs document list. They can be edited, shared, and published using the familiar Google Docs inter (tags: Google, Office, powerpoint, presentation, online, Presentations, web2.0, software)

links for 2007-09-17

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:18:26 +0000

EMusic, a Song-Download Site, to Offer Audiobooks – New York Times: “eMusic, which is second to iTunes in music download sales, will offer more than a thousand books for download” (tags: Audible, audiobooks, Business, iTunes, MP3)

links for 2007-09-14

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:16:40 +0000

Salesforce Enters Custom Application Market With Force.com: “Salesforce will enter the custom software market next week with a new platform that will allow developers to create database driven applications and deploy them as services.” (tags: SaaS, applications, development, database, Enterprise, software)
deligoo – Delicious Search Engine: “deliGoo is an extension for Firefox (2.0+) and Internet Explorer (6.0+), which is built into your browser in the form of an additional button on the tools’ panel.” (tags: delicious, mashup, firefox, extension, google, Search, extensions)

links for 2007-09-13

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:16:53 +0000

Inside Facebook: Media companies don’t understand Facebook: “here is some expertise involved in building Facebook applications that users will actually use to shuffle your content around their social network.” (tags: facebook, applications, interface, Design, usability)
Revver: $1 Million In User Payouts In First 12 Months: “Social video site Revver has paid $1 million to video producers and their affiliates over the past year, the company says” (tags: video, socialmedia, streaming, UGC, web2.0, business)
Facebook Apps Are Pointless If They Don’t Work: “it seems unnecessarily inefficient that developers have to work with both Facebook and a 3rd-party meta service to deploy successful applications. I’d like to see Facebook itself step in and fill this need for developers…” (tags: facebook, performance, scalability, applications, development, Amazon, ec2)
Web 2 Point Slow – Slowcial Communities: “measured 20 Web 2.0 community websites, that are ranked among the Alexa global top 100 sites, with YSlow.” (tags: Web2.0, performance, YSlow, Firefox, optimization, firebug, Yahoo)
Yahoo Lands Bebo Advertising Deal: “Yahoo just announced that they will handle advertising for the UK and Ireland sites of Bebo, one of the large social networks” (tags: Yahoo, video, Advertising, socialnetworking, Business)

links for 2007-09-12

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:16:46 +0000

Facebook up, MySpace down | Technology | Guardian Unlimited: Compete statistics: “Facebook has grown not only in member base, but also in member engagement, while MySpace has fallen dramatically on these same measures.” However, MySpace is still miles ahead in terms of visitors, page views, and average stay. (tags: facebook, myspace, statistics, trends, socialsoftware, Research)

links for 2007-09-11

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:18:38 +0000

Optimize Product Reviews for Conversion Free Webinar: “In just 15 minutes, I’ll guide you through more than a dozen websites to show you the best ways to capitalize on featuring reviews on your website in order to maximize your conversion rate.” (tags: ecommerce, retail, socialsoftware, community, reviews, video)
40+ Free Windows Apps For You | Technology Bites: “Most of these apps serve as alternatives to commercial windows apps.” (tags: Windows, applications, Freeware, opensource, software)

links for 2007-09-09

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:16:53 +0000

Google’s Search Pages Could Include Richer Ads: Nicholas Fox from Google gave an example of video ad for a local butcher that would work better than a standard text ad: “a video with shots of fresh meat and the overall store experience”. (tags: Google, Search, Advertising, adsense, media, video, flash)

links for 2007-09-08

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:16:59 +0000

Internet People! -The Meth Minute 39 | Channel Frederator: “An animated tribute to the internet people of the world, wherever you may be.” (tags: internet, culture, Humor, video, funny)

links for 2007-09-07

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:17:57 +0000

Google Testing Blog: GTAC videos now online: Google published videos from the Test Automation Conference (on YouTube of course ;-) (tags: Google, testing, QA, conference, video, programming, software, development, TDD)

links for 2007-09-06

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:18:08 +0000

What Makes a Good Facebook Application? at FaceReviews.com : Facebook Application Reviews, Facebook Widgets, Facebook News: “The take away here: Build useful applications that engage users and you have the greatest chance of long term success and monetization.” (tags: facebook, platform, applications, Design)
Apple – To all iPhone customers: “Steve Jobs is giving us a $100 gift certificate for each iPhone purchased before price drop” (tags: Apple, iPhone, Business, PR)
Universal Finally Sues Veoh: “Veoh follows in the ignominious footsteps of other recent mass infringers such as Napster”. Adding, “Veoh’s rampant infringement will not stop until Veoh, and those who own, control, and run it, are enjoined and held financially responsible”. (tags: video, ondemand, streamscraping, Legal, digital, media)
Business 2.0 RIP – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog: “We’re sad to report that employees of Business 2.0 magazine were told today that the monthly publication will close next week, after they finish the October issue.” (tags: Business, Magazine, media, publishing, Technology, web2.0)

links for 2007-09-05

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:17:07 +0000

acbToggleBT bluetooth headset Windows Mobile: “acbToggleBT is a lightweight utility to play sound over your bluetooth headset. If you have a paired headset, running this program will instantly send all audio through the headset.” (tags: Windows, Mobile, Bluetooth, Hacks, PocketPC)
NBC Universal Television Content Now Available on Amazon Unbox: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance: “Hit TV Series, Including The Office, Heroes, and 30 Rock, as Well as All New Fall NBC Series Available on Amazon.com’s Digital Download Service” (tags: Amazon, NBC, TV, media, iTunes, Apple, ondemand, video)
The Official Palm Blog: decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product: “I have decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product in its current configuration and focus all of our energies on delivering our next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market.” (tags: palm, Mobile, phone)
Facebook making limited public search listings available to people who are not logged in: “we are making limited public search listings available to people who are not logged in to Facebook.” This will include natural search engines too like Google and Yahoo in the coming weeks (tags: facebook, socialmedia, Search, SEO, privacy)

links for 2007-09-04

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:17:08 +0000

The Digestion Phase: How We Got Here And Where We Are Going Next: “Because we rushed to create a lot of new stuff, we might not have done all of it quite right. For us to be able to build on existing things, the foundation needs to be solid.” (tags: web2.0, analysis, Business, economics, internet, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, Refactoring)

links for 2007-09-02

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:17:36 +0000

iTunes Agent: “…synchronize your non-iPod MP3 player, your Playstation Portable and your Walkman phone with your iTunes Library” (tags: iTunes, iPod, MP3, Music, Audio, Hardware, Hacks, Mobile, windowsmobile, Windows, utilities)
WM5torage – Utilities – Phone Management: “This program will export the flash memory card inside the smartphone as usual USB Mass Storage device (ordinary “usb disk”) – effectively turning smartphone into flash reader.” (tags: windowsmobile, Windows, USB, storage, Mobile, phone, Hack)

links for 2007-08-31

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:17:18 +0000

Sony to Unplug Connect Music Service: “Acknowledging its proprietary audio technology was a marketplace flop, Sony Corp. is shuttering its Connect digital music store and will open its portable media players to other formats.” (tags: Sony, digital, Music, online, Service, Business, media, MP3)

links for 2007-08-28

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:17:25 +0000

Why Facebook Is the Future – TIME: “Facebook’s fastest-growing demographic consists of people 35 or older: Every community must negotiate the imperatives of individual freedom and collective social order, and Facebook constitutes a critical rebalancing of the Internet’s founding vision of (tags: facebook, web2.0, socialnetworking, platform, socialmedia, com, Business)

links for 2007-08-25

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:17:10 +0000

Pocket Podcasts – Podcast Client for Windows Mobile: “… Pocket Podcasts gives [Windows Mobile] a free podcatcher that, unlike many projects in this category, runs stably and offers a well-featured interface.” (tags: Windows, windowsmobile, PocketPC, Podcasting, podcasts, podcast, opensource, Mobile, iPod, Freeware, Audio)

links for 2007-08-21

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:17:23 +0000

PopPhoto Flash: Four Weeks to Become a Better Photographer: Lesson One: “Assistant Editor and novice shooter Kathleen Davis challenges herself to take her photography to the next level. What amateurs and pros alike can learn along with her.” (tags: Photography, lighting, tutorial, HOWTO)
Facebook Could Challenge Google And Become The Remote Control For The Web – Mobile Blog – InformationWeek: “Facebook users no longer have to go “out there” in the rest of the Web to get new sites, they can pull them through Facebook, either with invites from the app providers or, more effectively, through their social network itself. The cumulative impact of t (tags: facebook, Google, platform, web2.0, trends)
Facebook surfers cost their bosses billions | Technology | Internet | Reuters: Self-serving: “SurfControl looked at the phenomenon, and found Australian workers who keep a close watch on their Facebook profile page were costing their employers up to A$5 billion ($4 billion) a year.” (tags: facebook, productivity, Research)
Steve Ballmer Hoo-Ha Reveals Yahoo Nightmare Scenario | BoomTown | Kara Swisher | AllThingsD: “…the downturn in stock market, helped by the continued speculation and goosing of the rumors of a Yahoo sale, could spell trouble for the Internet portal.” (tags: Yahoo, Microsoft, myspace, Acquisitions, Business)
MTV, Real and Verizon team up to battle iTunes | Reuters: “Viacom Inc.’s MTV Networks said on Tuesday it struck a digital music partnership with online music service RealNetworks Inc. and Verizon to compete against Apple Inc.’s iTunes.” (tags: Apple, iTunes, MTV, Viacom, Music, Service)

links for 2007-08-20

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:17:20 +0000

Silicon Alley Insider: How to Fix the New York Times (NYT): Digital IPO?: “The only way such a spin-out would work would be if Digital was almost completely independent–free to use the brand and content to compete with the print publication, poach employees, make competitive acquisitions, replace NYT content with third parties (tags: News, print, media, IPO)

links for 2007-08-19

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:17:19 +0000

Global Neighbourhoods: Facebook Ascending: Numbers from Facebook’s corporate communications group … “Over 150,000 registrants daily. That’s 1 million a week since January.” (tags: facebook, socialnetworking, statistics, trends, web2.0, socialsoftware)

links for 2007-08-17

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:17:18 +0000

subcon – Google Code: “Subcon allows you to store your essential system configuration files in a subversion repository and easily deploy different configurations to machines in a cluster.” (tags: scalability, subversion, svn, architecture)
JavaScript-based Amazon Web Services Simple Monthly Calculator: Calculate the monthly costs for EC2, S3 and SQS (tags: Amazon, ec2, s3, webservices)
Inside Facebook » Biggest Facebook App Acquisition Yet: TripAdvisor Reportedly Acquires Where I’ve Been for $3 Million (Update: TripAdvisor denies…): Note: This may not be true: “In what is by far the largest Facebook application acquisition to date, travel company TripAdvisor has reportedly acquired Where I’ve Been from Craig Ulliott for $3 million.” (tags: facebook, business, Acquisitions, web2.0, widgets, socialsoftware)

links for 2007-08-15

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:17:21 +0000

GigaOM Google: Buy Adobe for Video!: I was saying this on the ODM Podcast a few weeks ago — “Google needs to own Flash because, as anyone who has used YouTube knows, this software is currently the prevalent method for playing and authoring Internet video.” (tags: Google, youtube, flash, Adobe, Business, Acquisitions)
Bill de hÓra: Phat Data: “if data needs to be distributed because there’s so much of it, and managing a lot of data is consequently difficult, but not core to most business or personal operations, a data grid is a potentially huge utility market to be part of.” (tags: architecture, Data, database, DB, Design, information, scalability, storage)
PlentyOfFish Architecture | High Scalability: PlentyOfFish is a hugely popular on-line dating system sla… while making $6 million a year from Google ads. (tags: architecture, scalability, performance, business, entrepreneur)

links for 2007-08-14

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:17:15 +0000

The New Brunswick Bike Library Charter: a community tool collective, co-operatively run, by its members, that provides a full bike shop, skilled “…volunteer mechanics, and access to new and used bike parts. Using our donated used parts anyone can learn, hands on, to build a bike. We also sell (tags: bicycle, Cycling, NJ, green)

links for 2007-08-13

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:17:23 +0000

Real World SOA | InfoWorld | The Future of SOA | August 12, 2007 12:22 PM | By Dave Linthicum: “SOA will become one of those things that sets the groundwork for better things to come within IT.” (tags: architecture, SOA, Enterprise, IT)
Pligg, The Open Source Digg Clone, Put Up For Sale: “Pligg, a controversial but popular open source content management system that lets developers quickly create Digg-like clones, has put itself up for sale.” (tags: opensource, digg, auctions)
Israel’s Kontera Nails $10.3 Million Second Round From Sequoia And Others: “Kontera’s main product is in-text advertising. They’ll take popular keywords within the text of an article and put double lines below them to signify it’s an advertisement.” (tags: Advertising, Search, Google, Business, VC)
Amazon Launches Lulu Competitor: “CreateSpace … The newly minted CreateSpace service line-up now includes print on demand books, DVDs, CDs, direct download video, audio books, and HD DVDs (Blu-ray coming soon).” (tags: Amazon, Books, DVD, Technology, trends, Publishing, ondemand)

links for 2007-08-12

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:17:18 +0000

Forgotten in the Fridge: “While food safety is a prime concern, refrigerating and freezing food properly also is about TASTE. Proper refrigeration and freezing practices help assure both safety and quality. Here’s how to do it …” (tags: Food, cooking, Health, nutrition)

links for 2007-08-10

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:17:13 +0000

Facebook Tip: Broadcast your Facebook status as RSS: Internet Duct Tape: “…how to broadcast your Facebook status to Twitter.” (tags: facebook, RSS, twitter, mashup, HOWTO)

links for 2007-08-07

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:17:24 +0000

Office 2.0 Database: Extensive online database of Web 2.0 Applications (tags: web2.0, Office, AJAX, applications, software, webdev, Enterprise2.0)
Blogroll Powered by Google Reader: “automatically create a blogroll from the feeds you’ve subscribed” (tags: Google, googlereader, blog, blogging, Blogs, aggregator, JavaScript, widgets)
Strategic SOA outpacing tactical Web services for ROI: “We definitely agree that organizations who are implementing SOA middleware are more likely to achieve higher performance than those that are simply implementing Web services.” (tags: SOA, architecture, webservices, ROI)

links for 2007-08-03

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:17:11 +0000

Gary Vaynerchuk of winelibrary.com on Conan 8/2/2007: Video clip of Gary Vaynerchuk on Conan (tags: Entertainment, funny, Humor, wine, local, NBC, video)
Inbox Zero Video: the importance of getting your inbox to zero, and strategies for dealing with high volume email (tags: email, lifehacks, productivity, gtd, video, google, HOWTO, presentation)
Amazon.com: Amazon FPS, Amazon Flexible Payment Service: Amazon Web Services: The set of web services APIs allows the movement of money between any two entities, humans or computers. It is built on top of Amazon’s reliable and scalable payment infrastructure. (tags: Amazon, API, ecommerce, finance, paypal, shopping, webservices, Business, development)

links for 2007-08-02

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:17:13 +0000

GigaOM Disney, not Sony buys Club Penguin: “Contrary to earlier reports, Walt Disney Co., not Sony is buying Club Penguin, a kid-focused virtual community based in Kelowna, BC in Canada. Club Penguin” (tags: socialnetworking, socialsoftware, Business, Acquisitions, Disney, Kids)
AC/DC Blows Off iTunes, Takes Highway To Digital Music Hell: “Rock group AC/DC, one of the last remaining big-name holdouts to digital distribution, has announced an exclusive deal with Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Music’s digital music service to deliver their entire music catalog digitally.” (tags: Music, Audio, Verizon, Mobile, media)
The Mobile Web Versus The Web On An iPhone: iPhone Wins In A Blowout by Vidya Lakshmipathy – Forrester Research: “Forrester evaluated the iPhone’s capabilities, and we believe that the iPhone signals the beginning of the end for the mobile Web as we know it today” (tags: Mobile, Web, iPhone, trends, development)
Yahoo’s ROBO Study: Search Has Big Impact On Offline Purchases: “Yahoo calls this ROBO — Research Online Buy Offline. It’s the latest in an increasing body of empirical data, much of it from Yahoo studies, that show how significant the Internet has become as a driver of local/offline consumer purchase behavior.” (tags: online, ecommerce, retail, Commerce, Research, Yahoo)
Traffick: When Will Google Have a Flat Quarter? … OK, Now: Search Engine Enlightenment | Grab the feed: traffick.com/atom.xml: “Right now though, tangible evidence is mounting that finally, keyword prices in several key verticals should be affected by an economic downturn.” (tags: Google, Business, Search, Advertising, AdWords)
Where Rupert Could Fall Short: “”This insulated the Journal from some of the harsher, short-term demands of the market. It also insulated Dow Jones’ management from feeling market pressure to make any moves that might have made the company bigger—and thus much harder for News Corp. t (tags: Business, Acquisitions, NewsCorp, WSJ, media)

links for 2007-08-01

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:17:15 +0000

How To Create A Viral Facebook App: “You can build a great Facebook application that is used by millions of people, but if it doesn’t help you with your business, what’s the point?” (tags: facebook, development, web2.0, viral, socialsoftware)
How to Fix Yahoo!: Building a Yahoo! Platform: “Turning My Yahoo! into an open platform for rich internet applications does two things: 1. unify Yahoo!’s services 2. adds utility for users and gives them less reason to leave “ (tags: Yahoo, platform, Business, API, socialsoftware)
Google bets on mobile market | CNET News.com: “Search giant Google is setting the stage for its biggest push yet into the U.S. mobile market, in a strategy that delicately straddles the line between partnering and competing with the major cell phone operators.” (tags: Google, Search, Business, Mobile)
Social Networking Goes Global – Especially in North American Region: “According to comScore, MySpace is over twice as large as its nearest rival, Facebook. Both Facebook and Bebo have had extraordinary growth over the past year (270% and 172% respectively):” (tags: socialnetworking, socialsoftware, statistics, Research)
Course We Could Just Blame The FCC For Our Refusal to Bid And Still Come Out Looking Like Heroes | Digital Daily: “Now that the Federal Communications Commission has voted to adopt only two of the ” ‘Four Opens’ of Successful Open Access,” the question on many minds is “Will Google bid in the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction?” (tags: Google, FCC, government, Wireless, spectrum, auctions)
http://en.think.no/: “The electric car comes back from the dead. The new Think sounds awesome: A tiny electric car, built-to-order through an online site, which comes with an Internet connection and the ability to sell power back to the grid. It’s Henry Ford 2.0. On sale in t (tags: Automotive, green, transportation, environment, cars)
Report: Facebook axes third-party app Audio over copyright issues | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone: “VentureBeat reports that Facebook has removed a popular application from its third-party developer platform over potential copyright issues. The application, called Audio, allowed users to upload MP3 files and share them with their friends” (tags: facebook, Audio, applications, platform, copyright, Legal)
BitLet – the BitTorrent Applet: “Bitlet is a handy service for downloading BitTorrent files without the client.” (tags: torrent, p2p, java, webapp, Browser)

links for 2007-07-30

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:17:15 +0000

IM Most Valuable Web 2.0 Tool for Enterprise: “Other than IM, the report found that RSS and podcasting showed “the highest average business value”, while social networking and blogging showed the lowest.” (tags: web2.0, Enterprise, statistics, Research, IM, RSS, Podcasting, socialnetworking, socialsoftware)
Web Strategy by Jeremiah:Trendwatch: “MicroMedia” provides bite-sized voice and video to micro audiences: “MicroMedia: Quick audio or video messages published to a trusted social community. May be created and consumed using mobile technology, and often distributed using other social media tools” (tags: socialmedia, socialnetworking, Audio, video, blogging, media, microblogging, web2.0, micromedia)
Okay Robert … time to put the kool-aid down | WinExtra: “Facebook is a fad – a Web 2.0 walled garden – being glamorized by people like Robert but as with all fads it will be replaced by something newer and cooler; and chances are Robert will be leading the charge with the newest flavor of kool-aid.” (tags: facebook, web2.0, Business, trends, media)
The Green Office – Home: The Green Office is an online retailer of recycled, environmentally friendly, and sustainable business products, school supplies, and paper. (tags: green, environment, shopping, online, Work, retail)
TCO Analysis: Software as a Service – Business Strategy – Network Computing: “We evaluate the pros and cons of SaaS adoption with an in-depth analysis of deployment costs and the projected impact of this service model over a three-year period.” (tags: SaaS, ondemand, IT, architecture, TCO, analysis)

links for 2007-07-28

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:17:13 +0000

BrandBrains: Definition: StreamScraping: “The act of aggregating and presenting streaming video or audio content in environments which that producer or distributor hadn’t intended.” (tags: StreamScraping, video, streaming, ondemand, online, Definition)
Walk Score – How walkable is your house?: “Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc.” (tags: google, environment, googlemaps, mashup, tools, web2.0, applications)
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Microsoft’s forecast: cloudy: “Microsoft’s coder-in-chief, Ray Ozzie, described in broad strokes the software giant’s plans to build its utility computing business as more and more computing functions and software applications turn into services supplied through the “cloud” of the Int (tags: Microsoft, SaaS, architecture, Business, Enterprise, software, webservices, ondemand)

links for 2007-07-27

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:17:11 +0000

YSlow for Firebug: “YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.” (tags: Web, performance, Firefox, extension, AJAX, JavaScript, optimization, web2.0, development, extensions, yahoo)
5 Questions About the Tour de France Thus Far: Did the designer of the Euskaltel-Euskadi kit who put that half-moon at the top of the shorts want to make it to look like all the riders on the team have a horrible, horrible case of Plumber’s Crack? Or is that just an entertaining side-effect? (tags: TdF, funny, Cycling, tourdefrance)

links for 2007-07-26

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:17:10 +0000

Is the Homepage Dead?: Hello! I’ve been saying this for years! “Site visitors are decreasingly entering via the homepage and instead are entering through other entry points, such as responding to an offer or following a search inquiry.” (tags: google, search, SEO, marketing, internet, yahoo)
AOL To Acquire Behavioral Targeting Ad Network Tacoda: “AOL this morning announced that it would be acquiring Tacoda, a behavioral targeting (BT) ad network and technology provider (which works with many newspaper publishers). AOL owns the largest online ad network, Advertising.com, and will be integrating BT (tags: AOL, Advertising, Search, Acquisitions, Business)
FeedBurner Ad Network Integrating into AdSense – Googlified: “So as most of you know by now, FeedBurner is now part of Google and I’m now working on the AdSense Product Management team helping integrate all we built over the last three years into Google.” (tags: Google, adsense, Advertising, RSS, feeds)
Hitwise To Go – US: Linkedin.com Popular with the 25-34 Age Group: “According to Hitwise US, 31.3% of the traffic to Linkedin.com, a business social network, came from the 25-34 year old age group for the week ending 7/14/07. Now you know.” (tags: Linkedin, Career, socialsoftware, trends)
Facebook For Sale? Investor Floats $10 Billion Buyout Number: “If we got an offer from someone for $10 billion, we probably would listen to them… I don’t think we’re going to get that offer, and we’ e not going to solicit it.” — Wired Blog (tags: facebook, socialsoftware, Acquisitions, Business, rumor)
The Escapist : News : Hearst Acquires UGO Networks: “Media powerhouse Hearst Corporation announced the acquisition of UGO Networks … Forbes estimates the acquisition to cost $100 million based on UGO’s $30 million annual revenue and $82 million in venture capital.” (tags: Games, Acquisitions, media, Business, UGO)
9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network: “a horde of companies are doing their best to reduce the fundamental features of these websites to mere commodities” (tags: socialsoftware, socialnetworking, SaaS, web2.0)

links for 2007-07-25

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:17:11 +0000

PayPal Searches for the $10,000 Facebook App: “PayPal will award $10,000 to whoever mashes up the PayPal API to create the most interesting Facebook app. Two second-place runners up prizes of $5,000 will be awarded, while four third place winners will get $2,500.” (tags: facebook, mashup, development, web2.0, paypal, contest)

links for 2007-07-24

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:17:12 +0000

Bokardo: Putting the Del.icio.us Lesson into Practice, Part I: “The first step to putting the Del.icio.us Lesson into practice is asking a simple question that serves as the litmus test. Is your system useful to someone even if nobody else uses it?” (tags: socialsoftware, socialmedia, socialnetworking, community, design, delicious, analysis, web2.0)
Facebook News Feed RSS– Nemik’s Blog: Turn your Facebook News Feed into RSS (a bit dated from 9/2006) (tags: facebook, RSS, feeds, PHP, opensource)

links for 2007-07-23

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:17:22 +0000

Library clips :: Pimp up Google Reader with 15 Firefox hacks :: July :: 2007: “For those who want more out of Google Reader and can’t wait, check out the hacks” (tags: Google, googlereader, firefox, rss, extensions, hacks, Blogs, XML, syndication)
Enter The JBoss Matrix: “JBoss Rules 4.0 lays the foundation for bringing rules-based solutions into Simple, Open and Affordable SOA deployments and business process workflows.” (tags: SOA, architecture, Java, JBoss, workflow, Rules)
I, Platform: Here’s how to mess with people talkin’ too much about Facebook: “Facebook is the new facebook…it facebook-ed itself into being more facebook-ish with its facebook” (tags: facebook, Humor, socialsoftware)
Is Facebook Worth the Hype?: “Facebook is growing at a faster clip than MySpace. And the fact that News Corp. felt the need to put out this press release at all is an indication that they are at least somewhat worried about Facebook.” (tags: facebook, myspace, platform, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, trends, web2.0)

links for 2007-07-21

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:17:12 +0000

The Future of Search: “Peter Norvig, the head of Google Research talks about his group’s projects.” (tags: Google, Search, Research, Advertising, Speach)

links for 2007-07-19

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:17:26 +0000

Inside AdWords: Google Print Ads now available to AdWords advertisers: “Google Print Ads is now available to hundreds of thousands of United States-based advertisers who currently have a Google AdWords™ account.” (tags: Google, Advertising, Print, News, media, AdWords)
Global Nerdy: Blog Archive: Laws of Software Development: Timothy Lister’s Law: “People under time pressure don’t think faster.” (tags: software, development, programming, management, geek, funny)
Why the FTC Will Likely Block the Google-DoubleClick Merger | The Precursor Blog by Scott Cleland: “because it will enable Google to dominate online advertising and dramatically increase the opportunity for market collusion and price manipulation in the market for consumer click data, ad-performance tools, ad-brokering and ad-exchanges.” (tags: Google, Advertising, DoubleClick, Acquisitions, Business)
Will The FTC Block Google’s Acquisition Of DoubleClick?: “…simply as with any analyst or lobbyist, he makes a case that is usually in line with the concerns or beliefs of the industry that backs him. The only real question with this report: who wants Google’s DoubleClick acquisition to fail this badly?” (tags: Google, Advertising, DoubleClick, Acquisitions, Business)
Apps vs. Office: Google Ups the Ante: “BusinessWeek reports that Google is planning a corporate version of YouTube to host training and employee communications videos. It also looks at Google’s move to generate revenue by offering applications for the corporate market.” (tags: Google, video, youtube, SaaS, Enterprise)
Real World SOA | InfoWorld | Performance Modeling…The Missing Piece of SOA? | June 7, 2006 06:40 AM | By Dave Linthicum: “I’m always surprised by those who find their first generation SOAs slow. When I dig into the architecture, and the process of getting their, I almost always find that there was little of no consideration of performance, no modeling nor testing.” (tags: SOA, architecture, performance, scalability)

links for 2007-07-17

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:17:14 +0000

iMacros for Firefox :: Firefox Add-ons: “Web professionals use the iMacros add-on for functional, performace, and regression testing of web applications. With the built-in STOPWATCH command exact web page response times can be captured.” (tags: Browser, Firefox, extensions, QA, testing, TDD)
Microsoft Watch – Corporate – Microsoft’s Face in the Book: “Microsoft executives have got to be looking at Facebook, if for no other reason than expanding the existing advertising relationship.” (tags: facebook, Microsoft, Acquisitions, Business, Advertising)
VentureBeat: The Facebook lawsuit that hasn’t gone away: “The plaintiffs have demanded that Facebook be shut down and that full control of the site – and its profits – be turned over to them.” (tags: facebook, lawsuit, IPO, Business, Legal)
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – Movers and Shakers in the Technology Industry on Facebook: Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft Execs on Facebook — BFF (tags: facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Business, socialsoftware)
The Jeff Pulver Blog: Goodbye LinkedIn. Hello Facebook.: “I find that the interactions I have through Facebook are at once more rewarding and more nuanced and meaningful than what I experienced on LinkedIn.” (tags: facebook, Linkedin, socialsoftware, community, trends)

links for 2007-07-16

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:17:30 +0000

Inside Facebook: The Dangers of Building on the Facebook Platform: “The Facebook platform is great. Great, that is, except when a bug on Facebook’s end renders your application useless.” (tags: facebook, startups, platform, statistics)

links for 2007-07-14

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:17:20 +0000

Invite Share – Everyone is invited!: “send out invitations to people waiting to get into services, the more invitations you send out, the higher you move up the waiting list for invites to services you aren’t yet a member of.” (tags: web2.0, socialmedia, startups)

links for 2007-07-13

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:17:10 +0000

What does open source “mean” in a SaaS world? – Alex Barnett blog: “…question will become the center of a highly controversial and popular topic of conversation for the wider technical community in 2008.” (tags: opensource, software, Technology, trends, SaaS, ondemand, web2.0, API)
paidContent.org: The Economics of Content – Fortune iMeme: Facebook Will Make Over $100 Million Revenues This Year: “The company will do well over $100 million in revenue, and profitable, and significant EBITDA positive this year. Right now our job is to build out the company as significantly as possible.” (tags: facebook, Business, revenues, VC)

links for 2007-07-12

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:17:12 +0000

Hypebusting: Facebook has ‘thrown the entire startup world for a loop’ – Valleywag: A message from an anonymous Facebook app developer (tags: facebook, api, development)
Versionate – Content sharing & collaboration, hosted wiki, share document and files. Wiki made simple: “document-driven wiki product – upload just about any kind of file (office docs, images, whatever) and Versionate will create an editable, wiki-like page with version and access controls.” (tags: Collaboration, documents, Enterprise, Office, online, productivity, web2.0, startup, Wiki)
Could Microsoft Knock Off Yahoo To Become Google’s Biggest Competitor?: “According to the latest search market share figures released by Compete, MSN/ Live increased its market share by 67% from May to June 2007, putting Microsoft’s share of search at 13.2% behind Yahoo at 19.6% and Google on 62.7%.” (tags: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Search, msn, Business)
TiVo Users Get Amazon Movies Direct From Box: “TiVo users will be able to purchase and download movies from Amazon via their set top boxes starting today.” (tags: tv, IPTV, video, dvr, PVR, ondemand, Amazon, tivo, Entertainment, convergence)
Bay Partners Launches Facebook-Apps-Only Fund: “Facebook is now the Social Operating System, and that new platforms and systems historically lead to a new economy. Bay wants to be in the middle of that economy and fund as many of the “killer applications” as they are able to find.” (tags: facebook, platform, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, applications, VC, startups, entrepreneur)
YouTube – FACEBOOK: Federal Human Data Mining Program: The same can be said for may online services that achieve critical mass (tags: facebook, privacy, Security, ondemand, SaaS, video, youtube)

links for 2007-07-09

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:17:09 +0000

Follow the Tour de France in Google Earth: “…you can follow every nail-biting sprint, every gut wrenching climb, and every blistering descent of the Tour de France on Google Earth.” (tags: Cycling, Google, Earth, Sports, tourdefrance, TdF, bicycle)
Video, Social Networking Use Up: “The Face of the Web, Ipsos Insight’s annual study of Internet and Technology trends, shows (probably quite obviously) an increasing use of video and social networking sites.” (tags: socialmedia, video, trends, statistics, analysis, Audio, Research)
Socialstream: “Create a system for users to seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks.” (tags: Google, Research, socialsoftware, web2.0, socialnetworking)
WebHome – Main – Project Zero: “Project Zero introduces a simple environment for creating, assembling and executing applications based on popular Web technologies.” (tags: Agile, development, framework, IBM, opensource, programming, project, Research, REST, SOA, web2.0, java, architecture)
Podcasting News: How Long Until Internet TV Overtakes Traditional TV?: “Ten million streams is huge for an Internet event, and is beginning to get close to the number of viewers that hit television shows get.” (tags: TV, video, IPTV, media)
John Battelle’s Searchblog: Google Acquires Postini: “Google … has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions serving more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide.” (tags: Google, Acquisitions, Spam, Email, ondemand, Business)
Business, Pleasure Mix on Book Networking Sites: “More than 30 of these second-generation social networking sites have sprung up around books, serving as an online gathering place for hundreds of thousands of avid readers” (tags: Audio, Books, socialsoftware, socialnetworking, Audible)

links for 2007-07-08

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:17:10 +0000

PluggedIn: Facebook lets friends share private view of Web | Technology | Reuters: “Membership has exploded to more than 29 million active users, up one million users in just the past week and 5 million from six weeks ago. It’s adding more than 150,000 members a day, up from its pace of 100,000 six weeks ago” (tags: facebook, platform, statistics, Business, socialsoftware)
Technology’s Untanglers: They Make It Really Work – New York Times: “Sometimes there is a huge disconnect between the people who make a product and the people who use it.” (tags: UI, UX, Web, Design, development)

links for 2007-07-07

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:17:09 +0000

John Coltrane’s Giant Steps on paper: “This is what John Coltrane’s landmark tune and solo look like when they come to life on paper.” (tags: jaz, jazz, music, video, coltrane)
Featured Windows Download: Upload Picasa pics to Flickr with Picasa2Flickr – Lifehacker: “The Picasa2Flickr plugin adds a button to Picasa that lets you directly upload selected pictures to your Flickr account from the comfort of Picasa.” (tags: Flickr, picasa, Photography, Google, photos, Windows)

links for 2007-07-06

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:17:15 +0000

IPhone: The Musical | New York Times Video: “David Pogue ditches his old cellphone for the iPhone in this sing-a-long sequel.” (tags: Apple, iPhone, video, funny)
Amazon.com: Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France: Books: Floyd Landis,Loren Mooney: “THE SERIES OF EVENTS surrounding Floyd Landis’s 2006 Tour de France was as improbable as anything in the history of sports” (tags: Cycling, TdF, Floyd)
User-Gen to Grow Into $4.3 Bil. Business: “Ad spending on Web sites that have built their traffic on user-gen staples like social networking, photo sharing and amateur video is expected to soar to $4.3 billion in 2011” (tags: Advertising, statistics, UGC, web2.0, media)
Facebook Users Up 89% Over Last Year; Demographic Shift: “The site has also seen a demographic shift toward teens and post grads as it moves out of the college crowd.” (tags: facebook, socialnetworking, web2.0, stats, research, statistics)
LimitNone – Products: “LimitNone’s gMOVE is a migration utility for moving your Microsoft® Outlook® calendars, email and contacts to Google Apps.” (tags: Google, gmail, software, tools)
Studio Lighting – Really cheap homemade diy studio – no lighting needed | DIYPhotography.net: “You just want to try out some still life photography, or you need take some shots for eBay. This article is just for you.” (tags: photography, diy, HOWTO, lighting, photo, tutorial)

links for 2007-07-05

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:17:11 +0000

home of the nerd cave | taskbar shuffle and more: “Allows you to rearrange your system tray icons by dragging and dropping as well” (tags: windows, software, freeware, tools, utilities, desktop, applications)
Digital Photography Tips From Around The Web – 4 July 2007: “a post summarizing what some of my favorite Digital Photography Tips sites have been publishing” (tags: Photography, HOWTO, Hacks, tips, tutorial, photo)
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – Amazon EC2 + S3 Doesn’t Cut it for Real Applications: “There is no persistent storage in EC2” — I think this is only an issue depending on your architectural perspective (tags: Amazon, ec2, s3, development, architecture)
Agile Ajax: Mashups versus Facebook: “What’s old is new again, just like bell bottoms and mood rings. Just don’t call facebook a portal.” (tags: facebook, API, AJAX, mashup, Portal)
Apple Developer Connection – iPhone for Web Developers – Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone: “The following guidelines will help you prepare web content and design a website or web-based application for iPhone.” (tags: Apple, iPhone, applications, development, Browser, web2.0, mobile, web)

links for 2007-07-04

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:17:18 +0000

BigAdmin: DTrace: “DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris Operating Environment. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure to permit administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of (tags: Sun, Technology, development, programming, framework, opensource, performance, architecture)
APML – Attention Profiling Mark-up Language: “APML allows users to export and use their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows them to export their reading lists from Feed Readers.” (tags: Attention, web2.0, XML, metadata, privacy, socialmedia, Consumers, identity)
LeeAnn Prescott – Hitwise US: Facebook Visits up 106% Since Opening Up in September: “From September 2006 to April 2007, the market share of visits to Facebook grew by 106 percent.” (tags: facebook, myspace, socialnetworking, statistics, stats, analytics, socialsoftware)
RightScale: Setup and Manage 1 to 1000+ Servers on AWS!: “RightScale provides a platform and consulting services that enable companies to create scalable web solutions running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that are reliable, easy to manage, and cost less” (tags: Amazon, ec2, s3, scalability, development, architecture)
Slow Food Nation will change the way you think about food.: “Petrini describes how we can take back control of our food by outlining three central principles: food must be good (healthful and delicious); it must be clean (produced sustainably in ways that respect the environment), and it must be fair (produced wit (tags: environment, Education, cooking, culture, Food, nutrition, social, green)

links for 2007-07-03

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:17:10 +0000

Google acquires GrandCentral Communications: Well that was fast… “We’re pleased to announce that we have acquired GrandCentral Communications, a company that provides services for managing your voice communications.” (tags: Google, phone, Business, Acquisitions, VOIP)
SourceForge.net: iPhoney: “iPhone Browser Simulator provides an iPhone sized web view with which to test your iPhone targetted apps, all in a pretty iPhone-inspired package.” (tags: iPhone, Browser, QA, testing, opensource, Apple)
MAKE: Blog: Build a Single Speed Bike – Make: Video Podcast: “Make your bike into a single speed hipster bike!” (tags: Cycling, bike, DIY, HOWTO, singlespeed)

links for 2007-07-02

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:17:13 +0000

iTunes 7.3: The iTunes Library file cannot be saved. An unknown error occurred (-50) | iPod + iTunes, Software | For The H*ll Of It: “…use this Apple tech note to recreate your library.” (tags: Apple, iTunes, iPod, software)
Universal Music May Seek Shorter iTunes-Sales Pact: “Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group is considering notifying the Cupertino, Calif., company that it isn’t renewing a long-term contract to sell digital-music downloads through the increasingly powerful iTunes Store” (tags: Apple, iTunes, Music, Business, DRM)
Javien Digital Payment Solutions: ‘delivers e-commerce management platform to content providers … helps digital music sites successfully deploy and manage subscriptions, pay-per-view, downloads, micropayments and alternative billing.” (tags: ondemand, SaaS, finance, architecture, platform)

links for 2007-06-30

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:17:11 +0000

Totally Uncorked – TIME: “I want to hear a 31-year-old guy from New Jersey with a New York Jets spit bucket give his take on wines. Strangely, I’m not alone on that last one. Gary Vaynerchuk’s daily 15-min. video blog has 25,000 viewers who click onto his site each day” (tags: Podcasting, video, Wine, time, magazine, blog)
Wine blog using video a vlog Wine Library TV: Gary Vaynerchuk Wine Library TV video podcast (tags: podcast, video, blog, Food, culture, cooking, funny, NJ)

links for 2007-06-29

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:17:10 +0000

Facebook for the Enterprise = Facebook | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: “People want online identities to establish trust-based professional and personal relationships. FaceBook provides this but I believe in the long run a third party validation system could provide you with a ‘universal’ identity to conduct business ove (tags: facebook, web2.0, Enterprise2.0, socialsoftware, API)
Userplane Splits Revenue With Facebook App Developers: “Userplane, the IM and chat service that was acquired by AOL, has announced today that a new revenue-sharing platform is available for anyone developing applications for the Facebook platform.” (tags: facebook, socialnetworking, Advertising, socialsoftware, API)
For One Analyst, Facebook Is a Screaming Buy – Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds — DealBook – New York Times: “Assuming Facebook’s growth trajectory continues as we expect, the knowledge that could be harvested from controlling the Facebook platform would appear to be the most valuable data in the history of the media world.” (tags: facebook, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, Business, Acquisitions, rumors, analysis)
Feld Thoughts – The Facebook Problem: Facebook is going to need to address the “value to the apps developer” quickly … like “building an in-the-cloud infrastructure for their developers that they make available to one’s that reach a certain level of popularity.” (tags: facebook, platform, socialsoftware, ec2)

links for 2007-06-28

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:17:10 +0000

Inside Facebook: Facebook users add 65 million apps in first month – average of 2.5 per person: ” 65 million net application installs over the course of the past 30 days. That’s an average of 2.5 installed applications per every registered Facebook user.” (tags: facebook, socialsoftware, platform, applications, API)
FunctX XQuery Functions: Hundreds of useful examples: “Welcome to the FunctX XQuery Function Library. Please browse the available functions by category below, or browse the alphabetical list of functions.” (tags: XML, XQuery, library, reference, Wiki)

links for 2007-06-27

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:17:21 +0000

VoiceThread: “A VoiceThread is an online media album that allows people to make comments, either audio or text, and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows an entire group’s story to be told and collected in one place.” (tags: Audible, Audio, Books, Collaboration, Education, web2.0)
Ad OutLook Not Good?: “Online advertising and search marketing have “violently” impacted established media as the appeal for marketing tactics closely tied to transactions grows.” (tags: ad, Advertising, Business, media, online)
Official Google Blog: Why we’re buying DoubleClick: “a good portion of (ad inventory) goes unsold. It’s our view that the combination of DoubleClick and Google will help these publishers succeed by monetizing their unsold inventory.” (tags: Google, Advertising, DoubleClick, Business, Acquisitions)
Seth’s Blog: Positives, not negatives: “Verizon to prospective iPhone buyers: ‘Stay near a plug’. It’s basically a memo designed to help Verizon reps denigrate the iPhone. I think this is bad marketing.” (tags: iPhone, marketing, sethgodin, Mobile)

links for 2007-06-26

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:17:11 +0000

Linden Lab Mulls Adwords Style Ranking System for Registration Portals | Metaversed: “In an open meeting with Second Life residents, Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale revealed that the company may institute a performance based ranking system on non-Linden made registration portals.” (tags: Advertising, virtual_worlds, Second_Life, Business)
“LinkedIn to open up to developers | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: over next 9 months LinkedIn would deliver APIs for developers, ostensibly to make it more of platform like Facebook, and create a way for users who spend more time socially in Facebook to get LlinkedIn notifications.” (tags: API, Linkedin, facebook, socialsoftware, web2.0, platform)

links for 2007-06-21

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:16:59 +0000

CareerJournal | Effective Leaders Follow These Eight Practices: Ask “What needs to be done?” Ask “What is right for the enterprise?” Develop action plans. Take responsibility for decisions. Take responsibility for communicating. Focus on opportunities, not problems. Make meetings productive. Think and say “We.” Listen (tags: Business, management, leadership, Career)
GigaOM Leaked Story: Yahoo Buys Rivals.com: “Yahoo will announce tomorrow it has bought collegiate sports site Rivals.com. The news is available due to what seems to be a publishing timing error on an Associated Press story by an Austrian web publication.” (tags: Yahoo, Sports, Business, Acquisitions, News)

links for 2007-06-20

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:17:03 +0000

Bokardo: Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them, Part 2: “when you’re building the service, is not the time to focus on social value. There is no social value because there is no user base…focus on how a single person can use your service even if others don’t share or tag anything.” (tags: web2.0, socialsoftware, community)
Bokardo: Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them: “Strong social sites build value one user at a time. If one user finds value, then they’re much more likely to tell others or invite their friends. Strong sites don’t succeed by attracting “markets”, satisfying entire groups of people with a certa (tags: web2.0, socialsoftware, community, Business, development)
Flash Based Podcast Players – Okay To Play: An overview of Flash-based podcast players/widgets (tags: flash, podcast, MP3, podcasting, tools, audio, Audible)
A Rich Internet Application for creating your own video game | The Universal Desktop | ZDNet.com: “a Rich Internet Application that allows developers to create their own game worlds. It has a powerful building engine that lets you touch every conceivable part of the game and customize it down to the smallest detail.” (tags: ec2, Games, s3, applications, development, flash, flex, Entertainment)
NewTeeVee U.K., Teens Leading in Online Video Viewing: “Year-over-year online video usage for all Americans aged 12 to 64 rose 56 percent. Younger people are generally watching jokes and bloopers, and older viewers news, with news generally dominant…” (tags: video, IPTV, online, media, statistics, trends, News, analysis)
News Corp explores swap of MySpace site for Yahoo! stake-Business-Industry Sectors-Media-TimesOnline: “News Corporation has discussed swapping MySpace, its internet social networking unit, with Yahoo! in return for a 30 per cent stake in the enlarged group.” (tags: Yahoo, myspace, News, facebook, Business, Acquisitions, socialsoftware)

links for 2007-06-19

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:17:13 +0000

blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 1: Why not to do a startup: Good advice (tags: Business, startup, Technology, entrepreneurship)

links for 2007-06-18

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:17:13 +0000

YouTube Mobile: “YouTube Mobile is a data intensive application. We highly recommend that you upgrade to an unlimited data plan with your mobile service provider to avoid additional charges.” — it doesn’t seem to be working with Windows Mobile 2003 (tags: youtube, video, Mobile, Google)
rainbow9 – Google Code: “Rainbow 9 is a tool that simplifies developing web interfaces. It provides an environment to execute and test Javascript, CSS and HTML; sharing and publishing the application.” (tags: opensource, web2.0, ide, development, programming, tools, Web)

links for 2007-06-17

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:17:11 +0000

Seth Goldstein : Blog Archive : Facebook Foam: “There can be little doubt now that Facebook is a platform for social media, as opposed to simply a web site community. Time will tell whether it can continue to scale through opening up its audience to 3rd party developers like Microsoft did in the 80’ (tags: API, platform, Microsoft, Google, facebook, media, community, socialsoftware, Web)
Analysis: Is the iPhone an Opportunity for Java Developers?: “It’s possible that business considerations (Patents? Existing agreements?) prevented Apple from releasing the iPhone without being tied to a carrier. Thus, the iPhone is closed to third-party development by a double whammy of carrier demands and Apple po (tags: Apple, iPhone, Mobile, Java, Hardware, Business)
Biet-O-Zilla: eBay Item tracker and last minute bidder as a Firefox extension (tags: Firefox, extensions, ebay, software)
Another 10 web operating systems reviewed: “a WebOS is defined as virtual operating system that runs in a web browser environment.” (tags: Web, web2.0, OS, software, platform)

links for 2007-06-14

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:17:21 +0000

NewTeeVee Vidmetrix: Epidemiology for Viral Videos: Holt Labs launched Vidmetrix 2.0, making available to everyone a powerful video tracking tool. Building on its suite of online video management applications the new Vidmetrix system tracks the views and interactions viewers are having with videos on the w (tags: video, analytics, media, socialsoftware, viral)
BuzzMachine: OpenAds: A step in the right direction: “I think this could become the basis of open competition with Google — not replacing Google but allowing publishers and advertisers to put together higher value ad hoc networks. Or maybe I’m just projecting.” (tags: Advertising, Business, Google, media, Web, opensource)
How To Design Effective APIs: “An excellent talk on “How to Design APIs” given by Joshua Bloch (author of Effective Java, JSR 175 spec lead, and much more)” (tags: architecture, API, Design, development, Google, programming, presentation, Web, video, Technology, software)
blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in: “my personal opinion is that the new Facebook Platform is a dramatic leap forward for the Internet industry.” (tags: applications, architecture, API, framework, platform, socialsoftware, development, widgets, webservices, analysis)
iLike Team Blog: Holy cow… 6mm users and growing 300k/day!: “Launching just over two weeks ago, iLike on Facebook signed up a million users in its first week; then a million more in the 5 days, and another million in the next 4 days. We’re currently signing up about 300,000 new users per day.” (tags: applications, architecture, platform, web2.0, trends, widgets, scalability, socialsoftware, statistics)
InfoQ: Debate: Does REST Need a Description Language?: “The question that emerged was whether REST needs contracts (a la WSDLs) and even more fundamentally whether REST with contracts was still REST.” (tags: API, architecture, development, programming, REST, soap, webservices, XML, Web)
InfoQ: REST Describe and Compile: “Thomas Steiner has released version 0.3 of his REST Describe & Compile tool, which creates a WADL description from existing REST messages, and can then in turn generate code for multiple languages.” (tags: architecture, REST, Web, webservices, XML)
Bad Blood Between eBay and Google | Threadwatch.org: “Google announced they were holding a let freedom ring party to promote Google Checkout during the eBay live conference. In (un)related news, eBay announced they were pulling their US AdWords ad budget. Google responded by canceling their freedom party.” (tags: Google, ebay, Advertising, Business, Commerce)
RED HERRING | Yahoo, Newspapers Tout Alliance: “Yahoo’s content and advertising alliance with newspapers has grown almost threefold in the program’s first six months, the Internet portal said this week. The rapid growth suggests that Yahoo’s newspaper partnership strategy could prove far more su (tags: Yahoo, media, News, Print, Advertising, Business)

links for 2007-06-13

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:17:09 +0000

Lens Sample Images Archive: (work in progress) – Canon Digital Photography Forums: List of Lenses with sample images (tags: Camera, Photography, Hardware, photo, canon)
TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video): “Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.” (tags: Photography, Microsoft, Visualization, socialmedia, interface, Data, metadata, media)

links for 2007-06-12

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:17:17 +0000

LinkedIn says it will own business networking: I said this the other night on ODM: “And if LinkedIn is growing fast, its growth remains practically sluggish compared to Facebook’s rate of 150,000 new members each day.” (tags: Social_Networking, socialnetworking, Linkedin, identity, facebook, Networking)
inside looking out: Safari Is The iPhone Developer Platform: “All of the web developers on the planet just became iPhone developers. Ladies and gentlemen, here comes the Mobile Internet Revolution.” (tags: Web, development, platform, architecture, Apple, iPhone, Mobile)

links for 2007-06-11

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:17:28 +0000

Jazz Development at IBM: Agility through transparency… Jazz is about helping people work together to build software more effectively, while making the software development experience more fun! (tags: development, eclipse, ide, Java, project, Software, Agile)
tapefailure: ecord. review. revise.: “tapefailure lets you record your users’ browsing sessions and play them back, just like a tape, as well as view numerous useful statistics about your users.” (tags: Web, analysis, statistics, usability, UI, SEO, Attention, QA, Browser, testing, analytics)
Susan Mernit’s Blog: My magazine/media habits: shift report: “the reality is that reading blogs trumps just about everything for me–whether it’s news, fashion, tech or gossip, blogs are the favored channel, along with videos, social media network notes, and photos and event listings.” (tags: media, statistics, Blogs, convergence, Print, Entertainment)

links for 2007-06-10

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:17:10 +0000

Wbox HTTP testing tool: Web performance testing tool (tags: Web, performance, testing, tools, scalability, webservices, development, opensource)
Techdirt: Indian Offshoring Firm… Offshoring To Mexico: “one of the biggest offshoring firms in India is now offshoring its own jobs to Mexico” (tags: Employment, Business, management)
del.icio.us: face hugger: after a few clicks you’ll be able add del.icio.us to your Facebook Profile page. (tags: API, applications, mashup, facebook, Folksonomy, bookmarks, delicious)
First Full Length Film on YouTube: “Four Eyed Monsters, a movie developed out of a video blog, has debuted on YouTube in what is believed to be the first full length feature film on the Google owned mega-site.” (tags: youtube, Google, video, Movies, film, media, convergence)
Joost v. Babelgum: “Overall Babelgum feels like a poor man’s Joost. Competition in any field drives innovation and is good for the consumer, yet for Babelgum 2006 is calling and it wants its innovations back” (tags: video, web2.0, tv, Technology, Business, P2P, media)

links for 2007-06-06

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:17:10 +0000

How To Maintain Your Mountain Bike For Peak Performance (Root category: Cycling): “How To Maintain Your Mountain Bike For Peak Performance” (tags: Cycling, maintenance, MTB, bike, tips, tutorial, video)

links for 2007-06-05

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:17:12 +0000

New York Times vs. Digg – Strange New Media: “Even the productivity and software blog LifeHacker sent 3,344 visitors to this site in May.” (tags: media, stats, blog, internet, trends)
Saatchi: ‘Advertising With Google AdWords Goes Too Far’: “Humans can advertise better than robotic Google algorithms. That seems to be the take-away message from advertising agency M&C Saatchi’s founding brother Maurice Saatchi” (tags: Advertising, Google)
Alternative energy source: 3-year olds » catbird.org: cat’s world in weblog form: “Why not put playpump style equipment in the playground and have spinning, running, climbing children generate some electricity for us. Hmmm… child labor or wisely utilizing our natural resources.” (tags: green, energy, environment, Parenthood, Parenting)

links for 2007-06-04

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:17:16 +0000

Singlespeed Bicycle Conversions by Sheldon Brown: “Many cyclists are rebelling against the excessive complication, fragility and weight of current mountain bikes. More and more cyclists are discovering the joys of simple, one-speed bicycles.” (tags: Cycling, singlespeed, DIY, HOWTO, bicycle, bike, Mountain_Biking)
Unstoppable – New York Times: “And that’s just the beginning of the differences between your run-of-the-mill 10-speed and a track bike, or fixed-gear bike — fixie for short” (tags: Cycling, bicycle, bike)

links for 2007-06-03

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:17:27 +0000

OpenXML4J – Office Open XML API for Java: “This is an open source project to create a Java library for consuming and generating files in the Open XML formats.” (tags: Microsoft, Office, API, Java, opensource, software)
VentureBeat: Mercury News laying off about quarter of newsroom?: “Newspapers have been losing both subscribers and advertisers to the Internet, and the trend is accelerating.” (tags: News, Print, media, internet, Advertising)
GigaOM Amp’d, another MVNO bites the dust «: “Amp’d owes Verizon Wireless about $33 million. Other creditors include Motorola which is owed $16 million, Vivendi ($10 million,) BestBuy ($8 million,) MTV Networks ($1.8 million) and a whole sundry of others bringing the total to $100 million.” (tags: Mobile, Business, bankruptcy)

links for 2007-05-31

Thu, 31 May 2007 19:17:14 +0000

CBS buys last.fm for $280 million: wowee zowee! “CBS is moving to remake itself into a content distributor across virtually every medium as media usage becomes increasingly fragmented.” (tags: music, Acquisitions, socialsoftware, Business, web2.0)
The Future Of Television: TBS Taking Shows To The Web: “Television is under severe pressure at the moment from the Internet. There has been a fundamental shift and the pace will quicken,” according to Sir Martin Sorrell, head of WPP, the world’s second-biggest advertising company. “Television advertis (tags: tv, media, video, Advertising, ondemand)
Google Gears (BETA): “…an open source project that will bring offline capabilities to Web Applications — aimed at developers “ (tags: Browser, applications, API, AJAX, JavaScript, offline, opensource, platform, development, extension, Firefox, Google, web2.0)
Google Mashup Editor: “Create mashups and simple applications quickly using the Google Mashup Editor” (tags: Google, mashup, editor, AJAX, RSS, web2.0)
Mahalo: “Mahalo is the world’s first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides. (tags: Search, UGC, socialsoftware, web2.0)

links for 2007-05-30

Wed, 30 May 2007 19:17:15 +0000

Spring 2.1: TheServerSide Video Interview Part I: “We ran into Rod Johnson, founder of the Spring Framework, at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. Rod talks to us about Spring 2.1, Spring Web Flow, and Spring Batch in part I of this interview.” (tags: architecture, spring, springframework, video, Java, development)
Enterprise Java Community: Using OpenID: “This article explains what it is, how it works, and how you can integrate it into your applications. “ (tags: OpenID, authentication, identity, Security, Technology, sso, Java)

links for 2007-05-28

Mon, 28 May 2007 19:17:14 +0000

wingerz: Learning how to use your DSLR’s manual controls: “One of the big advantages to using a SLR over a point-and-shoot is being able to shoot in manual mode, opening the doors to more creative photography.” (tags: Photography, Camera, tips)
Ultimate Exposure Computer: “the concept of photographic exposure is extremely simple. It can be mastered by anyone who can multiply or divide by two. Everything you need to know is contained on these few Web pages.” (tags: Camera, photography, reference, HOWTO, tutorial, lighting)

links for 2007-05-26

Sat, 26 May 2007 19:17:13 +0000

Web 2.0 free buttons maker! – The program (Photoshop, hosting php-gd2): “My Cool Button is an excellent online tool for creating Web 2.0 style aqua buttons with rounded corners and color gradients. It generates the final image in PNG format.” (tags: CSS, web2.0, webdesign, free, tools)

links for 2007-05-25

Fri, 25 May 2007 19:17:14 +0000

Andy Kessler: WSJ: A Future For Newspapers: “I really believe that the copy protection mechanism for newspapers is their consumer interface, in the form of ink spurted on newsprint.” (tags: News, Print, media)
Facebook aims to be Social OS; Waiting for F8 the Big Launch: “Facebook has become a primary relationship and identity broker for millions of people. Now outsiders can capitalize on that information in a safe way, pulling from users’ expressed interests in their profiles, building on their stated intention to atte (tags: platform, API, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, mashup)

links for 2007-05-24

Thu, 24 May 2007 19:17:13 +0000

Hivelogic – The Narrative – Railsconf 2007 Slides: “Building Community Focused Web Apps with Rails” (tags: Ruby, rails, Web, presentation, community, development, architecture)
idproxy.net – use your Yahoo! account as an OpenID: idproxy.net lets you use your Yahoo! account to sign in to sites that support the OpenID standard (tags: authentication, openid, yahoo, identity, api, security, web, webservices, web2.0)
Korby Parnell’s Social Software Wunderkammer : Tagspace, Meet Claimspace: “Claimspace will enable you to say, ‘I created this resource, wish to be recognized for it on these terms ___, and I hope you find it worthy of your attention. What do you think?’” (tags: Collaboration, community, identity, Microsoft, recommendations, socialsoftware, tagging, tags, web2.0)
Amazon.com acquires Brilliance Audio | 901am: “Online retailer Amazon.com announced that it has acquired Brilliance Audio, the largest independent publisher of audiobooks in the United States.” (tags: Acquisitions, Audible, audiobooks, media, Business, Amazon)
Inside AdSense: AdSense coming to a video near you: “…we’re excited to announce that this week, we’re launching a pilot with a small group of publishers to test streaming video ads in their online video content. With this pilot, publishers control when the ads play in their videos and choose which videos (tags: Google, Advertising, syndication, video, adsense, media)
RESTful Web Services: Jon Udell: “RESTful Web Services, by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, was published this month. I interviewed the authors yesterday for an upcoming ITConversations show, but I also want to spell out here why I think it’s such an important book.” (tags: REST, webservices, web2.0, Books, architecture, API, SOA)
Contextual In-Video Advertising: ScanScout: “ScanScout technology scans each video and determines content, with ads delivered contextually to match each scene. Think of it as an Adsense for video because it’s exactly how it works, but on scenes as opposed to pages.” (tags: Advertising, Google, video, web2.0, adsense, IPTV)
lilURL – A Free/Open Source Clone of TinyURL: “lilURL is a simple PHP/MySQL script for generating lil´ URLs. It’s similar to TinyURL, Shorl, MakeAShorterLink, etc, but you can run it on your own server” (tags: opensource, PHP, software, development)
WebJay Joins DeadPool, Yahoo Scores Hat Trick For May: “Music playlist sharing site Webjay, acquired by Yahoo in January 2006, will be closing June 30 according to a message that has appeared on the site.” (tags: web2.0, Music, Yahoo, media, Business)

links for 2007-05-23

Wed, 23 May 2007 19:17:10 +0000

What’s Next? Marching Bands? | Digital Daily | John Paczkowski | AllThingsD: “the RIAA is pressing Congress to repeal a federal law that exempts broadcast radio stations from paying performance royalties” (tags: Music, copyright, media, Laws)
Google (hot) Trends: What no RSS feed? “Hot Trends, which lists the top 100 break out searches of each day. “ (tags: Google, Search, Research, trends, statistics, Web)

links for 2007-05-22

Tue, 22 May 2007 19:17:12 +0000

Google May Launch Mobile Service In UK: Google may be preparing to launch its own branded mobile network in the UK… [to] become a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) via a deal with UK mobile phone company O2 (tags: Google, Mobile, phone, service)
The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues – Part 1 | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com: “People are central to software and it’s our data that is irreplaceable and of supreme market advantage. And our software or services — necessary as they are — are like electricity and network bandwidth are to our IT systems; essential but not the p (tags: SOA, web2.0, REST, architecture, Enterprise2.0, convergence, webservices, Google, Microsoft, Research)
Salesforce.com, SOA, and Web APIs: “Salesforce SOA builds on their enhancements from last year like Connect Out, our coverage here, by allowing a greater bi-directional, event-driven communication into and out of the Salesforce.com infrastructure” (tags: SOA, architecture, mashup, Enterprise2.0, SaaS, API)
Salesforce and Google alliance in the works | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: “The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a forthcoming alliance between salesforce.com and Google to integrate Google’s online services, such as email and IM, with the salesforce platform.” (tags: Google, Partnership, SaaS, ERP, CRM, Enterprise2.0, architecture)
Newspapers, TV and the Net – Its Convergence Time – Blog Maverick: “NY Times reporter with a camera crew can reach every medium available today. Right now any video that reporter captures is relegated to the net. Instead, that resource could be available to a network news department , the net, heck, even as part of a DVD (tags: convergence, media, News, brands, tv, video, Print)

links for 2007-05-21

Mon, 21 May 2007 19:17:24 +0000

Yahoo may net Bebo owners $1bn | Markets | Business | Money | Telegraph: “Yahoo is rumoured to be working on an attempted takeover of Bebo, Britain’s most popular social networking site, which could turn its British-born founder into the next internet billionaire.” (tags: Yahoo, socialsoftware, socialnetworking, Acquisitions, media, Business)

links for 2007-05-19

Sat, 19 May 2007 19:17:10 +0000

Google Buying FeedBurner for $100 Million? | Threadwatch.org: “Google is buying FeedBurner and that the price is in the $100 Million range. So, why would Google pay such a high multiple, about 10 times revenues, for the startup?” (tags: feeds, Google, RSS, Blogs, Acquisitions, Business, syndication, aggregator)
Microsoft to Acquire aQuantive, Inc.: Company details plans to build Internet-wide advertising platform for advertisers, publishers and ad agencies.: Microsoft Corp. today announced it will acquire aQuantive, Inc., for $66.50 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $6 billion. This deal expands upon the Company’s previously outlined vision to provide the advertising industry with (tags: Microsoft, Business, Advertising, Acquisitions)

links for 2007-05-18

Fri, 18 May 2007 19:17:13 +0000

Official Google Blog: Google Apps Partner Edition: “…releasing a version of Google Apps specifically designed for ISPs, portals, and other service providers” (tags: Google, SaaS, ondemand, Web, applications, Enterprise)
How to Maintain a Mountain Bike: A good overview (tags: Cycling, maintenance, repair, reference, productivity)

links for 2007-05-17

Thu, 17 May 2007 19:17:18 +0000

To Create Buzz, TV Networks Try A Little ‘Blogola’ – WSJ.com: “TV feature writers, studios and networks are flooding bloggers with free stuff in hopes the flattered recipients will reward them with positive coverage.” (tags: TV, PR, media, Blogs, podcasts)
Hollywood Showdown – WSJ.com: “In case you’ve been under a rock, the long-awaited convergence of technology and content is here: Video streaming works, advertising on the Internet is thriving, and the “Old” media companies are nervous.” (tags: TV, media, Entertainment, convergence, video, online, Mobile)
Web Strategy by Jeremiah: Edgeworks Concept: How Social Media impacts Company Communications (Expanding upon Brian Oberkirch’s theory): “How companies communicate moves from a centralized team to many individuals at the ‘edge’ of a corporation.” (tags: PR, socialmedia, socialsoftware, community, Blogs, Wiki, Enterprise)
Scratch | Home | imagine, program, share: “Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.” (tags: programming, education, kids, software, Research, Parenting)
What is “The Web”?: “I do think that understanding the different perspectives will be useful for Web developers as we navigate the RIA future. “ (tags: development, socialsoftware, Web, web2.0)
Google Operating System: Google Launches New Design, Universal Search and a Site for Search Experiments: “Google launched the universal search that adds news, images, videos, books and local results in the standard results.” (tags: Google, Search, development, aggregator)
Techdirt: Amazon’s DRM-Free Service Probably Too Late To Make A Difference: “So today’s announcement from Amazon that it’s launching a new music service with unprotected tracks from EMI and other smaller labels comes a little late.” (tags: Amazon, Music, DRM, Retail, Apple, iTunes)

links for 2007-05-16

Wed, 16 May 2007 19:17:10 +0000

Rails Envy: Hi, I’m Ruby on Rails…: “What do you get when you cross the Mac vs PC commercials and Rails Envy? Ruby on Rails ads to get everyone hyped for Railsconf, that’s what!” (tags: ruby, rails, humor, java, video, funny, geek, Advertising, development)
Epicenter – Wired Blogs: This is the Future of the News: The Arianna Huffington Interview: “Is HuffingtonPost.com the future of news media?” (tags: Journalism, News, media, Web, blogging, Blogs)
Google’s Potential Vulnerability – An Open Ad Network: “Google is more vulnerable than analysts appreciate. More than one-third of Google’s revenue is completely out of their control. “ (tags: Google, Advertising, Business, opensource)
AOL Buys Third Screen Media Ad Network: “Third Screen is a strategic acquisition for AOL, as mobile becomes a more important category and advertising becomes the source of more and more revenue for AOL.” (tags: Advertising, Acquisitions, AOL, Microsoft, Mobile)
paidContent.org: The Economics of Content – Blinkx To Raise $50 Million in AIM IPO; Valued At $225 Million: “Blinkx, the video search engine and technology company, which was spun-off Autonomy last month in a complex transaction… give it a market cap of 114 million pounds ($225 million) at the mid point of the range.” (tags: Video, Search, Business, Acquisitions, IPO)

links for 2007-05-15

Tue, 15 May 2007 19:17:12 +0000

Web Performance Presentation (PPT): “Steve Souders of Yahoo’s “Exceptional Performance Team” gave an insanely great presentation at Web 2.0 about optimizing website performance by focusing on front end issues. “ (tags: Web, performance, web2.0, Yahoo, Development, Webdesign, scalability, CSS, JavaScript, architecture)
14 rules for fast web pages (Skrentablog): # Make fewer HTTP requests # Use a CDN # Add an Expires header # Gzip components # Put CSS at the top # Move JS to the bottom # Avoid CSS expressions # Make JS and CSS external # Reduce DNS lookups # Minify JS # Avoid redirects # Remove duplicate scripts (tags: web, performance, webdesign, css, javascript, development, architecture)

links for 2007-05-14

Mon, 14 May 2007 19:17:14 +0000

Are You Paying Attention?: Life after pageviews: Proposing AudientStream and AttentStream: “A LifeStream is … an outgoing channel/record of everything you do/produce aggregated into a single feed.” (tags: Attention, aggregator, feeds, identity, AxL, media)
EETimes.com – Xuuk’s eye-counting technology mimics Google: “With Eyebox, brick-and-mortar advertisers can determine which billboards or products people are looking at in mall corridors or on store shelves, and count them in the same manner that Google counts clicks for online ads.” (tags: Google, Hardware, Advertising, Technology, offline, privacy)
5 RSS mixers worth trying: “Here are five RSS mixers that I think are worth trying out.” (tags: RSS, mashup, feeds, aggregator, list)

On Digital Media Podcast Episode #34

Sun, 13 May 2007 23:12:37 +0000

I had another great time last Thursday with my friends John Federico and Chia-Lin Simmons recording Episode #34 of the On Digital Media Podcast.

We drank a wonderful Pinot Noir and talked about how Yahoo is closing Yahoo Auctions and Yahoo Photos. And where that’s going next (perhaps). Then got into a reoccurring topic for ODM about on-demand entertainment services such as Chia-Lin’s favorite Jaman.

Plus much more…

To listen, click through to the On Digital Media (ODM) site or simply use the link below to hear this episode.

links for 2007-05-12

Sat, 12 May 2007 19:17:10 +0000

OpenSAM Simple Ajax Mashup Techniques: “OpenSAM (Open Simple Ajax Mashups) is a set of recommendations and techniques for integrating SaaS applications into incredibly powerful and flexible solutions.” (tags: AJAX, applications, Enterprise, mashups, Office, SaaS, web2.0, development, framework)
Hitwise To Go – US: Average Time Spent on Social Nets 3X Longer Than News and Media Sites: “the average amount of time consumers spend on social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and Bebo was 21 minutes, 32 seconds, for the week ending 5/5/07” (tags: socialsoftware, statistics, analysis)
Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS: “The foundational YUI Grids CSS file offers three preset page widths, seven core templates, and the ability to nest subdivided regions of one to four columns.” (tags: CSS, Browser, Design, development, templates)

links for 2007-05-11

Fri, 11 May 2007 19:17:19 +0000

Building An Open Source, Distributed Google Clone: “think outside the square and try to figure out a Google killer scenario.” (tags: Google, Search, opensource)
The Future of Mozilla Matters: “…how a key Mozilla community member sees the future of Mozilla as a platform and the role Mozilla has to play in defining the future of the web.” (tags: Web, web2.0, Browser, platform, architecture, Microformats, XML)
Firefox To Go: Mozilla Prepping a Mobile Firefox Browser – Gizmodo: “Mozilla is working on a Firefox to go for your cellphone. It’s a long-term project (meaning it’s not coming out any time soon)” (tags: Browser, Firefox, Mobile, phone, Web)
Professional Software Development:Top Five Essential Practices for Developing Software: # Automated Tests # Version Control # Refactoring # Repeatable Build and Deploy # Communication (tags: development, management, programming, Refactoring, software, testing)

links for 2007-05-10

Thu, 10 May 2007 19:17:16 +0000

Breaking: Odeo Acquired By SonicMountain: “New York based SonicMountain, a new startup, has acquired Evan Williams’ Odeo. The announcement will come sometime tomorrow. The price is not being disclosed but is in excess of $1 million, and the deal was all cash.” (tags: Podcasting, services, Acquisitions, Business)
Where have all the viewers gone? – CNN.com: “In TV’s worst spring in recent memory, a startling number of Americans drifted away from television the past two months” (tags: tv, video, trends, media, statistics, Entertainment, Advertising)
Sun Adopts OpenID, supports URL-based digital identity: “Sun has announced that it is adopting OpenID, which provides user-centric, decentralized, URL-based digital identity.” (tags: OpenID, identity, Sun, webservices, architecture)
Microsoft buys stake in CareerBuilder | CNET News.com: Microsoft has bought a minority equity stake in job search site CareerBuilder.com (tags: Microsoft, Acquisitions, Business, Employment)
eBay May Buy StumbleUpon For $75 Million: EBay Seeks to Add StumbleUpon to Portfolio from the Wall Street Journal brings back the rumors that eBay will be purchasing StumbleUpon. (tags: ebay, Acquisitions, Business, socialsoftware)
Yahoo To Close Yahoo Auctions: “Yahoo has announced that they will be closing Yahoo Auctions in the United States and Canada as of June 16, 2007.” (tags: Yahoo, auctions, online)
paidContent.org: The Economics of Content – Online Video Service Joost Gets Whopping $45 Million Funding; Investors Include CBS & Viacom: “Joost has raised a big round of funding: $45 million. The round included Sequioa Capital, Index Ventures, Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong tycoon, and CBS…all have taken “small minority” stakes in the start-up’ (tags: video, VC, tv, media, P2P)

links for 2007-05-08

Tue, 08 May 2007 19:18:02 +0000

Jaman: Movie download service for world cinema: “Jaman is the way people discover, enjoy and share world cinema. Jaman’s global online community is pioneering social cinema.” (tags: movies, video, film, community, web2.0, media, Service)
Salil Deshpande: Spring is the new Java EE: Spring is the new Java EE version. (tags: Java, j2ee, architecture, development, platform, framework)

links for 2007-05-07

Mon, 07 May 2007 19:17:11 +0000

Bill Moyers Journal . Buying the War . Additional Interviews | PBS: “a 90-minute documentary that explores the role of the press in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq.” (tags: documentary, government, Iraq, war, media, journalism, politics, video)
UIE Brain Sparks: Why Invest in Social Features for Your Web Site?: “adding social features isn’t so much a leap of faith as it is an investment in a long-term experience design strategy.” (tags: socialsoftware, socialnetworking, community, Design, web2.0)
ProgrammableWeb.com: 12 Ruby Mashup Resources: “To help you get started we’ve rounded-up a dozen Ruby libraries for open web APIs that can help you get a head start.” (tags: API, library, list, mashup, RoR, Ruby, reference)

links for 2007-05-06

Sun, 06 May 2007 19:17:12 +0000

alarm:clock: Google Negotiating Buy-out of Simply Hired: “Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdry says that Google is stepping up its efforts to buy VC-backed SimplyHired.” (tags: Google, Business, Acquisitions, Employment, Search, aggregator, widgets)

links for 2007-05-04

Fri, 04 May 2007 19:17:12 +0000

Improve your photography with clasical art.: “The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their effort go to waste on the walls of some museum when it could be used to give you a hand with color correction?” (tags: Photography, photos, tips, tutorial, Art)
Alfresco – Open Source Enterprise Content Management (CMS) including Web Content Management: Alfresco is the Open Source Alternative for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), providing Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging. (tags: Enterprise2.0, Enterprise, CMS, Collaboration, workflow, opensource, community, content)
Google the Bookseller: “Word from the London Book Fair is that Google is going into the book business. By year’s end they will launch two book related initiatives that will further alter the book landscape.” (tags: Google, Books, Audible, content, publishing)

links for 2007-05-03

Thu, 03 May 2007 19:17:11 +0000

Yahoo Supports New Robots-Nocontent Tag To Block Indexing Within A Page: “Yahoo now supports a way to flag that part of your page shouldn’t be included in an index. It’s called the robots-nocontent tag.” (tags: SEO, Search, Yahoo, webdesign, webdev)
greatest living american: Stephen Colbert Google Bomb for ColbertNation.com (tags: Google, SEO, Humor, funny, news)
Digg Gives In To User Revolt; Are Those DMCA Takedown Notices Even Valid?: “After a grassroots revolt by Digg users, Digg has decided to stop censoring posts about an HD-DVD decryption number used by the industry-backed Advanced Access Content System to protect HD-DVDs.” (tags: digg, internet, DCMA, Legal, copyright, censorship)
Google Might Buy NBC, Dow Jones (Walmart, Amazon, Pepsi….): “Any time some major media company may be on the block, let’s make it a requirement that all media stories automatically insert a comment from some made up financial analyst suggesting that Google is thinking of buying the company too.” (tags: Google, Business, media, Acquisitions)
Neighboroo – Neighborhood Information for Real Estate and Marketing: “Neighboroo lets you visually explore and search local trends across the nation including real estate, demographics, environmental factors and lifestyles. The website uses colorful heat maps and a simple approach to simplify location research.” (tags: mashup, Google, Research, People, Politics, trends, Education, Employment, finance, googlemaps, analysis)

links for 2007-05-02

Wed, 02 May 2007 19:18:07 +0000

33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity: “Productivity heuristics are behavioral rules (some general, some situation-specific) that can help us get things done more efficiently.” (tags: Work, productivity, gtd, process)
10 Reinvigorating Facts About Microsoft’s Profits – Seeking Alpha: “it take MSFT only 18 days to exceed Google’s (GOOG) quarterly net income of $1 billion.” (tags: Microsoft, finance, money, Business)

links for 2007-05-01

Tue, 01 May 2007 19:18:08 +0000

John Battelle’s Searchblog: Google Gets Another Competitor For Radio AdSense: “TargetSpot is planning a service that will let advertisers of any size — from a local restaurant to a national chain — create commercials for their desired audience and buy ads that will be slipped into online radio programming.” (tags: Google, radio, Advertising, media)
Microformats for Web Services and Portable Content: “A set of HTML attribute values that add meaning to otherwise generic content. An implementation of existing web standards, not new standards” (tags: XML, Microformats, webservices, presentation)
RED HERRING | Yahoo: Right Media for $680M: “Yahoo on Monday agreed to acquire Right Media, an online advertising exchange, for $680 million in cash and stock.” (tags: Advertising, media, Yahoo, Business)

links for 2007-04-30

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:17:10 +0000

Vudu: Another set-top box offering movies on-demand – Engadget: “Vudu scored a breathless write-up in the New York Times today for a new movie download service they’ll be offering something this summer that is long on overblown claims and hyperbole” (tags: PVR, tv, video, Hardware, media)
Big Money in Little Screens – New York Times: “Google has gone so far as to build a prototype phone with its own software inside, according to one person who has seen it.” (tags: Google, Mobile, phone, Hardware)
Climbing the social Web ladder | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: Forrester analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff have published a report, “Social Technographics,” that identifies six levels of participation in the realm of social media or the social Web in the U.S. based on a recent survey. (tags: socialsoftware, socialnetworking, Research, Business)

links for 2007-04-29

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:17:08 +0000

Google Testing Blog: Google Testing Blog (tags: Google, testing, Blogs, QA, development, TDD, methodology)
Trip Gas Price: AAA’s Fuel Cost Calculator to see how much you might have to pay for gas. (tags: Car, finance, home, gas, reference, tools, travel)

links for 2007-04-28

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:17:10 +0000

Web Mashups Turn Citizens Into Washington’s Newest Watchdogs –: “Tread carefully, politicians — concerned citizens are watching your every move on the web. Their tools? Custom data mashups that use public databases to draw correlations between every vote cast and every dollar spent in Washington.’ (tags: government, citizenjournalism, API, mashup, politics, Web2.0)

links for 2007-04-27

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:17:18 +0000

Cozmo Wants to Kill Your TV: “Cozmo.Tv wants to create a TV 2.0 by changing the way you consume online video from a random walk to personalized content.” (tags: tv, video, ondemand, media)

links for 2007-04-26

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:17:10 +0000

Scribd: “Scribd’s mission is to create the world’s largest open library of documents” (tags: Collaboration, documents, mashup, socialsoftware, presentation, publishing, community, documentation, Books, content)
The Future Of Television: Live Video From Your Cell Phone To The World: “At the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters show, ComVu Media demonstrated live video transmitting at 30 fps at 640 x 480 resolution from a mobile phone over a wireless data network.” (tags: TV, video, media, Mobile, phone, Hardware)
Armstrong Doesn’t Trust French Lab Used in Landis Case: Lance said, “I believe in Floyd, I believe he hasn’t had a fair shake.” … me too. go Floyd! (tags: Cycling, TdF)
Fisher-Price – Your Source for Toys, Playtime Ideas, Parenting Advice and More: “It’s a stationary bike, a learning center, and an arcade “game system—all rolled into one! Smart Cycle plugs right into your TV, ready to take kids on learning adventures like no other.” (tags: gadgets, Kids, Toys, Parenting, Cycling, Fitness)

links for 2007-04-24

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:17:10 +0000

Amazon readying DRM-free online music store? – Engadget: “Amazon is ready to “to launch an online music store next month … the (hopefully) forthcoming service will serve up at least some DRM-free tracks” (tags: Amazon, Music, DRM, Audible, copyright)
Bokardo: Trend: Social Networking passes Porn: “From the Economist: social networking sites will soon overtake porn as the most visited properties on the Web in the U.S.” (tags: socialnetworking, socialsoftware, statistics, trends, social, tech, Web)

links for 2007-04-23

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:17:20 +0000

JSMIN, The JavaScript Minifier: “JSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files. It typically reduces filesize by half, resulting in faster downloads. It also encourages a more expressive programming style because it eliminates the download cos (tags: JavaScript, performance, optimization, webdev)
Atten.tv Lets You Track Others’ Video-Watching Habits: “Atten.tv will track the clickstream of users to offer up a unique data set based in its members in order to create their network. This service can be used to see what’s popularly viewed on the web, as well as measure the success of your own video broad (tags: Attention, statistics, analysis, Business, media, video)
GigaOM: FON, Time Warner deal confirmed: Time Warner Cable “will let its home broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hotspots, a practice shunned by most U.S. Internet service providers.” (tags: WiFi, Business, Bandwidth)
GOOGLE: The world’s most cost-effective brand – Valleywag: “a study of name recognition and reputation concludes that Google is now the world’s most valuable brand, worth more than $66bn. … G achieved its position with a minute fraction of the marketing spending of other tech companies such as Microsoft and IBM (tags: Google, marketing, Advertising, Business)
John Battelle’s Searchblog: IAB to Measurement Agencies: Measure Up!: “the IAB released a letter asking that the twin pillars of measurement in the interactive advertising universe – Neilsen and Comscore – submit to audits of how they measure, and in general work with the IAB to better measure interactive audiences.” (tags: Advertising, media, statistics, Business)
Portable Media Player Owners Listening To Less Radio: “Podcasting is one of the few audio platforms seeing significant growth. Awareness of podcasting has lept ahead of HD radio, and its audience is catching up with Internet radio’s audience.” (tags: Podcasting, statistics, analysis, media, radio)

links for 2007-04-22

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:17:15 +0000

Google AJAX Feed API: “With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs like the Google Maps API.” (tags: Google, API, AJAX, JavaScript, RSS)
Web Worker Daily : Eight Google Apps in Your Future: “…some guesses at what you might find in Google Apps in the future.” (tags: Google, applications, software, Service, ondemand, online)
Faster Page Loads—Bundle Your CSS and Javascript: “Maintaining small, modular stylesheets can make development easier, and make it possible to deliver styles specifically to the pages that require them, reducing the total CSS served per page. But we are seeing now that there’s a price to pay in the HTT (tags: performance, optimization, CSS, JavaScript, webdev, Code, apache)

links for 2007-04-20

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:17:14 +0000

RSSBus: “RSSBus is a collection of tools and services that simplify the process of creating RSS Feeds with rich data extensions. Feeds are generated from RSSBus Connectors, reusable code modules that convert data into feeds.” (tags: RSS, API, XML, feeds, development, framework, Web2.0, mashup, platform, software)
WeoCEO – Easy to Use. EC2 Love.: “The WeoCEO program is designed for use on Amazon’s EC2 architecture by taking advantage of the ability to create and terminate computing resources at will.” (tags: Amazon, ec2, s3, management, hosting, Service, web2.0)
Performance Research, Part 4: Maximizing Parallel Downloads in the Carpool Lane: Our rule of thumb is to increase the number of parallel downloads by using at least two, but no more than four hostnames. Once again, this underscores the number one rule for improving response times: reduce the number of components in the page. (tags: web, performance, optimization, Research, Browser, Bandwidth, webdesign, Yahoo)

links for 2007-04-19

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:17:25 +0000

Mowser: “Mowser takes HTML pages normally viewed on a computer and translates them so that you can see them when you’re on the go.” (tags: Mobile, Browser, phone, Search, Portal)
Bungee Labs: “The Bungee Connect on-demand development environment dramatically increases both developer productivity and application capability by automating Ajax interactivity, reducing web state management programming, and optimizing intelligent integration with mu (tags: web2.0, platform, AJAX, API, development, mashup, Business)
PDF Implementing OpenID (presentation Web 2.0 Expo 2007): PDF Presentation from the Web 2.0 Expo 2007 about Implementing OpenID (tags: OpenID, SSO, Identity, Security, Web2.0, Presentation)
How Google Killed Affiliate Marketing : SEO Book.com: “Google can buy out or clone any service that threatens their ad market and media dominance.” (tags: Google, Advertising, marketing, SEO, Business)

links for 2007-04-18

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:17:13 +0000

Google’s Office Suite Complete: Google “PowerPoint” Confirmed: “Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed that Google will soon launch a PowerPoint clone, completing their basic office suite” (tags: Google, Office, powerpoint, presentation, web2.0, Software, ondemand)
GigaOM: DodgeBall founder quits Google: I don’t think this is very surprising for an entrepreneur: “It seems like a trend: for entrepreneurs who sellout to Google, Google money is good, but working for Google, not so good!” (tags: Google, Business, News, startups, socialsoftware, web2.0)
Google – The Ultimate Money Making Machine: “…beyond wireless, and in the decade to come, will there be a better business model than Google’s current Internet model?” (tags: Google, Business, economics, entrepreneur)
TurboGears: Front-to-Back Web Development: rapid web development framework (tags: development, framework, AJAX, Agile, Python, webdev)

links for 2007-04-17

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:17:12 +0000

Clear Channel Radio and Google Will Jointly Drive Radio Advertiser Expansion: Agreement Makes Guaranteed Inventory Available to Google Advertisers On More Than 675 Clear Channel Radio Stations (tags: Google, Advertising, radio, Business, media)

links for 2007-04-16

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:17:17 +0000

Web 2.0’s Future All Depends On IT’s Future: “IT developing into more of an interactive, bi-directional department that concentrates less on policing and more on supporting its employees.” (tags: IT, enterprise, technology, web2.0, Enterprise2.0, analysis, trends)

links for 2007-04-14

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:17:12 +0000

From the Official Google Blog — acquisition of DoubleClick: “we are truly excited to announce our acquisition of DoubleClick. DoubleClick provides a suite of products that enables agencies, advertisers, and publishers to work efficiently, that will enable Google to extend our ad network and develop deeper relation (tags: Google, Advertising, Business, media)
USI and Foxconn reportedly to make Wi-Fi iPod: Apple plans to launch new iPods featuring Wi-Fi in the second half of 2007. Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) will produce the Wi-Fi modules and Foxconn will perform as the OEM system assembler, according to Taiwan portable music player component make (tags: Apple, iPod, Hardware)
Fireclipse Installation Instructions and Development Notes: “Fireclipse consists of a Firefox Extension that overlays Firebug and an Eclipse Plugin.” (tags: Firefox, eclipse, javascript, development, opensource, QA, testing)
SeeJay Online! Firefox Inside Firefox: Don’t use this at home ;-) chrome://browser/content/browser.xul (tags: Firefox, Hacks, HOWTO, Browser)

links for 2007-04-13

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:17:11 +0000

Skype podcasting revisited — Jon Udell: “my conclusion is that combining two locally-made recordings — one of which the interview will upload and I will download after the call — will yield the best outcome.” (tags: Podcasting, Audio, VOIP, Skype)

links for 2007-04-12

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:17:13 +0000

Seth’s Blog: Do you have to be anti-change to be pro-business?: Change is good! “Business as usual is almost always lousy marketing, because there isn’t a lot of room for growth. The opportunities kick in when an external force requires a brand new story, when consumers are choosing to pay attention because they’ve go (tags: Business, process, marketing)

links for 2007-04-11

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:17:14 +0000

Dandelife.com : A Social Biography Network.: Dandelife, the social biography network, (tags: socialsoftware, aggregator, history, Visualization)
Project Apollo: Old Media is Watching | Marshall Clark: “Project Apollo is a cross-platform analytics program developed by Proctor & Gamble with Arbitron (radio) and Nielsen (TV) to track all aspects of people’s advertising consumption and purchasing behavior. The project is basically a grab by Old Media to tr (tags: Advertising, media, analysis, statistics, UGC, Social_Networking)
Revish to Launch Social Network for Book Lovers: Revish, a book lovers’ site planned to launch on Friday, has taken a rather academic approach to book reviews. Revish allows you to search books from Amazon’s database, and add them to any of your lists, such as “favorites,” “watch,” or “rea (tags: socialnetworking, socialsoftware, Books, culture)

links for 2007-04-10

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:17:24 +0000

Internet Video Hyperaggregation: “lightweight web services that empower users to select videos from the hundreds of video sharing web services and point to them for distribution. Om Malik coined the term ‘hyperaggregators’ to describe this approach on the web in February’s Business 2.0” (tags: video, aggregator, syndication, RSS, tagging, socialsoftware)

links for 2007-04-07

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:17:14 +0000

AbbyMe: “With AbbyMe you can: Broadcast phone messages to many friends at once. Schedule reminder and birthday calls in advance” (tags: Phone, Service, VOIP)

links for 2007-04-06

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:17:20 +0000

Alanis Morissette Causes a Stir with “My Humps” Parody – ARTISTdirect News: “News outlets and music blogs have been abuzz this week with reactions to Alanis Morissette’s hilarious video spoof of the Black Eyed Peas’ “My Humps,” which she posted to YouTube as an April Fool’s Day joke.’ (tags: Music, video, youtube, Google, media, socialsoftware, Humor)

links for 2007-04-05

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:17:13 +0000

Town Hall Meetings 2.0: D Lasica asked US presidential candidate Joe Biden a question via a YouTube video. That’s not news, but what is news is that Biden responded with his own vid. The use of technology by the campaigns – almost all of them – has been impressive. It gives new (tags: media, government, youtube, Google, video, web2.0)
Sifry’s Alerts: The State of the Live Web, April 2007: “With this report, we expand on this tradition by introducing information and analysis relating to the broader range of social media on the Web” (tags: blogging, socialsoftware, technorati, trends, Web, analysis, statistics)
Online Ads Tested: Duh! “The study at MarketingExperiments.com showed that ads which are aggressive, are not effective. Advertisements that blended in and looked like a site content performed significantly better than ads that stood out from the rest of the page.” (tags: Advertising, Business, statistics, online)
Podcasting News » Microsoft Zune Will Get DRM-Free Music Someday: “Microsoft’s Zune system will eventually get DRM-free music, according to Zune marketing director Jason Reindorp, but the company has no time frame for offering songs without copy-protection.” (tags: Music, DRM, Microsoft)

links for 2007-04-04

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:17:34 +0000

The UNOFFICIAL Guide to PodCamp NYC: “Here’s the unofficial guide to PodCamp NYC! It’s a 35 page guide including some maps, directions, schedule, events, restaurants, parking, phone numbers, and stuff that the Student Loan Network is doing at PodCamp NYC.” (tags: Podcasting, PodCamp, directory, conference)

links for 2007-04-03

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:17:21 +0000

John Battelle’s Searchblog: Google TV Trial Details: “Advances in set-top-box technologies make it possible to report aggregate statistics on how many times an ad was viewed and whether it was watched through to the end. As part of this trial, we will be working with partners to use aggregate, anonymized se (tags: Google, TV, Advertising, IPTV, Search, Business)

On Digital Media Podcast

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:47:26 +0000

Ok. I’ll let the secret out… I’m a Podcaster. Alright, maybe it’s not really a secret that I’ve been one of the co-hosts of the weekly On Digital Media Podcast for a few months (especially if you’re a listener), but given the fact that I’ve neglected to mention it on my blog until tonight, you might think otherwise.

“On Digital Media is a podcast about the technology, creation, distribution, consumption and monetization of digital media and its effects on traditional media and marketing.”

links for 2007-03-28

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:17:18 +0000

GrabPERF: Blog Performance Monitoring: “GrabPERF, it is a free resource for performance monitoring” (tags: performance, architecture, reference, Service)
Zoli’s Blog :: How to Import All Your Archive Email Into Gmail: “The final solution comes from Google themselves: now that they quietly expanded Mail Fetcher to Google Apps accounts, and removed the “non-gmail source” restriction, there is a simple yet perfect two-steps process to get it all done.” (tags: Google, Email, gmail, HOWTO)

links for 2007-03-27

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:17:13 +0000

Wachovia’s steps to SOA success | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2006-07-13 | By David L. Margulius: “Wachovia Bank’s goal was vastly more ambitious: to transform its organization with a flexible new SOA infrastructure. Here’s the step-by-step plan.” (tags: architecture, SOA, IT, webservices)

links for 2007-03-26

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:18:29 +0000

S3 Firefox Organizer: This firefox extension(browser plugin) provides an user friendly interface for Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service) . Its interface is very much similar to the FTP interface that lists local folders in the left panel and S3 buckets/files/folders in the ri (tags: Amazon, s3, storage, firefox, extensions)

links for 2007-03-25

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:18:02 +0000

Ajaxian: Slingshot: Desktop Apps via Rails: “Slingshot looks like it wraps up a Rails app and packages it in such a way that the user is opening up a Site Specific Browser that accesses your world” (tags: ruby, rails, RoR, AJAX, desktop, development, software)
Michael Fricklas – Our Case Against YouTube – washingtonpost.com: The defense is not available to someone who “derives a financial benefit” from copyrighted material he stores if he has the “right and ability to control” it. (tags: YouTube, Google, DMCA, copyright, video)

links for 2007-03-24

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:17:37 +0000

Video: Is it time to throw away your servers? | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com: “simple math to show how a small business can save some serious money if it can figure out how to move from a physical hosting service to an “elastic” one like Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).” (tags: Amazon, ec2, architecture, video, IT)

links for 2007-03-23

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:17:59 +0000

Podcasting Audience Up 18% Since Last Year: The audience for podcasts has grown 18% in the last year, according to an upcoming report from Edison Media Research. Awareness of podcasting has grown even more, jumping from 22% in 2006 to 37% in 2007. (tags: Podcasting, statistics, media, Business)

links for 2007-03-22

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:17:18 +0000

The Ups and Downs of Socializing Your Content : SEO Book.com: Post about the value add and costs of adding a user generated content section to your site. (tags: SEO, socialsoftware, Search, UGC, community)
Listen + Learn: Brad has put together a great blog about audio books for kids: ‘Listen + Learn is the work of the “education” folks at Audible.com…that provides downloadable audio books and other audio programming” (tags: Parenthood, Parenting, Kids, Education, Audio, Audible, Books, Work)

links for 2007-03-21

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:18:23 +0000

Pay-Per-Action – Adwords – Google: Google Launches Affiliate Network in Beta of course. (tags: Google, Advertising, Business, marketing, Service)

links for 2007-03-19

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:17:43 +0000

O’Reilly Radar: The Web 2.0 Address Book May Have Arrived: “I expect GrandCentral to become one of the premier Web 2.0 and social networking platforms overnight, and it’s squarely aimed at the heart of the communications device used by more people than any PC application will ever touch.” (tags: phone, startup, Technology, web2.0, Mobile)
How to Stop the Dilbertization of IT: “IT needs to get back to showing people how work can be made better through technology, and how technology can be more effective” (tags: IT, Work, Business, management, process, productivity)
VirtualBox: “InnoTek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.” (tags: virtualization, opensource, software, linux, Emulation, tools)
twittervision: twitter visualization mashup with google maps … stop watching… L:work ;-) (tags: twitter, visualization, mashup, googlemaps, web2.0, Attention, socialsoftware, SMS)
Opening Up to Collaboration: “Shai Agassi, President of the Product & Technology Group at SAP, the world’s largest business software company, names Amazon EC2 the most important industry development in the last 10 years.” (tags: Amazon, ec2, webservices, IT, SOA, Collaboration)

links for 2007-03-18

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:17:16 +0000

TagSoup home page: a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML as it is found in the wild: poor, nasty and brutish, though quite often far from short. TagSoup is designed for people who have to process this stuff usi (tags: Java, XML, library, opensource, development, software)
Official Google Blog: Let the passion continue! We’re acquiring Adscape: Google buys in-game advertising firm. (tags: Google, Advertising, Games, Business)

links for 2007-03-17

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:17:35 +0000

memcached: a distributed memory object caching system: memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. (tags: architecture, programming, caching, database, DB, framework, optimization)
Inside MySpace.com – Inside MySpace.com: MySpace developers have repeatedly redesigned the Web site software, database and storage systems in an attempt to keep pace with exploding growth – the site now handles almost 40 billion page views a month. (tags: architecture, software, performance, Research)

links for 2007-03-16

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:17:23 +0000

Users rethink Amazon S3 after performance issues: “…some Web 2.0 companies said the service has room for improvement when it comes to retrieving stored items fast enough for e-business and maintaining reliability.” (tags: Amazon, S3, storage, performance, caching)
What is the Universal Widget API ?: “With UWA, your Netvibes widget is by default able to work on most other widget platforms and blog systems: Netvibes, Google IG, Apple Dashboard…” (tags: widgets, API, opensource, AJAX, JSON)
trendwatching.com: April 2007 trend briefing | CROWD CLOUT: CROWD CLOUT: “Online grouping of citizens/consumers for a specific cause, be it political, civic or commercial, aimed at everything from bringing down politicians to forcing suppliers to fork over discounts.” (tags: Advertising, Business, marketing, research, online, trends, web2.0)

links for 2007-03-15

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:17:27 +0000

fring – Mobile VoIP application for cellular handsets: “fring uses your mobile internet connection to make peer-to-peer VoIP calls, send instant messages and talk with VoIP applications such as Skype, Google Talk and MSN Messenger at no extra cost.” (tags: VOIP, Mobile, Software, phone, SIP)
How Strong is Viacom’s $1 bn Claim Against Google’s YouTube? – SeekingAlpha: “…this could lead to a critical roadmap indicating whether user-posting sites can continue to expand rapidly.” (tags: Google, youtube, Legal, DMCA, copyright, Viacom, media, UGC)
terra IMS – U.S. EPA Superfund Site Locator: “Integrates the EPA Superfund XML to allow anyone to quickly and easily find the nearest Superfund Sites to their home address or a location of interest.” (tags: Google, googlemaps, mashup, environment, EPA, Maps)

links for 2007-03-14

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:17:33 +0000

Verizon FiOS Fone: Sexy Multimedia Picturephone from the Future Is Coming – Gizmodo: FiOS Fone, which it calls “the phone that pretty much does it all.” (tags: FiOS, VOIP, phone, gadgets)
Ruby for the REST of Us: Using Ruby and REST to Integrate with Amazon S3: “rSh3ll is a command shell for using the Amazon S3 service. By using rSh3ll, you can manage your Amazon S3 buckets and objects. rSh3ll is open source, available under the MIT License and hosted on RubyForge.” (tags: Amazon, API, s3, Ruby, REST, webservices, storage, services)

links for 2007-03-08

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:17:46 +0000

Amazon’s Series of Fortunate Events: Exactly… “As a result, each company can focus on their distinctiveness and bring it to market as quickly as possible, without worrying so much about infrastructure.” (tags: Amazon, S3, ec2, services, ondemand, SOA, IT, architecture)

links for 2007-03-06

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:17:32 +0000

Human Computation – Google Video: “This talk introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve. Traditional approaches to solving such problems focus on improving software.” (tags: techtalks, google, video, socialsoftware)
Free printable cardboard lens hoods: This site contains PDF documents that can be printed and cut out to make lens hoods for a variety of 35mm and digital SLR camera lenses. Lens hoods give better quality photographs by reducing flare caused by nonimageforming light. (tags: Photography, Camera, DIY, Hardware, Hack, lens, lighting, photos, photo)

links for 2007-03-05

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:17:29 +0000

USATODAY relaunch: “The website is no longer a simple hose spouting news at readers. It has become a full on social network, integrating user generated content in intelligent and interesting ways.” (tags: content, Journalism, media, News, socialnetworking, web2.0)

links for 2007-03-02

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:17:26 +0000

Offload your multimedia content and bandwidth to Amazon using PHP: Save disk space and bandwidth, and increase the reliability of your site by using the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) remote storage service to host your media files. You’ll also improve the reliability of your site as it serves the increasingly large (tags: Amazon, IBM, PHP, s3, storage)

links for 2007-03-01

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:17:25 +0000

Setting up and Running Amazon EC2 from Windows (tags: Amazon, development, ec2, s3, screencast, tutorial, Windows, HOW)

links for 2007-02-28

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:17:13 +0000

Ruminations » Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet: Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet (PDF) (tags: testing, heuristics, QA, TDD, development)
SEOmoz | 24 On-site SEO Checkups For Clueless Developers / Marketers: General SEO Tips (tags: SEO, Search, marketing, webdesign)
The digital darkroom revealed « Jon Udell: the audio editing techniques used by the NPR pros make conversations sound clear and intelligible. (tags: Podcast, Audio)
Camera Stabilizing Bag Stabilizes, Transports: “Yank out the camera, fill up the bag with rocks/sand/etc to keep it weighed down and plop the camera on it.” (tags: photography, accessories)
SaaS 2.0 is About Business, not Technology: In sum, SaaS 2.0 goes well beyond today’s SaaS business drivers, which have focused on cost-effective software delivery. Instead SaaS 2.0 is about helping users transform their business workflow and processes, and the way they do business. (tags: SaaS, ondemand, Enterprise2.0, architecture, statistics, Research, Technology)

links for 2007-02-27

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:18:29 +0000

xFruits – Compose your information system: Mashup RSS feeds (tags: RSS, mashup, feeds, aggregator, Blogs, OPML, Mobile, XML)
socialmeter: Social meter scans the major social websites to analyze a webpage’s social popularity. Currently we scan Bloglines, Del.icio.us, Digg, Google, Rojo, Shadows,Technorati and Yahoo My Web. (tags: Search, SEO, socialsoftware, blog, bookmarks, statistics)
» Sorry, Bit Torrent-these legit content deals of yours are like farts in a blizzard | IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband | ZDNet.com: “The new site represents a big gamble that BitTorrent’s core users — males between 16 and 34 — will accept the restrictions of a legal marketplace,” Elise writes. “While BitTorrent boasts that 135 million people have installed its file-sharing softwar (tags: BitTorrent, media, Business, Movies, Software, Games, Music, ondemand)
InfoQ: Struts 2 Goes GA: “The Apache Struts Team has announced that version 2.0.6 will be released as General Availability (GA). This is an important milestone since GA is the project’s highest quality grade. This also marks the first GA release with the integrated WebWork 2 code (tags: Java, framework, struts, opensource, Software, development)
Robotic Beer Launching Refrigerator Video: It’s a beer launching mini-fridge so you don’t have to get up off the couch! (tags: Beer, geek, Humor, Video, robots, Technology)
Can Google crack $74 billion TV ad market? | Digital Markets | ZDNet.com: Google is ramping up its television advertising efforts and recruiting sales staff for “Google Television. (tags: Google, Advertising, Business, tv, media)
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: SaaS adoption set to explode: “61% of North American companies with sales over $1 billion plan to adopt one or more SaaS applications over the next year, a dramatic increase from the 38% who were planning to install SaaS apps in 2005” (tags: ondemand, SaaS, enterprise, software, research, statistics, architecture, trends)
Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS): 3C = Content, Commerce, Community | 4th C = Context | P = Personalization | VS = Vertical Search This, I submit, is the formula for the future: Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS) (tags: web3.0, Commerce, community, Search, Business, trends, media)

links for 2007-02-26

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:17:39 +0000

Research report: YouTube.com users prefer homemade videos: “Hitwise further claimed that during the week of February third, online traffic to YouTube was greater than that to all television network websites combined!” (tags: media, TV, Video, youtube, Google, statistics, Report)

links for 2007-02-25

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:17:41 +0000

Strobist: Round Up: The “Starving Student” Off-Camera Light Kit: “The SSO-CLK (for lack of a more poetic term) is designed to give you the most bang for your buck – with a nod toward extreme portability.” (tags: Camera, DIY, Flash, Hacks, HOWTO, lighting, photo, Photography, recommendations)
Google Apps APIs: “Google Apps and its APIs open up a wide variety of new opportunities to integrate and extend Google’s communication and collaboration services. Domain adminstrators can use the APIs to migrate from and integrate with existing IT infrastructure. Applicati (tags: Google, API, sso, webservices, web2.0, development)

links for 2007-02-23

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:18:18 +0000

Susan Mernit’s Blog: Hey, Hearst, remember Zinio and CueCat?: “the care this branch of the Hearst team is taking to preserve a print experience is, well, irritating–and most likely based on a fairly narrow idea of what kinds of advertisers they can attract and what kinds of ads they’ll pay to place.” (tags: publishing, Print, Advertising, Business, media)
Ning | Blog – What is a Platform?: “a software program that makes services available to other software programs through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).” (tags: software, platform, blog, Books, API, development)
Preoccupations: Last.fm stats: 15 million unique users a month (tags: Attention, Music, socialsoftware)
Getting Real (book): “Want to build a successful web app? Then it’s time to Get Real. Getting Real is a smaller, faster, better way to build software.” (tags: Agile, applications, Books, Business, Enterprise2.0, development, programming, software, web, Collaboration)

links for 2007-02-22

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:17:49 +0000

LinkedInABox: Unleash Your LinkedIn Profile: “LinkedInABox is a simple widget that can be embedded on any web page and provides a summary of your personal profile, as presented in your LinkedIn account.” (tags: blogging, widgets, API, network, b, identity, Linkedin)
Netvibes introduces Universal Widget API: “build your module once, deploy everywhere” (tags: API, gadgets, Widgets, Service, Web, webservices)
Joost fires up its engines with Viacom deal, Mac beta | Webware : Cool web apps for everyone: “…just weeks after asking YouTube to pull any of its copyrighted content, media giant Viacom has opted to license its content to Joost.” … and a new Mac beta too. (tags: P2P, video, tv, media, Business, content)
Streamburst Offers Innovative Non-DRM: “The first is that every film begins with a 5 second display of the name of the person who purchased it appears on their credit card. The second step is that Streamburst strips out an undetectable but unique series of bits from each copy of a file downloa (tags: DRM, video, media, Business)
Nintendo Wii beats up on the competition in power savings – Engadget: the 360 and PS3 in “idle” mode consume about ten times the watts of the Wii. (tags: Games, energy, conservation, green)
Podcasting News » Podtrac Announces First Online Media Planning Service for Podcasts and Serial Video Clips: “Podtrac today announced the Podtrac Media Planner, a new online service designed to demystify advertising in podcasts and serial video clips by helping advertisers learn about audio and video podcasts, view demographics and reach, and sample more than 40 (tags: Podcasting, media, Business, statistics, video)
Bamboo – Continuous Integration and Build Server: “Atlassian released Bamboo 1.0, our server software that automates the process of continuously building, integrating and testing software code. By automating the software build process and providing instant notification of problems with the software’s cod (tags: development, build, integration, programming, server, software, svn, tools, testing, QA)
Mashery: Power Your API: Mashery provides everything you need to get your API up and running quickly, easily and successfully while ensuring that it will scale. API security, usage/access management, tracking, metrics, commerce, performance and developer/community tools all come (tags: API, Amazon, Business, community, development, Dev, webservices, web2.0, mashup, programming, s3)
Fractals of Change: Television on The Internet – How much Bandwidth is Needed? Where?: “If you switch to delivering the content over the internet, you no longer need to deliver all 200 channels all the time, but can simply deliver the content more “on demand.” That decreases the bandwidth needed towards the end of the network.” (tags: Bandwidth, internet, tv, video, media, ondemand)
Wheel of Food: “Wheel of Food: The most fun way to pick a restaurant near you. Enter your zip, enter a cuisine, and let the Wheel of Food determine where to eat today.” (tags: API, Food, fun, mashup, NYC, online, Visualization, Yahoo)
Google sees video anti-piracy tools as priority | Reuters: “It is going to roll out very soon … It is not far away.” (tags: Google, video, youtube, piracy, copyright)

Define: Lazy Blogging

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:49:25 +0000

The act of maintaining ones weblog via proxy or more specifically, using an API feature from a remote service, such as the one from del.icio.us, to automatically post to your blog.

I’ve been using the daily blog posting feature of del.icio.us for a few years. It started out sparse, but admittedly the daily link dump has dominated my blogging activities (as you can see from the archives).

I’m sure my wife and friends can attest to how many times I’ve stated, “I need to blog more”, but the quick “select text”, right-click, “post to del.icio.us” is just too damn easy. Perhaps if I state my ambition more publicly it would inspire me to post more “manual”.

links for 2007-02-20

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:17:37 +0000

Adobe Tour Tracker – 2007 Amgen Tour of California: Well done Flash/Flex-based UI for the Tour of California (tags: Cycling, Maps, GPS, tourofcalifornia)
XM, Sirius to merge – Feb. 19, 2007: Rivals XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio announced Monday they would enter into a merger of equals, creating a satellite radio giant. (tags: Business, radio, Satellite, Music, merger)
AOL and 63 Million OpenIDs | dev.aol.com: AOL announced support for OpenID: “There are now 63 million AOL/AIM OpenIDs.” (tags: OpenID, identity, AOL, privacy, Security, Service)

links for 2007-02-18

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:17:35 +0000

InfoQ: Predictions: The Changing World of IT Work: The IT Professional Outlook: Where Will We Go From Here? (tags: IT, Career, Business, management)
Google to Start Reporting Subscriber Numbers: “Google announced today that it will begin reporting the number of subscribers any RSS feed has through Google Reader’ (tags: Google, statistics, syndication, RSS)
Podcasting News: Most Americans Think Citizen Media Is Vital To Future Of Journalism: “A majority of Americans (55%) said bloggers are important to the future of American journalism and 74% said citizen journalism will play a vital role, according to a new We Media – Zogby Interactive poll.” (tags: media, Journalism, UGC, Business)
Sonny Rollins – Podcasts: Awesome! “The Sonny Rollins Podcast, a new monthly video series, focuses on tenor saxophone legend Sonny Rollins and his music.” (tags: Podcast, Video, Jazz, Music)

links for 2007-02-17

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:18:13 +0000

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library: Query is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. (tags: JavaScript, AJAX, Code, Dev, development, library, JSON)

links for 2007-02-16

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:17:33 +0000

GigaOM: Browsegoods, a new shopping experience: Browsegoods “is very similar to the offline shopping experience where the store has organized products into different departments, then different aisles, then different shelves, then finally different sections on those shelves.” (tags: UI, ecommerce, Business, shopping, AJAX)

links for 2007-02-15

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:17:46 +0000

Firefox 3 To Support Offline Apps: “Yes, Web apps need to be reengineered for this, and no, no-one (including Google) has announced they will do so — although we hope they will! […]” (tags: firefox, google, browser, web2.0, internet, applications, Microsoft, opensource)
Windows CardSpace: “Windows CardSpace, formerly codenamed “InfoCard”, is a piece of client software that enables users to provide their digital identity to online services in a simple, secure and trusted way.” (tags: DotNet, authentication, identity, privacy, Security, sso, Microsoft, cardspace)
ifixipodsfast.com iPod How To Video Tutorials: “this website is compiled of helpful information and informative tutorials that will assist you in getting your iPod running once again!” (tags: Apple, iPod, HOWTO, fix, Hacks, MP3, Hardware, tutorial)

links for 2007-02-14

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:17:25 +0000

Make Marketing History: Thinking So You Don’t Have To?: video … “Truth in Advertising” … funny (tags: Advertising, Humor, marketing, online, Video)

links for 2007-02-13

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:17:31 +0000

Bear outside window startles woman — and vice versa – CNN.com: “MAPLEWOOD, New Jersey (AP) — The last thing Lorraine Grossman expected to see as she gazed out the kitchen window of her daughter’s home was a 211-pound bear.” (tags: NJ, SoMo, News)

links for 2007-02-12

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:17:28 +0000

Yahoo Launches Pipes, an RSS Remixer: Pipes is described as “an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator” and essentially it enables you to create remix feeds. (tags: mashup, RSS, aggregator, feeds, Web2.0, Yahoo, mashups, programming)
Agile Testing: HTTP performance testing with httperf, autobench and openload: Simple light-weight HTTP performance testing tools (tags: Web, performance, testing, QA, network, development, Browser, apache, webdev, tools)
The Grinder, a Java Load Testing Framework: “The Grinder makes it easy to orchestrate the activities of a test script in many processes across many machines, using a graphical console application.” (tags: java, testing, performance, development, TDD, QA, webdev, Software, web, framework)
How to follow the Google webmaster guidelines.: “This website is for those who want to follow the Google webmaster guidelines, but seek more definitions, explanations and examples than Google provides in their documentation.” (via olevin) (tags: Google, HOWTO, Search, SEO, Web, webdesign, webdev, development)

links for 2007-02-11

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:17:23 +0000

Associated Press To Use “Citizen Media”: “The Associated Press and NowPublic.com announced Friday that they have agreed to an initiative designed to bring citizen content into AP newsgathering, and to explore ways to involve NowPublic’s on-the-ground network of news contributors in AP’s brea (tags: UGC, Citizen, Media, content, news, citizenjournalism)

links for 2007-02-08

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:17:33 +0000

Google to charge businesses for Google Apps: “for the first time, consumer-grade applications are good enough that they can be used by enterprises,” indicating that perhaps the company is, in fact, gearing up to take on Microsoft in the enterprise market sometime in the future. (tags: Business, Enterprise, Google, Software, Email)
YouTube – Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested – Perl Scripting: I’d like to see him add some regular expressions (tags: Microsoft, Windows, Vista, youtube, Video, funny, Perl)
alphaWorks Services | QEDWiki | Overview: “QEDWiki is a browser-based assembly canvas used to create simple mash-ups. A mash-up maker is an assembly environment in which the creator of a mash-up uses software components, or services,made available by content providers.” (tags: Enterprise2.0, IBM, mashup, development, Collaboration, web2.0, Wiki, programming, services)

links for 2007-02-07

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:17:38 +0000

The Apache Open For Business Project – Open Source E-Business / E-Commerce, ERP, CRM, POS: The Apache Open For Business Project is an open source enterprise automation software project licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0. By open source enterprise automation we mean: Open Source ERP, Open Source CRM, Open Source E-Business / E-Commerc (tags: Business, ecommerce, Enterprise, ERP, opensource, Software, Apache, crm, Java)
Groovy – Home: “An agile dynamic language for the Java Platform with many features that are inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk, making them available to Java developers using a Java-like syntax.” (tags: Agile, Java, groovy, programming, scripting, language, development, webdev, framework)
PedalPub, LLC: This is like a dream I once had…combine your favorite social drinking activity, with your favorite social outdoor activity? (tags: Cycling, Beer, Fitness, Fun, funny)
O’Reilly Radar: OpenID Gets a Boost From Microsoft: “OpenID got a big boost today when it gained support from Microsoft. Open-identity company JanRain, Dick Hardt’s Identity 2.0 company Sxip, and Verisign were also a part of the announcement.” (tags: OpenID, Microsoft, Security, authentication)
Slashdot | Aqua Teen Stunt Costs Turner and Agency $2M: The NYTimes reports that the Turner Broadcasting System and the ad agency responsible have reached a $2M settlement with the city of Boston (tags: media, marketing, Advertising)
PRESS RELEASE Advertising.com Announces Results of Online Video Study: “Survey results indicate that approximately 66 percent of respondents view streaming video content at least once a week. 44 percent of video viewers are between the ages of 18 and 34, while 56 percent are age 35 and older.” (tags: media, Video, TV, Advertising)
Last.fm Partners with Warner: WMG is the world’s fourth biggest label, and Warner’s entire catalog from the US and Europe will now be streamed through the Last.fm player (tags: web2.0, Music, media, Business, socialsoftware)
Bokardo – Social Web Design » How to Prevent Valueless Design: “the major value rests on social aspects of the design…take away the interaction of the communities on these sites and there is very little value left in them. Take away the reviews from Amazon and you’ll hear a great big sucking sound of folks rushin (tags: Design, web2.0, Web)
Creating Passionate Users: Don’t ask employees to be passionate about the company!: “…the best company is one in which the employees are so engaged in their work that the company fades into the background.” (tags: Business, culture, development, management, productivity, Work)

links for 2007-02-06

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:17:31 +0000

SuperBowl Ads Fail To Impress on Social Network Sites: “So it seems like there’s still a long way to go until major advertisers truly integrate their offline ads with online activities.” (tags: Advertising, media, Business, TV, video, socialnetworking)
Eduserv Athens: Eduserv Athens offers a range of solutions for enterprise-wide single sign-on and Identity Access Management capability. (tags: authentication, identity, library, online, Security, sso)

links for 2007-02-05

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:17:49 +0000

Blogarithms: Amazon for Infrastructure-on-Demand: Man… I love this stuff: “Dynamic computing power on demand. The dream has been realized.” (tags: architecture, s3, ec2, Amazon, webservices, SOA, Agile)
Perlbal: Perlbal is our Perl-based reverse proxy load balancer and web server. (tags: apache, web, server, Technology, architecture, Perl, performance)
pound: “The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s).” (tags: apache, web, server, Technology, architecture, performance, webdev)
Varnish – Trac: “Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator.” (tags: apache, web, server, Technology, architecture, performance)
Google PowerPoint Clone Coming: ‘Based on some of the text in the document, the current code name of the presentation application is “Presently,”’ (tags: Google, presentation, Microsoft, powerpoint)
How to use OpenID (a screencast): OpenID lets you log in to different sites without having to create a new username and password for each one. This screencast demonstrates OpenID in action. (tags: authentication, openid, screencast, howto, identity, security, web2.0, opensource)
Inside eBay’s Innovation Machine: “Companies such as Infopia are now creating mash-ups—applications built around APIs from eBay and other firms such as SalesForce.com Inc. and FedEx Corp.—that extend the relationship between different companies and their customers.” (tags: Commerce, ebay, API, IT, management, Software, development, web2.0, Enterprise)
Technology Review: Servers for Hire: WebStore by Amazon allows businesses to run their own branded e-commerce sites using Amazon’s back-end infrastructure (tags: Amazon, webservices, API, SOA, Enterprise, IT, architecture)
Max Design – Web standards checklist: “A site built to web standards should adhere to standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT, DOM, MathML, SVG etc) and pursue best practices (valid code, accessible code, semantically correct code, user-friendly URLs etc).” (tags: development, Design, QA, process, reference, webdesign, webdev, CSS)

links for 2007-02-04

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:17:27 +0000

Web widgets, desktop widgets, widget resources, samples, tutorials @ Widgipedia: “Want to find a widget? Try Widgipedia, a repository for widgety goodness of all shapes and sizes.” (tags: widgets, gadgets, web2.0, directory)
Opiniorama: 12 second Cure for Hiccups: “I decided to do a little stretching while holding my breath so placed my hands above my door frame and leaned forward, and what do you know within seconds the hiccups stopped.” (tags: lifehacks, Health, Hack, HOWTO, hiccups, cure, useful)
Canon Camera Museum | Technology Hall: Information about how camera lenses are made (tags: Photography, Hardware, canon, Camera, lens, Photo, presentation, reference)
Welcome to OpenToro Project’s Web: “OpenToro is a Web Database Publisher, a tool that allows us developing database-driven web applications in an agile and automatic way. Using OpenToro simply means to forget coding countless SQLs and JSPs every time we want to implement a web application (tags: database, framework, java, web, opensource, SQL, web2.0, API, development, Dev)
YouTube – Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us: Excellent! “Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes.” (tags: web2.0, video, internet, History)

links for 2007-02-03

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:17:22 +0000

DEMO.com Video Archives: “view our DEMO 07 Demonstrator class in the order they appeared on stage on January 30 – February 1, 2007 in Palm Desert, CA” (tags: Demo, Business, conference, Presentations, Video, VC, startup, technology)
WHISHER – WiFi Reloaded: “Spanish company Whisher helps you to navigate the entire WiFi network, without worrying about what network you are connected to. They do this by allowing you to connect to the computers of users that already connected to the secure networks.” (tags: WiFi, software, socialnetworking, networking, Bandwidth)

links for 2007-02-02

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:17:39 +0000

ProgrammableWeb.com » Blog Archive » Making Money From Mashups: “…questions and issues around commercialization and business issues of APIs and mashups” (tags: API, Business, mashup, recommendations, mashups, money, web2.0)
Performance Research, Part 1: What the 80/20 Rule Tells Us about Reducing HTTP Requests » Yahoo! User Interface Blog: “80% of the time is spent fetching other components in the page including images, scripts and stylesheets.” (tags: architecture, performance, optimization, interface, JavaScript, webdesign, webdev, development, CSS, Design)
Performance Research, Part 2: Browser Cache Usage – Exposed! » Yahoo! User Interface Blog: “40-60% of Yahoo!’s users have an empty cache experience and ~20% of all page views are done with an empty cache.” (tags: architecture, performance, optimization, interface, JavaScript, webdesign, webdev, development, CSS, Design)
Super Bowl ads will reflect YouTube’s impact: “At least six Super Bowl ads that will air Sunday – including those from General Motors, the National Football League and Doritos – will reflect the impact of homemade videos for public display on viewing habits.” (tags: media, Advertising, youtube, UGC, Social_Networking, Video, Google)
YouTube – Broadcast Yourself.: Super Bowl Ads on YouTube (tags: Advertising, Google, Video, web2.0, superbowl, YouTube)
Yahoo plans 100 more Web sites for entertainment | CNET News.com: “Yahoo said Tuesday that it planned to build individual Web sites around 100 entertainment “brands” this year that would pull together content from the company’s sprawling array of online properties.” (tags: media, brands, Entertainment)
CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Source: Microsoft Zune Phone In the Works: “We’ve just received a sound tip that Microsoft is working on its very own phone to be branded under the Zune moniker.” (tags: Microsoft, gadgets, Mobile, phone, Technology, zune)
Susan Mernit’s Blog: Calcanis and Arrington to do (free) DEMO-style conference: “news that Jason Calcanis and Mike Arrington are going to do a free DEMO-style conference called “The TechCrunch 20” (tags: conference, Business, web2.0, VC, startups, entrepreneur)
Master Plan – About the power of Google: Short video about the effects of Google’s power (tags: Google, video, Privacy, Technology, Search, Politics, Web, film)
What’s “cool” at Demo? Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger: Scoble posts some links to “cool” demos @ DEMO (tags: Demo, startups, VC, entrepreneur)
CNET launches beta version of new API: “In order to access the API, simply go the Dashboard page at http://api.cnet.com/dashboard.html” (tags: API, Dev, JSON, REST, Web, webservices, XML, mashup)

links for 2007-02-01

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:17:33 +0000

All Things Distributed: Working Backwards: “To ensure that a service meets the needs of the customer we use a process called “Working Backwards” in which you start with your customer and work your way backwards until you get to the minimum set of technology requirements to satisfy what you tr (tags: Amazon, Software, development, business, management, agile, process)

links for 2007-01-31

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:17:25 +0000

SalesWorks Takes On Salesforce.com With Hybrid Web/Desktop App: SalesWorks and is similar to Salesforce.com, in that it’s used to manage contacts or sales leads. In fact it’s being billed as “a Salesforce.com for the SOHO market”, but without the cost or complicated features. (tags: CRM, Software, Business, Service)
Gizmo Call Launches, Browser-based VoIP: Gizmo Call – an online service that makes VoIP phone calls possible from any web browser. It works via a Flash plugin, which enables users to make calls simply by typing a phone number into a text-field in a browser. (tags: VOIP, Gizmo, phone, Browser, Flash, SIP)

links for 2007-01-30

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:17:29 +0000

Seth’s Blog: Really Bad Powerpoint: “…thousands of hours wasted, every single day, by boring PowerPoint presentations filled with bullets.” (tags: Business, presentations, howto, tips, marketing, powerpoint, productivity)
Scott Rosenberg – At Microsoft, a Sad Software Lesson – washingtonpost.com: “Why did it take the world’s biggest and most successful software company so long to revamp its flagship product” (tags: Microsoft, Windows, Vista, development, Business)

links for 2007-01-26

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:17:26 +0000

Official Google Blog: A look ahead at Google Video and YouTube: YouTube, as we’ve stated previously, will remain an independent subsidiary of Google, and will continue to operate separately. Google will support YouTube by providing access to search and monetization platforms and, when/where YouTube launches internatio (tags: google, youtube, video, business, search)

links for 2007-01-25

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:17:23 +0000

Wii helps Nintendo year-end profits soar – USATODAY.com: “TOKYO — Booming year-end sales of the wand-wielding Wii game console sent profit at Nintendo soaring 43% for the nine months ended December, the Japanese manufacturer of Pokemon and Super Mario games said Thursday.” (tags: Business, Games)
EasyEclipse | Free, open source, easy-to-use Eclipse distributions and plugins for Windows, Mac and Linux – Easy Eclipse downloads: “EasyEclipse packages together Eclipse, the open-source software development platform, and selected open source plugins.” (tags: eclipse, java, ide, programming, development, tools, software, Windows, opensource)

links for 2007-01-24

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:17:31 +0000

Eleven Emerging Ideas for SOA Architects in 2007: “Web 2.0” expert Dion Hinchcliffe elaborates on eleven ideas he considers valuable for SOA architects in 2007, most of them connected to merging Web 2.0 and “classical” SOA concepts. (tags: SOA, Enterprise2.0, architecture, web2.0, AJAX, JSON, REST, Technology)
Parentography to Launch Map-Based Parenting Community – Mashable!: “Parentography, falls somewhere in between: it’s a social network that helps parents to organize family-friendly excusions”. (tags: Kids, Parenthood, Parenting, web2.0, socialsoftware)

links for 2007-01-23

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:17:12 +0000

mb3DEngine – RSS in 3D: digg in 3D … dizzying, but cool. (tags: digg, rss, flash, visualization, interface, 3D, mashups, mashup, fun, tags)

links for 2007-01-21

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:17:28 +0000

Dugg Space: “A collaboratively created social network created by users of the collaborative social news phenomenon: digg.com” (tags: socialnetworking, socialsoftware, Collaboration, community, opensource)
IMEEM – what’s on your playlist?: “IMEEM is an online community where people and groups can upload, share, tag, and playlist the media they care about.” (tags: socialnetworking, socialsoftware, P2P, collaboration, community, media, Audio, Music, Video)

links for 2007-01-20

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:17:21 +0000

mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet – Apache – ILoveJackDaniels.com: “The mod_rewrite cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing useful information about mod_rewrite.” (tags: apache, reference, regex, development, lamp, webdev)
WorkHack.com Tasks Management Tool: “With WorkHack, simply visit the site, and instantly drop in your tasks and specify a level of importance. When you are done with your task list, turn a special visualizer that will set the font sizes of more important ones larger.” (tags: gtd, Hacks, productivity, web2.0, tools)

links for 2007-01-19

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:17:10 +0000

http://www.google.com/ads/audioads/index.html: “Google Audio Ads allows you to broadcast your message to thousands of listeners and brings simplicity, efficiency, and accountability to radio advertising.” (tags: Google, Advertising, Audio, radio, Business, Service)
Dreaming in Code: “Why is software so hard? Hard to make well. Hard to deliver on time. Hard to use.” (tags: Books, programming, Dev, Software, publishing, Development)
openkapow: “On openkapow web developers can freely download and use our RoboMaker visual scripting tool, which allows for an easy point and click interface to mashup anything on the web that has a URL.” (tags: API, mashup, tools, webservices, Web2.0, rss, REST, integration, development, Collaboration, mashups)

links for 2007-01-18

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:17:34 +0000

David Seah : The Printable CEO™ Series: “Here you’ll find a series of printable forms that help manage the day-to-day chore of achieving your goals.” (tags: Business, gtd, HOWTO, lifehacks, management, tools, organization, productivity, templates)
Shycast: Social Network for People & Brands: Congratulations Drew! Keep the buzz going! “New Jersey based Shycast will be launching later this month and will put a new spin on brand promotion and paid contests.” (tags: SocialNetworking, marketing, socialsoftware, web2.0, video, media, youtube)
ProgrammableWeb.com: Blog Archive: What are Tools for Mashups?: List of development tools for building Mashups (tags: mashup, development, Dev, tools, services, mashups)
RSSBus – A Really Simple Service Bus: “Easily create RSS feeds from Databases, Spreadsheets, Emails, Directories, etc. Use RSS feeds as Simple Web Services to communicate with your partners, vendors, and customers – not just text, but data and services.” (tags: RSS, framework, mashup, mashups, Data, feeds, web2.0, tools)
Get More From Google Reader Guide – Mitchelaneous: “more than a few external tools to help you get more out of Google Reader.” (tags: RSS, aggregator, atom, blogging, feeds, Google, extensions, Search, tips)
Bill Burcham’s memeRocket :: Gordita = del.icio.us Tagging for Google Reader: “Google Reader Del.icio.us Tagging bookmarklet — a Gordita.” (tags: bookmarklet, del.icio.us, Google, RSS, aggregator)

links for 2007-01-16

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:17:14 +0000

Fight Cholesterol – 10 Top Foods To Help You Fight High Cholesterol: “What follows is a listing of the most potent foods to add to your diet if you want to fight high cholesterol and drive your levels down using your diet as a primary tool.” (tags: HOWTO, nutrition, tips, useful, diet, cholesterol, Food, Health, Cooking)

links for 2007-01-14

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:17:34 +0000

activeCollab – open source project management and collaboration tool.: “activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool” (tags: Collaboration, opensource, PM, management, project, software, tools, workflow)
The Corporation Film: Part film and part movement, The Corporation takes its status as a legal “person” to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist’s couch to ask “What kind of person is it?” (tags: film, Movies, documentary, Business, corporation, culture, DVD)
TV Jersey: “TVJersey has no broadcast towers, no satellites. It doesn’t even have a studio. But it has you. And what you produce, we’ll promote.” (tags: video, tv, NJ, youtube, news, media, Social_Networking, blog)

links for 2007-01-13

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:17:33 +0000

Test-driven development – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Test-driven development requires that an automated unit test, defining requirements of the code, is written before each aspect of the code itself. These tests contain assertions that are either true or false. Running the tests gives rapid confirmation of (tags: TDD, Agile, testing, development, programming, methodology, XP, Dev, QA, software)
IT Conversations: Werner Vogels: “Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon.com, believes that uptime and scalability are dependent on how you build your application architecture and your hardware infrastructure.” (tags: podcast, Amazon, architecture, SOA, Enterprise, Business, IT)

links for 2007-01-12

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:17:13 +0000

NewTeeVee: Exclusive: Inside The Venice Project, Built On Mozilla: “The founders of Kazaa and Skype4 are hoping that The Venice Project will upend the television experience just as their earlier efforts turned the music and phone businesses on their respective heads.” (tags: media, TV, video, p2p, IPTV, online, SocialNetworking, Technology)

links for 2007-01-09

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:17:44 +0000

Privately funded Congressional travel database: Top Congressional Travelers: “Congressional Travel Maps: View where your congressperson has traveled, how much it cost and which private interest paid for the trip. Part of the OpenSecrets.org Congressional travel database.” (tags: Search, web2.0, mashup, congress, government, googlemaps)
MAKE: Blog: HOW TO – Make a “Slave Strobe”: Design News shows you how to make a “slave strobe” for your camera … plus other strobe related how-tos (tags: HOWTO, Photography, strobe, lighting, Hacks)

links for 2007-01-08

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:17:11 +0000

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods: Visualization design methods presented using a periodic table (tags: Visualization, statistics, management, Business, Design, Data, development, Research, information)

links for 2007-01-07

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:17:46 +0000

Make Your Own Coffee Pods (INeedCoffee.com): “Do you really like your pod coffee maker, but wish you could use your favorite brand of coffee instead of paying a premium price for a mediocre blend — just because it is shaped like a pod? Why not make your own?” (tags: Coffee, DIY, Food, Hacks, HOWTO, cooking)

links for 2007-01-05

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:17:45 +0000

Scribus :: Open Source Desktop Publishing for Linux, Mac OS® X and Windows®: “Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.” (tags: opensource, software, publishing, design, Technology, Windows)

links for 2007-01-04

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:18:12 +0000

Google Logo Maker: You Can Make a Google-Style Logo from entered text (tags: Google, Humor, Fun, Funny)
John Battelle’s Searchblog: Static on the GoogTube: “YouTube’s failure to create a copyright detection software to help avoid legal entanglements may put spell trouble for the GoogTube.” (tags: Google, youtube, Legal, Business)
What Does 200 Calories Look Like?: “Some foods have significantly more calories than others but what does the difference actually look like. Each of the photographs below represents 200 calories of the particular type of food; the images are sorted from low to high calorie density.” (tags: Fitness, Food, nutrition, health, Science, statistics)
Thrasher First 12 Mags: Skate or die! “In honor of their 25th anniversary, seminal skatepunk magazine Thrasher has posted their first twelve issues online in their entirety.” (tags: Skateboarding, Punk, Sports, skate, Magazine, history)
Patent Lawsuit Names Leading Technology Firms – New York Times: “in 1996, Intertainer developed technology to distribute movies on demand through cable and phone lines for viewing on televisions and personal computers.” (tags: Legal, Business, Google, Apple, video, TV)
claimID.com/about – Manage your online identity: “ClaimID is a service that lets you claim the information that is about you online. That information is then associated with your name, providing folks an easy way to see what is and isn’t about you online.” (tags: identity, privacy, search, security, OpenID, socialsoftware, authentication)

links for 2007-01-03

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:17:26 +0000

Nothing To Say: The Internet Year In Review – 1994: I still have a copy of this too :-) “There were less than 20 million people on the Internet in 1994, compared to over 1 billion today.” (tags: internet, history, statistics, trends)
The MineThatData Blog: Four Out Of 150 Online Retailers Truly Leverage RSS Feeds: “Of these one hundred and fifty leading online retailers, a grand total of four (4) lit up the URL line with the RSS symbol.” (tags: marketing, online, RSS, syndication, ecommerce)
TuneGlue| Relationship Explorer: “TuneGlue: Slick interactive visualization of the relationship between music artists built with the Last.fm and Amazon.com.uk APIs.” (tags: web2.0, flash, visualization, music, search, mashup, last.fm, Amazon, API)

links for 2007-01-02

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:17:34 +0000

InfoQ: Resolutions: Integrity of Code and Conduct: “Agile Code: The ability to accommodate changing requirements is directly related to the flexibility and malleability of the code base. Agile code is: loosely coupled, highly cohesive, fully tested, expressive, rarely duplicated” (tags: Agile, development, methodology, programming, management)
Foto-Mosaik | It’s so easy to create mosaic-pictures.: “With Foto-Mosaik you can create mosaic-pictures, which are composed of many small pictures (tiles), from your own photos.” (tags: Photography, photo, photos, Freeware, free, Software, tools)
Nokia’s Gizmo Project: Phone-to-Phone VoIP: “Nokia … is now pushing the frontiers of Internet phone calling with The Gizmo Project, which will enable VoIP calls for the N80i phone (internet edition)” (tags: Mobile, VOiP, Gizmo)
JungleDisk – Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3- Jungle Disk: “Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com’s S3 Storage Service.” (tags: Backup, storage, Amazon, software, Tools, Windows, webservices, API)

links for 2006-12-31

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:17:29 +0000

Gotuit Media : SceneMaker: “SceneMaker lets you bookmark or “deep tag” specific scenes within an online video.” (tags: video, tags, Folksonomy, bookmarks, bookmark, Multimedia, services, youtube)

links for 2006-12-30

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:17:27 +0000

EchoSign: Every year I say that the fax machine should die! Here’s another reason why we don’t need it: “EchoSign is a secure web-based tool for sending, signing, tracking and storing contracts that need to be signed.” (tags: Business, Service, Legal, Security)
BBC NEWS | Technology | Websites face four-second cut-off: “Shoppers are likely to abandon a website if it takes longer than four seconds to load, a survey suggests.” (tags: usability, web, research, webdesign, statistics, ecommerce, Advertising, performance, shopping, UI, stats)

links for 2006-12-24

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:17:25 +0000

Viewtier Products Overview: “Parabuild, is an automated software build management server. Parabuild helps software teams and organizations reduce risks of project failures by providing practically unbreakable daily builds and continuous integration builds.” (tags: software, Dev, development)
Welcome to Solr: Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, and a web administration interface. It runs in a Java servlet container such as T (tags: search, java, Apache, opensource, Enterprise, API, AJAX, JSON, REST, XML, webservices)

links for 2006-12-22

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:17:10 +0000

TIME.com: Beware the Online Collective — Dec. 25, 2006 — Page 1: Jaron Lanier in Time: “All too many entrepreneurs seem to think that if you reduce the human element, the scheme will become more efficient.” (tags: socialsoftware, Social_Networking, web2.0, Collaboration, community, culture)
OpenID: an actually distributed identity system: OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. (tags: authentication, security, web2.0, web, identity, OpenID, webservices)

links for 2006-12-18

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:17:07 +0000

Pragmatic Project Automation: “Learn to use common, freely available tools to automate build, test, and release procedures.” (tags: Books, programming, build, development, Dev, testing)
How to Have an Overnight Internet Success Story – Mashable!: “A viral Internet service is one where each new user must involve friends to derive personal value from the service.” (tags: Business, web2.0, HOWTO, internet, marketing, Service, socialsoftware, Social_Networking, Advertising)

links for 2006-12-17

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:17:24 +0000

WYMeditor – standards-compliant XHTML editor – Home: “WYMeditor is a web-based WYSIWYM editor.” (tags: browser, Editors, xml, webdev, JavaScript, CSS, xhtml)

links for 2006-12-15

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:17:32 +0000

Make-a-Flake – A snowflake maker by Barkley Evergreen & Partners Interactive: Make your own snowflake flash toy (tags: flash, fun, children, Entertainment, Family)
19 Ways To Make Social Sites Pay – Mashable!: “there are already plenty of services that will pay you for your participation. Here are nineteen of the best, plus a few bonuses.” (tags: SocialNetworking, socialsoftware, web2.0, Business, Advertising, content)
Urbis: Judging the Books Without Covers: “Urbis provides a great way for anyone from novice to experienced writers to share their writing while additionally helping others by criticizing their writing through reviews.” (tags: socialsoftware, Writing, Social_Networking, web2.0)

links for 2006-12-14

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:17:50 +0000

Strobist: How to Photograph Christmas Lights: “…getting a good photo of holiday lights involves a different kind of light balancing: Continuous ambient with fading ambient.” (tags: Photography, HOWTO, Camera, tutorial, tips, photos, christmas, lighting)
What is a click worth? Click value measurement: Click value worksheet (tags: Business, internet, ecommerce, SEO, search, Advertising)
Yahoo! Search blog: Enterprise search made easy – and free – from IBM and Yahoo!: “IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition which we believe will enable employees, partners or customers to find answers that they know are sitting on their file-systems, their intranet, or their public website.” (tags: Enterprise, Search, Yahoo, IBM, Freeware)

links for 2006-12-12

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:17:41 +0000

ApacheCon 2005 talk: “Radwin discusses when to use and when to avoid HTTP caching, and how to employ cache-busting techniques most effectively. Radwin also explains the top 5 caching and cache-busting techniques for content publishers.” (tags: apache, optimization, performance, caching, presentation, browser, webdev, reference)
NewTeeVee: Internet Video Revenues, $7 billion by 2010: “In 2007, approximately 85% of revenue will be from advertisements attached to user-generated content and television and news streams. By 2010, services for renting and downloading TV shows and movies will account for nearly 40% of total revenues.” (tags: Business, economics, internet, Research, statistics, tv, video, Web)
“Long Tail” phenomenon has long legs | Tech&Sci | Technology | Reuters.com: “As technology makes production, storage and distribution of entertainment easier, choices are abounding, and so are audiences for alternatives to hit TV shows — and songs, books or movies.” (tags: longtail, media, tv, video, Business, Web, web2.0)

links for 2006-12-11

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:17:15 +0000

Creating Passionate Users: How to Build a User Community, Part 1: “The best way to grow a user community is to get even the beginners to start answering questions.” (tags: community, Collaboration, SocialNetworking, socialsoftware, culture, tips)
Map of the internet (JPEG): “Chart shows the IP address space on a plane using fractal mapping wich preserves grouping…” (tags: funny, Internet, map, Hacks)

links for 2006-12-10

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:19:52 +0000

Streampad – In tune with the world.: “Streampad is a Web-based media player that gives users access to their digital music library from any computer.” (tags: Audio, iTunes, Multimedia, Music, software, web2.0, MP3, socialsoftware)
XML and the Next Web (and the Previous…) – O’Reilly XML Blog: “The one XML technology that seems likely to change the Web is XQuery.” — I agree (tags: XML, web2.0, JavaScript, Data, browser, AJAX, JSON)
Introducing JSON: “JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate.” (tags: JavaScript, JSON, Data, AJAX, API, XML, programming, web, webdev)
Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL): GRDDL is a mechanism for Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages. This GRDDL specification introduces markup for declaring that an XML document includes gleanable data and for linking to algorithms, typically represented in XSLT, for gle (tags: xml, metadata, xhtml, rdf, RSS, Web, webdev, architecture, development, xslt)
Bike Hugger · Work less and Bicycle More: DL Byron says, “Work less and Bicycle More” … dude, thanks for the inspiration. I can’t agree more. (tags: Cycling, bike, bicycle, Mountain_Biking, MTB, Health, Work)
Home – O’Reilly Labs: Code search, code quiz and more… informative and fun (tags: Code, Search, programming, development, books, services)
Advertising Age – Digital – Google Audio Finally a Reality: “For the past year Google has been integrating the dMarc ad platform into its AdWords system and recently has begun to beta test its ad auction and insertion platform with a small group of AdWords clients, according to a post on the company’s corporate bl (tags: Google, Audio, Advertising, marketing, Multimedia, radio, Search, Audible, Podcasting)

links for 2006-12-09

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:17:24 +0000

Jon Udell: A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft: Wow! Jon Udell is going to MSFT. Congratulations Jon! They are luck to have you. I look forward to your continued technology evangelism. (tags: Microsoft, podcast, blogging, Technology, personality, Screencasting)
InfoQ: Domain Driven Design Quickly: “Domain Driven Design is a vision and approach for dealing with highly complex domains that is based on making the domain itself the main focus of the project, and maintaining a software model that reflects a deep understanding of the domain.” (tags: architecture, design, DDD, methodology, Agile, SOA)

links for 2006-12-08

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:17:33 +0000

InfoQ: InfoQ Interview: Using Agile for SOA Implementation: “Digital Focus documented their experience using Agile to tackle SOA for Federal Home Loan Banks. The incremental approach included adopting an SOA platform that could grow as the SOA application portfolio grew, and getting frequent feedback from customer (tags: Agile, SOA, methodology, Whitepaper, architecture, development)
Refactoring Home: “Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior. “ (tags: Agile, methodology, architecture, development, QA, testing, process, programming, Code)
Refactoring Thumbnails: “Expressing the Evolution of Object Oriented Designs … Sven Gorts has put together a visual technique for describing refactorings, particularly the larger scale kind” (tags: Agile, Design, development, Refactoring, Programming, Java, software, TDD)
Web 2.0 isn’t dead, but Web 3.0 is bubbling up | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: “The truth lies somewhere in the middle–the living and breathing social Web along with semantic Web technologies will help create a new infrastructure for the information Web that is far different and more powerful than what we call Web 2.0” (tags: semanticweb, web3.0, metadata, rdf, Search, Web2.0)
The Attention Blog: Announcing “Out There”: “a report entitled “Out There” and surveys the attitudes of people who participate in online communities” (tags: community, Research, Report, culture, internet, online)

links for 2006-12-07

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:17:30 +0000

audible.com:The Iraq Study Group Report (Unabridged): “After nine months of examining and analyzing U.S. military involvement in Iraq, the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group issued this report on Dec. 6, 2006.” (tags: News, War, Iraq, Report, USA)

links for 2006-12-06

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:17:16 +0000

Techcrunch: Yahoo Execs Meet To Discuss Major Shakeup: “Yahoo is holding an internal executive-level company-wide Webcast today at 4 p.m. PST. While we don’t know exactly what will be disclosed, we’ve heard rumors of mass layoffs and a significant management shakeup that probably involves CEO Terry Semel, (tags: Yahoo, Search, Business)
CrunchGear » Blog Archive » CrunchGear’s Best of 2006: “CrunchGear’s editors searched far and wide for the best gadgets of 2006.” (tags: gadgets, gifts, Hardware, list, recommendations, shopping)
SftpDrive: The SFTP Network File System for Windows: “Map your SSH server as a Windows network drive with SftpDrive.” (tags: windows, security, software, ssh, tools, linux, Networking, Unix, utilities, Work)

links for 2006-12-05

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:17:40 +0000

Enterprise Java Community: Using JMock in Test Driven Development: “In this article I’ll introduce the basics of using JMock, a Mock object framework, in conjunction with Test-Driven Development. To illustrate the technique I will work through a case study, the creation of a cache component by means of test-first develop (tags: Agile, Java, TDD, programming, testing)

links for 2006-12-04

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:17:59 +0000

Mountain Goat Software – Advantages of User Stories for Requirements – Agile Development Training and Consulting: “Because stories exhibit some of the same characteristics of use cases or traditional requirements statements, it’s important to look at what distinguishes stories from these earlier requirements techniques. These differences can lead to many advantages (tags: Agile, PM, scrum, reference, XP)
Agileista : An overview of Scrum: a decent overview of Scrum (tags: Agile, scrum, methodology)

links for 2006-12-02

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:17:27 +0000

ZoomInfo.com: “ZoomInfo, the premier summarization search engine, delivers fresh, comprehensive information on over 33 million business professionals and 2 million companies across virtually every industry.” (tags: Business, Employment, Career, Search, Research, SocialNetworking, Networking, People, identity)

links for 2006-11-30

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:17:38 +0000

Profitably Running an Online Business in the Web 2.0 Era (Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog): “the biggest question that comes up is that if you let your users generate most of your content and then expose it all up via an API, how can a profitable business be made from this?” (tags: Business, web2.0, webdev)

links for 2006-11-29

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:17:14 +0000

Edgework: Joshua Porter at Like It Matters: “…designing for social apps vs. pages, about the lessons we can draw from Digg, Delicious, MySpace and some of the other leading social apps.” (tags: socialsoftware, web2.0, Design, UI)
bicycle portal – local weather, maps, webcams for your area: “create, share and find routes for your local area. currently aimed at seattle, san francisco, portland, nyc , chicago, atlanta, and denver, but works for any city in the world.” (tags: Cycling, Maps, Mashup, Google, googlemaps)

links for 2006-11-28

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:17:12 +0000

Glassy Eyes | Shattering the Eyeglasses Scam: “I got at an excellent price — online. It’s caused quite a stir, and opened up a whole lot of information that (if the email and comments I’ve received are true) has saved hundreds of people, thousands of dollars.” (tags: shopping, online, Consumers, glasses)

links for 2006-11-27

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:17:56 +0000

R/WW Trend Watch: User-generated Sites Define This Era of the Web: “The overall trend is that user-generated content is the defining feature of all of the new top 15 sites … in Alexa.” (tags: web2.0, socialsoftware, Social_Networking, Web, Google, Yahoo, youtube, Wikipedia, Flickr)
FeedCycle : Publish serialised RSS web feeds: “If you are telling a multi-part story, or communicating a segmented message over time … Publishers can use FeedCycle to create publication schedules and intervals; all subscribers then start by receiving the first item in a feed regardless of when they (tags: RSS, audiobooks, Audio, Podcasting, podcast, marketing, management, blogging, Service, syndication, tools, Web)

links for 2006-11-26

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:17:07 +0000

I want a Freeware Utility to … 450+ common problems solved : eConsultant: Extremely useful free utilities that do specific jobs really well and save time and money. (tags: freeware, software, opensource, utilities, Windows, free, useful, tools)

links for 2006-11-25

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:17:43 +0000

Oregon Scientific | U.S. | Product | AT18 | ATC2K Waterproof ActionCamera: Must ride more to appreciate this: “Expandable up to 2GB, with a built-in SD card slot, ATC2K mounts easily on helmets, bikes, race cars, dirt bikes and more.” (tags: Cycling, Camera, gadgets, Hardware, video, Movies, Mountain_Biking)

links for 2006-11-24

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:17:30 +0000

Line Rider – beta by *fsk on deviantART: Please stop me! (tags: Games, Flash, fun)

links for 2006-11-23

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:17:29 +0000

The World In 2007 | Dont bet against the internet | Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google: “Today we live in the clouds. We’re moving into the era of “cloud” computing, with information and applications hosted in the diffuse atmosphere of cyberspace rather than on specific processors and silicon racks.” (tags: Google, Business, Technology, IT, architecture)
Google Transit: Where’s NYC in this? “Create your own transit trip, complete with itineraries and maps” (tags: Google, map, tools, travel)
Dr Nic: DIY widgets – How to embed your site on another site: Cross Site Scripting (XSS) is not all bad … here’s a good example (tags: JavaScript, architecture, AJAX, programming, dev, webdev)
Asual: SWFAddress: “SWFAddress is a small script that sits on top of SWFObject and provides deep linking for Flash websites and applications. In other words it enables the Back, Forward and Reload buttons of the browser and creates unique URLs with page titles that can be s (tags: AJAX, JavaScript, Flash, browser, usability, opensource)

links for 2006-11-22

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:17:12 +0000

Agile Journal – Scaling Agile Development Via Architecture: “…most agile teams follow a strategy somewhere … that involves investing a bit of time up front to think through the “big issues” but which addresses the details on a just-in-time (JIT) basis.” (tags: Agile, architecture, Design, development, programming, methodology)

links for 2006-11-20

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:17:36 +0000

CruiseControl Home: “CruiseControl is a framework for a continuous build process. It includes, but is not limited to, plugins for email notification, Ant, and various source control tools. A web interface is provided to view the details of the current and previous builds.” (tags: Development, java, build, Programming, software, TDD, integration, opensource, process, QA, Enterprise, svn, Technology, testing, Web)
JDeveloper, Subversion and Cruise Control: “This tip discusses the process of integrating Subversion (SVN) and Cruise Control as part of a larger project to create a team development environment for continuous builds.” (tags: Java, development, Dev, Subversion, svn, programming, integration)

links for 2006-11-18

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:17:28 +0000

Ricardo Galli, de software libre: WP-Cache 2.0: “WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive.” (tags: blogging, blog, CMS, PHP, extension, performance, opensource)

links for 2006-11-17

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:17:30 +0000

Techcrunch: Jason Calacanis Says Adios to AOL: “We just heard from a source that Jason Calacanis has resigned from AOL. Jason joined AOL just over a year ago when his startup, Weblogs, Inc., was acquired.” (tags: blogging, Business, AOL)
ShopWiki: “New York-based ShopWiki, the shopping startup …is relaunching today with a redesigned site ready for the holiday season.” (tags: NYC, Wiki, Search, shopping, social, tagging, recommendations, marketing, directory, ecommerce)

links for 2006-11-16

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:17:31 +0000

Noisely – Listening podcasts!: “Listen to streaming podcasts based on keyword search” (tags: podcasts, podcasting, directory, search, Audio, aggregator, beta, podcast, Service, web2.0)
BlogMailr – Publish from your email straight to your blog: email to your blog service. we (onclave) had this as a “feature” 6 years ago :-( (tags: blogging, blog, email, Service, onclave)
eclipse.org page: The dashboard is a set of web pages (and REST web APIs) that monitor the recent activity of all the Eclipse projects and committers. (tags: eclipse, Java, JavaScript, programming, tools)
Hubdog Offers Podcast Support For Pocket PCs, Smartphones: “…a free application for Pocket PCs and Smartphones that combines an RSS reader, a podcast player, a media search engine, and channels that can be shared among community members.” (tags: podcasts, pocketpc, windowsmobile, smartphone, RSS)
CorePlayer – Home: “CoreCodec’s first commercial mobile multimedia product enables Next-Generation digital media files to be played anywhere.” (tags: Audio, Mobile, PocketPC, Multimedia, smartphone, Windows, Video, Podcasting, podcast)
HitTail – Free Long Tail Search Tool: “…a deceptively simple tool that makes suggestions for words to use in blog post titles or topics to write about based on the search terms that are already bringing people to your site.” (tags: blogging, Blogs, blog, AJAX, SEO, Search, longtail, Google, optimization)
ESPN.com – CYCLING – Pound defends anti-doping lab in Landis probe: On Wednesday, the French daily Le Monde reported that the lab made an “administrative error” in handling Landis’ samples, listing the wrong number in its report on the backup “B” specimen. (tags: TdF, Cycling, Sports, Floyd, freeFloyd)
me.dium: “Me.dium is a Firefox extension (soon to be IE7 Add-on and even more in the future) that let’s you visualize the world a little more. You can see your friends browsing, all with relevance letting you know who is doing similar things, and letting you cha (tags: SocialNetworking, collaboration, SocialSoftware, social, web2.0, AJAX, browser, extension, Firefox, network, sharing)
A break from hiking: Nate and Jack taking a break from their hike in SoMo (by JAF) (tags: Photography, photo, Family, friends, SoMo)
About.com: The King of SEO: 80% of About.com’s traffic comes from search (tags: SEO, Search, Business, Blogs)
InfoQ: Architecture a Key Factor in Scaling Agile: “…an effective approach to architecture is an important aspect of scaling agile software development.” (tags: Agile, architecture, Enterprise, development, SDLC, methodology)

links for 2006-11-14

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:18:05 +0000

New modes of production result in new forms of media, not always (kottke.org): “playing of music before segments and as transitions between segments makes some sense on the radio, where it’s used in some cases to fill airtime. But for podcasts, there’s no need to fill airtime with anything but content.” (tags: podcasting, podcast, media, blogging, blog)
Techcrunch: Interview With Jeff Bezos On Amazon Web Services: “Jeff is emphasizing that new services like Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are going to be a key business line for them in the future, and they are planting the seeds now.” (tags: webservices, SOA, web2.0, Amazon, Business, Podcasting, Enterprise, IT, services)

links for 2006-11-13

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:17:06 +0000

Podcast content portals — more like strip malls | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com: “If you are producing good content then the Web is your mall, not some VC-flushed directory cum platform experiment thinking they will re-invent media on a $4 million budget and then flip it before the thing implodes.” (tags: Podcasting, media, blogging, Advertising, Business, directory)
Techcrunch: Listen To Podcasts On Any Phone: Think about it… call your audio content “Podlinez is a dead simple service … Go to the site and search for a podcast … you can look up a dedicated phone number for that podcast.” (tags: Audio, Mobile, MP3, phone, podcast, podcasts, tech, Technology, Audible)
Sun relicenses Java under GPL: It’s about time! The rumors have been confirmed by Sun: Java is going to be released in full under the GPL v2. The initial plan is to release Hotspot and the javac compiler under the GPL v2, with the rest of Java to follow in the first half of 2007. Java (tags: Sun, Java, opensource, Business, j2ee)
InfoQ: Presentation: Ken Schwaber on Code Quality as a Corporate Asset: “One uncomfortable truth that Scrum can surface is the existence of a culture that produces unmaintainable, cobbled-together legacy code, or as Schwaber called it in this presentation, “Core Functionality”. (tags: Agile, scrum, development, methodology, architecture, Enterprise, Business)

links for 2006-11-12

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:17:08 +0000

BBC NEWS | Technology | Websites face four-second cut-off: “Shoppers are likely to abandon a website if it takes longer than four seconds to load, a survey suggests.” (tags: Web, performance, ecommerce, Business, internet, Research, Technology, webdesign)
1videoConference – Instant Video Conferencing, No Downloads, No Installations: Open Source Video Conferencing Software: “1VideoConference allows its Web, Audio/ Video phone, Skype, Msn and Yahoo users to instantly participate in live web conferences without the need for lengthy downloads or complicated installations.” (tags: opensource, videoconferencing, Collaboration, software, VOIP, online, community, chat, conference, productivity, tools)

links for 2006-11-11

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:17:09 +0000

alexbarnett.net blog : Enterprise 2.0 and Culture Change: Read: “Of course, ‘value creation’ for a media company such as Yahoo means content that attracts eyeballs, that begets participation, that begets content, that begets further eyeballs and so on.” (tags: web2.0, Collaboration, Software, socialsoftware, Enterprise, Business, culture, process, blog)

links for 2006-11-10

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:17:14 +0000

GigaOM: Google… the OS for Advertising: Simply put, Google is building what is essentially an operating system (”OS”) for advertising… one that will work across all media. (tags: Google, Advertising, Business, media, Commerce)

links for 2006-11-08

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:17:36 +0000

Music Instrument Learning Software for Music Teachers and Students: In the Chair is music education software that lets you practice by performing with professional musicians, bands and renowned orchestras. (tags: online, Music, Software, web2.0)
InfoQ: Casestudy: Effects of Scrum, 9 months later: “if you are planning on implementing Scrum you need to do it treat it as an all-or-nothing change.” (tags: Agile, scrum, development, methodology)
Quartz – Open Source Task Scheduler: “Quartz is a full-featured, open source job scheduling system that can be integrated with, or used along side virtually any J2EE or J2SE application – from the smallest stand-alone application to the largest e-commerce system. Quartz can be used to create (tags: Enterprise, Software, j2ee, opensource, workflow, Java, development, Technology)

links for 2006-11-07

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:17:41 +0000

Tamper Data | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation: “Use tamperdata to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post parameters. Trace and time http response/requests.” (tags: firefox, extension, QA, testing, TDD, development)
Seth’s Blog: Change the brand, change the band: “It’s easy to fall in love with every aspect of your brand and your story, even when your future customers wish you were something else. While it’s often better to ‘stay the course’, it’s never a good idea to do so just because you can’t consider the alte (tags: Business, marketing)

links for 2006-11-06

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:17:30 +0000

Panasonic Model Details: “The HD-PLC (High Definition Power Line Communication) ethernet adapter makes it possible for your home electrical wiring to serve as a link between your PC and modem.” (tags: Hardware, Networking, home)
InfoQ: Sharing What’s Worked: Patterns for Adopting Agile Practices: “With the building blocks at hand, that is: Smells, Practices, and Clusters of practices, it becomes possible to tailor your agile adoption in a step-wise and iterative manner.” (tags: Agile, methodology, development, TDD, scrum)

links for 2006-11-05

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:17:20 +0000

US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud – Chirag Mehta : chir.ag: US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud (tags: politics, tags, tagging, statistics, Folksonomy, president, History, USA)
Treehugger: Bike Lamps from Treeline Designs: “Check out Treeline. They can convert reused bike parts into table and stand lamps. Forks might become stems, and cassettes, chain rings, and disc brake rotors, etc find themselves reincarnated as bases.” (tags: Cycling, Mountain_Biking, MTB, Recycle, furniture)
REST Web Services (book in progress): “We want to restore the World Wide Web to its rightful place as a respected architecture for distributed programming. We want to shift the focus of “web service” programming from a method-based Service-Oriented Architecture that just happens to use HTTP a (tags: Books, programming, REST, Service, services, SOA, soap, Web, webservices, development, Business, Software, ROA)
Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Online File Conversion Services: Zamzar, a free online file conversion tool, launched last week. Like a similar tool, Media Convert, Zamzar allows users to upload a file and have it converted into a number of formats. (tags: Audio, Video, tools, Flash, MP3)
Media Convert – free online media conversion service: “Media-Convert is 100% free. No software is needed, and you don’t have to register. You only need your favorite Internet browser. Your files are ready 7/7 days 24/24 hours.” (tags: media, tools, audio, video, Image, documents, free, utilities, online, MP3, Web, Multimedia, Service, converter)
Zamzar – Free online file conversion: “Step 1 Select the files to convert (up to 100MB in size): Step 2 Choose the format to convert to: Step 3 Enter your email address to receive converted files” (tags: media, tools, audio, video, Image, documents, free, utilities, online, MP3, Web, Multimedia, Service, converter)
Forrester’s Ted Schadler on Changing Habits in Consumer Technology | PodTech.net: Technology, Business, Media, and News Podcasts: “Forrester Principal Analyst Ted Schadler specializes in research on consumer technology. He talks about the changing trends in consumer behavior given the growth in mobile and digital channel content delivery, at the Forrester Consumer Forum Conference 2 (tags: Media, Podcasting, Consumers, Video, Audio, Music, Multimedia, Audible)

links for 2006-11-04

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:17:28 +0000

Evoca Launches Voice Comments for MySpace, Blogs – Mashable!: “With “Evoca Browser Mic”, however, you can now accept voice comments from your visitors on any website.” (tags: Audio, Blogs, community, Collaboration)
Treehugger: Cannondale Jacknife — Another Take on Folding Bikes: “For clean aesthetics and low maintenance the drive system is hydraulic, and for storage and easy handling in elevators and on public transport the bike is also foldable. The folding mechanism shows a unique and highly innovative approach, with the centra (tags: Cycling, bicycle, bike, Design)
Jeff Bezos’ Risky Bet: “Amazon’s CEO wants to run your business with the technology behind his Web site. But Wall street wants him to mind the store” (tags: Business, ecommerce, Technology, Amazon, SOA, webservices)
Firefox Extension for µTorrent WebUI at Torrentfreak: The Firefox extension for µTorrent allows you to drag and drop .torrent links onto the WebUI window and shows the current upload and download speed in the status bar. (tags: BitTorrent, Torrent, Software, P2P, Firefox, extensions)
Software by Rob : Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money: “what is it that makes some companies attract and retain developers while others churn through them like toilet paper?” (tags: programming, management, Employment, Software, Technology, productivity)

links for 2006-11-03

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:17:25 +0000

InfoQ: Scrum Checklists (free PDF): “This compact collection of checks and actions will enable team members to facilitate all Scrum Meetings and create the Scrum artifacts.” (tags: Agile, Books, reference, scrum)

links for 2006-11-01

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:17:10 +0000

Agile Software Development Management Resources | VersionOne: Velocity is an extremely simple, powerful method for accurately measuring the rate at which teams consistently deliver business value. To calculate velocity, simply add up the estimates of the features (user stories, requirements, backlog items, etc.) suc (tags: Agile, scrum, methodology, reference, development)

links for 2006-10-31

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:17:28 +0000

Optimizing Page Load Time – die.net: “It is widely accepted that fast-loading pages improve the user experience.” (tags: web, performance, optimization, webdesign, Bandwidth, architecture)
Dynamic Drive CSS Layouts- Tableless, CSS based templates: This is Dynamic Drive’s new CSS layouts section. Here you’ll find tableless, CSS based page templates to quickly define the skeleton of your pages. (tags: CSS, Design, UI, templates)
Missing-Auctions.com :: Search for misspelled auction items and save money !: Now you can easily find these mis-spelled auctions and grab yourself a bargain ! Just enter a search phrase (one or two words is best), choose an auction site and category, then click ‘Go’ (tags: ebay, API, mashup)

links for 2006-10-30

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:17:45 +0000

The Habits of Highly Effective Web 2.0 Sites (Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog): “Continuous release cycles. The bigger the release, the more unwieldy it becomes (more dependencies, more planning, more disruption.) Organic growth is the most powerful, adaptive, and resilient.” (tags: architecture, web2.0, development, Agile, Design, methodology)

links for 2006-10-29

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:17:27 +0000

Cory Foy: Principles, not Processes: True: “The only way to really become agile is to look at the practices and understand the principles behind why you would want to do them, then fit them into your organization.” (tags: Agile, scrum, XP, software, development, methodology)
The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code – Joel on Software: “The truth is that most software organizations are running with a score of 2 or 3, and they need serious help, because companies like Microsoft run at 12 full-time.” (tags: development, software, programming, management, process, Agile, methodology, testing, QA)
The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0) – Joel on Software: “In principle, it’s simple. You’re looking for people who are 1. Smart, and 2. Get things done.” — Amen (tags: software, development, management, hiring, Career, Business, jobs, recruiting)
TRYNT Contextual Term Extraction Web Service // Trynt Heavy Technologies: “The TRYNT Term Extraction Web Service provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content. The list of words and phrases returned will be in context to your supplied query at the time of your query.” (tags: API, Dev, web2.0, webdev, analysis, Search)
Tamago: “Built by artists for artists, Tamago connects its members’ computers into one big network, giving each member the power to sell the things they create and to make money from the stuff they buy.” (tags: p2p, music, business, collaboration, web2.0, socialsoftware, Social_Networking, community)

links for 2006-10-28

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:17:11 +0000

Ajaxian.com 2006 Survey Results: “Prototype, the most popular Ajax framework, by a considerable margin: 43% of you use it. Script.aculo.us is next, at 33%, confirming observations that many of made of the popularity of that duo.” (tags: AJAX, JavaScript, Java, Dev, web2.0, web20, XML)

links for 2006-10-26

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:17:41 +0000

InfoQ: Presentation: The Role of the Enterprise Service Bus: “Mark Richards tells us what an ESB is, its role, what capabilities it provides, and the various ways an ESB can be implemented.” (tags: architecture, ESB, SOA, video, presentation, webservices)
LogicBlaze – The Open Source SOA Company: “LogicBlaze FUSE is the SOA runtime platform provided as an open source distribution.” (tags: soa, opensource, esb, Java, integration, j2ee, web2.0)
AxL and the Web 2.0 Expo – Google Video: John Federico’s proposal for the Web 2.0 Conference: “AxL: The Attention eXchange Language: Developing Measurement Standards to Ensure Portable Media’s Ad-Supported Future” (tags: AxL, web2.0, conference, Presentations, video, Podcasting, Audio, media)
InfoQ: How does Agile Development Shape Up in 2006? The VersionOne Survey: “The survey indicates that the key reasons people are adopting Agile are: managing changing requirements and priorities, and accelerating time-to-market.” (tags: Agile, scrum, XP, development, software, PM)
Geek to Live: Top Firefox 2 config tweaks – Lifehacker: In honor of the Firefox 2.0 release … tweaks! (tags: Firefox, lifehacks, tips, reference, hacks, browser)

links for 2006-10-25

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:17:38 +0000

Test Driven Development: “add a test, get it to fail, and write code to pass the test (DoSimpleThings, CodeUnitTestFirst); remove duplication (OnceAndOnlyOnce, DontRepeatYourself, ThreeStrikesAndYouAutomate)” (tags: programming, testing, QA, development, Agile, XP)

links for 2006-10-24

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:17:06 +0000

Yahoo! UI Library (YUI): “The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX.” (tags: AJAX, API, Dev, reference, web2.0, framework, CSS, JavaScript, Yahoo, library)

links for 2006-10-20

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:17:10 +0000

Scrum Agile Process: “Scrum is an agile process for developing software. With Scrum, projects progress via a series of month-long iterations called sprints.Scrum is an agile process for developing software. With Scrum, projects progress via a series of month-long iterations c (tags: agile, scrum, development, management, process, software, methodology, productivity, programming)
OpenID – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: OpenID is a simple identification mechanism that is evolving into a complete framework for user-centric digital identity. (tags: identity, authentication, security, web, development, Blogs, blogging)

links for 2006-10-19

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:17:24 +0000

Scrum et al. – Google Video: “Scrum is an amazingly simple process that causes many, many changes when it is implemented.” Thank you Google for sharing (tags: Agile, Scrum, Dev, methodology, management, process, programming, productivity, software, video)
What is SCRUM? – The Code Project – Design and Strategy: “SCRUM is a loose set of guidelines that govern the development process of a product, from its design stages to its completion. It aims to cure some common failures of the typical development process” (tags: Scrum, Agile, development, methodology, management, process, software)
Website Optimizer – Adwords – Google: Website Optimizer is a free and self-service tool. Without extensive experience or resources, you can run multivariate experiments on landing page content, including headlines, promotional copy, and images. (tags: Google, Search, SEO, webdesign)

links for 2006-10-18

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:17:50 +0000

Pop!Tech Live – Home: “For the first time ever, the entire event is live online. You can even submit questions to speakers and contribute your ideas in real time.” (tags: technology, video, conference, live, Science, podcast, Audio)

links for 2006-10-17

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:17:38 +0000

Download details: XML Notepad 2006: XML Notepad 2006 provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents. (tags: XML, utilities, Freeware, Editors, development, tools, software, Microsoft)

links for 2006-10-16

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:17:33 +0000

Google Docs to go ‘offline’ and more | Googling Google | ZDNet.com: “Google is working on a solution that will allow you to install Writely on your local machine” … as well as integration with Salesforce.com (tags: Google, Web, integration, desktop, sfa, Office, offline, productivity)

links for 2006-10-13

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:17:22 +0000

Celtix – ESB for Open Source SOA: Celtix is a fully featured Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (tags: ESB, framework, Java, opensource, SOA, Enterprise, architecture)
Software Life Cycle Quality Management Solution – from Borland: “Lifecycle Quality Management is a pragmatic approach that is changing the way organizations think about software lifecycle management by enabling them to proactively address quality from the very beginning of the software delivery lifecycle.” (tags: development, methodology, QA, testing, SDLC, software, process)
The Future of Programming: Less Is More: “the main problem that should be solved is making programming a creative job again” (tags: development, programming, software)
SOA Tools Platform Project: “The mission of the SOA Tools Platform (STP) project is to build frameworks and exemplary extensible tools that enable the design, configuration, assembly, deployment, monitoring, and management of software designed around a Service Oriented Architecture (tags: SOA, eclipse, development, programming, Java, Tools, bpel, webservices, ESB)

links for 2006-10-12

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:17:56 +0000

InfoQ: Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community: Looks like a slashdot-ish site for enterprise software development (tags: Enterprise, development, Technology, SOA, Agile, Java, j2ee, News, Portal, web2.0, Software, soap, Ruby, webservices)

links for 2006-10-09

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:17:38 +0000

New York Daily News – Daily Dish & Gossip – Final curtain at CBGB: I spent so much of the 80’s there, it’s hard to imagine that it will be gone. “The club is exiting stage left after 32 years, a victim of a rent dispute with the space’s landlord” (tags: Music, NYC, Punk)

links for 2006-10-08

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:17:09 +0000

Scrum (development) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “Scrum is a lightweight agile method for software development.” (tags: Agile, Development, methodology, software, management, scrum, Design)
Scrum (management) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “Scrum is an agile method for project management. Scrum was named as a project management style in auto and consumer product manufacturing companies by Takeuchi and Nonaka in “The New New Product Development Game” (Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb 1986)” (tags: Agile, Scrum, development, methodology, process, Software, management)

links for 2006-10-05

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:17:33 +0000

Evolving Amazon’s services into products | InfoWorld | Column | 2006-10-04 | By Jon Udell: Fully 70 percent of the effort required to do business online involves doing the heavy lifting that supports Web-scale applications, he said. After a decade of training, Amazon got really good at pumping iron, and now you can hire its muscle to do some he (tags: Amazon, Business, development, webservices, API, services, Enterprise, integration, ERP)
XINS – XML Interface for Network Services: “XINS is an open-source Web Services technology, supporting SOAP, XML-RPC and REST. It consists mainly of an XML-based specification format and a Java-based implementation framework.” (tags: webservices, SOA, API, development, framework, Java, opensource, xml, soap, REST)

links for 2006-10-02

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:17:29 +0000

Podiobooks.com – Serialized audio books in podcast form: Podcasting serialized books (tags: Books, Audio, podcasts, audiobooks, Podcast, audiobook, mp3, RSS, Audible)
Burpee – Hot Pepper Biker Billy Hybrid: “A blazingly hot jalapeno-the hottest we’ve ever tasted.” (tags: Food, Cooking, capsaicin, peppers)
12-Pound folding bike: Invented by Sir Clive Sinclair the A-bike is a result of a five year research and development program by Sinclair Research. (Roughly $372.00 USD) (tags: Cycling, bicycle, bike, Commuting)
MindPerformanceHacks – Mentat Wiki: “Mind Performance Hacks [ISBN]0596101538 is a new book by Ron Hale-Evans, maintainer of the Mentat Wiki” (tags: productivity, DIY, Education, Hack, Hacks, HOWTO, Life, lifehacks, performance, Books, Business, tips, toread, tutorial, Wiki)
Where to find your favorite shows online – TV Squad: “a comprehensive (legal) list of all the television programs that can be downloaded or streamed online.” (tags: Entertainment, tv, video, media, online, Web)
mod_limitipconn.c: allows web server administrators to limit the number of simultaneous downloads permitted from a single IP address (tags: apache, extensions, Linux, Software, web, IT, Technology, Bandwidth)

links for 2006-10-01

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:17:11 +0000

coachwei.com :: Thank God – Java EE Is Not Like Ajax: “To make Java EE more like Ajax? Which aspect of Ajax that we really want Java EE to be like? The difficulty in developing Ajax code? The difficulty in maintaining Ajax code? The extreme fragile nature of Ajax code? …” (tags: AJAX, programming, development, Dev, architecture, JavaScript, Java, web2.0, web20)
Code Search – O’Reilly Labs: “The database currently contains over 123,000 individual examples, composed of 2.6 million lines of code — all edited and ready to use.” (tags: programming, code, search, development)

links for 2006-09-30

Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:17:08 +0000

Flickr Photo Download: How to build a cheap ringflash: Do it yourself ringflash. To do! (tags: Photography, HOWTO, Flash, photo, DYI, todo)

links for 2006-09-25

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:17:39 +0000

Understanding the pros and cons of the Waterfall Model of software development: “This article provides a quick and dirty introduction to the model, explaining what it is, how it’s supposed to work, describing the six phases, and why the model can fail.” (tags: Software, development, IT, Business, architecture, process, webdev, Agile)
Goodbye Froogle; Hello Google Product Results In Web Search: “When people search for products on Google.com, the system will present them with another search box so that they can refine their query” (tags: Google, Search, shopping)

links for 2006-09-22

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:17:17 +0000

Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet – Cheat Sheets – ILoveJackDaniels.com: “The Regular Expressions cheat sheet is designed to be printed on an A4 sheet of paper and live by a designer or developer’s desk, to make life a bit easier.” (tags: regex, programming, reference, tips, development)
Trezr.com: The best sale and discount items, coupon codes, and money-saving tips: It’s like digg for cheapos like me (tags: shopping, deals, web2.0, recommendations, Search, tools)
Neuros OSD – The Neuros Technology Wiki: Hack this: “The Neuros OSD is the first open source, Linux-based, embedded media center. It records video from any source and links your PC, entertainment center, and portables.” (tags: PVR, dvr, Video, tv, Hardware, opensource, media, Linux, Audio, tech, Technology, tivo)

links for 2006-09-20

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:17:57 +0000

The Future of IT in Large Corporations: Software as a Service (SaaS) has become one of the fastest growing segments of the IT sector because it provides organizations with ‘turn-key’ software solutions that can be implemented quickly (tags: IT, software, Business, Enterprise, architecture, services, webservices)
The 50 Worst Things Ever to Happen to Music on Blender.com: “6. Madonna’s British Accent” … LOL (tags: Music, humor, list, culture, funny)

links for 2006-09-18

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:17:39 +0000

A Services Oriented Architecture for Competitive Advantage: The presentation is from Jaime Sguerra who is the CTO of Guardian Life Insurance. Jaime “led the deployment of Guardian’s award-winning component based and services oriented Enterprise Architecture, which reduced development costs by 32%, and increase (tags: SOA, architecture, Technology, services, webservices, Enterprise, Business)
12 Steps to SOA EAC Keynote (PPT): PowerPoint David S. Linthicum used during his Keynote at EAC regarding his 12 Steps to SOA (tags: SOA, architecture, Technology, services, webservices, Enterprise, Business)
White Paper: 12 Steps to Implementing a Service Oriented Architecture (PDF): This 12-step Guide describes how to start implementing SOA by David Linthicum (tags: SOA, architecture, Technology, services, webservices, Enterprise, Business)

links for 2006-09-17

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:17:10 +0000

The Long Tail of Tags: the long tail of tagging… need to apply this to my tag cloud (tags: longtail, tagging, delicious, powerlaws, socialsoftware)

links for 2006-09-16

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:17:08 +0000

Go2Web20.net – The complete Web 2.0 directory.: Every Web 2.0 company on the planet all on one page (too bad it’s flash based) (tags: web2.0, web20, software, Social, bookmarks, Business, VC, Web, reference, directory)

links for 2006-09-15

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:17:59 +0000

XML Storage Models: One Size Does Not Fit All: “Choosing the right XML storage model for your application can mean the difference between success and failure” (tags: Oracle, XML, architecture, Data, DB)
System One – enterprise collaboration service: “…provides a holistic strategy perspective that enables organizations to be more successful, adaptive and flexible in today’s ever-changing market environment full of fragmentation and increasing commodities.” (tags: Business, Enterprise, Collaboration, community, CMS, productivity, management, KM, information, semanticweb, socialsoftware, Social, software, Search, Research, Wiki, web2.0, Blogs)
SEO Egghead: 21 Great SEO Tips From Google’s Matt Cutts: Mostly common sense Search Engine Optimization tips, but worth a read (tags: SEO, Google, tips, Search)
Treehugger: Reelight: Electrodynamic Bike Lights: “Mount a couple of high-powered, neodynium magnetic arcs to your spokes, and every time these whiz past the LED lamps secured to the tip of your forks, electromagnetic induction generates light.” Cool! (tags: Cycling, Mountain_Biking, gadgets)
Brad Choate: OSCON: Subversion Best Practices: summary of an OSCON session by Ben Collins-Sussman & Brian W. Fitzpatrick (Google employees) (tags: svn, tips, programming, development, productivity, webdev)

Sylvan James Hatch

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:59:31 +0000

It is my pleasure to announce the birth of our second son, Sylvan James Hatch. (We just call him “Van”)

Van was born Friday, September 8th at 3:10 PM, weighing 6 lbs, 11 oz at 19 ¼ inches. He and his Mommy are at home and doing very well. Nate enjoys showing his new baby brother all his trucks and cars. Pinto of course loves his new pack member.

links for 2006-09-08

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:17:33 +0000

Introducing Spring JDBC – frequently the best introduction of Spring in an organization: “Lucas Jellema has posted a blog entry titled “Introducing Spring JDBC – frequently the best introduction of Spring in an organization”. As the title suggests it explains how to get started using Spring to replace unwieldy legacy JDBC code.” (tags: Java, springframework, spring, tips, tutorial)
Inside Architecture : The architecture that people fight about: “You also want to measure architectural capabilities of the apps, across the portfolio. For example, distance between the current load and the maximum load (as expressed by a percentage of max load), as a measure of scalability. System X is running at 26% (tags: architecture, Business, software, development, IT, Technology, Enterprise)
Dr. Dobb’s | The SPAMMED Architecture Framework | September 7, 2006: “Enter the SPAMMED Architecture Framework (SAF). SAF identifies the steps and activities you need to design, model, and build successful architectures.” (tags: software, architecture, development, SOA, IT, Technology, Business)

links for 2006-08-30

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:17:36 +0000

The Baby Name Wizard: NameVoyager: Java Applet, but very cool (tags: Parenting, Kids, Java, Visualization, information, history, statistics, stats, tools, Science)

links for 2006-08-29

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:17:38 +0000

FREE BEER: “The recipe and branding elements of FREE BEER is published under a Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5) license, which means that anyone can use the recipe to brew their own FREE BEER or create a derivative of the recipe.” (tags: Beer, alcohol, Business, opensource)

links for 2006-08-28

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:17:44 +0000

Google Apps for Your Domain: “…private-labeled email, IM and calendar tools … all hosted by Google…” (tags: Google, Office, Business, online, productivity, tools, Email, Enterprise, services)
What is a Chumby?: “Chumby is a small, wifi enabled, touch screen information device. “ (tags: WiFi, Wireless, hardware, fun, Hack, Hacking, web2.0, Toys, tech)

links for 2006-08-25

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:17:27 +0000

Nominations: Best Smartphone Software Awards 2006: Smartphone software (tags: Windows, Smartphone, PocketPC, Software)
Aspecto Software – WiFiTunes: “This application will discover via Rendezvous any iTunes running on Macs or PCs on your local network and allow you to browse the library or playlist and then stream MP3s directly to your PDA.” (tags: iTunes, Windows, PocketPC, smartphone, Software)
Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab: Sony jumps into the acquisition pond with a $65 million bet on Grouper: “Vertical integration is the kiss of death in an atomizing value chain – unless it is done to multiply and create market space at the edges, rather than focus on controlling a decaying core. More simply, when open is the new closed, the edge is worth more (tags: socialsoftware, web2.0, community, Business, P2P)
Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon EC2 / Amazon Web Services: Wow … “Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.” (tags: Amazon, API, development, webservices, web2.0, services, Software, mashup, web, webdev, hosting)

links for 2006-08-24

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:17:32 +0000

Alex Bosworth’s Weblog: How To Provide A Web API: “simple rules for providing a web API: 1. Keep it clean and simple 2. Stick to standards 3. Make it about data 4. Keep it working 5. Design for updates” (tags: apis, architecture, Code, Data, Design, development, Dev, services, webservices, XML, webdev, web2.0, web20, RSS, REST, programming)

links for 2006-08-23

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:17:19 +0000

Google CEO wants $74 billion TV ad market | Digital Micro-Markets | ZDNet.com: Google is preparing to deliver “targeted measurable television ads” and Schmidt says Google has “a good shot at it.” (tags: Google, Advertising, tv, video)

links for 2006-08-21

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:17:57 +0000

» Google Checkout vs. eBay Pay Pal: Where is the competition? | Digital Micro-Markets | ZDNet.com: “It is not surprising that Google Checkout is not the eBay PayPal killer it was feared to represent; Google Checkout is not a compelling “competitor” to eBay PayPal.” (tags: Google, ecommerce, ebay, Business, Service)
Airfare Predictions, Find Cheap Airline Tickets – Farecast: airfare prediction technology service (tags: travel, shopping, search, Vacation, services, deals, ecommerce)

links for 2006-08-20

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:17:30 +0000

The Road to Know Where: Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft: “Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows & Office Programs available for download — finding them all is extremely difficult.” (tags: Microsoft, windows, freeware, software, tools, utilities)

links for 2006-08-19

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:17:28 +0000

James Raia Communications – AN OPEN LETTER TO CYCLIST FLOYD LANDIS: “But if you’re not a cheater and you want to keep your Yellow Jersey, you need to defend it. You need to get angry again.” (tags: Cycling, TdF, tourdefrance)

links for 2006-08-18

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:17:31 +0000

Home – Spike Developer Zone: “TestGen4Web will ease the pain of writing tests for web applications. This is a 2 part tool. Firefox extension, which records user input to a xml file.” (tags: Firefox, extension, QA, testing, tools, development, webdev, browser, Open_Source, opensource)

links for 2006-08-17

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:17:56 +0000

JTidy.de – AJAX Online Converter for Wikipedia Syntax: AJAX-based HTML to MediaWiki converter (tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, AJAX, tools)
Open Source Java XPDL editor: “Enhydra JaWE (Java Workflow Editor) is the first open source graphical Java workflow process editor fully according to WfMC specifications supporting XPDL as its native file format.” (tags: Java, workflow, development, Design, BPM, opensource, j2ee, software, tools, management, editor)
OpenQA: Selenium: “Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browser, just as real users do. And they run in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. No other test tool covers such a wide array of platfor (tags: Dev, development, Firefox, mozilla, Open_Source, opensource, testing, QA, performance, browser, software, tools, webdev)

links for 2006-08-16

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:17:19 +0000

html2wiki – Convert HTML text to wiki markup: Uses Perl CPAN module HTML::WikiConverter to convert HTML to Wiki markup (tags: wiki, wikipedia, Service, Perl, tools)

links for 2006-08-14

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:17:23 +0000

RouteSlip.com: “You can map out your favorite rides, print out route slips, create elevation profiles for your rides, manage your training log, and interact with other cyclists.” (tags: Cycling, googlemaps, GPS, Maps, mashup, services, web2.0)
Microsoft Has a Starter Kit for Aspiring Game Designers – New York Times: “…the fall release of a product called XNA Game Studio Express, a basic version of the company’s game authoring tools that will let aspiring designers write games on a PC and test them on an ordinary Xbox 360.” (tags: Games, game, development, Microsoft)

links for 2006-08-13

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:17:17 +0000

FlickrStorm. Search on Flickr with some Magic: Excellent search for Flickr (tags: Search, Flickr, photos, photography, tools, web2.0, web20)
AdSapient – Open Source Ad Serving Solutions: Open Source Java-based Ad server (tags: Advertising, opensource, Open_Source, Java)
Architectures of Participation: The Next Big Thing (web2.wsj2.com): “… the power of harnessing the innovation and output of your users will eclipse almost anything that centrally organized production could hope to match.” (tags: web2.0, socialsoftware, collaboration, community, blog, Social_Networking)

links for 2006-08-12

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:17:17 +0000

Hamachi : Stay Connected: “Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private networking application.” (tags: software, networking, p2p, security, network, utilities, opensource)

links for 2006-08-11

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:17:19 +0000

Mashups: The new breed of Web app: “This introductory article explores what it means to be a mashup, the different classes of popular mashups constructed today, and the enabling technologies that mashup developers leverage to create their applications.” (tags: web2.0, web20, mashup, API, Dev, development)

links for 2006-08-09

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:17:26 +0000

Socialtext Open Source Wiki – Socialtext Open Source Wiki: “Socialtext Open Source Workspace” (tags: Wiki, opensource, Open_Source, Business, Enterprise)
Wikiwyg – Home: “Wikiwyg is the simple way to add Wysiwyg editing to your existing social software project.” (tags: Wiki, AJAX, Collaboration, CMS, JavaScript, opensource, socialsoftware, editor)

links for 2006-08-08

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:17:29 +0000

3 Ways to Immediately Increase Search Engine Traffic | Performancing.com: “1. Copywriting, 2. Links and 3 Networking” (tags: Search, SEO, Business, Commerce, HOWTO, webdesign, optimization)

links for 2006-08-07

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:17:55 +0000

Dijjer: Dijjer is an open source P2P framework (tags: p2p, software, Bandwidth, Open_Source)

links for 2006-08-06

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 19:17:29 +0000

Bikely – Discover and share your favorite bicycle routes: “Bikely helps cyclists share knowledge of good bicycle routes.” (tags: cycling, maps, google, AJAX, mashup, Commuting, Fitness, googlemaps)
Labnotes: Seven things you need to know about your next big startup idea: “if you’re doing anything in the architecture of participation economy by leveraging user generated content to maximize the wisdom of crowd, maybe you should listen to the wisdom of crowd first. Read some blogs even if you don’t like what people have (tags: business, we)

links for 2006-08-02

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:17:58 +0000

The do-it-yourself Web emerges | CNET News.com: “A growing number of start-ups … are trying to bring Web application creation to the masses, letting mere mortals share spreadsheets online or “mash up” information from different Web sites.” (tags: API, web2.0, Web, DIY, Business, AJAX)

links for 2006-07-28

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:17:27 +0000

FT.com / World / Europe – Tour de France victor fails drugs test: No! No! No! “Floyd Landis, the American cyclist who on Sunday won one of the most thrilling Tours de France of recent years, could be stripped of his title after a drugs test showed an abnormally high level of testosterone in his body.” (tags: Cycling, TdF, tourdefrance)
Google Code – Project Hosting: “Release early, release often.” (tags: Google, Code, Dev, development, Open_Source, opensource)
Enterprise Java Community: Ajax and the Spring Framework with TIBCO General Interface: “Brian Walsh has written an exceedingly well documented tutorial on combining Spring MVC, XStream and TIBCO GI.” (tags: Java, AJAX, springframework, Web, webdev, development, Dev)
Spring MVC step-by-step Part 1: “This is a step-by-step account of how to develop a web application from scratch using the Spring Framework.” (tags: java, tutorial, framework, springframework, mvc, spring, Web, webdev)
Spring MVC step-by-step: “This is a step-by-step account of how to develop a web application from scratch using the Spring Framework. It is divided into a number of parts.” (tags: java, tutorial, programming, j2ee, framework, spring, Web, webdev, springframework)
Using an Agile Software Process with Offshore Development: “Here I discuss our experiences and lessons learned in doing offshore agile development.” (tags: Dev, outsourcing, Agile, Development, methodology, outsource)

links for 2006-07-25

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:18:24 +0000

Read/WriteWeb: Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search: “Third-generation search technologies are designed to combine the scalability of existing internet search engines with new and improved relevancy models; they bring into the equation user preferences, collaboration, collective intelligence, a rich user ex (tags: search, web2.0, web, internet, web20, Folksonomy, tags, semanticweb, Collaboration, Business)

links for 2006-07-24

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:17:35 +0000

Uni-Directional WIFI Range Extender: “Easily receive WIFI signals from far away using a standard USB WIFI adaptor and a bit of ingenuity. This Simple idea requires no modifications to a USB WIFI adaptor or your computer. A simple way to increase the signal strength and range of your WIFI. Pl (tags: WiFi, Wireless, Networking, HOWTO, Hacks, Hack, geek, DIY, hardware)

links for 2006-07-22

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:17:22 +0000

Javascript Sound Kit: “The Javascript Sound Kit is a wrapper around the ActionScript Sound Object, it makes it possible to use the Sound Object in Javascript the same way you do it in ActionScript.” (tags: AJAX, API, Code, JavaScript, Flash, MP3, Multimedia, opensource, sound, music)

links for 2006-07-21

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:17:37 +0000

Cycling – Legendary Landis – Eurosport: The ride yesterday by Floyd Landis was amazing. Many agree: “In a performance that will go down as one of the greatest in the history of the Tour de France, Landis made his bid for glory on the Cat. 1 Col des Saisies, the first of five climbs.” (tags: Cycling, Sports, TdF)

links for 2006-07-14

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:17:26 +0000

How to use Subversion with Eclipse: Read on to see how to add Subversion support to Eclipse and how to perform basic version-control activities from the IDE. (tags: java, programming, development, Dev, Software, subversion, svn, tutorial, eclipse)

links for 2006-07-13

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:17:36 +0000

Podcasting Gains an Important Foothold Among U.S. Adult Online Population, According to Nielsen//NetRatings – MarketWatch: “6.6 percent of the U.S. adult online population, or 9.2 million Web users, have recently downloaded an audio podcast;” (tags: Podcasting, Podcast, Business, statistics, stats, Audio, Blogs, Web)

links for 2006-07-12

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:17:47 +0000

What He’s Been Pedaling – New York Times: Go Floyd! Go! “All of which transforms Landis into the embodiment of an intriguing question: Is it possible for someone with a ruined hip to win the Tour de France?” (tags: Cycling, TdF, Sports)

links for 2006-07-11

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:17:39 +0000

Tour de France 2006 – New York Times: “Interactive Feature: Tour de France from the NYTimes.” (tags: Cycling, Sports, tourdefrance, TdF)

links for 2006-07-10

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:18:01 +0000

Welcome – TheOpenCD: TheOpenCD is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common tasks such as word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web design, and image manipulation. (tags: opensource, Software, tools, Windows)
Book Publishing Statistics: “Here are some interesting facts and figures about the book industry.” (tags: books, statistics, stats, Business, reference, Print)

links for 2006-07-08

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:17:15 +0000

Dr. Dobb’s | Analysts Warn Techies To Prepare For SOA Shift | July 6, 2006: “Service oriented architecture could significantly change the software industry similar to the way client/server technology did in the early 1990s.” (tags: SOA, webservices, web2.0, webdev, development, Software, Business)

links for 2006-07-07

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:17:21 +0000

Dr. Dobb’s | Quick-Kill Project Management | June 30, 2006: “How to do smart software development even when facing impossible schedules.” (tags: development, Dev, management, PM, productivity, programming, Software, Business, architecture, Design)

links for 2006-07-03

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:17:17 +0000

Eclipse downloads home: “Download now: Eclipse SDK 3.2, Windows” (tags: development, Java, opensource, Software, Dev)
Best World Cup Goals so Far – FIFA World Cup 2006 – World Cup 2006 Blog: “Below are the video clips of what I think are the top 5.” (tags: Video, soccer, worldcup)
Google Aims to Speed the Online Checkout Line – New York Times: “The company is introducing Google Checkout today, a service that will allow users to make purchases from online stores using payment and shipping information they keep on file with Google.” (tags: Google, Advertising, Business, Technology, Commerce)

links for 2006-06-22

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:17:32 +0000

MyChingo Audio Comment System: “Mobasoft has introduced a free version of its MyChingo audio comment system that will record up to two minutes of audio. MyChingo provides an audio comment system to bloggers and podcasters without requiring them to download software or purchase expensiv (tags: Audio, blog, Blogs, media, MP3, Multimedia, Podcast, Podcasting, socialsoftware)
Build your own intercom or walkie talkie out of two old cordless phones: “We all have old phones. Why not turn them into an intercom for your kids tree house. Or turn two old cordless phones into home base walkie talkie. Here is how.” (tags: DIY, HOWTO, phone, radio)
MediaCoder – The universal audio/video transcoder: MediaCoder is a free universal audio/video batch transcoder, putting together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats with many e (tags: Audio, DVD, Video, Software, opensource, Multimedia, MP3, media, utilities)

links for 2006-06-19

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:17:24 +0000

tglo MarkaBoo: “MarkaBoo is a web-based social bookmarking tool. As an experiment in open-source business models, tglo is opening up the code under a Creative Commons license to the developer community.” (tags: del.icio.us, Ruby, tagging, web2.0, Open_Source, opensource, Folksonomy, socialsoftware, Social_Networking)
HUDlite-Simplify your life: “HUDlite is a cross-platform operator panel, user panel, and presence management software for the Asterisk PBX. It runs on Windows XP, Linux, and OSX.” (tags: VOIP, phone, Software, tools, opensource, management, Linux, Mac, Windows)
Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/18/2006 | Vitamin C: Cancer cure?: “Can intravenous C do what even the costliest, most targeted, most effective therapies cannot: kill cancer cells without harming healthy ones?” (tags: Medicine, News, Research, Science, Health, cancer)
JBoss Seam knits AJAX and Java together – Builder UK: “The Seam project provides an open source framework for Web 2.0 applications written in Java” (tags: Java, jboss, AJAX, JavaScript, framework, web2.0, Dev, development)

links for 2006-06-18

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:17:35 +0000

Joel on Software: My First BillG Review: “Watching non-programmers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf.” (tags: Microsoft, management, Business, programming, Software, Dev, development, History, Humor)
HOW TO: Get Billions of Pages Indexed in Google – Merged.ca: “The Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Billions of Pages Indexed by Google:” (tags: Google, Search, Business, Advertising)
How to Make a Soda Bottle Volcano – WikiHow: Volcano-like eruption by mixing Mentos and soda… fun for the whole family (tags: HOWTO, fun, Humor, reference, Science)

links for 2006-06-17

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:17:33 +0000

Inspirational Technology: 10 things to change in your thinking when building REST XML Protocols: “In REST based systems you’re moving and manipulating data, you’re not making method calls against a remote object.” (tags: XML, webservices, REST, architecture, API, development, services, web)

links for 2006-06-16

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:17:41 +0000

TalkShoe – Create your own Talkcast: “A live or recorded multi-person conversation, discussion group, talk show or podcast, led by a host with active participants and listeners.” (tags: Podcasting, Podcast, tools, Audio, web2.0, community)

links for 2006-06-15

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:17:27 +0000

Strobist: Lighting 101: “light gives you far more bang-for-the-buck than does fast glass or the latest digital camera or 300/2.8” (tags: photography, howto, DIY, photo)

links for 2006-06-14

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:17:27 +0000

ITP Research » Video Comments, a WordPress Plugin: “Video Comments will allow you to post video in your blog and allow comments to be made on its time-span.” (tags: Video, blogging, blog, Collaboration)

links for 2006-06-12

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:17:10 +0000

Leak Monitor :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software: “This extension pops up an alert dialog to warn chrome and extension developers about one particular type of leak. It warns when chrome windows close but leave other code pointing at their JavaScript objects.” (tags: Browser, development, Firefox, mozilla, performance, extension, extensions)
skatespots.net: “A simple, open skatespot database with searchable entries and locations plotted on Google maps.” (tags: Google, googlemaps, mashup, Skateboarding)

links for 2006-06-10

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:17:26 +0000

Jeff Clavier’s Software Only: Hyperlinked Society Conference: Linking in Web 2.0: “Nick Carr starts by expressing concerns about the economic structure and incentives of Web 2.0, where content is completely unbundled and the expected economic transfer between publishers and consumers is zero, or close to zero.” (tags: web2.0, web20, Collaboration, socialsoftware, Social_Networking)
MediaPost Publications – Google Garners Six In 10 Searches – 06/09/2006: “GOOGLE CONTINUED TO GROW MARKET share last month, accounting for 59.3 percent of U.S. searches–up from 58.6 percent in April and 58.3 percent in March, according to research firm Hitwise. Yahoo last month garnered 22 percent of searches, while MSN captu (tags: Search, stats, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Business)

links for 2006-06-09

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:17:22 +0000

Google Browser Sync: Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. (tags: google, browser, extension, Firefox, Web, mozilla, utilities)
Best 27 Eclipse Tutorials by IBM :: Intelligentedu.com Free Computer Training Blogs: “After researching all of the Eclipse tutorials on IBM’s website, I have compiled what I believe are the best 27 Eclipse Tutorials on their site. Here they are with linked titles and descriptions.” (tags: development, Java, programming, Software, tutorial, HOWTO)
wikiCalc Beta Test Home: “The wikiCalc program is a web authoring tool for pages that include data that is more than just unformatted prose. It combines some of the ease of authoring and multi-person editing of a wiki with the familiar visual formatting and data organizing metaph (tags: Wiki, AJAX, opensource, Software, Web, tools)
Attention- Juggling in the High-Tech Office – New York Times: Q. Do all the distractions mean that people don’t have time to think deeply about what they’re doing? A. There is certainly some indication that in middle to upper management, that can be a problem. If you don’t properly organize your thinking and your ti (tags: Business, gtd, management, Collaboration)

links for 2006-06-06

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:17:58 +0000

Wikia – Wikia: Welcome to Wikia, a collection of communities with websites that you can edit. (tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, community, Collaboration, web2.0, Social)
Podcast Advertising via Podcast Stations: Podango.com: “Get the go!Station advantage! Instead of providing one show per channel, which may be sporadic in its quality and delivery schedule, go!Stations provide multiple, hand-picked podcasts in listeners’ areas of interest, all via one convenient podcast stat (tags: Podcasting, Podcast, Service, RSS, aggregator)

links for 2006-06-05

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:17:32 +0000

Springframework.org: “Spring is a layered Java/J2EE application framework, based on code published in Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development by Rod Johnson (Wrox, 2002).” (tags: Java, development, framework, Enterprise, webdev, webservices, programming, API, Technology)

links for 2006-06-04

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:17:30 +0000

PureText Home Page: “PureText only removes rich formatting from text. This includes the font face, font style (bold, italics, etc.), font color, paragraph styles (left/right/center aligned), margins, character spacing, bullets, subscript, superscript, tables, charts, picture (tags: Microsoft, software, freeware, tools, text, utilities, useful)
Seth’s Blog: How to get traffic for your blog: “Write stuff that people want to read and share.” … so my lazy del.icio.us link blogging doesn’t count ;-) (tags: Blogs, Writing, blog, community, blogging, delicious)

links for 2006-06-03

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 19:17:30 +0000

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS released: “Ubuntu 6.06 LTS released” (tags: Linux, ubuntu, Open_Source, opensource)

links for 2006-05-28

Sun, 28 May 2006 19:17:12 +0000

NoteTag – Adobe Labs: “NoteTag is a sample Flex 2 application that allows users to capture notes during meetings and assign tasks within those notes to individuals.” (tags: rss, Atom, blog, blogging, development, productivity, tags, web2.0)
WebWork – WebWork: This will become the Struts Action Framework (tags: Java, development, framework, architecture, struts, AJAX, API, opensource)

links for 2006-05-27

Sat, 27 May 2006 19:17:13 +0000

Bayden Systems – SlickRun: “SlickRun is a free floating command line utility for Windows. SlickRun gives you almost instant access to any program or website.” (tags: Windows, Software, Freeware, utilities, useful, tools)
How to Erase Old Marks off a Dry Erase Board – WikiHow: Draw over what you want to erase with a dry erase marker … cool! (tags: HOWTO, tips, Business, DIY)
Pear Budget | Easy budgeting for everyone.: “A “Web 2.0” version of PearBudget — even simpler and even more powerful than the existing version — is currently in private alpha testing.” (tags: finance, software, utilities, web2.0, Windows)

links for 2006-05-26

Fri, 26 May 2006 19:17:24 +0000

hymn — backup iTunes AAC files (m4p –> m4a): backup your iTunes music (tags: iTunes, opensource, backup, Windows, Mac, mp3, Ipod)

links for 2006-05-24

Wed, 24 May 2006 19:17:40 +0000

mashfot: a mashup about photography: “mashfot is a automatic generated collection of links and pictures. the sources for this collection are open to the public. everybody can contribute to these sources.” (tags: mashup, photo, photography, flickr, del.icio.us, web2.0, photos)

links for 2006-05-22

Mon, 22 May 2006 19:17:27 +0000

MyTunesRSS: “Enjoy all the songs in your iTunes music library on any device that has network access to your iTunes computer.” (tags: Apple, iTunes, RSS, server, XML, software, syndication, Java)

links for 2006-05-19

Fri, 19 May 2006 19:18:36 +0000

Taglocity from IngBox Software: I wsa just saying that I wanted a tool like this… “Taglocity allows you to tag your content from within Microsoft Outlook.” (tags: Microsoft, Email, tagging, tags, Folksonomy, Enterprise, Business, Software)

links for 2006-05-18

Thu, 18 May 2006 19:17:36 +0000

ACM Queue – A Conversation with Werner Vogels – Amazon’s CTO explains what’s behind its growth from online bookstore to e-commerce juggernaut.: “Behind Amazon’s successful evolution from retailer to technology platform is its SOA (service-oriented architecture), which broke new technological ground and proved that SOAs can deliver on their promises.” (tags: Amazon, Business, development, Enterprise, architecture, SOA, webservices, Service)

links for 2006-05-17

Wed, 17 May 2006 19:18:54 +0000

Google Web Toolkit – Build AJAX apps in the Java language: “Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language.” (tags: AJAX, JavaScript, Java, Google, Open_Source, Web, Dev, webdev, web2.0)
Feed2Podcast: “The Feed2Podcast engine instantly turns your blog’s RSS feed into a Podcast.” (tags: Audio, blog, blogging, Blogs, Technology, Podcasting, podcasts, RSS, Service, Podcast)

links for 2006-05-15

Mon, 15 May 2006 19:17:10 +0000

iPod Directions : Use your iPod Video, Nano or Photo as a Yahoo! Maps directions viewer!: “…a powerful step-by-step directions saving tool that will export online driving directions from results by Yahoo Maps and import them into your iPod.” (tags: Apple, iPod, Hacks, yahoo, maps, mashup, Mobile)

links for 2006-05-14

Sun, 14 May 2006 19:17:12 +0000

The Post Money Value: An Interesting View on Apple and the iPod: Ok, this is where I could see myself “switching” … “Running OS-X on an iPod would quickly gain market share for their OS.” (tags: Apple, iPod, Software, Unix)

links for 2006-05-13

Sat, 13 May 2006 19:17:17 +0000

O’Reilly Radar > Engineering Management Hacks: The BigBook Technique: Frederick Brooks’ The Mythical Man-Month … “Oversimplifying outrageously, we state Brooks’s Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” (tags: development, management, productivity, Software, Business)

links for 2006-05-12

Fri, 12 May 2006 19:18:39 +0000

Execs tell regulators Sarbanes-Oxley costs exceed benefits – Network World: “85% of respondents to FEI’s latest survey believe the costs of SOX compliance still outweigh the benefits.” (tags: Business, sox)

links for 2006-05-11

Thu, 11 May 2006 19:19:16 +0000

Google Trends: ” With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched for on Google over time. Google Trends also displays how frequently your topics have appeared in Google New (tags: google, search, statistics, Advertising, Attention, Business, Data, reference, Research, Visualization)

links for 2006-05-08

Mon, 08 May 2006 19:18:54 +0000

Email graphic traceroute: “Paste an email with full headers and see on a Google Map the path path your email message took as it passed through various servers.” (tags: Email, Google, googlemaps, Spam, mashup, network)
Search bots behavior analyzed: “a large scale experiment on search engine behaviour was staged with more than two billion different web pages. This experiment lasted exactly one year, until April 13th.” (tags: Search, statistics, Google, yahoo, Microsoft, pagerank, stats, spiders, Spam)

links for 2006-05-07

Sun, 07 May 2006 19:17:06 +0000

Google Earth Hacks – File Downloads – Current Events – Tour de France 2006: Google Earth Route Maps for the Tour de France 2006. Awesome! (tags: Cycling, TdF, Google, Earth, googlemaps, Hacks)

links for 2006-05-06

Sat, 06 May 2006 19:17:43 +0000

Stellarium: Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. (tags: astronomy, opensource, software, science, linux, mac, windows, Space)
ASCII Maps: “Google Maps in ASCII characters. Pure silliness for your enjoyment” (tags: google, maps, ascii, geek, funny, AJAX)
Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines: “Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.” (tags: python, development, webdev, framework, web20, web2.0)

links for 2006-05-05

Fri, 05 May 2006 19:17:29 +0000

WeatherMole Mashup: “Nice mashup of the NOAA Weather Service API and Google Maps. Enter an address and get detailed forecasts.” (tags: mashup, web2.0, web20, API, Google, Maps, weather)

links for 2006-05-02

Tue, 02 May 2006 19:20:55 +0000

getAbstract Book Summaries: Book Summaries online: five-page summaries of the best and most relevant business books (tags: Books, Business, education)
Main Page – lyrics from LyricWiki: LyricWiki is a free site which is a single source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist without being hammered by invasive ads. (tags: Music, reference, Wiki, lyrics)

links for 2006-05-01

Mon, 01 May 2006 19:17:45 +0000

NYC Bike Maps 2006: New York City’s Greenways, Bike Paths & Bike Lanes: A Google Maps mashup listing bike routes in and around NYC (tags: Cycling, NYC, Google, maps)

links for 2006-04-26

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:18:41 +0000

MAKE: Blog: Homemade Camelbak dryer: Nice! “This is an easy and quick project for people who have camelbaks but don’t have the special hanger. This hanger is made out of a plasic coat hanger with smoothed edges.” (tags: DIY, Cycling, Mountain_Biking, HOWTO)
Yahoo! Go – TV – Get Started: Yahoo had acquired the Meedio technology last week. .. “Yahoo! Go will change the way you watch TV.” (tags: PVR, dvr, htpc, yahoo, Freeware, tv)

links for 2006-04-24

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:17:13 +0000

Geek to Live: Take great notes – Lifehacker: “Today I’ll go over a couple of my favorite note-taking methods, as well as how to make your own custom notepaper to fit your needs.” (tags: Writing, organization, productivity, tips, HOWTO, Business, management)
Planet Planet!: “Planet is a flexible feed aggregator. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first.” (tags: RSS, XML, aggregator, syndication, Blogs, Open_Source, Python, atom)
Operating system – MythTV: “MythDora is a Fedora Core and MythTV “All-In-One” CD. The CD will load a preconfigured Fedora Core 4 installation on your computer as well as install and configure MythTV-0.19. There are extras included with MythDora such as MythBurn, MediaMVP and MythSt (tags: MythTV, PVR, dvr, htpc, Linux, opensource, Open_Source)
DWR – Easy AJAX for JAVA | Getahead: “DWR stands for Direct Web Remoting. It allows Javascript in a browser to interact with Java on a server and helps you manipulate web pages with the results. DWR makes it easy for you to Ajax enable your website.” (tags: AJAX, API, j2ee, JavaScript, jsp, Java, struts, apache, development, Code, webservices, XML, opensource)

links for 2006-04-22

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:17:28 +0000

Five Truths About Code Optimization: covering the basic truths of code optimization (tags: Dev, development, optimization, Code, performance, programming, Software, webdev)

links for 2006-04-20

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:17:40 +0000

Google Data APIs Overview: “The Google data APIs (“GData” for short) provide a simple standard protocol for reading and writing data on the web. GData combines common XML-based syndication formats (Atom and RSS) with a feed-publishing system based on the Atom publishing protocol, p (tags: Google, API, RSS, Atom, web2.0, web20, Dev, webdev, webservices)

links for 2006-04-19

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:17:30 +0000

Google Enterprise Solutions : Google Search Appliance: “Google OneBox for Enterprise delivers relevant, real-time information from enterprise sources, such as CRM, ERP and business intelligence systems, based on a user’s search query.” (tags: Google, Enterprise, Search, CRM, ERP, Business, information, KM)
Burning Questions – The Official FeedBurner Weblog: Expanding Universe: Podcasting Market Update: Podcasts … “exceeds the total number of radio stations worldwide” (tags: podcasting, Podcast, podcasts, statistics, Business)

links for 2006-04-18

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:18:39 +0000

Microsoft TechNet: Microsoft Solutions Framework: Team Model for Application Development: “It describes how teams should structure themselves and what principles they should uphold in order to be successful at developing software.” (tags: Software, Dev, development, management, IT, Business, webdev)

links for 2006-04-12

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:18:40 +0000

cl1p.net: “With cl1p.net you can easily move data from one machine to another. All you need is a URL.” (tags: bookmark, Collaboration, AJAX, Data, geek, Hack, productivity, sharing, services, Service, web2.0)

links for 2006-04-11

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:17:48 +0000

Download videos from Youtube, Google, iFilm, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Putfile.: “Video Downloader allows you to download videos (to your computer) directly (and easily -just one click-) from most video sites.” (tags: Video, web2.0, web20, google, youtube, Movies, media, Multimedia, Hack)

links for 2006-04-10

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:19:51 +0000

Pligg Beta: An Open Source Digg clone Content Management System (CMS) (tags: CMS, Open_Source, opensource, social, socialsoftware, web2.0)

links for 2006-04-06

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:17:29 +0000

DIY Homemade Flash Mini-Bouncer | DIYPhotography.net: “Here Brian shows how to build a homemade cheap flash bouncer. The flash bouncer can be used to increase the size of a hot-shoe flash. The bouncer is great and very easy to build.” (tags: Photography, DIY, photo, HOWTO)
Flash Mounted homemade DIY Softbox | DIYPhotography.net: “In the following tutorial, I will demonstrate how to make your own flash mounted, homemade softbox.” (tags: DIY, HOWTO, Photography, photos, Camera)

links for 2006-04-04

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:19:00 +0000

Inbox Zero: Processing to zero: if i haven’t responded to your email yet, i’m working on it … really, i am … (tags: Email, productivity, gtd, lifehacks, tips, organization)
Wired News: Reasons to Love Open-Source DRM: “un Microsystems is pushing an open-source copy protection scheme designed to let you listen to your music across a broad range of platforms. Critics say there’s no such thing as good DRM. Here’s why they’re wrong.” (tags: DRM, Music, media, opensource, Sun)

links for 2006-04-03

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:17:50 +0000

washingtonpost.com: MythTV Invades Realm of Cable and TiVo: “MythTV, an idea owned by no one and powered by an ever-growing number of software applications that help boost the device’s functionality, could fill in where similar devices leave off — all for the price of a cheap PC.” (tags: MythTV, dvr, pvr, tivo, video, htpc, Linux, opensource)

links for 2006-04-02

Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:17:25 +0000

Enablr beta | Home: “Simply point Transcribr at your audio URL and get a transcript in three business days. pricing – $1/minute, no minimum length” (tags: podcasting, transcription, Audio, Service, web2.0)
DOTTUNES.NET: “DOT-TUNES is a feature-rich Mac OSX and Windows application which allows you to share your iTunes music with friends, family and clients across the internet via any web browser or with the FREE DOT-TUNES Client Application.” (tags: iTunes, music, software, sharing, p2p, server, web2.0)
Sacred Cow Dung: All Things Web 2.0 – “THE LIST”: Web 2.0 list and more, much more… (tags: web2.0, web20, list, web, Business, chat, Collaboration, community, AJAX, API, beta, bookmarks, Portal, programming, RSS, services, sharing, socialsoftware, webservices)

links for 2006-03-27

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:17:41 +0000

ESB vs SOA: Mark Colan: “While some people say that ESB is a requirement for SOA, I disagree: you use an ESB when you reach a certain point in maturity, when you find that manually maintaining links between applications and the services they use costs too much…” (tags: SOA, ESB, services, Enterprise, IT, webservices)
ESB Myth Busters: 10 Enterprise Service Bus Myths Debunked: the most popular questions and misconceptions” about Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (tags: ESB, SOA, IT, Enterprise)

links for 2006-03-26

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:17:32 +0000

Price guides for building your own PC – Lifehacker: “The guides cover building your own budget, entry-level, mid-range, and (for the independently wealthy or hardcore enthusiast) high-end systems.” (tags: Hardware, shopping, HOWTO, DIY)

links for 2006-03-25

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:17:56 +0000

A quarter of all adult internet users will listen to a “Podcast” in the next 6 months: “The findings suggest that up to 7.9 million adults could be downloading podcasts in the next 6 months, which represents a massive opportunity for advertisers and media owners alike,” (tags: podcasting, Business, Advertising, me)
TechCrunch » Sky-Click: your web call-center with Skype: “Sky-Click is a 100% web-based solution to set up your call center, built on Skype API and very easy to implement and use.” (tags: CRM, Skype, Business, Phone, SIP, VOIP)

links for 2006-03-24

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:17:51 +0000

www.ajaxwrite.com: “The look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based AJAX platform.” (tags: web2.0, AJAX, Microsoft, Editors, JavaScript, web20)
Understanding Google – JupiterResearch: “Google is the single most important company online in terms of its ability to affect wide swathes of consumer behavior and online media and marketing, and to drive new technology adoption.” (tags: Google, Search, reference, Business, Research)
XML Developer Center: Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML: “The objective of Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) is to define the minimum extensions necessary to enable loosely-cooperating apps” (tags: microsoft, rss, xml, sse, opml, syndication, sharing, Data, development, extension, Collaboration, web2.0, web20, webdev)

links for 2006-03-22

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:18:52 +0000

Live Clipboard Technical Introduction: “The Live Clipboard web control is a DHTML control that provides copy/paste functionality for data associated with a web page using the Live Clipboard XML data format.” (tags: JavaScript, Hacks, Collaboration, Microsoft, Firefox, browser)
Javeline.org – Javeline Developer Center: Build Rich Internet Applications using AJAX with the Javeline Framework. (tags: webdev, Dev, AJAX, JavaScript, PHP)
Photos and Family Trees by Amiglia: “Family Tree + Photo Album” (tags: Photography, Family, tagging, Folksonomy)

links for 2006-03-20

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:17:37 +0000

KnoppMyth R5B7 is here!: “distribution now includes MythTV 0.19.fixes and lots of under-the-hood improvements since R5A30.2”. (tags: MythTV, Knoppix, Linux, PVR, htpc, tv)
Be smarter at work, slack off – Mar. 17, 2006: “Companies need to respect the time it takes to do strategic thinking,” he says. “Task-oriented thinking is important too, of course. But bigger thinking is slow.” (tags: Business, News, Work, Employment)

links for 2006-03-19

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:18:06 +0000

Stevey’s Blog Rants: Math For Programmers: I’ve been saying the same thing for years! “They teach math all wrong in school. Way, WAY wrong. If you teach yourself math the right way, you’ll learn faster, remember it longer, and it’ll be much more valuable to you as a programmer.” (tags: programming, Math, Dev, development, Science, education)
The one and only “Memory usage” thread & FQA – MozillaZine Forums: “Firefox memory usage has been quite a hot topic since the release of Firefox 1.5. This thread is designed to provide you with tips on how to minimise the amount of memory Firefox uses, information on what is known to cause memory leaks in Firefox, what i (tags: Firefox, browser, performance, Hacks, opensource, reference)
O.F.C.S.: The Online Film Critics Society: The writers of the Online Film Critics Society recalls the half- and completely-forgotten treasures of the past decade cinematic canon with its list of the Top 100 Overlooked Films of the 1990s.” (tags: Movies, film, cinema, recommendations, Entertainment)

links for 2006-03-18

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:17:44 +0000

Grazr, you know for feeds…: “Grazr is a Javascript-based OPML browser that can be included dynamically in web pages.” (tags: OPML, RSS, web2.0, JavaScript, AJAX)
Socializer – free automatic social bookmark submission: “The Socializer allows you to easily submit a link to several social bookmarking systems. Instead of having a link to each social bookmarking website, you have a single link to all of them!” (tags: tagging, tags, Folksonomy, socialsoftware, bookmarks, Service)

links for 2006-03-14

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:18:14 +0000

UNIX History: “This is a simplified diagram of unix history. There are numerous derivative systems not listed in this chart, maybe 10 times more!” (tags: unix, history, linux, map, Retro, tech, Visualization, geek)
Google Reader API: “Google built its feed API first and the Google Reader application second as a demonstration of what could be done with the underlying data.” (tags: Google, API, Atom, RSS, webservices, webdev, web2.0, documentation, Dev, Blogs)

links for 2006-03-13

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:17:43 +0000

Feed Icons – Help establish the new standard (tags: RSS, blogging, Blogs, XML, icons, design, icon)
The Search, Audio Version: The audio version of John Battelle’s book “The Search” at Audible.com (tags: Audible, Search, Books, Spokenword)

links for 2006-03-11

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:18:12 +0000

Find Similar Sites: similicio.us: “This is a mashup of del.icio.us and easyutil.com. It’s an experiment on my part to see whether I can quickly find relevant web sites based on people’s tags/bookmarks on del.icio.us, using the engine from easyutil.com.” (tags: Search, delicious, del.icio.us, mashup, API, web20, web2.0)
Ipodmame – wikiPodLinux: “This is a Port of MAME (http://www.mame.net) v0.18 to the iPod.” (tags: iPod, Linux, Games, MAME, Emulation, Entertainment)

links for 2006-03-10

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:17:37 +0000

Minti – Powered by Parents – parent to parent advice-opedia: “Advice. For Parents. By Parents. Minti is your place to publish your seasoned parenting advice. Contribute to the only dedicated “advice-opedia” for parents on the web. Share, rank, comment, and search.” (tags: Parenting, community, tagging, Folksonomy)

links for 2006-03-07

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:17:47 +0000

Flickr Leech: Flickr’s Interestingness feature without paging … nice (tags: Flickr, Photography, API, mashup, web2.0, web20)

links for 2006-03-06

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:19:36 +0000

JustStepsAway | Search Over 65,000 Vacation Rentals: “Search over 65,000 vacation rental listings.” (tags: Search, mashup, maps, Google, googlemaps, Vacation, Rentals)

links for 2006-03-05

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:18:01 +0000

Kid’s Programming Language: “KPL stands for Kid’s Programming Language. KPL makes it easy for kids to learn computer programming.” (tags: Kids, programming, Software, Technology, education, Code, language, children, fun, Dev)

links for 2006-03-04

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:18:13 +0000

Content Based Visual Image Search : Tiltomo: “Visual Search uses proprietary algorithms (mathematical calculations) to analyze the similarity & relationship between images.” (tags: Search, Photography, Visualization, Flickr, beta)
Bike Furniture Design: “Bike Furniture Design, the preeminent designer and producer of fine, hand-crafted, contemporary / modern furniture made from recycled and reused bicycles since 1990.” (tags: Cycling, furniture, Design)

links for 2006-03-03

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:17:35 +0000

EirePreneur: How Social Bookmarking can lead to the Semantic Web: “I spend so much more time tagging and annotating my del.icio.us bookmarks than I can rationally explain. At a subsconcious level I seem to have bought into a contract that the time I donate as an individual will somehow reward the community, or the colle (tags: socialsoftware, delicious, del.icio.us, social, Folksonomy, tagging, tags, semanticweb, web2.0, web20)

links for 2006-03-02

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:17:43 +0000

OPML 2.0 (DRAFT): “Version 2.0 will be the last version of OPML. Any further development will take place in namespaces, new outline types, per the Extending OPML section of this specification; or in formats derived from OPML with different names.” (tags: OPML, XML, RSS, Web, development)
John’s Adventures: John’s Background Switcher: “John’s Background Switcher periodically changes the background image on your computer (like every hour or every day).” (tags: Microsoft, Windows, Software, Freeware)

links for 2006-03-01

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:17:59 +0000

Windows Live Local – Virtual Earth Technology Preview: Street-Side: “Street-Side will augment the Live Local service and give street level views of the entire city.” (tags: Microsoft, Windows, maps, web2.0, web20)
Wayfaring Map – Jacktracker: “Follow Jack Bauer as he makes his way around Los Angeles (and the world) on Day 5 of 24” (tags: mashup, maps, TV, Entertainment, 24, web2.0, web20)
Encyclopodia – the encyclopedia on your iPod: Wow! — “Encyclopodia is a free software project that brings the Wikipedia, which is one of the largest encyclopedias on the world, on the Apple iPod” (tags: iPod, wikipedia, Open_Source, opensource)

links for 2006-02-28

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:18:37 +0000

Own Your Del.icio.us Links! | SlashLinks: “SlashLinks is a tool developed by Eyebeam R&D for automatically mirroring links from the popular social-bookmarking service del.icio.us to your personal or institutional website.” (tags: del.icio.us, Software, Open_Source, opensource, KM, Ruby, todo)

links for 2006-02-26

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:17:18 +0000

oreilly.com: Managing Digital Images: Applying Ratings and Keywords: “If you use a comprehensive rating system, the concept of “good” can be defined by the rating (e.g., “search all three-star or better images”).” (tags: Photography, KM, Search)

links for 2006-02-25

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:17:11 +0000

NetJaxer – Web 2.0 on your desktop – put gmail, writely, kiko, meebo and other ajax web applications on your desktop.: “Netjaxer is an easy way to integrate your favorite web apps into Windows. Create a desktop or quick launch icon. Load any web page when Windows starts and run it as a tray icon.” (tags: Web2.0, Windows, Software)

links for 2006-02-23

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:17:20 +0000

Linbox Converter: “Linbox-Converter converts MS-Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) to PDF, PostScript, text, HTML, RTF, and TIFF.” (tags: Microsoft, Office, utilities, Open_Source, opensource, tools, Software, Python)

links for 2006-02-22

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:18:27 +0000

OpenBusiness » Blog Archive » The Value of Attention: “OpenBusiness talked to Esther Dyson about how business models are adapting to an internet environment that champions openesss.” (tags: Business, Open_Source, delicious, Attention, toread)
StandardsForApiDocumentation – MashupCamp!: “One of the obstacles to expand the mashup ecosystem is getting developers the information they need to create applications. This includes API reference, tutorials, examples, etc.” (tags: documentation, API, Dev, development, Web, web2.0, webservices)

links for 2006-02-20

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:17:39 +0000

OpenWrt: “OpenWrt is a Linux distribution for wireless routers. Instead of trying to cram every possible feature into one firmware, OpenWrt provides only a minimal firmware with support for add-on packages.” (tags: wifi, linux, wireless, opensource, Open_Source, Software, network, Networking, Hacking, Hardware)
The Wireless Music Player: Do-it-yourself remotely managed music player: “Do-it-yourself remotely managed music player” (tags: WiFi, Wireless, Audio, Music, Hardware, Hack)
Scobleizer – Microsoft Geek Blogger » Brrreeeport crazy and more search engine lies: “the battle of the memetrackers” (tags: Blogs, statistics, blog, Search)
Welcome to MY world: Top ten reasons Geeks make good fathers: “Ten reasons why Geeks make good fathers. And they do! They really are uniquely qualified for this role.” (tags: geek, Parenthood, Kids)

links for 2006-02-17

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:17:36 +0000

TextPayMe: “Use TextPayMe to Send and Receive Money with your Phone via Text Messaging” (tags: Mobile, ecommerce, Phone, Service, SMS, money, Commerce)

links for 2006-02-16

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:17:26 +0000

Cenqua FishEye Source Perspective: “FishEye painlessly opens up your repository and helps you get the perspective you need to better understand the changes you are making to your source.” (tags: Dev, Code, programming, development, Software, svn)
Technologist Manifesto…, or Things Everyone in IT Should Know: “The best business solution is not always the best technology solution. The burden is on you, the technologist, to make the best system the business will use.” (tags: IT, Business, BPM, Technology, Software)

links for 2006-02-15

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:17:31 +0000

Mashable* » SONR is a Terrible, Terrible Idea That Simply Won’t Work: “Only Audible has a tracking service that actually delivers accurate statistics” (tags: Audible, podcasting, podcasts, Business, statistics)

links for 2006-02-14

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:17:36 +0000

A Search Engine For Every Subject: “A flock of startups has descended on the lucrative search industry. Last year, $263 million in U.S. venture capital poured into 47 search outfits, says researcher Dow Jones VentureOne (DJ ). The figures have risen steadily since 2002, when $58 million we (tags: Search, Business, Google, yahoo, VC)
Yahoo! Design Pattern Library: “Yahoo has released their design pattern library under a Creative Commons license and a user interface library with a set of JavaScript widgets and utils for rich web app development under a BSD license.” (tags: Yahoo, UI, JavaScript, Web, Dev, web2.0, web20, Open_Source, opensource)

links for 2006-02-13

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:17:43 +0000

MythTV – 0.19: Time to upgrade the Stevo: “After many months, we have a new release of MythTV for you.” (tags: MythTV, PVR, Open_Source, Video, media)

links for 2006-02-11

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:17:13 +0000

BigBlueBall – Connect Google Talk to AIM, MSN, & Yahoo: “Now that Google has opened up their Google Talk servers for federation with other Jabber servers, you can use Google Talk to connect to your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo or ICQ. Here’s how, step-by-step with screenshots.” (tags: Google, IM)
Gmail for your domain: “This special beta test lets you give Gmail, Google’s webmail service, to every user at your domain. Gmail for your domain is hosted by Google, so there’s no hardware or software for you to install or maintain.” (tags: Google, Email, Search)

links for 2006-02-10

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:20:44 +0000

Oracle’s Open-Source Shopping Spree: JBoss, PHP and Sleepycat … Oh my! (tags: Open_Source, opensource, Business, Java, PHP, DB, Oracle)
Subscribe Cast Technologies: “SubscribeCast enables you to offer your Video or Audio content via a paid subscription Podcast format using the already established method of RSS syndication.” (tags: podcasting, Podcast, Business, RSS, Audible, Audio, Video)
Podcasting News: Free Script for Analyzing Podcasting Log Files: “Andy Armstrong, host of the Mojo Crash podcast, has released a free PERL script designed to analyze podcast server log files and provide charts and statistics, tailored to podcasting.” (tags: podcasting, Podcast, statistics, Business, Perl)

links for 2006-02-09

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:17:36 +0000

Inside AdWords: Going once, going twice — your ad in print!: Tomorow the world! “Recently, we’ve been testing the placement of ads from our AdWords advertisers in select print publications.” (tags: Google, Advertising, Print, Search, Business)
Read/WriteWeb: SONR – A podcast listener tracking tool: “with SONR’s media player, providers can now track how much of their podcast was listened to and what the user did while listening.” (tags: Audible, podcasting, Podcast, statistics, stats, Business, tools, Audio, Video, Software)

links for 2006-02-08

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:17:53 +0000

CSS Source Ordered 1-3 Columned Page Maker by ClevaTreva Designs – The Generator Form v2.90: CSS template generator (tags: CSS, Design, Dev, development, reference, Web, webdesign, webdev)

links for 2006-02-05

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:18:17 +0000

Daisy 1.4 released: “Daisy is an open source that support book-quality publishing, … software manual production and knowledge management applications” (tags: CMS, opensource, Open_Source, Java, XML, Cocoon, KM)
The PageRank Algorithm: “The PageRank algorithm is in fact elegantly simple and is calculated as follows: PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + … + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))” (tags: Google, Search, pagerank, Math)
alexander kirk » Blog Archive » 10 Realistic Steps to a Faster Web Site: “guides to improve the performance of your website” (tags: Web, Dev, reference, IT)
HandBrake homepage: “…build of HandBrake for Windows is available, now with a graphical interface.” (tags: DVD, software, video, Open_Source, iPod, Hacks)

links for 2006-01-31

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:18:20 +0000

John Battelle’s Searchblog: Grokking Nexidia: “…the company’s technology reduces speech to phonemes, the most basic unit of language, and uses those base units in much the same way that a text engine uses words.” (tags: Search, Audio, Video, media)

links for 2006-01-30

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:17:32 +0000

Zork: Retro fun: “You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door.” (tags: Games, Retro, Text, online, PHP, Entertainment)
List of User-Agents (Spiders, Robots, Browser): List of User-Agents galore (tags: web, spiders, search, reference, internet, Browser)

links for 2006-01-29

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:17:43 +0000

Richard Edelman – 6 A.M.: The Me2 Revolution: “Embrace new technologies, from employee blogs to podcasts, because audiences are becoming ever more segmented.” (tags: Blogs, Blog, PR, Cluetrain, Business)
JSMIN, The JavaScript Minifier: “JSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files. It typically reduces filesize by half, resulting in faster downloads. It also encourages a more expressive programming style because it eliminates the download cos (tags: JavaScript, optimization, programming, tools, development, Web, code, Dev)

links for 2006-01-28

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:17:34 +0000

Brad Neuberg: Coding In Paradise: AJAX/DHTML Tutorial: Should I Render My UI On The Server or the Client?: “I want to share a bit about the different kinds of AJAX/DHTML architectures that are involved in creating a large scale AJAX application, and the dangers of choosing an incorrect one.” (tags: AJAX, Code, HOWTO, UI, Web, web2.0, web20, JavaScript)
Microsoft Research Group Shot: “MSR Group Shot helps you create a perfect group photo out of a series of group photos. With Group Shot you can select your favorite parts in each shot of the series and Group Shot will automatically build a composite image.” (tags: Photography, photos, Software, Microsoft, Windows, photo, tools)

links for 2006-01-25

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:17:55 +0000

FireBug – JoeHewitt.com: “FireBug is a new tool for Firefox that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax.” (tags: Firefox, JavaScript, AJAX, development, extension, mozilla, programming, tools, Web)

links for 2006-01-22

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:17:31 +0000

The Web Is the Platform- ADTmag.com: “By opening up their ecom platforms to third parties, eBay and others like it allow developers to extend their functionality in ways these service providers couldn’t have imagined.” (tags: web2.0, web20, webservices, Web, API, Dev, development, ecommerce)

links for 2006-01-19

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:21:43 +0000

ICE – Improving Customer Experience: “Simply input the keywords you wish to be tagged. Separate keywords or phrases with commas. There is no need to add the + symbol to your phrases. It will automatically be added to the tag while retaining your original phrase for the link (without the + sy (tags: tagging, Folksonomy, del.icio.us, delicious, Flickr, Blogs, tags, technorati)
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Unabridged): An excellent listen: “Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?” (tags: Audible, Books, Audio, economics, Business)

links for 2006-01-18

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:22:08 +0000

Bitty Browser: Introduction: “Bitty is the little browser that goes on any Web page. It’s like Picture-in-Picture for the Web.” (tags: browser, hack, web, Dev)
Google Talk: Open Federation: The Google Talk network supports open interoperability with hundreds of other communications service providers through a process known as federation. This means that a user on one service can communicate with users on another service without needing to si (tags: Google, IM, XMPP, VOIP, SIP, Phone)

links for 2006-01-17

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:21:39 +0000

msmobiles.com – Cingular 2125 Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Review: “We got our hands on a Cingular 2125, and we are reviewing the hell out of it!” (tags: Mobile, Phone, smartphone, gadgets, Bluetooth)
Rex V: an AJAX Regular EXpression eValuator –: This site is a Regular Expression evaluator for three different regular expression systems (tags: regex, ajax, javascript, programming, tools, development, Web, web2.0, webdev)
egoSurf – ego surfing without the guilt.: “Search aggregator egoSurf displays your web site’s rank across multiple search engines for a given keyword.” (tags: search, web2.0, google, yahoo, Web, blog, Blogs)

links for 2006-01-16

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:21:16 +0000

Virtual NYC Tour: new york city tourism, new york city map, new york city tour: “navigate through the streets of New York while viewing thousands of pictures, visiting hundreds of stores and reading the city’s famous history” (tags: Google, maps, Photography, NYC, photos, googlemaps, travel, web2.0, API, Entertainment)

links for 2006-01-15

Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:20:56 +0000

MyHeritage: “MyHeritage.com is one of the world’s first applications to apply the scientifically advanced technologies of face detection and recognition to family history and to consumer photos; and it’s free.” (tags: photos, Entertainment, web2.0, Software, tools, Technology)

links for 2006-01-13

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:20:45 +0000

Package Mapper – track your shipments on google maps: “Package Mapper shows you a map of your FedEx, UPS, USPS package routes. Enter a carrier and a tracking number to see your package’s progress plotted on the map. Sign in to enter a list of packages and see their current locations on a table or map” (tags: AJAX, Google, googlemaps, maps, tools, web2.0, web20)

links for 2006-01-12

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:20:50 +0000

Main Page – SingletrackWiki: “SingletrackWiki is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide trail guide.” (tags: Mountain_Biking, Cycling, travel, Wiki, Google, googlemaps, maps)

links for 2006-01-09

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:19:50 +0000

del.icio.us stats – deli.ckoma: stats on del.icio.us posts, tags et al … intersting stuff (tags: del.icio.us, information, Math, stats, reference, statistics, tagging, delicious)

links for 2006-01-08

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:19:34 +0000

Google Pack: “Google Pack is a bundling of Desktop, Earth, Talk, Toolbar, Picasa, and other non-Google programs including RealPlayer?, Trillian, Norton Anti-Virus, Firefox, and Adobe Reader” (tags: Google, Earth, Firefox, Security, Software, utilities, Windows)
Podcasting for eBay Sellers: “I am now offering audio descriptions of my eBay auctions and RSS feeds for people to keep up with my latest offerings. You may have heard of this concept by another name – podcasting.” (tags: Business, podcasting, ebay, HOWTO, podcasts, Audio)
Lexxe Search Engine: “claims to apply Natural Language Processing on questions you enter to come up with an answer. “ (tags: Search, NLP, Google, web2.0, Technology, service)

links for 2006-01-06

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:19:27 +0000

Ajaxian » Dojo: Uploading files, and contents with Ajax: “file uploading with Dojo, … simply add dojo.require(“dojo.io.IframeIO”); to use the iframe IO transport, which is able to upload files” (tags: AJAX, JavaScript, We)

links for 2006-01-05

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:19:44 +0000

PODZINGER: “PODZINGER takes search a step further by searching the spoken words inside the podcast in order to find more specific and relevant results.” (tags: Podcast, search, podcasting, audio, podcasts, Mp3, Audible, Speech, Service)
ProxySystems.Net: Ajax Netadmin / DNS tool (tags: Networking, tools, AJAX, network, dns, Web)
Extratasty Get Your Booze On!: Social networking around drinks (tags: socialsoftware, social, tagging, tags, Folksonomy, food, beer, alcohol, recipes, reference, web2.0)

links for 2006-01-03

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:19:31 +0000

Clipfire: Kind of like Digg.com for product deals (tags: Search, shopping, social, tagging, tags, deals, community)

links for 2006-01-02

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:19:02 +0000

BaeBo{beta} by Francis Shanahan[.com]: “…browse, search and purchase products from Amazon’s entire product catalog. When you search Amazon, BaeBo will load eBay results in the background.” (tags: web2.0, web20, Amazon, ebay, yahoo, Search, AJAX, shopping, RSS)
SEO Analyzer « Tools « Sitening « Nashville Web Development: “The SEO Analyzer uses a sophisticated algorithm that detects how optimized your web page is for search engines.” (tags: search, optimization, tools, web, webdesign)
Blond Joke: The best Blog Joke … EVER! (Hilarious) (tags: Blond, Joke, Humor, funny, Hilarious)

links for 2005-12-27

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:20:00 +0000

BlockRocker: “BlockRocker.com adds a new element to classified ads – geography. The classifieds you see are those that are in the area pictured in the map that you’ll see at various spots on the site. This means that you can look at classifieds as locally or as global (tags: classifieds, maps, web2.0, google, search, Business, Web, Advertising)

links for 2005-12-25

Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:19:21 +0000

Linux Magazine – Linux Magazine’s Tip of the Day: “Teach your shell some new tricks and discover new techniques with Linux Magazine’s Tip of the Day.” (tags: Linux, Unix, HOWTO, reference)
Tunatic: free music identification software: Ever thought ‘what is this song?’ Let Tunatic hear it and you will get the artist’s name and the song’s title within seconds. Tunatic is the very first song search engine based on sound for your computer. All you need is a microphone and Internet acce (tags: Audio, music, freeware, tools, search, windows, Software, mp3)
iTunes Library Updater: “Tunes doesn’t provide a function to update / synchronize your music collection with it’s own database, I’ve written a small utility for that purpose.” (tags: Apple, Audio, Hack, iTunes, Windows, MP3, Music, Multimedia, Software)

links for 2005-12-22

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:19:16 +0000

Too Many E-Mails? SNARF Them Up!: “SNARF, a complement to e-mail programs such as Outlook, filters and sorts e-mail based on the type of message and the user’s history with an e-mail correspondent. The result: a collection of alternative views of your e-mail that can help you make sense (tags: Microsoft, Search, Email, Collaboration, socialsoftware, Social_Networking, beta)
JIRA – Bug Tracking, issue tracking and project management software: “Tracking and managing the issues and bugs that emerge during a project is a critically important task, but one that few teams do effectively.” (tags: programming, Dev, Web)

links for 2005-12-21

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:18:57 +0000

Performancing for Firefox | Performancing.com: “Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your WordPress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.” (tags: Firefox, extension, Blogs, API, Browser)

links for 2005-12-17

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:21:04 +0000

Entertainment: Industry Article | Reuters.com: “..satellite is not the only competition for terrestrial radio. The success of Apple Computer’s iPod and the podcasting phenomenon that followed have worked to make everyone a radio programer and inspired the likes of NPR and Infinity to release podcasts (tags: podcasting, Audible, iPod, radio, media, Business)
Om Malik on Broadband : » Google Music, The King Maker?: “Google just might turn out to be the king maker in the digital music download space.” (tags: Google, Search, Music, Business, iTunes)

links for 2005-12-15

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:17:28 +0000

Jon Udell: A breath of fresh air: “In today’s embedded 3-minute screencast I demonstrate the method I use to shift streaming audio to MP3. It’s a Rube Goldberg contraption involving mplayer and lame along with Python and shell scripts” (tags: HOWTO, Audio, MP3, Python, Hacks)
Cheat Sheet Roundup – Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers: over 30 cheatsheets that developers might find useful (tags: development, reference, programming, webdev, Web)
Java? It’s So Nineties: I don’t necessarily agree, but it’s good to think broad (tags: Java, j2ee, lamp, development, programming, Linux, Perl, PHP, Python)

links for 2005-12-14

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:18:13 +0000

MoMB: The Museum of Modern Betas (tags: web2.0, web20, AJAX, blog, webservices, beta, software, web, tools)
Google Releases Homepage API: “Google released a new service allowing developers the opportunity to create “modules” for the Google personalized homepage.” (tags: Google, Search, API, web2.0, web20, webservices)

links for 2005-12-13

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:18:07 +0000

Opinmind: “Opinmind collects the opinions of bloggers all over the world on every subject imaginable.” (tags: Search, Blogs, blog, tools, Web, socialsoftware, Social_Networking)
TMBG Podcast: They Might Be Giants’ very first podcast is available right now right here. (tags: Music, Podcast, podcasting, podcasts)
New Oxford American Dictionary: ‘Podcast’ Is the Word of the Year – Dec 13, 2005: “…defined as “a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player,” (tags: podcasting, Podcast, RSS, directory)

links for 2005-12-11

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:17:49 +0000

Photocritic.org » Blog Archive » Extreme Macro Photography on a budget: “…ike the idea of doing macro photography, but you think you can’t afford it? Think again – with less than £1 worth of equipment, a little bit of sweat and tears, and you can build yourself a surprisingly good macro lens.” (tags: Photography, HOWTO, Hacks, Camera)
Squidoo: Via John Battelle’s Searchblog: “Squidoo, which is either brilliant, or an Adsense honeypot scheme, or both” (tags: Business, socialsoftware, RSS, KM, Search, social, Software, tags, web2.0)
Good Experience Games – good games, fun games: “These are online games that, in my opinion, offer a “good experience” – good game design with an overall attention to quality. Unless otherwise noted, they’re all free, online” (tags: Games, Entertainment, flash, fun, internet, Kids)

links for 2005-12-10

Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:18:15 +0000

del.icio.us: y.ah.oo!: “We’re proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family.” (tags: yahoo, tags, tagging, Folksonomy, socialsoftware, Search, RSS, Business, del.icio.us, delicious, web2.0)

links for 2005-12-09

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:18:31 +0000

Gmail File Space: “extension allows you to use your Gmail Space for file storage. It acts as a remote machine. You can transfer files between your hard drive and gmail. Your gmail account looks like a FTP host and you can upload and download your files.” (tags: Google, Hack, Hacks, Firefox, extension, extensions, mozilla)
StickBlog » Blog Archive » Upload multiple files with a single file element: “way to allow a form to use a single file input element — sort of — to upload multiple files.” (tags: JavaScript, Code, Dev, development, webdev, Browser)

links for 2005-12-07

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 18:17:45 +0000

Myth 2 iPod: Sync your MythTV recording with a new video iPod. Nice! (tags: MythTV, iPod, iTunes, Linux, Software, Video, HOWTO, Hacks)

links for 2005-12-06

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:19:55 +0000

Boltfolio | Online Portfolio: “A place to screen movies, sample tunes, swap photos, scribble your thoughts and meet extraordinary people” (tags: media, hosting, Audio, blog, Blogs, MP3, online, Text, Video, web2.0, socialsoftware, Search)
TechCrunch » Glide Effortless is Too Much Effort: I had the same experience “…every registration requires a full name and home address. I entered that, but gave up when it required a credit card to be put on file, even though I was just trying to test the free account.” (tags: media, P2P, Audio, Video, Image, Multimedia, Collaboration, web2.0)

links for 2005-12-05

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 18:18:32 +0000

The REAL Goggle Hacks Site: list of of Google hacks and tools (tags: Google, Hack, Hacks, programming, API, Search, Web, web2.0)

links for 2005-12-03

Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:17:14 +0000

Glide Effortless: Desktop Freedom and the Answer to Protecting Content for All on the Internet: From the press release: “Glide Effortless is a portable desktop for consumers that features integrated file management, file sharing, real-time communication and ecommerce capabilities.” (tags: P2P, Collaboration, Software, Data, Service)
TechCrunch » Transcribing Podcasts: “CastingWords is … leveraging Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to produce human-created transcriptions (with software cleanup) of podcasts.” (tags: podcasting, Podcast, Text, Audio, Amazon, Se)

links for 2005-12-02

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:19:34 +0000

MAKE: Blog: MAKE’s Mostly Under $100 Gift Guide 2005!: “MAKE proudly presents a gift guide for the holiday season with listings you certainly won’t find anywhere else. We asked a few MAKE staffers and pals to send in their favorite maker-friendly gift ideas for mostly under $100” (tags: gadgets, gifts)
Neuros: Product Detail: The Neuros MPEG-4 Recorder is a digital VCR for the portable video age (tags: PVR, Hardware, Video, htpc)
Windows Live Safety Center: Free online scanner for PC health and safety: Windows Live Safety Center is a new, free service designed to help ensure the health of your PC. (tags: Microsoft, Windows, Virus, Software, Web, Service, AJAX)
Slashdot | A Tool to Tally Podcast Listeners: Thread from Slashdot: “The company Audible is making an effort to measure podcast audience, which could make the audio shows more attractive to advertisers.” (tags: Audible, Podcast, podcasting, Advertising, Business, iTunes, iPod, Slashdot)
Coastr: social networking for beer snobs: Del.icio.us.ly nice! “Coastr is an experiment in social networking for beer snobs (meant as a compliment, of course!). The basic idea is for you to create a list of your favorite beers, and to connect you with other people with similar tastes” (tags: Beer, Social_Networking, delicious, Web, Service, webservices, socialsoftware, tagging, tags, Folksonomy)

links for 2005-12-01

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:17:56 +0000

Mobissimo Travel Search: Search Airline Tickets, Hotels, Car (tags: Search, travel, deals)
LinuxQuestions.org- Convert WMA to MP3 – LinuxAnswers: “REQUIREMENTS: mplayer lame” (tags: Linux, MP3, Audio, Software)
How to Prepare Your Home for Winter – eHow.com: “learn about winterizing your home.” (tags: HOWTO, weather, home, house)

links for 2005-11-30

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:18:45 +0000

Annodex.net – Overview: Open standards for annotating and indexing networked media: “Annodex.net is developing open standards and open source tools to build webs of distributed media, hooking into the existing World Wide Web infrastructure of Web searching, Web proxying, and Web browsing.” (tags: Multimedia, XML, Web, Audio, Video, media)
SessionSaver for FireFox 1.5: Installer Jar-file SessionSaver’s features.txt (tags: Firefox, extension, Software, mozilla, extensions)

links for 2005-11-29

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:19:37 +0000

W3C Synchronized Multimedia Home page: “The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced “smile”) enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations. SMIL is typically used for “rich media”/multimedia presentations which integrate streaming audio and video with (tags: Audio, Multimedia, Video, Web, webdev, XML, internet, Mobile, smil)

links for 2005-11-28

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:18:48 +0000

18 Tricks to Teach Your Body: “Soothe a burn, cure a toothache, clear a stuffed nose…” (tags: Health, Hacks, HOWTO, Life, Medicine, reference)
DVD to CD / 4GB > 1.4GB > 700MB: “Compressing DVD’s “ (tags: DVD, HOWTO, Movies, Multimedia, reference, Video, Windows)
Paint.NET: “Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.” (tags: DotNet, Microsoft, Image, Editors, Design, Art, utilities, Windows)
Feld Thoughts: User Agents: “…the big online aggregators include subscriber counts in their user-agent headers when the aggregator polls the RSS feed.” (tags: RSS, aggregator, Web, XML)

links for 2005-11-25

Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:18:41 +0000

BlinkList | Your personal start page and social bookmarking engine: “BlinkList is Social Bookmarking merged with People Powered Search and Expert Recommendations… “ (tags: Social, Social_Networking, bookmarks, Search, web, web2.0, web20)
Download Squad: idleTunes: “By far the coolest feature of idleTunes is the way that it makes iTunes compatible with non-iPod portable music players” (tags: iTunes, Software, iPod, MP3, Audio, Music, Freeware)

links for 2005-11-24

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:18:27 +0000

EOSrebels.com – The fan site for all things Canon EOS Digital SLR related: “This site was created for Canon digital SLR enthusiasts from beginners to experts alike.” (tags: Photography, Camera, Canon)
TechCrunch » Deep Web Search – Two Approaches: “The interesting thing about the Deep Web problem is that both sides, search engines and websites, want to make the content indexable. It will be interesting to see how this space evolves.” (tags: Search, Web, Service, Business)

links for 2005-11-23

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:18:09 +0000

AP Wire | 11/22/2005 | Hollywood, BitTorrent software creator reach agreement: “The agreement calls for BitTorrent to remove Web links leading to illegal content owned by the seven studios that are members of the Motion Picture Association of America.” (tags: BitTorrent, MPAA, Movies, Video, Torrent, Search, Business)

links for 2005-11-22

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:17:45 +0000

Google Base blog import instructions: “You can add your existing content to the Google Base for broad distribution with only a few easy steps. I’ll show you how.” (tags: Google, HOWTO, MovableType, reference, Search)
CrunchNotes » COOL – SSE turns RSS bidirectional: “Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie announced Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) this morning, a “specification that extends RSS from unidirectional to bidirectional information flows.” And, wow, is Microsoft starting to get with it. “ (tags: Microsoft, RSS, web2.0, XML, Collaboration)

links for 2005-11-21

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:19:03 +0000

six degrees of wikipedia: six degrees finds the shortest path between any two Wikipedia articles in the main namespace using wiki links” (tags: wikipedia, Search, Web, Wiki)
How Google Tamed Ads on the Wild, Wild Web – New York Times: “Eric Schmidt, Google’s C.E.O., said the company’s profits jumped sevenfold in the third quarter, versus the period a year earlier, partly because larger companies were increasingly willing to spend their ad dollars on search-related advertising.” (tags: Google, Search, Advertising, Business)

links for 2005-11-19

Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:17:57 +0000

Norman Koren photography: images and tutorials: “Norman Koren – photographs and tutorials” (tags: Photography, HOWTO, toread, Art, tutorial)

links for 2005-11-18

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:19:35 +0000

darron schall :: FlashVNC Released: “FlashVNC client is far enough along now for public demonstration” (tags: Browser, flash, Networking, Software, tools, utilities)
DigiHack – Digital Photography projects: Build your own Ring flash: Very clever: “… building your own ring flash is a fairly easy project with results that can easily rival professional ring flash assemblies for only a fraction of the price.” (tags: Photography, Camera, flash, Hack, Hardware, todo)

links for 2005-11-16

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:20:57 +0000

TECHNOSIGHT » The Audible.com Debacle – Blogging has a long way to go: “They should be applauded for this move or at least for attempting something innovative. And if someone or some company thinks they can do something better than Audible.com, then they should.” (tags: Audible, Audio, Podcast, Podcasting, Business, Blogs)
Google Base: “Google Base is a place where you can add all types of information that we’ll host and make searchable online.” (tags: Google, Search, DB, Blog, XML, RSS, Web, Service)
Del.icio.us tastes funding | CNET News.com: I missed this … CONGRAULATIONS JOSHUA! “Web bookmarks manager Del.icio.us has drawn its first investors, selling a minority stake of the company to Union Square Ventures, Amazon.com and Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, among others. “ (tags: del.icio.us, Business, Folksonomy, delicious, tagging, tags, web20, web2.0, bookmarks)

links for 2005-11-15

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:19:22 +0000

edevil’s weblog » Javascript libraries roundup: “A comprehensive list of Javascript libraries.” (tags: AJAX, API, Code, JavaScript, opensource, programming, reference)
Tape It Off The Internet: “A global TV guide, Torrent tracking, your favourites and recommendations plus an innovative social layer to hang it off. You want it, we want it, let’s build it.” (tags: tv, video, bittorrent, web, torrents, web2.0, ajax, Social_Networking)

links for 2005-11-14

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:20:01 +0000

Audible Shows Podcasters the Money [Fool.com: Motley Fool Take] November 14, 2005: Audible “is opening up its well-developed technology to podcasters..a useful tool wherein it, advertisers, and podcasters can analyze the relative yield on podcast content — thus providing a methodized approach for determining the resource allocation.” (tags: Audible, Podcast, Podcasting, Business, Audio, Spokenword, iPod, iTunes, RSS)

links for 2005-11-08

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:18:48 +0000

Arctic Butterfly: “Here’s how to clean your sensor, using the Arctic Butterfly. Other cleaning tools will require other techniques, but the principal is the same.” (tags: Camera, Photography, HOWTO)

links for 2005-11-06

Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:18:20 +0000

Welcome to Netvibes!: “This is your personalized page, you can now modify everything: move modules, add new RSS/ATOM feeds, change the parameters for each module, etc. Your modifications are saved in real-time and you’ll find your page when you get back on Netvibes.com.” (tags: AJAX, Atom, aggregator, Blogs, web2.0, portal)
Amazon Mechanical Turk – Welcome: “Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it.” (tags: Amazon, API, Business, Technology, Service)

links for 2005-11-04

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:22:59 +0000

Fruitcast – About Fruitcast: “Fruitcast automates the process of inserting ads into podcasts. We download a podcast’s MP3 audio files, add the advertisements on the fly, and then send them to the podcast’s subscribers. “ (tags: Podcasting, Podcast, Advertising, Audio, Business, Service)

links for 2005-11-03

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:18:49 +0000

Shell Script Library :: Wicked Cool Shell Scripts: Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Bash, Bourne Shell, scripting — by Dave Taylor: “…there are closer to 150 scripts available, in total.” (tags: HOWTO, Linux, Unix, reference, tools, programming)

links for 2005-11-01

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:22:25 +0000

I want to – a page of utilities that help you do stuff you want to: “”I want to…” or “I need to” or “How do I?” These are all questions we all ask all the time. This is a small collection of resources that will help to answer those questions.” (tags: tools, utilities, reference, web, software, howto, internet)

links for 2005-10-31

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:18:30 +0000

From Your Living Room to the World, via Podcast – New York Times: “Entry into this form of broadcasting is open to anyone who owns a computer. The cost can be as little as $10 for a microphone – and maybe not even that if your computer has one built-in – or as much as $30,000 for a well-equipped recording studio.” (tags: HOWTO, Podcast, podcasting, Technology, News, RSS, Audio)
Tea Vui Huang’s Mass Storage Synchronizer: “software for iTunes which turns your (Sony-Ericson Walkman phones, Palm Treo 600/650 and Nokia’s XpressMusic/Samsung MP3) phone into a portable version of iTunes and best of all … it’s totally free” (tags: Audio, iTunes, MP3, Music, Phone, Software, Technology, utilities, Java, Mobile)

links for 2005-10-30

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:19:04 +0000

Weather Bonk – Live Weather, Forecasts, WebCams, and more on a Google Map: Very cool Weather – Google Maps Mashup (tags: Google, googlemaps, weather, mashup, web2.0, AJAX)

links for 2005-10-29

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 19:18:13 +0000

Shadows – Tag, comment, and rate your favorite web pages.: “Discover – Explore the power of community search.” (tags: search, tagging, socialsoftware, social, Service, web2.0, AJAX, Folksonomy)
Download Deskloops (tags: Microsoft, Windows, UI, utilities)
VMware Player with your own Windows XP Professional Virtual Machine: “Today, after re-reading the “How-to: VMware Player modification” post on the Hack a Day site, I decided to give my creating a VM that works with the free VMware Player another chance. The instructions given below are based on a post made by Rhys.” (tags: HOWTO, Hacks, Software, Windows, Microsoft)

links for 2005-10-28

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:20:02 +0000

News – Gaim: “You can expect Gaim and other clients to be interoperable with Google Talk’s voice features in the near future.” (tags: IM, Open_Source, opensource, jabber, Collaboration, Software, Google)

links for 2005-10-27

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:23:45 +0000

Revver: Flickr for video? “Revver lets you share your videos with thousands of people and earn money whenever someone watches. “ (tags: Video, Social_Networking, Commerce, Camera, Folksonomy, Movies, Flickr)

links for 2005-10-25

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:20:34 +0000

Instantly create Restore Points in Windows XP: “great method for creating a Restore Point with just the click of your mouse” (tags: Microsoft, Windows, backup, HOWTO, Technology)
PUBLICip – Free WiFi Solutions for Free WiFi Access: “Public IP’s ZoneCD is freely distributed software that has been created to help implement safe, free, WiFi hotspots.” (tags: WiFi, Networking, public, Security, social, Web, Wireless, LiveCD, Freeware)

links for 2005-10-24

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:19:00 +0000

torrentocracy – blog – Auto RSS Torrent is here!: Awesome! “…you can now just simply sign into your Prodigem account, go to your “Settings”, tell Prodigem your RSS feed address and sit back and watch it auto-torrent.” (tags: BitTorrent, RSS, podcasting, Podcast, P2P, enclosures, blog, Torrents, Web)

links for 2005-10-23

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:19:18 +0000

The Struts User’s Guide – Table of Contents (tags: struts, java, j2ee, documentation, web, jsp, programming, mvc, development)

links for 2005-10-21

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:38:05 +0000

hatch.org: Steven Hatch’s Weblog: Steven Hatch’s weblog (tags: hatch, steven, blog)

links for 2005-10-20

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:19:03 +0000

Wubble: Blog Archive: VMs for everyone!: “we announced our VMware Player. This is a freely downloadable tool that, as you might guess, plays virtual machines.” (tags: Visualization, Software, Hardware, Freeware)
podOmatic podcast portal: Make it, get it, go: “Welcome to podOmatic, the easiest place to Create, Find, and Send podcasts. “ (tags: Podcast, Service)

links for 2005-10-19

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:21:06 +0000

VirtualWiFi: Software: “Connecting to Multiple Networks Using VirtualWiFi” (tags: Windows, WiFi, Wireless, Microsoft, Networking, Software, Hacks)

links for 2005-10-18

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:20:33 +0000

Technology – BitTorrent: The Great Disrupter – FORTUNE – Page: “Bram Cohen’s BitTorrent software made it a cinch to pirate films on the Internet. So why is Hollywood on his side?” (tags: BitTorrent, Business, IT, P2P)
Made-up words in The Simpsons – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “The Simpsons has coined some new words, phrases, portmanteaux, and abbreviations, popularized some existing words and phrases, and also used some existing words and phrases in new ways. This page lists all three” (tags: Entertainment, funny, tv, humor, simpsons)
Smartmoney.com: Esquire Magazine: My Outsourced Life: This is awesome! “Why can’t I outsource my low-end tasks? Why can’t I outsource my life?” (tags: Business, culture, Humor, Life, economics, outsourcing)
Macworld: Feature: The power user’s guide to Firefox, Page 1: “…beneath Firefox’s simple interface are some surprisingly powerful features. The following tips will help you maximize this up-and-comer’s potential.” (tags: Browser, Firefox, Hacks, HOWTO, Software)

links for 2005-10-17

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:19:10 +0000

EULAlyzer: “Analyze license agreements for interesting words and phrases.” (tags: Business, Legal, Security, Windows, Software)
Find New & Used Items on eBay Auction, Using Our eBay Auction Search..: ebay misspelled auction search (tags: Search, ebay, auctions)
OPML Browser: Julian Bond’s PHP-based OPML Browser (tags: OPML, PHP, Script, Browser)

links for 2005-10-16

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:18:20 +0000

Skyline-New-York-City.jpg (JPEG Image, 7979×740 pixels): Panoramic image of the NYC skyline. Very cool. (tags: NYC, Photography)

links for 2005-10-15

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:19:03 +0000

HOW-TO: Convert a DVD for your iPod (with video) in Windows – Engadget – www.engadget.com: “Today’s how-to from Fabienne Serriere will take you through the steps of getting from DVD to the new iPod (with video) on the Windows platform.” (tags: DVD, Hacking, HOWTO, iPod, media, Movies, Software, Video, Windows)
handwriting tips: “You’ve decided you want to improve your handwriting and you’re probably hoping a fountain pen will do the trick “ (tags: HOWTO, Writing, reference)
ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox: “To get started, choose a preferred color using the color picker below, and a 6-color matching palette (a “blend”) will be automatically calculated.” (tags: UI, CSS, Design, Web, Service)

links for 2005-10-14

Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:20:10 +0000

toEat.com: online restaurant services: “Where do you want to eat?” (tags: Google, maps, food)
ProgrammableWeb: Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix: “An experimental matrix of Web 2.0 mashups.” (tags: Google, mashup, api, ajax, web2.0, web20)
The Morning News – Tight Wine, by Claire Miccio: “Here, then, are seven reds, four whites, and a rosé” … all under $10 (tags: food, wine)

links for 2005-10-13

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:18:13 +0000

Alice Hill’s Real Tech News – Independent Tech » Must Read: 122 Ways to Speed Up Windows XP: “here is a fantastic piece from the gang at Tech Yogurt on fine-tuning Windows XP” (tags: Windows, Microsoft, Hacks)
Home – DigitalBicycle: “is a project dedicated to making it easier for Community Media and Technology Centers, as well as independent media producers, to distribute media content amongst themselves. Using Bit Torrent, RSS, and web community software…” (tags: BitTorrent, Collaboration, media, Multimedia, socialsoftware)
A Marriage of Bookshelf and Phone – New York Times: “Audible Air, however, lets you download recordings wirelessly, at no extra charge. (It’s available now for the Palm Treo 600 or 650 and Wi-Fi-equipped Palm organizers; a version for Windows Mobile-based cellphones is expected in the coming weeks.)” (tags: Audible, Wireless, Mobile, Phone, WiFi, Audio, Books)
HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod: “Download MacTheRipper and Handbrake.” (tags: Apple, iPod, DVD, backup, Freeware, HOWTO, iTunes, Video)
John Battelle’s Searchblog: Poker Time: AOL Is The Flop: “IM and VOIP are critical applications to all players at this table, right? If Google struck a deal with AOL, they could defend their fledgling toehold in IM, and extend it to one of the largest installed bases in the world.” (tags: Google, Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, IM, VOIP, Business)

links for 2005-10-12

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:18:52 +0000

MAKE: Blog: DIY GPS tracking: $60 GPS “Nextel phone with Java and GPS – even a $60 no-contract Boost Mobile phone works” (tags: Hardware, Mobile, phone, Software, GPS)

links for 2005-10-09

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:17:59 +0000

:: PIM PAM PUM :: memry (tags: Flickr, game, Entertainment, flash, Photography, API)
Nickels for Katrina: Raising Money for Hurricane Katrina Victims: “Raising Money for Hurricane Katrina Victims” (tags: katrina, Charity)

links for 2005-10-08

Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:17:44 +0000

scanR – Mobile Scan, Copy, Fax: “Scan documents or send faxes, anywhere, anytime, using only your camera phone. scanR is simple to use:Take a picture of a document with your 1 megapixel or better camera phone.” (tags: Mobile, Phone, Camera, Service)

links for 2005-10-06

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:18:40 +0000

Joyent: “Joyent connects small business teams — and their customers — with email, calendars, contacts, file sharing, and shared applications.” (tags: Collaboration, web2.0, web20, webservices, Web, Service)
AllPeers MediaCenter: “AllPeers MediaCenter is a complete solution for organizing and sharing all of your media files, hosted directly inside the Firefox browser.” (tags: Collaboration, web2.0, P2P, socialsoftware, Folksonomy, tagging, tags)
Linking iPods and Car Radios: Here’s a run-down, from worst to best, of the ways to link your iPod, other digital music player, or portable CD player to your car’s “head unit,” the industry’s fancy term for “radio.” (tags: Audio, Car, iPod, MP3, radio, Technology, HOWTO, Automotive)

links for 2005-10-05

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:18:51 +0000

‘GoogleOffice’: A Microsoft Office Killer?: “Even though Sun and Google did not, as many predicted, announce this week a “GoogleOffice,” pundits say it’s only a matter of time before the pair could hatch such an animal.” (tags: Microsoft, Google, Sun, Office)

links for 2005-10-04

Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:18:32 +0000

The Long Tail: Web 2.0 and the Long Tail, Part 2: “Web 2.0. Paradoxically, the lack of a crisp definition is a feature, not a bug.” (tags: Blogs, web2.0, longtail)
Do hybrids save money? – Autoblog – www.autoblog.com _: “Unless gas prices go a lot higher, or the government increases hybrid subsidies, or both, buying a hybrid probably won’t save you money. “ (tags: Automotive, money, energy, hybrid)
SPARQL: Web 2.0 Meet the Semantic Web: “SPARQL gives the SW and Web 2.0 a common data manipulation language in the form of expressive query against the RDF data model.” (tags: web2.0, SQL, XML, Dev, rdf, semanticweb)
Netvibes.com: AJAX Home Page: This is your personalized page, you can now
modify everything: move modules, add new RSS/ATOM feeds, change the
parameters for each module, etc. Your modifications are saved in
real-time and you’ll find your page when you get back on Netvibes.com. (tags: AJAX, RSS, Atom, web2.0)
Ning | Home: Front Page: “Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for building and using social applications.
Social apps are web applications that enable anyone to match, transact, and communicate with other people.” (tags: socialsoftware, web2.0, Web, Service)

links for 2005-10-02

Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:18:51 +0000

Zimbra™ – Home: “Zimbra is a community for building and maintaining next generation collaboration technology. Currently, this technology is available as a beta version.” (tags: Collaboration, AJAX, Open_Source, web2.0, Email)
Wardriving Tools, Wardriving Software, Wardriving Utilities (Wireless LAN Security & Wardriving – 802.11): “Wardriving Tools, Wardriving Software, Wardriving Utilities” (tags: WiFi, Security, HOWTO, Networking, Wireless, Software)
voo2do : simple, beautiful web-based to-do lists: “advanced task and priority management for busy, ambitious individuals” (tags: PM, development, web2.0, AJAX, Web, Service)
SynchroEdit: “SynchroEdit is a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time, different-place groupware. It allows multiple users to edit a single web-based document at the same time, and it continuously synchronizes all changes so that users always (tags: Collaboration, Editors, Java, AJAX, JavaScript, Wiki)

links for 2005-09-30

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:19:07 +0000

meebo.com: AJAX based multi-service IM client (tags: ajax, im, web, messenger, software, msn, aim, online, jabber, fun, yahoo, utilidades, chat, web2.0, todescribe)

links for 2005-09-29

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:19:15 +0000

CommonTimes Stories Can Now Be Populated to Del.icio.us Automatically – CommonMedia.org: “Everytime you post a story to CommonTimes, we’ll automatically add it to your Del.icio.us account with the same URL, description, comments and tags.:” (tags: del.icio.us, bookmarks, News)
A Hundred-Dollar Laptop for Hungry Minds: “Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT’s Media Lab, showed off the design of a laptop he hopes can be sold for just $100.” (tags: Hardware)

links for 2005-09-28

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:19:49 +0000

MP3 Download, music mp3 downloads. ALLOFMP3.: Purchasable music in mp3 format (tags: Music, Business, MP3, Service, DRM)

links for 2005-09-27

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:19:08 +0000

sshwindows.sf.net: OpenSSH for Windows: “OpenSSH for Windows is a free package that installs a minimal OpenSSH server and client utilities in the Cygwin package without needing the full Cygwin installation.” (tags: Security, Software, Windows, Open_Source)

links for 2005-09-26

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:19:41 +0000

Davenetics: Will the big newspapers make their text available as spoken word?: “I sure hope so with Apple projected to sell 43 million iPods in 2006. It seems like it could be a good revenue stream to capture dollars from advertisers who might be interested in reaching us in places they currently can’t”. (tags: Audible, Podcasting, News, Apple, iPod)

links for 2005-09-22

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:21:41 +0000

Truveo Video Search: “Truveo offers a powerful and easy-to-use API that allows you to include customized video search and browsing functionality on your own web pages.” (tags: Search, Video, Movies, Web, API, RSS)

links for 2005-09-21

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:19:08 +0000

RoundCube Webmail Project: “RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation and message filters.” (tags: Open_Source, Email, PHP, AJAX, web2.0)

links for 2005-09-20

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:18:45 +0000

Placeopedia.com – Connecting Wikipedia articles with their locations (tags: wiki, maps, reference, google, wikipedia, googlemaps, search, education, map, gis, internet, history, social, cartography, information, todescribe)
Loomia (tags: podcast, search, podcasting, music, video, rss, media, audio, blog, tags, directory, aggregator, internet, social, podcasts, web2.0, todescribe)
Google Secure Access Installer: “GSA connects you to a Google-run Virtual Private Network.” (tags: google, wifi, Security)
Linux-based GP2X console: I wonder if this could be a MythTV frontent as well: “Linux-based GP2X console (With 64M Internal Storage), USB Cable for PC connection (With 2.0 Support), Media player (MP3, Divx, WMA etc.), CD with Games, Utilities, 2 * AA batteries, and SDK” (tags: Linux, Games, Hardware)

Write a Subject line!

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:45:35 +0000

I need to break form my passive del.icio.us link-blogging activities to quote a section from 43 Folder on “Writing sensible email messages”

“You can make it even easier for your recipient to immediately understand why you’ve sent them an email and to quickly determine what kind of response or action it requires. Compose a great “Subject:” line that hits the high points or summarizes the thrust of the message. Avoid “Hi,” “One more thing…,” or “FYI,” in favor of typing a short summary of the most important points in the message”

links for 2005-09-19

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:18:21 +0000

The Sun BabelFish Blog : Weblog: “What problem does SPARQL solve? SPARQL is here to replace the SELECT part of SQL query statements, the long standing standard for database access. “ (tags: AJAX, API, SQL, DB, web2.0, Dev)

links for 2005-09-15

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:20:35 +0000

torrentocracy – blog – Announcing the Prodigem BitTorrent Web API: Go! Gary! Go! “new API which will allow any web-capable application on the internet the ability to use Prodigem’s creation, hosting and management of torrents through a nice standards based interface.” (tags: BitTorrent, Blogs, Web, services, Torrents, podcasting, API)
SourceForge.net: Project Info – MediaMVP Media Center: “The MediaMVP Media Center is a project dedicated to building a open source suite of libraries and a media player for the Hauppauge MediaMVP.” (tags: MythTV, PVR, Video)
High availability Tomcat: “simple steps for connecting a pair (or more) of Tomcats to Apache using the JK2/AJP (Apache JServ Protocol) connector and to each other using Tomcat 5’s clustering capabilities.” (tags: development, HOWTO, Java, Web, programming, apache)
Windows Workflow Foundation Web: The Official Microsoft Windows Workflow Site: “Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) is an extensible programming model and runtime components for building solutions on the Windows platform. “ (tags: Microsoft, development, Windows, pdc05, workflow)

links for 2005-09-14

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:21:53 +0000

fusion94.org: Firefox Memory Leaks/Other Issues.: I love solutions that require you to uninstall flash “…you’ve probably noticed that [Firefox] suffers from what can be described as a fairly harsh “memory leak”. The main cause of the problem appears to lie within the plugin for Flash content.” (tags: Firefox, flash, HOWTO, Hack, fix)

links for 2005-09-13

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:20:11 +0000

Main Page – IFolder: “iFolder is a solution that allows people to easily share folders of files of any type with other users, whether they use the same or different operating systems. “ (tags: Collaboration, Software, P2P, Open_Source, DotNet)
The German Car Blog: VW: Get connected!: “You can now connect your USB powered MP3 player or any USB memory stick filled with your personal choice of music to VW cars.” (tags: VW, Car, Automotive, Audio, Hardware, MP3, iPod)
Google SMS: “Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to send queries as text messages over your mobile phone or device and easily get precise answers to your questions.” (tags: Google, Search, SMS, Web, Service)
PhoneNotify Web Service: “This Method will call any phone number in the US/Canada and read the TextToSay to that phone number.” (tags: Text, phone, Web, Service)

links for 2005-09-11

Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:18:35 +0000

Popcasts (BETA) – most popular podcasts at a glance: “Popcasts is an aggregator of the most popular podcasts from many different directories and ranking sites, all on one page.” (tags: podcasting, directory, Search)

links for 2005-09-10

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:18:03 +0000

Link Prefetching FAQ: “Link prefetching is a browser mechanism, which utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future.” (tags: Dev, Firefox, reference, UI, Web)
Automatons by Godfried-Willem Raes: Robotic musical instruments … amazing! (tags: Music, Art, Hack)
FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER – THE GAME: FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER – THE GAME (tags: flash, games, game, humor, religion, fsm, funny, fun, spaghetti, monster, humour, web, pastafarian, webgame)
camerahacking :: View topic – Movie upload, Mencoder settings… on the right track: In creasing the video quality of the CVS camera output (tags: Hacks, Video, Camera)
Drill Bike: A hacked bike powered by a cordless drill. If I don’t start riding more I’m going to need one of these! (tags: Cycling, Hack)

links for 2005-09-09

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:18:26 +0000

“Invisible” speaker wire—no fishing inside the walls.: “No drilling necessary. Just press Taperwire™ on the wall and attach your speakers and sound system. Hidden by paint, wallpaper or spackle, this paper-thin wire will go unnoticed. You can even lay it under carpets—no bulges!” (tags: Audio, Design, Hardware)

links for 2005-09-08

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:20:14 +0000

eBay said in talks to buy Skype: “Internet auction site eBay is in talks to buy Skype.” … “I think this is a good idea” (tags: Business, VOIP, SIP, Wireless)
I, Cringely . NerdTV | PBS: “September 6, 2005: Andy Hertzfeld, the original Macintosh systems programmer, talks about MacHistory and how he fell in love with Open Source software.” (tags: Video, tv, Web, geek, technology, Apple, Mac)

links for 2005-09-07

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:19:30 +0000

Armstrong to Train With Team This Winter: I suspect he’s interested in the other classics like the Giro: “Lance Armstrong plans to train with his team this winter, increasing speculation he will end his retirement and attempt an eighth straight Tour de France win.” (tags: Sports, Cycling, TdF)
Google Talk: “We plan to support open server-to-server federation.” (tags: Google, IM, SIP, audio)

links for 2005-09-06

Tue, 06 Sep 2005 19:19:35 +0000

Localhost: Localhost is a program that lets you access a shared, world-wide file system through your web browser … The program uses BitTorrent technology, and new Distributed Hashtable technology called Kademlia.” (tags: BitTorrent, Networking, P2P, Service)
ProgrammableWeb: Web 2.0 API Reference (tags: api, programming, reference, web2.0, web, webservices, development, webdev, ajax, javascript, web20, dev, services, apis, todescribe)
Ray’s MTB Indoor Park: Rays’ Indoor Mountain Bike Park in Cleveland, OH. (tags: Cycling, MTB, Mountain_Biking)

links for 2005-09-05

Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:24:39 +0000

AppleCrate: An Apple II-Based Parallel Computer: 25 years ago I would have been all over this … “parallel computing on Apple II machines” (tags: Apple, Hardware, Hack, Retro)
Tracker Trail – Fire From Water: “take a piece of plastic wrap form it into a “pocket” …filled with water … and twisted until the whole assembly resembles a sphere. This creates a makeshift lens.” (tags: survival, HOWTO, Science)

links for 2005-09-04

Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:18:18 +0000

Boing Boing: SIngapore’s cool-ass hard-drive video-players: SnaZio Porta-Cinema and more… (tags: PVR, Hardware, Multimedia)

links for 2005-09-03

Sat, 03 Sep 2005 19:19:30 +0000

Geobloggers Image Growth: “Geotagged Flickr Photos over time, shown every 1,000 additions.Each additional 1,000 is added over the top of the previous image, so over time it’s getting crudded up by jpg compression.” (tags: Photography, Flickr, maps, Folksonomy)

links for 2005-09-02

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:19:33 +0000

NPR : Podcast Directory (tags: podcast, npr, radio, podcasts, audio, podcasting, news, mp3, culture, ipod, directory, itunes, rss, publicradio, useful, public, politics, todescribe)
Podspider: “Podspider—the radio of the future with the world’s largest podcast directory. Enjoy it today on your MP3 player or PC.” (tags: podcasting, Microsoft, Windows, Software)
Tsync HOWTO: “Tsync is a user-level daemon that provides transparent synchronization for one or more data volumes (directory trees) amongst a set of computers. Tsync uses a peer-to-peer architecture for scalability, efficiency, and robustness…” (tags: backup, Google, HOWTO, Perl)
ChilliSpot – Open Source Wireless LAN Access Point Controller. Spice up your HotSpot with Chilli: “ChilliSpot is an open source Wireless LAN access point controller. ChilliSpot is a captive portal which authenticates users of a wireless LAN.” (tags: WiFi, Wireless, Security, Open_Source)

links for 2005-09-01

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:18:16 +0000

Lazy Sheep Bookmarklet: “Lazy Sheep is a del.icio.us bookmarklet that auto-tags and auto-describes your bookmarks.” (tags: del.icio.us, bookmarklet, javascript, delicious, bookmarklets, hacks, cool, tagging, tags, firefox)

links for 2005-08-31

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:19:15 +0000

eBay Searches through RSS or Email: RSS Feeds for eBay search results and for specific items (tags: RSS, Search, XML, Business, Commerce, Email)
Lazy Sheep Bookmarklet: “Lazy Sheep is a del.icio.us bookmarklet that auto-tags and auto-describes your bookmarks.” (tags: bookmarks, delicious, Folksonomy, Hacks, JavaScript)

links for 2005-08-30

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:17:53 +0000

The Perfect Album, by Plastic users (the tally): In 2005, users of the message board and group blog plastic were asked to pick their “Perfect Album.” (tags: Music)

links for 2005-08-29

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:18:03 +0000

Slide: “Slide is a free Windows application (Mac version coming soon!) for finding, playing, and instantly sharing photos, videos, and other media.” (tags: Photography, Flickr, Web, Service, Social, Networking)

links for 2005-08-26

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:19:15 +0000

Create Applications Using the Digital Podcast Search Service: “The Digital Podcast Search Service allows you to access Digital Podcast’s content and services in your favorite programming languages. This means you can now build Digital Podcast directly into your own applications.” (tags: Podcasting, Search, API)

links for 2005-08-25

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:20:13 +0000

Gratis gaming: 10 real PC games you can download for free – CNET reviews: “…10 games you can play for free. For one reason or another–often to promote upcoming sequels, for instance, or simply out of karmic generosity–these games have been released as free downloads by their respective publisher, developer, or creator.” (tags: Freeware, Games)
Google Talk and Gizmo Project interoperable: “Future releases of Gizmo Project will allow voice calls and instant messages to and from Google Talk. “ (tags: Google, VOIP, SIP, Gizmo)
Vintage Chart 1990-2003: as of October 1, 2004 (tags: wine, HOWTO)
Installing rsync on a windows machine (tags: Windows, backup, Open_Source, Software, Linux, HOWTO)

links for 2005-08-24

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:18:24 +0000

Gmail: Help Center: How do I customize the ‘From:’ address on outgoing mail?: Not as cool as I had thought, but still a nice feature: “If you’d like your outgoing Gmail messages to display another one of your email addresses in the ‘From:’ field (instead of your Gmail address), just follow these easy steps” (tags: Google, Email, HOWTO)
How to set up Google Talk on your Mac: “There is no Mac client, but it does work in both iChat and Adium.” (tags: Google, IM, jabber, Apple)
Google Talk: Sweet! “They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free. Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world.” (tags: Google, IM, jabber, VOIP, Web)
Tour Director: Armstrong ‘Fooled’ Sports World – Los Angeles Times: What? “Sounding convinced that Lance Armstrong is guilty of doping, the director of the Tour de France said the seven-time champion owes an explanation for “proven scientific facts” … alleging he cheated to win cycling’s most prestigious event.” (tags: Cycling, TdF)

links for 2005-08-23

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:18:22 +0000

Google has an active Jabber server, Google IM coming soon?: “Inquisitive Neowin member Tom Servo, taking a que from member CarlNewton tried to connect to talk.google.com using his Trillian client.” (tags: Google, IM, jabber)
Independent Online Edition > Fox to buy IGN?: A “Snowballs” chance in hell… maybe not: “News Corp’s attentions is IGN Entertainment, which specialises in video games news and male lifestyle sites and would cost north of $800m to buy.” IGN worth $800? OMG! (tags: Business, media, Games)
Outback Chainless Mountain Bike | Uncrate: This is just silly: “…dirty duds caused by a greasy bicycle chain. The Outback Chainless Mountain Bike from Dynamic Bicycles ($750) solves that problem by using an internal gear system in the rear axle instead of a chain system.” (tags: Cycling)

links for 2005-08-22

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:17:33 +0000

RawSugar – Better search, powered by you and your friends: “With RawSugar you tag your favorite web-pages and create your personal, searchable web for you and your friends. Tagging is a quick and flexible way to categorize your favorites” (tags: Folksonomy, Search, Social)
Wikiwyg Home: what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor for wikis: “Wikiwyg is the simple way to add Wysiwyg editing to your existing social software project.” (tags: Wiki, Open_Source, Code, Editors, CMS)
Google Releases New Desktop Search Beta > August 22, 2005: “Google Desktop 2 boasts expanded search capabilities, such as the ability to search network drives and Gmail accounts. It also returns search results from local files as soon as you start typing.” (tags: Google, Search, Software)
The Web 2.0 Drinking Game – justinsomnia: “This idea was inspired by blatantly stolen from Greg McCarroll and James Duncan of Fotango at this year’s FOO Camp. It’s particularly lively among geeks with alcohol.” (tags: Web, Humor)
Engadget 1985 – Engadget – www.engadget.com: Engadget as if it was a BBS from 1985. I Love it! Damn! I just dopper carrier! (tags: Humor, Retro, Technology, gadgets)

links for 2005-08-21

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:17:30 +0000

Descent for Pocket PC: Nostalgia … “Yes, it actually runs! Not terribly useful yet, though, unless maybe you have an external keyboard or pointer device? But you can, at least, start it up and watch a demo…” (tags: Retro, Games, Mac, Windows)
Attention.XML: “Attention.XML is an open standard, built on open source (see XOXOSampleCode) that helps you keep track of what you’ve read, what you’re spending time on, and what you should be paying attention to.” (tags: XML, Blogs, RSS, reference, API)
Pixsy – photos and videos from blogs and social networks: “Google and others … crawl the web to find content. Pixsy, accesses special collections that cannot be crawled by spiders. Pixsy searches blogs, mobile blogs (“moblogs”), social networks…” Doesn’t it then crawl these special collections? (tags: Image, Video, Search)

links for 2005-08-20

Sat, 20 Aug 2005 19:17:27 +0000

Melodeo – Mobilcast™: Mobilcast lets you download Podcasts to your mobile phone, over the air. (tags: Mobile, Wireless, Podcasting)

links for 2005-08-19

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:17:54 +0000

Wireless: A peer-to-peer music asylum | CNET News.com: “Handset maker Nokia has reportedly developed peer-to-peer software that would allow sharing of text documents, photos and, eventually, music between its 6600 model phones.” (tags: Wireless, P2P, Mobile, Audio, toread)
Magazine Cover: “Make your own magazine cover! Be a superstar! Prove to your friends how famous you really are!” (tags: Flickr, Photography, Design, Web, Service)

links for 2005-08-18

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:18:04 +0000

Term Extraction Documentation for Yahoo! Search Web Services: I want to create an MT-Plugin that does this to auto tag my posts (especially posts like this) “The Term Extraction service provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content. It is one of the technologies used in Y!Q.” (tags: Yahoo, API, Text, Web, Service)
Energy Fiend » The Caffeine Database: “This is the most complete list of caffeine that I know of. “ (tags: Coffee, Food, reference)

links for 2005-08-17

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:17:58 +0000

UML Tutorial in 7 days: “Unified Modeling Language Tutorial in 7 days.” (tags: Code, Design, Dev, Web, HOWTO, reference)

links for 2005-08-16

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:17:44 +0000

Apple Bucks Tech Selloff: “Apple is set to announce a deal with Google calling for Google to offer Apple’s iTunes music store through its own site. The rumored deal would pair the nation’s leading online music store with its leading search engine.” (tags: Apple, Business, Google, iTunes)
plazes.beta: “Plazes allows you to share your location with the people you know and to discover people and plazes around you.” (tags: IM, Social, Service)
CVS Camera Hacking: “Palm III serial sync cable in order to connect to the camera via USB without opening it up.” (tags: video, Hardware, HOWTO, Hack)
Disable Caps Lock :: Useful Stuff :: JohnHaller.com: “Now you can disable your Caps Lock key in Windows… without any special software, and without having to pry the key off with a screwdriver.” (tags: Microsoft, Windows, Hardware, Hacks)
Flock rocks: “Drag and drop blogging – drag text from a blog post and it automatically creates a cite tag with a link to the original post and the quoted text is indented using a blockquote tag. Drag and drop Flickr photos …and del.icio.us as your bookmarks” (tags: Flickr, Web, Blogs, Folksonomy, Software)

links for 2005-08-15

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:19:15 +0000

Mobilecast: “Mobilecast is a Podcast-to-AMR converter for Mobile Phones. Once installed and configured, Mobilecast will be run by iPodder after each podcast download. It will split the Podcast into segments of 10 min AMR (NB/WB) audio files for the mobile phone.” (tags: Mobile, Podcasting, Software)
Javacast: “Javacast is an Enhanced Podcast to Java MIDlet (J2ME) converter for Mobile Phones.” (tags: Java, Mobile, Podcasting, Software)
Splunk: Suck 10GB of log files into your brain: InfoWorld Callis it Google for logs: “Splunking is the new way to see inside your data center. It’s a new search technology that makes navigating your IT infrastructure as easy as surfing the web.” (tags: Business, Data, Mining, IT, Search, Software)
DTV: Internet TV: “Today, along with the Mac Beta, we’re launching the built-in DTV Channel Guide. Publishers of DTV-compatible channels can now submit channels to be included in the guide. If you have an RSS feed with video enclosures, your channel is already compatible” (tags: video, Multimedia, Open_Source, Podcasting, Blogs, BitTorrent, tv)

links for 2005-08-13

Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:17:52 +0000

Mosaic Maker: Flickr Mosaic Maker (tags: API, Flickr, Design, Photography, Web, Service, Toys)

links for 2005-08-12

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:17:44 +0000

Propaganda Podcasting Software: “You can produce your own professional-quality audio shows with Propaganda software.” (tags: Audio, Podcasting, Software)
Gizmo – A free phone for your computer – Learn More CallOut Rates: “For those of you who would like to use your Gizmo Project account with your regular telephone, it’s possible to configure a standard, unlocked SIP adapter with your account. “ (tags: Telecom, SIP, VOIP, Hardware)
The New York Times > Technology > Multimedia > Video > The iPod Flea Ad Spoof: “The iPod Flea Ad Spoof” (tags: Advertising, Apple, Humor, iPod, video)

links for 2005-08-11

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:17:37 +0000

Super-Fast Delicious Bookmarklet – John Resig: a super-fast way to post to del.icio.us (tags: delicious, bookmark, javascript)
OrbCasting: “You have to be happy when your product is compared to something like iTunes… the folks at PCSIntel have blogged about how well Orb works on the Sprint PCS phone network and mention how popular Orb has become.” (tags: Podcasting, Audio, Video, Multimedia, Mobile, phone)
CNN.com – Judge: Punk landmark CBGB’s can’t be evicted – Aug 11, 2005: Hooray long live the Sunday Matinee! “A civil court judge ruled Wednesday that the landmark punk club CBGB’s can’t be evicted from its Bowery location, saying it shouldn’t be punished for not noticing it owed its landlord money.” (tags: Music, NYC, Punk)
Pod2Mob.com – Mobile Podcasting: Sounds a lot like Orbcasting: “If you have a SprintPCS phone, (why SprintPCS only) our software will stream a Podcast to it!” (tags: Mobile, Podcasting, phone)

links for 2005-08-08

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:18:24 +0000

InformationWeek > Search Tools > Open-Source Search > August 8, 2005: “IBM plans to make its enterprise search middleware, designed to facilitate searches of unstructured data, available as open-source code. It’s called Unstructured Information Management Architecture” (tags: Search, Open_Source)
Smart Feed Mobile Podcast Client: “Smartfeed is the first Podcatcher—or Podcast Receiver—to bring podcatching to your Smartphone or Pocket PC.” (tags: Mobile, Podcasting, Windows, Software)
The Long Tail: A methodology for estimating Amazon’s Long Tail sales: “Conservative assumptions, meanwhile, put it under 20%. Cross-checking it against Amazon’re book revenues seems to suggest something in the mid-to-high twenties. In either case, it’s certainly less than 57%” (tags: Amazon, Business, Math, Web)

links for 2005-08-05

Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:17:42 +0000

stamen: vox delicii: “The stripes you see at top are a near-realtime cumulative view of popular sites posted to the Del.icio.us social bookmarking service” (tags: delicious, Folksonomy, Visualization)

links for 2005-08-04

Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:17:29 +0000

MAKE: Blog: CVS camcorder usably hacked!: “The CVS Disposable Camcorder (mentioned about a month ago) has now been usably hacked so that videos can be downloaded over USB” (tags: Hardware, Hacking, video)
ONTV: Ideas Through Digital Content: “I/ON is an Internet Video Console that allows you to watch the web – accessing rich media content directly, on-demand.” (tags: Entertainment, media, Search, video, Open_Source)
CastFire: “CastFire is leading the way to connect content producers, advertisers and consumers together in a friendly, informative and seamless network.” (tags: Podcasting, Advertising, Business)
An overview of the Atom 1.0 Syndication Format: “Get a technical overview of the popular Atom Syndication Format. This article discusses Atom’s technical strengths relative to other syndication formats, and offers several compelling use case examples that illustrate those strengths.” (tags: Atom, RSS, XML, HOWTO)

links for 2005-08-03

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:17:26 +0000

Jon Aquino’s Mental Garden: Audiolicious: Turn Any RSS Feed Into A Podcast, Using Text-To-Speech: “Audiolicious is a Windows program that lets you turn any RSS feed into a podcast. It uses text-to-speech to convert the feed’s webpages into MP3 files.” (tags: Podcasting, RSS, Text, Speach, Software, Windows, Ruby)
Backup Del.icio.us with Excel: “If you have Excel 2003 and use the social bookmarking tool Del.icio.us, you can backup your bookmarks in Excel.” (tags: delicious, HOWTO, Microsoft, Software, backup)
Quick Online Tips: Absolutely Del.icio.us – Complete Tool Collection: “Below we have a collection of useful tools for making your Del.icio.us experience better.” (tags: delicious, Hacks, HOWTO)

links for 2005-08-02

Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:18:27 +0000

script.aculo.us – web 2.0 javascript: “script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, totally cool JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly, Web 2.0 style” (tags: AJAX, API, JavaScript, Web, Dev)
MochiKit – A lightweight Javascript library: “MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested, suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get shit done, fast. “ (tags: AJAX, Code, JavaScript, Web, Dev)
Flickr: Explore interesting photos from the last 24 hours: Nice… but where’s the RSS feed for Flickr’s new “Interestingness” (tags: Photography, Flickr, RSS, Web, Service)
Free, Amazing Secrets, Household Hints, Saving Money: “200 Amazing Secrets is available free of charge.” (tags: Education, Hacks, HOWTO, Life)

links for 2005-08-01

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 19:17:19 +0000

Tech-Recipes.com – Recursively delete certain files: I always forget this technique: “Using the find command, you can locate and delete files based on many attributes such as filetype. This recipe will demonstrate how to find and delete files based on part of their filename.” (tags: Linux, HOWTO)
flickr graph – marcos weskamp: “Flickr Graph is an application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com. It makes use of the classic attraction-repulsion algorithm for graphs. “ (tags: Photography, Social, Software, Visualization)
How to Reinstall Windows Without Losing Your Data: “The bad stuff you need to get rid of is all in your Windows folder.” (tags: Microsoft, Data, Windows)
Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon Store for Dot Net Nuke: “The WCC Amazon Portal is an instant Amazon store for DotNetNuke. Using AWS, product data and images are integrated seamlessly into DotNetNuke pages for a professional presentation and … it includes a complete shopping cart implementation” (tags: Amazon, API, DotNet, Dev, web, Service)
MotionPicture Screen Saver: “This screensaver is essentially a Windows version of the Apple OS X slideshow screensaver.” (tags: Windows, Software, Apple)

links for 2005-07-31

Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:17:06 +0000

Welcome to BadFruit – home of BadApple software: “BadApple is a free plug-in for iTunes which allows you to sync your music library to any MP3 player (not just an iPod). After downloading and installing the software, you will have a “Sync to MP3 player” link you can click on from within iTunes. This wil (tags: Apple, iTunes, Hacks)

links for 2005-07-29

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:17:33 +0000

FOX Broadcasting Company: FOXCAST: “FOXCASTING (aka podcasting) is a way to get audio files over the Internet. FOXCAST delivers audio broadcasts to your desktop with the click of your mouse. You can listen to these files on your computer or load them on to your MP3 player to take them with (tags: Podcasting, media, Business)
trendalicious!: Where’s the RSS feed for this? “trendalicious is a near real-time view of website popularity trends as reflected by the del.icio.us social bookmarking service. All URLs that have been posted by a minimum of two people in the past fifty minutes are display (tags: delicious, Folksonomy, Hack)
Cambridge in Colour – Digital Photography Tutorials: “…tutorials on how to acquire, interpret and process digital photographs.” (tags: Photography, HOWTO)
Acme Technologies Zeitgeist » AdSense-Deluxe WordPress Plugin: “AdSense-Deluxe is a WordPress plugin offering advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense ads to your WordPress posts.” (tags: Google, Advertising, Blogs)

links for 2005-07-28

Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:17:27 +0000

Welcome to BuddyBuzz!: I have this Mobile Java App running on my Sony Ericsson Phone: “BuddyBuzz is the fastest way to read text on a mobile phone.” … Neat (tags: Java, Mobile, Software, Wireless, Blogs)

links for 2005-07-27

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:17:43 +0000

Google Logo Maker-Logogle: Your own Google-ized logo and search interface (tags: Google, Hack, Humor, Search, Service)

links for 2005-07-26

Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:17:16 +0000

promise.tv: “Any channel, any time, and that’s a promise!” (tags: htpc, PVR, MythTV)

links for 2005-07-25

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:17:30 +0000

FeedShake – Merge , sort and filter RSS feeds: “Feedshake tool helps you to generate new feeds by merging, sorting and filtering existing online RSS feeds.” (tags: Atom, Blogs, RSS, Search, Web, Service)

links for 2005-07-23

Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:17:09 +0000

oishii! – ephemeral pheromonal de.icio.us-ness: “Oishii is kind of a del.icio.us mini-zeitgeist. oishii! polls the del.icio.us front page every 5 minutes, and returns all sites bookmarked by at least 30 people.” (tags: delicious, Folksonomy, Social, Service, Hack)

links for 2005-07-22

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:17:22 +0000

OSCOM Kupu – Kupu WYSIWYG XHTML Editor: “Kupu is a ‘document-centric’ open source client-side editor for Mozilla, Netscape and Internet Explorer.” (tags: Open_Source, Editors, Web, Dev)
O’Reilly Network: Audio Linkblogging: Jon Udell upgrades his audio clipping service hack… awesome! (tags: Audio, Blogs, delicious, Hack, Podcasting, Web, media)
FunForMobile: Help: “Making MP3, M4A/AAC, WAV Ringtones” (tags: Phone, HOWTO, MP3)

links for 2005-07-21

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:18:09 +0000

74 Useful Excel Spreadsheets: All these spreadsheets are available in the archived at the bottom of the page (tags: Business, Freeware)
CastPay: “The CastPay system is designed to allow people to distribute money between the podcasts they listen to. Whenever listeners wish to donate money to one or more podcasters they put money into their account which is shared between the podcasts they’ve liste (tags: Podcasting, Business)

links for 2005-07-20

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:17:13 +0000

Mike Davidson: Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly in Two Minutes: “Outlined below are the four steps to get this done in a matter of minutes, provided you are in an Apache environment and can run PHP. “ (tags: HOWTO, Mobile, PHP, Web)
Google Moon – Lunar Landing Sites: “In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor.” (tags: Google, History, maps, space)
The Coral Content Distribution Network: “Coral is peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. It allows a user to run a web site that offers high performance and meets huge demand, all for the price of a $50/month cable modem.” (tags: P2P, Networking, Bandwidth, Web, Service)

links for 2005-07-19

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:18:04 +0000

Atom: Atom 1.0 draft: draft-ietf-atompub-format-10.txt (tags: Atom, RSS, Web, Dev)
del.icio.us: tags for two: “We’ve just begun rolling out support for tagging items for others. To do so, use “for:username”” (tags: delicious, folksonomy)
SatireWire | Feature: Interview with the Search Engine: “Jeeves of AskJeeves.com granted SatireWire Editor Treat Warland the opportunity to actually interview a search engine.” (tags: Search, Humor)
UltraVNC SC (SingleClick): “UltraVNC SC is a mini (166k) UltraVNC Server that can be customized and preconfigured for download by a Customer. UltraVNC SC does not require installation and does not make use of the registry.” (tags: Freeware, Software, Windows)
iTunes RSS Spec: ‘How To Publish a Podcast on the iTunes Music Store” (tags: Apple, iTunes, RSS, XML)
Outlook to iCal Export Utility: “The outlook2ical utility is a VB macro that can be used to export a set of appointments from an Outlook Calendar to the iCal format.” (tags: Freeware, Microsoft)

links for 2005-07-18

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:17:16 +0000

MAKE: Blog: HOW TO make Enhanced Podcasts (images, links and more with audio): “Apple’s new iTunes 4.9, iPod color, allows you to view (and listen to) “enhanced podcasts” these are audio files that can have slideshows, URLs and some cool features we have discovered.” (tags: Podcasting, HOWTO, iTunes)

links for 2005-07-15

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:17:48 +0000

Xmail Hard Drive.com – turn gmail into a portable hard drive for FREE: XmailHardDrive.com directly connects with your Gmail account to then turn it into a portable virtual hard drive that you can access from anywhere in the world. (tags: Google, Hacks)
Pixsy – find unique photos the other search engines miss: Image search (tags: Search, Photography)
How to make Google Earth Movies, for Free!: “Starting with the free version of Google Earth, I installed FRAPS, a program that saves the video from programs that use DirectX (mostly games) directly to the hard drive in an uncommpressed avi format…” (tags: Google, Earth, Hacks, Movies)
Podcasting: Can This New Medium Make Money? – Knowledge@Wharton: Kevin Werbach agrees that podcasting is much more than a fad, but its ultimate effect on listening habits remains to be seen. “Podcasting is a nice way to package up spoken audio content the way MP3s have already packaged up music,”… (tags: Podcasting, Business)
How Do Cycling Teams Work? – What Lance Armstrong’s “domestiques” do. By Daniel Engber: “In the major races, each team leader works with eight other riders, called “domestiques,” who don’t have much chance of winning the race themselves.” (tags: Cycling)
Blogarithms » Interviews via Skype: “It has been a long-standing rule here at IT Conversations that we don’t conduct interviews over Skype, but recent improvements in Skype as well as additional experience has caused us to revisit that restriction.” (tags: Podcasting, HOWTO, Skype)

links for 2005-07-14

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:17:24 +0000

GB-PVR: “GB-PVR is a fully featured (Windows-based) Personal Video Recorder (PVR)” (tags: PVR, Windows, htpc, MythTV)

links for 2005-07-13

Wed, 13 Jul 2005 19:17:50 +0000

Podcast FeedCheck 1.13 – Check out the Nobody Likes Onions podcast!: “This tool is designed to aid in the perfecting of podcast RSS 2.0 feeds, including iTunes specific namespace tags. This is not a feed validator – if you must think of it in those terms, think of it as a tag validator.” (tags: Podcast, RSS, iTunes)
Asterisk@Home: “The Asterisk@Home project enables the home user to quickly set up a VOIP Asterisk PBX.” (tags: VOIP, Linux)
Set Up Your Own IP-PBX: “In fact, a whole year’s service would be less than my monthly phone bill. Hmmm…” (tags: VOIP, HOWTO)
Podcasting – Blog Maverick – www.blogmaverick.com _: Mark Cuban “Unless you are repurposing content from another medium, it will be rare to find anyone making money from originating podcasts.” (tags: Podcasting, Business)
iPodverts – Podcast Advertising Auctions: “iPodverts has been set-up to give podcasters an opportunity to sell advertising space on their podcasts.” (tags: Podcasting, Advertising)
Podcasting Ads Face Challenges: “The difficulty in tracking podcasts beyond the number of downloads lies in the portability of the files. Because the player software isn’t connected to the Internet, the marketer loses track of the file when it leaves the computer. That’s why some podcas (tags: Podcasting, Advertising, Business)
Podscope: Very cool podcast audio/video search service that searches within audio content. It needs an RSS 2.0 feed for search results. (tags: Search, Podcast, Audio, Speech)

links for 2005-07-12

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:17:37 +0000

GoogleEarthing: “Use Google Earth to find the image below somewhere on the face of the Earth.” (tags: Games, Google, Web, maps)

links for 2005-07-11

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:18:21 +0000

Google Maps Mania: “An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, ideas and tools being influenced by Google Maps.” (tags: Google, API, Hacks, Web, Service)
Google Send to Phone for Firefox: “Google Send to Phone for Firefox is an extension that enables you to send short text messages of web page content to your mobile phone. For example, you might text message yourself a phone number, an address, or directions that you find on the Web.” (tags: Google, Firefox, extension, Mobile)
Google Earth Hacks – File Downloads – Tour de France: Tour de France Stage/Route Maps for Google Earth. AWESOME! (tags: Cycling, TdF, Google, Earth, Hacks)
I Don’t Wanna Work | MetaFilter: CGI animation of Neil Peart playing YYZ. Large (43.5Mb) .wmv file. (tags: Music, video)
Scribe, Mozilla Firefox Extension: “Adds Word Processor like functionality to web forms, including opening and saving form entries as files.” (tags: Firefox, extension, Writing, Text)
Building a Digital SLR Camera System: Good tips from Philip Greenspun (tags: Photography, HOWTO, canon)
O’Reilly Network: MP3 Sound Bites: An old one, but still good… Jon Udell’s “MP3 clipping service” (tags: Audio, Blogs, Podcasting, bookmark)

links for 2005-07-08

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:17:31 +0000

How to enjoy audiobooks : Lifehacker: “I would like to leave you with some tips, picks, and suggestions on how to get the best experience from audiobooks.” (tags: Audible, Audio, Books, HOWTO)

links for 2005-07-07

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:17:29 +0000

MediaPortal – The ultimate HTPC / mediacenter: Windows XP-based alternative to MythTV (open source too) (tags: Windows, MythTV, PVR, Open_Source, htpc)
gwifi: Using GoogleMaps to find free Wi-Fi: Google Maps WiFi finder (tags: Google, Hacking, WiFi)
JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.: “JustBlogIt is a Mozilla / Firefox extension to allow easy right-click posting to a weblog. From any website your new blog post is only a right-click away.” (tags: Blogs, Firefox, Hack, extension)
The Agile Developer : Tour de France: Awesome! Matt Deiters created a Tour de France RSS feed for live news flashes (tags: RSS, TdF, Cycling)

links for 2005-07-06

Wed, 06 Jul 2005 19:18:24 +0000

Peer Pressure » TechnoProxy: “…script sends an asynchronous request to Technorati to see whether anyone is linking to the page, and if so sends back an XML response (AJAX) …a little green Technorati icon is displayed in the upper lefthand corner of the screen.” (tags: AJAX, greasemonkey, Hacks, Web, Service)
Webshots – Photo Sharing, Free Wallpaper and Free Screensavers: “CNet has quietly launched a web-based social photo site; the twist is, it’s not an upload and store service as with most offerings. Instead, you use Shoebox to bookmark, tag and share images you find from around the web” (tags: Photography, Social_Networking, web, Service, Folksonomy)
freesound :: home page: “The Freesound Project – a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.” (tags: Audio, Folksonomy, Web, Service, Social)
A Day in the Life/Iclectic Podcast: We love Dave, but sometimes he is wrong: “Everyone knows that he is very opinionated and if you get on his wrong side, you will be posted in his blog for thousands to read.” (tags: Audible, podcasting)
loudish – Podcasting for Business: “Loudish uses the power of podcasting to automatically combine audio (and other media) into customised ‘shows’ that are automatically distributed to your target audience, whether that’s customers, employees – in fact, anyone who wants to tune in to your w (tags: Business, Podcasting, Service)

links for 2005-07-05

Tue, 05 Jul 2005 19:19:28 +0000

Say hello to the Motorola E790 Apple iTunes phone – Engadget – www.engadget.com: “…we’ve finally scored some actual live shots of a cellphone running Apple’s new iTunes Mobile software.” (tags: Apple, iPod, iTunes, Mobile, phone, motorola)
The Battle for Eardrums Begins With Podcasts – New York Times: “…bullish about Audible’s prospects and predicts that Apple’s support of podcasting will ultimately help Audible because it will increase awareness of spoken-word programming. “ (tags: Podcasting, Audible, Apple, Business)
Free New Jersey wi-fi cafes & other wireless hotspots | New Jersey FreeFi: “New Jersey is full of free wi-fi locations so why pay for them? Skip Starbucks and other paid access locations and support local businesses and your community for free. Stop into your local free hotspot, buy a mocha, and let them know how much you apprec (tags: NJ, WiFi)
PodcastSpots – Advertise on Podcasts – Play Podsafe Music Free: Hmm… “Automatically insert ads in your podcasts and get paid!” (tags: Podcasting, Business)

links for 2005-07-03

Sun, 03 Jul 2005 19:17:26 +0000

www.cyclingnews.com presents the 92nd Tour de France: “To beat Armstrong, Zabriskie rode the fastest TT in Tour De France history…” but …”In the defining moment of today’s stage, a fast pedaling Lance Armstrong caught and passed… chief Tour rival Jan Ullrich.” Amazing! (tags: TdF, Cycling)

2005 Tour de France

Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:30:40 +0000

Later today starts another amazing 23 days of cycling. I have the Stevo locked on OLN and Newsgator pointed at Frank Steele’s always awesome Tour de France blog!

Can Lance make it to seven?
Will we see Jan Ullrich wear yellow in Paris?
Can Ivan Basso stay with Lance again in the mountains?
Is Bob Roll going to shave those gnarly muttonchops?

I have no idea, but I cannot wait to find out!

We’ll miss you this year Tyler Hamilton — Good luck!

links for 2005-07-01

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:17:26 +0000

SIRIUS to offer daily Tour de France podcast: Awesome! “Throughout the Tour, SIRIUS will have exclusive behind-the-scenes reports from Lance himself and Armstrong Radio co-host Mark Higgins that you’ll only hear on SIRIUS.” (subscribed) (tags: Podcast, TdF, Cycling, Sports)

links for 2005-06-30

Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:17:26 +0000

MAKE: Blog: Audible does Podcasts – the complete guide (and HOW TO): An excellent HOWTO on Audible Podcasts by Phil Torrone: “Overall, the service is great, the delivery all worked out. I’m looking forward to what else Audible does with RSS and audio in the free and free space.” (tags: Audible, HOWTO, Podcasting)
podCast411.com :: View topic – iTunes 4.9 – 1 click subs on your site!: “You can make a simple XML file, upload it to your site and then have folks with 4.9 click on it to get subscribed automagicallly.” (tags: HOWTO, iTunes, Podcasting, XML)
My Web 2.0 BETA: Search, tagging, social networking and more (tags: Search, Folksonomy, Yahoo, Social_Networking)
Talkr — Letting blogs speak for themselves: “Talkr allows you to listen to text-only blogs on your iPod.” (tags: Blogs, Podcasting, Service, Text, Speech)
slapcast.com (beta) | Podcasting for everyone… by phone and by upload: “slapcast.com lets you start podcasting by phone and by upload immediately.” (tags: Audio, Mobile, Podcasting, Service, phone)
Jon Udell: Listening to Peter Yared: “It has to get way easier to capture, annotate, and post clip URLs. And not just from desktop players, either. I listened to the Peter Yared interview on a hike, and had to jot down the timecodes on a scrap of paper. Devices are supposed to help us do stu (tags: Audio, Podcast, Service, Web, XML)
iTunes Podcast Subscriptions Top One Million in First Two Days: “Podcasting is like cappuccino,” said August Trometer, developer of iPodderX. “Gourmet coffee was around for a long time, but it took Starbucks to put it on the map. Apple is like the Starbucks of Podcasting and advertisers will take us more serious (tags: Apple, iTunes, iPod, Podcasting)

links for 2005-06-29

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:17:37 +0000

A first look at iTunes RSS extensions: Edd Dumbill: “What could have been a useful and reusable addition to the world of RSS is really rendered only fit for the single use of adding content into Apple’s own iTunes store. Apple prove they know how to be cool, but they’ve got no idea about makin (tags: Apple, RSS, iTunes, Podcasting)
Yahoo! Search Services and Tools: Media RSS Module – RSS 2.0 Module: “An RSS module that supplements the <enclosure> element capabilities of RSS 2.0 to allow for more robust media syndication.” (tags: RSS, Search)
Plodcasting, a Plone Podcasting Product — plone.org: “Plodcasting is a Podcasting product for Plone. This tool will allow a radio station or community audio project to publish audio files for users of iPodder to automatically download. The initial version of Plodcasting has been released on Plone Collective (tags: Podcasting, Python, CMS)

links for 2005-06-28

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:17:31 +0000

Apple – iTunes – Podcasting: “Now you can easily find and subscribe to free podcasts from one of the largest directories on the web — the iTunes Podcast Directory. “ (tags: Podcasting, Apple, iPod)

links for 2005-06-27

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:20:36 +0000

Wikipedia Animate: “This Greasemonkey script allows you to view a series of modifications to a Wikipedia article as a video-like sequence.” (tags: Wikipedia, Greasemonkey)
Ambedo: Like YubNub: “Ambedo is a front page to many search engines. Ambedo helps you start your searches without going to each search engine’s front page. That saves you a minute or two per search. Ambedo also has a lot of tags and triggers to search for specifi (tags: Search, Web, Service)

links for 2005-06-25

Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:17:24 +0000

Subscribe to Audible podcasts: Awesome! “You can receive all of your audio magazines, newspapers, and radio programs as podcasts…” (tags: Podcasting, Web, Service, Audible)

links for 2005-06-23

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:17:33 +0000

Prodigem Hosting Service: “We’ve taken peer-to-peer (BitTorrent) and completely simplified the ease with which you can publish your media. The result is a dynamic new habitat where you can find the latest downloads or endlessly distribute your content.” (tags: BitTorrent, Web, Service)
Avalanche: Improving File Swarming through Network Coding: “Avalanche is a research project that studies how to enable a cost effective, internet scalable and very fast file distribution solution (e.g. for TV on-demand, patches, software distribution). Such an approach leverages desktop PCs to aid in the distribu (tags: Microsoft, P2P)
bramcohen: Avalanche: Bram Cohen’s response to Avalanche: “First of all, I’d like to clarify that Avalanche is vaporware. It isn’t a product which you can use or test with, it’s a bunch of proposed algorithms. There isn’t even a fleshed out network protocol. The ‘experiments’ (tags: BitTorrent, P2P, Microsoft)

links for 2005-06-22

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:19:26 +0000

The Cult of Mac Blog: podcasting for radio stations that don’t offer podcasts: “Griffin Technology’s $20 iFill software taps into thousands of free radio stations on the internet and pipes them directly onto your iPod.” (tags: Podcasting, Software)
Google Media Player? (Rumor Is Cheap) – The Unofficial Google Weblog – google.weblogsinc.com _: “Dave Winer has put up a completely unsusbstantiated rumor about Google developing an iTunes-like media player that would be podcast-capable.” (tags: Podcasting, Web, Service, Google)

links for 2005-06-18

Sat, 18 Jun 2005 19:17:14 +0000

Welcome to BadFruit – home of BadApple software: I’ll be testing this out shortly: “Podcast support for iTunes is here! Download the free BadApple plug-in which expands the functionality and interoperability of iTunes software. (iTunes is music software which works with iPod MP3 players.) BadApple adds (tags: Podcasting, iTunes)

links for 2005-06-17

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:18:13 +0000

ml_ipod: Because fair use is a right, not a privilage.: “The winamp ipod plugin (aka ml_ipod) is a plugin for winamp. It allows you to manage your iPod from within the winamp media library.” (tags: iPod, Audio)
Homemade Baby Wipes: “There are many places on the web where you can get recipes for homemade baby wipes on the web. This, however, may be the only one which suggests making them with large shop tools. I think it adds an interesting element of excitement and danger to an othe (tags: Parenting, HOWTO)
Plastic Bugs – Home of the ‘Original’ GIMPshop » Blog Archive » DittyBot – An Applescript Adventure: “You send a text message from your mobile phone to your POP email account. Your text message should contain the keywords of a song title (and possibly an artist name) that you want to hear. DittyBot finds that email (he checks Mail every 45 seconds) and c (tags: iTunes, Skype, Email, Mac, Hack)

links for 2005-06-16

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:18:53 +0000

Ask a Geek: Scott Fullman – Popular Science: simplest DIY Wi-Fi Antenna improvement: “You can whip one together using an old shoe box, tape and some aluminum foil in about 30 minutes, and it will double or triple the range (in a single direction) of just about any wireless access point with an external stick antenna. It works by simply cr (tags: WiFi, HOWTO)
Koders – Source Code Search Engine: “Searching 205,234,850 lines of code.” (tags: Dev, Search)
YubNub: a (social) command line for the web … (e.g. URL command line) (tags: Search, Web, API)
First Look at Odeo (Screenshots): Philipp Lenssen checked out Odeo.com (Beta) (tags: Podcasting, Web, Service)

links for 2005-06-15

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:17:54 +0000

del.icio.us: casting the net wider: “Bookmarked items in del.icio.us that end in one of a number of filetypes will now automatically get some system tags added. You can use these just like normal tags. RSS feeds that have one of those system tags added will automatically become a rss-with-e (tags: delicious, RSS, enclosures, media)
GMAN: XMLRPC::Lite Perl: metaWeblog API working example using the XMLRPC::Lite Perl module (tags: Dev, API, Blogs)
d2r: a review of blogging APIs: Old post but still relevant. (tags: Dev, API, Blogs)
webservices.xml.com: Second Generation Web Services: Another old one, but also relevant: “This next generation of web services will likely adhere to an architectural style called REST, the underlying architectural model of the current Web. It stands for ‘representational state transfer’.” (tags: Dev, API)
Jon Udell: Wikipedia and the social construction of knowledge: Another well said quote by Jon Udell: “Wikipedia’s greatest innovation is arguably the framework it provides to mediate the social construction of knowledge, advocate for neutrality, accommodate dispute, and offer a path to its negotiated resolution. For (tags: Wiki, Social, Collaboration)
mp3act – Streaming MP3 Jukebox AJAX Web Application: “The mp3act digital music system is designed to be a central location for your digital music collection and a means to easily organize and listen to your digital media through your stereo, over a local network, or anywhere in the world. “ (tags: MP3, Web, AJAX)
LiamM.com “IT’S NOT 1337”: Hacking the Microsoft MN-700: “You’ve all heard of hacking the Linksys WRT54G routers. But what about some other routers. I thought I’d try my luck with a router some consider to be one of the worst on the market the Microsoft MN-700.” (tags: Hardware, Hacking, WiFi, Microsoft)
Main Page – wikiHow: “wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world’s largest how-to manual. With your contributions, we can create a free resource that helps people by offering clear, concise solutions to the problems of everyday life.” (tags: Wiki, HOWTO)

links for 2005-06-14

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:18:55 +0000

del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mp3: Very slick Joshua! “This special tag causes the links to show up as enclosures in the RSS feed” (tags: delicious, podcasting, MP3)
Gataga – Social bookmark search and exploration engine: “Gataga searches bookmarks from del.icio.us, blogmarks, blinklist, jots, spurl, furl, simpy and connotea.” (tags: Social, bookmark, Search)
FireANT | Not TV: “FireANT is an RSS video aggregator and media player that can automatically download media content for you to watch and listen to.” (tags: Video, Software, RSS, Podcasting)
VentureBlog: The Podcast Elevator Pitch: “Whatever the particular use of podcasting, the technology seems poised to have an increasing impact on the media landscape.” (tags: Podcasting, Business)

links for 2005-06-13

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:17:22 +0000

Scobleizer: Microsoft’s podcasting team: No surprise here: “…I will pass this to our podcasting team. Oh, am I even allowed to admit that we have a podcasting team? Heh, the secret is out.” (tags: Microsoft, Podcasting)
Wired News: Radio Sets Eyes on Podcast Profit: “Less than a year after podcasting caught the public imagination, the radio industry is beginning to wake up and smell the money.” (tags: Podcasting, Business)
Speakwire RSS newsfeeds Podcast Speech Technology: “Speakwire news on demand from the latest newsfeeds around the world using PanaVox Speak Perfect Speech Technology. Release 2005 Ver 1.02 A Speegle Service.” (tags: Speech, Podcasting, RSS, Web, Service)
I-Appliance BBS – CVS one-time use digit camcorder: “Here is the pinout for the CVS one time use camcorder. Pin 1 starts at the end where J5 is printed on the PCB. 1 no connection
2 ground
3 no connection
4 Battery + (probably used to verify the battery level when recycling)
5 no connection
6 USB +5V
7 gr (tags: Hacking, Video, HOWTO)
Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet): Google Cheat Sheet (tags: Google, Search)

links for 2005-06-12

Sun, 12 Jun 2005 19:17:00 +0000

Systm: “Episode 2 – Build your own MythTV box” — Already got one, but a good reference. (tags: MythTV, HOWTO, PVR)

links for 2005-06-10

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:19:49 +0000

NewsForge | Building a Linux virtual server: “In this article we will look at setting up one such scalable, network load-balancing server cluster using a virtual server via the Linux Virtual Server Project.” (tags: Linux, HOWTO, Open_Source)
A Guide For The Un-Initated To Buying Guinness In An Irish Pub.: Mmmm Beer… “As you near the end of your pint, it is the custom to order another one. It is a well known fact that a bird does not fly on one wing.” (tags: Beer, HOWTO, Irish)

links for 2005-06-09

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 19:17:29 +0000

Rico – Home: “Open source JavScript library for creating rich internet applications.” Support AJAX too. (tags: Web, Dev, JavaScript, AJAX, Open_Source)
Jon Udell: Cracking WEP in 10 minutes: “To a thumping electronic beat, the WEP-cracking screencast shows you how to use: kismet to locate a victim; aireplay to generate the requisite hundreds of thousands of WEP initialization vectors; aerodump to save the traffic to a file; and aircrack to an (tags: Hacking, HOWTO, Screencasting)
whoppix.info: “Whoppix is a stand alone penetration testing live cd based on Knoppix. With the latest tools and exploits, it is a must for every penetration tester and security auditor. Whoppix includes Several exploit archives, such as Securityfocus, Packetstorm, Secu (tags: Linux, Knoppix, LiveCD, Security, Hacking)

links for 2005-06-08

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:19:45 +0000

Niall Kennedy’s Weblog: Google Sitemaps using Movable Type: “Just create a new index template and copy the code below. Choose an output file that is easy to remember such as sitemap.xml. Save and rebuild your new template file once you paste the code.” (tags: MovableType, Google, XML)

links for 2005-06-07

Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:17:11 +0000

Eric Rice :: How to build a 10 minute podcast: “I’ve created guidelines for creating short, organized shows that can help you either get started in podcasting or organize your existing podcast into manageable, predictable chunks. “ (tags: Podcasting, HOWTO)

links for 2005-06-06

Mon, 06 Jun 2005 19:18:04 +0000

Podcasting Specification Working Group Wiki: Podcasting Specification Working Group Wiki (tags: Podcasting, Wiki)
O’Reilly Radar > How To Roll Out An Open API: “Make signup simple, offer toolkits for the languages that Internet developers use, and think laterally about business models. “ (tags: API, Web, Service)
Google Sitemaps: “Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It’s a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to th (tags: Google, Search)

links for 2005-06-04

Sat, 04 Jun 2005 19:20:27 +0000

OneClickSpec2: iPodder announced support for this: “This document details the steps needed to enable One-Click subscription to podcast RSS feeds.” (tags: podcasting, RSS)
reBlog by Eyebeam R&D: “A reBlog facilitates the process of filtering and republishing relevant content from many RSS feeds. reBloggers subscribe to their favorite feeds, preview the content, and select their favorite posts. These posts are automatically published through their (tags: Blogs, RSS, Web, Service)

links for 2005-06-02

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 19:21:58 +0000

The Bicycle Forest – Home Builders Gallery: Fun! “The home Bicycle builder’s Gallery is a place for home builders to share their creations with the world.” (tags: Cycling, Hack)

links for 2005-05-29

Sun, 29 May 2005 19:19:54 +0000

Grocery Store Wars | Join the Organic Rebellion: ChewBroccoli… very funny. (tags: flash, humor, food, video)
Treemapper is an Excel Add-In: “Treemapper is an Excel Add-In that allows an Excel user to quickly and easily generate a treemap visualization of any hierarchical data in Excel, or from a CSV or XML file.” (tags: Data, Visualization, Microsoft)
With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour – New York Times: “…the rise of podcasting is now enabling museumgoers not simply to enjoy audio guides on a sleeker-looking device but also to concoct their own guides and tours. … woostercollective.com, recently made a sound-seeing tour of the Jean-Michel Basquiat re (tags: Art, podcasting)

links for 2005-05-28

Sat, 28 May 2005 19:20:00 +0000

New Scientist 11 steps to a better brain – Features: “It doesn’t matter how brainy you are or how much education you’ve had – you can still improve and expand your mind.” (tags: Education, Health, HOWTO, Hacking)
Jeffrey Veen: The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds: “I have always been bothered by how difficult it is to subscribe to RSS/Atom feeds.” (tags: Blogs, RSS, UI)

links for 2005-05-27

Fri, 27 May 2005 19:20:23 +0000

B3ta – Guinness Ice Lolly: Perfect for the Holiday Weekend! “You’re very own Guinness Ice Lolly with head!” (tags: Beer, Humor)

links for 2005-05-25

Wed, 25 May 2005 19:20:52 +0000

Broadcast Machine: Publish RSS / Torrent Video Channels: “Broadcast Machine is software for your website that can publish fullscreen video files to thousands, using torrent technology to reduce or eliminate bandwidth costs. It is free, open source, and designed for easy installation.” (tags: P2P, Torrents, Video, RSS, media)
Roadcasting: Hmm… “It is a system, currently in prototype state, that allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcasted among wirelessly capable devices, some in cars, in an ad-hoc wireless network. The system can become aware of individual preferences and (tags: media, podcasting, Mobile, P2P, Social)
Richard’s Notes » Blog Archive » Canon DSLR Error 99 fix: I haven’t had this error on my 300D, but it’s good to know! “…the lens contacts were dirty and to get a pencil with an eraser on the end, just a regular old pencil with a red rubber eraser.” (tags: Photography, canon)

links for 2005-05-24

Tue, 24 May 2005 19:21:05 +0000

Butler [dive into mark]: “Butler enhances Google search results by adding links to competitors. It also removes ads, changes typography, and a few other useful things.” (tags: Google, Hacks, greasemonkey)

links for 2005-05-22

Sun, 22 May 2005 19:19:41 +0000

my Google: Google gets personal (tags: Google, Search, Portal)
A Work In Progress: Everything You Thought You Knew About Grilling Is Wrong: “There are a few extremely simple secrets. “ (tags: HOWTO, food, cooking)

links for 2005-05-21

Sat, 21 May 2005 19:20:02 +0000

Open Source Podcast Application Loudblog Released | Podcasting News (tags: Podcasting, Open_Source, Software, Blogs)

links for 2005-05-20

Fri, 20 May 2005 19:19:50 +0000

Del.icio.us Auto-Complete – John Resig: “A Greasemonkey extension that adds tag auto-complete capabilities to the traditional del.icio.us posting areas.” (tags: delicious, web, dev)

links for 2005-05-17

Tue, 17 May 2005 19:20:23 +0000

PodNova | Better podcast delivery through PodNova. Search or browse the biggest podcast universe, single click subscribing, OPML support and synchronization.: PodNova. A web based application which builds on RSS and OPML (tags: podcasting, RSS)

links for 2005-05-16

Mon, 16 May 2005 19:19:19 +0000

The next (radio) wave: Article was on the front page of the Sunday (5/15/2005) Business Section in the Star-Ledger: “Audio marriage between iPods and broadcasting starting to sizzle” (tags: podcasting)

links for 2005-05-14

Sat, 14 May 2005 19:19:05 +0000

Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs: Downloadable and very printable graph paper (tags: Art, Data, Design)
20Q.net: “The game you are about to play is a test of the next generation of Twenty Questions.” (tags: AI, Entertainment)

links for 2005-05-11

Wed, 11 May 2005 19:19:30 +0000

Synergy: Interesting: “Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since e (tags: Open_Source, Software)
Yahoo! News Tag Soup: Folksonomy Tagging via Yahoo’s Content Analysis web service… sweet! (tags: Folksonomy, Yahoo, Web, Service)

links for 2005-05-10

Tue, 10 May 2005 19:18:52 +0000

How to Brew Beer in a Coffee Pot: “…with familiar kitchen equipment, you can repeat the steps of the process that goes on in breweries large and small-and make a very small batch of beer.” (tags: HOWTO, Beer)

links for 2005-05-06

Fri, 06 May 2005 19:18:46 +0000

Google Web Accelerator Download: Google Web Accelerator works with your browser to help web pages show up in a snap (tags: Google, Web, Service)
Apple – Support – Downloads – Bonjour for Windows – Read Me: “Bonjour, also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. Bonjour uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically discover each other without the need to en (tags: Apple, Microsoft, Software)
Court yanks down FCC’s broadcast flag | CNET News.com: Holy Crap! “In a stunning victory for hardware makers and television buffs, a federal appeals court has tossed out government rules that would have outlawed many digital TV receivers and tuner cards starting July 1.” (tags: HD, DRM, MythTV)

links for 2005-05-04

Wed, 04 May 2005 19:18:47 +0000

Password generator: “this is a little Javascript program that will concatenate two fields and MD5 them. The idea is that you choose one master password to secure all your others, and then generate passwords for each site, server, router, &c. by putting a completely obvious n (tags: Security, Hacks)

links for 2005-05-03

Tue, 03 May 2005 19:18:35 +0000

Yahoo Traffic Conditions widget: John Resig found an RSS feed for traffic conditions from Yahoo (tags: RSS, Commuting)

links for 2005-05-02

Mon, 02 May 2005 19:19:33 +0000

Cycles Gaansari: Simplicity is beautiful: “The Gaansari Whirlwind is an off-road bike inspired by the last 100 years of bike design. We%u2019ve included an eccentric bottom bracket for added versatility” (tags: Cycling)
Xtra-Google – The Best of Google on one searchable page: “search all of Google’s services from a single page interface” (tags: via:jfgadgetboy, Google, Search)

links for 2005-05-01

Sun, 01 May 2005 19:18:02 +0000

Burning Questions – The Official FeedBurner Weblog: Google AdSense Support: “FeedBurner has implemented support for this capability. Google is currently testing this program with just a few publishers, but as the program becomes more widely available, and your Google AdSense id is approved for use with RSS ads, FeedBurner will ta (tags: Google, RSS, Business)
DirCaster v0.4: Automatic podcast RSS feed maker: Drop this script in a directory and it will generate an RSS feed suitable for iPodder, etc based off the MP3 files in that directory. To ‘cast a new file, simply upload it to the directory containing this script. (tags: Podcast, PHP, RSS)
Report: Oracle in Talks to Buy Siebel: “Business software giant Oracle is reportedly in talks to buy customer relationship management applications maker Siebel Systems” (tags: Business, CRM, ERP)

links for 2005-04-30

Sat, 30 Apr 2005 19:17:56 +0000

libsyn // podcasting made easy: “Libsyn is the first full featured service tailored specifically for media self-publishing and Podcasting.” (Thanks John) (tags: Podcast, Web, Service)

links for 2005-04-28

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:18:18 +0000

RSS Mix – Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed!: Useful… I wonder if it supports enclosures too: “Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed!” (tags: RSS, Web, Service)
Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too? (plasticbag.org): I’ve had both Trackback and Comments turned off for over 6-months and I don’t think I’m going back to the way it is/was… “I think it’s time we faced the fact that Trackback is dead.” (tags: Blogs, Spam)

links for 2005-04-27

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:18:05 +0000

Tags: Database schemas: “The Problem: You want to have a database schema where you can tag a bookmark (or a blog post or whatever) with as many tags as you want. Later then, you want to run queries to constrain the bookmarks to a union or intersection of tags. You also want to e (tags: DB, delicious)

links for 2005-04-22

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:17:12 +0000

Sunbeam 20-in-1 Superior Panel: I might get two! “Sunbeam packs a helluva punch into a tiny space with the 20-in-1 Superior Panel. Combining the features of a Multi-Card Reader/Writer, an I/O panel, and a fan controller into a 5.25%u201D drive bay” (tags: Hardware)
GreaseMonkey – “Amazon Free Music” helper: “Amazon has lots of free non-DRM music available … It is a pain to click through to download, so I decided to write a quick userscript for GreaseMonkey which skips the step of having to click to another page, and lets you get the music.” (tags: Music, Service, Hack)
Processing 1.0 (BETA): “Processing is a programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound.” (tags: Dev, Software)
MonkeyHomes.com – NYC Subway Station Map: Google Maps hack with Subway Station points (tags: Google, Hacks)

links for 2005-04-21

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:15:44 +0000

Audible RSS Feeds: Audible now provides RSS feeds… very nice! (tags: RSS, Audio, Books)

links for 2005-04-20

Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:16:23 +0000

Indy.TV: “Indy is a music discovery program that learns what you like, and plays more of it. And it’s free.” (tags: Music, Service)
Welcome to Wondir. Please ask a question.: “Got Questions? Ask here. Make it as clear as you can, so people can understand what you are asking.” (tags: Web, Service, KM)

links for 2005-04-19

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:16:19 +0000

Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4 Billion: Maybe SVG will become more ubiquitous than flash (tags: Business, Software, Flash, SVG)
Productivity and Plain Vanilla – Koch’s IT Strategy – Blog – CIO: “The argument for plain vanilla is compelling: the fewer customizations you make to an enterprise software system, the lower your support costs are and the more likely you%u2019ll be able to upgrade to the software manufacturer’s next release without pain (tags: IT, Business, ERP)
flickrStats: “One of the beautiful things about the Flickr API is it enables interesting things without the Flickr team having to do the work.” (tags: API, Photography)

links for 2005-04-18

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:19:00 +0000

Armstrong to retire after going for 7th Tour de France title in July – Monday April 18, 2005 4:02PM: I’m not surprised: “Lance Armstrong will retire from professional cycling after this summer’s Tour de France, ending one of the great careers in all sports.” (tags: Cycling)

links for 2005-04-15

Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:19:32 +0000

MSN Sandbox: “On-the-fly it clusters a search engine’s search results into different groups, and provides meaningful and readable names for these groups. SRC changes the traditional representation of search results into a non-linear way, so as to facilitate the user’s (tags: Microsoft, Search)
MythTV – 0.18: New release of MythTV … I need to set aside some time to upgrade. (tags: MythTV, PVR)

links for 2005-04-14

Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:19:20 +0000

Participatory Culture Foundation: “Announcing a new platform for internet television and video. Anyone can broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost, using BitTorrent technology.” (tags: Video, P2P, Open_Source, Collaboration)

links for 2005-04-11

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:18:39 +0000

BA-Insight’s Longitude 2.0 for SharePoint Portal: Very cool! it renders previews in SVG “Longitude leverages the customer%u2019s investment in SharePoint Portal to provide an Enterprise Search Engine that rivals best-of-breed offering on the market today.” (tags: Search, Microsoft, Hardware)

del.icio.us.ly blogged

Sat, 09 Apr 2005 22:26:13 +0000

Much of my blogging these days has been taken over by the links and quick comments I have been posting to the del.icio.us social bookmarks manager. So I decided to completely mesh what I’m doing @ del.icio.us with my blog.

The integration process is actually fairly simple with the help of the experimental daily blog posting interface found in del.icio.us (@/settings/USER/daily). Basically, you enter the XML-RPC interface entry point from your blog, some user credentials and the process will deposit into your blog any links posted to your del.icio.us account in the last 24 hours — complete with extended comments and tags. Nice!

links for 2005-04-06

Wed, 06 Apr 2005 19:17:32 +0000

YaGoohoo!gle: mash-up of Yahoo! and Google (tags: Search, Humor)

links for 2005-04-05

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:17:28 +0000

AirClickUSB: AirClickUSB can control applications like iTunes or PowerPoint from up to 60ft. away even through walls (tags: Wireless, Hardware)

links for 2005-04-03

Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:17:17 +0000

OpenDirViewer.com: “Enter the url of the open directory you want to view” (tags: Web, Service)

links for 2005-03-30

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:22:31 +0000

[delicious-discuss] big news: Congratulations Joshua! “I’ve decided to quit my job and workon del.icio.us full time.” (tags: delicious)

links for 2005-03-29

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:22:47 +0000

MP3 Hi-Fi Stereo FM Transmitter (Fully Assembled): “Transmit MP3s or Internet radio stations from your computer or laptop to anywhere in the house with this stereo FM transmitter.” (tags: Audio, Hardware, Hacks)
Zanfel: Poison Ivy, Poison Oak and Poison Sumac Treatment: Zanfel Poison Ivy Wash is a safe and effective topical solution for poison ivy, (tags: Medicine, Health)

links for 2005-03-28

Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:22:29 +0000

Billionaire Cuban to save punk birthplace?: Rock on! “Mark Cuban has emerged as a potential savior of CBGB, the New York club that is considered the birthplace of punk but now faces eviction.” (tags: Music, Business, NYC)
Die, fax machine, die!: OMG, How many times can I say this! “If there’s one piece of office equipment we’d gladly show the door, it’s the fax machine.” (tags: Technology, Humor)

links for 2005-03-25

Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:22:13 +0000

SessionSaver: A feature in Maxthon that I miss in FireFox: “Remembers loaded tabs and their history items when Firefox is manually closed, then restores the tabs and history items when next started. The saved session can also be manually restored or updated at any late

links for 2005-03-24

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:22:09 +0000

PATH: Ways-of-Working in Photography: Interesting (tags: Photography, HOWTO)
openCRX – What is new in openCRX v1.4: Open Source CRM (tags: Open_Source, CRM)

links for 2005-03-23

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:22:04 +0000

Podcast Tags: Tagging of Podcasts (tags: Podcast)
Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr: Somone was going to do it… “We can finally confirm that Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and us” (tags: Photography, Web, Service, Business)
SendToAny: SendToAny extends the Windows Explorer ‘Send To’ context menu with all known links. (tags: Microsoft, Hacks)
ToolTask: “ToolTask is an Internet Explorer toolbar written in C# to remind you to view important web pages as and when you need them.” (tags: Microsoft, Hacks)

links for 2005-03-19

Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:21:46 +0000

Google Code: “Google Code is a single place for open source tools and code for interacting with Google and its API.” (tags: Google, Hacks, Open_Source)

links for 2005-03-16

Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:21:37 +0000

OpenSearch > OpenSearch RSS 1.0 Specification: “The OpenSearch RSS extension aims to define the bare minimum of additional functionality required to provide search results over RSS channels.” (tags: RSS, Search)

links for 2005-03-15

Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:21:29 +0000

PodFeeder – Popular: The following is a listing of the Top 50 most popular podcasts that Podfeeder users are subscribed to (tags: Podcast)

links for 2005-03-14

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:21:43 +0000

The Long Tail in Wikipedia: The Long Tail entry in Wikipedia (tags: Business, Entertainment)
Noise Ninja: “Noise Ninja is the most effective and productive solution for removing noise and grain from digital photographs and scanned film images.” (tags: Photography, Software)
Web of Letters: “Using the Yahoo API and its image search capabilities, I created the Web of Letters. Enter anything and the letters for your word will be pulled from the web. Refresh for different results.” (tags: Search, API, Web, Service)
NCAA Bracket Templates: Great Excel and Visio templates released by Microsoft to keep track of the tournament. (tags: Basketball, College)

links for 2005-03-11

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:21:20 +0000

Utility, commodity: IT to follow electricity?: “As Silicon Valley emerges from the dot-com bubble, it has become fashionable for high-tech leaders to describe ours as a maturing industry whose slower growth rate is doomed to mirror the increase in gross domestic product.” (tags: IT)
Bnoopy: The long tail of software. Millions of Markets of Dozens.: Joe is on the money with this post: “I’ve seen so many business that run on Excel email.” (tags: Business, Software)
10 Things I Have Learned: Good advice (tags: Career, Employment)

links for 2005-03-10

Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:21:10 +0000

Microsoft to buy Groove Networks: Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove’s founder, Ray Ozzie, chief technology officer at the software giant. (tags: Microsoft, Collaboration, P2P, Business)
Tips for Mastering E-mail Overload: HOWTO send email that gets responses (tags: HOWTO, Email)
What Should I Do With My Life?: It’s time to define the new era. Our faith has been shaken. We’ve lost confidence in our leaders and in our institutions. Our beliefs have been tested. We’ve discredited the notion that the Internet would change everything (and the stock market would buy (tags: Business, Employment)

links for 2005-03-09

Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:21:23 +0000

Slacker Manager: The unspoken language of the office: LOL! “Not much is mentioned about how to use body language to get people out of your office.” (tags: Humor, Business)
Management Craft: How to Interview Potential Employers: what questions should you ask potential employers (tags: Employment)
bluggcaster: “Kosso from Blugg.com has created a Flash-based Podcast client” (tags: Podcast, Flash)
Amazon Zuggest: This is Francis Shanahan’s take on Google Suggest only with Amazon (tags: Search, Web, Service)

links for 2005-03-08

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:21:00 +0000

Bluetooth Rearview Mirror : Gizmodo: “get caller ID information displayed as you drive. In addition, the mirror functions as a hands-free speakerphone” (tags: Hardware, Bluetooth)

links for 2005-03-07

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:20:59 +0000

Giant Steps in Flash: Michal Levy took Coltrane’s Giant Steps and set it to Flash (tags: Music, Flash, Art)
WordPre.cio.us: “custom script that imports del.icio.us bookmarks into your WordPress blog” (tags: bookmarks, Blogs)
Montage-a-google: create a montage from google images (tags: Search, Photography, Art, Service)
PublicRadioFan.com – Podcast directory: The public radio programs listed below are available as recorded podcasts (tags: Podcast)
Peeking Into Google: A look at Google’s back-end systems and how they maintain redundancy (tags: Google, Search, IT)
Leading Forward: How to Read and Digest a Book!: strategies to improve reading effectiveness (tags: Books, Education)

links for 2005-03-05

Sat, 05 Mar 2005 18:20:46 +0000

Don’t link to Bill O’Reilly’s article: I’m not supposed to link to this column by Bill O’Reilly (tags: News, Hypocrisy)

links for 2005-03-04

Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:20:49 +0000

Skate or Die!: Rad! “Photo gallery of 25 years of skateboarding audio narration by old school skater Steve Alba.” (tags: Skateboarding, Photography)
SAJAX – Simple Ajax Toolkit – XMLHTTPRequest Toolkit for PHP: “Sajax is a tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework (also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting) as easy as possible. (tags: Web, Dev, Software, PHP)

links for 2005-03-02

Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:20:55 +0000

Wists: del.icio.us + Flickr? “Wists has just launched in beta” (tags: bookmarks, KM)

links for 2005-03-01

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:20:35 +0000

Yahoo! Search Web Services: “Yahoo! Search Web Services allow you to access Yahoo content and services in your favorite programming languages.” (tags: Search, Dev, Web, Service)

links for 2005-02-28

Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:20:29 +0000

Appcasting: It would be nice to see this built into apps: “Appcasting is the practice of using the ‘enclosure’ feature of RSS 2.0 feeds to deliver updates and release notes for new software applications.”

links for 2005-02-25

Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:20:16 +0000

Template:css: “Template:css collects many css formatted page templates, developed and distributed by different designers.” (tags: CSS, Web, Design)
Wired 13.03: Adam Curry Wants to Make You an iPod Radio Star: He’s gone from MTV to MP3, and now he’s leading a grassroots rebellion called podcasting. Why amateurs may soon rule the airwaves (begin download now). (tags: Podcast)
MSFN’s Unattended XP CD: “Have you ever wanted a Windows CD that would install Windows by automatically putting in your name, product key, timezone and regional settings?” (tags: Microsoft, HOWTO)
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide: An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting (tags: Linux, Dev, HOWTO)

links for 2005-02-24

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:20:42 +0000

Portable Virtual Privacy Machine: “Carry your entire Internet communication system on a tiny USB drive.” (tags: Security, Linux)
What, Me Exercise?: “Don’t kid yourself into thinking that exercise, by itself, will make you lose weight.” (tags: Fitness)
Vimeo – Automatic Movies: “This is a site for organizing and sharing your video clips. Vimeo also makes it easy to watch your friends’ video clips, or to view clips that have common subject matter.” (tags: Video, Collaboration)
Ten CSS tricks you may not know: Handy CSS tips. (tags: CSS, Web, Design)
Filangy: Anyone have an invite for this? “Filangy is a new way to manage and share Web information. You%u2019ll never have to go hunting for an article you read online last week or search over and over again.” (tags: Collaboration, KM, Web, Service)

links for 2005-02-23

Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:20:04 +0000

StrangeBanana: Computer-generated webpage design: StrangeBanana is a program that creates a random webpage design. (tags: Web, Design)
Smackerel: A Biased History of Interactive Media: HyperCard, VideoWorks, Director…oh my! (tags: Multimedia, History)
ThinkGeek :: Megazooka: “Just like Airzooka, the Megazooka shoots a powerful blast of air up to 20 feet at unsuspecting targets. Unlike Airzooka, the Megazooka can intimidate your enemies into submission at mere sight.” (tags: Humor, Toys)

links for 2005-02-22

Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:20:07 +0000

The Regex Coach – interactive regular expressions: Awesome! “The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Linux and Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively.” (tags: Dev, Software)

links for 2005-02-18

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:19:53 +0000

Armstrong says he will ride in Tour: “The six-time winner of the Tour de France ended speculation that he would skip cycling’s most prestigious race by announcing on Wednesday that he will be back in July.” (tags: Cycling)

links for 2005-02-17

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:19:37 +0000

The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT: “Looks like this accidentally leaked out a bit early, but Canon is introducing the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, a new 8.0 megapixel digital SLR that is supposed to be lighter and smaller than the original Canon Digital Rebel, have an improved CMOS sensor, (tags: Photography)
IE7: “we’re committing to deliver a new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP customers. Betas of IE7 will be available this summer.” (tags: Microsoft, Web, Software)

links for 2005-02-14

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:19:34 +0000

Flickr and Perl: A linux Gazette HOWTO on using the Flickr::API Perl module (tags: Dev, Perl, HOWTO, Photography)
Flickr Central Colr Pickr: Very cool… click a color on the wheel to reveal photos that match that color. (tags: Photography, Web, Service)
flickr graph – marcos weskamp: “Flickr Graph is an application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com. It makes use of the classic attraction-repulsion algorithm for graphs.” (tags: Photography, Web, Service)
How to Extract DNA from Anything Living: “Just follow these 3 easy steps:Detergent, eNzymes (meat tenderizer) and Alcohol” (tags: Science, Hacks)
Google Mini: I agree: “it’s my view that the Mini will do little to change the Enterprise Search landscape…” (tags: Google, Search, IT)
SharePoint Search: “SharePoint Search might be considered a poor search engine in an absolute sense. Yet in a relative sense, it’s not so different from %u201CBest Of Breed%u201C (BOB) alternatives such as Verity, Endeca…” (tags: Search, Microsoft)
The Windows XP Tweaking Companion (XPTC): “The Windows XP Tweaking Companion (XPTC) is the complete Windows XP and system optimization guide” (tags: Microsoft, HOWTO)
Teleo: “It adds a toolbar into IE and Outlook. It turns every phone number into a clickable call.” (tags: SIP)

links for 2005-02-09

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:19:10 +0000

Learn How to Tie a Tie: Handy reference: “…get started with the Windsor Knot, one of the easiest tie knots to learn, before trying the Half Windsor Knot, the Four in Hand Knot and the Pratt Knot – each and everyone being the best-suited knot for a certain type of shirt collar. (tags: Business, Fashion)

links for 2005-02-08

Tue, 08 Feb 2005 18:18:58 +0000

VoIP over Phone Wiring: “The phone wiring in the house could be terminated at my Linksys Phone Adapter the same way the phone company brings their lines to the house and ties in to all the internal wiring of the house.” (tags: VOIP)
Google Maps: Wow… taking the web-based mapping service to the next level (tags: Google, Web, Service)
UnderDevelopment – MythTV.info: MythTV Change Log: “Below are the features and bug fixes currently under development for the next release of MythTV” (tags: MythTV, PVR, Wiki)
PrettyPrinter.de: source code beautifier: This is an online pretty printer for PHP, Java, C , C, Perl, JavaScript, CSS (tags: Web, Dev, Service, Code)

links for 2005-02-07

Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:19:01 +0000

pcHDTV’s HD-3000: The pcHDTV’s HD-3000 Hi Definition Television Card is the next generation digital television card to be produced specially for the Linux video hobbyist market. (tags: PVR, Hardware, Linux, HDTV)
How to Read Mathematics: “Students need to learn how to read mathematics, in the same way they learn how to read a novel or a poem, listen to music, or view a painting.” (tags: Math)
Photography: Light: “My personal definition of photography is “the recording of light rays.” It is therefore difficult to take a decent picture if you have not chosen the lighting carefully.” (tags: Photography)
SpamBayes and Dreamhost: “How to set up SpamBayes for your Dreamhost mail account.” (tags: Web, Spam, Open_Source)
KnoppMythWiki: KnoppMythWiki is very useful (tags: MythTV, PVR, Wiki)
Vip-torrents: Yet another… (tags: Torrents, Search)
gre.gario.us: “gre.gario.us: tries to match people based on their delicious bookmarks” (tags: Social_Networking, bookmarks)

links for 2005-02-04

Fri, 04 Feb 2005 18:18:45 +0000

XAMPP: AMP installer: Another AMP installer: “XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.” (tags: Open_Source, Web, Dev)

links for 2005-02-03

Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:18:46 +0000

RSS feeds attract venture dollars: “So many blogs, so little time–and now, so many entrepreneurs hoping to help you sort through them.” (tags: RSS, Business)
Embedding Y!Q in your site: Seems like SmartTags: “When you embed Y!Q into your site, your users get to search for related information about the content of your pages while staying actively engaged on your site.” (tags: Search, KM)
An introduction to mod_security: ModSecurity is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications. Operating as an Apache Web server module, the purpose of ModSecurity is to increase web application security, protecting web applications from known and unknown (tags: Web, Security)

links for 2005-02-02

Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:18:41 +0000

EverNote: “With EverNote 1.0, you can easily store and quickly access typed and handwritten memos, webpage excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, documents and more!” (tags: Collaboration, KM, Software)

links for 2005-01-31

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:18:28 +0000

The Sound of iPod: Extracting the iPod boot loader via the built-in speaker. Very clever! (tags: Audio, Hardware, Hacks)
So you want to be a consultant…?: “Or: Why work 8 hours/day for someone else when you can work 16 hours/day for yourself?” (tags: Consulting)
Transcend: Transcend (a new video game by Jason Rohrer) can best be described as retro-style, abstract, 2D shooter. (tags: Open_Source, Ganes)

links for 2005-01-28

Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:18:18 +0000

Ultimate Boot CD: “Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives” (tags: Linux, Software, IT)
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog): I need to try this: “The live CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all.” (tags: Linux, Software, IT)

links for 2005-01-27

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:18:11 +0000

extisp.icio.us – hatch: bookmarks KM
#Tv-Swarm @ EFNet: “TV Torrents the Way They Should Be Done” (tags: Torrents, Search)

links for 2005-01-26

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:18:10 +0000

The Critique Group: “The aim of Critiquegroup.com is to bring together those people actively seeking feedback on their work. It makes no difference if they are published, award winning professionals seeking some feedback, or virtual newcomers looking for some tips and tricks (tags: Art)
The 25 most difficult questions: The 25 most difficult questions you’ll be asked on a job interview (tags: Employment)
JBidWatcher: A Java-based application allowing you to monitor auctions you’re not part of, submit bids, snipe (bid at the last moment), and otherwise track your auction-site experience (tags: Open_Source, Software, Java)

links for 2005-01-25

Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:17:59 +0000

Google Video Search: Search recent TV programs online (tags: Google, Video, Search)

links for 2005-01-23

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:17:49 +0000

Bellster Network: “Bellster Network’s Phone Sharing Service! Where you can call the World for Free” (tags: P2P, VOIP)
PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Released: Good news: “After more than a year of hard work, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group proudly announces the release of version 8.0.0 of the PostgreSQL ORDBMS. This release involves possibly more major changes than any prior version of PostgreSQL since (tags: Open_Source, DB, Windows, Linux)
eXeem: “eXeem is a brand new Peer-To-Peer program, which is based on the BitTorrent idea.” (tags: P2P)

links for 2005-01-21

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:17:42 +0000

Six Apart Guide to Combatting Comment Spam: This document describes how malicious or unwanted comments (‘comment spam’) affect weblogs, the techniques spammers use to abuse weblogs, and the tactics that can be used to prevent and defend against these attacks. (tags: Blogs, Spam)
LCD vs CRT: The question is why choose LCD over CRT? (tags: Hardware)
RightMark CPU Clock Utility: “RightMark CPU Clock Utility (RMClock) is a GUI application designed for realtime CPU frequency/load monitoring…” (tags: Hardware, Software)

Picasa Update Supports RAW

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:18:50 +0000

Based on the initial buzz surrounding Google’s recent update to their Image Organizing/Editing application, Picasa 2, I was eager to check it out.

However, what I hadn’t read about before downloading, and was pleasantly surprised to discover, was that the Picasa update supports viewing and editing photos saved in my Canon 300D’s native CRW RAW file format! Awesome!

Apparently the update also supports Nikon’s NEF RAW format as well.

I still will probably use Photoshop for its much more advanced image editing capabilities, but for quick cropping, level adjustments and black and white conversions (with color filtering) I will likely stay within the Picasa 2 environment.

links for 2005-01-03

Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:19:03 +0000

Trigger: “Trigger is a free rally car racing game.” Awesome! (tags: Games, Open_Source)

links for 2004-12-30

Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:15:15 +0000

Games Knoppix: “A distribution of Knoppix loaded with games has a bootable CD with 700 MB of open-source games, 3d support for NVIDIA, ATI, and Intel Extreme, gamepad support for XWindows.” (tags: Games, Linux, Open_Source)
Troubleshooting Your Images: “In this article we discuss a variety of common causes of poor digital images, and present some tips on diagnosing and correcting the problems.” (tags: HOWTO, Photography)

links for 2004-12-29

Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:15:18 +0000

CEO resigns from PeopleSoft: “PeopleSoft founder David Duffield, who returned as chief executive of the business software maker during its takeover battle with rival Oracle, has resigned from the company.” (tags: IT, PeopleSoft)

Virtual Apple ][ Online Disk Archive

Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:50:51 +0000

These guys have an entire library of old Apple ][ programs online that run within the browser. They use an ActiveX control that’s an Apple ][gs virtual machine emulator running within the IE… Sweet!

[with Virtual Apple]…”you can now relive, play, and enjoy old Apple 2 games and other disks through the internet and web browser. This web site uses an ActiveX application and Apple IIgs emulator to automatically download and play most Apple 2 disk images online. To play a game, just select the disk from the menu and click on Yes to automatically download the ActiveX emulator and disk images. (Note: Requires Internet Explorer and Windows) Don’t worry, there isn’t any spyware to worry about, and it’s completely free!” (via Boing Boing)

links for 2004-12-28

Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:15:43 +0000

Koch’s IT Strategy: Last week’s acquisition of Peoplesoft by Oracle is the final example of how badly the original mission of enterprise software–business and technology integration in a box–has failed

links for 2004-12-27

Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:10:26 +0000

Open Text Summarizer: “The Open Text Summarizer is an open source tool for summarizing texts. The program reads a text and decides which sentences are important and which are not.” (tags: Dev, Search)
Desktop Search Matrix: Matrix compares Desktop Search offerings (tags: Search)
Using Image Calibration Techniques to Reduce Noise in Digital Images: “This article is about a method of reducing noise in images taken with digital cameras – especially long exposure and/or high ISO images taken with digital SLRs.” (tags: HOWTO, Photography)
Remote-controlled digital picture frame apparatus: Nice…”Spoils of an old laptop” (tags: Hacks, Hardware, Photography)

links for 2004-12-24

Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:10:41 +0000

Collection of front pages of today’s newspapers: Newseum site has has scans of newspaper front pages… interesting… (tags: News, Service)

links for 2004-12-23

Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:10:48 +0000

The Graphing Calculator Story: Great stroy … I loved that Calculator (tags: Mac, Software)
The MPAA has no idea what’s about to hit them: “…several large Bittorrent tracker sites were shut down, citing concerns about problems with copyright holders.The movie studios think this is a good thing. They’re wrong. P2P is the Content Industry’s worst nightmare….” (tags: P2P, Torrents)

links for 2004-12-21

Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:11:04 +0000

VentureBlog: Coming Soon: Desktop In Your Pocket: “Last year, I wrote an article about using your mobile device as a window into your desktop world. This year, we are several steps closer to that goal.” (tags: Mobile, Search)

Fax You!

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:08:27 +0000

I said it last year around this time and the year before too. Now Ev is saying it and of course Anil had said it way before anyone, but PLEASE let us make sure we rid the world of the bloody fax machine!

Blinkx Video Search

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:18:46 +0000

Not surprisingly we’re going to see much more in the way of video or “multimedia” search from the likes of Yahoo, Google and of course Microsoft, but it looks like the Blinkx Video Search is the first one out of the starting blocks (too bad they don’t offer the results in RSS with enclosures)

“The beta offering, dubbed Blinkx TV, captures and indexes video and audio streams directly from television and radio broadcasters to make available news, sports and entertainment clips, the company said. The engine lets people group specific searches using “smart folders” that continuously collect multimedia content from sources including Fox News, HBO, ESPN, National Public Radio and the BBC World Service.” (via
CNET)

links for 2004-12-14

Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:11:52 +0000

WLAN Hard Drive Box: Wireless (802.11g) Drive Enclosure from Asus… I want one! (tags: Hardware, IT, WiFi)

links for 2004-12-13

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:12:06 +0000

Hacking Google Suggest: Adam Stiles has some sample code for hacking Google’s new Auto Complete feature (tags: Google, Hacks, Search)
Couchbike: “In 2002, two intrepid cyclists rode a human powered couch through Maritime Canada.” (tags: Cycling, Humor)

IBM the Google for businesses?

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:14:12 +0000

There are few specific details in this article on CNET about IBM’s push into the Enterprise Search market, but it does hint at IBM’s commitment to “higher-margin software and services” during its transition from the PC Hardware space.

“IBM is building software it hopes will make it the Google of corporate-search technology.”

“IBM is constructing a content management and search product line through acquisitions and by sifting through the results of its research and development labs.” (e.g. WebFountain)

links for 2004-12-11

Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:12:15 +0000

TheOpenCD: “We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of TheOpenCD v2.0” (tags: IT, Open_Source, Software)

links for 2004-12-10

Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:12:23 +0000

Halo 2 RSS Excel Workbook: “This spreadsheet reads in the RSS feed that Bungie provides for your game information” (tags: Games, RSS)
FeedSpeaker Blog: I like this! “Feedspeaker translates text RSS Feeds into badly spoken MP3 files. I like to pretend Stephen Hawking is reading my favorite blogs to me on my way to work.” (tags: Audio, Hack, RSS)

Google Auto-Complete

Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:24:16 +0000

I know, I know… first post in a long time. Trust me; I haven’t abandoned the blog — more on that another time.

Anyway, I just tested Google Suggest, the new Auto-Complete feature that’s currently in beta at Google. My first impression is that this is a wicked fast service! I hope they make it a default feature, but I imagine they’d still have to work out the scaling issues.

Beyond that, I’d like to see the Auto-Complete feature applied to all the other Google properties like GMail, Froogle, Google News and even the Google Tool Bar. I’m sure it’s in the works.

links for 2004-12-07

Tue, 07 Dec 2004 18:12:48 +0000

Default Password List: Very handy list. (tags: Hacks, IT, Security)

links for 2004-12-05

Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:12:57 +0000

Ding Fries Are Done!!: Would you like an apple pie with that? (tags: Humor)

links for 2004-11-29

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:13:40 +0000

Foxylicious: Foxylicious is a Mozilla Firefox extension that integrates your del.icio.us bookmarks into your browser bookmarks. (tags: Hacks, bookmarks)
Turbospoke: Neat-O! “Spoke Powered Super Engine Sound” (tags: Cycling, Kids)
Blog Torrent: Simplified bittorrent by Downhill Battle (tags: P2P, RSS, Torrents)
How-To: BroadCatching: How-To: BroadCatching using RSS and BitTorrent to automatically download TV shows (via Engadget) (tags: P2P, RSS, Torrents)

links for 2004-11-22

Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:14:33 +0000

Google Deskbar API: “With the Google Deskbar API, you can write plug-ins to add your own features to the Google Deskbar. Plug-ins can be written in any .NET language, such as C# or Visual Basic.NET.” (tags: Dev, Search)

links for 2004-11-20

Sat, 20 Nov 2004 18:14:44 +0000

Practical Applications of the Philosopher’s stone. For drunks.: “…theory is that a simple brita water filter can be used to make bad vodka, into good” (tags: Hacks, Science)

links for 2004-11-19

Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:14:51 +0000

When Your Co-Worker is Away: The Chia-Keyboard Rules! (tags: Hacks, Humor)
Google Scholar: Google’s crawler for academic papers … It includes a cross referenced citation link for each paper (nice!) (tags: Search)

links for 2004-11-18

Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:15:04 +0000

MSN Search Algebra: Neat! Do your algebra via MSN Search (It solves for x!) (tags: Math, Search)

links for 2004-11-17

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:15:15 +0000

blinkx 2.0: New version. The “Smart Folders” feature seems interesting. (tags: Search, Software)

links for 2004-11-16

Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:15:16 +0000

The Physics of Gluttony: The obesity epidemic has a simple solution. If you want to lose weight, either eat less, or breathe more. (tags: Health)
MSN Desktop Search Revealed: Beta to follow, I’m sure. (tags: Microsoft, Search, Software)

links for 2004-11-15

Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:15:23 +0000

Build Your Own XGA Projector: Tom’s Hardware Guide PCs & HowTo: Supersize Your TV for $300: Build Your Own XGA Projector! – Giant Wall Display (tags: HOWTO, Hardware, Video)
Dog Toy or Marital Aid?: You decide. (tags: Dogs, Humor)

links for 2004-11-14

Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:15:28 +0000

How to never miss an episode with BitTorrent and RSS (pealco.net): “In this post you will learn how you can never miss an episode of your favorite shows ever again. This will be accomplished through the magic of BitTorrent and RSS.” (tags: P2P, RSS, Torrents)

links for 2004-11-10

Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:14:40 +0000

Speegle Speak Perfect Web Search.: Google Search and News Search results read aloud. (tags: Search)

links for 2004-11-09

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:14:48 +0000

Lucene Desktop: Lucene-based Open Source Desktop Search (tags: Open_Source, Search)

links for 2004-11-08

Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:14:53 +0000

IM Smarter: Search your IM chat history… plus a lot more (tags: IM, Service)

links for 2004-11-05

Fri, 05 Nov 2004 18:15:21 +0000

rsnapshot: rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems (tags: IT, Linux, Software)

links for 2004-11-04

Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:15:22 +0000

Top 10 Suprnova.org Alternatives: Bit Torrent Trackers (tags: P2P, Search, Torrents)

links for 2004-10-31

Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:15:51 +0000

SuprNova Mirror: Light: Browsable Torrent search engine (tags: P2P, Search, Torrents)
Don Vito Torrents: Torrent Categories and search engine (tags: P2P, Search, Torrents)

links for 2004-10-28

Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:16:12 +0000

Feedster Hacks: “Feedster Hacks is a weblog and directory for the various hacks that have been created with Feedster (Hence the name).” (tags: Hacks, RSS, Search)

links for 2004-10-24

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:12:11 +0000

Microsoft desktop search tool: No surprise: “Microsoft has set a firmer date for the release of its desktop search software, after Google launched a test version of its rival program for scouring a PC’s hard drive.” (tags: Microsoft, Search)
taga.licio.us : a way to integrate del.icio.us: taga.licio.us, yet another del.icio.us php hack (tags: Hacks, PHP, bookmarks)

links for 2004-10-21

Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:12:52 +0000

MogileFS: MogileFS is an open source distributed filesystem (tags: IT, Open_Source, Software)

links for 2004-10-15

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:13:36 +0000

mt-daapd: “This project is an attempt to make an iTunes server for Linux, OSX, and other POSIX Unix machines. It is possible that it may eventually support Win32 as well.” (tags: Music, Open_Source, Software)
OfflineIMAP: Linux laptop users, try the mail solution that combines the advantages of fast local mail folders and a server-based IMAP repository. (tags: Email, Linux, Open_Source)
Google Desktop Search Download: “Find your email, files, web history and chats instantly…” (tags: Google, Search, Software)

links for 2004-10-14

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:13:43 +0000

pydance: play Dance Dance Python? (tags: Games, Python)

links for 2004-10-13

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:13:50 +0000

GMail Drive shell extension: Nice! “GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium.” (tags: Google, Hacks, Microsoft)
CherryOS: CherryOS is a G4 Emulator giving you the option to use OSX on your PC. (tags: Hacks, Mac, Microsoft)

links for 2004-10-10

Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:14:10 +0000

Keyhole: “Quickly zoom from space down to street level and combine imagery, 3D geography,maps, and business data to get the total picture in seconds.” (tags: KM)

links for 2004-10-09

Sat, 09 Oct 2004 19:14:17 +0000

Laszlo Goes Open Source: “Laszlo technology is an open source XML-native platform for building rich client applications that deliver a breakthrough online user experience” (tags: Dev, Open_Source)
SpikeSource: Productized Open Source Software: Kim Polese’s new company: “SpikeSource is an Open Source IT Services company, offering integrated, validated and certified open source stacks with ongoing maintenance and enterprise-class support services.” (tags: Business, IT, Open_Source)

links for 2004-10-08

Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:14:23 +0000

Jotspot: The Wiki Application — Email to a Wiki page … interesting (tags: Wiki)

links for 2004-10-06

Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:14:37 +0000

Caffeinated Beer: “Brewer Anheuser-Busch says it will introduce a caffeinated, sweet-flavored beer for twentysomething club goers to compete with the flavored rums and vodkas gaining ground on the dance floor.” (tags: Beer, Humor)
The Video Game Revolution: Name That Game: Damn! Only 14 out of 18! (tags: Flash, Games, Humor)
Google Print: The service, called Google Print, will be incorporated into Google search queries. From launch, users will see book excerpts alongside ordinary Google Web page search results. The book excerpts will carry a link to buy the book from a choice of online boo (tags: Books, Search)
Rodney Dangerfield Dies: He joked about getting no respect. But the truth is, Rodney Dangerfield was one of the most respected and beloved comedians of all time. (tags: Entertainment, Humor)

links for 2004-10-05

Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:14:45 +0000

InsideGoogle: New Gmail Features: “You can now receive your new mail notifications in your RSS reader” — The new features haven’t been rolled-out to me yet, but I can’t wait! (tags: Email, RSS, Search)

links for 2004-10-04

Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:14:50 +0000

Mac-on-Linux: Mac-on-Linux is a linux/ppc program which makes it possible to run Mac OS in parallel with Linux. (tags: IT, Open_Source, Software, Unix)

links for 2004-10-03

Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:15:02 +0000

The Teaching Company: Courses in Video and Audio (tags: Education)

links for 2004-10-02

Sat, 02 Oct 2004 19:15:11 +0000

Feedster.tv :: Rich media content for your aggregator: Searching For and Media (ok enclosure) feeds for you (tags: Blogs, RSS, Search, Torrents)

Clusty Clustering Curmudgeon

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:04:01 +0000

I’m not sure about the name or whether it will be a Google killjoy, but yesterday Vivísimo open to the public their consumer search service called Clusty, which utilizes results from Yahoo’s Overture engine.

At the forefront of Clusty is Vivísimo’s topic clustering of search results (hence the name). Searches can be preformed across web, news, images, shopping, encyclopedic and something called ‘gossip’.

Hidden behind the ‘Customize’ tab in Clusty are options to span your searches across eBay, Slashdot and Blogs! (although I’m not sure why they separate Slashdot and Blogs)

links for 2004-09-30

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:15:20 +0000

FlexWiki: MSFT’s Open Source Wiki clone…nice! (tags: Microsoft, Open_Source, Wiki)
Hackers use Google to access photocopiers: ZDNet UK News: “Making copies of something important? Photocopiers are the latest networked devices to fall prey to hackers armed with nothing more than Google’s search engine” (tags: Hacks, Search, Web)
It’s All About Coffee: A blog that’s all about, yes, coffee! (tags: Blogs, Food)

links for 2004-09-29

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:15:27 +0000

Places that viruses and trojans hide on start up: Places within the Windows Registry (tags: Microsoft, Security)

links for 2004-09-28

Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:17:00 +0000

HOWTO Bicycle Lighting System: This web site details how to construct a high performance bicycle lighting system (tags: Cycling)

links for 2004-09-27

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:17:01 +0000

A del.icio.us blog: del.icio.us news and announcements (tags: Blogs)
DBD::Google – Treat Google as a datasource for DBI: “DBD::Google allows you to use Google as a datasource; Google can be queried using SQL SELECT statements, and iterated over using standard DBI conventions.” (tags: Perl, Search)

VOOM Whole House DVR

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:52:29 +0000

Wow! This just in from Matt Haughey PVR Blog about satellite television service VOOM‘s new HD DVR with networking that will allow home users to view content from any monitor in their house via a thin client.

The Satellite Guys have a demo video online from the recent CEDIA EXPO, which they describe as perhaps the “most powerful DVR ever”.

Ok, I’ll hold off on that description because you can do much of this now with MythTV, but the VOOM DVR is certainly woth a look once it comes out officially.

links for 2004-09-25

Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:17:00 +0000

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – The Adventure Game: “text-based Infocom adventure game with some new graphics and re-released as a little Flash app by the BBC” (tags: Flash, Games)

links for 2004-09-24

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:17:00 +0000

Asterisk The Open Source Linux PBX: Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using (tags: Open_Source, Software, Telecom)
Dowser: “Dowser is a research tool for the web. It clusters results from major search engines, associates words that appear in previous searches, and keeps a local cache of all the results you click on in a searchable database. It helps you keep track of what you (tags: Search)
PeopleSoft devotees in denial? | CNET News.com: “Whether the company’s strong enough to beat Oracle’s predatory boss, Larry Ellison, looks increasingly doubtful, however. PeopleSoft no longer has an antitrust suit to hide behind, and its revenue is shrinking.” (tags: IT, PeopleSoft)

links for 2004-09-22

Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:17:00 +0000

Carlo’s Firefox Extension(s): “An extension for Firefox which enhances Google (all international flavours, too), MSN Search, Yahoo Search, A9, AllTheWeb and del.icio.us bookmarks by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon product images as well as “Open in New Window” and “Site Info” (tags: Software, Web)
Sun has its head in the clouds: This will happen: “Sun has a laudable vision of the future of utility computing, where organisations with extra processing power can sell it back to a computing grid in the same manner that homes with solar panels can sell power back to the electrical pow (tags: IT)

links for 2004-09-21

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:17:01 +0000

Pluck: Search, Retrieve, Organize & Share the Web: “Pluck’s new Perch feature is an incredibly powerful tracking tool. Whether you’re watching auctions on eBay or following the news on your favorite sports team, you can build a Perch to do the work.” (tags: RSS, Search, Web)
PhotoNotes.org: “great photography resource geared towards canon eos” (tags: Photography)

links for 2004-09-20

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:17:00 +0000

Home Computer 2004: Home Computer of the Future…eer I mean today (tags: Humor, Technology)

links for 2004-09-18

Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:17:00 +0000

Abc… Whatever – The World’s Longest Alphabetical Email Address: you@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com (tags: Email, Humor)
Aks Jeeves: LOL “Get the F off my web page!” (tags: Humor, Search)
Dan Grigsby – del.icio.us Internet Explorer Context Menu: “Steve Hatch worked up some JavaScript to let del.icio.us users add a bookmark using their right-click menus. He didn’t include an installer, though, so I’ve built one.” (tags: Dev, Hacks, bookmarks)
gallery hopper: Guide to New York City fine art photo galleries and photography events. (tags: Photography)

del.icio.us Context Menu Installer

Fri, 17 Sep 2004 23:23:39 +0000

Sweet! Dan Grigsby just informed me that he created a Windows Installer for my del.icio.us Context Menu script. Aside from how clean and professional Dan’s installer makes the context menus, you can also use Add/Remove Programs control panel in Windows to remove the menu.

Thanks Dan!

links for 2004-09-17

Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:17:01 +0000

EarthLink SIPshare: “EarthLink SIPshare, a simple, SIP-based proof-of-concept content sharing application, demonstrates the viability of SIP as a protocol over which peer-to-peer (P2P) applications other than the well-known voice and video cases may be implemented.” (tags: P2P)

links for 2004-09-15

Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:17:00 +0000

Help wanted by IT services firms: Via CNET “…companies are pushing for candidates with more than just coding capabilities…” (tags: Employment, IT)

links for 2004-09-14

Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:17:00 +0000

Simple search lightens Net load: “Researchers working on finding better ways to search the Internet are increasingly turning to methods that require individual nodes, or servers, to know a little bit about nearby servers, but don’t require servers to look much beyond their own neighborho (tags: P2P, Search)
GB-PVR: Dot Net-based PVR that’s similar to MythTV, but not Open Souce. (Donate-ware) (tags: PVR, Software)

links for 2004-09-13

Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:17:01 +0000

The 25 Best Futurama Moments Ever: I could probably add a few… (tags: Humor)
Creating B&W Photos in Photoshop: Channelmixer for Black and White photos in Photoshop by Digital Outback (tags: Hacks, Photography)
Activist dressed as Batman scales wall of Buckingham Palace: “A protester dressed as Batman scaled the front wall of Buckingham Palace on Monday afternoon, reaching a ledge near the balcony where the Royal Family appears on ceremonial occasions,” (tags: Humor, News)

links for 2004-09-12

Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:17:00 +0000

Grouper: Grouper: “virtual private network for the rest of us” (tags: Collaboration, P2P)

links for 2004-09-10

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:17:00 +0000

URLinfo beta || Fagan Finder: Site info Bookmarklet and more (tags: Hacks, Web)
Amanda’s Mnemonics Page: A collection of mnemonics for remembering things (tags: Education)
Blender: “Blender’s goal is to offer RSS and Atom publishers a way to earn money from their syndication feeds. Our initial prototype shows off the beginnings of a better way to insert ads into RSS feeds.” (tags: Business, RSS)

links for 2004-09-09

Thu, 09 Sep 2004 19:17:00 +0000

exchange4linux and BILL Workgroup Server: “BILL Open Workgroup Server is under the GNU public licence. BILL is also part of the exchange4linux (? exchange for linux ?) project on sourceforge.net” (tags: Collaboration, Email, Open_Source)
gmcp – gmail copy: Another cool GMail hack! “gmcp (gmail copy) is a simple tool to use gmail as a backup system.” (tags: Google, Hacks, Perl)
The Flapper: “As far as I know, this is the only paper airplane that flaps its wings when it flies. No motor, no rubberbands. Just a piece of typing paper, a penny and an inch of tape.” (tags: Hacks, Toys)
HttpFileServer: “The HttpFileServer is a java based mechanism for providing web access to a set of files on a server. “ (tags: Collaboration, Java, P2P)
post to an MT blog from delicious: Joshua you rock! (tags: Blogs, bookmarks)
Fiddler HTTP Debugger – Fiddler: Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. (tags: Dev, Software, Web)
How is Electrical Energy Measured: Watts, Amps, Volts, oh my! “How is electrical energy measured, and how well does the Sun provide?” (tags: Education, Electrical)

Business Information Management Trends

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:43:10 +0000

Shiv Sing posted an article on Line56.com regarding the Intranet Trends to Watch. Many of the trends Shiv lists are not surprising. Like for example, the corporate telephone directory is not the killer app on the intranet.

However, sadly with all the emphasis over the years on knowledge management, the recent hype around personal search tools and of course the web search power houses, Information Retrieval is still an unsolved problem on the intranet.

Links: 2004-08-30

Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:15:12 +0000

Slashdot: GmailFS – The Google File System
Posted: 2004-08-30T21:51:28Z (categories: Google Hacks )
Net::MovableType
Posted: 2004-08-30T14:00:50Z (categories: Blogs Hacks Service Web )
Double Driver
Posted: 2004-08-30T20:51:58Z (categories: Freeware Microsoft Software )
GmailFS – Gmail Filesystem
Posted: 2004-08-30T13:07:43Z (categories: Google Hacks Python )
Keep your activation status intact when reinstalling XP
Posted: 2004-08-30T19:05:46Z (categories: Hacks Microsoft )

Microsoft Engagement with Open Source Projects

Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:23:54 +0000

Josh Ledgard Program Manager working with the Visual Studio – Community Team at MSFT has a great post regarding the broader collaboration between Microsoft and the vast open source community (via /.).

“It should be easy for teams here at Microsoft to develop extensions to their platforms and potentially pieces of the platforms with customers in an open/transparent fashion. What better way (especially for teams that make tools for developers) to form real connections with developers than working with them collaboratively on real technical challenges?”

FeedBurner and Me

Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:01:30 +0000

I decided to consolidate many of my XML feeds using the excellent FeedBurner service. The process was very simple using Matt’s straight forward tips on redirecting existing feeds to FeedBurner.

In addition, I opted to use FeedBurner’s Link Splicer to include daily dumps of my del.icio.us bookmarks into my main feed. So if you’re reading this via a news aggregator you’ll notice the post flow increase.

Over the past six or so months, I’ve found it to be faster to post quick annotations using my del.icio.us right-click context menu hack (shameless plug). So much of what I formally posted in my main blog now gets tagged and shared with del.icio.us. This is especially useful when I’m short on time.

Photo Collection Manager with Content-Based Search

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:48:03 +0000

Sometimes I like to quickly troll the raw link feed from del.icio.us because you never know what gems you might find.

For instance, I caught a link to imgSeek, which is a photo collection manager with content-based search. Basically this means queries can be express as a rough sketch or you can start with a single image and find similar images in your collection. For example, select a sunset as your starting image and imgSeek will find images with alike characteristics. Very cool!

GMail Tools

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:37:52 +0000

I’ve been thinking about moving some of my older email out of a rather large Outlook PST into GMail, mainly for backup purposes. However, since this is far from a unique idea, I decided to see what others have done to solve this problem.

First I discovered Mark Lyon’s PHP-based Google GMail Loader (GML), which in addition to loading email, it can also be used as a remote to backup tool (I think there’s a 7.5M file limit imposed by Google).

Google Down, IPO Pricing UP?

Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:42:38 +0000

With Google recently releasing their IPO pricing estimates ranging between $108 to $135 per share with market capitalization between $29 billion and $36 billion, I suspect this doesn’t bode well:

Update: Apparently Google’s problems are due to the latest MyDoom worm variant (via /.)

MT 3.01D Upgrade

Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:38:56 +0000

Last night I decided to upgrade Movable Type to version 3.01D. The upgrade went very smoothly. I’m very impressed with the seamlessness the MT crew created with this upgrade. Overall the system feels much faster too.

I think the hardest part was backing up my current installation and database, which really wasn’t that hard.

I’m attempting to re-enable commenting and trackbacks, but I think I have to rebuild my site to get the TypeKey registration working correctly.

One-up-man-ship: Google, Yahoo and of course Microsoft

Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:46:21 +0000

After a week on the beaches of the Outer Banks in North Carolina with family I feel refreshed and recharged — perhaps not recharged enough to ride up l’Alpe d’ Huez, but I digress…

During my week away there were a few notable acquisitions made by Microsoft, Yahoo and Google.

First up is MSFT acquisition of my current favorite personal search tool Lookout, which integrates well with Outlook and complements my archive of NewsGator subscriptions nicely.

Brewster Kahle Universal Access to Human Knowledge

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:42:10 +0000

The other day I watched Brewster Kahle’s inspiring presentation at last month’s NotCon session titled, “Universal Access to Human Knowledge” (Page with 54 Minute MPEG @ 120 MB — worth every bite ;-)

For those that don’t know Brewster Kahle, he was an early member of the parallel supercomputing company Thinking Machines. From there he went on to develop, found and sell to AOL WAIS, Inc. which was probably the internet’s first global search engine (years before the web took off). Later Kahle started Alexa Internet (the “related links” service in IE), which he sold to Amazon.com.

2004 Tour de France

Fri, 02 Jul 2004 15:03:42 +0000

The start of Le Tour is just hours away and I am already on the edge with anticipation. No matter the outcome, I guarantee that it is going to be an epic battle. Far more dramatic and compelling than any over-hyped “reality show” could force feed viewers.

Kudos to the Outdoor Live Network (OLN-TV) for their live unabridged coverage. I or my STeVo will be there from Liege to the Champs-Elysées in Paris!

WinFS is a Database Platform

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:10:01 +0000

Samuel Druker the Microsoft Development Lead for WinFS speaks on Channel 9 in video and in the threads about how WinFS will mean much more than simply full-text searching. (via Philipp Lenssen)

Quotes from Samuel regarding WinFS differences with respect to the current crop of Personal Search Tools:

“X1 (and enfish and lookout) do the job for full-text search on the stuff they know about in the particular application they support. However, WinFS is a database platform. As I said in the other video, it’s a storage platform. Developers write new apps, those apps use schemas to describe the user’s data and rely on the system repository to hold those items. Full-text search is just one thing that you can build on that. Much more important, IMO, is what the database guys call query and relations.”

Revamped MSN Search (soon)

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:55:48 +0000

My buddy Martin over at BA-Insight (who incidentally kicked-off a great new blog on enterprise search) sent me a link to this article on CNET about comments Bill Gates made during a media briefing in Sydney Australia regarding the new revamped MSN Search capabilities Microsoft is set to release in July. Here are some interesting yet not surprising quotes from the article.

“Microsoft’s chairman told a media briefing here that the company had “several milestones with its search site” on the way.”

Billy G’s Blog

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:21:42 +0000

The Seattle Times has an article saying Bill Gates may become a blogger (via Anil).

“Yes, the world’s richest man may start his own blog, one of those online diaries that have been the rage among techies for the past three or four years.”

As funny as it is to think of a secret Bill Gates Blog, I think it also sends a clear message to corporations at large that there’s viability in utilizing blogging to connect with customers, partners and employees.

NewsGator Closes Series A Funding

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:26:05 +0000

I just wanted to say congratulations to Greg!

“DENVER, CO – June 23, 2004 – NewsGator Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of content aggregation tools and services, announced today that it has closed a round of funding with Mobius Venture Capital.”

I’ve been evangelizing NewsGator since I started using the early betas back January 2003. Keep up the great work!

Broadband Syndication Synergies and P2P

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:24:34 +0000

Today, there was a /. post about a new MythTV plug-in called Torrentocracy that extends the included MythNews RSS Aggregator to support RSS Enclosures and Bit Torrent.

Torrentocracy is not the first to mesh RSS Enclosures, Bit Torrent and PVRs.

In fact, NewsGator released NewsGator Media Center Edition back in April and two weeks ago, Ray Slakinski’s Nucleus application, which can be used in a similar way on just about any environment.

I’ll definitely give Torrentocracy a test on my STeVo. However, what I’ve been thinking about is the next iteration of these tools…

Blinkx Contextual Search

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:28:11 +0000

Om Malik praises the new contextual desktop search tool called Blinkx, which is currently available in a downloadable beta client as well as a web only interface.

Om goes on to cite some attractive examples such as…

“BlinkX is all about contextual search…Say you are reading through a big Microsoft Word document… the BlinkX bar at the top of the page, will retrieve relevant news item links with brief summaries… The software basically reads the entire document and builds a contextual link database on the fly.”

Earning Money without Patients

Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:00:51 +0000

Granted it has been a 15 year vesting period and the payout is a partly $1.2 million or E1 million in comparison to other web pioneers, but Tim Berners-Lee finally gets his due with the Millennium Technology Prize from the Finnish Technology Award Foundation.

Great quotes: “Rather than patenting his idea for the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee and colleague Robert Cailliau, working at CERN (the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva), insisted on a license-free technology. If they hadn’t, Berners-Lee says, the Web wouldn’t be the interoperable linkup that it is. “There would have been a CERN Web, a Microsoft one, there would have been a Digital one, Apple’s HyperCard would have started reaching out Internet roots,” he said. “And all of these things would have been incompatible.” (links via MIT Technology Review and Scripting News)

Parenting Blog

Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:27:31 +0000

Weblogs, Inc. new Blogging Baby weblog is like Slashdot for Parents (sans all the MSFT bashing ;-)

Of course there are a few RSS feeds too — no Atom feed though.

BitTorrent While You Sleep

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:04:59 +0000

Ray Slakinski put together a wicked little Python application called Nucleus, which will monitor a BitTorrent Tracker RSS file for .torrent files that match a series of keywords.

Once a match is found, the file is queued for download.

Using cron or the Windows Scheduler, you can program Nucleus to fire in the middle of the night downloading while you sleep :-)

In Ray’s example, he is using it to grab TV shows, but I suppose you can use it to grab any .torrent file — assuming of course that your tracker of choice has an RSS feed.

Digital Photography Composition Tips

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 14:43:21 +0000

Another Photography-related link found via /. points to a recent post on the Digital Photography Blog where they have assembled a collection of Photography Composition Tips found on the net.

Most of these are obvious to the professional photographer, but being that I’m not, I found many of the tips helpful.

Like for example, these tips on taking night or low-light digital photographs. (which, BTW makes me want to apply the Firmware Hack to my D300 so I can “enable” ISO 3200 ;-)

Canon EOS-300D Firmware Hack

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:41:15 +0000

UPDATE: June, 16 2004: New beta version B7.1: download here

Yesterday the news of the Russian Canon EOS-300D Firmware Hack hit /.

Spurred largely due to the 300D’s similarities with the 10D, rumors of the potential for hacks have been widely discussed in the forums on DPreview.

I’ve been passively following the 300D firmware hacks for weeks to get the skinny.

Yet I’m still on-the-fence with regard to installing a hacked firmeware upgrade due to the fact that it will void my warranty.

Comment Spamming: Pointless Practice

Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:37:03 +0000

I couldn’t take it anymore! Last night I took Burningbird’s suggestion and turned-off commenting on any post older than 30 days. I may turn commenting off entirely if this weekend is any indication of the logarithmic growth in comment spamming.

Comment Spammers… why do you bother? You’re not getting any extra PageRank points from your messages due to the external URL redirects MT 2.661 has in place. Plus, thanks to MT-Blacklist, your polution is trashed almsot as quickly as it’s posted.

Building Your First Business Process

Thu, 27 May 2004 22:52:47 +0000

Scott Woodgate over at MSDN TV demos “how easy it is to build a business process using Visual Studio .NET and BizTalk Server 2004, expose that business process as a Web service, and then consume the business process inside InfoPath – all within 20 minutes.”

After spending a week learning how to do something similar with the Integration Tools found in PeopleSoft 8.44 I can honestly say that VS.Net + BizTalk Server 2004 is wicked cool.

Pop Goes the GMail

Wed, 26 May 2004 11:04:49 +0000

At this point, PGtGM looks to only be a proof-of-concept, but essentially it is destine to be a POP3 proxy for Google’s GMail.

This is/will be a cool hack, but probably be a moot point once some of the rumored features of GMail start to roll out (namely POP3 and RSS/Atom).

Gmail in the Enterprise

Thu, 20 May 2004 00:15:08 +0000

I’ve been disconnected all week in PeopleSoft training, but during lunch today I caught Steve Gillmor’s eWeek column from last week about Gmail where he cites a potential example of the “Google Platform” in the enterprise.

“By the time the Gmail beta period ends in three to six months, Brin and his team have promised to enable forwarding and POP3 access. However, more is required of a corporate mail service. Those capabilities must be extended to allow Gmail to provide disconnected operation and IDE for packaged applications.”

Frontier goes Open Source (soon)

Tue, 18 May 2004 00:42:43 +0000

After dabbling with Frontier over the last five years, I often miss the outlining features of Frontier’s built-in IDE when working in other environments. I’m intrigued however with
Dave Winer’s latest announcement regarding the eminent release of the Frontier kernel as OSS.

It will be interesting to see what OSS license UserLand chooses and if they intend on releasing any of the non-kernelized code such as part of the CMS framework, Manila and/or Radio.

Google Groups Beta 2

Fri, 14 May 2004 13:47:25 +0000

Google opened beta 2 of Google Groups. They’ve integrated it with Gmail, which gives you the ability to post to Usenet newsgroups as well as create new groups.

All these “new” features are strangely reminiscent of what
My Deja News offered back in 1998…

Hey wait a second! Google purchased Deja back in 2001. What took them so long to integrate services?

I’m not sure, but there is progress however…

For example, you can now get an Atom Feed of your favorite newsgroups.

Open Source Search Results Clustering Framework

Wed, 12 May 2004 23:27:24 +0000

My smart search buddies over at BA-Insight (who need to get their blog online!) pointed me to Carrot2, which is described as “ a system for clustering textual data“. (the site is a bit slow)

Generally speaking, Carrot2 is an Open Source alternative to Vivisimo. (Nice!)

Carrot2 has some other interesting features too. Like for example, it can be used as a meta-search component. In addition, it can be integrated with full-featured text search engines such as the Open Source Egothor and some other lesser known engines.

IBM’s Web-Based Desktop Apps

Tue, 11 May 2004 14:30:59 +0000

Based on a news.com story and /. thread, it seems like we’re “gonna party like it’s 1999” Again! (remember myWebOS)

However this time IBM may possibly be able to pull this off. I don’t think IBM’s effort will significantly deplete MSFT’s 90% market share of the desktop software market, but perhaps they will carve out enough to make it a viable and cheaper alternative.

From the news.com story: “The new software, part of IBM’s Lotus Workplace strategy, is a bundle that includes e-mail, word processing, spreadsheet and database applications aimed at business users. The package also includes server-based management software, as well as software to run productivity applications on handheld devices.”

Command Line Frontend to MovableType

Mon, 10 May 2004 14:32:26 +0000

I must have missed this, but back in December 2003, Johann Schmidt released the latest version of MTshell, which as the subject says is a CLI for MovableType.

“MTshell is a perl program which allows you to maintain your Movable Type blog from a command line prompt. If you’re a Linux/Unix user and run an instance of Movable Type on a server which you have shell access to you’ll probably be interested.”

Adobe Designer 6.0 preview

Thu, 06 May 2004 17:26:29 +0000

As expected, Adobe has come back at MSFT’s InfoPath with the preview release of Adobe Designer 6.0

Jon Udell of course is spot on with a review in his blog of Designer, which can also be found in this weeks print edition of Info World:

From Jon: “Despite evident weaknesses, the Designer/Reader duo offers two key strengths: digital-paper fidelity, and a ubiquitous runtime. Using the free Reader, I was able to fill out a Designer-built form, print a high-fidelity copy for my records, and post its XML data to a Web server. No matter how the future of e-forms unfolds, that’s going to be a popular scenario.”

Boot. Play! Retro-style

Mon, 03 May 2004 23:22:46 +0000

Give that old PC a new life by turning it into a retro gaming console with the KnoppiXMAME Live CD Linux Distro.

“KnoppiXMAME is a bootable CD/DVD image with hardware automatic probing and configuration for playing MAME games. No games are included, but they can be added to the ISO image, as well as new versions of X-MAME, gxmame, and the Linux kernel”

Of course you’ll need to legally obtain a few MAME ROMs, but you knew that anyway ;-)

More on E-mail for Everything

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:24:17 +0000

Ironically, the week my InfoWorld subscription seems to have lapsed in the renewal process, Jon Udell, in his latest column, makes some of the very same points I mentioned yesterday regarding the bastardization of email for file sharing.

Jon writes:

“It drives me nuts when people send me multi-megabyte files as e-mail attachments. Don’t they know a better way?”
…
“E-mail is a poor file-transfer solution in many ways, but it makes perfect sense to users. An e-mail with an attachment compresses notification and delivery into a single step.”

Stop Using Email to Share Files

Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:47:27 +0000

It is increasingly vexing to me the way email is the defacto standard for sharing files. The reality is that email was never designed for sharing files.

It is an all too common occurrence in a corporate setting where multi-megabyte PowerPoint and Excel files get slammed around to numerous recipients on a distribution list with disparate versions shooting back at the sender and no easy way to consolidate the flow.

Google and Flash Index Friendly

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:36:12 +0000

As some of my friends can attest one of my long-standing gripes regarding the usage of Flash has been its inability to be indexed by search engines.

I suppose that argument is now moot since I just read that Google is now indexing Flash files (via Outer-Court and The Unofficial Google Weblog).

I still at times have problems with the usage of Flash. I suppose it’s more so now the miss-usage of Flash when it does not add any extra value over what a simple text description or graphic would accomplish.

Big Blue Tiki Masala

Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:42:05 +0000

This doesn’t seem like a spicy chicken dish to me…

“IBM is set to unveil an upgraded version of its enterprise-level search technology. Code-named “Masala,” the new software is an improvement on Big Blue’s DB2 Information Integrator released last year. It is expected to enable simultaneous search of the Web, internal applications and corporate databases … and will be released in beta in early May. The full release is slated for the third or fourth quarter. ”
…
“By allowing corporate personnel to search a number of different content sources simultaneously, Masala could be effective in many different scenarios. Sales representatives, for example, could use it to learn about prospective clients by searching internal enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, as well as information available on the Net.” (Via NewsFactor)

Lance 6.0 Beta

Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:28:40 +0000

New York Times article on the technological advances going into Lance Armstrong’s equipment for this year’s Tour de France

“This is a mathematical model,” he said, noting that other factors affect performance. “A rider could have a bad breakfast.” (Link via Lockergnome’s Tech News Watch)

InfoPath Hands-on Training

Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:25:26 +0000

MSDN posted this week a series of InfoPath 2003 SP-1 Training Exercises for the recent preview of InfoPath 2003 Service Pack 1.

I haven’t had time yet to run through the exercises, but they seem to be a good primer for anyone interested in utilizing InfoPath. (Thanks for the link Martin!)

OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1 Preview

Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:57:23 +0000

MSFT made a preview of OneNote 2003 SP1 available yesterday.

In addition to being able to “Record video notes”, there are a number of other niceties too — like for example inserting documents from other Office programs into OneNote and the ability to share OneNote sessions in real time.

IMHO, OneNote is a wonderful environment for aggregating and now sharing disparate information.

Yet, there’s still no mention of MSFT opening the file format.

SENTINIX as a Secure Mail Server Cluster

Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:03:21 +0000

After reading a bit about the Sentinix GNU/Linux distribution, I wasn’t entirely interested because it’s described as a Linux distribution for network monitoring intrusion detection, penetration testing, auditing, statistics/graphing and anti-spam.

The anti-spam feature seemed to be a minor addition.

That is until I read an article about the current Sentinix release from November 2003 on NewsForge.

Ignore the title of the article too and scroll down to the middle of the page where they mention how the OpenMosix clustering enables it to be a Spam/Virus filtering super-computer.

Domain On Hold

Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:35:26 +0000

Apparently, the hatch.org domain was erroneously marked as being “On Hold” last night.

So if you sent mail to me @ hatch.org in the last few days it probably bounced.

Although, neither I nor Register.com as been able to determine why this happened (the domain did not expired). The very cordial and responsive Register.com support person told me they have corrected the problem, but since the “On Hold” status has already propagated, it’ll be roughly 24-72 hours before the domain appears active to the net.

RSS Enclosures and PVRs

Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:32:41 +0000

Congrats to Greg Reinacker! His newly released NewsGator Media Center Edition is a proof of concept for things to come.

Specifically with the syndication of multimedia content via RSS enclosures.

However, the combination of RSS and PVR’s is not new. For example, the MythNews module for MythTV is actually an RSS aggregator for the open source homebrew PVR project, but MythNews does not support RSS enclosures (Yet! [wishful thinking]).

Personally, I think what Greg is doing in NewsGator MCE along with what Andrew Grumet is doing with RSSTV will have broader social impacts on the distribution of digital content.

Enterprise Search Opportunity

Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:30:30 +0000

Among the many interesting quotes in the recent Business Week Online Article regarding Microsoft’s Midlife Crisis, I found the following quote suggesting that one of the features scrapped from the initial release of Longhorn will be in the updated file system (WinFS).

In particular, it appears that WinFS will not include the ability to index and search corporate file systems.

“Longhorn will now ship with a scaled-back version of the file system. The current plan, in practical terms, means people will be able to search their PCs for documents and information related to each other, but they won’t be able to reach into corporate servers for similar files.” (link via John Battelle)

Gopher Net Nostalgia

Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:04:45 +0000

A back in my day, we surfed the net with rodents…

Via Wired News: “Back in 1992, when “yahoo” was something cowboys yelled and “ebay” was just pig Latin, the University of Minnesota developed a new way of looking at data on the Internet. Their protocol, called “gopher” after the UMN mascot, allowed archivists to present the mishmash of information in a standard format, and enabled readers to navigate documents on a world of servers using a simple visual interface.

Flying the Two Way Web

Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:04:53 +0000

After reading a bit about, Paper Airplane, my first impression is that it sounds a bit like Groove, but differs in that it’s integrated into the browser (Mozilla/FireFox currently) and built on-top of the Java JXTA and P2P Sockets framework. I haven’t tried it yet, but it seems worth a look even in its early beta state.

“Paper Airplane is a Mozilla plugin that empowers people to easily create collaborative communities, known as Paper Airplane Groups, without setting up servers or spending money. It does this by integrating a web server into the browser itself, including tools to create collaborative online communities that are stored on the machine. Paper Airplane Groups are stored locally on a user’s machine. A peer-to-peer network is created between all of the Paper Airplane nodes that are running in order to resolve group names, reach normally unreachable peers due to firewalls or NAT devices, and to replicate content.”

InfoPath Runtime Plea

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 16:15:11 +0000

At work, when I evangelize the benefits of using InfoPath as a tool for structured data collection and distribution, I talk about how, IMHO, InfoPath will someday unlock all the black-box business intelligence stuffed into Excel, Word, PowerPoint et al. In addition, I mention that it’s primarily an end-user tool that doesn’t require developers to implement any of those simple form-based workflow processes that deluge most corporations with endless forest killing paper forms.

Yo! G! Cease the Desist and Extend Your API!

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 16:30:33 +0000

For a little over a year I have been using a modified version of Julian Bond’s Google News to RSS script to pull news searches into my aggregator. I even had it pulling news feeds into a corporate intranet until the feed was deemed too “unfiltered” for corporate consumption.

If Google’s API included news (and other services such as Froogle, Groups and even Images), I, and I’m sure many-many others, would switch to the sanctioned API service in a heartbeat! Until that time, I’ll likely still use the script.

A better Slashdot Feed

Thu, 01 Apr 2004 10:04:59 +0000

BTW, If you’ve been annoyed as I have with ./‘s half-hearted RSS feed, which only includes a brief summary of each post and none of the threads, then you’ll be keen on AlterSlash‘s full post Slashdot RSS feed that includes high-karma comments for each post.

Nice!

Visualizing Google News

Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:59:55 +0000

Marcos Weskamp announced on his blog yesterday a new application called newsmap, which displays the constantly changing panorama of Google’s News Aggregator (across countries too). [IMHO: This is probably one of the most useful applications in flash I have yet to see.]

“Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.”

Commercial MythTV Box

Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:28:23 +0000

An Australian company is selling pre-built MythTV-based PVRs for 1,799 AUD (~$1,345.50 USD) (via Boing Boing)

Although the price is roughly twice what it cost me to build my own MythTV box, I think this is a good trend.

There’s some excellent threads regarding this box on /. and the Myth-Users mailing list.

Missing: Silver 2000 Volkswagen Passat

Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:13:19 +0000

So this morning I’m out walking my dog before I head off to work, chatting with my neighbor about the NCAA games at the Meadowlands the night before when I noticed that my car was missing from our driveway!

WTF!!!! It’s gone! Stolen while we slept during the night!

Called the police, insurance company, etc… Ugh! Frustrating!

However, if you happen to be in vicinity of West Orange, NJ and see a silver 2000 Volkswagen Passat with a black Thule roof rack, let me know, because apparently the driver “borrowed” it sometime early this morning without my consent.

Open Source Movies

Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:18:51 +0000

I just read via Boing Boing that the copyright on the original Night of the Living Dead movie has expired and the entire film is available online for download via Archive.org! (Brewster Kahle, I’ll say it again, you rock!)

Incidentally, not only does the Internet Archive have a huge collection of Public Domain movies, it also has what appears to be a growing compilation of Open Source movies (and I don’t think they are talking about code)

ERP All Over Again

Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:27:27 +0000

After taking week off to spend with the family I’m getting back into the swing of things and stealing some time to blog.

To motivate myself this morning I read an out of the ordinary article in Info World regarding how ERP implementations are coming back into favor (again).

The topic of the article is of particular interest to me because I’m in midst of an implementation of PeopleSoft 8.4 and seeing many of the themes of this article played out in real-time.

Gunning for Google Below the Radar

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:47:09 +0000

Stefanie Olsen of CNET News.com pulls together a good overview of the start-ups targeting Google’s dominance.

Some quotes from the article:

“…Google also faces Lilliputian threats from a fast-growing group of start-ups that hope to replicate its own meteoric rise from unknown upstart to Internet powerbroker….

At the top of the list are companies like Quigo and Industry Brains that aim to improve on search engine advertising techniques. A second group, including Mooter, Eurekster and Dipsie, are advancing ways for people to get personalized query results, something that both Google and Yahoo also are hoping to perfect. Others are developing search tools tailored to specific localities as well as visualization features to assist in better targeting search results around specific topics.”

WinMyth: MythTV Front End for Windows

Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:31:50 +0000

I’ve got to try WinMyth on my Laptop. It’s simply a .Net-based Windows front end for MythTV.

And now with spring approaching, we can watch our Stevo outside!

However, I suppose I could simply re-boot with KnoppMyth, but since I run XP as my primary OS on my laptop, I’m hoping it will be simpler with WinMyth.

Note: WinMyth requires the dsMyth, which contains the DirectShow filters that enables playback of MythTV .nuv files on windows. (Also very cool!)

Personal Search Synergies

Tue, 09 Mar 2004 16:21:49 +0000

After the excitement of the last week, I’m finally catching up on work and subsequently blogging.

In particular last night I had a few minutes to check out one of the latest Desktop/Personal Search applications.

Specifically, Lookout Soft’s email search add-on for Outlook, which seems like a great tool.

In limited tests I found Lookout’s search accurate and fast (once the initial indexing was completed). In general I think Lookout and similar products such as X1 are immensely useful.

Nathaniel Delett Hatch

Wed, 03 Mar 2004 23:19:52 +0000

The last few days have been an amazing series of sleepless nights filled with dirty diapers and emotional highs that I suppose can best be appreciated as the right of passage for parenting.

On that note, please join Catherine and me in welcoming our son Nathaniel Delett Hatch to the world!

Nate was born on February 29, 2004 at 9 AM; he weighs 8 pounds 5 ounces and is 22.25 inches long. Yes, indeed, he’s a leap year baby!

Thumbnails and Archives

Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:58:51 +0000

Another new search engine player ZapMeta, which has page thumbnails as well direct links to older versions of a link via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

MythTV Mailing List Archive with RSS Feeds

Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:48:37 +0000

I was just looking for an RSS feed for the mythtv-users mailing list and I stumbled across David Jeske post regarding an “experimental archive browse/search software” that he co-developed with Brandon Long.

In addition to search and threaded views of posts, their tool also includes RSS feeds in many flavors … although the feeds only include summaries and there’s no Atom feed yet, but suffice it to say, I like this trend.

Death of the Password

Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:17:44 +0000

CNET has an article that highlights some of Mr. Gates’ comments during a speech at the RSA Security conference held this week in SF.

In particular, the following comment, which we’ve heard before with the hype around Smart Cards, but hopefully the obvious end to passwords will come to fruition sooner this time than later (this time).

“Bill Gates predicted the demise of the traditional password because it cannot “meet the challenge” of keeping critical information secure.”

Local News and RSS Feeds

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:36:32 +0000

Perhaps I’m late to mention this because I missed the local news feature the first time I looked at Topix, but thanks to Tim Bray’s recent comments, I took another look at Topix’s beta targeted news service and to my delight they also have a RSS “feed for every ZIP code in the US, a feed for every public company, a feed for every sports team, a feed for every movie star, band and musician…and more” (via Rich Skrenta Blog)

Microsoft tests InfoPath update

Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:07:58 +0000

Via CNET I just read that today Microsoft released an update for InfoPath

“Microsoft released a trial version Monday of its first major update to InfoPath, the new electronic forms application released last year as part of the Office family.”

“The beta version of Service Pack 1 (SP1) includes several significant new features, said Microsoft product manager Bobby Moore, along with the typical performance enhancements and bug fixes included in a service pack…”

Live Linux CDs

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:20:52 +0000

I’m constantly amazed at the influx of customized bootable Linux CDs (aka Live Linux)

For example, check out some of the distributions on this list

The distro’s geared toward kids and education are starting to look particularly interesting to me these days.

What Exit: Google’s Location Search

Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:00:31 +0000

I’m starting to find the beta of Google’s Location Search to be very handy and much faster than using my old stand-by.

Doc has even noticed that you can find local hot-spots in your area via the tool.

If addition, I found a neat little trick to add a localized link to your favorites or “bookmarklet” for quick access.

Go to Google’s Location Search page, enter your address into the address field with nothing in the search terms area, then click search.

The New Yahoo in Town

Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:25:14 +0000

So far I’ve found Yahoo’s new search to be for the most part comparable with Google in most respects. Even the interface is minimalist. Well, that is in relation to other more gregarious Yahoo interfaces.

I even like the XML/RSS restrictive search features. Albeit it would be cooler to be able to get the search results as an RSS feed.

However, I found that Yahoo’s image search is suspiciously similar to Google’s.
For example, compare these image search results on Google and Yahoo.

Longhorn is not Entrenched in WinFS

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:08:33 +0000

Tom’s Hardware Guide provides an in-depth review of Windows Future Storage (WinFS). Including some points I wasn’t quite sure of myselft…

“Microsoft will not be building an entirely new file system after all. Windows Future Storage (WinFS) is integrated into Longhorn as a modular extension to file management.”

“Technologically, Longhorn is in any case not entrenched in WinFS. The OS works just as well on FAT32 volumes. Conversely, WinFS can be used in other systems, too…”

I want my RSSTV!

Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:31:43 +0000

I learned via PVRBlog about Andrew Grumet’s proposal to the TiVo and DIY PVR communities regarding sharing your recordings among friends via RSS — in essence, Andrew’s idea is an application of social networking, but perhaps you’re best served by reading through Andrew’s proposal.

Here are a few choice quotes:

“Today my TiVo is networked and programmable. Do-it-yourself PVRs are on the rise, and we know that the open source ones like MythTV are programmable. Perhaps some of the commercial ones are too. So maybe it’s time for us to flex some programmer muscle and code up our PVRs to leverage the power of the Net. We ought to at least be able to add the ability to share our great taste with friends. But probably a lot more.”

Product Blogging

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:40:42 +0000

I recently started reading Chris Pratley blog. Chris is the Microsoft OneNote Group Program Manager and it appears he has been publicly blogging for only a weeks. Yet in just a few entries, Chris not only provides unique insight into MSFT’s product development practices and techniques, but I also feel that the blog broadens the user community’s perspective of the product.

Specifically, you can also see how this type of public communication about a product (and an excellent one I might add) can spawn user feedback that will undoubtedly influence the product’s direction.

Canon 300D Digital Rebel in Paris

Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:19:24 +0000

Alain Briot, described as one of the most successful landscape photographers working in the U.S. today, takes his Canon 300D Digital Rebel to Paris and details his intriguing conclusions on Luminous Landscape, such as the following:

“In evaluating the final results from my two weeks photographing in Paris, and while actually looking at prints done from my 300D images, I find these prints to be comparable to 4×5″, in terms of sharpness and overall image quality, in size up to 11×14 and maybe even larger”

Yet Another PVR Install Log

Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:42:43 +0000

This time by IBM luminary Sam Ruby. The post details the start of his experience building a dedicated MythTV box based on Debian, but the wisdom will eventually…

“… be automated, published, and shared.”

“But, first I have to get it working repeatably…”

We expect nothing less from you Sam ;-)

South Mountain

Thu, 05 Feb 2004 15:32:30 +0000

A picture of me riding in South Mountain

More First Experiences with MythTV

Wed, 04 Feb 2004 23:17:37 +0000

It sounds like Tom Walsh over at Newsforge and I share many of the same first experiences and conclusions in regard to building and using a Home Theater PC (HTPC) based on MythTV.

Tom Walsh writes: “Would I say that anyone could put together their own PVR? No! It takes a level of competency and comfort with Linux to attempt such an undertaking. You need a good deal of patience with often time-confusing documentation. But if you persist, ask questions of those in IRC, and purchase high-end hardware, I am confident that you too will be satisfied with your results.”

Dave Elections

Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:09:43 +0000

Prognosticator Dave Pell of Davenetics and NextDraft fame is at it again, this time with Electablog (RSS feed too), which Dave describes as…

“electablog provides a daily (and sometimes nightly) slicing and dicing of the mad dash that is America’s election cycle. Think of it as C-Span meets the Daily Show meets the little girl from Whale Rider meets Dennis Miller before he lost his mind.”

Dude! When do you sleep?

Site Search Still Sucks

Mon, 02 Feb 2004 17:58:31 +0000

Jim Rapoza over at eWeek laments over the sorry state of customer facing corporate search. Here are some good quotes from Jim’s article:

“…there is one thing about the Web that remains poor: site search capabilities.”

“As we said in the 1997 article, if visitors or customers can’t find what they want on your site, they will often simply leave.”

“The search capabilities on most company and content-oriented Web sites are as bad now as they were several years ago. In fact, eWEEK Labs was dismayed to find that we could have easily rerun an article we wrote back in June 1997 on how to improve site searches…”

CBGB’s Photographic History

Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:52:37 +0000

Nostalgia: In the mid-80’s the Sunday Matinees were sweaty, smelly, sometimes scumbag filled Slam Dance Fests, but man… were they fun!

The Internet Never Forgets

Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:18:29 +0000

The other day I was browsing through the Wayback Machine and discovered a number of four-year-old weblog entries I posted to my then homegrown blog tool. They weren’t earth shattering entries, but I figured I’d bring them back home.

So, after a few quick regular expression hacks I managed to format them for import into MovableType (complete way links to archived pages on the Wayback Machine)

Brewster Kahle, you rock!

Mapping Google News

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:21:51 +0000

This is nifty:

Google News Map: “Why not parse Google News, find the first name match and draw a map with the latest headlines on the coordinates of the countries.”

My First Week with STeVo

Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:32:14 +0000

Last week I finally completed building my Home Theater PC (HTPC) — aka PVR (personal video recorder), DVR (digital video recorder), homebrew-TiVo or what my wife Catherine lovingly calls STeVo ;-)

On my Wiki I put together some of my initial observations and install notes for those of you interested in building one these boxes yourself [more here]

Rich Client Ubiquity

Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:07:21 +0000

Michael Sippey has a couple of good comments regarding Salesforce.com’s recently released “Office Edition,” which integrates its hosted SFA tightly with Microsoft Office:

“The company that ~~championed~~ went overboard with their “no software” positioning is now touting their integration into the world’s most widely used piece of personal productivity software. Which really isn’t that big of a deal, when you realize that this fits in perfectly with Microsoft’s strategy of morphing Office into a combination productivity app and very rich client…”

Virtual Ass Sniffing

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:52:09 +0000

From the Dogster about page:

“Why Dogster? We are dog freaks and computer geeks, unafraid to admit that when we see a dog, any dog, our heads turn and we howl with delight. Who wants a cookie? Who does? Well, we do and we think it’s about time there is a social networking application that is truly for the dogs. We hope you do too! All the dogs in the house say Wooooof! … Wooooooooof!”

MAGNET-URI Project

Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:58:31 +0000

Kazaa is promoting a BitTorrent-like distributed P2P alternative that can be embedded in other P2P networks and web links, which they are calling Magnet links (via Anil Dash’s Links)

More here…

“Magnet links allows users to directly download large media files saving website creators and bloggers money on bandwidth costs and effectively propagating files on p2p networks that attract millions of users per day.”

“Magnet links” uses…

“MAGNET-URI, [which] is an open URI-scheme and supporting practices/code for enabling seamless integration between websites and locally-running utilities, such as file-management tools.”

Windows Services for Unix

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:42:58 +0000

Anil Dash put together a first-class summary of the *nix goodies found in Microsoft’s Windows Services for Unix, which was recently re-released as a free download (passport registration required).

Even though I’m using Samba at home to connect my Windows and Linux file systems, it might be nice (and more efficient) to use the native NFS support in WSfU instead.

Do you remember?

Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:12:59 +0000

Bob Mould of Sugar and of course Hüsker Dü now has a weblog.

Welcome Bob! I certainly do remember with many of your songs still cycling through my playlists.

Dude, I don’t quite get it?

Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:10:06 +0000

I was (and still am) fond of what the OpenCola guys created back in the P2P buzz days, but this recent spin-off, “Dude, check this out!” [DCTO?], started by a few of the OC founders and development managers, has me scratching my head — albeit OC did as well. So perhaps I’ll simply reserve dismissal and keep an eye on the progress.

For the most part DCTO seems to be a hybrid of Metafilter, Technorati, Feedster and the Delicious social bookmarks manager.

MovableType Posting Client and NewsGator Plugin

Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:41:50 +0000

Matt Berther has released version 2.0.0.1 of his MovableType posting client/plugin MovablePoster, which integrates nicely with NewsGator in addition to being a stand-alone Windows client. (of course I’m testing MovablePoster via this post :-)

MandrakeMove: Bootable Linux Distro

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:33:01 +0000

Looks like Mandrake has joined Knoppix in the bootable Linux CD distro trend…

“The MandrakeMove Download Edition is a new product based on Mandrake Linux 9.2 which provides a complete personal desktop operating system on a bootable CD. With MandrakeMove, bring your Mandrake Linux system everywhere: demo it, use it to connect to the Internet, listen to MP3s, watch DivX movies — the possibilities are endless! In addition, the MandrakeMove Boxed Edition provides the ability to save configuration and personal data to a USB key.”

NewsGator Online Services

Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:57:17 +0000

Wow! Greg has been busy! In addition to announcing NewsGator 2.0, there will also be NewsGator Online Services, which includes three [new] content reader editions:

“Web Edition — NewsGator Online Services provides a web-based content reader, which allows users to read content they have subscribed to from any web browser.”
“POP Edition — NewsGator Online Services allows users to read their subscribed feeds in any email client. This includes Outlook Express and Eudora on Windows, Apple Mail and Entourage on the Mac, and any other email client that supports POP3. “
“Mobile Edition — NewsGator Online Services allows users to read their subscribed feeds on any mobile device that supports HTML, including mobile wireless phones and PDA’s. This is a powerful feature for road warriors who use mobile devices to access information while away from home or the office. “

Congratulations Greg! I can’t wait to use the new tools!

Remove Hidden Data from Office 2003/XP Documents

Wed, 07 Jan 2004 01:01:18 +0000

I’m in training all week. So I’m a bit out of touch, but I just spotted this little Office “add-in” released by Microsoft that “can permanently remove hidden data and collaboration data, such as change tracking and comments, from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint files.” (via Lockergnome)

Understanding Open Source Software

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:03:04 +0000

This is a handy legal explination of Open Source Software by Red Hat’s Mark Webbink, Esq.:

“Mark Webbink, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Red Hat, Inc., wrote this article for corporate attorneys, explaining free and open source software and comparing various open source licenses, detailing how the GPL really works, explaining US copyright law, and listing some corporate law office best practices for software, from the standpoint of what policies are prudent for the corporate environment.
He also explains how derivative works are defined, touches on the indemnification issue and the difference between open source and “shared source”, and highlights some of the main myths and misconceptions about the GPL and open source.” (via /.)

Can Armstrong Win Six?

Sat, 03 Jan 2004 22:39:07 +0000

From a spectators point of view, it’s a little early to be thinking of the 2004 Tour de France, but Eurosport has an excellent analysis of Armstrong’s chances for six

“In the group of five-timers, however, Armstrong excels in one crucial domain: More than any of the others, Armstrong can endure the forces of an apocalyptic Tour de France — and still emerge with his yellow jersey intact.” Here’s why…

Retire the Wretched Fax Machine

Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:59:41 +0000

Please! Let’s make 2004 the year we retire the wretched fax machine!

This is despite some of the valid points Paul Rubens of the BBC NEWS makes in his article Fax – the technology that refuses to die (via Gizmodo)

“The fax machine is an ancient piece of office equipment – it was invented in its earliest form by one Alexander Bain in 1843. It transmits the contents of pieces of paper, but these days the chances are high that anything on paper started as an electronic document. So why print it out and fax it when you can e-mail the digital version?”

PVR Parts Ordered

Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:14:26 +0000

Since the hardware is now on order, I suppose I have committed myself to building what Catherine has branded “STeVo“, which is my feeble attempt at a constructing a homebrew PVR (personal video recorder).

Wish me luck!

Corporate Search in 2004?

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:59:23 +0000

Call it a prediction or stating the obvious, but I believe in the coming year corporate search solutions will be generating a steady buzz — driven primarily by innovative products that focus on unlocking the terabytes of knowledge squandered away in the reassess of the corporate network data stores. A position John Battelle seems to agree with in a recent post on the topic:

“…the overwhelming presumption of webwide search on your desktop is certainly rewiring how corporations think about their more private databanks. A robust market has grown up around “enterprise search,” (some companies, such as FAST, were spun off from consumer search companies, and Google maintains a unit focused on the market). There’s a crop of interesting startups to boot, including Tim Bray’s company, Antarctica. It’s entirely possible some of the next big ideas in search may well be developed in this more focused, less public field.”

Simple, Private File Sharing

Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:21:18 +0000

As others have predicted, we will see more an more of these…

“MUTE File Sharing is a new peer-to-peer network that provides easy search-and-download functionality while also protecting your privacy.”

I haven’t tried it yet, but it seems to be similar to Waste

Heliodisplay- Interactive Free-Space Display

Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:14:50 +0000

IO2 Technology has demonstrated a 42″ prototype of what they are calling “Heliodisplay- Interactive Free-Space Display“, which is essentially display without a “screen” …

“The Heliodisplay projects full color streaming video into free space (i.e. air). It is plug-and-play compatible with most video sources (TV, DVD, computer, etc.). These non-holographic images can be fully interactive, allowing a hand or finger to select, navigate and manipulate — as if it were a virtual touch screen.”

Social Bookmarks Manager Right-Click Context Menu

Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:58:00 +0000

Last night I hacked together a bit of JavaScript to add a right-click context menu posting option to Joshua Schachter’s Social Bookmarks Manager.

It works in a similar fashion to the bookmarklet, but is accessible via the right-click context menu in IE. It also adds the feature of pulling in any text selected on the page into the “extended” description field and remembers your del.icio.us/user path after the first invocation by storing it in a cookie.

Syndication Friendly Longhorn

Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:05:53 +0000

Others have mentioned the impact of the embedded RSS capabilities that will be in Longhorn. This time however, it’s Scoble talking about the broader implications of a syndication friendly OS

“In Longhorn you can store a ton of metadata with your files. You can also find those files much more easily. Why is that important to syndication? Because now you have a file system that supports sending files out via a syndication feed, storing them locally, and then letting users get to them in new and interesting ways.”

Social Networking in the Enterprise

Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:18:38 +0000

Ephraim Schwartz writes in InfoWorld about how Social Networking Software is targeting the corporate enterprise, with startups such as
ZeroDegrees,
Interface Software,
ContactNetwork, and
Spoke targeting CRM…

“Leveraging advances in communication and integration, a new kind of application — corporate social networking — is being folded into the CRM feature set.”

“Companies like Siebel and Salesforce.com are watching this space. These social networking companies will be gobbled up real quick,”

In addition, I believe that Microsoft and IBM are watching this space as well, because in my opinion Social Networking Software is a natural extension to enterprise messaging software such as Exchange and Domino.

Searching RSS Channels for News

Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:05:02 +0000

Ray Matthews of Utah State Library Division has published an excellent tutorial on the various methods for searching RSS feeds. I think the best part is the comprehensive list of RSS-related search engines and tools.

Open Groupware Knoppix CD

Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:20:16 +0000

Build a test Open Groupware server simply by rebooting your system with the
OGo Knoppix CD!

“OGo Knoppix CD is a bootable CD which contains a complete Debian GNU/Linux system, a fully configured OGo installation, a Cyrus server and some more Linux software.

I think this is worth a burn and reboot!

Building a Low-Budget TiVo Substitute

Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:36:50 +0000

Gen over at PVRBlog pointed me to an excellent Slashdot thread that’s talking about building a homebrew digital video recorder on a budget, which is very timely for me.

In fact, I just updated my wiki with a rough spec for my own PVR. Now I need to refine and price out the equipment because I think I’m already over budget.

Blog without Blogging

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:26:46 +0000

No time to blog? Try Drunk Men Work Here’s free weblog service and utilize their Zero-Click posting technology

Best of all, there’s no learning required!

Social Network Search

Mon, 08 Dec 2003 09:57:25 +0000

You can create a social network search interface by using Micah Alpern’s ‘Blogs I Read’ Google Hack and/or Feedster. However it appears that Eurekster has taken it one step further:

“Eurekster uses the six-degrees of separation concept to learn from your extended network of contacts and deliver you prioritized results based on the success and proximity of the searches they have done.”

The public beta currently available seems to require a bit more effort than the average consumer “searcher” would be willing to afford. However, I would like to see how well this works within the corporate enterprise — assuming of course you can integrate much of the social network mechanics with existing enterprise directory services such as Active Directory or other LDAP-compliant systems.

Comcast’s HDTV and DVR Box

Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:08:44 +0000

Matt Haughey’s PVRBlog gives some more insight about Comcast’s new PVR box:

“Comcast was testing the PVR waters, but it looks like the rollout will soon be going full-force.”

Personal Service Oriented Architecture

Wed, 03 Dec 2003 10:58:50 +0000

Michael Kanellos from CNET exposes some of the research at Microsoft to make search a greater part of its Windows operating system. The following are some interesting quotes from the article:

“Search in many ways is brute force,” Dumais said. “If the two of us type in a query, we get the same thing back, and that is just brain dead. There is no way an intelligent human being would tell us the same thing about the same topic.”

jpcache with Movable Type

Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:12:06 +0000

I’m again using jpcache with my blog. This time however, I’ve integrated the PHP-based gzip and caching capabilities of jpcache with Movable Type.

You should see a significant speed improvement through out the site — especially on some of the longer category pages.

It was fairly easy to incorporate into MT since I’m already outputting PHP files from my MT templates. Basically, after following the uncomplicated install guide for jpcache and running a few sample test pages, all I needed to do was “prepend” the jpcache script to the end of my PHP files.

BitTorrent, Blogs and Web Proxies

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:28:00 +0000

Don Park gives a good overview of BitTorrent, but also provides an interesting perspective on how blog software in general could utilize BitTorrent technology.

“In my opinion, flash flood nature of blogs will be well served by BitTorrent. Likewise, link-happy nature of blogs will complement BitTorrent well. Ultimately, I think a tailored variation of BitTorrent should be built into blog clients and servers for download sharing of feeds, images, enclosures, and other blog-related resources. BitTorrent will encourage media-rich blog posts without applying power-law to the bloggers’ wallet. BitTorrent means blog torrents.”

Linux Home Theater PC HOWTO

Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:15:18 +0000

Brandon has assembled a comprehensive Linux Home Theater PC HOWTO, which is definitely worth a read if you’re planning on building your own Homebrew TiVo-like device.

Disable MovableType’s Send Entry Script

Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:24:43 +0000

The file ‘mt-send-entry.cgi’ in a default MovableType installation can be used to relay spam. If you’re not using the script to allow your users to “Send this Entry by Email”, you can safely remove the file from your MT install or change the permissions so that the script cannot execute.

However, if you need the functionality Ben Trott has posted a fix, but IMHO, you’d be safer pushing this function client-side using a mailto with some JavaScript

Finance for Geeks

Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:50:33 +0000

Eric Sink, the man behind Marketing for Geeks, has just published an article for MSDN called Finance for Geeks, which is an overview of accounting principals from the “technologists” perspective.

Definitely worth a read if you’re starting a software company or working with finance systems.

Home-Brew PVRs on Linux

Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:11:33 +0000

Joe Stump over on the O’Reilly DevCenter puts together a well-rounded overview of The State of Home-Brew Personal Video Recorders on Linux (Think: Open Source TiVo). The article also includes a good threaded discussion as well. Well worth a read.

Incidentally, I’ve decided to investigate putting together my own PVR. I was inspired mainly by a recent InfoWorld article on the savings you can expect by build your own systems.

I’ve set my budget to be about $400 and so far I’m leaning toward using MythTV and ideally the KnoppMyth Bootable CD MythTV Install to make things easy, which is based on the amazing Knoppix Live CD Debian Distro.

Google to Atom

Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:12:47 +0000

The Well-Formed Web has made available a
Google2Atom web service that will generate an Atom feed from a Google search query

However, you’ll need your Google API key to generate the feed.

JiWire: WiFi Hotspot Directory

Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:11:49 +0000

I haven’t looked for a WiFi hotspot directory in quite some time, but I was just alerted to JiWire via Street Tech this morning and I must agree with Gareth that it is indeed comprehensive.

In fact, I learned that my local public library has its own free public hotspot!

Stolen Domain Names

Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:04:50 +0000

It’s appalling to hear that VeriSign (aka Network Solutions | Internic) is STILL letting people steal domain names!

“…it appears that it is still possible to steal domains with the minimum of effort. We have been contacted by the owner of the valuable domain DVDmovies.com who was amazed, only last month, to find that his domain had been moved and registered with another company, without his knowledge.”

“That the registrar at fault was no less than VeriSign – owner of all .com and .net domains – makes it worse. The fact that the company was also recently chastised by the US Appeals Court and ordered to pay millions of dollars in compensation to the owner of Sex.com for wrongly transferring his domain makes it all the more incredible.”

Presentation Layer of Search

Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:47:48 +0000

Raul Valdes-Perez, president of Vivisimo is quoted in
an article at New Scientist about improvements to the user experience of search interfaces. In particular he is talking about Google News, MSN’s newly announced Newsbot and Vivisimo as yet to be released spontaneous clustering approach.

“[Raul Valdes-Perez] says that the engineering of search and rank algorithms “has gone about as far as it can go”. Now the way to improve the user experience is to work on the next layer of algorithms that determine the presentation of the “search and rank” results.”

Web of Human Knowledge

Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:11:50 +0000

Ross Mayfield links to a fascinating article on
Boxes and Arrows by Alex Wright about Paul Otlet: The forgotten forefather of information architecture.

“In 1934, years before Vannevar Bush dreamed of the memex, decades before Ted Nelson coined the term “hypertext,” Paul Otlet envisioned a new kind of scholar’s workstation: a moving desk shaped like a wheel, powered by a network of hinged spokes beneath a series of moving surfaces. The machine would let users search, read and write their way through a vast mechanical database stored on millions of 3×5 index cards.”

Popularity Metrics

Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:09:35 +0000

In Tim Bray’s latest essay on search he points out what I feel is an often overlooked aspect of Google’s PageRank when it is applied to enterprise search:

“[PageRank] Won’t Work for You If you’re writing or deploying a search engine for your Intranet or product catalogue or portal, Google’s PageRank trick probably won’t work, because most Intranet and catalogue and portal pages don’t point at each other. The Web is unique in that it has millions of authors independently making decisions about what’s important; aggregating those decisions is what makes PageRank so powerful.”

Disposable Email Addresses

Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:38:26 +0000

I order to protect myself from a potential deluge of spam from suspicious service offerings, I wanted to use a disposable email address.

Of course Google turned up a gem, which I had heard of before, but never used called Spamgourmet

Their service is simple, but clever and best of all free! Basically, after you register a valid email address, you can then create a temporary email address, with a limited message forward limit, at any time.

Sleep Is Now An Option

Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:23:40 +0000

Well, in light of the fact that within a few months, sleep will likely become a scarce commodity for me and Catherine. So, I think perhaps I should investigate the “Sleep Is Now An Option” drug.

Provigil … was a drug originally developed to treat narcolepsy, the inability to stay awake. Now Cephalon, the maker of Provigil, has received a letter of approval from the FDA extending the approved uses of the drug to treatment of jet-lag and swing-shift syndrome.
In reality the drug is set to replace the caffeine in No-Doze as the all-nighter anti-sleep aid of choice. In fact, it’s much better than No-Doze – with Provigil, you can literally stay awake for days, alert and with a remarkable lack of side effects. “(via SciScoop)

Irish Eyes Are Smiling

Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:13:50 +0000

It’s official, Guinness is good for you!

Further info on Wallop

Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:36:03 +0000

Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft Watch interviews Microsoft social computing group researcher Lili Cheng, which reveals some more insight (including screen shots) into MSFT’s social-networking software code-named “Wallop“:

“We’ve been really interested in blogs, wikis, authoring and syndication around RSS, and social networking software in general,” Cheng tells Microsoft Watch. “We were imagining how these things could combine. And Wallop is our first experiment in this space.”

“A lot of these ideas (RSS, wikis) are more novel and intriguing,” she says. “They are about aggregating sites and getting more information out. It matches the way people communicate.”

Pacman via Excel

Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:09:10 +0000

I’m truly amazed! I wish I knew Japanese to provide more details, but apparently Nobuya Chikada has created an excellent remake of the classics Pacman and Space Invaders in Microsoft Excel (Yes, I said Excel!) Do check it out. (Link via Les Orchard)

Note: you’ll need to lower your Excel macro security level to get it to run (at least that’s was what I had to do in Excel 2003), but it’s certainly worth it!

Google Deskbar

Fri, 07 Nov 2003 11:22:50 +0000

I usually don’t like to add too much extra paraphernalia to the default Windows desktop. However, after about an hour of sporadic usage, I think the Google Deskbar is on its way to becoming required gear for me.

“Google Deskbar enables you to search with Google from any application without lifting your fingers from the keyboard. Installs easily in your Windows taskbar.”

Morphix Modular Live-CD Linux Distribution

Thu, 06 Nov 2003 12:25:29 +0000

Morphix is similar to Knoppix in that it’s a complete bootable Linux Distro on CD. The main difference however is that Morphix is modular — with ISO packages ranging from light-weight GUI to gamer

“Morphix is a modular distribution, with live-cd support (you burn the CD, you put it in your CD-Rom drive, you boot and it works… no harddisk-installation necessary, doesn’t touch your data). Also, installing Morphix on a harddisk is a breeze, if you want to. Just click on the icon on the desktop, or choose the installer from the morphix/babytux submenu.”

Ask Microsoft?

Wed, 05 Nov 2003 12:57:39 +0000

I just read this via /. about Microsoft’s interest in other search engines:

“Microsoft had also been linked with buys of any of the remaining search players, including Ask Jeeves and Looksmart, though the company has recently dumped Looksmart after deciding its results did not match up to those of its other search partners, notably Overture.”

Stopping spam with the Anti-Spam-SMTP-Proxy

Wed, 05 Nov 2003 11:09:10 +0000

This seems like a smart approach: Stop spam at the SMTP-level with Whitelists and Bayesian filtering using the Anti-Spam-SMTP-Proxy (ASSP):

“The Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) Server project aims to create an open source platform-independent SMTP Proxy server which implements whitelists and Bayesian filtering to rid the planet of the blight of unsolicited email (UCE). UCE must be stopped at the SMTP server. Anti-spam tools must be adaptive to new spam and customized for each site’s mail patterns. This free, easy-to-use tool works with any mail transport and achieves these goals requiring no operator intervention after the initial setup phase.”

Google is no sure thing

Wed, 05 Nov 2003 09:41:49 +0000

Quotes from an article in The Economist about Google’s ability to sustain its market-share.

“For Google to stay permanently ahead of other search-engine technologies is almost impossible, since it takes so little—only a bright idea by another set of geeks—to lose the lead.”

“Yahoo!, in fact, will probably be the first to attack. It now … has under its own roof all the elements of the business model that made Google such a success.

Tomacco Plant

Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:04:16 +0000

LOL! This happens to be based on one of my favorite Simpson’s Episodes, but apparently a fan has created a real-life Tomacco Plant! There’s a link to a KPTV News Report and a thread on Slashdot regarding this “amazing science development”.

Mmmmm, Tomacco!

Enterprises Want Search

Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:23:56 +0000

Cathleen Moore’s article in InfoWorld this week regarding the necessity of a Enterprise Search strategy should be considered “stating the obvious”.

Some excellent quotes from the article:

“The explosion of corporate content “both in the physical form of documents, records, and data, and in the human form of personal knowledge” has pressed companies into a crisis: Find a way to tap into and effectively leverage that knowledge, or watch your company’s most vital assets wither on the vine.”

Latest about Longhorn

Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:25:22 +0000

John Carroll over at ZDNet has posted, IMHO one of the best overviews of Longhorn to date coming off of last weeks PDC.

Here are some good quotes from the article:

“I’ve noticed before that it is much easier to create reasonably complex user interfaces in HTML than in WIN32. For instance, it’s far easier to write a “skinnable” web site than it is to write a “skinnable” WIN32 application. Granted, you could do practically anything you wanted in WIN32, but if you wanted to escape the look and feel imposed by WIN32 controls, you had to perform a bunch of programming gymnastics.”

IT on a Budget

Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:46:05 +0000

I was reminded of this great special report in InfoWorld about IT on the cheap via Lockergnome

“From refurbished hardware and eBay deals to do-it-yourself setups, everything you need to know about buying equipment on the cheap.”

It’s certainly worth a read or bookmark.

Microsoft pursuit of Google revealed

Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:50:43 +0000

I was in meetings all morning. So, I missed this report earlier, but Dave just alerted me to the Microsoft and Google news.

“Microsoft approached Google, the internet search engine, two months ago to discuss a partnership or even a merger it emerged today.”

“Google showed little interest in overtures from the company that dominates the market for operating systems.”
(via The Guardian)

This is certainly interesting, yet given MSFT’s track record in this respect, the news is not surprising. My guess is that the initial rejection by Google spured MSFT’s recent MSN Search push.

Doh! The cruller is no more!

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:32:31 +0000

Donuts?

“Walk into any local Dunkin’ Donuts and you can purchase a caramel-swirl latte or sourdough bagel, a pumpkin muffin or powdered Munchkin. You can get a jelly stick, chocolate stick, or chocolate-coconut stick, pastries that are shaped somewhat like conventional crullers and contain roughly the same lip-smacking number of empty calories.”

“But you cannot get a cruller anymore… ” (more here)

Your Mom is so versatile you can now have her in RSS

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:29:37 +0000

Yes, indeed it’s true yourmom.com now has her very own set of RSS feeds!

I’m sure you’ll sleep better with this wonderful news. In fact, there’s more! Your mom even comes in Atom 0.1 format — thanks to FeedCreator class v1.3

New Joke Updates: RSS 0.91, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom 0.1
Most Emailed Jokes: RSS 0.91, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom 0.1
Most Highly Rated Jokes: RSS 0.91, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom 0.1

Enjoy :-)

JavaScript: Search word hit-highlighting

Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:10:29 +0000

I found searchhi, which is a slick JavaScript library by Stuart Langridge that will highlight keywords in your documents when the referring link to you page comes in from a seach engine such as Google:

“searchhi JavaScript library is a way of automatically highlighting words on a page when that page was reached by a search engine. In essence, if you search, for example, Google for some words, and then follow a link from the search results to a searchhi enabled page, the words you searched for will be highlighted on that page.”

Google eyes book search

Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:25:09 +0000

In light of Amazon’s recent book search service, this report on CNet about Google in talks with publishers to provide a similar service seems a little strange.

“Google is in talks with several publishers to build a service that would allow Web surfers to search the full text of books online” (via CNet)

IMHO, the service does make sense for Amazon as a way to drive more consumers to book purchases and I suppose it could also turn another revenue source for Google — certainly as a research tool for business and academia, but is the market big enough to support the effort?

Movable Type Blog Migration

Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:58:19 +0000

Over the last week, usually in the mid-to-late evenings — after Catherine falls asleep, I have been slowly migrating my B2-based blog to Movable Type.

I must say that for the most part the process has been fairly straight forward. The MT system installed smoothly and customizing the core MT templates, while time-consuming getting them to fit my old B2 template, were rather easy and extremely flexible.

However, during the migration process I had some interesting obstacles. In particular, I wanted to seamlessly maintain the entire URL-space of my old B2 blog with my new MT blog. My initial thinking was that with a little data-scrubbing and massaging I could export the MySQL table data from B2 and import the data into the MT table-space.

Amazon’s Full Text Search

Thu, 23 Oct 2003 02:10:04 +0000

Amazon has now extended its search to include the full text of over 120,000 books. It will even do hit-highlighting on the actual pages that match. Slick!

Office 2003 and the Google Web Service API

Tue, 21 Oct 2003 05:10:15 +0000

This article about integrating Google into the research pane of Office is from a few months ago, but I think relevant given that today is the official launch of Office 2003

Hybrid Application Manager

Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:10:29 +0000

AppRocket seems to be a hybrid application manager with “intelligent search” that appears to be based on LaunchBar for Mac OS X. (link via Les Orchard)

“AppRocket uses a very special search algorithm to zip through thousands of items and only show you that which is most relevant.”

Just a note however, AppRocket requires .Net 1.1.

Is Comment Spam Cost Effective?

Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:10:54 +0000

I’m getting my fair share of comment spam like many other bloggers, but I can’t imagine that the cost/time ratio is actually worth it.

I think Sam Ruby sums it up best:

“65 minutes to create. Carefully crafted to appear to be on topic. 10 seconds to wipe out.”

LOL! Dumb asses!

What is WinFS?

Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:10:17 +0000

J. Wilcox over at Microsoft Monitor tries to determine if the new file system, dubbed WinFS, in Microsoft’s NG:OS Longhorn, will indeed be considered “new“:

“If Mr. LaMonica’s WinFS description is accurate, then WinFS really is Microsoft database technology running on top of the existing NTFS file system.”

Salesforce.com on Social Networking

Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:10:23 +0000

Ross Mayfield posted an excerpt from an interview with the CSO of Salesforce.com in regard to Social Networking. The interview was conducted by IBDN, but I wasn’t able to find a direct link. However, here’s a quote from the M2M blog:

IBDN: We know that consumers will pay to find a date, but will they pay to find business contacts?

FULBRIGHT: Yes, one name for them is “leads,” and sales and marketing organizations pay thousands of dollars for leads today. Leads are the life-blood of every business. Another type of paid business contact is called “candidates,” and again companies have been paying recruiters or internal referrals thousands of dollars for great candidates for at least 50 years.

NYC Subway RSS Feeds

Tue, 14 Oct 2003 05:10:46 +0000

Heh, RobotPolishers’ has created RSS feeds of MTA’s services updates for the NYC Subway over at Disorient Express:

“So out of frustration, sheer geekiness and a desire to toy around with RSS, I decided to put together some feeds of the MTAs service updates, based on a program scanning their own weekly website updates.”

Jahia: Integrated Java CMS and Portal

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:10:52 +0000

I had a chance to take a look at the new 4.0 version of Jahia and I must say that I am very impressed. As 100% Java solution, it’s a competitive alternative to SharePoint.

Jahia is not quite Open Source however, you do get the source code, but the license model is “Jahia Collaborative Source License (JCSL)”, which roughly means that you can either pay for the license in dollars or pay with code contributions to the project. Certainly an interesting model that is similar to Sun Collaborative Source License (SCSL).

Search Engine for Research Documents

Wed, 08 Oct 2003 03:10:30 +0000

Penn State University has released a new search engine called SMEALSearch, which is focused on indexing academic and business white papers, articles and reports.

“SMEALSearch is a niche search engine that searches the web and catalogs academic articles as well as commercially produced articles and reports that address any branch of Business. The search engine crawls websites of universities, commercial organizations, research institutes and government departments to retrieve academic articles, working papers, white papers, consulting reports, magazine articles, and published statistics and facts.”

Collaborative Search

Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:10:32 +0000

Unfortunately, I haven’t been using any IM clients recently due to the fact that their usage is banned and blocked where I work (more on that sometime).

Anyway, it was intriguing to read via Jeremy Zawodny Blog about Yahoo’s new IMVironment (e.g. plug-in) for its Messenger client that allows users to search collaboratively.

“Pull up a map or yellow pages listing together instantly. Working with a colleague in another city? Search together in real time for info, images, news…”

Email-2-RSS

Wed, 01 Oct 2003 01:10:56 +0000

Turn any mailing list into an RSS feed by using Tom Dyson’s clever little Mailbucket.org service.

I’ve actually been thinking of cobbling together a similar service that I could use to aggregate all of my various POP3 and Web-based email accounts as RSS feeds, which I could then read via NewsGator in Outlook.

I know- I know this sounds convoluted, but this idea was basically spurred because POP3, IMAP and many web-based mail services have been blocked via the corporate firewall here where I work, which has been instituted because of the rash email-based worms and of course the abundance of spam.

Google acquires Kaltix

Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:09:37 +0000

Well, that was quick… Here’s quote via San Jose Biz Journal

“Kaltix Corp., a search technology startup, has been purchased by Internet search engine company Google Inc., of Mountain View. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.”

(Thanks for the heads-up Anil.)

I posted something about this back in August, but based on their “published research that claims to offer a way to compute search results nearly 1,000 times faster than what’s possible using current methods”, it seems like a smart move for Google.

Ten Technologies That Deserve to Die

Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:09:11 +0000

Add to this list the Fax Machine! I despise that retched device!

[Now Playing: Sonny Rollins – Mack The Knife (10:05)]

NewsGator posting plug-in for B2

Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:09:30 +0000

Cool! Greg has released a NewsGator posting plug-in for B2! (hopefully this will work!)

[Now Playing: Elvis Costello – Can It Be True? (03:46)]

Serendipitous Data Connections

Mon, 29 Sep 2003 01:09:25 +0000

CNET News.com has an article on a new Wharton Team that appears to be using k-log-like techniques to rediscover serendipitous data connections.

“Although an unprecedented amount of information about technology is now available online, Ranieri notes that “everything is set up to look for exactly what you are looking for,” rather than to assist in the process of finding crossover, innovative applications. In addition, information is “stored in silos” that are hard for non-specialists to penetrate. Until now, there has been no way to search for attributes like “lighter, faster or quicker” with technology categories, he says.
…
The Wharton team’s new process aims to meet this challenge by using a methodology that “combines computer research techniques with human research techniques,” MacMillan says. Kimbrough likens the new process to the methodology Google uses. Although Google’s search engine is automated, it exploits information that thousands of individuals (at no cost to Google) painstakingly collected and loaded onto their Web sites. Kimbrough explains that Google’s page-ranking algorithm “exploits tons of work (done by) people who put Java links on their Web sites; it exploits their manual labor.”
…
the Wharton team’s new process searches through documents and makes connections between highly technical descriptions of properties–often familiar only to narrow “silos” of technologies–and broader terms that could suggest market applications to those who work in other areas. As Ranieri describes it, “We found a clever way to make a link between attributes and markets.”
…
Although it’s too early for developers to discuss technical details, Kimbrough acknowledges that this new process requires a significant amount of human input. “In part, we use human beings to create databases of attributes that can be matched up.”

Scopeware Personal Information Management

Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:09:49 +0000

Scopeware is a personal desktop search tool similar to X1, but with a different take on the user experience.

I haven’t tested it yet, but it seems to be worth a look.

Scopeware also offers a server-based solution.

Search:NG

Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:09:16 +0000

Fredrick Marckini talks to advertising pioneer Jack Trout about exactly how Microsoft can trump Google…

Jack Trout, “says Google is dangerously close to becoming the generic in the space. Should that happen, the company would be open to brand and product positioning attacks on multiple fronts.”

[Fredrick Marckini] “…asked Jack Trout about the possibility of Microsoft gaining search market share by adding a search interface to its new OS as many expect it will — effectively creating a structural barrier to all other search engines by saving steps, eliminating the need to even launch a browser: “You’ve just defined a ‘next generation’ idea,” he said. “This way you make search an operating system component. That’s tough to unseat.”

Microsoft Bets on New Search Technology

Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:09:13 +0000

Not much new in this AP article on Yahoo, but worth a read anyway…

…many analysts are most closely watching Microsoft’s project to develop its own indexing and searching system for the Internet — and how the technology might later be deployed throughout the company.”

Shareware MP3 Music

Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:09:44 +0000

I’d love to see this catch on…

Magnatune: “try before you buy.” It’s the shareware model applied to music.

VeriSign Still Sucks

Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:09:19 +0000

Is there anything else VeriSign can do to demonstrate its hatred of customers? Oh yeah, it certainly can!

However, the BIND community’s emergency response is definitely a gem!

Intraspect sold to Vignette

Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:09:54 +0000

Via Due Diligence

“Enterprise collaboration and groupware company Intraspect Software has been sold to public company Vignette for $20m in cash and stock.”

Tim Oren has a nice quote about the space Introspect served too…

“This one’s a cautionary tale not only on the late-90’s investing boom/bust (Intraspect’s history covers nearly the whole saga), but on the long selling cycles and difficulty of extracting revenue from businesses for software of this type. Social Software advocates and investors take note.”

Collaboration Culture

Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:09:31 +0000

Joe Wilcox of Jupiter’s Microsoft Monitor Research Service talks about MSFT’s collaboration culture within business groups and relates it to what former Apple executive Michael Mace wrote in his rant about Who Killed Apple Computer?:

From Collaboration: The Microsoft Way:
“Microsoft’s collaborative culture makes the company very responsive to competitive threats. The character also means Microsoft can quickly focus resources from multiple product divisions when executives see there is a need. These could be seen during the so-called browser wars with Netscape, when Microsoft rapidly churned out new Internet Explorer features and caught up with Netscape in about 18 months and three product versions…”

Reinventing Products

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:09:24 +0000

John sent me this article in Business 2.0, which seems to be demonstrating the application of Business Process Re-engineering in the Consumer Product Development area:

James Dyson says, “It is much easier to reinvent the wheel because the faults of the existing system are fairly obvious,” he contends. “The hard part is to find a solution that everyone who has come before you has not found.”

“Dyson has found ways to improve on such basic appliances as the vacuum cleaner, the washing machine, and the wheelbarrow.” [more here]

Personal Search Tool

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 10:09:13 +0000

I just tested X1 for a few minutes and I’m truly impressed with its ability to quickly index and search my local repository of files and email messages.

“X1 is free PC software that uses an advanced indexing process that lets you find any word in any email or file on your computer, in under a second.”

The Pro version of X1 is just under $50 (US) and adds the ability to search network shares and native file preview options as well.

Web Recall

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:09:34 +0000

The Internet Archive has release a new tool that allows you to search for relevant pages from 1996 until today.

“You can search and find things the way they used to be.”

I guess the web almost never forgets…

My Yahoo Supports RSS

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:09:43 +0000

Very cool! I just read on Library Stuff that you can now use My Yahoo as an RSS news aggregator.

If you’re already a member, click on the following link to add the “blog” module.

Add the Blog Module

Next, click on the [edit] button to add some RSS feeds.

Consume and enjoy.

SnapStream Personal Video Station 3.0 review

Tue, 02 Sep 2003 11:09:45 +0000

Matt Haughey of PVRBlog has an extensive review of SnapStream Personal Video Station 3.0:

“Would I trade a TiVo for a small PC running Snapstream? After playing with it for a few weeks, I’d have to say it is certainly possible. A home theater PC can do more than a TiVo (play videos, any audio format, photos, show the web on your TV, etc), and this package certainly covers the TV recording features that TiVo pioneered.”

Explorer bar Maker

Tue, 02 Sep 2003 10:09:09 +0000

I love this stuff too…

“Explorer Bar (Band) Maker is a Windows tool (one-step wizard) that lets you create your own Explorer bar from any HTML page, picture or Macromedia Flash file.” (via Anil Dash’s Links)

Enterprise Social Networks

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 04:08:46 +0000

Don Park paints a picture of blog and wiki convergence in the following quote:

“Imagine posts and comments flowing from blogs to wikis like the way streams feed into lakes. Got the picture yet? Now think of a blog category as a wiki page. The picture changes so that the blog becomes a mountain and categories become the streams running down the side of the mountain in all directions toward wikis into which streams from other mountains also feed into.”

Remote Shutdown

Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:08:30 +0000

I was just helping out a friend who was trying to remotely restart a server that was somewhat locked-up and I found this gem on the JSI FAQ, which describes a “feature” of the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) on Windows 2000 & XP that will enable you to remotely restart a server.

Q: How can I log off or shutdown a remote Windows 2000 computer? (Quoted from the JSI FAQ)
A: You can do this from your Windows 2000 desktop.

Collaboration and Process

Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:08:49 +0000

Clay Shirky writes the following in his piece about, “Wikis, Grafitti, and Process:”

“A wiki in the hands of a healthy community works. A wiki in the hands of an indifferent community fails. The software makes no attempt to add ‘process’ in order to keep people from doing stupid things. Instead, it provides more flexibility, a crazy amount of flexibility, and intoxicating amount of flexibility, allowing massive amounts of stupidity and intentional damage to be done, at will, by roving and anonymous posters. And it provides rollback.”

HOWTO Guides: Hard Drive Data Recovery

Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:08:38 +0000

It’s always good to keep HOWTO guides like this around.

“Killed a hard drive without backing up? This guide helps you recover the data ” (link via Lockergnome)

Of course you can never find them when you need’em because the system you bookmarked the guide is the one that’s dead. So I’ll just post it here :-)

Anaconda of the Amazon

Mon, 25 Aug 2003 09:08:22 +0000

Anna Kournikova: “Excuse me Mr. Bezos, is that an ‘Anaconda’ in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”

SoBig Blackout Blaster!

Fri, 22 Aug 2003 04:08:33 +0000

Via Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley

“Rumors about SoBig and Blaster are propagating almost as fast as the worms themselves. The latest rumor circulating on Bugtraq: Blaster caused last week’s east coast blackout. Some are speculating that Blaster brought down the monitoring and control systems at a power-plant master terminal. Meanwhile, on the SoBig front, Gartner analysts are estimating that damages incurred by businesses from the e-mail worm could top $50 million.”

HyperText File System

Fri, 22 Aug 2003 04:08:26 +0000

Beau Lebens’ Dented Reality has some interesting projects, like this one…

“HTFS is a complete, database-driven “file-system” on the concept of hyper-text … The basic idea of this system is …[that]… files, emails, notes and links can be stored as unique items – ONCE, managed by a database.” [more]

Hmm, sounds a bit like Ted Nelson’s Xanadu.

I’d love to see some demos of it, maybe sample code too.

Canon EOS Digital SLR Rebel

Thu, 21 Aug 2003 05:08:05 +0000

Lately, I’ve been doing some research into the latest crop of Digital SLR cameras from Canon. Of course, I’d be nowhere without the help from my friend and coworker Les, who needs to get his weblog/photolog online ASAP (but that’s another story).

Anyway, initially I was led to the Canon EOS 10D, by Anders and Les, which is an awesome pro-consumer camera, based on the reviews and sample pictures that that I’ve seen.

Although, at roughly $1,200 – $1,500(US), the price of the 10D is still way more than I want to spend (even with the imaginary money I’m willing to put towards a new digital camera to replace my aging Olympus 2020-Zoom.)

You write like a girl

Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:08:52 +0000

Well, that’s what The Gender Genie is saying about me, which uses an algorithm to predict the gender of an author by analyzing a writing sample.

Damn!

Cool tech though.

Office 2003 Pricing is Set

Tue, 19 Aug 2003 05:08:49 +0000

Via Microsoft Monitor:

“Office Standard 2003 full version will sell for $399 and the Pro version for $499. Respectively, upgrades will cost $239 and $329.”

However, InfoPath and OneNote will sell for $199 each, which seems a bit steep — especially if they want to get them deep into the enterprise.

I still don’t get MSFT’s strategy with InfoPath. I think they should at least have a stripped down version or “reader” (like Acrobat) that they just give away.

More Punk Nostalgia

Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:08:11 +0000

The site is extremely slow right now, but with a little patience…

“You will find here [Philippe Carly’s] entire collection of concert and candid photos of popular and not so popular “rock”, “new wave” and “punk” groups from the 70s, 80s and 00s”

Wow! It’s like I’m back at CBGB’s all over again!

Teoma eclipsed Google?.

Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:08:02 +0000

The Wall Street Journal covers Google’s closest competitors (except Microsoft [for now]):

“Some search industry gurus even preach heresy: that Google isn’t the field’s technology leader anymore.”

Teoma’s providing more value by providing refinements from the “community”

“Teoma’s software has, in effect, found the “community” associated with your search, and is listing what related topics that community is “discussing.” For “power blackout,” the refinements Friday included “electrical surge” and “cost of downtime.”

Blackout Blog

Fri, 15 Aug 2003 05:08:57 +0000

Awesome collaborative phone-cam-blog that covers the Blackout.

PHP Photo Gallery Script

Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:08:12 +0000

I tested the Coppermine Photo Gallery Script last night and it was very easy to install and best of all (IMO), it comes with a Windows XP Publishing Wizard plug-in that allows you to select a group or folder of images and “Publish” them to your Gallery. It will even create thumbnails and preview images.

Nice!

Craigslist to RSS

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:08:20 +0000

Ram Duraikannu has just emailed me about his new service that converts (almost) any craigslist mailing list into an RSS 2.0 feed.

For example, the following feed is of Bikes for sale in the New York Metro Area:

http://www.rightho.com/craigs.cgi?url=http://newyork.craigslist.org/bik/

Nice work Ram!

CXBX: An XBox Emulator

Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:08:41 +0000

An early release of the CXBX XBox Emulator looks very promising — Although no games play just yet.
(via Lockergnome)

Personalizing PageRank

Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:08:09 +0000

An article on CNet about a new search startup out of Stanford (link via Anil)

Kaltrix — “A stealth start-up out of Stanford University is hoping to raise the heat on one of the toughest problems in Web search–and possibly out-Google Google in the process.”

“Without discussing Kaltix’s plans publicly, the company’s founders have published research that claims to offer a way to compute search results nearly 1,000 times faster than what’s possible using current methods.”

Reviving A Dead Hard Drive

Sat, 09 Aug 2003 06:08:23 +0000

Detailed write up of swapping logic boards on a dead hard drive to recover data. (via Slashdot)

Visual Enterprise Search Tool

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 03:08:18 +0000

John sent me a link to KartOO Technology’s search engine and visualization UI that was “developed in Flash to present a friendly and clear visual interface while integrating the graphic charter of your company.”

You can see here what I think is a demo of the search and flash-based UI that’s actually meta-search engine of sorts that visually maps result-sets in the UI.

I wonder what their pricing mode is for these tools.

File Sync Tool for Unix and Windows

Wed, 06 Aug 2003 03:08:31 +0000

Unison seems to be a file-system agnostic replacement for the Robocopy tool found in the NT Resource Kit and others…

“Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.”
(via decafbad)

NewsGator 1.3 Released

Tue, 05 Aug 2003 09:08:48 +0000

Greg Reinacker has just released NewsGator 1.3, which includes initial support for Pie/EchoAtom feeds, among many other great new features!

Congratulations (again) Greg!

SMTP in a Spam-ridden world

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 02:08:03 +0000

CNET News.com has a well researched article on whether this is the End of the road for SMTP in a world that is deluged with Spam.

Some interesting quotes…

“The flaws are so severe, some now believe, that the protocol that gave rise to the most significant explosion in written communication since Gutenberg may no longer be capable of serving its purpose in a world of con artists, pornographers, virus authors and unscrupulous spammers.”

PageRank within the Enterprise

Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:07:58 +0000

Tim Bray’s latest On Search essay alludes to the effectiveness of Google’s PageRank within the Enterprise:

“…even if it turns out that popularity [PageRank] is the key thing for Internet search, the Internet is a very special place, and it’s quite unlikely that popularity is the killer metadatum for the whole universe of search applications.”

However, I suspect that part of what’s in works with Google’s acquisition and integration of Blogger is to augment PageRank in the enterprise. Yet, utilizing blogs internally to enhance the PageRank-ing of documents and resources indexed with the Google Search Appliance will require some ramp-up time to become useful.

Spam Blocking Email Addresses

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:07:23 +0000

Need a quick throw-away email address for an online registration? Give Mailinator a try.

Interesting idea to combat spam.

End of a great Tour de France

Mon, 28 Jul 2003 01:07:57 +0000

Well, as I’m sure most know, Lance made it to number five.

Congratulations on joining the Five-Timers-Club

Congratulations also to the awesome Postal Team!

Speaking of Lance, here’s a great quote from the recent Washington Post article by Sally Jenkins who co-author of the Lance Armstrong book, “It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life”

Focus on the Process not the Feature

Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:07:36 +0000

I alluded to this the other day, but the following from Jupiter Research sums up MSFT’s marketing positioning strategy for the new Office System, which will also include Longhorn and I suspect enterprise search.

Basically, they are not selling features or services, but “solutions” to very specific business processes.

“Microsoft is putting less emphasis on individual applications and product features and more emphasis on what people can do with Office System. The strategy also synchs with other products, such as development of Windows Longhorn. Earlier, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates discussed “scenarios” the company is using to develop Longhorn. One scenario might be a teenager interested in listening to music. Microsoft has taken a similar approach to Office System, looking at information scenarios Office users confront daily.”

Study shows blogs are under-represented in Google

Thu, 24 Jul 2003 02:07:47 +0000

Interesting study released by Microdoc News debunking (mathematically) that blogs are clogging Google

[Estimations show] “there are about 150 million webpages that belong to blogs. Out of 3.8 billion webpages 150 million is about 3.9% of all pages in Google and blogs appear in the top ten results only 2.1% of the time. It seems to me that blogs are being under-represented and not over represented in Google.

Link to Microdoc News via Anil Dash

Tyler Hamilton Wins His First Tour de France Stage

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:07:38 +0000

Stage 16: Armstrong still retains the Yellow Jersey, but …

“With a fractured collarbone, Tyler Hamilton has battled on to become the sixth American rider to win a stage of the Tour de France.”(via Le tour en direct

I know I keep saying it, but what an awesome race!

Go Tyler!

Armstrong Now Leads By 1’07”

Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:07:47 +0000

Kudos to all the riders in “Le Tour” this year!!

I was on the edge of my seat, even while reading the live updates online of today’s stage 15.

All I can say is WOW! I can’t wait to watch the replay tonight!

“At the end of the 15th stage, Armstrong has increased his lead over Ullrich. The American is now 1’07” ahead of the German in the generall classification. Vinokourov began the day within 18″ of the overall lead, he finished it with a deficit of 2’45”.

Ullrich is lurking

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 05:07:11 +0000

At least Armstrong still retains the overall lead with 34 seconds over Ullrich, but …

“Ullrich … powered across the 29 miles of rolling vineyards in 58 minutes, 32 seconds to take the Tour’s 12th stage. He was the only rider of 167 to finish in less than an hour.”(via ESPN)

And…

“Immediately after crossing the finish line in fifth place, American Tyler Hamilton — competing with a broken collarbone — stumbled off his bike, lurched forward and vomited.”

Enterprise User Experience

Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:07:22 +0000

Building on the ubiquity of Office in the enterprise, I think Microsoft
is promoting a very compelling trend and something to seriously consider in
regard to delivering an enterprise user experience that feels
seamless or natural.

Essentially, it’s
an obvious goal: Give users an interface that they already know and use daily.

Specifically the key to
providing this enterprise utopia is with Microsoft’s soon-to-be released “Office
2003 System”. IMHO and if all goes well, Microsoft will finally deliver a
malleable front-end framework that lets developers tap into the specific work-flow
processes that people accomplish everyday in each of the main Office
applications (Word, Excel, Outlook and perhaps PowerPoint and Access)

Unsung Hero of the Tour

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:07:29 +0000

Catherine sent me the following quote from Tyler Hamilton’s latest journal entry about his current status at the Tour:

“The pain in my collarbone is now being matched by pain in my spine. I started feeling a jabbing pain in my back and rib cage a couple of days ago. We just figured it was a bruise making its way to the surface and that it would get better each day. But the problem is it’s been getting worse.”

Neighborhood Area Networking

Tue, 15 Jul 2003 04:07:10 +0000

I just read the following via Wi-Fi Networking News:

“Speakeasy’s NetShare service … allows a DSL or T-1 customer to share their connection with anyone they like and have Speakeasy bill their sharers directly, while rebating 50 percent of those fees against their direct customers’ bill.”

Awesome!

Heh, and I was just debating the validity of Neighborhood Wi-Fi with Ed. So naturally I found the timeliness of this to be a bit ironic, but interesting nonetheless.

SharePoint 2.0 and Search.Microsoft.com

Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:07:36 +0000

Over the weekend Microsoft released a new site-wide search engine for Microsoft.com that utilizes the soon-to-be-released SharePoint 2.0 and Windows 2003 Server. (Thanks for the link Martin)

In what I think is a related note, for search results.

Although I can’t seem to find the interface to this yet, but you can customize the query by changing the “search keyword” value after the “q=” in the above link. (via Anil Dash)

Tour de France Blog

Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:07:22 +0000

Anil Dash points to a great Tour de France weblog.

I’d like to add however, that VeloNews has been reporting live coverage of the tour in blog-like fashion for the last few years, which has been great as well!

Open Source Exchange and SharePoint portal server

Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:07:45 +0000

Yesterday the OpenGroupware.org (OGo) site was Slashdot-ed, so I couldn’t really get a look at the docs, but OGo announced the release of an open source groupware, which according to the OGo FAQ “is something between a mixture of Exchange and SharePoint portal server.”

John sent me a good InfoWorld article as well.

My initial reaction is, “Wow!”

Although, I think it’s lofty and a brash move to make statements like the following during your initial release:

Mud

Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:07:47 +0000

Great quote by Don Park:

Using open source tools and libraries is like playing with mud.

But I’ll add; as a kid, I always enjoyed playing in the mud :-)

Wiki’s Metioned on MSNBC

Wed, 09 Jul 2003 03:07:30 +0000

MSNBC has a decent post about
What is a Wiki? (scroll down the page a bit, because their perma-links don’t seem to be working properly)

Go Postal! Pena in Yellow!

Wed, 09 Jul 2003 02:07:36 +0000

Postal Wins the Team Time Trial and “Victor Hugo Pena has become the first Colombian ever to wear the yellow jersey of the Tour de France.”

That’s so awesome!

Also, Tyler Hamilton, still riding with a broken collarbone, finishes the Team Time Trial with his CSC Tiscali team mates for a 10th place finish.

Amazing! Go Tyler!

Economics of Distributed Computing

Tue, 08 Jul 2003 01:07:57 +0000

Jim Gray of Microsoft Research has an interesting paper on the economic viability of distributed computing.

Some quotes:

“Put the computation near the data. The recurrent theme of this analysis is that “On Demand” computing is only economical for very CPU-intensive (100,000 instructions per byte or a CPU-day per gigabyte of network traffic) applications.”

“If telecom prices drop faster than Moore’s law … [snip] … it could completely alter the arguments here. But there is no obvious sign of that occurring.”

Hamilton Starts Stage 2 with Broken Collarbone

Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:07:44 +0000

Amazing! — Tyler Hamilton has started stage two of the Tour De France with a broken collarbone, which he suffered during yesterday’s massive crash at the end of stage one!

“The second stage of the Tour de France is now underway and it appears that Tyler Hamilton, after Sunday’s devastating crash, is going to tough it out and try to ride today’s 204.5km route between La Ferte-sous-Jouarre and Sedan. “(via VeloNews)

2003 Tour De France

Sat, 05 Jul 2003 11:07:48 +0000

This year being the 100 Anniversary of the Tour and (potentially) Armstrong’s 5th consecutive win, next only to Miguel Indurain, I’m eagerly awaiting the start of today’s prologue and live coverage on OLN TV.

It also looks like VeloNews will again be blogging Live Tour Updates, which in past years has been extremely valuable given the time difference.

Go Postal!

SPAM false-positives can be rude

Thu, 03 Jul 2003 05:07:00 +0000

This is the unfortunate result of the “every growing uphill battle with SPAM”, but apparently an email to me from Anders Jacobsen was rejected due to some of the drastic, but efficient, measures John has been applying to the server.

Anders brings up some interesting points, in that the automated rejection notices, from legitimate senders, present themselves as bad-mannered netiquette that penetrates the social fabric of the online world.

As I said in my response to Anders, “SPAM has effectively transformed an efficient means of communication into a bastion of nonsense.”

je ne sais quoi RSS

Thu, 03 Jul 2003 01:07:50 +0000

Great quotes from Chad Dickerson’s latest InfoWorld column, RSS Killed the Infoglut Star :

“…explaining to the uninitiated why RSS newsreaders are so compelling can be a little frustrating. There’s a certain jene sais quoi about RSS that reminds me of how it felt to describe the Web to people who hadn’t yet experienced it…

I hear you!

And then Chad goes on to say…

All I know is that I can’t go back to my old inefficient ways of consuming information. As the Buggles sang in the first MTV video: “We can’t rewind / We’ve gone too far.” And that’s a good thing.

Synonyms! Fuzzy! Thesauri! Oh my!

Wed, 02 Jul 2003 12:07:01 +0000

Tim Bray’s sixth installment on seach:

“There are other ways than thesauri to improve the recall of search systems. Perhaps the best known is “Latent Semantic Indexing.” “

ISO Creation Tool for Windows XP

Wed, 02 Jul 2003 01:07:21 +0000

Nice!

Alex Feinman has created the ISO Recorder Power Toy, which “is a UI component that allows you to use CD-Recording capabilities of Windows XP to record and create ISO images.” (via Lockergnome)

There’s also a companion application called CreateCD, which “is a command-line tool that allows recording files and folders to a data CD from command line. … It can also be used from a scripts and batch files to perform automated backup on CD-RW.” (e.g. Robocopy backup scripts)

More Blog Evangelism at work

Tue, 01 Jul 2003 04:07:47 +0000

Well my constant nagging of my friend and co-worker Ed Hackney seems to be paying off.

Oh wait, maybe not! Doh!

However, perhaps I need to teach Ed how to click the post button once :-)

Home Star Runner

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:06:44 +0000

BTW, I’m now a huge fan of Home Star Runner (flash required). My favorites so far are “Teenage Girls Squad” and “System Down”.

Very funny!

Who needs Saturday morning cartoons anymore?

Wiki: Tenacious Collaboration

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 03:06:09 +0000

Tim Bray quotes Sam Ruby’s observation of the tenaciousness of collaboration via a Wiki

“[Sam Ruby] speculated that this was like rugby, if we get enough people pushing in the same direction we’ll eventually move the ball in that direction.”

Indeed!

Going Commercial

Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:06:09 +0000

Like many other bloggers, I’ve decided to give Google’s AdSense a test run.

I suppose I’m most interested in the type of Ads that get served on subsequent posts. Specifically, the context matching of content to Ads. So far it seems to be working well.

However, I do wish Google offered more flexibility with the style and sizes of the Ads.

The Search for Intelligent Search

Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:06:35 +0000

The latest in Tim Bray’s series on search

I think this one is the best yet. Here’s a quote:

“Consider what a really intelligent search engine would have to do. It would have to read an arbitrary selection of documents in an arbitrary selection of dialects and styles, and ascertain what they are about. Then, it would have to look at an arbitrary query, once again in an arbitrary dialect and style, and ascertain what it is about. Then it would have to match the about-nesses of the query against that of the documents and return the right documents.”

Download, Burn, Boot, Play

Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:06:14 +0000

Dyne:bolic is another bootable Linux distro that’s focused on “Media” application. However what makes this one special, in addition to the multimedia applications, is that it will boot on a PC or an XBox (yes, XBox!).

It’s not quite an Open Source version of the Tivo software on a bootable CD, but it’s getting there. (link via /.)

Discovery Systems on the Road to Business Intelligence

Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:06:30 +0000

Today must be research Wednesday for me, because here’s another great article on search. This one, from the latest issue of DM Review,
is specifically talking about “Discovery Systems” in relation to BI:

“Leading enterprise search and classification vendors, including IBM, Verity, Inxight and Stratify, have recently introduced “discovery systems” designed to automatically identify important relationships and trends within documents and document collections.”

Microsoft Targeting Google

Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:06:16 +0000

Some interesting quotes from this article on CNET News.com about Microsoft new search initiatives:

“The fact that Longhorn is on the horizon raises questions to whether search services will be integrated into the Longhorn experience and what the ramifications will be to other folks,”

“Microsoft’s target will be to create little perceived difference between Web search and local search,”

“Ballmer identified search as one area where Microsoft will offer “new end-user functionality and services.” As part of his “integrated innovation” message, he said the company needs to “reach out broadly” through search, consumer services and other avenues to grow.”

Fresh slices of the RSS Pie

Tue, 24 Jun 2003 05:06:57 +0000

There’s a lively discussion on diveintomark about the road map for a new syndication format (i.e. a new version or RSS), which is in-and-of-itself a discussion of sorts on Sam Ruby’s Wiki currently known as Pie, but that name may change.

Wow!

I can hardly formulate a coherent opinion at the moment, let alone try to evangelize RSS to business associates and colleagues — as Tim Bray pointed out recently

I sure hope this settles down soon, because on the plus side all the talk seems to be generating quite a buzz around the potential of RSS.

Precision and Recall

Mon, 23 Jun 2003 01:06:42 +0000

Tim Bray posts his third in the series on Search. This one is on Precision and Recall. Here are a few good quotes:

“While precision and recall are very helpful in talking about how good search systems are, they are nightmarishly difficult to actually use, quantitatively. First of all, the notion of “relevance” is definitely in the eye of the beholder, and not, in the real world, a mechanical yes/no decision. Secondly, any information base big enough to make search engines interesting is going to be too big to actually compute recall ….”

The Motive of Uncle Orrin (no relation)

Fri, 20 Jun 2003 04:06:33 +0000

Based on the recent comments by Senator Orrin Hatch (no relation) and the ongoing reactions, I remembered a quote of his I posted back in February of 2001, which implied that Senator Hatch (no relation) was coming to the defense of the fledgling granddaddy of MP3 swapping … Napster.

Here’s the interesting quote:

“The Napster community represents a huge consumer demand for the kind of online music services Napster, rightly or wrongly, has offered and, to date, the major record labels have been unable to satisfy,” (Feb 2001)

Info Aggregator: RSS-to-IMAP service

Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:06:36 +0000

The folks over at Blogstreet have released an RSS-to-IMAP service called Info Aggregator, which is pretty slick. (link via Blogroots)

However, it’s unlikely that I’ll be moving from NewsGator even though using the IMAP protocol does provide some alternative client options as well as remote capabilities.

The fact is I’m always in Outlook and my experience using IMAP has never been stellar.

I’ll certainly give it a try though.

BTW, I just tried Blogstreet’s RSS Generator and it works very well!

Nobody Uses Advanced Search

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 05:06:14 +0000

Tim Bray’s second installment on search…

“Every search engine has an “advanced search“ screen, and nobody (quantitatively, less than 0.5% of users) ever goes there. This drove us nuts back at Open Text, because our engine was very structurally savvy and could do compound/boolean queries that look like what today we’d call XPath. But nobody used it.”

I used it quite a bit. In fact, the advanced search pare was what I would bookmark on most search engines. However, indeed, I was certainly in the minority.

Rumor: Microsoft looking to buy Accenture?

Tue, 17 Jun 2003 08:06:52 +0000

Cringely writes in his latest InfoWorld column:

“…one of my moles reported that Team Redmond might be looking to buy Accenture, the $11 billion consulting company. Apparently, Microsoft and Accenture have been engaged in some intense talks, with folks frequently flying back and forth between Redmond and New York, particularly during March and April. “

“You have a marketing problem”...

Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:06:52 +0000

Steven Vore pulls out a great quote from George Gilder’s book Telecosm, which I think seems so relevant to the music industry — namely the RIAA. (link via McGee’s Musings)

“When your product is stolen by thieves, you have a police problem. When it is stolen by millions of honest customers, you have a marketing problem.”

Oh how I hope the music industry is listening. Unfortunately I highly doubt they would see the relevance.

Office 2003 beta 2 “refresh”

Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:06:47 +0000

PCWorld reports “Microsoft is on track to release its “refresh” of Office 2003 beta 2 to testers before the end of the month, a company spokesman said Friday.”

This is good news, because I’ve been having problems with Outlook 2003 freezing occasionally. Otherwise, the other apllications in the Office 2003 beta have been stable.

Search is Commoditized

Mon, 16 Jun 2003 05:06:46 +0000

A quote from Tim Bray’s first in a series on search technology:

“All search engines work more or less the same, and offer more or less the same APIs, and provide more or less the same quality of result.”

Interesting. I can’t wait till the next installment.

Word 2003 as an RSS Viewer

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:06:52 +0000

Mike Gunderloy has written up an article that demonstrates how to use Word 2003 as an RSS viewer. Mike did this cool hack by transforming an RSS feed into into Words own XML flavor, WordML — Of course using XSLT and a little VBS. (via Lockergnome)

Spike You!

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:06:42 +0000

Catherine rants about Spike Lee’s suit against SpikeTV. I’ll have to add to Cat’s “Spike” list with Elvis Costello’s album Spike from 1989.

And what about all those dogs named Spike? What will we do?

Retro Computing Magazines

Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:06:04 +0000

I’m certainly feeling nostalgic with all the retro talk lately about early experiences with computing technology.

Given the reflective talk, it’s not surprising to see a mention of some of my favorite computing magazines like
Softside,
Antic and of course Creative Computing

In fact, I still have a few issues of Creative Computing and Softside from the late 70’s early 80’s. Perhaps when I post my “Newly Digital” experiences, I’ll include pictures of these zines.

OneNote as a Wiki front-end

Thu, 12 Jun 2003 01:06:31 +0000

It just occurred to me that Microsoft’s OneNote, the application “for capturing, organizing, and collaboratively sharing information”, would work well as a front-end to a Wiki.

For example: A Wiki server could act as repository for publishing shared OneNote pages that in turn can be collaborated on either via the browser (in the true Wiki sense) or within the OneNote application itself.

IMHO, this type of integration would push Wiki’s into corporate environments where knowledge management seems to involve too much post-processing work.

FrontPage 2003 as a blogging tool

Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:06:59 +0000

I didn’t see this feature in the latest beta of FP 2003, but according to this article on CRN FrontPage 2003 will include a blogging tool.

However, what I also found interesting is that FP 2003 will also “incorporate a full WYSIWYG editor for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSLT)”,

Very cool!

Hmmm… Perhaps I missed that in the beta. (note to self: re-check FP 2003 beta)

Gizmodo 1983

Tue, 10 Jun 2003 05:06:59 +0000

Feeling old? Check out some “cool” Gadgets from 1983.

It’s interesting to note how long it took many of these to catch on en mass and then to apply that logic to some products that we are just starting to see in the consumer markets. (e.g. PVRs, WiFi and even Blogging in the relm of social acceptance)

Get the Yahoo Buzz via RSS

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 03:06:04 +0000

Jeremy Zawodny spills the beans about Yahoo’s Buzz (search) indices now being available via RSS, which is very cool indeed.

It would also be cool to see Google’s Zeitgeist rankings to be available in RSS as well. Ideally with a greater update frequency.

RSS Marketing

Sun, 08 Jun 2003 11:06:35 +0000

Greg Reinacker talks about companies using RSS feeds to market products instead of opt-in lists and/or the dreaded spam…

“If I could subscribe to a RSS feed that’s personalized for me, containing advertisements and offers of stuff I might actually be interested in, based on information I’ve given, I’d be all over it. Not only would I read it, but I might even buy stuff from it. And it’s all under my control – if I decide I’m no longer interested, I just remove my subscription.”

See SPOT run this fall

Thu, 05 Jun 2003 05:06:06 +0000

It would be pretty cool to get an RSS-2-SPOT gateway up and running so we can read our newsfeeds inbetween trips to the fridge for that next beer ;-)

“Microsoft has revealed details of its wireless service for personal devices as it tests the network prior to the availability of products due in the fall. “(via CNet)

Microsoft granted US patent for “interactive entertainment”

Wed, 04 Jun 2003 01:06:06 +0000

Martin sent me a link to this article by Alexander Wolfe of EmbeddedWatch.com about Microsoft newly granted US patent for “interactive entertainment”.

To quote Alexander…

“[Microsoft’s]… patent [number 6,571,390] appears to claim the invention of networked interactive entertainment.”

Hmm, I wonder what this will mean for video-on-demand systems and perhaps even network-capable PVRs like Replay and hacked TiVo’s.

eBay search to RSS feed

Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:06:10 +0000

Nice! Just enter an eBay search phrase and this little script will turn the results into an RSS feed that you can subscribe to in your favorite news aggregator

The code is based on this script from waxy.org (if you’d like to run it on our own server)

For some additional RSS goodies and more check out Fagan Finder’s using RSS page

TiVo Plans to Sell Information on Customers’ Viewing Habits

Mon, 02 Jun 2003 11:06:32 +0000

Catherine sent me a link to this report about TiVo in the NY Times, which I’m sure is making waves with privacy advocates…

“TiVo, the maker of digital video recorders, plans today to begin selling information about the viewing patterns of its customers to advertisers and programmers. The company says the reports offer far more precise data than traditional rating methods.

Because TiVo’s are essentially computer hard drives connected to a central server, the company can monitor viewers’ second-by-second behavior. It can tell how many viewers in a certain ZIP code clicked away at what moment in a commercial, for instance, or when a particular character appeared on a show.

Nullsoft’s Waste Dumped?

Fri, 30 May 2003 03:05:14 +0000

This sounds like a barebones version of Groove:

“WASTE is a software product and protocol that enables secure distributed communication for small (on the order of 10-50 nodes) trusted groups of users.”

However, it looks like perhaps AOL made Nullsoft dump WASTE from their site because the link went 404 yesterday afternoon.

Of course there’s already a mirror, which I found @ blueyonder.co.uk via the Slashdot Thread:

As a fan of Groove, I’ll need to set aside some time to check this out.

WordPress b2/cafelog derivative

Thu, 29 May 2003 12:05:06 +0000

Congratulations to Matthew and Mike on the release of WordPress, which is the official fork in the b2/cafélog blog tool.

On a test server I converted the data from my current b2-based blog to WordPress with very little trouble. Especially helpful was the handy upgrade script included with WordPress.

For the most part everything seems to be working well. I was even able to get the search-engine-friendly URLs working. I may in fact upgrade my live b2 blog with the new WordPress code. However, I want to run a few tests and see if any bugs pop-up before I take the plunge.

Xbox and Linux in car multimedia

Thu, 29 May 2003 03:05:02 +0000

Just in case you have too much free-time while driving, it might be nice to get in a quick game and a movie or two, with this.

Geek Test

Wed, 28 May 2003 09:05:10 +0000

<wink>I stopped answering these after the first page because I overloaded the check-box buffer of my browser.</wink> (link via Doc)

PlayStation 2 successor: PSX

Wed, 28 May 2003 01:05:34 +0000

“PSX will offer a DVD recorder, a 120GB hard drive, a TV tuner, an Ethernet port, a USB 2.0 port and a Memory Stick slot.” (via CNet)

Add in a TiVi-like service and I’m sold!

PeopleSoft CEO says .Net is IT ‘asbestos’

Tue, 27 May 2003 03:05:43 +0000

I can’t say that I agree with Mr. Conway of PeopleSoft in regard to his comment about .Net last week…

“PeopleSoft president and CEO Craig Conway has described Microsoft’s .Net initiative as the information technology equivalent of asbestos.”

“Conway then added that, in his opinion, Microsoft’s .Net strategy will not help business to control the costs of their enterprise applications, as it assumes code will be executed by PCs.”

Specifically, the second quote certainly seems a bit hypocritical since PeopleSoft up until version 7.02(?) was a hard-core Client/Server based application environment.

Rainy Epic Rides

Mon, 26 May 2003 10:05:12 +0000

I was looking forward to an epic Memorial Day ride today, but the current downpour seems to have put a damper on the plans. Perhaps I need one of these for the trails. (Thanks for the link Ed!)

Hosted Photo Blogging Service

Sun, 25 May 2003 05:05:37 +0000

Expressions seems to be filling an up-and-coming blogging niche and at $2.50 per month, it’s certainly reasonably priced.

More here…

“Expressions! is a hosted media blogging system that makes it easy for anyone to create and maintain their very own photo or media blog. It has been designed and developed by fellow photographers, artists and bloggers to meet your specific needs.” (via Ben)

Dynamics of a Blogosphere Story

Sat, 24 May 2003 11:05:19 +0000

Ok, I suppose my post is a reaction or vote to
Microdoc News Dynamics of a Blogosphere Story study, which not surprisingly is tracking on Blogdex.

Whatever the case, and the label for what I’m doing here, I do find Microdoc’s study to be quite interesting. In particular, the following quotes…

Microdoc News has developed a picture of how a blogosphere story gets started, how that story develops and then how it then comes to an end. While each blogosphere story has its own pattern of development, the similarities between one story and another is intriguingly similar. The smallest blogosphere stories can have as few as fifteen bloggers, the average story has between 40 and 60 bloggers, while the largest one to date had about 285 bloggers involved. A blogosphere story can be as small as 180 posts in total, while the largest we studied has numbered 7,540 posts in total.
[… and later …]
“Perhaps the last conclusions we came to in this study is that blogs cannot be read in isolation from each other. Blog stories are understood and appreciated in aggregate and not in isolation. On the other hand, mainstream media stories tend to be read in isolation rather than read and compared.

The RDF Challenge

Fri, 23 May 2003 11:05:44 +0000

I’ve been intrigued by the promise of RDF and followed the history from Guha’s MCF HotSauce application, through Tim Berners-Lee’s Semantic Web

Although, like Tim Bray, I too have been looking for the RDF killer App. At one time I even had aspirations of what it could be.

It’s been a long time coming for RDF and as Tim rightly puts it, “… the killer [RDF] app that would make you want to View Source hasn’t arrived.”

Personal and Enterprise Search

Thu, 22 May 2003 09:05:12 +0000

For some reason I missed this post from last week by Jon Udell about Indexing and searching Outlook email, but I thought his concluding paragraphs had a much broader impact on Enterprise Search in general.

… The Web has trained us, rightly, to expect that we just type in a word or two and get the “right” answer. I don’t know what the stats are on use of Google’s advanced search, or any advanced search, but my gut tells me such features are rarely used.

Change Today

Thu, 22 May 2003 09:05:02 +0000

Some good quotes from Kevin Werbach article on CNet titled, “Anticipating a post-Web, post-PC world”

“If you want to know where you are, you don’t study a map to determine where you’re going. You trace back the steps from where you’ve been. Over the past several years, “where we’ve been” in the technology world has changed. While we were all focused on the dot-com bubble and the subsequent bust, “yesterday” shifted. It used to be the PC revolution and client-server computing in the enterprise; now it’s the Web.”

Knoppix Bootable Linux CD

Wed, 21 May 2003 04:05:07 +0000

I needed to do some quick testing in Linux today, but I didn’t have immediate root access to a Linux distro. That’s when I popped the
Knoppix Bootable Linux CD into my drive, restarted and POOF!! …
my laptop is now running a complete Debian-based Linux distro including OpenOffice, Mozilla, KDE, and more. I could even get to the local file system.

Awesome!

Don’t leave home without it! It’s a great recovery CD as well.

NewsGator 1.2 New Posting Interface

Tue, 20 May 2003 09:05:18 +0000

If this works, I’ll be posting this via NewsGator
1.2’s new Outlook posting interface! Congratulations Greg!
Update: Well, the post arrived, but it had no title and the HTML was a bit mangled. I think in part because of Outlook 2003’s HTML formatting and the fact that I used the Blogger API plug-in. I think I need to update my b2/cafelog to support the MetaWeblog API

Topic-Sensitive page rankings feasible

Mon, 19 May 2003 11:05:34 +0000

A new paper by a Stanford group claims substantial increase in calculating Page Rank performance (used by Google), which could make room for personalized topical searches.

“Computer science researchers at Stanford University have developed several new techniques that together may make it possible to calculate Web page rankings as used in the Google search engine up to five times faster. The speed-ups to Google’s method may make it realistic to calculate page rankings personalized for an individual’s interests or customized to a particular topic.” (via BoingBoing)

Mature Music Mag?

Fri, 16 May 2003 11:05:43 +0000

Catherine just sent me a link to this
article in the NY Post about TRACKS, which is the name of a
new music magazine that will hit this fall from the Good Music Media…

“This magazine is the antidote to the hype and gloss of the
youth music marketing machine,” … “Tracks will deliberately pursue the
30-to-45 year old audience.”

Perhaps it’s a sign that I’m getting older in that the announcement of a
magazine targeted at the 30-to-45 year old audience appeals to me, but what
else is out there for a retro-punk with a revived interest in jazz? I
suppose a Jazz magazine, but that’s to niche for me.

I can see the “WiFi”

Thu, 15 May 2003 02:05:56 +0000

A very slick hack was posted over at O’Reilly that combines power-line
Ethernet, with a wireless access point and a fluorescent light bulb to
create “a weatherproof
wireless access point integrated into a light-fixture” (via BoingBoing and Futurismic)

Top 15 things my dog has taught me

Wed, 14 May 2003 02:05:05 +0000

Catherine has just posted (well, yesterday actually) the top things our dog Pinto has taught us

(I’m including myself because, well, I’ve learned these things too and it’s better than just saying “Ditto” :-)

Verizon launches Wi-Fi service with 150 hot spots

Tue, 13 May 2003 03:05:36 +0000

John just sent me a link to this Reuters story about Verizon’s launch of new Wi-Fi hot spots in phone
booths through out NYC:

Verizon Communications today launched its new Wi-Fi service by lighting up150 hot spots in New York City, with plans to activate another 850 by theend of the year. Verizon said its deployment marks the largest such initiative by an Internet service provider in a single U.S. city. Verizon’s hot spots will be inside pay phones located throughout New York and will have a range of 300 feet.

REST-ful Technorati API

Mon, 12 May 2003 12:05:44 +0000

Dave Sifry’s just publicly announced the Technorati API (link via Ben), which seems very timely (for Dave) given the recent report of a new Google-powered blog search engine.

Also with Google’s blog-enlightenment, will Technorati become the next Daja or more specifically the next Google search tab?

As for the API, I like the fact that it’s REST-ful, which should enable simple integration. I just scooped up my Technorati API-Key and may give it a try on my blog and perhaps internally on an internet portal.

Google, Blogs and clutter?

Fri, 09 May 2003 01:05:52 +0000

A quote from the article titled Google to fix blog
noise problem found on The Register…

“The main problem with blogs is that, as far as Google is
concerned, they masquerade as useful information when all they contain is
idle chatter,” wrote Roddy. “And through some fluke of their evil software,
they seem to get indexed really fast, so when a major political or social
event happens, Google is noised to the brim with blogs and you have to start
at result number 40 or so before you get past the blogs.”

Enterprise Meets the Borg

Thu, 08 May 2003 10:05:10 +0000

I think the Star Trek Enterprise Regeneration episode last night was one of the best in the series thus far. However, I have to agree with Jeremey Zawodny in that I was at first confused about the timeline, but I do think they pulled it together nicely.

As a few people have already mentioned on Jeremey’s blog, when the Borg contacted the Enterprise, they didn’t say, “We are Borg…”, which coincides with the storyline in ST:NG whereby they didn’t know of the Borg.

Suit Settled for Students Downloading Music Online

Wed, 07 May 2003 06:05:01 +0000

A quote in the [NY Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/02/national/02STUD.html?ex=1052539200&e n=62f647db4d1433df&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND) from Howard Ende
of DB&R about the suit:

“This suit is about the industry’s attempt to intimidate
Internet users and instill fear of lawsuits against users of the Internet,
particularly students,” said Howard Ende, a lawyer from Drinker, Biddle &
Reath who is representing Mr. Peng. “They need to find some other way to
protect their economic interests than bringing suits against bright creative
young people.”

Nation’s Dogs Dangerously Underpetted, Say Dogs

Wed, 07 May 2003 05:05:59 +0000

I got this one from Ted, which of course came from here (LOL!!)

“NEW YORK—At a press conference Monday, representatives of the Association of
American Dogs announced that the nation’s canines are dangerously
underpetted. “Every night, thousands of U.S. dogs go to bed without so much
as a scritch behind the ears,” AAD president Banjo said. “If this sort of
neglect from our masters continues, it could lead to widespread jumping on
the furniture.” Upon his owner’s arrival in the press-conference room, Banjo
abruptly ended his speech, frantically barking, leaping, and rolling over on
his back in an effort to communicate his need for a vigorous belly rub.”

How To Make A Telemarketer Cry

Wed, 07 May 2003 01:05:17 +0000

Mark Eckenwiler
details his experience suing a telemarketer (link via [Doc](http://doc.weblogs.com/2003/05/07#theContinuingDeathOfAdvertisingAsUsu al))
I love this stuff!
Good summary of Mark’s work:

“The Small Claims process in D.C. – at least what I saw of it – was so
painless as to be dangerously addictive. While the decor in the clerk’s
office leaves a lot to be desired, the staff were consistently helpful and
professional during my phone calls and in-person visits, and you can’t beat
the results if your case has merit. (While sharing news of my success, I
learned from a work colleague that she had used Small Claims previously to
recover $5,000 from a crooked used-car dealer.)”

Lockergnome Text Ads

Tue, 06 May 2003 11:05:13 +0000

Hmm, looks like Lockergnome’s Bits & Bytes started to put text Ads into its RSS feed on Friday.

Flash Face

Mon, 05 May 2003 12:05:39 +0000

This is pretty slick — create your very own mug shot with Flash Face

Collaborative Filtering Visualization Tool for Music

Sun, 04 May 2003 09:05:21 +0000

Audioscrobbler Browser — “[is] a visualisation tool for finding new music by exploring links between related artists”

Wow! I found relationships between artists that I never realized existed.

For example, Nina Simone and Portishead are releated via Radiohead.

Blogging complements the water-cooler

Fri, 02 May 2003 09:05:24 +0000

Anders Jacobsen, whose blog I have just started to read on a regular bases (due to his comments here that I still need to respond too), has some rather compelling posts about KM and blogging, like for example this response to the recent Business 2.0 article on Management by Blog:

Anders Jacobsen: “I don’t think blogging in businesses will be capturing the water-cooler buzz… On the other hand blogs definitely have potential to smoothen out the intranet / knowledge database submission process. “

America 24/7: How to Participate

Fri, 02 May 2003 01:05:30 +0000

This could be fun…

“If you live in the US, have a digital camera, an email address and a
passion for telling stories with pictures, we invite you to take digital
photographs from May 12-18, 2003 and submit them to the
America 24/7 web site.”

Most spammers lie

Thu, 01 May 2003 11:05:31 +0000

Say it isn’t so!!

“Fraud in spam is a big problem that calls out for law enforcement, says the FTC, which found that 66 percent of the unsolicited messages contain fraudulent claims.” (via CNet)

You mean that those pills really aren’t going too… well nevermind…

Blog posting interface for NewsGator

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 05:04:58 +0000

Sounds like Greg Reinacker is brewing up a posting interface for NewsGator via Simon Fell’s IBlogThis interface.

Cool!

Donating a Car to Charity

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:04:49 +0000

I was doing some research about donating a car to charity and I found a good checklist on the NY Better Business Bureau site

“If considering a donation of a vehicle to a charity, follow this checklist: - Check out the charity. Make sure you are comfortable with its mission, activities and ethics. NYPAS maintains reports on many New York area charities and the Council of Better Business Bureaus’ PAS program has information on national organizations from around the country.

Corporations seek better search results

Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:04:58 +0000

“In the field of customer intelligence, search analytics is poised to become a star. However, some say it remains somewhat limited, much like enterprise search itself” (via CNet)

[Listening to: New Amsterdam – Elvis Costello – Girls Girls Girls – Disc 1 (02:13)]

Encouraging richer social connections

Mon, 28 Apr 2003 03:04:48 +0000

According to researchers at the University of Washington which was referenced in this NY Times article

“…companies would benefit from encouraging richer social connections,”

The Times article also mentions …

“Google may be great, but people are greater. Paraphrased roughly, that is what researchers at the University of Washington found in a study released last week. People are more likely to seek information from other people than to search the Internet or an intranet, and they are three times more likely to go to people they know than to outside experts…”

Unofficial OneNote FAQ

Sun, 27 Apr 2003 08:04:10 +0000

Ben Schorr has put together a useful OneNote FAQ

Windows Media plugin for bloggers

Sat, 26 Apr 2003 10:04:03 +0000

This is pretty neat, as part of the Windows XP Creativity Fun Pack, there’s a blogging plugin for Windows Media Player that will insert the info about the current track playing into you blog post (see below)

[Listening to: Campver Van Beethoven)- Take the Skinheads Bowling – – (02:27)]

Release 4.0

Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:04:39 +0000

Esther Dyson now has a blog and
an RSS feed
thanks to Sam Ruby (of course)

Weblogs.com + geocoding + RSS

Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:04:14 +0000

the World as a Blog — “Real time & updating display of weblog postings, around the world”

Very clever!

Determine the last result in Google

Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:04:57 +0000

Ross Rader calls it, “Googlediving” and he provides a simple HOWTO. (link via Doc)

However, it could probably be automated by paging backward through a search result-set via the Googe API.

Recipe for Car Power: Heat Vegetable Oil, Flip Switch and Go.

Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:04:12 +0000

What’s next? Cop cars that run on powdered sugar?

From an
article in the NY Times: “He will then start the vehicle on regular
diesel, and after a few minutes, when the vegetable oil becomes more viscous
in the heater, a manual switch will direct it to the diesel engine. From
there, the only detectable difference will be the faint odor of French
fries, and a noticeable lack of diesel stench.” (Thanks for the link John)

Selling Links on eBay

Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:04:04 +0000

Tony Pierce is selling links
from his blog on eBay and he actually has bids!
(links via BoingBoing)

Doh! Why didn’t I think of that!

Well, I certainly don’t have the market share of Tony’s blog, but on March
6th my valuation was at $403.06 :-)

Extreme Ironing

Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:04:44 +0000

Please, someone beat me senseless if I ever get involved with this a>

Geo IP Stalking

Wed, 23 Apr 2003 01:04:47 +0000

SideBit’s Project
Locate IP will try to figure out where an IP is physically located.
It worked fairly well in my tests.

Jazz Legend Nina Simone dies at 70

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:04:40 +0000

Ms. Simone, we will certainly miss you. And yes, you indeed, moved us all.

“Legendary jazz and blues singer Nina Simone has died at the age of 70 at her home in southern France.”

More news below…

Jazz-Soul Singer Nina Simone Dies in France – MSNBC
Nina Simone dies at 70 – Reuters
Nina Simone Tributes – BBC
Nina Simone Dies – Rolling Stone
Jazz Soul Veteran Nina Simone Dies – Launch
Nina Simone Dies – Fredericksburg
Jazz Legend Nina Simone Dies At Age 70 – MTV
Nina Simone, 70, Soulful Diva and Voice of Civil Rights, Dies – New York Times

Read and listen to more of Nina Simone’s inspiring
body of work

IT business analyst or IT business technologist

Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:04:59 +0000

Interesting article in eWeek about IT business
analyst:

“…an IT business analyst acts as a liaison between non-IT
employees who have a business problem to solve and the IT department, which
is charged with finding the solution.”

Of course this is a self-serving comment from me, but I certainly agree that
this is a key position in the enterprise.

(Thanks Ted for sending me the link [where’s your blog ;-])

Keyboarding: Going Virtical

Mon, 21 Apr 2003 04:04:42 +0000

In a follow-up to my post about the Evolution of interfaces I found this article in ExtremeTech (via BoingBoing) about a vertical keyboard that helps prevent Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSI):

“… the vertical placement of the keyboard allows the user to type while keeping the forearms in a neutral position (with the thumbs up). With a standard flat keyboard, in order to type the hands are rotated so that the palms are parallel with the floor (this is called a “pronated” position). In the pronated position, the bones in the forearm twist with the wrist and scissor. This scissoring of the bones causes extra pressure to be forced upon the Carpal Tunnel.”

New version of blogger: Dano?

Sun, 20 Apr 2003 11:04:21 +0000

Looks like Blogger is gearing up to release a new version called Dano.

There’s not much info right now other than a short FAQ, but more info should be available shortly (according to the site).

Heh, I also realized that I have a few months worth of old blog posts at blogger. Hmm, it might be worth importing into b2.

Ride?

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 10:04:03 +0000

Ahh, looks like a great day for a spring mountain bike ride! I went yesterday, but
today it seems like the trails are just screaming for me to come back!

To TiVo and beyond

Fri, 18 Apr 2003 06:04:42 +0000

I think it’s safe to assume that Brad Choate really-really likes his TiVo. However, he has made some interesting points about TiVo’s future uses:

“I also expect that we’ll be using the TV for video e-mail and home-to-home video conferencing. That’s a killer application waiting to happen. Something that would drive a market to broadband faster than Superman puts on his tights.”

Evolution of interfaces

Thu, 17 Apr 2003 04:04:58 +0000

Some good reads about the current state of web-based interfaces, keyboarding and where they all started…

(via Doc and Don)

AOL Spam Fighter, Spammer or Both?

Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:04:55 +0000

Even though I applaud AOL’s recent Spam lawsuits, catbird points out the irony:

“As much as I detest spam, I am having trouble cheering for a company that sends me unsolicited CDs in expensive and non-biodegradable tin cases every month. Which is worse, email spam or polluting the earth with waste?”

Grassroots knowledge management

Wed, 16 Apr 2003 04:04:51 +0000

Well said from McGee’s Musings about blogs and KM:

“Knowledge work, on the other hand, depends on extracting maximum advantage out of the unique characteristics and experiences of each knowledge worker. Knowledge management, from this perspective, has to be a decentralized, grassroots, activity. If you accept that premise, the promise of weblogs in knowledge management becomes clearer. Weblogs operate on grassroots assumptions by design.”

Corporate blogs make personal connection

Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:04:40 +0000

Doc is quoted in Crain’s B2B Marketing article about corporate weblogs:

“Weblog expert Searls said that companies of all stripes might do well to consider complementing their formal marketing messages with the more direct connection to customers that Weblogs can deliver—with or without the endorsement of the marketing department.”

Google as a Knowledge Operating System

Mon, 14 Apr 2003 04:04:24 +0000

From Microdoc News:

“Google, a Knowledge Operating System (KOS) manages your knowledge activity on the Internet. Google, as a KOS, manages your requests for information, indexes your web pages, responds to applications you may be running on your computer that interface to it via the Google APIs, and integrates knowledge and information from millions of computers into a single large managed database.”

This seems to be a little excessive in that I don’t know if I’d want to give one company that much information about me, but the high-level idea is interesting.

Knowledge management and weblogs

Mon, 14 Apr 2003 01:04:57 +0000

Smarty enabled b2 mod

Sun, 13 Apr 2003 05:04:37 +0000

Cool! I found a b2 hack by Donncha O Caoimh that incorporates the Smarty template engine.

Just what I was looking for to speed up the responsiveness of this blog! Now, I just need to find some time to test and install it.

Seed or hydroseed

Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:04:35 +0000

I need to seed my backyard, but I can’t decide between hydroseeding and pain old seeding. I’ve already factored out laying down sod, because according to this it appears that sod will be 50% more than hydroseeding.

However, what’s benefit over seeding? This Old House seems to favor hydroseeding, but it’s still unclear of the cost gap.

Hmm…

Blogging as Jazz

Fri, 11 Apr 2003 01:04:45 +0000

Lilia Efimova, Diana Mehta and Sebastian Fiedler have an interesting discussion going on about using the metaphor of a Jazz band to describe the interactions that take place in the blogshere.

Diana Mehta uses a quote from jazz musician Doug Little on her Ryze page in reference to improvisational “interactions”:

“What I play will inspire the drummer to play something. The drummer might inspire me to play something. The musicians listen to one another and make spontaneous decisions. The possibilities are endless. It is always within the form and it is always interconnected with each person but it is never the same.

Using RSS for corporate communications

Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:04:09 +0000

Via Jon Udell I’m happy to see that the PR Industry is starting to preach the value of blogging and the versatility of RSS.

For example, Phil Gomes writes in MediaMap’s ExperPR article:

“Today, companies — and, by extension, the agencies that represent them — can publish their corporate communications content in their online press rooms using RSS-supported, weblog-rooted principles. While perhaps not in widespread use now, the day will come when the online location of a company’s RSS feed will be just as much of a PR pro’s email signature file as his or her email address, homepage, and phone number.”

Five steps to finding the perfect dog

Wed, 09 Apr 2003 04:04:12 +0000

My wife Catherine stated today what I hope will be an ongoing series of articles about pets. (So please encourage her :-)

The first article outlines the five steps to finding the perfect dog.

Of course she knows this because we found our “perfect” dog, but on top of that she has much more particle experience by volunteering at a shelter and studying canine massage.

Blogs, dialogue and identity building

Tue, 08 Apr 2003 02:04:46 +0000

Lilia Efimova nicely pulls together various opinions on how blogs and the dialogs they produce provide a perspective into ones identity not necessarily found in the office.

Wi-Fi and cell phones

Mon, 07 Apr 2003 09:04:46 +0000

Martin Cooper, the father of the first cell phone call, has the following to say about Wi-Fi:

“”Wi-Fi is wonderful. It is a superb local area network–what it was designed to do–and it does that very well. When you try to make Wi-Fi cover a wide area, it’s absolutely the worst way to do it. Think about it. In order to cover a city, you need a million sites; we actually did an analysis of that. And every one of them has got to have backhaul. So it turns out it’s neither economical nor practical.” (via cnet)

SharePoint Portal to be bundled with Office 2003

Mon, 07 Apr 2003 02:04:54 +0000

I’m not surprised by the following announcement and in my opinion, this could make SharePoint Portal as ubiquitous as Office; if Microsoft can find the pricing sweet-spot.

“Microsoft plans to add its SharePoint business portal software to its Office bundle, as the company looks to broaden the appeal of its desktop software. ” (via cnet)

Corporate Portal Single Sign-on via Jabber

Sun, 06 Apr 2003 11:04:38 +0000

Bryan over at SourceID posts about the Jabber + PingID single sign-on solution:

“Single sign-on, from corporate portal website, to 401k provider website, to Jabber window.” (via Doc)

BBC Reporters Blog

Sat, 05 Apr 2003 07:04:32 +0000

I’ve been trying to avoid posting about the war, but I just have to say that IMHO the BBC Reporters’ Log has been some of the best reporting about the war.

NextDraft Blog

Fri, 04 Apr 2003 08:04:53 +0000

Good news … Dave Pell has turned the NextDraft newsletter into a Blog.

However, it’s a shame that the new blog doesn’t have an RSS feed yet.

Outlook 2003 Beta 2

Thu, 03 Apr 2003 11:04:41 +0000

I installed Office 2003 Beta 2 the other day and for the most part I’m very pleased and feel much of the hype is justified.

In particular, I see a lot of potential with the native XML capabilities — especially with respect to InfoPath. Although, I’m puzzled by Microsoft’s recent announcement that InfoPath will not be included as part of the retail Office 2003 “system”.

Otherwise, I think they did an excellent job with the updated visual prioritization of information in Outlook 2003.

WiFi Community Networking

Wed, 02 Apr 2003 09:04:46 +0000

“… an innovative project within Linksys. Called the LinkSysCommunity Network, the company will provide fast, powerful and inexpensive solutions for Community LANs.”

InfoPath and OneNote not part of the retail Office suite

Wed, 02 Apr 2003 08:04:07 +0000

cnet: “Microsoft will not include InfoPath and OneNote as part of the Office suite sold at retail or installed on new computers.”

I think this is a missed opportunity to broadly push InfoPath out to the masses.

Interesting tidbits on the new version of Office

Wed, 02 Apr 2003 04:04:03 +0000

I found Woody Leeonhard’s interesting tidbits on Office 2003 Beta while searching Google Groups for info on installing SharePoint Beta 2.

Still no luck with SharePoint, but Wood’s tips are worth a read.

Ask Google?

Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:04:30 +0000

AvaQuest has a neat Google hack called GooglePeople that demonstrates “it is possible to scour the Web for answers to questions using the vast data repository provided by Google.”

“GooglePeople uses your question to do a Google search. It then extracts the people names found on the top 10 result pages and chooses the likely answer to your question based on its scoring algorithm.”

Updated Pinto Photo Gallery

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:03:41 +0000

I finally updated the gallery of photos Catherine and I have taken over the last 4 years of our dog Pinto, who we believe is a mix between Great Dane, Fox Hound and American Bull Dog, but feel free to make your own guess … He’ll always be a 90-plus pound puppy to us.

So much Open Source Software

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:03:33 +0000

I certainly agree with Mark that the availability of Open Source Software is tremendous — I believe this has been the case for a long time.

DiveIntoMark: “In the future, there will be so much open source software available, programmers will be judged by how much they know about it and how well they can glue it together to build solutions.”

IMHO, the difference is that now so much of the open source software is geared toward the average user and has become increasingly less technically intense to install and deploy.

Microsoft adds support for Wi-Fi Protected Access security in XP

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 01:03:19 +0000

“Microsoft on Monday released a Windows XP update designed to enhance security for computers that connect to wireless networks.” (via CNet)

Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter

Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:03:02 +0000

Perfect or those times when you need to send in your laptop for repair or need to recover data from you laptop hard drive. (via 0xDECAFBAD)

Iraqi variation on the Nigerian e-mail scam

Sat, 29 Mar 2003 03:03:33 +0000

CNet: “The war has inspired a new variation on the venerable Nigerian e-mail scam.”

Resistance is futile

Fri, 28 Mar 2003 04:03:24 +0000

Promit Chakrabarti: “Resistance to share knowledge stems from the fact that people are concerned about job security. This leads towards knowledge not shared or used. To enter one’s knowledge into a system and to seek out knowledge from others is not only threatening, but also involves lot of effort that hunts for motivation.”

Well said.

Fact-check your ass

Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:03:02 +0000

Ben Hammersley in the Guardian again:

“The weblogging community is proving adept at compiling and filtering news in a way never seen in previous conflicts. By comparing and contrasting reports from every news source in the theatre, the war-bloggers’ adage that they will “fact-check your ass” is being played out with enthusiasm from both writer and reader.”

Project Weblogging

Thu, 27 Mar 2003 02:03:53 +0000

Jon Udell on Publishing a project Weblog …

“If you’re managing an IT project, you are by definition a communication hub. Running a project Weblog is a great way to collect, organize, and publish the documents and discussions that are the lifeblood of the project and to shape these raw materials into a coherent narrative. The serial nature of the Weblog helps you make it the project’s newspaper of record. This kind of storytelling can become a powerful way to focus the attention of a group. The desire to listen to a compelling story and find out what happens next is a deep human instinct.”

Spam-Free Universal Inbox via MailBlocks

Wed, 26 Mar 2003 05:03:03 +0000

Allegedly for $10 per year, Mailblocks Eliminates Spam “and offers the powerful features you want in your web mail.”

According to Kevin it’s brought to you by Phil Goldman, who is one of the founders of WebTV.

Jabber with Intel Inside

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:03:20 +0000

Congrats go to Jermey and the Jabber gang …

Jabber gets $7.2 million from Intel

Study shows corporate structure found in email

Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:03:13 +0000

Hewlett-Packard scientists found a company’s power and communication structure may be as simple as examining patterns of e-mail exchanges.

“Because [Email] can be captured and stored, many scientists are eyeing e-mail as a tool to quantify exchanges that in the past have taken place in hallways or meetings. The researchers in this study said e-mail flow could provide a window into the communications structure of an organization.”

Would you like paper or plastic?

Sun, 23 Mar 2003 11:03:14 +0000

Fast Company reports that, “The United States spends more on trash bags than 90 other countries spend on everything. In other words, the receptacles of our waste cost more than all of the goods consumed by nearly half of the world’s nations.” (via sysrick.com)

Robot vs Dog

Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:03:38 +0000

Apparently a group of French Sony researchers thought it would be interesting to have the Aibo Dog Robot and a “REAL” Dog compete for a piece of raw meat.

What were they thinking?

Did they really expect different results?

Punk rock girl

Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:03:52 +0000

Ha! My wife Catherine goes off on SuicideGirls.com

Defining .Net

Thu, 20 Mar 2003 05:03:39 +0000

From Business 2.0’s The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business

“One question might be, and I’ll be as direct as I can be about this, what is .Net? Unlike Windows, where you could say it’s a product, it sits in one place, it’s got a nice little box. In some senses, it’s a very good question.”
– Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, at a Microsoft .Net briefing day in July

“We don’t have the user-centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence — presence is the most trivial notion of context.”
– Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on the same topic at the same briefing

Will InfoPath have the same impact as Excel?

Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:03:30 +0000

jasnell has an interesting observation: “If InfoPath does for XML and Web services what Excel did for Spreadsheets, bravo to Microsoft, good job.”

Semantic Blogging at HP

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:03:39 +0000

While reading the comments on Seb’s Towards structured blogging, I found a link to the following research going on at HP:

Semantic Blogging for Bibliographies: “The central idea is to apply ideas, techniques and tools from the semantic web and apply them to blogging.”

New version of Freenet released

Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:03:05 +0000

There are some interesting new features in the latest release of Freenet:

Like for example, “Forward Error Correction and Healing” or FEC, which not only allows for larger files to be shared, it also provides a “healing” feature, so that parts of files can be re-created.

In addtion, “Anecdotal evidence suggests that FEC allows the reliable downloading of files as large as 600MB from Freenet at average download rates as high as 90k/sec on a broadband internet connection (which compares quite favorably to more conventional P2P applications).”

Social Network Datamining via Email

Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:03:50 +0000

From Discover “… the software will create a remarkably sophisticated assessment of your various social groups, showing you not only their relative size but also the interactions between different groups.” (link via BoingBoing)

A brighter future for Knowledge Management

Sat, 15 Mar 2003 09:03:39 +0000

From Jon Udell’s latests InfoWorld column:

“Making knowledge more available gets easier with Weblogs, improved information sorting, better user connections”

“Bottom-up vs. top-down taxonomy is an old, ongoing KM struggle. But the emerging architecture of business process automation may help us cut that Gordian knot. XML documents, produced and consumed by Web services but also by people running a new generation of XML-savvy applications, will be the currency of the information economy. Richly structured, easily captured, and embedded in well-defined business contexts, they’ll be a godsend for tools that mine knowledge from documents.”

Mosaic Web browser 10 Years Old

Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:03:12 +0000

I can’t believe it has been almost 10 years since NCSA Mosaic burst onto the scene. I remember making the jump from Gopher Servers and thinking, “Wow, this should make things interesting.”

It certainly did …

And Charles Cooper has an interesting perspective on What if Netscape had won?

Andrei Kivilev mourned at Paris-Nice

Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:03:28 +0000

This is very sad indeed … I just leared via Jeff Veen’s blog that cycling great Andrei Kivilev died yesterday after a fall during the third stage of the Paris-Nice bicycle race.

Andrei “burst onto the international scene when he finished fourth behind Lance Armstrong, Jan Ullrich and Joseba Biloki at the 2001 Tour de France.”

Blog Evangelism at work

Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:03:44 +0000

I’ve begun my blog crusade at my new job. So, I’d like to welcome Promit Chakrabarti to the BlogSphere. Do keep an eye on his blog, because Promit is wicked smart — especially in the area of business process analysis … Oh yeah, and of course he knows a thing or two about a “Balanced Scorecard”

Searching the BlogSphere

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:03:13 +0000

This is pretty darn cool. Micah Alpern has released a Google BlogSphere search tool (w/source in PHP) that will search across all the sites whose RSS feeds are found in your OPML list.

I think Micah describes it best:
“Until the semantic web arrives the best method we have to understand a users point of view is to examine the RSS feeds they subscribe to. I currently read RSS feeds from over 70 websites. This list of RSS feeds includes friends, publications, and domain expects; all people whose opinions I value. If Googling my weblog is like searching by backup brain, then searching all sites in my RSS news aggregator is like searching the brains of people I respect and find interesting.” (link via Sebastien Paquet)

I’ll have Big Mac, Fries and McWiFi — hold the WEP

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:03:26 +0000

According to this MSNBC article: “McDonald’s restaurants in three U.S. cities will offer one hour of free high-speed [WiFi] access to anyone who buys a combination meal.” (via Scobleizer)

Dichotomy of Email

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 05:03:10 +0000

Interesting Slashdot thread that argues the effectiveness of email, which is in response to this article.

Bike New York: May 4, 2003

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 02:03:36 +0000

Registration for Bike NY 2003 is now open. Last year was a blast — The best out of the 5 times I’ve ridden in “The Great Five Boro Bike tour”.

Hopefully we’ll be able to assemble another good group of people to ride with.

If you’re interested in riding with us … feel free to comment on this post.

InfoPath Instant Love

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:03:20 +0000

Clemens Vasters seems to really dig InfoPath … some good quotes:

“On the surface, InfoPath is “just” a forms editor that allows you to build editable Forms for XML Schema, Web Services and Databases very quickly. From a technology perspective that’s very cool in itself, but the way InfoPath hides all of that behind its UI will simply make you say “Well, yes, that’s how it should be”. It’s really a no-nonsense data-capture and data-presentation centric variation of what could have been yet another feature of FrontPage that few people would have ever noticed, just because it’s UI is so simple. It’s all Office.”

SharePoint Portal Server “v2.0” Beta 2

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:03:08 +0000

Microsoft just released beta 2 of SPPS 2.0.

The Beta includes Office InfoPath integration, but I don’t have an Office 11 beta to test it against :-(

Google Hacks

Sun, 09 Mar 2003 12:03:38 +0000

A collection of Google Hacks on ResearchBuzz. (via Slashdot)

Roogle RSS Search Engine

Sat, 08 Mar 2003 09:03:26 +0000

Scott Johnson’s Roogle RSS Search Engine is starting to fillout nicely. (via Jeremy Zawodny)

Windows Update keeps tabs on all system software

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 10:03:37 +0000

SecurityFocus: “Evidence obtained by German hardware site tecChannel suggests a list of software installed on an XP machine is sent to Microsoft when users run Windows Update.” (via BoingBoing)

I’m not really surprised by this, because technically this is how I thought Windows Update works. However, I’d have to read MSFT’s privacy policy for Windows Update to actually get a handle on what they intend to do with this information, but at least they are encrypting the data before it hit the wire.

Command line web services with REST

Thu, 06 Mar 2003 10:03:50 +0000

Les Orchard “Now I just have to write a shell that treats URLs as executable commands.”

Video Blogging

Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:03:11 +0000

Slashdot thread discussing the MSNBC article on Video Blogs.

This quote from the thread from PyroMosh sums it up for me: “Of course Video Blogs aren’t the wave of the future. At least not the near future. It would be high bandwidth instead of low, it wouldn’t be easily searchable or easy to catalog. It’s an order of magnitude harder to do with no tangible benefits except for a little bit of “cool factor”.”

Slashdot subscriptions

Thu, 06 Mar 2003 02:03:49 +0000

Slashdot is offering subscriptions

WiFinder Hotspot Directory

Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:03:42 +0000

Wow, this is the most comprehensive Wi-Fi Hotsport directory I’ve seen.

Data transfer via Light

Wed, 05 Mar 2003 04:03:05 +0000

Wired news article about Using Visible Light for Data Transfer.

“Ultimately this technology will make it possible for households in small communities to reach an enormous amount of information, at the speed of light, of course.”

More interesting discussions about this on Slashdot (Thanks for the links John)

Hacking via Google

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:03:46 +0000

An interesting story on Wired news about finding open web-based databaes using Google (via Scripting)

RSS News Aggregator on MSDN

Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:03:19 +0000

Dare Obasanjo of Microsoft posted a a C# .Net News Aggregator on MSDN.

“The application utilizes XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, the DOM, and XML Serialization in the .NET Framework.” (via Don’s Spoutlet)

Google News to RSS

Sun, 02 Mar 2003 06:03:49 +0000

Julian Bond has a neat little PHP hack that will turn any Google News query into an RSS feed. I’m having a few encoding issues on my server, but for the most part it works well! Thanks Julian!

Update: I made a modfication to Julian’s hack and posted it here

Joltage Wi-Fi service ceases operations

Sat, 01 Mar 2003 04:03:24 +0000

Ahh, this is too bad, but I suppose no one is surprised …

“The high-speed wireless Net service, which launched less than a year ago, ceases operations because of slower-than-expected demand.” (via CNet)

Personal Web Proxy: Agent Frank

Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:02:45 +0000

Agent Frank wants to learn about the user, observe preferences and habits, and become capable of automating many of the tedious tasks infovores face. Eventually, this will come to involve various forms of machine learning and analysis, & etc.

Note to self: Check this out when you get a chance.

RSS 2.0 Feed

Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:02:04 +0000

I added a RSS 2.0 feed to hatch.org. The feed also includes a <comments> element for those aggregators that support it (like NG ;-)

Switch this;

Thu, 27 Feb 2003 05:02:57 +0000

Patrick from TechTV tries the “Switch”

“The biggest problem with switching isn’t the Mac or OS X. It’s when you have to deal with the Windows-centric parts of the world. If you can avoid them (most folks don’t need compatibility with odd applications in the office), you could be all set right out of the box with your Mac.”

The Slashdot thread about the article is also interesting

Three degrees of sarcasm

Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:02:47 +0000

Yoz reviews Microsoft’s Three Degrees Beta, which is a new IM/chat/P2P/MP3 player designed for and apparently by teens.

Great quote: “As you’d expect, it’s all wrapped up in the kind of huge lurid skinnable UI that will have Alan Cooper wandering around the Redmond campus with a rifle.” (link via Ben)

Blogging via .Net and SOAP

Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:02:22 +0000

Don Box’s Spoutlet: “I have seen the future and it combines SOAP and spell-checking.” (via DW)

Office, InfoPath, Exchange, BizTalk, SharePoint ; Oh my!

Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:02:03 +0000

Everything is coming up XML for Microsoft this year …

I don’t know about you, but I think the hype machine out west has me under a spell, because I am starting to feel giddy when I think of the future business user of Office 2003 creating InfoPath docs that are passed around by Exchange, integrated into the enterprise workflow via BizTalk and spit out into digestible chunks to SharePoint.

Oh, the productivity ;-)

NewsGator 1.0 released

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:02:53 +0000

Greg Reinacker has released NewsGator — .Net-based RSS news aggregator for Outlook.

Congratulations Greg! I’ve been using NewsGator since the early betas and my favorite feature has always been its tight integration with Outlook.

However IMHO, it would make the experience complete if you could also post to a blog via the MetaWeblog API or some-such.

Digital Rights Management in Office 11

Sun, 23 Feb 2003 04:02:22 +0000

Dubbed ‘Information Rights Management’ in the upcoming Office relesae, which is described as a ” … persistent file-level technology from Microsoft that allows the user to specify permission for who can access and use documents or e-mail messages, and helps prevent sensitive information from being printed, forwarded, or copied by unauthorized individuals…”
(via Microsoft Watch and Slashdot)

Recent Blogs With Context

Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:02:09 +0000

Technorati has an interesting new ranking of blogs by number of new links from blogs in the last 24 hours

Things to know about InfoPath

Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:02:24 +0000

Jon Udell on the 10 things you need to know about InfoPath (aka XDocs)

Ad Blocking via Host file

Wed, 19 Feb 2003 05:02:33 +0000

Heh, this is probably old news to some, but I just read about this clever hack in PC Mag to block ads by modifying your local host file

URL-based Magnetic Poetry Generator

Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:02:08 +0000

Ha! This is very cool. Mark has created a Magnetic Poetry Generator that will create a word list based on the content found within a page you reference at the end of the path.

For example:
http://diveintomark.org/magnetic/http://news.google.com

BTW, Mark also has a hilarious 404 page as well.

SharePoint as a Weblogging tool?

Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:02:25 +0000

Matt Williams of Micosoft says, “DUDE! Sharepoint is not a weblogging tool!” (via Scripting News)

However, as I mentioned back in November that SharePoint Team Services could be used as a Weblogging tool and that many Office users didn’t even realize that have it.

Google buys Blogger

Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:02:14 +0000

Dan Gillmor: “Google … has purchased Pyra Labs, a San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, the increasingly popular personal and opinion journals.”

I’m sure this is going to be interesting.

Matisse Picasso

Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:02:49 +0000

For Cat’s birthday, I got her tickets to the Matisse Picasso exhibit at the MoMa in Queens and I definitely recommend checking it out if you’re in the NYC area before May of this year.

Business Programming

Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:02:48 +0000

Quotes from Jon Udell’s interview with Ward Cunningham:

“Most of business programming is about getting a wrong program to do the right thing by being even smarter. People resent these systems because that’s what they have to do. The program is a boat anchor dragging down the pace of business, and it’s almost set up so that it can’t be anything but.”

Spammers Cannibalistic Pyramid Scheme

Fri, 14 Feb 2003 03:02:50 +0000

Wired News: “The human gene pool should be incapable of producing enough idiots to financially support the vast number of spammers whose scat litters so many inboxes. ”

“…most spammers make money selling e-mail addresses to other spammers, who then sell those same addresses to others. It’s like the legendary snake eating its own tail. “

Wireless HiFi over WiFi

Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:02:36 +0000

According to this article, Linksys will be releasing in 2Q03, a wireless LAN (WiFi) device that attaches to any 802.11b network, and searches the network for MP3 files, or even images, which can then be played or displayed on a home audio or video device (TV).

Apparently it cannot stream video yet, but that is supposedly planned for future releases. (via BoingBoing)

Downloading dreams

Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:02:43 +0000

According to this Cnet article, I may someday soon be able to download my dreams and review them later (TiVo style) <grin /> (via Slashdot)

PostNuke Template Rendering Engine

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:02:11 +0000

An overview was posted on the PostNuke site about the Smarty-based Template Rendering Engine for PostNuke Phoenix.

I can’t wait to see this in at least a beta. I’d love to rid theme templates of those nasty nested tables and exploit CSS.

XML Content Management

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 01:02:24 +0000

Jon Udell has some encouraging words to say in regards to Chad Dickerson’s experience “winning ugly” with XML and content:

“As a longtime content wrangler, I’m guilty of assuming that any structure is mappable to any other structure. And that’s true. But it’s never as trivial as we like to imagine. Transformation is work. We’ll always need to do some of it programmatically.”

Well said.

Microsoft’s Xdocs will be called InfoPath

Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:02:37 +0000

“The software giant is set to announce at a conference in San Diego that XDocs will officially be called InfoPath.”

“InfoPath will use XML to allow office workers to create electronic forms that will automatically share data with other documents and back-end business systems.”

“Microsoft is hoping to corner a share of the XML-based content management software market. Market researcher ZapThink, based in Waltham, Mass., estimates the value of the market for XML-based content management software at more than $11 billion by 2008.”

I am XP

Mon, 10 Feb 2003 08:02:09 +0000

Scary. In the which OS are You? quiz, I came out as Windows XP.

Microsoft, webloggers and Community

Sun, 09 Feb 2003 10:02:33 +0000

I’d like to see this happen…

“Microsoft wants to help webloggers and others build strong communities like Slashdot around their products.”

Although according to The Scobleizer, it’s unlikely they “get it”.

However, there are a few exceptions, like for example, the IBS community at ASP.Net

Simpson’s Cast On Bravo This Sunday

Sun, 09 Feb 2003 09:02:47 +0000

So what do the voices of the Simpson’s cast look like? Find out tonight on Bravo (via Slashdot)

The Weblog: Tough to Beat on Breaking News

Sat, 08 Feb 2003 08:02:26 +0000

Article about the use of blogs when reporting on breaking news. (via BlogRoots)

Google Dance Tool

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 11:02:16 +0000

An interesting tool for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

“During the update, which takes several days, the 3 Google servers display different results. Whilst the results vary from server to server, they are said to be “dancing”, hence the name Google Dance.”

Latent Semantic Indexing

Thu, 06 Feb 2003 08:02:32 +0000

Heh, I wish this was available when I was in school, “One other possible use of LSI is for an automated essay writer. Given a big enough body of knowledge about a certain topic, an LSI program could take your homework, mark it and even suggest areas you haven’t covered.” (via Ben Hammersley)

Data emergence et al

Thu, 06 Feb 2003 03:02:34 +0000

Jon Udell just ties everything together in this sentence, “When teams form and work together, the “markup” that enables and documents team formation, and that represents shared work product, needs to arise naturally and invisibly as a consequence of tool use.” … great post!

Java development impractical?

Wed, 05 Feb 2003 10:02:19 +0000

I’d like to hear more on this, but according to Lockergnome, “Sun’s own engineers find developing common software applications in Java impractical…”

Rainbow Portal Project

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:02:10 +0000

“Rainbow Project, an open source Content Management System (CMS) based on Microsoft’s .NET IBUYSPY portal application.”

I’m starting to really dig the IBS portal framework Microsoft made available to demonstrate .Net

Microsoft’s SPOT: The Atari Connection

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 02:02:15 +0000

“Microsoft’s SPOT smart objects might indeed be tomorrow’s technology – if you were living in the 1980’s. That’s because the technology used in SPOT, FM subcarrier transmission, was originally used as a last-gasp effort by the Atari 2600 to distribute games wirelessly over the radio.” (via ExtremeTech)

Top 25 Simpsons Episodes

Mon, 03 Feb 2003 04:02:42 +0000

“25 best episodes of The Simpsons according to Entertainment Weekly“

People in Knowledge Working

Sun, 02 Feb 2003 01:02:25 +0000

Jonathan Peterson writes in his Amateur Hour column, “Web content can always go lower and be more “real”. More positively; without advertisers’ demands for “reach”, individuals can aspire to the most intimate, emotional artistic visions. Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame is closer at hand than ever before…”

“Instant messaging, ubiquitous connectivity (SMS, two-way paging, etc), project blogging, k-logs, XML and other technologies are going to allow us to turn the computer from a replacement for the secretarial pool into a tool for collaborative knowledge working.” (link via Kevin Werbach)

Links to the Columbia Shuttle Disaster

Sat, 01 Feb 2003 02:02:10 +0000

Scott Adams has been keeping track of links to the Columbia Shuttle Disaster (via Scripting)

So sad. My heart goes out to the crew’s families.

Trust Metrics

Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:01:33 +0000

Mike Sugarbaker: “It’s very simple: there are some friends you’d trust with your seat at Starbucks, but far fewer you’d trust with your car keys, and even fewer with, say, your sister in a tube top.”

Google Intelligence Gathering .Net Application

Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:01:17 +0000

“Juice is an alternate browser with built-in support for Google’s search API. With Juice, you don’t just search for information, you gather information.” (via ScriptingNews)

Looks interesitng. Although, I have similary functionality right within this Blog by integrating the Google API with post meta data

business begin to cash in on weblogs

Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:01:17 +0000

From The Guardian: “The idea is that blogs can help a business present information and develop new ideas. They can bring out and spread the expertise within a company. ”

“using weblogs … to promote company ideas and show off their knowledge.”

My wife’s new blog

Thu, 30 Jan 2003 02:01:56 +0000

So cool! My wife [Catbird.org] has ported her blog over to B2. She’s such a hot geek :-)

Open Source Blog and CMS Portal

Wed, 29 Jan 2003 01:01:13 +0000

OS-CMS is an informative portal that lists and briefly summarizes many of the Open Source CMS and Blog tools available. However, what makes this portal special is that they also provide demos of each.

AT&T Wireless turns to Wi-Fi

Tue, 28 Jan 2003 02:01:50 +0000

Have WiFi, will travel … AT&T Wireless “… announces a pact with a Wi-Fi network provider to give its subscribers wireless access at more than 485 venues around the country.” (via CNET)

automatically generate a list of ;

Tue, 28 Jan 2003 02:01:07 +0000

dive into mark: “Why can’t I just click an “auto-content” button and have my software automatically generate a list of, say, a dozen interesting links and quotes culled from my aggregator subscriptions, “neighboring” sites, sites discussing the hot topics of the day, and mainstream articles reporting on a small hard-coded list of additional topics?”

Seem like it would be easy enough to create a service like this given the Blogish services available today.

Spam Filtering with gzip

Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:01:45 +0000

From Kuro5hin: “While many people see gzip as a compression tool, it also makes a credible spam filter. Here’s how.”

Web Services: Script globally, publish locally

Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:01:10 +0000

Jon Udell: “A picture can be worth a thousand words. But a URL can be worth half a dozen pictures. When application behavior is expressed [as a web service], you empower your community of users to share it directly. And Google, which can zero in on URLs and URL fragments in Web pages posted by those users, becomes your tireless and efficient helpdesk assistant.”

Kubrick 2001: the space odyssey explained

Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:01:57 +0000

Ok, everyone is linking to this site, but the flash series that explains Kubrik’s 2001 space odyssey is awesome!

Balanced Scorecard

Thu, 23 Jan 2003 04:01:03 +0000

Interesting quote from DM Review Magazine: “The industrial age has been replaced by the knowledge age, with transformational effects on the economy and the workplace…”

Cheap Wifi Mesh ISP in a box

Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:01:32 +0000

MeshBox “configures a group of wireless access points into a coherent “mesh” and connects them to any broadband Internet node available.”

Googlert

Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:01:40 +0000

“Googlert is an experimental free service which keeps you updated on what the web is saying about you, your products or your interests. It does this by performing regular Google searches on your behalf and sending an email alert containing any new results that appear.”

Macromedia Contribute

Tue, 21 Jan 2003 06:01:38 +0000

I spent a few minutes today runing throught the product tour of Macromedia’s new light-wieght CMS application Contribute and I have to say that for $99 it seems to be very powerful… I need to test out a demo before I believe the hype, but it certainly has peeked my interest.

Blog via SMS using Moblogger

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 02:01:20 +0000

Moblogger: “This application runs as a background process that monitors a POP3 email account for new email, then downloads it, detaches any files such as pictures, sound or video, uses the Blogger API to post the text in the email to your blog and uses FTP to post the files to your server. Send the email from a phone and you immediately start “moblogging”. (via Ben)

However, it seems to me that Abe Fettig HEP Message server is moving in a similar direction, but not really focused on Moblogging.

Converting an XBox into a PVR and more

Sun, 19 Jan 2003 10:01:06 +0000

“Project Dreamix will turn the Microsoft Xbox into the ultimate home entertainment center” (via SlashDot)

The TrackBack Flavors

Sun, 19 Jan 2003 04:01:20 +0000

I’ve been scratching my head for the last few days trying to make sense of all the latest TrackBack derivatives, but thanks to Ben Hammersley I can finally put them all into perspective.

Wonderful job!

Cold Ride

Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:01:55 +0000

With the current North East cold spell, here’s something to put in perspective …

“Adventurer Doug Stoup is preparing to be the first person to cycle to the South Pole.”

“Stoup, a 37-year-old from sunny Florida, is currently in Antarctica testing a custom-built ice bicycle he hopes to use for a run at the pole next year.”

However, that’s a sweet ride!

YourMom.com has a new home

Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:01:03 +0000

All right, I’ll admit it … I own the domain YourMom.com. I’ve had the domain and web site for a number of years. It’s a long story how I acquired the domain, but suffice it to say, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to own yourmom.com (ok, bad joke ;).

Anyway, your mom’s past hosting provider went belly up so she now has a new provider. However, I also used this move as an opportunity to port the site to a completely new code base and scripting language. It went a lot smoother than I expected thanks to the wonderful phpLinks, which is essentially a PHP/MySQL-based web link portal management application that I tweaked a bit to manage the hundreds of your mom jokes for the YM site.

Cheap DIY Tablet PC

Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:01:40 +0000

Wei-Meng Lee and Brian Jepson over @ O’Reilly detail how to convert your Laptop into a Tablet PC (cheaply!)

Taxomita: web-based authoring application

Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:01:57 +0000

This isn’t released yet, but … “Taxomita is a web-based authoring application that lets you create distributed, hierarchical, faceted metadata, and use it to index any page on the web.”

Digital Camera Chronicles

Wed, 15 Jan 2003 07:01:42 +0000

Derrick Story starts his first in an ongoing series of photo essays demonstrating how to get the most out of your digital camera (Thanks John)

Trackback threading

Wed, 15 Jan 2003 02:01:18 +0000

Ben Hammersley is testing trackback threading. Should be interesting.

Social Networking and FOAF

Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:01:57 +0000

Ben Hammersley talks about FOAF in an article published in the Guardian: “Our online cocktail parties will be instantly mapped by who knows who, and our business relationships might just get a little more transparent (imagine knowing who your colleagues all know – what an interesting change that might be).”

I’ve had my FOAF file for a few weeks now, yet I haven’t made any new connections with it so far. So, feel free to link to my FOAF (http://www.hatch.org/static/foaf.xrdf) I’d love to see it in action.

Portable WiFi sniffer

Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:01:06 +0000

iDetect Technology: “Wi-Fi Sniffer, WFS-1, detects Wi-Fi availability by the press of a button. No longer do you have to boot up your laptop or walk around with your laptop turned on, hence reducing the risk of hard drive crashes. Pressing the button on the Wi-Fi
Sniffer will tell you whether access is available.”

Threading a smaller needle

Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:01:37 +0000

Shelley Powers over at Burningbird is doing some interesting things with trackbacks. I’d like to test out the PHP code when it’s available.

More on Blogs in the enterprise

Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:01:13 +0000

From: InfoWorld: “A blog is a good delivery format for corporate intelligence data because “it
summarizes important points and puts the information into a system that archives
it as well” (via ScriptingNews)

TiVo wants to join the home network

Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:01:40 +0000

“[TiVo] was surprised by the popularity of 802.11b wireless-based home networks and decided that the best way for TiVo subscribers to access and share digital content was to simply piggyback on wireless networks”

Getting a new Mountain Bike

Fri, 10 Jan 2003 01:01:45 +0000

About two weeks ago Ted and I demo’d a Cannondale Scalpel 2000 and Cannondale Jekyll 2000. Personally, I didn’t care for the plush-ness of the Jekyll. I suppose this is mainly due to the fact that I still ride and love my Gary Fisher Mt. Tam with the Genesis Geometry. Nothing climbs like it.

I rode the Jekyll with the rear locked-out in many of the flat sections and climbs. I didn’t get a chance to ride the Scalpel, but Ted was a different rider on that bike. Scary in fact. So he’s sold on the Scalpel; without riding it, I think I am too. That’s why I didn’t push to ride it [yet].

DOM Level 2 Recommendation

Thu, 09 Jan 2003 10:01:23 +0000

Finally … “The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification as a W3C Recommendation.”

freeplayTV

Thu, 09 Jan 2003 08:01:11 +0000

I want one of these … freeplayTV is an attempt at a working, low-cost, replacement for TiVo and ReplayTV Digital Video Recorder systems (also called PVR or “Personal Video Recorder”).” (Thanks Per)

Clay Shirky on the LazyWeb

Wed, 08 Jan 2003 09:01:19 +0000

Clay, “It’s worth trying, though, because the potential win is so large.”

State do not call lists

Tue, 07 Jan 2003 11:01:52 +0000

State-by-State do not Call Lists (via John and Slashdot)

However, why isn’t New Jersey on that list?

Textism Textpattern

Tue, 07 Jan 2003 07:01:14 +0000

Dean Allen of Textism writes, “Textpattern is a publishing system designed for those who want to write for the web. Its bells and whistles are many, but it is above all very simple to
use. Little knowledge of internet technology is required to install and use it;
the production of valid,
standards-compliant web pages is basic to its operation.”

Cyberpunk blogging

Tue, 07 Jan 2003 07:01:08 +0000

William Gibson has a blog via blogger

Outlook RSS News Feed Aggregator

Mon, 06 Jan 2003 10:01:38 +0000

Greg Reinacker says that an Outlook News Aggregator will “…possibly coming soon to a weblog near you.”

I say, Cool! However, I kind of have this functionality already using Aaron’s RSS to Email Aggregator, which BTW was just reviewed on OSDir.

Note to self: Clean up and post mods to the script.

Blog Archiving and Metadata

Sun, 05 Jan 2003 11:01:14 +0000

sbraford over at Popdex added a LazyWeb post about looking for a way to index Blog content.

I was thinking that perhaps a way to accomplish this would be to upstream rss feeds into Usenet newsgroups, which then get distributed via NNTP to servers around the world.

I believe the RSS / NNTP convergence is already happening with the likes of nntp//rss and Genecast.

As for historical archiving and searching, Google Groups is ideally suited for this purpose.

Blog Time Graph

Sun, 05 Jan 2003 10:01:29 +0000

I received a cool script from Sanjay, which graphs what time of day my blog posts were made for the past 30 days.

Thanks Sanjay!

PHP with Google API and B2 Blog

Sat, 04 Jan 2003 01:01:04 +0000

I just added a Google related links query to individual post on hatch.org (If you’re viewing this as an individual post you should see it below the weblog related links. If not, just click on the title of this post).

It was fairly easy to implement, thanks to Sebastian Bergmann PHP Google SOAP class, which provides an interface to Google’s Web Services API. The class also requires PEAR::SOAP package, which puts it all together.

Cringely’s 2003 Weblog prediction

Fri, 03 Jan 2003 12:01:42 +0000

From Cringely’s 2003 predictions: “And finally, with the continued (and to me totally inexplicable) rise of web logs, someone — maybe Google — will come up with an effective blog search engine to read all that junk for us and extract what we really care about. ”

I would have to agree that “an effective blog search engine” doesn’t necessarily exist yet. Yeah, Yeah, there’s Blogdex, Daypop, etc … and of course the feed aggregators, but perhaps we need something more like Google News, but hive based like Technorati’s Watchlists.

Star Trek fan site get Slashdot’d

Thu, 02 Jan 2003 11:01:37 +0000

Star Trek fans of the original series spent seven years, creating an all-new episode in the 1960s style. Unfortunately, the met up with the Wrath of Slashdot in battle.

Mod Foosball

Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:01:43 +0000

Dennis Crowley: “Take a standard foosball table and make it a little bit smarter.” (via Slashdot)

Dave Winer is looking for a new job

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 10:01:04 +0000

From Scripting News: “I’m going to get a new job with a new title, and it’s going to be quite different from being the CEO of a commercial software company.”

Good luck Dave! Hope you have better luck than most these days!

Have a beer with those steamed vegetables

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 03:01:30 +0000

From: NY Times: “Thirty years of research has convinced many experts of the health benefits of moderate drinking for some people. A drink or two a day of wine, beer or liquor is, experts say, often the single best nonprescription way to prevent heart attacks — better than a low-fat diet or weight loss, better even than vigorous exercise. Moderate drinking can help prevent strokes, amputated limbs and dementia.”

LazyWeb recursion

Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:12:16 +0000

Ben Hammersly creates the fodder feed for the LazyWeb, which IMHO is one of those clever “windshield wiper” ideas that once you see it you’re think, “Man! it’s so obvious, why didn’t someone implement this sooner!” Very ingenious! I hope to contribute!

NNTP Clients reading RSS

Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:12:12 +0000

Neat idea: “nntp//rss — Bridging the worlds of NNTP clients and RSS feeds, nntp//rss is an
application that will enable you to use your existing favorite NNTP newsreader
to read your [RSS] information channels.”

Firing weapons on New Year’s Eve can be deadly

Tue, 31 Dec 2002 02:12:18 +0000

Ahh, in case you didn’t know … “La Quinta Cove [is] alerting residents that firing their guns into the air at midnight can kill.” Ok, happy new year then …

Fax machines are evil!

Mon, 30 Dec 2002 05:12:07 +0000

Today Doc posts about retiring an old “1980-vintage Panafax PX-100 fax machine”.

However, I have a bigger request. When will we rid the planet of fax machines entirely? I mean, technically do they really have a purpose these days?

It seems that the workflow for faxing is ridiculously wasteful for most fax transmissions.

Basically, I print something just so I can fax it. Why waste the paper? When all I really need to do is email or “remote print” the document.

PHP Caching with JPCACHE

Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:12:43 +0000

Sweet! I just configured jpcache to cache and gzip compiled pages on hatch.org. So the b2 powered blog should feel snappier. I need to work out a few of the kinks with respect to expiring the cache when there are new posts and/or comments. Plus, I had to trap the gzip compression function in b2, because jpcache does it as well, but for the most part it seems to be working well.

In-Room Chat as a Social Tool

Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:12:51 +0000

Clay Shirky “… hosted a two-day brainstorming session for 30 or so
people on the subject of social software. In addition to the usual “sit
around a big table and talk to each other” format, [they] set up an
in-room chat channel accessible over the WiFi network which created a
two-channel experience — a live conversation in the room, and an
overlapping real-time text conversation.”

The computer pond is shrinking

Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:12:03 +0000

Quote pulled from a Slashdot thread about Engineering
Careers Short-Circuiting:”The computer pond is shrinking, but
that’s because it’s been overstocked for quite a while. The talented,
smart, crafty, dedicated fish will always be in demand, the ones who are
simply looking for a paycheck will be walking an unemployment line.”

Give that clerk the finger!

Fri, 27 Dec 2002 08:12:06 +0000

No! Really … I mean pay them: Kroger lets shoppers pay via fingerprint

XBox commercial?

Fri, 27 Dec 2002 02:12:47 +0000

I’m not sure if this MPEG Movie is a real XBox commercial, but either way it’s just plain bizarre.

UPDATE: Well, I guess this is old news, because the commerical was banned in the UK back in June.

Billy Bragg: The Joe I knew

Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:12:44 +0000

Billy Bragg remembers Joe Strummer: “Joe opened the back door of the theatre and let us in, he sneaked us back to the hotel for a beer, he too believed in the righteous power of rock’n’roll. “

Photoblogs

Thu, 26 Dec 2002 01:12:13 +0000

I find it so inspiring to peruse the Photo Blogs indexed @ Photoblogs.org. It makes me want to take more pictures…

Geek: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

Tue, 24 Dec 2002 08:12:01 +0000

I can’t remember the first time I saw this, but I was recently reminded of it via BoingBoing and it’s still funny :-)

better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus <north pole >town

cat /etc/passwd >list
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty >nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice >giftlist
santa claus <north pole > town

who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | egrep 'bad|good'
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}

Happy Holidays

Tue, 24 Dec 2002 03:12:21 +0000

Ok, I’m recycling the card we made last year, but it’s still my favorite picture of Pinto :-)

The Clash: Joe Strummer dies

Mon, 23 Dec 2002 05:12:18 +0000

This seems sudden and certainly too soon: “Joe Strummer, lead singer for seminal British punk band the Clash, has died at the age of 50.” We will miss you Joe!

Wireless (WiFi) Signal Booster

Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:12:52 +0000

“The Linksys Wireless Signal Booster piggybacks onto your Linksys Wireless Access
Point (or Wireless Access Point Router) to increase the effective range and
coverage area of the 802.11b network. ” (Thanks John! via SlashDot)

XML-RPC to SOAP: A Migration Guide

Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:12:29 +0000

Neat trick: Wrapping XML-RPC in SOAP (via Sam Ruby)

Open Source CMS: eZ Publish

Fri, 20 Dec 2002 07:12:25 +0000

I spent some time today learning about and installing a test version of eZ Publish. I’m still investigating, but so far it seems to have decent workflow and user permissions system. However, it might be overly complex for a blog or small site, but for a site with many contributors and content forms it should be well worth the initial hurdle. I’ll post more as I dig deeper.

Improve Your Career with Tomcat and Aspire

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:12:44 +0000

“Information technology companies today have a hidden resource that they have
barely started to exploit. IT companies have, over the years, spent a
considerable amount of money equipping themselves with strong relational
database expertise. But these relational teams are traditionally isolated and
kept behind the glass doors, primarily supporting the development teams that
churn out end-user applications. This practice largely continues even today as
the programming face of IT moves to the Web.”
(via ONJava.com)

World Trade Center Site Design Concepts

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:12:03 +0000

Seven new design concepts for World Trade Center site on display @ LMDC

Creative Commons Flash

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:12:30 +0000

I finally spent some time checking out the creative commons “get creative” presentation. Very well done. Although, this kind of “creative sharing” has been going on in the Jazz community for sometime without too much friction.

Commercialize your dog?

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:12:03 +0000

Ok, if this comes to the US, perhaps our dog will be big enough for … “A mobile phone giant has opted to use big dogs as moving billboards to advertise
its new handset. ”

“And the company behind the innovative form of advertising is appealing for
owners of larger dogs to register their pooches for future “dogverts”. ”

From: BBC NEWS Phone giant opts for ‘dogverts’

LED spoke lights for your bike

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:12:18 +0000

Next year I’d like to see Lance roll into Paris with these :-) …
Hokey Spokes are transparent “blades” that attach to your bicycle spokes. As these blades spin during riding, a computer inside the blades modulates the internal LED lights so that design images and text appear.” (via SlashDot)

Control a PC from your DVD player?

Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:12:42 +0000

Ok, this sounds very cool … Sonicblue’s new DVD player will be able to access content on PCs, such as photos, music and videos, via an Ethernet and wireless network connection. Sweet!

Seeing Both Sides

Sun, 15 Dec 2002 03:12:22 +0000

Jeremy Zawodny writes, “It’s a rare engineer who can see both sides of the coin: the technology and its application toward achieving a company’s business goals.”

“However, there’s a stranger breed … the engineer who … has little trouble explaining how his work supports the company’s broader goals…”

I think as we put the .com era behind us and as engineers from that time mature, you will see more and more of this “odd creature” — at least I hope so (sans the part about the “difficultly communicating with the more common engineers” :)

Business Model for Music in the Internet Age

Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:12:48 +0000

Interesting quotes from: I, Cringely | The Pulpit: ” .. classical or jazz, those two genres are already living in the future where musicians survive by performance rather than because they have a recording contract. If they had to rely solely on record sales, Branford Marsalis and Yo-Yo Ma would starve.”

“An enlightened music company would see itself as being in the venture capital business. “

Blogger API 2.0 documentation

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:12:33 +0000

Well, I’m happy to see that (so far) the Blogger API 2.0 now supports Titles and Categories. However, I suppose this is also the case with the MetaWeblog API via the struct element. Hmm …

Google introduces Froogle

Thu, 12 Dec 2002 03:12:56 +0000

“Froogle is a new service from Google that makes it easy to find information
about products for sale online. By focusing entirely on product search, Froogle
applies the power of Google’s search technology to a very specific task:
locating stores that sell the item you want to find and pointing you directly to
the place where you can make a purchase.”

I wonder if this is available via Google’s web services API … it would be interesting to expand on Calin Uioreanu’s Amazon PHP API powered Simplest-Shop idea with Froogle.

Web-hosting company to buy Trellix – Tech News – CNET.com

Thu, 12 Dec 2002 03:12:43 +0000

Interland is buying Trellix … I wonder what this means for Blogger?

AgoraPhone: free, uncensored, communication place

Thu, 12 Dec 2002 01:12:28 +0000

Oh man! It would be such a coup to route all my telemarketing calls through MIT’s new AgoraPhone

Heh, heh, they’re talking about boobies

Wed, 11 Dec 2002 04:12:48 +0000

Tonight A&E surveys, “mankind’s fascination with breasts and cleavage, from the goddesses of antiquity to today’s silicone-enhanced TV and film stars.” (via
BoingBoing)

ESP Experiment

Mon, 09 Dec 2002 05:12:31 +0000

Damn! Pick a card, any card … Dr. Cliff Pickover ESP Experiment (via BoingBoing)

Spammer gets Slashdotted via snail mail

Mon, 09 Dec 2002 02:12:32 +0000

HA! “West Bloomfield bulk e-mailer Alan Ralsky, who just may be the world’s
biggest sender of Internet spam, is getting a taste of his own medicine“

Data Recovery

Mon, 09 Dec 2002 01:12:34 +0000

Sigh … Thanks to R-Studio, I was able to recover a corrupted disk partition on my laptop. It didn’t hurt that I had a recent back up too.

Powers of 10

Fri, 06 Dec 2002 01:12:54 +0000

I found this via Doc who got it from Buzz, but anyway, it’s a Java Applet that moves (virtually) through space and the subatomic universe of
electrons and protons: Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You – Powers Of 10: Interactive Java Tutorial (very cool!)

Script locally, publish globally

Fri, 06 Dec 2002 01:12:23 +0000

Good article about Groove GWS by Jon Udell of InfoWorld writes: “Enterprises are held together by scripting, in ways that we sometimes don’t like to admit. But there’s no shame in it. Wear your duct tape proudly. It’s getting more useful all the time.” Very true! (via ScriptingNews)

Hep Message Server

Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:12:26 +0000

Hmm, this looks like it’s worth a look … “Hep Message Server is software that transfers bits of information between different messaging sytems on the Internet. When it’s done, you’ll be able to use Hep to transparently route messages between e-mail, weblogs, and instant messaging. “

Nationwide Wi-Fi

Thu, 05 Dec 2002 03:12:56 +0000

Got this one from John, but it looks like
Intel, IBM Team With AT&T to create a Nationwide Wi-Fi Network service provider.

Pingback to Technorati

Fri, 29 Nov 2002 04:11:55 +0000

I wonder what happens if I Pingback to the search results of my weblog on Technorati? Did I essentially create a watch list? I suppose this will only work if Technorati is using Pingback, which is doubtful, but interesting.

Turkey Terrorizes Town

Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:11:56 +0000

And people say Turkeys are stupid … “Two days before Thanksgiving, a wild turkey, weighing 15-20 pounds, staked out some turf at the Jewett City Savings Bank in Plainfield, Conn.”

From: ctnow.com

Dogs and Banjos

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:11:19 +0000

I never thought I’d be reading a debate about dog breeding on Slashdot, but aparently a new study about the origin of dogs has generated some interesting Slashdot posts like this one from R.Caley:

“Dog breeders have problems not because of the genetic base of all dogs, but
because they make money breeding dogs with their close relatives. The result is
the doggy equivalent of banjo players and European royals.”

Insightful and Funny :-)

Controlling the TV experience is a killer app

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:11:11 +0000

Kevin Werbach nails it again with this comment,

“… the growth of PVRs is inevitable. Almost every Tivo user will tell you that controlling the TV experience is a killer app. The costs are falling inexorably because the devices are based on familiar hardware and software. Broadcasters won’t be able to stop them; they need to develop new business models and marketing mechanisms that don’t depend on 30-second commercials.”

WiFi hack goes commercial

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:11:10 +0000

From Pringles-2-Cantenna … “A Cantenna is simply an inexpensive version of the long range antennas used by wireless internet providers and mobile phone companies. Now, with your own Cantenna you can extend the range of your wireless network or connect to other wireless networks in your neighborhood.”

From: Cantenna website

IT demand to remain flat

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 05:11:10 +0000

From CNET: “Information technology professionals, once rewarded with fat salaries and enticing stock options, are having a tough time finding work, and a new study shows little relief ahead.”

Seems to conflict with this keynote speech at Comdex last week … sigh …

Wedding Pictures

Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:11:59 +0000

My sister Susan took some great pictures at our wedding. Here’s an Ofoto link to the first set of pictures.

How dogs developed smart pet tricks

Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:11:24 +0000

Via NextDraft from an article on MSNBC: “A new study confirms what many dog owners have long-believed. Since being domesticated thousands of years ago, dogs have developed the ability to read certain human social behaviors. “

John (Jack) Pearson Federico

Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:11:01 +0000

After 19 hours of labor (OMG!) and a slew of Blackberry messages from John, I’d like to congratulate Denise and John on the arrival of their new baby boy:

John “Jack” Pearson Federico
Born: November 21st, 2002 @ 11:26 PM
Weight: 9.2 pounds
Length: 21″ (I think he’s starting with the Nets next week ;)

Mom and child are both fine and healthy.

And of course, like John, Jack is already a geek with his very own pre-and-post birth weblog. Also he’s an amazing photographer like Denise, because I’m sure you’ll see some of his pictures online very soon :-)

World’s dogs are descended from Asian wolves

Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:11:04 +0000

From Ananova “Scientists … have concluded domesticated dogs originated from wolves in East Asia nearly 15,000 years ago.”

Why does coffee taste so bad?

Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:11:36 +0000

From MSNBC: “Coffee prices are at their lowest level in decades. So why does so much of the coffee you buy taste so bad?”

“This year, coffee makers are increasingly substituting low-quality beans in their ground coffee for high-quality beans … In addition, the purity of the average cup of coffee — the ratio of debris like twigs and rotten beans to actual fresh beans — has shifted markedly in the unappetizing direction over the past two years.”

Tech upturn

Wed, 20 Nov 2002 02:11:44 +0000

From CNET: “Using complex mathematical models, neural networks, historical patterns and an eye toward current events, Halla–with a dose of Vegas showmanship–predicted in a keynote speech at Comdex Fall 2002 on Tuesday that the tech industry will be at the apex of a wild growth swing on June 21, 2003, primarily driven by embedding radio and semiconductors into a wide variety of items.” … I’ll believe it when we’re there.

The Waypath Project – Weblog Linking

Wed, 20 Nov 2002 01:11:27 +0000

I’ll have to keep an eye on this … “The Waypath Project is an attempt to network the weblog community, connecting weblogs that share common themes, ideas, and topics. “

Childhood beliefs database

Wed, 20 Nov 2002 01:11:05 +0000

Found this on BoingBoing: I Used to Believe: Childhood beliefs database

With gems like these:

When I first heard the expression, “post nasal-drip” I thought it was a cereal.
I used to think buying ice ceam from the truck was the same as taking candy from a stranger.
I thought that when newsreaders spoke of ‘guerilla fighters’, that they were referring to actual gorillas on the rampage.

Post wedding and Honeymoon

Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:11:44 +0000

Cat and I just got back from our Honeymoon in Tortola BVI and it was beautiful. We stayed at the Long Bay Beach Resort, which was wonderful and just secluded enough for our tastes.

As for the Wedding, I think it went off well … The ceremony was beautiful; The reception was gorgeous; The food incredible and the band was great!

I’ll post some pictures soon.

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Your Agent Doesn't Forget. It Remembers the Wrong Version.

Fingerprinting AI Art Is the New Biz Markie Ruling

Cost Optimization Just Got a Second Author

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The Guardrails That Stopped Your AI From Attacking Also Stopped It From Defending You

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KPMG Didn't Buy AI for 276,000 People. It Bought a Control Plane.

The ROI Test Just Died

Your Net Worth Cannot Be Rendered

The Subsidy Era of Agentic Coding Just Ended. Nobody Built FinOps for It.

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Your AI Agents Aren't Failing Because the Models Are Bad. You Just Never Built an Ops Team for Them.

The Number Nobody Wants to Explain

Burned Through a Month of Claude in 4 Days And Accidentally Reenacted Star Wars

I Burned Through My AI Tokens by Noon and I Think I Need a Sponsor

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I Stopped Writing Code and Started Building Software: The Agentic Coding Revolution

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