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__NOTOC__ ==11 October 2010== TechCrunch - Evernote Rival Snaptic Switches To A Catchier Name http://tcrn.ch/b426zB by @robinwauters TechCrunch - DriverSide's Car Management Platform Adds Coupons To The Mix http://tcrn.ch/b8mq6Z by @leenarao *Helping owners maintain their cars rather than buying or selling them taterunino - High court hang-ups - Miles Kington, Columnists - The Independent http://bit.ly/dx7jot dsearls - Just discoverd Kosmix. Here's @dweinberger: http://technology.kosmix.com/topic/David_Weinberger TechCrunch - UK Angel Attacks Pay-To-Pitch Culture of Many European Angel Networks http://tcrn.ch/cnYof3 taterunino - Facebook hates you if you've got a famous name http://bit.ly/decEwE taterunino - Is that a sim in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? http://bit.ly/9dxyPM TechCrunch - Facebook Groups Is Sort Of Like Google Wave For Human Beings http://tcrn.ch/bGE5pT by @parislemon TechCrunch - Man Who Somehow Failed To Delete Facebook Account Complains About New Feature http://tcrn.ch/a48URM by @parislemon davewiner - Xmarks “has multiple offers” to take over the service, nearly 30,000 user pledges. http://r2.ly/5cyw loic - Startup communities best practices http://mash.to/2Qdmd by @jbruin chrismessina - Great to see @YouTube add support for real-time PuSH feeds! http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/10/pubsubhubbub-for-youtube-activities.html TechCrunch - Conspiracies, Privacy, Spam And NAMBLA: Facebook Groups Are Fun! http://tcrn.ch/cMzqQP by @arrington davewiner - If someone adds you to the "Social Media News" group on Facebook, expect to be INUNDATED with spammy msgs about spammy events. TechCrunch - Want A Coveted VaultPress Account? Try Hosted WordPress Platform WP Engine http://tcrn.ch/czjr4w by @leenarao TechCrunch - Google News Starts Testing A Social Layer: Twitter http://tcrn.ch/9YriOT by @parislemon davewiner - Facebook Groups: Privacy Blunder or Twitter Replacement? http://r2.ly/5ctj The Wikipedia page for Liu Xiaobo received 274 edits on 8 October 2010 *http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liu_Xiaobo&limit=500&action=history ==10 October 2010== Delia Lake - Safe, fresh, drinking water. Do you have the privilege of taking your daily water needs for granted? *http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/facts/ TechCrunch - Stealth Startup TheIceBreak Wants To Use Gaming To Help 'Center' Your Relationships http://tcrn.ch/axjwuN by @leenarao mkapor - Mary Robinson: "If water is the oil of the 21st Century, then waste is the gold". loic - What I don't like with the new Facebook groups is that I don't have to accept to start receiving updates. It forces me to go and leave them timoreilly - Continuous Chest Compression - a new simpler, more effective replacement for CPR. Worth knowing about: http://bit.ly/dln3V9 davewiner - clp.ly Becomes Curate.Us. http://r2.ly/5cnc timoreilly - .@digiphile ties together a lot of #w2e themes and talks to #opengov: http://oreil.ly/ap1VpP "It's about all of us" chrismessina - Mad props to @daveman692 for launching @Facebook's version of Data Liberation: http://ow.ly/2PxC5 TechCrunch - Facebook Overhauls Groups, A Social Solution To Create "A Pristine Graph" http://tcrn.ch/9StVH1 by @parislemon chrismessina - Love LinkedIn's new, simpler JS-based API with OAuth 2: http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/10/06/linkedin-oauth2/ TechCrunch - Facebook Launches A Dashboard For Your Connected Apps http://tcrn.ch/94Go36 by @leenarao Scobleizer - Facebook is announcing groups, which are like Twitter lists. I have that feature turned on now and am creating new groups. TechCrunch - Facebook Now Allows You To "Download Your Information" http://tcrn.ch/8YjZGy by @alexia timoreilly - Really good post: RT @monkchips: "learn locally, deploy globally" - the new IBM way. smarter buildings, smarter cities http://monk.ly/dk6fsK TechCrunch - Facebook About To Launch A "New Organizing Principle For The Social Graph"? http://tcrn.ch/9zIH4l by @parislemon chrismessina - Awesome demonstration of Photoshop CS5's content-aware fill tool: http://vimeo.com/11388357 mkapor - LUXR, Lean User Experience Residency: organizational behaviors & cultural attributes making design successful http://t.co/mQFD5H3 davewiner - Scripting News: How to blow up a server in one mouse click. http://r2.ly/5cgy TechCrunch - You Gotta Fight For Your Right - How To Thrive As A European Startup In The Valley http://tcrn.ch/adeQcR by @mikebutcher TechCrunch - Trouble In Clever Domain Land: Bit.ly And Others Risk Losing Theirs Swift.ly http://tcrn.ch/cFfWlL by @robinwauters Scobleizer - Hah, Facebook is down and everyone is letting me know. chrismessina - Looks like #NewFacebook is the #NewHashtag. Scobleizer - Sorry my tipster just gave more info. @google will stay as default but @bing will be added to default list. @dannysullivan what you hear? Scobleizer - Interesting tip just came in. Tomorrow @Mozilla will announce a search deal with @bing, which will be added to Firefox as default search. timoreilly - Love this: check out http://truthy.indiana.edu for the science of #truthiness Computer science meets Stephen Colbert via @truthyatindiana TechCrunch - Pulse Takes An Angel Round, But Where Are The Angels? http://tcrn.ch/cpIvCu by @arrington ==09 October 2010== Gwyneth Llewelyn - Pathfinder Ex-Linden writes about how fascinated he is with the ease of running your own virtual world in your computer *http://becunningandfulloftricks.com/2010/10/07/a-virtual-world-in-my-hands-running-opensim-and-imprudence-on-a-usb-key/ McNight - Castranova on art *http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2010/10/shocking-interesting-true.html Delia - water cycle out of whack *http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39508745/ns/us_news-environment McNight - Koster on cow clicking *http://www.raphkoster.com/2010/10/06/thoughts-on-cow-clicker/ davewiner - ABC News Chooses Status.net Over Twitter. http://r2.ly/9xwn *Related to identi.ca, run your own Twitter: http://status.net Scobleizer - I am a scanning fool at airport. Playing with Google Goggles/iphone. Works great on bar codes. Less well on product boxes. But very cool. davewiner - scripting.com is back up. I still need a brain-dead simple FTP/HTTP combo that's super-reliable and cheap. *This was related to Dropbox going down? timoreilly - NYT on 2 great tech executives: Paul Maritz http://nyti.ms/9WuIZR and Sheryl Sandberg http://nyti.ms/98fHBY Lucky to count both as friends *See Maritz on 4 types of managers lessig - Charles Francis Adams Jr.: "He who owns the thing knows that he must also own [that] which regulates the thing." TechCrunch - Geeknet Sells Open Source Directory Ohloh To Black Duck Software http://tcrn.ch/9toLzk by @robinwauters ==08 October 2010== Wagner James Au - New World Notes: On the Map of the World's Online Communities, Second Life is a Small Island *http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/10/second-life-on-xkcd-online-communities-map.html David Orban - Facebook's Download Your Information export feature is a great step forward... http://tcrn.ch/d2Z3wH Jan - some new FB stuff: *http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=434691727130 *http://www.facebook.com/groups/ David Orban - Why did Google kill Aardvark too? Compete data vs Quora: http://bit.ly/a8CyLW Ending up in some other product? Gwyneth Llewelyn - Maria Korolov does an excellent article on what OpenSim grid to choose. Important reading for educators and non-profits who might consider leaving SL next year. *http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2010/10/how-to-choose-an-opensim-hosting-company/ Jan - West stuck in "near" depression *http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8039789/IMF-admits-that-the-West-is-stuck-in-near-depression.html Jan - bad email (The Oatmeal) *http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email Jain - It Doesn't Get Better. You Get Stronger. *http://www.velvetparkmedia.com/blogs/it-doesnt-get-better-you-get-stronger davewiner - wordpress.com is making it easy for users to leave. Wish more companies understood this is good for business. http://r2.ly/5bxe TechCrunch - ThreatMetrix Raises $12.1M To Detect Fraud On Social Networks, Gaming Platforms And More http://tcrn.ch/9g59sZ by @leenarao *ThreatMetrix recognizes returning customers based on anonymous data mined from a visitor’s computer and TCP/IP packets TechCrunch - How Much Does Netflix Spend On Postage Each Year? http://tcrn.ch/9nn9Sd by @parislemon *This is about Quora Scobleizer - RT @KNunez: Okay, this has to be the funniest video I've seen in a WHILE. • http://youtu.be/u20mnQwErLY Barack on Chatroulette. Hah! Funny. taterunino - Is Linden Lab up to the job of keeping younger teens safe in Second Life? http://bit.ly/9fGncZ chrismessina - The latest iOS update from Netflix basically turns your iPhone 4 into an Apple TV! http://flic.kr/p/8Gxxqj Scobleizer - New blog: Silicon Valley places that Paul Graham @paulg (founder of @ycombinator ) didn't list http://scoble.it/cxfukd TechCrunch - Bugaboo for iPhone Aims To Make Web App Debugging A Bit Less Painful http://tcrn.ch/asWmIk by @grg mkapor - Paul Graham: Where to See Silicon Valley (for visitors) http://t.co/Ur39Pm9 timoreilly - RT @dalepd Innovation, education and Makers by Tom Kalil. What would education look like after a Maker make-over? http://t.co/nfywfIK davewiner - So when will the #newtwitterceo make a speech to the #twitter users? What improvements should the #hamsters expect under the new regime? davewiner - Which TechCrunch writer will be the first to leave AOL, slamming the door on the way out? When will it happen? http://r2.ly/5buu TechCrunch - Dick Costolo Takes Twitter CEO Role So Evan Williams Can Focus On Product http://tcrn.ch/alarUn by @parislemon TechCrunch - Twitter Launches Promoted Accounts; Algorithm-Based And Brand-Only (For Now) http://tcrn.ch/bG2agc by @parislemon davewiner - Where do you find the Facebook Masthead? http://r2.ly/5bqi *http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?founderbios timoreilly - @Scobleizer I think public-domain only would lead to a less rich ecosystem than a mix of licenses.That's why I like creative commons. NY Times on Sandberg: *http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/business/03face.html?ex=1301976000 timoreilly - Why mobile first makes sense technically, as well as from a business point of view. Good presentation http://is.gd/fJqCF via @leeand00 loic - The OS Doesn’t Matter… | Monday Note http://ping.fm/NJcXu *"Today, there’s only one operating system: Unix." ==07 October 2010== timoreilly - The secret to innovation is combining odds and ends, writes @stephenbjohnson. http://bit.ly/cbLO4Z Excellent article on real world #diy Scobleizer - Thanks Congress: now we live in China! “@pogmohoin: USA Netfilter with barely a voice of opposition??.. http://bit.ly/a1Pae5 " TechCrunch - How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today http://tcrn.ch/8XZIhk davewiner - This feminist review of "The Social Network" is so wrong. Even the character that portrays Zuck isn't as bad as they say. http://r2.ly/5bcb davewiner - Microsoft’s Secret Acquisition Spree. http://r2.ly/5bd5 davewiner - Shocking: Apple Approves BitTorrent App For App Store. http://r2.ly/5bd2 loic - [absolute must read] by @lessig 'The Social Network': A Review Of Aaron Sorkin's Film About Facebook http://ping.fm/ANmyR TechCrunch - Oh Thank God Oracle Has a New Rivalry http://tcrn.ch/cTLXM1 by @sarahcuda ==04 October 2010== TechCrunch - COICA Bill Postponed; It's Time To Discuss Alternatives To Traditional DNS http://tcrn.ch/bp5RBq *"It’s more than simply anonymizing access (like TOR or Haystack), too, since the block on a website or server wouldn’t necessarily be based on where you’re trying to access it from." TechCrunch - As an ex-Yahoo and a New-AOL'er, My Thoughts on One Portal to Rule Them All http://tcrn.ch/c1AWj9 by @sarahcuda *"My understanding is that Yahoo is still mostly an aggregator of other people’s content, while AOL is mostly a creator of original content." davewiner - I think there used to be a way to get an RSS feed for a Twitter search. I can't find it in their user interface now. hrheingold - "Those who gain the know-how to transform networks into movements might gain the keys to power" My NY Times post http://tinyurl.com/32dpjx3 TechCrunch - Nokia On Ovi: 200k Daily Sign-ups, 2.3M App Downloads Per Day, 140 Million Users http://tcrn.ch/dpfuD8 by @robinwauters davewiner - Scripting News: Feedhose -- a firehose for feeds. http://r2.ly/9wtb mkapor - Xmarks Mulls Switch to Premium Service | Webmonkey | Wired.com http://t.co/IM5jMqg ==03 October 2010== Friedman advocates third party *http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/opinion/03friedman.html Jain - white america loses it *http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-09-29/news/white-america-has-lost-its-mind/ Orban - cult of less *http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/02/change-your-life-cult-of-less davewiner - Since I've now had a question directed to me on Kommons, I get to say this: @codybrown, let me log on w/o giving you my Twitter credentials. davewiner - The history of blogging marches on. http://r2.ly/9y78 Prokofy - Well, this didn't end well. http://jilliancyork.com/2010/09/27/the-false-poles-of-digital-and-traditional-activism/#comment-4818 *http://jilliancyork.com/2010/09/27/the-false-poles-of-digital-and-traditional-activism/ davewiner - Google's 'goo.gl' URL shortener open to the public. No API yet. http://r2.ly/9wqk davewiner - Google's 'goo.gl' URL shortener open to the public. No API yet. http://r2.ly/9wqk chrismessina - Chromium announces WebP, a new image format that achieves on average ~39% better compression w/o sacrificing quality: http://j.mp/web-p Prokofy - But here's where we as residents who helped made the platform, paid the bills & built the content NEED TO DEMAND SHARES NOW IN THE COMPANY Prokofy - I love the idea of Microsoft buying Linden Lab and Second Life. Then we could have Worlds for Windows. TechCrunch - DNS Service Provider OpenDNS Gets A $4.5 Million Injection http://tcrn.ch/cbGB4v by @robinwauters *Back in March, OpenDNS announced that over one percent of the world’s Internet users were using its services. davewiner - Apple shuts flagship Beijing store as iPhone 4 scalpers run amok. http://r2.ly/9wsf TechCrunch - New Chrome Extension Adds Your Evernotes To Google Search Results http://tcrn.ch/bJAPRE by @leenarao hrheingold - Excellent visualization: see how yr pay & society would change in a more equal or less equal US. http://www.trickler.org/ TechCrunch - comScore: Facebook Passes Yahoo To Become The Second Largest Video Site In The U.S. http://tcrn.ch/ayezLW by @leenarao davewiner - An update from XMarks. They might not shut down after all. http://r2.ly/5ak3 davewiner - Scripting News: Angelgate takes on a whole new meaning. http://r2.ly/5ahe davewiner - Scripting News: Connecting the LEV with the East Village. http://r2.ly/5aft davewiner - Looking around for info on what qwiki is, lots of enthusiasm but no clue what it actually does. Snake oil? loic - Facebook’s Sandberg: In The Future, All Media Will Be Personalized | paidContent http://ping.fm/yinVb timoreilly - Nice list of quotes from my #pubpt talk today at Random House: http://bit.ly/dowOwj Thanks, @mdesenna mkapor - First exoplanet possibly able to support life discovered. Singularitarians already packing http://t.co/HcENkBk chrismessina - Video support, local drafts, autosave come to @WordPressiOS Version 2.6: http://wp.me/pgi3r-cr /via @raanan tip @techmeme davewiner - Michael Arrington’s Road To Millions. http://r2.ly/9ut8 hrheingold - Kevin Kelly, @stevenbjohnson on where good ideas come from http://bit.ly/aQOVcH ==02 October 2010== Scobleizer - I now have a profile at http://about.me/scobleizer but not sure what's so cool about that vs. Google Profiles? Looks nicer, that's what! davewiner - Here's Why Google Needs To Buy Twitter Immediately. http://r2.ly/5aed hrheingold - Why no link shortener in #newtwitter except for DMs? Retro. davewiner - The Short Lifespan of a Tweet: Retweets Only Happen Within the First Hour. http://r2.ly/5adg mkapor - What's the betting line on how long Mike Arrington will stay on at TechCrunch? I give it 12 months. TechCrunch - A Disrupt Break: Angels Hold "Office Hours" on Formspring Today http://tcrn.ch/bzEPKq by @sarahcuda mkapor - Americans flunk basic test of religious knowledge http://t.co/DOigRhs TechCrunch - With LinkedIn Signal, Twitter And LinkedIn Collide http://tcrn.ch/c0fEKV by @evelynrusli *"allows users to apply the professional social network’s filters to Twitter’s firehose" Scobleizer - Interesting analysis of @waze's 1.5 million users: http://scoble.it/98hMB4 (oh, and I have my own URL shortener now, neato!) TishShute - RT @brady: Here's the video of @autotunethenews yesterday @ #w2e - http://bit.ly/dhvAp8 w live performances of Bed intruder & Double Rainbow TechCrunch - For Better Or Worse, Gmail Makes Threaded Emails Optional http://tcrn.ch/9SbxQR by @leenarao davewiner - Engadget's Founder on TechCrunch Under AOL. http://r2.ly/5b4h slatteryz - I scored 14/15 on the @pewforum Religious Knowledge Quiz http://pewrsr.ch/b2yOSN #religion chrismessina - I think I'm going to mandate that this be unlocked via the Konami code on all my future projects: http://erkie.github.com davewiner - The Plans For Steve Jobs' New House. http://r2.ly/5b3k TechCrunch - Better Boost Your Stats: Gild Turns Hunting For A Tech Job Into A Game http://tcrn.ch/9WsiFa by @jasonkincaid TechCrunch - Gripe, Resolve Complaints By Wielding Your Social Clout http://tcrn.ch/amJBU9 by @alexia Au - rumors about MS buying SL *http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/09/how-internet-rumors-are-like-the-dreams-in-inception.html **Seems TechEye had the scoop: http://www.techeye.net/internet/microsoft-to-buy-second-life Delia Lake - Water map shows billions at risk *http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11435522 Delia Lake - world's rivers in 'crisis state', report finds *http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100929132521.htm TechCrunch - Sumazi, A Connection Recommendation Engine http://tcrn.ch/cResnx by @alexia TechCrunch - Why Is Chamillionaire Here? http://tcrn.ch/93eNhM by @alexia *"A Justin Bieber fan a Lady Gaga fan knows iTunes. A rap fan does not know iTunes, they’ll go to a torrent. What ever is freer than free, that’s what music will be eventually." Prokofy - AOL acquiring TechCrunch is a perfect match. AOL is a walled garden. TC is a walled garden. And I like walled gardens. chrismessina - Wow, I think I might totally use this: http://healthmonth.com /via @ian cc @brynn #gethealthy lessig - “@lucyparsons4ev: Inequality in the USA - Driven by Politics http://bit.ly/cQPHLr #p2 @lessig #coffeeparty @maddow” TechCrunch - Why No Women Want To Be On A "Women In Tech" Panel http://tcrn.ch/9397gv by @alexia davewiner - Scripting News: Congrats to TechCrunch and Mike. http://r2.ly/9vy4 chrismessina - Great visualizations of blog traffic stats: http://binarybonsai.com/2010/09/27/chewie-stats /by @heilemann cc @hnshah TechCrunch - Google's Schmidt: It's A Bug That Cars Were Invented Before Computers http://tcrn.ch/b2Zloa by @parislemon *The smartphone is the defining and iconic device of our time *If you’re awake, you’re probably online ==01 October 2010== chrismessina - Nice write-up of Google App's adoption of OAuth in an enterprise context: http://shar.es/04VUh dsearls - RT @glynmoody The Case for Personal Information Empowerment - http://bit.ly/aS2sGW "The rise of the personal data store" #privacy #vrm Scobleizer - Techcrunch's @sarahcuda just tweeted that she's "sad." I actually am too. It's interesting the emotion that hit me as I banged out my post. chrismessina - A decent writeup for making the most of hashtags: http://knowthenetwork.com/blog/2010/09/hashtag-tutorial-tribute /by @tsudo taterunino - The keys to the kingdom http://bit.ly/9hjeZg Tim O'Reilly - Great video from Kathy Sierra about motivation in horses and humans, based on the work of Dan Pink: http://bit.ly/bLGn1X timoreilly - Developers see Android as a better long term bet, even though more immediate opportunity on Apple's IOS: http://bit.ly/bucSxL via @slashdot davewiner - XMarks should sell itself to its users. Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick - AOL TechCrunch Aquisition: "The Death of Your Blog and Independent Voices" http://bit.ly/bdJBft Tim O'Reilly - Wow. Fascinating post by @anildash about Make and #diy as a political act: Make the Revolution http://bit.ly/bRd2Zq *http://dashes.com/anil/2010/09/when-the-revolution-comes-they-wont-recognize-it.html Wagner James Au - Great interview *http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/209395?RS_show_page=6 Tim O'Reilly - Wow. Fascinating post by @anildash about Make and #diy as a political act: Make the Revolution http://bit.ly/bRd2Zq [[Category:LinkLogs]]
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