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==31 December 2010==
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davewiner
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Floyd Abrams: Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers. Based on the oft-repeated lie that there has been a dump. http://r2.ly/ufza
  
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==23 December 2010==
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hrheingold
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Need to make some $. Think of starting Howard U. -- engage for a month via variety of media on a number of topics, w/ readings. $50/student?
  
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==30 December 2010==
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Gwyneth Llewelyn
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New intergrid shopping website
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http://www.gridbay.de
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Wagner James Au
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WoW meets Kinect for awesomesauce Tuesday!
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New World Notes: 3D World Breakthrough: Warcraft Played With Kinect Using Open Source Software Avail
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*http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/12/wow-with-kinect-.html
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davewiner
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Must-read interview with Evan Williams, esp re who owns virtual land on the Internet. (Hint: he's an owner, you're not.) http://r2.ly/6gkm
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Scobleizer
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I've been a busy bee answering questions on Quora tonight: http://www.quora.com/Robert-Scoble-1 Now to get some sleep! CC @nochiel :-)
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Scobleizer
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Fun company culture: @Splunk: Answering business questions through IT data http://is.gd/jFR7e
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Scobleizer
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Anti iPhone folks should read what Angry Birds' creator says about the various mobile platforms: http://scoble.it/i4RFpU iOS wins.
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*Apple will be the number one platform for a long time from a developer perspective, they have gotten so many things right. And they know what they are doing and they call the shots. Android is growing, but it’s also growing complexity at the same time. Device fragmentation not the issue, but rather the fragmentation of the ecosystem.
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Scobleizer
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Quora: What is the best tech blog? http://qr.ae/GrO7 (I just answered it isn't a blog at all, but a Twitter feed).
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Scobleizer
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Why Twitter should never gain "conversationality" but leave that to Quora and other sites: http://qr.ae/GU1y
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*Twitter's best feature (and FriendFeed's worst, in my view) is that with Twitter you pretty much are in control of who gets to shove stuff into your view. That means keeping conversations from happening.
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davewiner
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Wired: Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs. http://r2.ly/6ggd
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TechCrunch
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Q: What Does Quora Mean For The Future Of Blogging? A: Business As Usual http://tcrn.ch/gF75lr by @parislemon
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*Aggregators, like Techmeme, have started linking directly to threads there. Other sites, such as Silicon Alley Insider, have started republishing entire Quora answers.
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hrheingold
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collective action voluntary, control is decentralized, driven by self interest. (2)
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hrheingold
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Please help stop conflation of collectivism w/ collective action. Collectivism is coerced, controlled centrally, ideologically driven; (1)
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hrheingold
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The popular answers: present tense for the living, past tense for the dead; present for speech, past for writing
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hrheingold
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When quoting someone in a non-academic work, should I use present or past: "XXX, she writes" or "XXX, she wrote"?
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loic
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Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley: Location Will Connect Us: Tech News « http://bit.ly/fztCyK
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davewiner
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Quotes about math and computer science. http://r2.ly/6gdv
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davewiner
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The Guardian tries to re-ignite a shite storm that never really ignited in the first place. http://r2.ly/6gdg
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*MooreandMe
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==28 December 2010==
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TechCrunch
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McAfee's 2011 Cyber Attack Targets: URL Shorteners, iPhones, Geolocation Services http://tcrn.ch/hneatt by @leenarao
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*Geolocation services, such as Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places, are expected to also be a security target as cybercriminals can see in real time who is Tweeting, where they are located, what they are saying, what their interests are, and what operating systems and applications they are using.
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TechCrunch
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Dashwire Raises Another $1 Million For Mobile Services Platform http://tcrn.ch/ibSDOn by @robinwauters
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Prokofy
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My Predictions for 2011 http://bit.ly/fMCW3O
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*Dave Winer, the Calyx guy, Doug Rushkoff, and even Tim Berners-Lee, plus a lot of "progressives" from Daily Kos, the Nation, and Huffpo, will create and populate a new Darknet to get away from evil corporations that "place a chill on free speech" blah blah.
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TishShute
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Sem Web on steroids! SHARD, distributed triple-store built on top of Hadoop MapReduce, webcast Jan 9 (advanced session) http://bit.ly/f6frN1
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Scobleizer
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Find the missing female tech company founders. I found four missing. How about you? http://bit.ly/egBDqG
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taterunino
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Delete Older Facebook Apps -- or Risk Everyone's Privacy http://to.pbs.org/hXXOf1
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TechCrunch
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Firefox On The iPhone? No (Though It Is Being Worked On). Another Mozilla Browser? Maybe. http://tcrn.ch/gwAKk8 by @parislemon
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loic
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Congrats @MarissaMayer for Newsweek story Girls Can Be Geeks, Too - Newsweek http://bit.ly/e6dA7f
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davewiner
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New buzzphrase: Corporate blogging silos.
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hrheingold
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Scientists link size of amygdala to size, complexity of person's social networks http://bit.ly/f9Z8Bp
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davewiner
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Facebook Disconnect - Google Chrome extension gallery. http://r2.ly/6fyn
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davewiner
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Glenn Greenwald: The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired. http://r2.ly/ufmd
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lessig
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A fortiori RT @chrisgrayson: In 2008 @Lessig called on @BarackObama to eliminate the #FCC. 2 years on, what now? - http://is.gd/jxT5b
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dsearls
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Yo @zittrain http://rmf.vc/FCCNPD "We need to retire the “Broadband Internet” and start working on the “Generative Internet” #FCC #berkman
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*Today’s Internet lacks the protocols necessary to define relationships among the devices in our homes!
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taterunino
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Avatar Repertory Theater presents Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://bit.ly/dM9mbC #secondlife
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TechCrunch
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All Household Appliances Should Be Made By Apple http://tcrn.ch/hdtQgQ by @alexia
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*control simplicity http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/10/a-lesson-in-control-simplicity.html
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Scobleizer
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Leo Laporte has been a big influence on my and my career. Great to see this about him: http://nyti.ms/fukQSp
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TechCrunch
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2011: The Year Android Explodes! Killing Innocent Women, Children, And iPhone Users http://tcrn.ch/dJKHdf by @parislemon
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*Obsanto “Even if Android makes $0, it has turned out to be a cheaper way to get search defaults on smartphones than paying carriers & Apple.”
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==27 December 2010==
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davewiner
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Who We Are - Archiveteam. http://r2.ly/6es3
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*Archive Team
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*http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
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Scoble - Fred Wilson hot on Android
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*http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/12/the-smartphone-explosion.html
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TechCrunch
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The Unwelcome Return of Platform Dependencies http://tcrn.ch/e0fkoF
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hrheingold
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Is it "Internet addiction" or lack of training? Attention & other 21st Century Media Literacies http://bit.ly/gwz0SJ
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TechCrunch
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The Top 40 iPhone Apps of 2010 http://tcrn.ch/gJsSJ8
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TechCrunch
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What Facebook Can Give Back To The Web http://tcrn.ch/iem0XW by @ifindkarma
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*Critique of the Facebook Enhanced Web (FEW)
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TechCrunch
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Flickr Should Have Built Instagram. But They Didn't. Here's Why. http://tcrn.ch/dHniDM by @parislemon
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*So Flickr and Twitter linking up via OAuth should have happened right away, right? Nope.
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davewiner
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I didn't know that Wired has a How-To Wiki. http://r2.ly/8q4j
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davewiner
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Finally, the NYT takes an editorial stand on attempts to shut down WikiLeaks. http://r2.ly/8b9a
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*But a bank’s ability to block payments to a legal entity raises a troubling prospect.
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mkapor
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UN to investigate treatment of jailed leaks suspect Bradley Manning | World news | The Guardian http://t.co/GBrOJSC
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Bianca Jagger on the Assange case
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*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bianca-jagger/trial-by-newspaper_b_800847.html
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Boycott Sochi
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*http://boycottsochi.eu/
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Jain Elliott via Maggie Jochild -
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Singing Sewermen - Thames Water -
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These are Thames Water's hardy east London sewermen. They have released their own reworded version of the carol Good King Wenceslas to stop people washing drain-blocking turkey fat down the sink this Christmas
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*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1rItAH60MU
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TAG
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==26 December 2010==
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TechCrunch
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Theopeninter.net, A Visual Guide To Net Neutrality http://tcrn.ch/eJYTce by @alexia
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davewiner
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TorrentFreak: Music Is Better Off On BitTorrent, Than With Apple or Big Music. http://r2.ly/6fvj
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TechCrunch
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Take The Red Pill: The Rise Of The Hybrid Startup http://tcrn.ch/dQPgKi
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Paul Carr - Longreads
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*http://longreads.tumblr.com/post/2431307843/foster-kamer-my-top-5-longreads-of-2010
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davewiner
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Scripting News: Can we use S3 and EC2 to host free speech? http://r2.ly/6h5d
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davewiner
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What WikiLeaks revealed to the world in 2010. http://r2.ly/6fqf
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TechCrunch
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Beluga: I May Have Finally Found My Group Messaging White Whale http://tcrn.ch/esqY6l by @parislemon
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TechCrunch
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The Art Of Kicking The Can: Uncertainty Rules When It Comes To Net Neutrality http://tcrn.ch/dXKL5q by @superwuster
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davewiner
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Interesting concept -- "structured blogging." http://r2.ly/6fm4
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*tumbler
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Scobleizer
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Great rant about women in tech by @violetblue http://zd.net/dLWqR0
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*The most insulting part was actually that Arrington framed his argument with the opening set-up that the tech arena is a meritocracy.
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==25 December 2010==
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Fitzcat - article responding to Lanier
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*http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/wikileaks-exposes-internets-dissent-tax-not-nerd-supremacy/68397/
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Gwyn - new post
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*http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2010/12/24/globalising-the-mainstream/
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*Au - new SL CEO
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http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/12/linden-lab-new-ceo-rod-humble.html
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McNight - Sterling on wikileaks
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*http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2010/the-blast-shack/
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==24 December 2010==
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TechCrunch
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YC-Funded DotCloud: An Application Platform That Lets You Mix And Match http://tcrn.ch/hwLJcQ by @jasonkincaid
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*Over the last couple years, there’s been a rise in hosted application platforms that let developers take their mind off of server administration and instead focus entirely on writing and deploying code.
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timoreilly
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Wall St. Computers Read the News, and Trade on It http://nyti.ms/g7iCbn (via @jstogdill)
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Scobleizer
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My answer on Quora to: Who are the most influential people in the Valley? http://qr.ae/N4FU
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Scobleizer
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I just answered "why do Twitter lists suck?" on Quora: http://qr.ae/NPdB
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Scobleizer
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My answer on Quora to: What is the most magical software? http://qr.ae/NPVA
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davewiner
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Wikiriver: One Stop Shop For All Wikileaks Coverage. http://r2.ly/6fav
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*RWW
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taterunino
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Marketing Lessons From Second Life http://bit.ly/dJNykT @MitchWagner doles out some pithy lessons to marketers. #secondlife
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timoreilly
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Cool. ESRI's Business Analyst Online tool (cool demographic analysis) has a free iPhone equivalent http://bit.ly/eXJiCL
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davewiner
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Scripting News: Buchheit on why Google will never catch Facebook. http://r2.ly/6fa6
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*http://gawker.com/5715422/
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davewiner
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RSS never goes down. http://r2.ly/jucs
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*RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized
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TishShute
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RT @BetweenMyth & @ITSWorld The Battle for Control of Smart Cities http://bit.ly/gRHvcM @fastcompany #IoT #Technology #Rockefeller
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TechCrunch
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Talking Santa Says: 41 Million App Downloads In Six Months http://tcrn.ch/hiYqUH by @robinwauters
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Scobleizer
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Video with The Shared Web: Making curators of us all http://is.gd/jbaaO Love this Seattle @Techstars company and the entrepreneur's hair!
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Scobleizer
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I totally agree with @doctorow http://bit.ly/dTWXfj Hiding email addresses doesn't help against spam. My experience exactly.
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*I have greylisting switched on for my mail server (this is a simple server configuration that sends a "busy, try again in 15 minutes" message the first time another mail server tries to communicate with it in a 24-hour period
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TechCrunch
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"Evil" D0z.me URL Shortener Facilitates DDoS Attacks http://tcrn.ch/gIXDI1 by @alexia
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hrheingold
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Amazing work of painting/animation http://blublu.org/sito/video/bbbb.htm
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Scobleizer
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I like software that is indistinguishable from magic. Thanks to @questvisual for providing a good example.
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davewiner
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Roll Your Own Human Powered Botnet with Pawnfarm. http://r2.ly/6etf
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timoreilly
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Down at ESRI, getting killer demo of arcgis.com. In October, 400 million user-generated maps on the site! Growing exponentially.
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TechCrunch
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Q: Why Did Twitter Acqhire Fluther? A: "Search Is Mature," Social Q&A Is Still "Wide Open" http://tcrn.ch/hsl4wB by @erickschonfeld
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TechCrunch
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Hackers Embed Spam Into Google Search Listings For Unsuspecting Sites http://tcrn.ch/hiNq1P by @johnbiggs
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chrismessina
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Congrats to @finkel and the @fluther team on joining @Twitter: http://t.co/3pVoqRe
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*http://www.fluther.com/
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davewiner
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Why Apple Removed WikiLeaks App From Its Store. http://r2.ly/6esc
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davewiner
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Scripting News: Users creating products for users. http://r2.ly/6g4t
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TAG
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davewiner
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Raising money for a hackable, open hardware-based USB protocol analyzer. http://r2.ly/6eqy
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TheJuice raps Assange
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*http://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia
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TechCrunch
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Egnyte Now Helping Businesses Sync Over 5 Billion Files http://tcrn.ch/gtE8NK by @jasonkincaid
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*local cloud option
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taterunino
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Rosedale: “I'm not building a game. I'm building misleading quotes.” The wise man does not get overexcited when talking to the press.
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taterunino
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Email evolved http://bit.ly/dIgVLG
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TechCrunch
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Apple Removes WikiLeaks App From App Store http://tcrn.ch/eU6KYa by @alexia
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hrheingold
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The flash cult of the solsteclipse is now convened. Rituals: DIY
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==23 December 2010==
 
Steven K. Roberts
 
Steven K. Roberts
 
Worth the Google Earth plug-in download if you're interested in satellites... this doesn't have the utility of serious tracking software (as is used for the ham radio birds, where you really need Az/El, AOS, LOS, etc) but it is cool to see it real-time in the browser.
 
Worth the Google Earth plug-in download if you're interested in satellites... this doesn't have the utility of serious tracking software (as is used for the ham radio birds, where you really need Az/El, AOS, LOS, etc) but it is cool to see it real-time in the browser.
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==22 December 2010==
 
==22 December 2010==
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TechCrunch
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Paul Adams, Googler Whose Presentation Foretold 'Facebook Groups,' Heads To Facebook http://tcrn.ch/i1NGCr by @alexia
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*It is our job, as designers, to make sure that people understand what is happening
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Scobleizer
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IBM supports "citizen scientists" with iPhone app http://t.co/yrev72z (Video). Learn more here: http://t.co/MX260On
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*Snap a picture. Save a stream.
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*http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/water_management/article/creek_watch.html
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TAG
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cshirky
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"A government's demands for Internet freedom can vary from country to country, leading to cynicism about its motives." http://fam.ag/ekPqOs
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*The Political Power of Social Media, by Clay Shirky
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Rubaiyat Shatner
 
Rubaiyat Shatner
 
cablegate: the game - tag wikileaks cables, but dont read them if you want to get a job in the govt https://cablegame.appspot.com/
 
cablegate: the game - tag wikileaks cables, but dont read them if you want to get a job in the govt https://cablegame.appspot.com/
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timoreilly
 
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#gov20 local: @FastCompany on How an Army of Techies Is Taking on City Hall http://bit.ly/gZ0MbG Features @seeclickfix and @codeforamerica  
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gov20 local: @FastCompany on How an Army of Techies Is Taking on City Hall http://bit.ly/gZ0MbG Features @seeclickfix and @codeforamerica  
  
 
hrheingold
 
hrheingold

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