September 2007
78 posts
Photographer killed doing his job in Burma →
We take all these action photos and on the spot reports so much for granted don’t we ….. DIGG this up please - it’s an important issue
My Personal Opinion - 90% of the Rankings Equation... →
“I think that sometimes, we in the field of search marketing try to make the concept of ranking more difficult than it really is.” A typically sound, very visual explanation of how search engine ranking works from Rand at SEOmoz…
iPhone dev team disputes Apple FUD with bold... →
A spokesman for the iPhone Dev Team, the group that developed the iPhone unlock has issued a statement condemning Apple and promising a tool in the next week which will restore your iPhone to a factory-fresh state. The unlock, he writes, made the iPhone free and useful world-wide, not just in certain countries. Read the full statement at tuaw.com
Desktop deliverance: an overview of GNOME 2.20 →
The latest release of the open-source GNOME desktop environment includes a visual style refresh, several useful new features, and some architectural enhancements. Join us on a unique tour of the improvements to Deskbar, EOG, Tomboy, Glade, GTK 2.12 and more.
Digg API Update - New Features and Enhancements! →
You’re not the only ones using the Digg API. We use the API to build parts of the Digg web site itself! Often, we enhance the API to meet the needs of the Digg web site, and most of those enhancements are (now) available to you Digg API developers.
Google Earth Social Network! →
According to Google Operating System, ASU students have the opportunity to test a new product “that will be publicly launched later this year” by “a major Internet company” that is related to social networking, 3D modeling and video games.
Greenspan advises India to shed socialism to spur... →
“Follow the British, whose evolution melded free-market notions of the enlightenment with the sensibilities of the Fabians: Former US Federal Reserve chief”
Kingsley is getting tasered for your sins. →
Six Apart is Opening the Social Graph →
Your lists of friends and connections on the social websites that you use, sometimes called your social graph, belongs to you. No one company should own who you know and how you know them.
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Kingsley is if you love it, digg it:... →
Salesforce Enters Custom Application Market With... →
Disney, which has been testing the platform, is using it to manage character (Mickey Mouse, etc.) appearances. EA has built a recruiting application. Bronx School is using Force to manage attendance, performance, etc. Salesforce says they can actually manage the entire school on Force.
The 'Social Media for Firefox' Extension →
Cool tool that uses API’s to scan Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us and others to helps you find stories becoming popular on one site so you can be the first to submit them at another. Saw it this morning and tried it out - definitely saves time!
Salesforce.com Facebook = Faceforce →
Clara Shih, an AppExchange product manager at Salesforce.com has created a mashup between Salesforce and Facebook called FaceForce. Jeff Grosse has a detailed explanation of what it does at CRM-FYI: Now in Salesforce, if you look at a Contact that you’re friends with on Facebook, you can see their…
Kingsley is crankin some cool shiznit out. →
Google offers $10M for best for-profit green car... →
Google continues to look for electric and other alternatives to gas-guzzling, earth-warming cars.
Today, Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm, said it will offer $10M to start-ups offering the best ideas for advancing “sustainable transportation.”
Google has supported non-profits in this area before, but this time it is backing for-profit ventures. “Consumers still can’t buy plug-in...
The blurred line between personal information... →
When I mothballed my InfoWorld blog and moved in here, I decided not to use WordPress categories but instead to continue the del.icio.us-based method I’d been using before. Of the many strategies woven together in my use of del.icio.us, two principal ones are keeping track of stuff in general, and keeping track of my own stuff. In terms of the latter, I like to be able to answer a question like...
Google ReWriter is on the way - Redux →
Robert Scoble’s link-blog is one of the most useful data-streams in my life. Anyone who wants to put the RSS genie back in the bottle and rob the web of human filters should go work with the dead tree press! Technorati Tags: scoble …
Bookmarks for Sep 11 →
A daily collection of linky goodness.
Open Social Graph @ Plaxo
A demo a how crawling the XFN-driven social graph would work. Awesome!!!
Rating: 5
Tags: portable social networks, crawler, plaxo, social graph
DokuWiki [splitbrain.org]
DokuWiki is a simple to use Wiki aimed at a small companies documentation needs. It works on plain texts files and thus needs no database. It has a simple but...
Comic for 12 Sep 2007 →
Office 2.0 is growing up quickly →
Posted by Jonathan Rochelle, Google Spreadsheets Product Manager This past week I attended the Office 2.0 conference, organized by It|Redux, for the second year in a row. Last year was a special year for me and the Docs & Spreadsheets team. We publicly launched the combined product—the Spreadsheets product in Google Labs came together with the Writely product we had acquired earlier that year....
Kingsley is eating ramen for lunch. →
Kingsley is being politically incorrect: do... →
The Social Graph and Objects of Sociality →
Why our relationships can’t be explained without the objects and experiences that we share.
One of the biggest problems on the Web is joining a new social networking site. To do so means going through the painful effort of creating a profile and adding all of our friends, something we’ve done over and over…at least once for each social networking site we already belong to. This is quickly...
Facebook raising another round of financing? →
Facebook, the popular social network, is considering raising another round of capital that will easily value it in the billions of dollars, according to AllthingsD’s Kara Swisher.
The company needs a war chest for expansion, and wants to make some strategic acquisitions, but doesn’t have quite enough cash on hand. The young company is growing quickly, but has taken only $35 million in venture...
Adobe: Photoshop Goes Online and Free →
While it’s still a teaser at the moment, John Nack (senior product manager for Photoshop) has confirmed the development of Photoshop Express. It’s a free online photo editor that’s not meant to replace Adobe’s current offerings, but “make Adobe imaging technology immediately accessible to large numbers of people.” And from the screenshot here you can tell...
Data Mining And Predictive Analytics On Web Data... →
Strong Russian word: Nyet [No]. By the end of this post I hope you’ll agree. Worst case you’ll have food for thought.
This in-depth post covers a complex topic that might not apply to everyone, but it covers an area where companies have struggled to try to show return on the investments made in skills, technology and time. The post promises clarity and guidance that hopefully will result in you...
Quicksilver: Universal Access and Action →
“In this talk, we will explore the motivation behind Quicksilver, highlights of its implementation, lessons learned from its design, and the ways it might inform the future of navigation for the desktop and the web.” - Nicholas Jitkoff
Test CrossSafe →
TechShop →
Rhythms of Social Interaction: Messaging within a... →
Justin Timberlake - Culture - Hollywood - Idea Lab... →
THE “NEW” SCIENCE OF NETWORKS →
In recent years, the analysis and modeling of networks, and also networked
dynamical systems, have been the subject of considerable interdisciplinary
interest, yielding several hundred papers in physics, mathematics, computer science,
biology, economics,
CoScripter →
Browser extension for scripting and automating tasks. Can be shared via a Wiki, very much like greasemonkey or userstyles
Microsoft Issues 10 Reasons Why Enterprises... →
Up till now, Microsoft has been very quiet about the nascent Web Office threat from Google. But today, in response to the news that IT systems consultancy CapGemini has partnered with Google to sell Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) to enterprises, Microsoft issued an email listing 10 “top questions that enterprises should ask when considering the switch to GAPE.” The questions read...
Adblock Plus: what would Jesus do? →
I’m deep in a quandary. A couple of days ago, after calling Adblock Plus “the nuclear plug-in,” I actually went nuclear. I downloaded the sucker and started using it. I was seduced by Noam Cohen’s description of the almost Zenlike sense of peace that flowed through him when he’d outfitted Firefox with the ad-eating add-on:
What happens when the advertisements are...
Don't Stop Till You Get Enough Dreamforce →
● The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders →
The title essay of George Saunders’ The Braindead Megaphone invites the reader to imagine a person at a party with a megaphone. Megaphone Guy might not have much to say, but he’s got a megaphone and so he is heard, his utterances setting the agenda for the entire party, the party’s collective intelligence (its crowd-like wisdom if you want to put it that way) determined by the...
Crackle, after dropping user-generated video, sees... →
User generated video sites are proving a major disappointment, as ad revenue goes.
Crackle, a Sausalito company once known as Grouper, ditched user generated video when it was acquired by Sony last year — saying that YouTube had won the user-generated video showdown.
The story of Crackle is instructive. It began signing deals with content creators, paying them to produce quality shows, and...
Kingsley is shaking his head and tweaking his... →
Method of Reading Discovered →
Scientists have discovered that the method our eyes use to process letters on a page is different than previously believed. Instead of assimilating one letter at a time our eyes actually lock on to two different letters simultaneously about half the time. “The team’s results demonstrated that both eyes lock on to the same letter 53% of the time; for 39% of the time they see different...
Name Wire: The Product Naming Blog →
TechShop: Geek Heaven →
One of the challenges that geeks, inventors, hobbyists, hackers, burners, and artists who are trying to change the world face is finding a place to do their work. Ideally, it would have lots of equipment, supplies, and other geeks. Until the last year, they would have to set up their own workshop or beg for space at a machine shop. Now they can go and hang out at TechShop in Menlo Park,...
Online PR roundtable finds identifying online... →
E-consultancy has just posted its latest roundtable briefing about Online PR and it tackles the tough challenge of identifying online influencers. One of the key points of the briefing is: “There is an important difference between popularity and influence online. There is a tendency for people to over-value popularity and under-value influence.”
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Dating Pools →
Dilbert Does Web 2.0 →
An amusing weekend distraction. You can see the full-sized strip or even buy it on a t-shirt over at Dilbert.com.
Recommended: Hi5 Stuff at Mashcodes!
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Mandatory Keyloggers in Mumbai's Cyber Cafes →
YIAAL writes “Indian journalist Amit Varma reports that Mumbai’s police are requiring the city’s 500 Internet cafes to install keystroke loggers, which will capture every keystroke by users and turn that information over to the government — nearly in realtime by the sound of it. Buy things online, and the underpaid Indian police will have your credit card number. ‘Will...
Perfect Steak →
[from patrix] Daily Show' and... →
A new hub for Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” headlines a slate of two-dozen targeted Web sites that Viacom’s MTV Networks will launch by the first quarter. bookmark this on del.icio.us
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There is not a single new iPod that comes in white. Not one. End of an era?
- Derek Powazek
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