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__NOTOC__ ==20 March 2009== Rheingold - social networking and social theory (Goffman): *http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2009/03/19/social-networking-sites-and-social-theory/ *http://nortonbooks.typepad.com/everydaysociology/2009/03/publicprivate-selves-and-social-theory.html Bruce Sterling (Spime) reacts to UgoTrade: *http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2009/03/spime-watch-dat.html TechCrunch - IE8 ignores one-third of market: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/19/with-ie8-microsoft-ignores-one-third-of-the-market/ UgoTrade - agentGav on Energy Identity: *http://www.amee.com/?p=913 Ev - Twitter premium accounts (I thought this was a hoax?): *http://www.bbspot.com/News/2009/03/twitter-unveils-premium-accounts.html Kronos - Linden to block unsupported viewers: *http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Supported_Viewers Mashable - new Facebook good for brands: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/19/new-facebook-brands/ TechCrunch - Kontagent offers analytics using Facebook Connect: *http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/03/19/kontagent-now-offers-uber-analytics-for-iphone-and-web-applications-using-facebook-connect/ Odio-Paez is also interesting on the banking crisis: *http://ow.ly/13DK Shirky - Odio-Paez explains how to get 2000 Twitter followers: *http://ow.ly/13DK Orban - physicist d'Espanat wins prize for theory of "hypercosmic god": *http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16769-concept-of-hypercosmic-god-wins-templeton-prize.html <br> ==Intermediate Note== Up until now on this blog, the entries under each date heading were added going down from top to bottom. Henceforth the new entries under each date heading will be added at the top of the page, and thus will run from bottom to top (like the date headings themselves).<br> <br> <br> ==19 March 2009== Arrington using Searchme for one-third of his searches: *http://www.searchme.com/ TechCrunch tweets Twitter experimenting with text advertising: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/16/twitter-experimenting-with-text-advertising/ TechCrunch tweets Cloudkick for managing Amazon cloud services: *http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/03/16/y-combinators-cloudkick-offers-simple-cloud-management-system/ TechCrunch - Twitter’s OAuth Support Now In Public Beta: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/16/twitters-oauth-support-now-in-public-beta/ Arrington at Unhub: *http://unhub.com/MichaelArrington/ Mashable - where is the old Facebook? *http://mashable.com/2009/03/17/new-facebook-apps/ Rheingold - digital literacy: *http://ictlogy.net/20090317-towards-a-comprehensive-definition-of-digital-skills/ Rheingold - MacArthur winners: *http://www.hastac.org/node/2018 Arrington - building a local news group with apps: *http://adrianshort.co.uk/2009/03/15/311/ Mashable and TechCrunch tweet and blog MySpaceID: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/17/myspaceid-yahoo/ *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/17/myspaceid-gets-an-upgrade-but-did-it-already-miss-the-boat/ TechCrunch - Twouble with Twitters: *http://current.com/items/89891774/supernews_twouble_with_twitters.htm TechCruch - Movable Type supports custom micro-blogging: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/15/if-you-cant-beat-em-join-em-movable-types-motion-is-microblogging-in-a-box/ *http://www.movabletype.com/motion/ Kathy Sierra - big ROI from UI: *http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2009/03/17/uietips-amazonmagic/ Mashable - add-ons for managing Firefox tabs: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/18/manage-firefox-tabs/ Kutiman mixes YouTube: *http://thru-you.com/#/videos/ TechCrunch - Windows Live Messenger Now Lets You Add Chat To Your Website *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/18/windows-live-messenger-now-lets-you-add-chat-to-your-website/ Rubaiyat - LED sheep: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw TechCrunch - Microsoft competes with AdSense: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/18/early-beta-data-from-microsoft-adsense-competitor-encouraging/ UgoTrade blogs etech: *http://www.ugotrade.com/2009/03/18/dematerializing-the-world-shadows-subscriptions-and-things-as-services-talking-with-mike-kuniavsky-at-etech-2009/ What is Google Sketchup? Pressecitron tweets free icons: *http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/22-extremely-detailed-and-beautiful-icon-sets Pressecitron - monochromatic websites: *http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/50-monochromatic-website-designs/ O'Reilly tweets P2P foundation on Open Source hardware: *http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Design O'Reilly tweets Hacking Congress: *http://www.hackingcongress.org/ Pressecitron tweets breadcrumbs in web design (and Smashing Magazine in general): *http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/17/breadcrumbs-in-web-design-examples-and-best-practices-2/ O'Reilly tweets data visualization and online storytelling: *http://adage.com/digitalnext/post.php?article_id=135313 ==18 March 2009== Rubaiyat tweets identi.ca, microblogging using free software Laconica: *http://identi.ca/djlotu5 TechCrunch tweets Cloudera commercializing Hadoop: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/16/cloudera-raises-5-million-series-a-round-for-hadoop-commercialization Mashable tweets twitter visualizations: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/16/twitter-visualizations/ TechCrunch tweets TweetDeck joins Facebook Connect: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/16/tweetdeck-joins-the-facebook-connect-army/ Mashable tweets new Facebook privacy settings: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/16/facebook-privacy-setting-everyone/ Mashable tweets twitter background design practices: *http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/twitter-background-design-how-to-and-best-practices Mashable tweets a Twitter design resource: *http://www.tweeeeet.com/ Mashable tweets 100 web design resources: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/16/design-inspiration/ ==16 March 2009== Shirky retweets trib "Most of the people *anywhere* calling themselves social media experts are about $ and not community. Fail +1": *http://explore.twitter.com/trib/status/1332908263 Shirky quoting Matthew Stinchomb #sxsw: "One key to getting to communications with users right is to get communication in your company right" Shirky quoting J. West #sxsw: "Core community rule at Metafilter is "Don't be a jerk" -- everything else flows from that." Shirky adds: compare k.sierra's "be nice" Rheingold tweets how to use feeds and pipes to find weird stuff: *http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_weirdest_stuff_on_the_internet.php Pressecitron tweets 27 graphics about the financial crisis: *http://flowingdata.com/2009/03/13/27-visualizations-and-infographics-to-understand-the-financial-crisis/ O'Reilly tweets symposium on computing research that changed the world: *http://www.cra.org/ccc/locsymposium.php O'Reilly tweets can twitter survive: *http://www.twine.com/item/123c9051b-g8/can-twitter-survive-what-is-about-to-happen-to-it O'Reilly tweets: twitter saturation at sxsw, Foursquare, and SXWX Baby: *http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10196526-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 And here is SXWX Baby, a filtered best-of the tweets: *http://twitter.com/sxswbaby Pressecitron blogue Bien debuter avec Google analytics: *http://statosphere.fr/website/index.php?post/2009/03/09/tuto-bien-debuter-avec-google-analytics Pressecitron tweets twitter live in 3d: *http://twittervision.com/maps/show_3d Pressecitron tweets an original CV: *[http://theportfolio.ofmichaelanderson.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/resume-infographic.jpg Michael Anderson's CV] Pierre Kelman maintains wikio, ranking of French blogs by category, for instance politics: *http://www.wikio.fr/blogs/top/politique Pierre Kelman on Google and alternatives: *http://www.kelblog.com/2008/12/medias-dans-tous-leurs-etats.html Benoit Chopin blogs a sustainable desktop by core77: *http://www.core77.com/greenergadgets/entry.php?projectid=32 O'Reilly tweets Andrew Chen on Twitter's unique one-way follow: *http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/03/16/friends-versus-followers-twitters-elegant-design-for-grouping-contacts/ ==15 March 2009== Arrington tweets Scoble's next thing, Building 43: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/14/scobles-new-thing-building-43 Building 43 at Google shows the board with the Google Master Plan: *http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/21470089 Scoble's new site is under construction, but if you click on the "tweet" link you generate an automatic tweet about it: *http://www.building43.com Mashable tweets the social nervous system: *http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/09/internet-innovations-hive-technology-breakthroughs-innovations.html?feed=rss_technology GissiSim on how to Tweetdeck: *http://www.gissisim.com/2009/03/how-to-tweet-deck-like-a-pro/ Conférence à Paris le 25 mars: *http://www.fing.org/jsp/fiche_actualite.jsp?CODE=1236966535985&LANGUE=0 O'Reilly tweets Benjamin Black on complexity budget: *http://blog.layer8.net/2009/01/complexity-budget.html TechCrunch panel in Paris (see for possible French tweeters): *http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/03/14/live-from-paris-techcrunchtalk-what-next-for-france-20/ UgoTrade tweets a computer for $12: *http://playpower.org Mashable tweets web tools for handling your finances: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/15/reorganize-finances/ Rheingold tweets kosmix as a search engine: *http://www.kosmix.com Arrington tweets Blellow, a twitter-like service that lets you show your expertise: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/15/blellow-like-yelp-meets-linkedin-meets-twitter-in-a-way-that-makes-sense/ ==14 March 2009== Arrington tweets Aardvark social search service: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/13/aardvark-social-search-service-arrives/ Rheingold tweets a post about spreadability: *http://newmedialiteracies.org/blog/2009/03/if-it-doesnt-spread-its-curren-1.php *http://www.henryjenkins.org/2009/02/if_it_doesnt_spread_its_dead_p.html Twitter is drowning in SXSW: *http://www.sxsw.com *http://www.sxsw.com/interactive Kronos retweets the SL data vizualization wiki: *http://sldataviz.pbwiki.com/FrontPage Shirky to Tim Burden on why he doesn't allow comments on his blog: I use pingback. Say anything anywhere, I'll see it. Burden: but I only have a comment worth, not a whole post. Shirky: comments lead to tragedy of the commons. Pavig tweets Caustic ray tracing system: *http://www.caustic.com ==13 March 2009== O'Reilly's emerging technology conference (now that it's over): *http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/content/home Mashable tweets CEOs should facebook: *http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/11/social-networking-executives-leadership-managing-facebook.html Kronos tweets an explanation of Yammer: *http://www.aclearbluesky.nl/pivot/entry.php?id=137 Mashable tweets a free template for twitter: *http://theclosetentrepreneur.com/create-a-twitter-background-using-powerpoint ==12 March 2009== Arrington tweets web application directory Go2Web20: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/11/web-app-directory-go2web20-gets-a-major-upgrade Mashable blogs Zemanta which automatically suggests links for your blog posts: *http://www.zemanta.com Mashable tweets 100 twitter tools: *http://www.onlinebestcolleges.com/blog/2009/100-twitter-tools-to-help-you-achieve-all-your-goals Pavig tweets update on solipsis, open source p2p metaverse: *http://www.solipsis.org Mashable tweets how to twitter like a pro (good description of "twitter clients"): *http://www.gissisim.com/2009/03/how-to-twitter-like-a-pro TechCrunch blogs Google Friend Connect with api's: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/12/google-friend-connect-now-allows-deeper-integration-with-apis Mashable tweets top 10 social networks for entrepreneurs: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/12/entrepreneur-networks ==11 March 2009== Shirky retweets mediacloud (the semantic web is heating up): *http://www.mediacloud.org Arrington tweets how to monetize a social network: *http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/03/09/how-to-monetize-a-social-network-myspace-and-facebook-should-follow-tencent Mashable plugs their own blippr (notably for submitting new applications): *http://www.blippr.com Mashable blogs consumer-powered product support: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/11/tekarma ==10 March 2009== Arrington tweets Wolfram Alpha, computers answers to factual questions: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/08/wolfram-alpha-computes-answers-to-factual-questions-this-is-going-to-be-big Mashable tweets maintained relationships on Facebook: *http://overstated.net/2009/03/09/maintained-relationships-on-facebook which links to the monkeysphere: *http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html UgoTrade tweets a public laboratory for developing ideas: *http://lab.signtific.org Old Mashable post on Twitter tools: *http://mashable.com/2008/05/24/14-more-twitter-tools which has me googling "twitter api": *twitter api wiki: http://apiwiki.twitter.com And leads to curl, a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax: *http://curl.haxx.se ==8 March 2009== Arrington tweets backtweets doing top links: *http://backtweets.com/top-links and also conversation finder "backtype": *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/06/backtype-gets-more-conversation-tracking-features-seed-funding/ and the Indian social timeline lifeblob: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/06/lifeblobs-redesign-takes-social-timelines-to-the-next-level-invites/ Rheingold tweets kerpoof, cartoon-making for kids: http://www.kerpoof.com ==6 March 2009== TechCrunch tweets useful Microsoft web services: *http://www.pcworld.com/article/159413/microsoft_web_services.html Mashable tweets Google Calendar adds offline access: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/04/google-calendar-offline-access/ Mashable tweets from Google to Likaholix: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/04/likaholix Mashable blogs Plinky, yet another social site: *http://mashable.com/2009/01/22/plinky-offers-a-new-twist-on-microblogging Mashable, Disqus and UberVU launch Social Media Comments: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/04/social-media-comments/ Mashable tweets techrigy to track 1 billion social media conversations: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/04/techrigy John Battelle (indirectly) blogs Kutano (website comment overlay): *http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/03/demo-kutano-overlays-any-web-site-with-space-for-comments Just in case I wanna try the Disqus comment system: *http://disqus.com/ Tateru blogs Ambrose on the SL grid: *http://www.massively.com/2009/03/05/ambrose-updates-on-second-life-grid-initiatives Arrington tweets the days of streaming: *http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/05/the-surfeit-of-content-life-in-the-post-optical-world Mashable tweets Digg toolbox: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/05/digg-new-tools UgoTrade tweets a french blog speaking of Pachube: *http://daneel-ariantho.blogspot.com/2009/03/pachube-orb.html Steve Gillmore on Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed: *http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/03/05/feeders-digest Rheingold tweets Acevedo on Network Capital: *http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/267/317 ==05 March 2009== Al Kronos testing a professional microblogging service: *http://www.communote.com Rheingold tweets Fierce Content Management (FCM): *http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/ FCM quotes Clay Johnson saying CMS software doesn't work: *http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2009/02/23/content-management-systems-just-dont-work ==04 March 2009== Arrington tweets Google Code Lab is like High School for APIs: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/03/google-code-lab-is-like-high-school-for-apis Which leads to the Google Code website: *http://code.google.com Arrington tweets 360Cities: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azvQhZH5X_U Mashable's social media how-to library: *http://mashable.com/category/how-to-web/ Kronos tweets full-sceen GigaPan viewer: *http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c Mashable's tools for freelancers: *http://mashable.com/2009/03/03/freelance/ KathySierra tweets: "The killer apps aren't those that help us solve problems, but those that help us show off" ==03 March 2009== Rubaiyat tweets importing sketchup models into realXtend: *http://peterquirk.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/tutorial-using-the-streamlined-tool-chain-for-importing-sketchup-models-into-realxtend-04 UgoTrade tweets HomeCamp on ReactionGrid: *http://homecamp.org.uk/2009/03/02/virtual-homecamp-on-opensim/ I lost who tweeted it, but this open-source post-national constitution looks interesting: *http://diffusion.org.uk/?p=1012 1938Media retweets Kevin Kelly on 8 things that are better than free: *http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/01/better_than_fre.php Mashable (I think) tweets cute twitter icons: *http://www.drweb.de/magazin/20-twitter-icons-websites/ Prokofy blogs (and disparages) Beth Noveck's Wiki-Government: *http://www.democracyjournal.org/article.php?ID=6570 Christian Scholz (Tao Takashi) blogs Object Oriented CSS: *http://ajaxian.com/archives/nicole-sullivans-object-oriented-css Raph Koster blogs Primates on Facebook: *http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13176775 Game Developer Derek Licciardi uses Community Server (so does Microsoft!): *http://communityserver.com/ ==02 March 2009== Arrington tweets IPod Solution May Save Wall Street From Ruin: *http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aExA0HhTShA8 Orban tweets widetag and widespime: *http://www.widetag.com/ Rheingold tweets Nethernet: *http://thenethernet.com/ Al Kronos tweets: "Aside from (say) wings3D, Blender and Bailiwick - what'd be your choice of freebie must have tools for SL?" Al Kronos tweets Digsby (but then uninstalls because of flaky UI): *http://www.digsby.com Lots of folks indicate tweetoclock: *http://tweetoclock.com/ Al Kronos tweets Morph flashmob honors Tony Hart: *http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7917842.stm Tech Crunch features what an antitrust case against google might look like: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/01/what-an-antitrust-case-against-google-might-look-like TechCrunch features the cloud is the new dotcom: *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/01/the-cloud-is-the-new-dotcom-video-highlights Rheingold tweets pinky show about deschooling: *http://www.pinkyshow.org/archives/episodes/061127/061127_illich.html [[Category:Danton's Weblog]]
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