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==22 March 2009==
Vincent Abry - quand le PPC cannibalise le référencement organique:
*http://www.go-referencement.org/positionnement-payant/quand-le-ppc-cannibalise-le-seo.html#comments

MrBoo - Amazon Fulfillment, logistic and storage on demand:
*http://www.mrboo.fr/mazon-lance-fulfillment-la-logistique-et-le-stockage-a-la-demande/

==21 March 2009==
TechCrunch says Google Ventures is a bad idea:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/20/google-ventures-almost-ready-to-launch-but-it-is-a-bad-idea/

Mashable:
*create twitter group on your website with tweetizen: http://mashable.com/2009/03/20/tweetizen/
*create groups for twitter: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/20/are-we-headed-into-an-era-of-dumb-tech/

CrunchGear on "dumb tech":
*http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/20/are-we-headed-into-an-era-of-dumb-tech/

UgoTrade - Rolling Stone on the economic crisis:
*http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print

Rheingold tweets (again) his SocialMediaClassroom website (made with Drupal):
*http://socialmediaclassroom.com/community/
*where I learn about Flock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_(web_browser)
*and to which I sign up, posting a forum question: http://socialmediaclassroom.com/community/forum/external-blog-editors

UgoTrade - Curious Raven on Augmented Vision:
*http://curiousraven.squarespace.com/future-vision/2009/3/20/augmented-vision-and-the-decade-of-ubiquity.html

Putting People First, a User Experience website, reviews UgoTrade:
*http://www.experientia.com/blog/tish-shute-interviews-mike-kuniavsky-on-things-as-services/

Mashable tweets SEO plugins for Wordpress:
*http://mashable.com/2009/03/20/wordpress-seo-plugins/

==20 March 2009==
Patrice Cassard - new math:
*http://www.patricecassard.com/2009/02/23/mathematique-nouvelles/
*http://www.morenewmath.com/all/

Pressecitron - Sleep running dog:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJYqMhIYw58

Pressecitron - his gmail address was sold to Aigle by MixCommerce:
*http://www.mixcommerce.com/reference_e-commerce.aspx

Henri Labarre - what you do with a navigator:
*http://users.telenet.be/kixx/

Pressecitron - balldropping on Chrome or Firefox (but not IE):
*http://www.presse-citron.net/chrome-experiments-ball-dropping

Pressecitron - great twitter page designs:
*http://www.presse-citron.net/25-designs-superbes-de-pages-twitter

Maybe Ev meant:
*http://twitter.com/twotw

Ev replies to twoto - wtf is this?
*http://twitter.com/ev/status/1356473993
*http://twitter.com/twoto

Pavig - OpenStreetMap:
*http://www.openstreetmap.org/

The MadPea user guide for SL Kaaos Effect game:
*http://www.madpea.com/KaaosDB.php

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
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==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>
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==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

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