View source for Danton's Weblog 2009-04

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==16 April 2009==

TC – Microsoft plugs Cashback into its products engine:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/15/microsoft-tries-to-re-energize-cashback-by-plugging-it-into-its-products-engine/

KathySierra @charmfx @tawalk where's the audio equivalent of basics that now even non-designers get like "rule of thirds" "white space" "kerning" etc.?

TC – Kosmix universal search engine:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/15/universal-search-takes-off-kosmix-posts-419-growth-in-march/

Mashable – social media and SEO:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/15/social-media-seo/

UgoTrade – new magazine for open source virtual worlds:
*http://www.maxping.org

TC – Digg offers compromise on Diggbar:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/15/despite-huge-activity-digg-offers-a-compromise-on-diggbar/

Tateru – Bettina Tizzy on Blue Mars:
*http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-answers-and-more-questions.html

TechCrunch – DIY social network Grou.ps adds ranking system:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/15/diy-social-network-groups-adds-ranking-system-to-assign-privileges-to-contributors/

Shirky – the failure of Amazonfail:
*http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/04/the-failure-of-amazonfail/

TechCrunch – why Amazonfail was not a glitch:
* http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/14/guest-post-why-amazon-didnt-just-have-a-glitch

TechCrunch – Procaster for live steaming your desktop:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/14/live-stream-that-intense-world-of-warcraft-session-with-mogulus-procaster

Mashable – 50 corporate website designs:
*http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/04/50-excellent-corporate-website-designs/

Kronos – host Twiddla meetings on your website:
*http://www.twiddla.com/API/Reference.aspx

Gwyneth – Tessa Harrington's business-oriented OpenSim grid:
*http://spoton3d.com/

Rheingold – fear of twitter:
*http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/04/14/fear-of-twitter-technophobia-part-2/

Mashable – Facebook can get you evicted:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/14/facebook-evicted/

Digital media can confuse moral compass:
* Rheingold - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/uosc-ttr040909.php
*Mashsable - http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/ptech/04/14/twitter.study/?iref=hpmostpop

TechCrunch – Hi5 teams with PlaySpan for revenue from virtual goods:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/14/in-quest-for-real-revenue-from-virtual-goods-hi5-teams-up-with-playspan/

Mashable – Social media data visualizations:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/14/data-visualizations-social-media/

==15 April 2009==
Cloud – O'Reilly on the Sensor Web:
*http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Tim_O_Reilly_on_Twitter__Yahoo_and_the_Coming__Sensor_Web_

Cloud – Amazonfail and data:
*http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/amazonfail-shows-data-matters-too/

Cloud – Google App Engine Datastore:
*http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/04/14/UnderTheCoversOfGoogleAppEngineDatastore.aspx

O'Reilly – making a Pong:
*http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/code/category/Processing/454

O'Reilly – Ubuntu and Cloud computing:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/karmic-koalas-love-eucalyptus.html

Descary – tweets sur Evernote:
*http://descary.com/transformez-un-tweet-en-note-sur-evernote/

O'Reilly – Make:
*http://www.makezine.com/

Abry – RankSense:
*http://www.ranksense.com/

Abry - galaxy mindboggle:
*[http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg spaceb]

Abry – Windows XP enters final phase:
*http://www.clubic.com/actualite-270332-fin-phase-principale-support-windows-xp.html

Descary – Twazzup:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twazzup_a_better_twitter_search_engine.php

O'Reilly – Wikipedia votes on move to CC attribution share-alike license:
*http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13967

O'Reilly – build your own iPhone app:
*http://training.oreilly.com/introiphoneapp/

@gnat – 4chan manipulates Time poll:
*http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/13/hacking-recommenders/

Cloud – 
*Hadoop gets a boost: *http://www.itworld.com/business-intelligence/66317/large-data-set-analysis-cloud-hadoop-gets-boost
*Memory based architecture: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2009/04/11/SomeThoughtsOnMemoryBasedArchitecturesAkaWhyMemcachedIsntGoodEnough.aspx
*Amazon infrastructure: http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2009/04/experiences-deploying-large-scale.html
*salesforce.com: http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=732

O'Reilly on Facebook about Ward and wikis:
*http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=544591116&v=feed&story_fbid=68902741305

Abry – remove the Digg bar from your blog:
*http://www.bloggingtips.com/2009/04/13/how-to-remove-the-digg-bar-from-your-blog-using-php/

==14 April 2009==
Arrington – StumbleUpon's efficient use of resources (funding):
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/14/stumbleupon-a-case-study-in-the-efficient-allocation-of-resources/

Mashable – Twitter tips for the workplace:
*http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/162943/10_twitter_tips_for_the_workplace.html

Rheingold – adaptivesemantics finds abusive language:
*http://adaptivesemantics.com/home/demo

TechCrunch (Lacy) – all-in-one device?
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/13/are-super-smart-phones-still-too-dumbis-the-all-in-one-device-dream-doomed/

Rheingold – The Company as Wiki:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_jhLGxH-m4&feature=player_embedded

Pavig - Adam Frisby on persistent vegetative simulation:
*http://www.adamfrisby.com/blog/2009/04/persistent-vegetative-simulation/

Sierra – RT gimmeshiny:
*http://gimmeshiny.com/

Shirky – the amazon troll's claim is untrue:
*http://bryant.livejournal.com/672165.html

Pavig – finding alternative applications:
*http://alternativeto.net/

Mashable – marketing purple cows:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/13/social-media-gimmicks/

Shirky – #amazonfail came from bantown:
*http://tehdely.livejournal.com/88823.html?thread=253943#t253943

==13 April 2009==
TechCrunch - Twitter worm woes continue:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/13/twitter-worm-woes-continue-fourth-round-of-attacks-by-mickeyy/

Tateru - Second Life for weak and broken?
*http://commonsensible.net/2009/04/second-life-land-of-weak-home-of-broken.html

Tateru - Piracy is not stealing:
*http://dwellonit.blogspot.com/2009/04/piracy-is-stealing-not.html

Pavig - good article about Copyright:
*http://www.lifehack.org/articles/management/shattering-a-few-myths-about-copyright.html

TechCrunch - FriendFeed better than Facebook:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/12/you-will-be-using-friendfeed-in-the-future-but-it-may-be-called-facebook/

Mashable – web design toolbox:
*http://mashable.com/2008/11/05/web-design-toolbox/

Gwyneth – Social Networking Fatigue:
*http://cbs4.com/local/twitter.facebook.user.2.981847.html

Twitter about their worms:
*http://blog.twitter.com/2009/04/wily-weekend-worms.html

Mashable – another twitter worm:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/12/mikeyy-another-twitter-worm-on-the-loose/

==12 April 2009==
O'Reilly – YouTube is doomed:
*http://www.businessinsider.com/is-youtube-doomed-2009-4

O'Reilly – Where 2.0:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/becoming-location-aware-where.html

Descary – a script to reduce noise on FriendFeed beta:
*http://descary.com/un-script-pour-reduire-le-bruit-sur-friendfeed-beta/

Rheingold – tweetbots:
*http://www.tweenbots.com/

Mashable – StalkDaily founder claims to have produced worm:
*http://www.bnonews.com/news/242.html

TechCrunch & Mashable – Twitter hit by StalkDaily worm:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/11/twitter-hit-by-stalkdaily-worm/
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/11/stalkdaily/
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/11/stalkdaily-twitter/

Mashable – blocking the Diggbar:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/11/diggbar-pros-cons/

Rheingold – animated history of Internet:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4

TechCrunch – blog authority and the statusphere:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/10/are-blogs-losing-their-authority-to-the-statusphere/

Mashable – Facebook applications for productivity and learning:
*http://www.selectcourses.com/blog/2009/100-awesome-facebook-apps-for-productivity-and-learning/

1938media – the Sanger-Wales conflict continues:
*http://blog.shankbone.org/2009/04/09/larry-sanger-vs-jimmy-wales/

==11 April 2009==
Cloud – Axiis, an open source data visualization framework:
*http://michaelvandaniker.com/blog/2009/04/10/axiis-a-different-kind-of-data-visualization-framework/

Pressecitron – increase the number of pages seen on a blog:
*http://www.presse-citron.net/9-methodes-pour-augmenter-le-nombre-de-pages-vues-dun-blog

Abry – Pirate Bay launches IPredator, VPN for anonymous downloading:
*http://www.vincentabry.com/ipredator-de-pirate-bay-un-vpn-pour-le-telechargement-anonyme-4376

Entretien avec Vincent Abry:
*http://www.webmarketing-com.com/2009/04/10/3323-vincent-abry-un-oeil-sur-la-blogosphere-episode-7

Vincent Abry – free Bumtop for 3D desktop:
*http://www.vincentabry.com/telecharger-bumtop-le-desktop-en-3d-4599

O'Reilly – Nexus identifies friend clusters on Twitter:
*http://apps.facebook.com/_nexus_/

Pressecitron – control your image on the web:
*http://www.presse-citron.net/identite-numerique-10-regles-simples-pour-controler-son-image-sur-internet

O'Reilly – Designing Social Interfaces, a wiki that is becoming a book:
*http://www.designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Shirky plugs DropBox "increased utility of cloud."

Mashable – the new Bebo:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/10/bebo-growth/

TechCrunch – Google earth flythroughs:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/10/google-earth-flythroughs-come-to-the-browser/

Rheingold – computer literacy means learning to think critically about the Internet:
*http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/rheingold/detail?entry_id=38313

Pavig – Your business card is crap:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk

1938media says vbulletin is than wordpress (but maybe he got paid to say it)

Sierra – Eric Reis on start-ups "built to learn":
*http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/04/built-to-learn.html

==01 April 2009==
Mashable's April Fool roundup:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/01/april-fools-09/

Mashable – live twitter and stay productive:
*http://mashable.com/2009/02/09/twitter-productivity/
Only he forgot to explain how to stay productive despite spending all your time in twitter…

TechCrunch – April Fools roundup:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/01/april-fools-youtube-flails-amazon-cloud-computing-in-a-blimp-3d-chrome-browsing-google-master-ai/
*http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/01/general-mills-enters-tech-news-space-with-acquisition-of-crunchgear/

Mashable – twitter comics:
*http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/50-twitter-comic-strips/

TechCrunch – hack an after-party:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/31/guest-post-hack-an-afterparty-an-exercise-in-entrepreneurship/

TechCrunch – Twitter to kill of autofollow:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/31/twitter-to-kill-off-the-auto-follow/

Rheingold's vlog:
*http://vlog.rheingold.com/

Rheingold – Evolver, a new social networking site from Reality Sandwich:
*http://realitysandwich.com/
*http://www.evolver.net/

Mashable - Yahoo Sideline, an Open Source Desktop Twitter Keyword Monitor:
*http://mashable.com/2009/03/31/yahoo-sideline/

Gwyn – Polish Republic shuts down:
*http://ayumicassini.blogspot.com/2009/03/goodbye-polish-republic.html

Sierra tweets DjangoPony:
*http://www.djangopony.com/

Mashable and TechCrunch – MySpace and CitySearch team up to challenge Yelp:
*http://mashable.com/2009/03/31/myspace-local/
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/31/myspace-citysearch-partner-to-create-myspace-local/

Mashable and TechCrunch – wikia kills its google killer:
*http://mashable.com/2009/03/31/wikia-search-closed/
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/31/jimmy-wales-deadpools-wikia-search/

Tateru – Philip's Open Source viewer programme (with mention of Jacek):
*http://www.massively.com/2009/03/31/linden-lab-ramps-up-open-source-viewer-program/

Gwyn – one of her employees posts about BetaTech:
*http://inbetween-worlds.net/2009/03/31/the-jobs-i-have/

Mashable – twitter causes site crashes:
*http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/02/03/dawn-of-the-twitter-effect/

Mashable – Maslow and tweets:
*http://www.theinnovationdiaries.com/2009/03/24/the-hierarchy-of-tweets-analysing-the-psychology-of-twitter/

TechCrunch – Tinker offers micropayments to microbloggers:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/31/tinker-goes-live-and-offers-micro-payments-to-micro-bloggers/

Mashable and TechCrunch – Facebook and Adobe Flash team up:
*http://mashable.com/2009/03/30/facebook-adobe-flash/
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/31/facebook-hooks-up-with-adobe-for-richer-social-applications-in-flash/

TechCrunch – Tinker, a Twitter "Events" firehose:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/30/tinker-gives-twitter-its-long-awaited-events-firehose/

Rheingold – Howard's dream office:
*http://blip.tv/file/1937429

Mashable – Twitter replies become mentions:
*http://mashable.com/2009/03/30/twitter-mentions/

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