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==18 June 2009==

==17 June 2009==
TC – Twitterfeed adds analytics:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/17/twitterfeed-gets-an-overhaul-adds-analytics/

O'Reilly – people prefer cockiness to expertise:
*http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227115.500-humans-prefer-cockiness-to-expertise.html

Rheingold (RT) - Lewis Hyde updates the idea of "commons":
*http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009998.html

Mashable's blippr for reviews:
*http://www.blippr.com/

O'Reilly – Twitter marketing land-grab:
*http://baitandbeer.blogspot.com/2009/06/strategy-for-authenticity.html

TC – Q&A sites:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/17/ask-waves-its-arms-to-tell-everyone-it-also-does-qa-search/

Sierra – Chindogu "weird tools":
*http://www.chindogu.com/

Tateru – Metaverse Journal on Open Cobalt:
*http://www.metaversejournal.com/2009/06/15/open-source-virtual-environments-living-server-free/

Sierra: "I believe lessons from lolcats, failblog, & graphjam could be applied to make nearly anything richer, more compelling":
*http://graphjam.com/

TC – OpenAmplify's semantic web community:
*http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/06/17/openamplify-opens-up-to-the-semantic-web-community/

TC – Facebook needs an everyone button to counter Twitter:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/17/phase-4-of-facebooks-systematic-attack-on-twitter-the-everyone-button/

Facebook Search:
*Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/06/16/facebook-search-2/
*TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/facebook-fixes-search-but-only-in-beta/

TC – email collaboration with Tgether:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/get-tgethr-a-simple-email-collaboration-tool/

Mashable - Killer Facebook Fan pages:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/16/killer-facebook-fan-pages/

Pavig – NWN on OpenSim Wayback machine:
*http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/06/sl-to-opensim.html

Mashable – WordPress plugins for social media profile:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/16/wordpress-social-media-profile/

TC – TweetTabs for twitter search:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/tweettabs-is-an-awesome-way-to-search-twitter/

Shute – the 140 (characters) conference "characters":
*http://www.140conf.com/characters

Opera Unite:
*Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/06/16/opera-unite/
*TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/that-reinvention-of-the-web-thing-opera-was-talking-about-its-called-opera-unite/

O'Reilly - Community Structure Inference Algorithm
*http://cs.unm.edu/~aaron/research/fastmodularity.htm

Facebook developers - get started:
*http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php
*FB & AWS: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/featured-partners/facebook/

==16 June 2009==
TC – Spiceworks for social IT management:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/spiceworks-spices-up-social-it-management-software/

Mashable video lounge with twitter:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/15/mashable-lounge-launches/

Mashable – twitter psychological profiling:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/15/tweetpsych/

Mashable – use Produle to create flash widgets:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/15/produle/

Mashable – Washington Post's Facebook connect:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/15/facebook-connect-washington-post/

Rheingold - how to analyze twitter data (Iran):
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/06/follow_the_developments_in_iran_like_a_cia_analyst.php

Rheingold:  Obama campaign effectively managed hybrid of grassroots and hierarchical organizing over long term.

TC – inventor with ADHD:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADHD
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/this-guy-needs-an-investor-and-some-adderall/

TC – Chris "long tail" Anderson says the head of the curve will be free and the tail paid for:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/chris-andersons-counterintuitive-rules-for-charging-for-media-online/

Sierra – Lisa Reich on Don Norman's talk 'In Favour of Complexity' at uxlondon:
*http://www.disambiguity.com/random-inspiration/
*http://twitter.com/leisa/status/2179319361
*http://twitter.com/leisa/status/2179356020

Mashable – Twitter spam:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/15/twitter-scams/

TC – Siegler likes Bing:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/the-postman-always-bings-twice/

TC – on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog:
*http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dri/idog.html

Hunch launches:
*Mashable – http://mashable.com/2009/06/15/hunch-decisions/
*TC - http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/hunchcoms-decision-making-engine-launches-someone-add-twitter-now/

Mashable – Adobe unleashed acrobat.com:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/14/adobe-acrobat-2/

O'Reilly – stream fatigue:
*http://twitter.com/SonaMoon/statuses/2093368519

Lessig – open access to research results:
*http://www.righttoresearch.org/

Sierra- brainpower:
*http://www.brainleadersandlearners.com/

Pavig – with the Meerkatviewer you can back up your stuff:
*http://www.meerkatviewer.org/

Mashable – more twitter icons:
*http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/30-fresh-and-high-quality-twitter-icon-sets/

==15 June 2009==
Mashable – Facebook may undo Twitter-style homepage:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/12/facebook-homepage-changes/

O'Reilly – web squared:
*http://www.web2summit.com/web2009/public/content/webcast

Shute – Sterling on Workshop on Ambient Media Computing:
*http://ow.ly/dMuB

TC – Scoble's Building 43:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/11/scobles-building-43-launching-tonight-with-practical-tips-for-businesses-stuck-in-the-90s/

TC – Heckendorn makes a Commodore:
*http://benheck.com/04-05-2009/commodore-64-original-hardware-laptop

O'Reilly – Mechanical Turk:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/mechanical-turk-best-practices.html

Shute – The Tank NYC:
*http://www.thetanknyc.org/

Tateru and O'Reilly – Mo Hax on inadvertant contact for innovation:
*http://imohax.com/2009/06/12/crucialcontact/

==14 June 2009==
Tateru – new SL user interface:
*http://www.massively.com/2009/06/12/second-life-2-0-a-sneak-peek-at-the-new-user-interface
*Metaverse Journal: http://www.metaversejournal.com/2009/06/13/second-life-2-0-safe-choices

TC – news about Wizehive collaboration tool:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/12/wizehive-shaping-up-to-become-a-powerful-collaboration-tool/

O'Reilly – Sun Wiki Publisher:
*http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher

Twitter launches verified accounts:
*Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/06/11/twitter-verified-accounts-2/
*TC - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/11/twitter-starts-verifying-accounts-without-verifying-them/

Mashable – Fast Company on the 5 Ps of social media:
*http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/lon-safko/ten-commandments-social-media/five-p-s-social-media-where-do-you-start?partner=homepage_newsletter

Mashable – Google wave extensions:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/11/google-wave-extensions/

TC – YouTube adds syndication:
*http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_061109a.html

TC – Mozilla Jetpack .2:
*http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_061109a.html

Mashable – Associated Press stylebook covers Twitter terms:
*http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_061109a.html

TC – Synth of Apple's application wall:
*http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/gpascale/iSynth/

TC – Trent Reznor criticizes twitter:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/10/hurt-trent-reznor-half-quits-twitter/

TC – the more followers you have, the more you tweet:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/10/the-more-followers-you-have-the-more-you-tweet-or-is-it-the-other-way-around/

Mashable – Hubspot state of the twittersphere report:
*http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/4829/Announcing-the-June-2009-State-of-the-Twittersphere-Report.aspx

Mashable – ten commandments of social media:
*http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/lon-safko/ten-commandments-social-media/ten-commandments-social-media

OpenSim regions destroyed in attack on HyperVM management software:
*Tateru: http://www.massively.com/2009/06/10/over-100-opensim-regions-wiped-in-weekend-exploit/
*Maria Korlov: http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2009/06/hacker-destroys-opensim-regions/
*http://blogs.computerworld.com/death_of_software_exec_adds_pathos_to_attack_on_web_hosting_firm

Sierra - rezed:
http://www.rezed.org/

Mashable – Firefox  add-on collections:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/10/firefox-add-on-collections/

Mashable – are twitter users inactive
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/10/twitter-users-inactive

==10 June 2009==
O'Reilly – Twitter is not a conversation:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/twitter-is-not-a-conversationa.html

==09 June 2009==
Shute – emotional cartography:
*http://emotionalcartography.net/

Mashable – tools to organize your tweeps:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/09/organize-twitter/

Mashable – Social Marketing Playbook:
*http://blog.360i.com/social-media/playbook

Meebo for IM from various social sites:
*TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/09/meebo-community-im-tears-down-walls-goes-web-wide/
*Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/06/09/meebo-cafemom/

Rheingold: discussion boards:
*http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/shaping-culture-conversation

Rheingold: Life Inc. video on money as debt:
*http://vimeo.com/5021110

O'Reilly – how Google evaluates search results:
*http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090603/google-and-the-evolution-of-search-scott-huffman/

==06 June 2009==
AlKronos So should I be installing modrex on OpenSim... or ditching it all in favour of RealXtend? Views?

Mashable – twitter journalism:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/05/twitter-journalism-school/

Shute – microsyntax wiki:
*http://microsyntax.pbworks.com/

Yahoo adds apps to its sites:
* Mashable – http://mashable.com/2009/06/05/yahoo-apps-widgets/
*TC – Yahoo mail: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/05/yahoo-mail-now-with-extra-apps/
*TC – OpenSocial Apps: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/05/more-opensocial-apps-invade-myyahoo-mint-kaching-wordpress/

Shute – layer, the first augmented-reality browser:
*http://layar.eu/

Rheingold – choreographies for attention:
*http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/2/000049.html

TC - Google makes speed tools public:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/04/google-opens-up-internal-speed-tool-to-the-public/

==04 June 2009==
Mashable - EFF Launches Terms of Service Tracker for Facebook, Google, and Others:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/04/eff-tosback/

iFixit's Tear Down Platform:
*Lessig:*http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/06/fabulously_cool_ifixits_teardo.html
*TC: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/04/ifixit-helps-others-void-warranties-with-gear-teardown/

Googlesquared goes live:
*TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/google-squared-goes-live-puts-web-search-into-a-spreadsheet/
*Mashable: 

Al Kronos uses maxping for OpenSim hints:
*http://maxping.org

==02 June 2009==
Mashable - 10% of twitter users make 90% of tweets:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/02/twitter-users-dont-tweet/

Netbook OS Jolicloud Prepares For Launch: Exclusive Screenshots To Whet Your Appetite
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/01/netbook-os-jolicloud-prepares-for-launch-exclusive-screenshots-to-whet-your-appetite/

Shute - Christa Lopes Creates Seamless OpenSim-to-OpenSim Teleportation
*http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/05/opensim-christa.html

Mashable - Google Wave: A Complete Guide
*http://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/

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