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==26 June 2009==
Mashable – creative twitter backgrounds:
*http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/100-creative-twitter-backgrounds-featuring-illustration/

O'Reilly (RT) - Bing is a copy of Kayak:
*http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/06/kayak-bing/

Mashable on mobile video:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/25/mobile-video-growth/

Mashable desktop Twitter application:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/25/mashdeck/

Mashable – Evernote introduces shared notebooks:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/25/evernote-shared-notebooks/

O'Reilly and Battelle – web squared:
*http://www.web2summit.com/web2009/public/schedule/detail/10194

TC – the Twitter cycle:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/25/the-twitter-cycle-curiosity-abandonment-addiction-global-visitors-hit-37-million/

TC – run all your collaboration tools on one grou.ps domain:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/25/groups-finds-1-million-for-diy-social-network/

Mashable – twitter SEO:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/25/twitter-seo-tips/

Mashable – Glubble safe family network:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/25/glubble-family-timeline/

Mashable – criticism of Google's speed tips:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/25/google-speed-tips/

Gwyneth Llewelyn on lag:
*http://analutetia.com/blog/anatomy-of-lag/

==25 June 2009==
TechCrunch-branded Tweetdeck:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/like-tweetdeck-like-techcrunch-then-youll-love-this/

Mashable chat lounge (turns on for specific subjects):
*http://mashable.com/chat/

Rheingold – Twitter on the wiki:
*http://socialmediaclassroom.com/community/wiki/introduction-twittermicroblogging

Mashable – Digsby IM client (links to social networks):
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/24/digsby-release/

Tateru – LL releases SnowGlobe viewer:
*http://www.massively.com/2009/06/24/linden-lab-releases-snowglobe-1-0-for-second-life/

Facebook Livestream with Ustream:
*TC – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/facebook-launches-a-live-stream-box-partners-with-ustream/
*Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/06/24/facebook-live-stream-box/

Facebook adds Everyone button:
*TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/facebook-brings-privacy-controls-to-publisher/
*Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/06/24/facebook-publisher/

TC – FriendFeed adds file sharing:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/friendfeed-adds-file-sharing-no-movies-but-mp3s-are-fine/

TC – iStockphoto to buy cheap photos:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/microstock-photography-is-getting-big-istockphoto-projects-200-million-in-revenues/

O'Reilly – Google Govt Data project:
*http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/google-datagov-gapminder-visualizations

O'Reilly – what bad guys can do with your computer:
*http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/06/john-viega-explains-what-motiv.html

==24 June 2009==
O'Reilly – slow pages lose users:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/bing-and-google-agree-slow-pag.html

TC – Software engineers are a good deal (see parts about open source):
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/23/engineers-are-the-best-deal-so-stock-up-on-them/

TC - Google speed tools:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/23/google-shares-its-need-for-speed/

O'Reilly – tools for managing Twitter followers:
*http://pelfusion.com/tools/30-twitter-tools-for-managing-followers/

Sierra – how to announce (anything):
*http://perlbuzz.com/2009/06/how-to-announce-an-event-or-awesome-is-not-always-self-evident.html

TC – Gmail Ninja:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/23/googles-wants-you-to-become-a-gmail-ninja-or-look-like-a-huge-nerd/

TC – LinkedIn turns industry white papers into adds:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/23/linkedin-turns-industry-white-papers-into-ads/

Kathy Sierra - If we show/value as role models only those w/ high-visibility, what are we teaching & reinforcing? Need more behind-the-scene role models.

Mashable – which Twitter Desktop app is most usable:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/23/twitter-app-usability/

Kapor – Secrecy at Apple:
*http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/technology/23apple.html?_r=1&hp

O'Reilly – we need pagerank for people:
*http://threeminds.organic.com/2009/06/docs_are_old-school_we_need_pa.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=threeminds&utm_campaign=praise

TC – PageOnce iphone application combines all your online accounts:
*http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/06/22/pageonces-updated-iphone-app-brilliantly-combines-all-your-online-accounts-into-one-app/

Mashable – import your blog to posterous:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/22/poseterous-import/

TC - Facebook's plan to wall off Google:
*http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/ff_facebookwall

TC – Netvibes adds widget recommendations:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/22/dont-have-enough-widgets-in-your-life-netvibes-adds-recommendations/

Hamlet – OpenSim social network:
*http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/06/opensimulator-social-network.html

==23 June 2009==
Gwyneth Llewelyn on lag:
*http://analutetia.com/blog/anatomy-of-lag/

==22 June 2009==
TC – developer of OpenSocial leaves Google:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/22/a-social-force-departs-google/

TC - Instapaper gets folders and goes social:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/velocity-the-art-of-web-operat.html

O'Reilly – web velocity:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/velocity-the-art-of-web-operat.html

O'Reilly – proxy servers for Iran:
*http://www.renesys.com/blog/2009/06/the-proxy-fight-for-iranian-de.shtml

TC - Bing's xRank beat Google Trends:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSP8xm_gaK4

Rubaiyat – new media douchebags:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSP8xm_gaK4

Mashable – back up your lifestream:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/21/lifestream-backup/

Tateru – Procedural City:
*http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/2009/06/21/procedural-city/

Mashable – Digg has a problem:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/21/digg-communication-tool/

Rubaiyat - lots of keyboard cat:
*http://playhimoffkeyboardcat.com/

O'Reilly – using information to make the company smarter:
*http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh051809-story03.html

Tateru – Grow 3 flash game:
*http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2009/06/grow_ver3_remake.html

==21 June 2009==
TC – click fraud BY Facebook:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/21/facebook-click-fraud-enraging-advertisers/

Kapor – dispute finder firefox extension:
*http://disputefinder.cs.berkeley.edu/

O'Reilly – open source car design:
*http://www.local-motors.com/

O'Reilly – crowdsourcing video game design:
*http://m.news.com/2166-12_3-10267336-52.html

O'Reilly – community leadership summit:
*http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/attendees/

O'Reilly – OSCON 2009:
*http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009

==20 June 2009==
TC – Widgetbox hits 500 million impressions per month:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/19/widgetizing-the-web-widgetbox-hits-500-million-impressions-a-month/

O'Reilly – embeds available on Google Book Search:
*http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-features-on-google-books.html

Shute – EU doc on the internet of things:
*http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2009:0278:FIN:EN:PDF

O'Reilly – Google is the open source platform:
*http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10268180-16.html

Hrheingold .@tbeckett The dot before reply makes it visible to people other than the person you are replying to because of Twitter's change 2 reply

O'Reilly – Stubblebine's startup lessons from Twitter:
*http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2009/06/the-real-lessons-from-twitter/

FriendFeed indicates context in subscription emails:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/18/friendfeed-one-ups-twitter-again-with-its-subscription-emails/

New Facebook inbox:
* Mashable - http://mashable.com/2009/06/18/facebook-inbox/
*TC - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/18/facebook-makes-it-easier-to-search-your-inbox/

TC – Google Flipper:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/18/google-flipper-is-about-to-jump-out-of-the-water/

Shute – Psychosynthography (see link to her post):
*http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7422

Mashable – 50 social sites:
*http://www.focus.com/fyi/marketing/50-social-sites-every-business-needs-presence/?tfso=3338

Rheingold – web tools for learners:
*http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/

TC – Homeless Sims:
*http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/18/interview-rob-burkinshaw-game-designer-and-creator-of-homeless-sims/

O'Reilly – Venn diagram of how to be happy in business:
*http://whatconsumesme.com/2009/what-im-writing/how-to-be-happy-in-business-venn-diagram/

Mashable – FriendFeed now counts in your blog's RSS:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/18/friendfeed-rss/

O'Reilly – diagnosing SEO:
*http://www.slideshare.net/janeandrobot/diagnosing-technical-issues-with-search-engine-optimization

==18 June 2009==
Mashable – Google is a decision engine too:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/17/explore-google-search/

==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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