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==15 July 2009==
Shirky - Arduino is today's Altair:
*http://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2009/05/why_the_arduino_matters.html

Rubaiyat – things to say during sex:
*[http://imgur.com/zZ5Jn.gif]

TC – FriendFeed duck hunt:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/bored-with-friendfeed-shut-the-duck-up-by-shooting-it/

TC – socialtext microblogging appliance:
*http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/14/socialtext-microblogging-appliance-is-twitter-in-a-box/

Rheingold – Searls and Weinberger on what the Internet is – and isn't:
*http://www.worldofends.com/

Rheingold – open mobile network:
*http://www.smartmobs.com/2009/07/14/will-bt-let-jp-create-the-first-open-network-operator-one-scenario-for-the-mobile-web/

Rheingold RT Whales - NIH and Wikimedia collaborate to improve online health information:
*http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/NIH_and_WMF_announce_first_WP_Academy_July_2009

Mashable – social media business models:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/14/social-media-business-models/

Bing Tweets:
*Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/14/bingtweets-bing-twitter-search-results-side-by-side/
*TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/federated-media-teams-with-bing-for-bingtweets-its-exactly-what-it-sounds-like/

Kapor – Amazon Web Services Blog, in this case about SL event:
*http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/07/amazon-second-life-job-fair.html

Wagner – Ninja iPhone:
*http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=99933159308&h=lKgbH&u=ez6H7&ref=nf

Jan- Twitter kills comments:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/comments_dead_twitter_holds_smoking_gun.php

Maracas – Firefox extension crapware:
*http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/2585/beware-google-reader-notifier-for-firefox-is-now-crapware/

==14 July 2009==
TC- TuneWiki:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/tunewiki-from-1-app-on-cydia-to-legit-apps-for-iphone-android-and-blackberry/

Mashable – posterous vs tumblr:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/29/posterous-vs-tumblr/

Mashable re-posts IE's vomiting ad:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/13/ie-8-vomiting-viral-hit/

Gwyneth – Hamlet presents Lainy Voom's machinima:
*http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/07/weekend-machinima.html

TC – FriendFeed option to disable comments:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/13/friendfeed-tear-gases-the-mob-with-disable-comments/

TC – gmail verified accounts key:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/13/gmail-labs-adds-verified-accounts-key-to-prevent-phishing/

Kapor – Google OS:
*Manjoo says Google OS is doomed: http://www.slate.com/id/2222564/pagenum/
*Kapor responds: http://mkapor.posterous.com/prospects-for-chrome-os

Sierra – escape from cubicle nation:
*http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/chicago-escape-from-cubicle-nation-workshop/

O'Reilly – content is a service business:
*http://toc.oreilly.com/2009/07/content-is-a-service-business.html

O'Reilly – Zeldman on Apple chosing khtml instead of Mozilla's Gecko:
http://www.zeldman.com/2009/07/12/web-standards-secret-sauce-webkit-in-iphone/

Tateru – a peek at the new SL installer:
*http://www.massively.com/2009/07/13/a-sneak-peek-at-the-unreleased-second-life-setup-tool/

TC – it's time to regulate SEO:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/13/the-time-has-come-to-regulate-search-engine-marketing-and-seo/

Sierra – Pirouz says Design Thinking is dead:
*http://raymondpirouz.tumblr.com/post/139758555/design-thinking-is-dead-long-live-design-orientation#comment-12565934

Mashable – create a community-powered blog with tumblr:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/12/tumblr-submissions/

Mashable – Google Latitude:
*http://mashable.com/2009/02/04/google-latitude/

==12 July 2009==
Kapor - ReadWriteWeb questions about Google Chrome OS:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_things_were_dying_to_know_about_chrome_os.php

O'Reilly - Anil Dash on Google's Microsoft moment:
*http://dashes.com/anil/2009/07/googles-microsoft-moment.html

TC – Dazzboard, an open iTunes:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/12/dazzboard-an-open-itunes-for-just-about-any-portable-media-file-500-invites/

Mashable – Google revenue equation and time you spend on web:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/11/google-equation/

Shirky ambivalent about WikiLeaks:
*http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks

Kathy Sierra A good soc media consultant should be able to answer a deep chain of Why/Who Cares/So What questions on why a biz should "join the convo"

KathySierra A business trying to understand/implement/"get" social media/whuffie should FIRST understand/implement/"get" system dynamics & modeling

Seesmic web:
*Rheingold: http://dannybrown.me/2009/07/11/seesmic-web-ups-ante-for-twitter-management-tools/
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/10/seesmics-browser-client-is-like-gmail-for-twitter/

Orban- Bruce Schneier says no OS can be virus-free:
*http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/making_an_opera.html

Mashable – how to create a custom Twitter background:
*http://mashable.com/2009/05/23/twitter-backgrounds/

Mashable - ImageShack hacked by anti-sec movement:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/10/imageshack-hacked/

O'Reilly – Open Source in the Cloud:
*http://roman.stanek.org/2009/07/09/open-source-in-the-cloud/

TC – JS-Kit aggregates comments:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/10/js-kits-real-time-commenting-widget-echo-captures-the-pulse-of-comments-on-the-web/

Mashable – TidyTweet to control spam:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/10/tidytweet/

O'Reilly – ten rules that govern groups:
*http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/07/10-rules-that-govern-groups.php

Power.com sues Facebook:
*TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/09/powercom-countersues-facebook-over-data-portability/
*Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/09/power-sues-facebook/

Mashable – social media damage control:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/09/social-media-damage-control/

Orban- Knowledge Ecology:
*http://www.keionline.org/blogs/about/

O'Reilly – memristors and AI:
*http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.600-memristor-minds-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence.html?full=true

Ev – Rosenberg's history of blogging:
*http://www.amazon.com/Say-Everything-Blogging-Becoming-Matters/dp/0307451364/ref=sr_1_1

Tateru – Google Chrome OS is not an OS (see who COMMENTS on this):
*http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/2009/07/08/google-chrome-os-isnt-an-os/
*Google announcement: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

Mashable – Justin.tv for live video on Facebook (to compete with Ustream):
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/08/justin-tv-facebook/

Pavig – VLC open source video player:
*http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/vlc-10-officially-released.ars

Mashable – Groupable helps you find a sponsor:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/08/groupable/

O'Reilly – see the "also bought" list:
*http://www.amazon.com/Augmented-Reality-Practical-Stephen-Cawood/dp/1934356034

==09 July 2009==
Rheingold – Semanta point and click blog enhancement:
*http://www.zemanta.com/

Hrheingold RT @MaryHodder love new bit.ly thing: put bit.ly/ in front of url in address bar creates shortened url. ask @JohnBorthwick & u shall receive

TC – 23andme analyzes your genome:
*https://www.23andme.com/

Embeddable Facebook pages:
*Mashable - http://mashable.com/2009/07/08/facebook-fan-boxes/
*TC - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/08/facebook-introduces-the-fan-box-take-that-myspace/

Orban – One to end hunger (Geldof):
*http://www.one.org/international/

==08 July 2009==
O'Reilly RT – Bing does some things better:
*http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/technology/personaltech/09pogue.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes

O'Reilly – Twittaround augmented reality for iPhone:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/a_twitter_augmented_reality_app_for_iphone.php

O'Reilly – Berners-Lee on linked data:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/interview_with_tim_berners-lee_part_1.php

Tateru – http coming to SL objects:
*http://www.massively.com/2009/07/08/second-life-objects-to-become-http-aware/

Mashable – many fail whales:
*http://www.whatisfailwhale.info/
*Yiying Lu: http://www.yiyinglu.com/sc/illustration

TC – eBuddy for iPhone:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/08/ebuddy-finally-gives-birth-to-iphone-app-and-it-has-push-notification

Google Chrome OS:
*TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/google-drops-a-nuclear-bomb-on-microsoft-and-its-made-of-chrome/
*Arrington: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/08/google-chrome-redefining-the-operating-system
*Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/07/google-chrome-os-2/

O'Reilly – using twitter bots:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying.html

TC – OpenDNS:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/sequoia-opendns-greylock/

Craigslist Paris:
*http://paris.fr.craigslist.org/

Shirky RT Ninja programmers:
*http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/eng/1246353621.html

TC – Technorati to unveil Twitterati:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/technorati-to-unveil-twitterati-tomorrow/

TC – Official iPhone jailbreak:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/amazon-killing-mobile-apps-that-use-its-data/

TC – Amazon refuses data to mobile apps:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/amazon-killing-mobile-apps-that-use-its-data/

Mashable – editable MindMap on the future of blogging:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/07/future-of-blogging/

Mozilla wants to centralize all open web tools in one directory:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/mozilla-aims-to-centralize-all-open-web-tools-in-one-directory/

TC – get your friends to answer your questions with Aardvark integrated into Twitter:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/you-put-your-aardvark-in-my-twitter-bonus-interview-with-founders/

TC – iPhone sound amp:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/hear-that-its-the-sound-of-your-new-hearing-aid-the-iphone/

Mashable – new IE security hole:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/07/microsoft-ie-security-hole/

TC – ZooLoo:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/zooloo-is-a-social-network-that-basically-never-wants-you-to-leave/

TC - Twinity creates virtual 3D models of real cities:
*http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/twinity-scoops-a-further-e45m-to-develop-3d-cities/

O'Reilly – SamaSource, in the TransCapitalist:
*http://www.transcapitalist.com/transcapitalist/2009/7/1/socially-responsible-outsourcing-samasource-a-social-lending.html

Mashable – MapSpread to manage your geo-data:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/06/mapspread/

TC – use Pinboard instead of Delicious:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/06/back-to-basics-ditch-delicious-use-pinboard/

Yahoo Search Pad:
*TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/06/write-that-down-yahoo-search-pad-is-about-to-launch-to-the-public/

Pavig and Tateru - Rezzable pulling out of SL:
*http://rezzable.com/blog/rightasrain-rimbaud/rezzable-moving-second-life
*http://www.massively.com/2009/07/07/rezzable-moves-on-from-second-life/

==06 July 2009==
Shute – Kash Klash:
*http://www.kashklash.net/mind-your-language-2-4-2-3/

Shute – Boyd turns to Sterling about the future of money:
*http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2009/07/the-future-of-money-bruce-sterling.html

TC - Paypal reacts to Amazon threat with new API:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/06/paypal-looks-to-crush-amazons-fledgling-payment-service-with-a-new-secret-api/

Shirky – Mullenweg defends Wordpress GPL:
*http://ma.tt/2009/07/not-lonely-at-all/

Tateru – should we give the customers what they want?
*http://pmtips.net/give-customer/

Mashable – twitterification of Facebook:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/05/facebook-twitterification/

Mashable – an article from April about Facebook privacy settings:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/28/facebook-privacy-settings/

Arrington – Die Fail Whale:
*http://www.diefailwhale.com/

O'Reilly/Shute – John Seely Brown on instrumenting the planet:
*http://www.johnseelybrown.com/eco_computing.html

Tishe's posterous on SL camping in Times Square:
*http://tishshute.com/sim-city-and-second-life-are-the-two-biggest

Arrington – Fred Wilson on freemium vs free:
*http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/07/freemium-and-freeconomics.html

TC – Polldaddy and Wordpress:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/04/polldaddy-traffic-soars-releases-new-ratings-widget-with-possible-digg-competitor-on-the-horizon/

TC – Moonfruit (flash-based website maker, sister company of Gandi.net!):
*http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/07/04/why-is-moonfruit-trending-on-twitter-its-the-rebirth-of-a-startup/

Mashable – webworking from your iPhone:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/03/iphone-web-working/

Tateru – research on diffusion of User Created Content in SL:
*http://www.massively.com/2009/07/03/researchers-mine-second-life-interaction-logs-to-track-trends/

Sierra – Brain Learners:
*http://www.brainleadersandlearners.com/competition/competition-barb-or-boost-to-brainpower/

==05 July 2009==
TC – 50 cent and Sexman:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/03/video-50-cent-confronts-sexman/

O'Reilly on Govt 2.0:
*http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/07/03/tim-oreilly-on-government-20/
*http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/07/03/tim-oreilly-on-the-history-and-future-of-government-20/
*http://www.slideshare.net/timoreilly/aspen-ideas-festival-talk-on-gov20

Kronos – Compare the Meerkat:
*http://www.comparethemeerkat.com/home

==03 July 2009==
Sierra – retweeting bird:
*http://twitpic.com/94ylm

Mashable – filter your tweets:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/03/twitter-filter/

Yahoo's Geomaker for web maps:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/03/turn-web-content-into-a-map-with-geomaker/

Orban – Open P2P Design:
*http://www.openp2pdesign.org/blog/

TC – iPhone 3G jailbreak:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/03/iphone-3gs-unlock-hits-web/
*http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/03/how-to-jailbreak-the-iphone-3gs/

TC – how much is SL worth?
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/02/does-anybody-still-use-second-life-and-if-so-how-much-is-it-worth-today/

Tateru interviews Raph about Metaplace:
*http://www.massively.com/2009/07/02/raph-koster-speaks-on-metaplaces-new-functionality-and-the-chan/

Mashable (RT) - Recent Michael Jackson rehearsal:
*http://www.ryanseacrest.com/blog/whats-happening/rehearsal-footage-of-jackson-two-days-before-death-released/

Mashable – find people on Twitter:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/02/twitter-people/

FriendFeed search results go real-time:
*TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/02/friendfeed-makes-its-search-results-real-time-too
*Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/02/friendfeed-real-time-search

Google blog search:
* Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/02/google-blog-search-trends/
*TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/02/google-blog-search-takes-two-steps-forward-one-step-back/

TC – Twine's new "Coverflow" design:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/02/twine-tries-to-manage-the-stream-with-new-coverflow-like-design/

O'Reilly – Software as a Service a threat to Open Source?
*http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/7865

Mashable – web tracking guidelines:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/02/web-tracking-guidelines/

Orban – ChallengePost:
*http://www.challengepost.com/

Mashable – more free Twitter icons:
*http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/07/50-free-and-exclusive-twitter-icons/

TC – Twitter's Facebook Application is broken:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/01/twitters-popular-facebook-app-has-been-broken-or-exploited-for-days/

Bing adds tweets to results:
*TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/01/bing-keeps-its-foot-on-the-gas-adds-tweets-to-results/
*Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/bing-twitter/

Mashable – YouTwitFace:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/youtwitface/
*http://www.youtwitface.com/

Shute – Pachube and collateral damage:
*http://blog.pachube.com/2009/07/collateral-damage-curious-obsessions.html

TC – Facebook privacy transition:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/01/the-looming-facebook-privacy-fiasco/

LinkedIn – Lynn Fredericks about iPhone as a computer:
*http://www.lynnfredricks.com/2009/06/09/i-want-an-iphone-as-a-computer/

Jan – growing acceptance of social networking in the workplace:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/a_growing_acceptance_of_social_networking_in_the_w.php

Jan – Electromagnetic leak:
*http://abstrusegoose.com/163

==01 July 2009==
TC – GDGT launches:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/01/gdgt-launches-for-non-stop-gadget-action/

Facebook liveblogs Privacy Enhancements:
* TC – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/01/live-blog-the-facebook-privacy-conference-call
*Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/facebook-new-privacy-options

O'Reilly – books on best iPhone apps:
*http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/06/take-your-iphone-to-the-next-l.html

Mashable – using wikis for business projects:
*http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/wikis-business-projects/

Shute – Doors of Perception on the Internet of Things:
*http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2009/07/post_47.php

Socialbrite - SEO tips:
*http://www.socialbrite.org/2009/06/30/seo-mistakes-to-avoid-on-nonprofit-sites/

Facebook to announce privacy changes:
*http://mashable.com/2009/06/30/facebook-twivacy/

Rheingold – socialbrite social web for social change:
*http://www.socialbrite.org/

O'Reilly – Palantir analysis blog:
*Government analysis: http://www.palantirtech.com/government/analysis-blog
*Tech Blog: http://blog.palantirtech.com/

Shute – the Future of Money:
*http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2009/06/the-future-of-money-christian-nold.html

Twitter social interface changes:
*TC – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/30/twitter-rolls-ui-changes-to-simplify-your-social-connections/
*Mashable - http://mashable.com/2009/06/30/twitter-follower-pages/

Grace performs in SL and MetaPlace:
*http://phasinggrace.blogspot.com/2009/03/one-musician-two-worlds.html

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