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==19 September 2009==
O'Reilly – mobile banks:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/09/mobile-banks-in-the-developing-world-prove-simpler-is-better.html

O'Reilly – TweetMeme is catching up to Twitter:
*http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-tweetmeme-is-catching-up-to-twitter-2009-9?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SAI%20Chart%20Draft%20Friday%2C%209%2F18%2F09

Arrington – funny TC50 awards:
*http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/09/15/next-google-target-named-in-dailyfinances-unofficial-techcrunc/

Rheingold – reflection and learning:
*http://www.infed.org/foundations/w-inf4.htm

TC – Twine's semantic search engine:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/18/sneak-peak-at-t2-twines-semantic-search-engine/

TC - RT API:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/18/closing-in-on-launch-twitter-tweaks-its-retweet-api-and-a-picture-of-how-it-will-look/

Shute – sentient city survival kit:
*http://confluxfestival.org/2009/events/workshops/mark-shepard/

Shute – strap-on iPhone keyboard:
*http://www.mobilemechatronics.com/itwinge.html

O'Reilly – WSJ "the faster face of innovation":
*http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204830304574130820184260340.html

O'Reilly – piracy is progressive taxation (from 2002):
*http://openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html

Shute – Junaio and the Outernet:
*http://www.junaio.com/

==18 September 2009==
Scoble – our online lives leak away:
*http://scobleizer.com/2009/09/18/our-online-lives-slowly-leak-away/
"Print out stuff that you really want to save."

Mashable – Google's new ad marketplace:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/17/google-doubleclick-ad-exchange/

Scoble about Twitter:
*http://scobleizer.com/2009/09/17/i-have-3571-tweets-that-show-that-twitter-isnt-for-lunch-anymore/

Scoble - If you don’t read tweets for eight hours, don’t worry, all the big stuff you missed will be on TechMeme.

Scoble's favourite iPhone twitter app is SimplyTweet:
*http://motionobj.com/simplytweet/

Scoble on slowness of Google Reader: "It’s gotten so bad I hate even going in there and use Feedly."

Tateru – SL statistical charts:
*http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/sl-statistical-charts/

Scoble – what I learned from TC50:
*http://www.pallian.com/2009/09/17/what-i-learned-from-techcrunch50/

TC – Seesmic adds features:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/17/seesmic-desktop-continues-to-grow-adds-facebook-fan-pages-and-more/

Crasher squirrel at scenecaster:
*http://www.scenecaster.com/scden/

Maracas - Animals with lightsabers:
*http://www.animalswithlightsabers.com/

Gwyneth – periodic table of SL abbreviations:
*[http://blog.pradprathivi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/SL-Periodic-Table.jpg periodic table]

==17 September 2009==
Scoble – your gadget should tweet:
*http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/ins-and-outs-should-your-gadget-tweet/

Posterous adds theme support:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/17/posterous-adds-theme-support-continues-to-grow/
*http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-theming-its-here-its-live-and-its-t

TC – Twitter Times:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/17/for-better-social-news-times-make-it-the-twitter-times/

Scoble interview with Zoho founder (office applications), competition is welcome:
*http://www.building43.com/videos/2009/09/17/zoho-to-office-2010-competition-welcome/

O'Reilly - world's biggest open source company is Google:
*http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10354530-16.html

Shute – sentient cities:
*http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/

Loic – social media strategy checklist:
*http://www.clickz.com/3634939

Prok – charging a little can be smarter than charging nothing:
*http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/139/tech-edge-the-high-cost-of-free.html?partner=homepage_newsletter

Gwyneth – TEDx in Second Life:
*http://tedxedges.com/

Phone calls come to Twitter:
*http://thenextweb.com/2009/09/17/phone-calls-twitter-call-username/
*http://www.mobilecrunch.com/?p=19411&preview=true

TC – iPhone Lite backs up your contacts to the cloud:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/16/idrive-lite-a-contacts-backup-app-for-iphone-and-blackberry-gets-even-better/

TC – API namesquatting on Twitter:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/16/twitters-next-headache-api-name-squatting/

Rheingold – wisdom councils:
*http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-wisdomcouncil.html

Scobleizer - Right. @nlupus Chrome has one box for search and URLs. Most people don't know the difference anyway. Two boxes? Old and creaky.

Scoble – CrowdFusion out-of-the-box publishing, see their showcase electronics site Obsession and green news site Super Eco:
*http://www.crowdfusion.com/about/
*http://www.obsessable.com/
*http://www.supereco.com/

==16 September 2009==
KathySierra "The most successful route to mastery in any subject follows spiral path, in which students regularly revisit/refine..." -ScientificAmerican

Redbeacon wins TC50:
*http://redbeacon.com/hp/welcome

O'Reilly - Right-to-repair bill shifts control from dealer to owner:
*http://www.patriotledger.com/opinions/x1916876377/COMMENTARY-Right-to-repair-bill-shifts-control-from-dealer-to-owner

TC - MySpace has built their own open-source recommendation engine:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/15/myspace-has-built-its-own-recommendation-engine-and-theyre-open-sourcing-it/

Mashable – customize your small business blog:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/15/small-business-blog/

Rheingold – 
Culture of attention:
*http://andreasaveri.com/?p=103
War on flow:
*http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2009/08/the-war-on-flow-2009.html

Facebook prototypes:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/15/facebook-prototypes/
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/15/facebook-launches-its-own-labs-product-called-prototypes/

Scobleizer - I don't use bookmarks. I use Google. :-) So I don't care about synching bookmarks. @nVishion asked. Anyone else know if Chrome syncs?

Loic – 35 entrepreneurs:
*http://blog.therisetothetop.com/2009/09/35-unique-entrepreneurs-changing-business-world/comment-page-1/

Scoble – github code repository (is moving to rackspace):
*http://github.com/

Kapor – one web day:
*http://onewebday.org/

==15 September 2009==
Scoble – Gist "know more about who you know":
*http://www.gist.com/

O'Reilly  why social services need to be decentralized:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/09/rss-never-blocks-you-or-goes-d.html

Loic – Google fast flip:
*http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/

Loic's presentation "advertising sucks":
*http://www.onlinemarketingconnect.com/solutionsarepower/2009/09/how-to-promote-a-product-when-pr-marketing-advertising-sucks/

Scobleizer My "must try" list from #tc50: http://yourversion.com http://storysomething.com http://clicker.com http://seatgeek.com http://localbacon.com

Rheingold (RT Owyang) – TAT augmented ID (video):
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0pMeg1UN0

Orban – facebook status tagging is now live:
*http://www.facebook.com/facebook?v=feed&story_fbid=134555951945&ref=nf

Rheingold – ideas to inspire (internet tools for the classroom):
*http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/index.html#4

Timoreilly Are there any good tools for coordinated web browsing by multiple remote people? Make it easy to co-surf. Something better than IMing links

Sierra – you can't make them carry it around:
*http://usablelearning.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/id-webcomic-1-working-with-smes-on-content/

TC – toybots connects toys to the internet:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/14/tc50-toys-spring-to-life-with-toybots-internet-magic/

Mashable – how to get your data out of Google (the applications):
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/14/google-data-liberation-front/

Orban- Mozilla labs ubiquity browser:
*http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/

==14 September 2009==
Shute – the web at a crossroads:
*http://www.arcticstartup.com/2009/09/11/the-web-at-a-new-crossroads/

Sierra – Fast Forward blog on Imagineering:
*http://www.fastforwardblog.com/?p=3683

Gwyneth – the social experiment:
*http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2009/09/14/the-social-experiment/

Sierra's favourite tweet, from Michael Crowe: The instructions were all like "don't fully tighten bolts". I was like "whatever". And they said "seriously". And I was like "hahahaohfuck".

Loic - The TC bump:
*http://www.watchingwebsites.com/archives/an-open-letter-to-all-techcrunch50-2009-startups-the-tc-bump-what-it-really-means-how-to-navigate-it

Orban – CloudCamp presentations:
*http://www.slideshare.net/CloudCampITA/presentations

O'Reilly responds to "Why government is not a platform":
*http://blogs.gartner.com/andrea_dimaio/2009/09/08/why-government-is-not-a-platform/#comment-1603

Scoble – don't drink your own kool-aid:
*http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/09/13/dont-drink-your-own-kool-aid-surviving-tc50/?awesm=grp.vc_1C&utm_campaign=GRP&utm_medium=grp.vc-twitter&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_content=tweetmeme

==13 September 2009==
Pavig – allow digital stealing to keep people honest:
*http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/goodbye-drm-hello-stealable-digital-personal-property.ars

Mashable – is Facebook the next Google or the next Yahoo?
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/12/facebook-yahoo-google/

TC – Vinod Khosla compares web startups to water startups:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/12/interview-vinod-khosla-is-on-the-hunt-for-great-technologies/

Prokofy – Draxtor does SL interview with producer of American Meat:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZIM7g-QgY4

Scobleizer Why do people get pissed at Microsoft? I have a new Dell/Vista. Nothing but Office 2007 on it. Crashes when I try to open Outlook. Sigh.

Scoble looks for steakhouses on Yelp:
*http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Steak&ns=1&rpp=10&find_loc=San+Francisco%2C+CA

Orban answers a question on Aardvark:
*http://vark.com/t/2f63c5

Scoble's Google page:
*http://www.google.com/profiles/scobleizer

Scoble – Picture the Impossible local Rochester game:
*http://picturetheimpossible.com/

Shute – GeoAR wiki:
*http://geoar.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

KathySierra RT @blue_fenix "Don't talk about it, be about it."

==12 September 2009==
Rheingold – digital ethnography:
*http://mediatedcultures.net/mediatedculture.htm
*http://digs.by/J9s

Loic – Facebook application FanCheck:
*http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/09/11/stalkercheck-i-mean-fancheck-explosive-new-app-gains-5-million-users-in-one-day/

Loic – online typing tutor:
*http://www.typingweb.com/

Rubaiyat – art and monopoly:
*http://questioncopyright.org/compensation

Rheingold – internet skills we should be teaching:
*http://teachingcollegemath.com/?p=1498

TC – skype terminates developer program:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/11/wrong-way-skype/

Shute – RWW on Internet of Things as one of 5 top web trends:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_5_web_trends_of_2009_internet_of_things.php

Scoble – Foursquare ups the ante:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/11/preview-foursquares-new-iphone-app-ups-the-social-ante/

Shirky – dark stalking on Facebook:
*http://pjf.id.au/blog/?position=590

Arrington – FairCompanies for sustainable development:
*http://faircompanies.com/

Scoble – Jason Shellen, online dude and maker of Brizzly:
*http://twitter.com/shellen

Scoble – Motorola botches keynote:
*http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2352751,00.asp

Scoble – how to evaluate startups:
*http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2009/09/rules-for-evaluating-startups-and-suspending-disbelief.html

Scoble – TechGeist writes an open letter to Digg:
*http://techgeist.net/2009/09/open-letter-digg/

Scoble on RSS, saving tweets and multiple tweet-like platforms:
*http://scobleizer.com/2009/09/07/rssroberts-stuff-is-saved-will-it-do-the-same-for-cnns-twitter-account/

Oprah's Flash Mob:
*http://vodpod.com/watch/2179297-oprahs-kickoff-party-flash-mob?pod=newteevee

Loic – Plum, for small social networks, acquired by Nokia:
*http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090911/nokia-acquires-san-francisco-microsocial-networking-start-up-plum/

KathySierra Dumbing-down doesn't work. You want, "OMG I'm actually getting this [really f'n hard thing]!" Don't strip the hard stuff, make it "gettable"

==11 September 2009==
Gwyneth – OpenSim in a browser:
*http://zaki.asia/2009/08/19/how-to-install-and-use-3di-openviewer/

Gwyneth – Snowglobe will soon have the LL media plugin:
*http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-222

Loic – the rise of Xavier Niel:
*http://www.economist.com/people/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14402214&fsrc=rss

Mashable – Twitter opens door for ads:
http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/twitter-tos/

==10 September 2009==
Facebook lite:
*http://lite.facebook.com/
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/breaking-facebook-lite-launches-in-the-u-s/
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/facebook-lite-live/

Facebook introduces @username:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/facebook-mentions/
*http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=109765592130
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/facebook-turns-to-twitter-for-inspiration-again-brings-tagging-to-status-updates/
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/facebook-mentions-10/

Instant Karma! Reddit’s New Real-Time Karma Tracking App:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/instant-karma-reddits-new-real-time-karma-tracking-app/

O'Reilly – State of USA dashboard:
*http://www.stateoftheusa.org/

Motorola Android phone:
*http://live.gdgt.com/2009/09/10/live-motorola-android-keynote-coverage/
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/motoblur/
*http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=24088
*http://www.mwd.com/2009/09/motorola-cliq-motoblur-specifications-and-review/
*http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/09/10/the-motorola-click-a-social-media-android-smartphone-powered-by-motoblur/

Timoreilly RT @webmink: If OpenID is good, why not go the whole way and embrace the principles of VRM ("the data subject owns the data") #g2s

Rheingold – Sagan on baloney detection:
*http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/W/Jonathan.D.Wren-1/The%20Fine%20Art%20of%20Baloney%20Detection.htm

Scoble and TC – Facebook's real time web framework (from FriendFeed team):
*http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=301
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/facebook-open-sources-friendfeeds-real-time-tech/
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/facebook-friendfeed-tornado/

Timoreilly - Great quote from @lucian at #g2s "Easier to give communities tools than to give tools communities" via @NahumG.

TC – DogPatch Labs:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/polaris-ventures-opens-a-second-frat-house-for-geeks-dog-patch-labs-cambridge/

NING Apps platform:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/after-lengthy-delays-ning-launches-ning-apps-platform-to-the-public/
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/ning-apps-launches/

Rheingold – digital labour:
*http://digitallabor.org/references/

O'Reilly – Amazon Simply Queue Service (SQS):
*http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/2009-02-01/SQSDeveloperGuide/index.html?AccessPolicyLanguage.html

Shute – interview with Edward Tufte on VizWorld:
*http://www.vizworld.com/2009/09/an-interview-with-edward-tufte/

TC – Collecta and OneRiot, the battle of real-time search APIs:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/collecta-releases-its-real-time-search-api-oneriot-responds-with-a-challenge/

Mashable - Box.net Brings Cloud Storage to iPhone Apps
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/openbox-mobile/

Arrington/TC – DotSpots:
*http://dotspots.com/d/litigation-settlement
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/been-waiting-for-dotspots-come-and-get-it/

TC – Oracle plans to develop Solaris and Sparc:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/oracle-to-sun-customers-and-ibm-were-in-it-to-win-it/

TC - BrowserMob Launches Monitoring Tool For Website Health
*http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/09/10/broswermob-launches-monitoring-tool-for-website-health/

Mashable – Rhapsody for music streaming on iPhone:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/rhapsody-music-streaming-iphone/

Tateru – interview with Blue Mars CEO:
*http://www.massively.com/2009/09/10/blue-mars-an-interview-with-avatar-realitys-ceo-jim-sink/

Loic – Twitter policies come to workplace:
*http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/sep/08/twitter-policies-come-workplace/

TC – RSScloud vs PubSubHubbub:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/rsscloud-vs-pubsubhubbub-why-the-fat-pings-win/

Scoble – what is building43:
*http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#2OixnV/www.btobonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090908/FREE/909029993/

Loic – Facebook growth linked to Facebook connect:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_facebook_beat_myspace_from_college_dorm_to_platform.php

Tweetie iPhone Twitter client

TC - Facebook labs:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/is-facebook-preparing-to-launch-facebook-labs/

Shute – whorunsgov.com:
*http://www.whorunsgov.com/

==09 September 2009==
Rheingold – Downes on cloud and collaboration:
*http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2009/06/cloud-and-collaboration.html

Rheingold – worldchanging on Radical Collaboration:
*http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010478.html

Scoble – twitteranalyzer:
*http://twitteranalyzer.com/ms.aspx?userId=Scobleizer

Apple releases iPhoneTouch 3.1 firmware:
*http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/09/09/iphonetouch-31-firmware-adds-genius-to-apps/
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/09/iphone-os-3-1-released-featuring-genius-mode-for-app-store/

Tweetdeck adds Facebook and MySpace:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/09/new-tweetdeck/
*http://www.myspace.com/pressroom?url=/article_display.cfm?article_id=1069

Scobleizer RT @rjamestaylor A fully patched WordPress blog still having "admin" (NOT the name) passwd hacked -- until we removed Facebook connect. Aha!

Scobleizer - What will be bigger? Apple's announcements or the new Tweetdeck?

TC – Hara, web-based environmental impact monitoring software:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/hara-raises-14-million-series-b-for-environmental-impact-monitoring-software/

German bloggers sign Internet Manifesto on Journalism:
*http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/german-bloggers-internet-manifesto-on-journalisms-future-makes-waves/

Socialtext launches Twitter-link platform for mobiles:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/socialtext-launches-mobile-version-of-twitter-like-collaboration-platform/
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/09/socialtext-mobile/

TC – accounts tweeting about Gov 2.0 summit get banned (as spam):
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/tweeting-about-the-gov-2-0-summit-may-cause-serious-account-suspension/

Gwyneth – Beta Business Park open house on September 15th:
*http://betabusinesspark.com/

Twitter's revenue dilemma:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/twitter-and-the-revenue-dilemma/

TC - US Govt to embrace OpenID:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/us-government-to-embrace-openid-courtesy-of-google-yahoo-paypal-et-al/

GwynethLlewelyn - YAML + jQuery + jQuery UI Grid - or How To Convince a Badly Paying Customer That You Developed a Super-Database-Backoffice Just For Them :)

Scoble – RWW explains how to see when your tweets are favorited:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_see_when_your_tweets_are_favorited_by_rss.php

TC – JibJab soultrain ecard:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/08/jibjab-helps-you-and-a-friend-bust-a-move-with-soul-train-partnership/

Scoble (RT) - Most revenue-making iPhone apps:
*http://blog.appsfire.com/appsfire-survey-discover-the-top-50-most-reve

Scoble tops the list of web blowhards:
*http://www.pcworld.com/article/171612/top_10_blowhards_of_the_web.html

Salesforce service cloud (and it's for Twitter):
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-salesforces-service-cloud-2/
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/08/service-cloud-2/
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/salesforce-ceo-benioff-we-are-cloud-computing-evangelists/

Ten reasons brands fail on social media:
*http://www.dailyseoblog.com/2009/06/10-reasons-why-brands-fail-at-twitter/

O'Reilly – distributed essential services wiki:
*http://afghantides.pbworks.com/

Mashable – hierarchy of digital distractions:
*http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-hierarchy-of-digital-distractions/

Gwyneth – Beta business park launch:
*http://betatechnologies.info/home/beta-business-park-launches-september-15-2009

Rheingold (RT Winer) – the future of RSS:
*http://www.eqentia.com/2009/09/08/the-dust-has-cleared-on-the-future-of-rss/

Mashable – HP app store for your printer:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/08/hp-printer-app-store/

Google education apps:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/08/google-goes-after-impressionable-minds-with-education-apps/

Rheingold's brainstorms community:
*http://www.rheingold.com/community.html

Ev – real-time results for "iphone -filter:links":
*http://twitter.com/#search?q=iphone%20-filter%3Alinks

O'Reilly – Open Architecture Network:
*http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/

TC – top 20 vc bloggers:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/08/the-top-20-vc-bloggers-september-2009/

O'Reilly's Gov 2.0 talk:
*http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/gov-20-tim-oreilly-argues-left-right-do-more-less-synthesis

Cshirky - SellYourRights.com: The implementation layer for Kevin Kelly's '1000 TruFans' argument. High social entropy, but a great idea.

O'Reilly – rapid cost-effective application development with QuickBase:
*http://www.gov2expo.com/gov2expo2009/public/schedule/detail/10281

Shute – around the AR net:
*http://thomaskcarpenter.com/2009/09/08/around-the-arnet-2/

Flickr iPhone app:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/08/flickr-finally-officially-enters-the-iphone-app-space/
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/08/flickr-iphone/

TC – iTunes in the cloud:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/08/the-inevitable-move-of-itunes-to-the-cloud/

==08 September 2009==
RWW – Fluid allows you to create site-specific browsers:
*http://fluidapp.com/
*More details: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/lazyfeed_1st_independent_rss_aggregator_declares_s.php

Scoble (RT) - Independent aggregator Lazyfeeds support RSS cloud (and also sends you feed by subject rather than by website):
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/lazyfeed_1st_independent_rss_aggregator_declares_s.php

Shute – contest for AR app in flash:
*http://gamesalfresco.com/2009/09/07/ismar-2009-make-the-best-augmented-reality-app-in-flash-and-win-a-prize/

Hrheingold - Learning how to use Livescribe. I'm at the frustrated newbie stage. Not a fun place to be. Only my knowledge that I will get past it helps.

TC – Squarespace will import your existing self-hosted blog and keep its URL:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/07/squarespace-tries-to-attract-more-users-with-importing-tool/

More on real-time RSS:
*http://scobleizer.com/2009/09/07/rssroberts-stuff-is-saved-will-it-do-the-same-for-cnns-twitter-account/
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/07/wordpress-enables-rsscloud-in-post-feeds/
*http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/rss-in-the-clouds/

Scoble (RT) – RWW on Wordpress real-time RSS:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wordpress_just_made_millions_of_blogs_real-time_wi.php

TC – Swingvine for what's trending on the web:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/07/swingvine-keeps-a-pulse-on-whats-trending-on-the-web/

Loic – Facebook message to site owners:
*http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyfrog.com%2F0wsdij&h=

Loic – ten characteristics of great companies:
*http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/09/ten-characteristics-of-great-companies.html

Loic – don't forget about email:
*http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/09/dont-forget-about-email.html

Zooming interface for AR browsers:
*http://gamesalfresco.com/2009/09/07/how-ar-browsers-should-be/
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/07/making-augmented-reality-browsers-even-better-with-panoramic-and-birds-eye-zooming/

Scoble says @god is his neighbor (see also clikball):
*http://twitter.com/god
*http://www.clikball.com/download?follow=god

Scoble – Winer and Wordpress set up instant updates available to any RSS readers:
*http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/09/07/teaseTeaseTease.html

This guy has a video as his Twitter picture:
*http://twitter.com/skepticlatheist

O'Reilly – Open Learning Initiative:
*http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/

Scobleizer To everyone who made fun of me for not backing up my blog my readers have backed up for me via RSS!! RSS=Robert's Stuff is Saved!

Loic – firms fail because of under-investment, the runway is too short:
*http://gigaom.com/2009/09/07/a-vcs-take-on-mobiles-future-the-economy-and-more/

==07 September 2009==
Loic RT @OurielOhayon: @loic if U wnt a typing training tool 4 the iPhone i highly recommend "The Thumb" app http://appsfire.com/cD

Toast your screen (screen recorder):
*http://www.screentoaster.com/

O'Reilly – good enough tools:
*http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/17-09/ff_goodenough?currentPage=all

Deliberative democracy:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberative_democracy

TC – streaming music app spotify goes live on iPhone:
*http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/09/07/breaking-spotify-app-goes-live-on-iphone-and-android/

Mashable – get the most out of posterous:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/06/posterous-guide/

Loic – bloggueurs français:
*http://www.mobypicture.com/user/sachaqs/view/489297

TC - BloggersBase allows readers to sift content:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/06/bloggersbase-is-a-discovery-engine-for-user-generated-content/

Loic - Winer on Seesmic and Brizzly (and RSScloud):
*http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/09/06/anRsscloudCaseStudyBrizzly.html#comment-16064930

Mashable – Technorati to start blogging:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/06/technorati-bloggers/

Mashable – hot twitter trends:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/06/hot-twitter-trends/

TC – Japanese iPhone apps:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/05/as-other-real-time-search-engines-fizzle-oneriot-gets-some-early-traction/

TC – OneRiot real-time search takes off:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/05/as-other-real-time-search-engines-fizzle-oneriot-gets-some-early-traction/

==06 September 2009==
Loic – 1000 twitter apps:
*http://botw.org/articles/twitter-apps-and-services.html

Loic – video fridge magnets:
*http://blogs.smarter.com/gadgets/2009/09/04/digital-fridge-magnets/

Mashable – 15 sites for creating your own products:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/05/sell-products-online/

Rheingold – using twitter and yahoo pipes for electronic voting:
*http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/2009/09/twevs/

Mashable – how Google waves could change the world:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/05/google-wave-ideas/

The attack on Scoble's Wordpress:
*http://scobleizer.com/2009/09/05/i-dont-feel-safe-with-wordpress-hackers-broke-in-and-took-things/

Shute – Robotvision AR:
*http://robotvision-ar.com/

O'Reilly – having more by owning less (collaborative services and zero baggage):
*http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010247.html
*http://www.zerobaggage.com/

More on the WordPress attacks:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/05/wordpress-attack/
*http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/old-wordpress-versions-under-attack/
*http://wordpress.org/development/2009/09/keep-wordpress-secure/

O'Reilly - for journalists, tweets by region
*http://www.journalisttweets.com/

==05 September 2009==
RRW – when websites become web services (old article):
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_30_when_web_sites_become_web_services.php

Wordpress security attack:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/05/security-threat-wordpress-under-attack/

Rubaiyat – papercraft pedobear:
*http://papercraft.wdfiles.com/local--files/papercraft:pedobear/pedobear.pdf

Scoble and Winer doing something incomprehensible with Twitter and RSS:
*http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/19435c53/watch-next-week-what-davewiner-does-with-rss
*[http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2009/09/04/gotitscoble.jpg gotitscoble]
*http://twitter.rsscloud.org/Scobleizer/rss.xml
*http://rsscloud.org/

Mashable – advanced Twitter searches:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/05/twitter-advanced-search/

Hrheingold - I figured out finally to "Explore Popular Tags" then search via "Jump to" and THAT gives me a page with an RSS feed for that tag. (How to get RSS for a Flickr tag.)

Kapor – open source digital voting:
*http://www.osdv.org/

Loic and others - AR in a contact lens:
*http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens

O'Reilly – open fabrication in China:
*http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/environment/295/

Timoreilly - Great idea from @jobsworth: use tineye to figure out which twitterers are spammers. (They generally use stock photos.) @ev @jack

Widgets to embed your Facebook content anywhere:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/04/facebook-widgets-2/
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/04/facebook-pushes-widgets-to-share-your-stream-photos-and-more/

Prokofy – Friskies interactive commercial (there's also an adventure game):
*http://www.friskies.com/Selects-Indoor/Default.aspx

Mashable – easier way to use bit.ly's new j.mp links:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/04/bitly-jmp/

KathySierra - Same issue for learning: mismatch between what science knows and *education* does. Also true for motivation, government, and so on...

KathySierra - To change the world, we MUST address what @danielpink summarizes so elegantly as: "mismatch between what science knows & business does"

Rheingold – social transition stress disorder:
*http://www.openthefuture.com/2009/09/social_transition_stress_disor.html

==04 September 2009==
TC – Loopt runs in the background on the iPhone:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/04/background-location-finds-a-loopthole-on-the-iphone/

Mashable – use Twitter hashtags for business:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/04/twitter-hashtags-business/

TC – O'Reilly on government as a platform:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/04/gov-20-its-all-about-the-platform/

New gmail themes:
*http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/four-new-themes.html

Loic using audioboo:
*http://audioboo.fm/boos/60462

XSS vulnerability in Basecamp:
*http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/09/03/rubyonrails-xss-vulnerability-claims-twitter-basecamp-my-confidenc/

TC – Ruby on Rails was derived from Basecamp:
*http://crunchbase.com/product/basecamp

O'Reilly – Marc Sigal on Makers, Markets and the Commons:
*http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/06/pattern-recognition-makers-mar.html

Professor Marion Diamond's lecture on the human brain:
*http://academicearth.org/lectures/muscular-system-1

Rheingold – how to deliver world-class lectures:
*http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2009/08/secret-recipe-to-delivering-world-class.html

Mashable uses Meebo to let you drag and drop updates:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/03/mashable-meebo/

Rheingold – common good best achieved through rewards:
*http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=common-good-is-best-achieved-throug-2009-09-03

O'Reilly – software leads innovation (tech in India):
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/09/computerization-in-nilekanis-i.html

==03 September 2009==
Eric Ries on customer development:
*http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-is-customer-development.html

Orban – Om on iPhone and bandwidth:
*http://gigaom.com/2009/09/02/how-the-iphone-is-driving-a-wireless-bandwidth-boom/

TC – CrowdEye introduced CrowdRank:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/03/crowdeye-introduces-crowdrank-to-real-time-search/

Mashable – Hexagon is bittorrent with social:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/03/bittorrent-social-hexagon-cc/

O'Reilly – Burning Man live streaming:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/09/watch-burning-man-from-home.html

O'Reilly – new synapses in the global brain at foocamp:
*http://thenetworkgarden.blogs.com/weblog/2009/09/notes-from-foo-camp-2009-the-foo-filter-foo09.html

O'Reilly – iPhones overload ATT:
*http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/technology/companies/03att.html?_r=1&hp

Mashable – French Maids and DimDim for webinars:
* http://mashable.com/2009/09/02/french-maid-tv-dimdim/
*http://www.dimdim.com/products/what_is_dimdim.html

Mashable – attract and empower your crowd:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/02/attract-your-crowd/

TC – Digg adds no-follow to links it doesn't trust:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/02/digg-starts-nofollow-ing-links-that-it-doesnt-trust/

Scobleizer - I'm showing Rackspace Partners these things: Seesmic Desktop; Dopplr; Upcoming; Feedly; Yelp; FriendFeed. What else... http://ff.im/7z6bJ
*http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/00743628/i-m-showing-rackspace-partners-these-things

Rheingold – using delicious with Boxee to make video lists:
*http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/delicious-tv-personally-programmed-social-television-channels-on-boxee-preview/

CEsite - water footprint:
*http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,644867,00.html

Scoble – Web Ecology Project analyzes influence on Twitter:
*http://www.webecologyproject.org/2009/09/analyzing-influence-on-twitter/

Mashable – gamer social network GamerDNA:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/02/gamerdna-relaunch/

Sierra – be a social media rockstar:
*http://www.slideshare.net/MackCollier/what-rockstars-can-teach-you-about-kicking-ass-with-social-media

Tateru – NATO seeks VW tenders:
*http://www.massively.com/2009/09/02/nato-seeks-second-life-tenders/

Kapor – death of locational privacy:
*http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/opinion/01tue4.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Adam%20Cohen&st=cse

O'Reilly – Facebook Exodus:
*http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html?_r=1&em

==02 September 2009==
Scoble – Digg is moving to Cassandra database system:
*http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_(database)

TC – Alex Tew is behind the million dollar homepage:
*http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

O'Reilly – the Facebook Exodus:
*http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html?_r=1&em

Orban – Zuckerman about Craigslist:
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/09/01/craigslist-and-the-customer-service-led-business/

Loic – Louis Gray's contribution to "marketing sucks":
*http://www.louisgray.com/live/2009/09/social-media-is-infrastructure-pr.html

Mashable – people of Walmart:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/01/people-of-walmart/

Live Stream API (paying service):
*http://streamapi.com/

Mashable – Google trends:
*http://www.google.com/trends

Prokofy – NPIRL on Rezzable's art:
*http://npirl.blogspot.com/2008/02/rezzable-productions-slippery-slope-of.html

Rheingold – MacPhail's audio map with livescribe:
*http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=NlMZqDXDFsKJ

TC – Yahoo Meme:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/yahoo-launches-yahoo-meme-in-english/

Akamai real-time web monitor:
*http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html

O'Reilly – the rise of the data web:
*http://dataspora.com/blog/the-rise-of-the-data-web/
*How XML threatens big data: http://dataspora.com/blog/xml-and-big-data/

Mashable contributes to Charity Water:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/01/september-campaign/

TC – Google apps for business:
*http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

Mashable – the declining cost of unlimited data backup:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/01/backblaze-online-backu/

TC – Khosla's nanoh2o:
*http://www.nanoh2o.com/

TC – Facebook steps into location game:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/facebook-will-take-another-step-into-the-location-game-tomorrow-with-nokia/

TC – Twingly channels serves as memetracker:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/exclusive-screenshots-of-twingly-channels-a-personalized-real-time-memetracker/

Pavig – talking beans:
*http://bit.ly/EcmYg

Kapor - consultants for Wikipedia:
*http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/business/media/31link.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=Noam%20Cohen&st=cse

Loic – Om on making freemium work:
*http://gigaom.com/2009/09/01/how-freemium-can-work-for-your-startup/

KathySierra - On start-ups, Paul Graham says good graphic design can predict success-not that it's a *cause*, but "if the programmers care THAT much..."

V-business:
*http://www.v-business.com/

==01 September 2009==
TC – PressArmy trawls social sites for brands:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/press-army-helps-enterprises-separate-the-signal-from-the-noise-in-social-media/

Loic – lifestreaming for PR:
*http://www.prnewsonline.com/features/Life-or-Something-Like-It-Leveraging-Advances-in-Social-Aggregation_13171.html

Mashable – pursuing your goals:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/01/gtd-goals/

TC – Chrome gains desktop notifications:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/chrome-is-gaining-desktop-notifications/#

TC – small biz in UK turning to Google apps:
*http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/british-small-biz-falls-out-of-love-with-microsoft-heads-to-the-clouds/

Loic – straight to the point:
*http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2009/09/straight-to-the-point.html

Scobleizer Got @feedly working and WOW it has Google Reader NAILED. My new home page.

Prok tweets – and criticizes – five habits of successful community managers:
*http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/08/the-five-habits-of-highly-successful-community-managers243.html

Loic – Neville Hobson on AR:
*http://www.nevillehobson.com/2009/08/31/pay-attention-to-augmented-reality/

TC – the challenge of web security:
*http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/08/31/the-almost-hopeless-challenge-of-web-security/

Scoble and friends on listing your phone number in FB:
*http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/de6a3dc7/you-should-list-your-phone-number-in-facebook-i

O'Reilly – what Scott Berkun learned at Foo camp:
*http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2009/learned-at-foo-camp-09/

O'Reilly – humanitarian OpenStreetMap team:
*http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team

KathySierra - Q for those wanting to *build community* is one I ask startups: what does it say about your user that they're your user? ANY answer > ?about 18 hours ago from web

KathySierra *@missrogue re:"how to build community", reverse-engineering many diff types shows huge implementation diffs, yet common attributes too

Shute – AR in a contact lens:
*http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/0

TC – Yazzem is a "topic creator" (?) for Twitter or FriendFeed:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/31/yazzem-version-2-latest-activity/

TC – Stir for mobile FriendFeed:
*http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/08/31/is-that-friendfeed-in-your-pocket-or-oh-it-is/

Kathy Sierra - Beautiful meta idea: "When the simple things become important, the complex things will become easy" (modified from @robinshen horse advice)

TC – Facebook improves share functionality:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/31/facebook-improves-it-share-functionality-still-not-as-good-as-friendfeeds/

Tateru – the SL first hour and beyond:
*http://www.massively.com/2009/08/31/second-life-the-first-hour-and-beyond/

TC interviews Schmidt about Google:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/31/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-interview-his-thoughts-on-search-books-news-mobile-competition-and-more/

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