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==04 October 2009==

Robin Wauters (TC): Personally, I tend to simply send pictures to my Posterous account by e-mail and auto-distribute them to my blog, Flickr and Facebook account, but I can see why people might be interested in giving Dropico a whirl.

TishShute Just left TweetDeck for Seesmic after some very odd behavior from TweetDeck.

Scobleizer RT @frankyu: China has demonstrated why Cloud Computing will never be trusted. The Internet can be shut down at a whim

Facebook measures Gross National Happiness:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/03/facebook-prototype-measures-gross-national-happiness-confirms-that-we-hate-mondays/

"the first artificial brain, as copy of a specific human brain, would necessarily contain elements of the personality of the test subject … this means the first artificial intelligence will most likely have the personality of a half stoned, cash-strapped, college student."
*http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-10/singularity-summit-2009-open-pod-bay-door-hal

Scoble – Kawasaki took Robert off of Guy's Egos page:
*http://egos.alltop.com/

Scobleizer Hey @tiffanyrenee Ustream has an iPhone app that DOES stream. That's how I watched @140tc (Leo Laporte Live live > http://ustre.am/oA)

Daniel Brusilovsky is a 16-year-old entrepreneur:
*http://twitter.com/danielbru

Scoble – what's wrong with email and related rants:
*http://scobleizer.com/2009/10/03/google-waves-unproductive-email-metaphors/

Tateru – Linden explanation alienates educators:
*http://www.massively.com/2009/10/03/linden-lab-explanation-alienates-educators/

Gina Trapani founder of Lifehacking:
*http://ginatrapani.org/

Scoble's FriendFeed about Google Wave:
*http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/8807d2a2/do-you-love-google-wave-hate-tell-me-live-what

Scoble – Arab Crunch:
*http://arabcrunch.com/

Socialbrite sharing center:
*http://www.socialbrite.org/sharing-center/

Mashable – Facebook should clone Google Wave:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/03/facebook-google-wave/

Orban Liveblogging the Singularity Summit:
*http://www.davidorban.com/2009/10/live-blogging-the-singularity-summit-09/en/

Adaptive Blue makes the Glue browser plugin for social search:
*http://getglue.com/

==02 October 2009==
Mashable – wikitude's AR app for iPhone:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/02/wikitude/

Mashable – Google Wave explained (video):
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/02/video-google-wave-gets-explained/

Jay Rosen (jayrosen) I teach journalism at NYU, write the blog PressThink, direct NewAssignment.Net, and try to grok new media. I don't do lifecasting but mindcasting on Twitter.

hrheingold RT @MAMK @marshallk @rww The WIKITUDE World Browser is now available for the iPhone http://bit.ly/2Ah5E

Eric Ries teaches the Lean Startup:
*http://training.oreilly.com/theleanstartup/?CMP=AFC-ak_training&ATT=O%27Reilly+Masterclass%3A+The+Lean+Startup

TC – Google Friend Connect:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/02/easy-does-it-google-friend-connect-one-ups-facebook-connects-install-wizard/

Rheingold – brain based learning:
*http://www.emtech.net/brain_based_learning.html#education

Shute – Rita King writes about Loveland:
*http://1000inchesinloveland.blogspot.com/2009/08/welcome-lovelanders.html

O'Reilly - insects steered from a distance:
*http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17895-freeflying-cyborg-insects-steered-from-a-distance.html

TC – Cloudera, commercial distributor and servicer of Hadoop, offers monitoring client:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/01/hadoop-clusters-get-a-monitoring-client-with-cloudera-desktop/

Rheingold – brain on line:
*http://webbrain.com/brainpage/brain/3D80058C-14D8-5361-0B61-A061F89BAF87/

Twitter rolling out geolocation:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/01/confirmed-twitter-has-begun-geolocation-rollout/
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/01/twitter-geolocation/

Mashable - LinkedIn launches profile organisers:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/01/linkedin-profile-manager/

TC - Twitter list competitors will survive:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/01/twitter-lists-competitors-respond-we-can-all-get-along/

Terry Thorpe Using iPhoto.

Mitch Wagner  Have decided to switch from Evernote to Yojimbo for a little while, to decide whether I want to make the switch permanent. [Jojimbo is mac only]

Pavig Lok writes about Heritage Key Virtual:
*http://heritage-key.com/blogs/pavig-lok/reason-rezzing-how-and-why-we-built-king-tut-virtual

TC – Smule sells 300k copies of I-am-T-Pain:
*http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/10/01/smule-sells-300k-copies-of-i-am-t-pain-celebrates-with-a-new-song-and-a-huge-contest/

Scoble – Google wave crashes:
*http://scobleizer.com/2009/10/01/google-wave-crashes-on-beach-of-overhype/

TC – Brightkite strikes back:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/01/brightkite-about-to-go-2-0-and-asynchronous-screenshots/

Sierra – Mongeese on the Social Customer Manifesto:
*http://www.socialcustomer.com/2009/10/mongeese.html

Scobleizer After being on Wave 10 minutes I can tell you it is a MAJOR MISTAKE to open this up to Twitter followers. It is like email but 100x worse.

taterunino Intel introduces the 3D Internet, which actually turns out not to be the Internet, but OpenSim instead. But it's 3D, at least.

Leweb startup competition:
*http://www.leweb.net/startupcompetition/forms/submit

Google launches new search applications:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/01/google-adds-new-options-to-make-search-more-timely-less-spammy-and-more-personal/

Scoble – real time web in action:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ten_useful_examples_of_the_real-time_web_in_action.php

Six Apart launches other typepad apps:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/01/six-apart-opens-up-typepad-apis-relaunches-pownce-as-typepad-motion/
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/01/typepad-motion/

TC – Spotify lauches offline mode:
*http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/10/01/spotify-extends-playing-offline-to-desktop-are-you-getting-this-apple/

davidorban The Twitter app for Facebook doesn't use OAuth, but asks for the username and password. Bleah

TC - Buzzd iPhone app for party crashing:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/01/buzzd-is-an-iphone-app-built-for-party-crashing/

Tateru – SL in Education Wiki sent trademark violation notice:
*http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/
*http://www.metaversejournal.com/2009/10/02/trademark-protection-gone-mad-linden-lab-takes-aim-at-educators/
*http://jokaydia.com/2009/10/02/trademarks-and-the-sleducation-wiki/

Justin from shitmydadsays answers questions on reddit:
*http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9pqjl/i_am_justin_from_shitmydadsays/

TC – Tweetie 2 uses Twitters geolocation api:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/30/twitters-geolocation-api-appears-to-be-live-but-most-of-you-are-lost/

TC – OpenCandy suggests apps during installs:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/30/opencandy-suggests-apps-you-might-actually-want-during-installs-lands-nitropdf/

Mashable – mobile application retention trends:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/30/flurry-app-retention/

Scobleizer RT @mattcutts: RT @BenParr Twitter to Launch User Created Follow Lists - http://bit.ly/KptY5 also known as "shut up @scobleizer" feature :)

User-generated twitter lists:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/30/twitter-lists/
*http://blog.twitter.com/2009/09/soon-to-launch-lists.html
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/30/twitters-new-lists-feature-finally-introduces-grouping-offers-an-alternative-to-the-sul/

Google and Facebook website translators:
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/30/google-translation-gadget/

Scoble – Google launches local search for mobile:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_launches_local_search_for_mobile.php
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/30/google-local-search-mobile/

Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook:
*http://www.web2summit.com/web2009/public/schedule/speaker/61556

John Battelle's searchblog:
*http://battellemedia.com/

Scoble – the best way to discover Twitter apps:
*http://oneforty.com/

The other Howard Rheingold?
*http://twitter.com/Vircom

Kathy Sierra - Brain is a massive spam filter. YOU think, "I need to learn this". BRAIN thinks, "Just not feelin' it....must be spam"

Facebook makes it easy to put FB Connect on your site:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/30/facebook-just-made-it-super-easy-to-put-facebook-connect-on-your-site/
*http://mashable.com/2009/09/30/facebook-connect-wizard/

Sierra – we learn more from success than failure:
*http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/successes-0729.html

==01 October 2009==
Lessig – The Network Thinker (TNT) is the source of the health lobbying chart:
*http://www.thenetworkthinker.com/2009/09/health-care-lobbying.html


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