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==08 October 2009==

TC - Google's new buttons not conform to standards:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/google-forcing-standards-issue-using-sexy-buttons/

TC – EngineYard is RedHat for RubyOnRails:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/engine-yard-raises-19-million-in-series-c-for-ruby-on-rails-hosting/

TC – Mint founder on how to build a startup:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-startup-building-but-were-afraid-to-ask/

Sierra – edit for the good stuff:
*http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/10/zen-slap.html

Arrington – congrats to Jason Nazar of DocStoc:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1AplfRyC_w

Rheingold – Computational Computing for crap detection:
*http://connectedsocialmedia.com/4490/confrontational-computing-are-you-being-duped-rob-ennals-researchintel-day/

Mashable – Bill Clinton on innovation:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/07/bill-clinton-world-business-forum/
:Have a vision with where you want to go. Lay out a strategy to get there. Develop a set of specific actions to implement the strategy. You have to speak to your customers/constituency through the entire process.

Google Ajax Search API:
*http://www.programmableweb.com/api/google-ajax-search

==07 October 2009==
Mashable – manage a Facebook group:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/07/facebook-groups/

Mashable – Google's PDF viewer:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/07/google-search-results-pdfs/

TC - A Conversation With Sergey Brin And Eric Schmidt
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/a-conversation-with-sergey-brin/
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/schmidt-we-have-not-yet-found-the-evil-room/

Tateru – virtualget is a credit-card harvesting scam:
*http://www.massively.com/2009/10/07/second-life-content-creators-warn-about-scam-site/

Lessig loves fotopedia:
*http://www.fotopedia.com/

TC – RackSpace launches NoMoreServers.com:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/rackspace-launches-nomoreservers-com-to-tout-computing-as-a-service/

O'Reilly – the city's long tail:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/how-long-is-your-citys-tail.html
:But THEN, it also has an insane long tail of services set up and run by anyone with an interest in doing so, just by hooking into city data, distributing it in a new way, improving on it, mashing it up, giving it back to the city, etc.

TC – CompuWare acquires Gomez:
*http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/10/07/compuware-buys-gomez-for-295-million-in-cash/
*http://www.compuware.com/
*http://www.gomez.com/products-solutions/

TC – Reevo B2B review site:
*http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/slow-burn-pays-off-for-reevoo-as-it-signs-new-partners/

Loic – photos of leweb 08:
*http://www.journaldunet.com/ebusiness/le-net/photo/leweb-08-la-silicon-valley-a-rendez-vous-a-paris/leweb-premier-jour-de-la-5e-edition.shtml

O'Reilly – good articles on AR:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/see-it-follow-it.html
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/augmented-reality-apps.html

Mashable – TweetMeme analyses how RTs spread:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/06/tweetmeme-analytics/

Loic – uncovering connections on Twitter:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/influencers_on_twitter.php

Scobleizer How @atul tracks SEC filings: setup RSS alerts at http://bit.ly/tWbdQ for the various startups (and competitors) that you wish to track.
*http://sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html

TC - doubleTwist alternative to iTunes Music Store is powered by Amazon MP3:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/06/doubletwist-unveils-an-alternative-to-the-itunes-music-store-powered-by-amazon-mp3/

Prok – NeilLife IPs unbanned:
*http://neillife-lol.blogspot.com/2009/10/for-anyone-who-got-ip-banned.html

TC – Meebo growth due to Community IM rolling out to a slew of content sites:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/06/meebos-reach-spikes-to-over-90-million-users-with-community-im-growth/

O'Reilly – fedthread shows what you can do with free, bulk, source code for the Federal Register data converted to XML:
*http://www.fedthread.org/

Scoble – blogworld expo:
*http://www.blogworldexpo.com/

Mashable – writing retweetable tweets:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/06/retweetable-tweets/

Sierra – the problem with "passion":
*http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2009/09/your-slogan-its-not-about-you.html
:"we have become a society of great abundance, a society in which the deepest, most powerful driver is a search for meaning"

Windows 7 houseparty site and launch party video:
*http://houseparty.com/windows7
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ

Fake Steve Jobs rips Michael Arrington:
*http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/10/michael-arrington-says-im-lying-liar.html

TC - Google's whatbrowser webpage:
*http://www.whatbrowser.org/

Scoble – YourVersion is a real-time discovery engine that won people's choice at TC50:
*http://yourversion.com/
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/14/tc50-yourversion-wins-peoples-choice-award-in-the-demopit/

Loic – article belge:
*http://www.lalibre.be/societe/cyber/article/533886/1000-vrais-amis-suffisent-a-faire-decoler-votre-produit.html
:"C'est une nouvelle stratégie marketing qui est en train d'être élaborée dans le grand laboratoire de la Silicon Valley. Au lieu de vanter sans cesse les qualités du produit, d'en mettre plein les yeux du consommateur, l'annonceur conçoit son produit en public, de manière transparente et honnête et surtout en temps réel."

==06 October 2009==
Scoble asks who is taking over the castle:
*http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/2deebf22/on-my-whiteboard-is-battlefronts-ie-who-in-tech

Water makes money, the film:
*http://www.planete-terra.fr/article1270.html

More than half of employers block Twitter and Facebook:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/06/employers-block-twitter/

TC – Tweetmeme adds analytics:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/06/tweetmeme-adds-analytics-to-make-sense-of-twitter-links/

Mashable – Facebook is the most valuable source of traffic:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/06/study-traffic-sources/

Mashable – integrate Facebook with your blog:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/06/facebook-blog-integration/

TC – Looking in on Twitter from the outside:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/05/twitter-data-analysis-an-investors-perspective/

Atlassian JIRA competes with Bugzilla:
*http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/10/05/atlassian-jira-4-0-released-opensocial-comes-to-enterprise/

Loic sells leweb on YouTube:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkgvIsSO9Nw&feature=autoshare_twitter

Mashable – internet addition as childhood disease:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/05/internet-addiction/

Scoble - Aloqa notifies you of stuff near you:
*http://www.aloqa.com/

Scoble – Kevin Rose on how to get one million users:
*http://carsonified.com/blog/web-apps/9-ways-to-take-your-site-from-one-to-one-million-users/

TC - share on Twitter right from your homepage with Twittlink or TBuzz:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/05/twittlink-share-fast-and-tweet-from-your-site-with-others/
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/05/tbuzz-one-ups-twittlink-in-beauty-and-speed-but-requires-user-install/

Mashable – Wales says openness not enemy of quality:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/05/wikipedia-jimmy-wales/

==05 October 2009==
Scoble – defrag conference:
*http://defragcon.com/2009/DEFRAG09-Home.htm

Sierra – photomontage from sketch:
*http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/montage/main.htm

Adobe on iPhone:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/05/adobe-shows-off-flash-apps-for-iphone-yes-you-read-that-right/
*http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/
*http://eon.businesswire.com/portal/site/eon/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091005006358&newsLang=en
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/05/iphone-flash/

Ev – Tbuzz:
*http://tbuzz.arc90.com/

Scoble – Jungle Disk:
*http://blog.jungledisk.com/2009/10/05/announcing-the-jungle-disk-server-edition/
*http://www.jungledisk.com/

Nonoba is Ning for flash games:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/05/nonobas-ning-for-gaming-sites-to-power-indian-gaming-platform-zapak/

Tateru – Linden Lab ejects copyright infringers:
*http://www.massively.com/2009/10/05/linden-lab-rounds-up-and-ejects-a-bunch-of-copyright-infringers/
*http://nexisonline.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/re-neillife/

Google ads for iPhone - and other smart phones:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/05/google-ads-for-mobile/
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/05/smartphones-get-bigger-ads-from-google/

Shute – AR scale:
*http://thomaskcarpenter.com/2009/10/05/augmented-reality-scale-update-reality-recognition/

TC - Using proxy and vpn servers to get around country restrictions:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/05/internet-anonymizer-web-surf-vpn-hulu-pandora-spotify/

Soft Linden nukes NeilLife:
*http://nexisonline.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/re-neillife/

Mashable – Adobe Flash on all phones except iPhone:
*http://mashable.com/2009/10/05/adobe-flash-support-iphone/

HowToMakeMyBlog explains Mashable's success:
*http://www.howtomakemyblog.com/blogging-celebrities/9-reasons-why-mashable-rules-the-social-media/

TC – Twitter should sell Twitter Server:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/04/twitter-should-decentralize-and-make-money-via-twitter-server/

Orban – Founder's Fund (see the list of members):
*http://www.foundersfund.com/people

Quentin Bacon blogs about Scoble:
*http://www.qbaconblog.com/2009/10/chase-scoble/

Shute – the point you're missing about Google Wave:
*http://macrolinz.com/macrolinz/index.php/2009/10/01/the-point-youre-missing-about-google-wave/

==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/

==03 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/

==02 October 2009==
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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