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==July 31==
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TC embeds documents with docstoc:
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*http://www.docstoc.com/
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TC tests echo comments:
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*http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/07/31/testing-the-reverberations-of-echo-commenting-on-techcrunch/
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O’Reilly – Microsoft’s decline:
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*http://daringfireball.net/2009/07/microsofts_long_slow_decline
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O’Reilly – McFerrin and the pentatonic scale:
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*http://vimeo.com/5732745
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O’Reilly – human networks and organizational adaptivity:
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*http://www.orgnet.com/IBMMoC.pdf
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TC – circumvent pdf restrictions with gmail:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/31/am-i-last-to-find-out-you-can-circumvent-pdf-usage-restrictions-with-gmail/
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==July 30==
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Pavig – what AP meant:
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*[http://imgur.com/CPLOe.jpg image]
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Mashable’s twitter guidebook:
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*http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
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TC – gmail drops “on behalf of”:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/30/gmail-kisses-on-behalf-of-goodbye-enables-support-for-third-party-outbound-servers/
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O’Reilly – ape brain narcissism:
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*http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/ai/ape-brain-narcissism-misses-singularity-artificial-life-view
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Mashable – iPhone hack:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/30/iphone-hack/
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Rheingold – social site ethnography:
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*http://www.thevirtualcampfire.org/virtualcampfire.htm
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Mashable – deal with social network overload:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/30/social-networking-overload/
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Shute – tinychat:
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*http://tinychat.com/23gb0
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TC - Wikia’s wikiAnswers:
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*http://answers.wikia.com/wiki/Wikianswers
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Places to go in SL:
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*http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/SecondLifeGreatPlaces.html
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Mashable – Phish:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/29/twitter-facebook-phish/
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Arrington – maker’s schedule vs manager’s schedule:
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*http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
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Rubaiyat – unclasses:
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*http://www.unclasses.org/
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==July 29==
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Shute – slide wiki:
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*http://sketching09.wikispaces.com/presentations
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*Designer’s Affordances: http://sketching09.wikispaces.com/file/view/phil_van_allen_sketching09.pdf+
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Sierra – better than yesterday:
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*http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/07/28/the-big-question-are-you-better-than-yesterday/
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Mashable – 7 places to watch great minds:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/28/great-minds-videos/
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Kapor – software that cares:
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*http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/software-that-cares/?hp
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Rheingold – an opus to Augmented Reality:
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*http://digitalcortex.net/work/academic/an-opus-to-ar-it-begins/
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*applying Baudrillard: http://digitalcortex.net/author/freedimensional/
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*Tom Saunter: http://digitalcortex.net/about/
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Mashable – addatweet enables commenting through twitter:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/28/addatweet/
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==July 28==
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Tim Kelly (on FB) – MetaLIFE:
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*http://meta-life.net/home
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TC – OpenDNS can extend website outages:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/28/downside-of-opendns-it-can-extend-website-outages/
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MobileMe iPhone application:
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*http://www.apple.com/mobileme/
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Rheingold – concept maps (aka mindmaps):
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*http://cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPapers/TheoryCmaps/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.htm
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Shute – Ori Inbar on Augmented Reality:
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*http://www.ugotrade.com/2009/07/28/augmented-realitys-growth-is-exponential-ogmento-reality-reinvented-talking-with-ori-inbar/
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Tateru – use kill switches in SL scripts:
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*http://www.massively.com/2009/07/27/using-kill-switches-for-safer-second-life-scripts/
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Mashable – LinkedIn tools to brand your business:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/27/custom-company-profiles/
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Ries – Andrew Chen on Silicon Valley noise:
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*http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/07/27/does-silicon-valley-noise-detract-from-long-term-value-creation/
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==July 27==
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O’Reilly – Entrepreneurs “ask and it shall be given”:
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*http://steveblank.com/2009/07/27/ask-and-it-shall-be-given/
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O’Reilly – inuit open source community for SaaS:
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*http://ippblog.intuit.com/blog/2009/07/announcing-codeintuitcom-ipp-open-source-community.html
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Mashable – develop your personal brand on LinkedIn:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/27/linkedin-personal-brand/
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Tateru – http-in adds to SL communications:
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*http://www.metaversejournal.com/2009/07/28/http-in-a-worthy-addition-to-second-life-communications/
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Ev – find which of your Facebook friends are using twitter:
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*http://www.twables.com/fb140
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Shute – wikitude beta:
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*http://www.mobilizy.com/dewikitudeme-beta-launched-geotag-worldenwikitudeme-beta-launched-geotag-world
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Kapor is spending too much time using StumbleUpon.
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TC – Facebook’s twitter-like follow feature:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/25/facebook-makes-baby-steps-towards-its-twitter-like-follow-feature/
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O’Reilly - Microsoft donates driver code to Linux:
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*http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html
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==July 25==
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Mashable – Foursquare the new Twitter?
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/25/foursquare-app/
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TC on paid tweets:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/25/full-disclosure-sponsored-conversations-on-twitter-raise-concerns-prompt-standards/
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O’Reilly – Stallman says Pirate Party would hurt free software:
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*http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html
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Kapor – the saga of MySQL:
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*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/oscon-the-saga-of-mysql.html
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Hrheingold #followfriday I find useful new tools from @RobinGood @CleverClogs @RWW @scobleizer
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O’Reilly – Twitter 101 for business:
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*http://business.twitter.com/twitter101
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==24 July 2009==
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Pavig – SL permissions should resemble those of OpenType:
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*http://www.fontbureau.com/otpermtable/
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Pavig – interactive web comic:
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*http://www.nawlz.com/
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Shute - Android-powered household gadgets:
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*http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/22/google-android-homes-technology-wireless-google.html
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TC – Twitter 101:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/the-launch-of-twitter-101-step-one-of-the-business-plan-is-imminent/
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Shute – Ginsudo on virtual currency:
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*http://blog.ginsudo.com/2009/07/22/virtually-great-currency/
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Mashable – Digsby social IM client:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/23/disby-million/
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CG – iPhone security is broken:
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*http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/23/iphone-security-broken-business-users-take-note/
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TC – Google Latitude on the iPhone doesn't run in the background:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/google-latitude-comes-to-the-iphone-doesnt-run-in-the-background/
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O'Reilly – talk by the Ubuntu community manager:
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*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/oscon-building-belonging-in-co.html
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O'Reilly – increase sign-ups by 200 percent:
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*http://carsonified.com/blog/business/how-to-increase-sign-ups-by-200-percent/
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Gmail tries to make it easy to unsubscribe from spam:
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* Mashable - http://mashable.com/2009/07/23/gmail-spam-unsubscribe/
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*TC - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/gmail-tries-to-make-it-easier-to-unsubscribe-from-spam-newsletters-but-fails/
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==23 July 2009==
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The Windows file that saves your site visit record:
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index.dat
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AgentLand:
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*http://www.agentland.com
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On the subject of Twitter, O'Reilly admits: "Important to get on early; as with email and web, visibility gets harder later on".
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TC - Social Browsing Assistant Glue Adds Recommendations
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/social-browsing-assistant-glue-adds-recommendations-and-facebook-comments
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TC - EtherPad, a real-time Google Docs-like wiki tool:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/etherpad-gets-a-makeover-and-becomes-even-more-of-a-threat-to-google-docs
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Mashable – you can now change your Facebook username:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/23/change-facebook-username/
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O'Reilly – an embroidery pattern language for Twitter:
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*http://www.rzm-dev.com/pattern/en/main.html
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TC - Rackspace is open-sourcing the specs for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/rackspace-opens-the-cloud
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Mashable – 10 iPhone apps that use Facebook Connect:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/23/facebook-iphone-apps/
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TC – how-to video site:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/how-to-video-site-5min-raises-an-extra-75-million/
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TC - Google reader gives a friends-only "likes" option:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/22/google-listens-gives-a-friend-only-likes-option-in-reader/
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O'Reilly – Matt Damon's water org:
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*http://water.org
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Upload photos to Facebook by email:
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*Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/22/facebook-email-uploads/
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*TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/22/bypass-loading-facebook-by-emailing-your-pictures-and-videos-in/
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Rheingold – Kaltura Open Source video:
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*http://corp.kaltura.com/press/Worlds-First-Free-Open-Source-Online-Video-Platform
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Arrington likes Seesmic web:
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*http://seesmic.com/app/
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==22 July 2009==
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CG – on a suicide at Apple:
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*http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/22/on-the-apple-suicide/
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O'Reilly – open source for America:
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*http://opensourceforamerica.org/
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TC - Xing launches the world's largest encrypted OpenSocial, to assault LinkedIn:
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*http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/07/22/xing-launches-an-opensocial-app-assault-on-linkedin/
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Lessig – Rip, a remix manifesto:
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*http://www.ripremix.com/2009/07/06/sf360-filmclub-presents-rip-a-remix-manifesto-eclectic-method/
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TC – Robin Wauters uses Streamy:
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*http://www.streamy.com/
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TC – LocalBunny gives business custom twitter bots:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/22/localbunny-gives-businesses-custom-twitter-bots-but-it-longs-for-old-replies-system/
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Mashable on Google Wave:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/21/google-wave-world-ready/
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O'Reilly – the Mobile broadband era: "Thanks to services like Facebook Connect, Twitter API, OpenSocial, and “embeddable” flash widgets, I can create, converge and connect locally, but share that same information globally with minimal effort" (also, Tweetie iPhone client, and MobileMe).
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*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/the-mobile-broadband-era-its-a.html
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TC – Best Buy use of twitter:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/21/best-buy-goes-all-twitter-crazy-with-twelpforce/
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Shute – OpenKoLab:
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*http://openkollab.edublogs.org/
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Mashable – ten implementations of Facebook Connect:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/21/facebook-connect-new/
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Orban – EFF on surveillance self-defense:
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*http://www.eff.org/wp/surveillance-self-defense-international
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Rheingold – Best Buy on The Company as Wiki (video):
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*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_jhLGxH-m4
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Modis papers on complexity and change:
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*http://www.growth-dynamics.com/default.asp?page=articles
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KathySierra Any product/service that you REALLY like and are/were willing to pay for, reverse-engineer the experience it gives you. Lessons surround us.
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==21 July 2009==
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Orban's spime presentation:
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*http://www.slideshare.net/davidorban/sigularity-university-spime-design-workshop
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Mashable – SiteJabber hopes to be the Yelp-style review site of online services
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/21/sitejabber/
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Orban – new warning signs:
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*http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2006/10/warning_signs_for_tomorrow.html
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Orban buys Widenoise for his iPhone:
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*http://www.widetag.com/widenoise/
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Pavig - Rezzable announces BuilderBot:
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*http://rezzable.com/blog/rightasrain-rimbaud/builderbot-how-best-release-it
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TC – Bitly's new "Bento" site design:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/20/inspired-by-japanese-food-bitly-gets-a-slight-redesign/
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O'Reilly – Mark Bernstein on the Apple Store approval process ("I’ll probably stop buying stuff from the app store unless someone like Gruber or PeterMe extolls it"):
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*http://www.markbernstein.org/Jul09/AppStoreDoubts.html
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TC – "Likes" on Google Reader:
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*http://incredimazing.com/page/Bacon_Flowchart
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Tateru RT Ondrjeka: Incredimazing bacon flowchart:
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*http://incredimazing.com/page/Bacon_Flowchart
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Tateru says her blog comments are getting DOSed:
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*Infoworld gets dosed: http://www.infoworld.com/t/platforms/blog-comments-getting-dosed-634
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*Denial of Service: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
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O'Reilly – Akamai's State of the Internet report:
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*http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/
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TC - FriendFeed updates API:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/20/friendfeeds-latest-api-spreads-real-time-goodness/
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Sierra – publishing, innovation and the web:
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*http://danblank.com/blog/2009/07/16/oh-my-why-innovation-fails/
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TC – play chess on iPhone using Facebook Connect:
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*http://www.massively.com/2009/07/20/ten-great-tips-for-new-second-life-users/
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Tateru's tips for SL noobs:
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*http://www.massively.com/2009/07/20/ten-great-tips-for-new-second-life-users/
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==20 July 2009==
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Arrington – Transparency is the new objectivity:
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*http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/07/19/transparency-is-the-new-objectivity/
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TC – Diggbar shoots self in foot:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/19/diggbar-commits-career-suicide-starts-redirecting-users-to-digg-homepage/
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Burns – Incredible Disappearing Teacher:
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*http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_210/6263-The-Incredible-Disappearing-Teacher
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==19 July 2009==
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Mashable – Digg hijacks URLs:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/19/digg-bait-switch/
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Rheingold – learning is social and computational:
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*http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716141134.htm
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Sierra – Study Hacks:
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*http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/06/03/the-pyramid-method-a-simple-strategy-for-becoming-exceptionally-good
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TC – Fasterweb to help speed up websites:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/19/fasterweb-aims-to-make-the-web-up-to-ten-times-faster-and-gets-money-to-do-so/
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Mashable – top twitter songs:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/18/twitter-songs/
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O'Reilly - Google can make us smarter:
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*http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/intelligence
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==18 July 2009==
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Torrid Luna (LinkedIn) recommends gridhop:
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*http://www.gridhop.net/cgi/gridhop
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Archvirtual belongs to Networked Blogs:
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*http://networkedblogs.com/
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Professional SLers on LinkedIn, on virtual engineering design:
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*http://archvirtual.com/
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*http://archvirtual.com/?p=1405
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O'Reilly – the jalopy economy:
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*http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/07/the-jalopy-economy/
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Pavig – SkyOrb free planetarium and space simulation program:
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*http://www.realtech-vr.com/skyorb/
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O'Reilly – Wikipedia papers:
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*http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/07/wikipeadia-papers.html
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Stallman on the Right to Read:
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*http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
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MobileCrunch – web apps or native apps?
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*http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/07/17/google-says-mobile-web-apps-will-win/
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==17 July 2009==
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O'Reilly – Fast Company on "create your own economy":
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*http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/137/create-your-own-economy.html
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Rheingold – open source tools for "curating" the twitter backchat at events:
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*http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform/blog/curating-conversations
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Mashable – Google says the browser is the platform of the future:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/17/google-browser-platform/
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O'Reilly – SaaS at OSCON:
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*http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/7865
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O'Reilly – GPL is flawed for the cloud:
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*http://blog.b3k.us/totally_FLOSSed_out.html
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Michael Nielsen on the Google Technology stack:
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*http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?page_id=503
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Michael Nielsen on open source modularity:
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*http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=591
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O'Reilly tweets Michael Nielsen, and I find another of his posts about Shirky's law:
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*http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=451
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TC publishes the Twitter papers:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-laid-bare-to-be-the-pulse-of-the-planet/
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Mashable – ShareIn tracks links and influence:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/sharein/
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Ev recommends 1Password:
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*http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/a/1Password
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O'Reilly – Art of Community:
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*http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/07/16/chapter-1-released/
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Shirky RT Nelson on OpenID:
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*http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/openid-for-security.html
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TC – PlaySpan launches virtual goods marketplace:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/playspan-launches-virtual-goods-marketplace-on-facebook-and-myspace/
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Mashable – competing with free:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/free-price/
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TC - Dazzboard to connect mobile and computer:
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*http://dazzboard.com/en/
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Rubaiyat – The Theory of Relativity, the musical:
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*http://rubaiyat.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/einsteins-special-theory-of-relativity-the-musical/
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==16 July 2009==
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Arrington - Google's Direct NavigationCold War:
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http://www.mobilekick.com/155/the-direct-navigation-coldwar/
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Tateru – free tools for SL content creators:
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*http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/2009/07/15/great-free-tools-for-second-life-content-creators/
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TC – Netvibes offers drag and drop widgets:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/netvibes-adds-drag-and-follow-search-widgets-for-twitter-facebook-and-myspace/
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Mashable – website called InsideFacebook:
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*http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/07/15/facebook-working-on-new-twitter-integration/
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Mashable – is Penguin the Facebook Twitter app?
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/15/penguin-fb/
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TC – People Search beta on LinkedIn:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/linkedin-drills-down-into-people-search-with-new-beta/
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Mashable - Facebook ads know what apps you're using:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/15/facebook-apps-ad-targeting/
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Google Reader's social makeover:
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*TC – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/google-reader-takes-another-social-step-with-people-search-and-likes/
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*Mashable - http://mashable.com/2009/07/15/google-reader-followers/
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Shirky - Google on crawl control:
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*http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2009/07/working-with-news-publishers.html
  
 
==15 July 2009==
 
==15 July 2009==
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Mashable – United breaks guitars:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/07/15/united-breaks-guitars/
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O'Reilly – Time on how rising gas prices will change world:
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*http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1910470,00.html
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O'Reilly – Open Source paradigm shift (from 2004):
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*http://tim.oreilly.com/articles/paradigmshift_0504.html
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Shirky - Arduino is today's Altair:
 
Shirky - Arduino is today's Altair:
 
*http://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2009/05/why_the_arduino_matters.html
 
*http://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2009/05/why_the_arduino_matters.html

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