Danton's Weblog 2009-04
From SLuserguide
30 April 2009
TC – Feldman's Wall Street movie:
TC - Chrome videos:
29 April 2009
O'Reilly – we erase and rewrite our memories evey time we call them:
O'Reilly – web transparent but cloud not:
Abry – social media marketing tips:
Cloud – Business Intelligence vs the Platform:
TC – Facebook opens its stream API to developers:
Boo – Wordpress with memcache:
Rfly - 1980 games:
Labarre – Concentrate analyses your Google key words:
PresseCitron: Performics study of Social Media:
Castera – SL à Oloron:
Cloud – Bigram counts on tweets:
Cloud – first impressions of Wolfram Alpha:
28 April 2009
Mashable – using Facebook privacy settings:
Mashable – register domain names on twitter:
Arrington uses instapaper for easiest bookmarking:
Mashable - Why you need social media:
Mashable – Oyang on the future of the social web:
26 April 2009
Rheingold – Japanese women invent cell-phone novels:
Pavig – Sugar (learning environment) on a stick (USB):
Kuchner – world's smallest bodybuilder:
Rheingold – Picocool:
1938media calls O'Reilly's twitter book the "scam of the day":
Mashable- Google imitates Digg:
Shute – Dave Winer on the killer app that will replace twitter:
1938media – Project Diaspora is against Kuchner's mosquito nets:
Shute - "Wow @pachube has hit 2 million API requests per day":
Notomodunwa – Google invests in Drupal:
Notomodunwa disagrees with 1938media:
TC – Googlers move to Twitter:
- Diaz tweets: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/24/googler-defects-to-twitter-tweets-about-it/
- Why Bowman left: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html
TC – Dropbox syncing files for 1 million members:
TC – isthisyourluggage:
TC – Cloudclick lets you migrate Amazon Machine Images to Slicehost:
25 April 2009
Mashable – Twitter Followholics:
TC – AlertFox web application monitoring tool:
Mashable – Facebook democracy:
Mashable – read ppt with gmail:
Mashable - Addicted to Facebook:
Mashable – twine reader:
Mashable – what happened to Mike when Mashable tweeted:
24 April 2009
Rfly – how to make a baby:
Descary – Gantter, a free web project manager:
Boo (RT) – Twitter Job Search:
Boo (RT) – Education Fail:
Pressecitron – sites about writing on the web (in French):
Boo – twitteuses:
Labarre- converts files online for free:
Cloud – comparing Cloud platforms:
Cloud – VMware's vSphere, an OS for the Cloud:
Cloud – Oracle's Red Cloud:
Cloud – Sun purchase crashes Oracle website:
Donkey – GoAdv and leguide.com:
O'Reilly – Head First Rails:
- http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/130223
- http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515775/?CMP=ILC-hf1st
23 April 2009
Rheingold – Nick Carr on "hashmobs" (eg. #amazonfail):
Kapor – Mozilla as hybrid organisation:
TC – Tweetbomb (brought to you by the Singularity):
TC – Orange partners with Wikipedia:
Rubaiyat – Trubetskoy's "Lights":
Mashable – bad facebook manners (spoof):
Rheingold - Berkeley's Opinion Space Maps Online Comments
Rheingold – Giussani on how internet (links) affects writing:
Rheingold – companies using Second Life:
Mashable – tweeting too hard:
Rheingold – Kelly's 9 laws (1994):
Rheingold – Millenium Whole Earth Catalogue for $5:
22 April 2009
Cloud – connect your GoogleSpreadsheet data sources:
Labarre – Formation LinkedIn:
Labarre – Google Analytics is an API:
Abry – Trial:
O'Reilly – Eric Ries lean startup talk:
Pressecitron – Stivostin needs a job:
Shute - RedMonk on Oracle buying Sun:
TC – Netbase semantic indexing:
Shute – ReactionGrid premieres realXtend:
TC – Lacy says stop the hype cycle:
TC – Whiskeymedia article on tech news:
Sierra – In defense of eye candy, on A List Apart:
Sierra (in reverse chronological order of course):
- @mrpatto yep -- soc-media/community often seen as a way to make users feel good about The Company vs. good about what The Co helps users do
- Seems off when "Community Mgr" is seen as Cool2.0ish role to help users *socialize*. Community Mgr role should focus on users *kicking ass*
- "User learning" applies to all products/svcs-- even no-brainer products are often used in a context of something bigger, cooler, *harder*
about 14 hours ago from web
- Cut a few prime-time ads, use $$ to hire fabulous UX & instructional design team to craft/implement a spectacular user learning "strategy".
Kronos – Googles 3D plug-in:
- http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2009/04/google-releases-3d-graphics-plugin-for-browsers.ars
- http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/docs/samplesdirectory.html
Rheingold – DigitalOpen with Sun – if you're 17 or under:
Rheingold – Open Money:
Google yourself (Google profiles):
- Mashable – http://mashable.com/2009/04/21/google-me/
- TC - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/21/google-profiles-finally-have-a-big-purpose-appearing-in-google-search-queries/
Mashable – Things every geek should know:
Mashable – protecting your online identity:
Rheingold – Mark Elliott on stigmery and wikis:
Mashable – bloggers for hire:
Kutcher – KatalystHQ web series:
Mashable – Godin on life is broken:
Mashable – how to make a message go viral:
Shute – Sun Spot world (internet sensors by Sun):
21 April 2009
Bevan – Dusan on Google moving towards the 3d browser:
Sarkozy on Digg:
Cloud – peeping into Twitter memcached:
O'Reilly – Sterling says connectivity is poverty:
O'Reilly – venture hacks:
Trackle – seems to allow site visitors to sign up for custom feeds:
- TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/21/lure-in-users-with-your-trackle-box/
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/04/21/trackle-it/
TC interview with Digg's Kevin Rose:
TC – Calcanis on how to get into TechCrunch50:
Rheingold – attention literacy:
Shute RT Rheingold – what will you build in superstructed reality?
Mashable – reminder, Bebo lifestreaming:
Mashable – two new Googlelabs projects:
From a comment on Tateru's blog - Underlord on the limits of Second Life:
20 April 2009
Kapor – Chen on freemium:
Mashable – Twitter revolution:
TechCrunch – Hoffman's 3 rules for internet start-ups:
Mashable – check your username of 140 sites with knowem:
Pavig – Foolish Frost asks how to export content from SL:
Mashable – someone hacks Google for torrent searches:
Tateru – Czeret explains texture layers:
TC – Oracle to buy Sun:
TC – Prezi for online presentations:
Mashable – Oyang on how mainstream attention will change Twitter:
17 April 2009
Mashable – Pirate Bay found guilty:
Mashable – visual guide to Twitter:
TC – Product Planner maps how big websites function:
UgoTrade: environmental discourses in human-computer interaction:
TC – AOL to take of Facebook Connect with lifestreaming and chat:
Mashable – pros to follow on Twitter:
Mashable – Twitter's local monetization strategy:
Mashable – social media news sites:
Twitter in a spreadsheet:
TechCrunch – McKinsey's cloudy report on cloud computing:
16 April 2009
Daniel Broche: Magento Enterprise Edition:
Donkey: villain canard:
Cloud – the Allosphere:
Cloud – 5 pillars of cloud:
O'Reilly – build deeper connections on Twitter:
Richard (Tapahonte) – Campus In-World:
TC – Keen says web 2.0 is fucked:
Pavig – Stallman comments on Dune – SL conflict:
Mashable – revise emails:
Rheingold – Federman on multiple media literacies:
TC – Microsoft plugs Cashback into its products engine:
KathySierra @charmfx @tawalk where's the audio equivalent of basics that now even non-designers get like "rule of thirds" "white space" "kerning" etc.?
TC – Kosmix universal search engine:
Mashable – social media and SEO:
UgoTrade – new magazine for open source virtual worlds:
TC – Digg offers compromise on Diggbar:
Tateru – Bettina Tizzy on Blue Mars:
TechCrunch – DIY social network Grou.ps adds ranking system:
Shirky – the failure of Amazonfail:
TechCrunch – why Amazonfail was not a glitch:
TechCrunch – Procaster for live steaming your desktop: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/14/live-stream-that-intense-world-of-warcraft-session-with-mogulus-procaster
Mashable – 50 corporate website designs:
Kronos – host Twiddla meetings on your website:
Gwyneth – Tessa Harrington's business-oriented OpenSim grid:
Rheingold – fear of twitter:
Mashable – Facebook can get you evicted:
Digital media can confuse moral compass:
- Rheingold - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/uosc-ttr040909.php
- Mashsable - http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/ptech/04/14/twitter.study/?iref=hpmostpop
TechCrunch – Hi5 teams with PlaySpan for revenue from virtual goods:
Mashable – Social media data visualizations:
15 April 2009
Françoise - Oddcast:
Cloud – O'Reilly on the Sensor Web:
Cloud – Amazonfail and data:
Cloud – Google App Engine Datastore:
O'Reilly – making a Pong:
O'Reilly – Ubuntu and Cloud computing:
Descary – tweets sur Evernote:
O'Reilly – Make:
Abry – RankSense:
Abry - galaxy mindboggle:
Abry – Windows XP enters final phase:
Descary – Twazzup:
O'Reilly – Wikipedia votes on move to CC attribution share-alike license:
O'Reilly – build your own iPhone app:
@gnat – 4chan manipulates Time poll:
Cloud –
- Hadoop gets a boost: *http://www.itworld.com/business-intelligence/66317/large-data-set-analysis-cloud-hadoop-gets-boost
- Memory based architecture: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2009/04/11/SomeThoughtsOnMemoryBasedArchitecturesAkaWhyMemcachedIsntGoodEnough.aspx
- Amazon infrastructure: http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2009/04/experiences-deploying-large-scale.html
- salesforce.com: http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=732
O'Reilly on Facebook about Ward and wikis:
Abry – remove the Digg bar from your blog:
14 April 2009
Arrington – StumbleUpon's efficient use of resources (funding):
Mashable – Twitter tips for the workplace:
Rheingold – adaptivesemantics finds abusive language:
TechCrunch (Lacy) – all-in-one device?
Rheingold – The Company as Wiki:
Pavig - Adam Frisby on persistent vegetative simulation:
Sierra – RT gimmeshiny:
Shirky – the amazon troll's claim is untrue:
Pavig – finding alternative applications:
Mashable – marketing purple cows:
Shirky – #amazonfail came from bantown:
13 April 2009
TechCrunch - Twitter worm woes continue:
Tateru - Second Life for weak and broken?
Tateru - Piracy is not stealing:
Pavig - good article about Copyright:
TechCrunch - FriendFeed better than Facebook:
Mashable – web design toolbox:
Gwyneth – Social Networking Fatigue:
Twitter about their worms:
Mashable – another twitter worm:
12 April 2009
O'Reilly – YouTube is doomed:
O'Reilly – Where 2.0:
Descary – a script to reduce noise on FriendFeed beta:
Rheingold – tweetbots:
Mashable – StalkDaily founder claims to have produced worm:
TechCrunch & Mashable – Twitter hit by StalkDaily worm:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/11/twitter-hit-by-stalkdaily-worm/
- http://mashable.com/2009/04/11/stalkdaily/
- http://mashable.com/2009/04/11/stalkdaily-twitter/
Mashable – blocking the Diggbar:
Rheingold – animated history of Internet:
TechCrunch – blog authority and the statusphere:
Mashable – Facebook applications for productivity and learning:
1938media – the Sanger-Wales conflict continues:
11 April 2009
Cloud – Axiis, an open source data visualization framework:
- http://michaelvandaniker.com/blog/2009/04/10/axiis-a-different-kind-of-data-visualization-framework/
Pressecitron – increase the number of pages seen on a blog:
Abry – Pirate Bay launches IPredator, VPN for anonymous downloading:
Entretien avec Vincent Abry:
Vincent Abry – free Bumtop for 3D desktop:
O'Reilly – Nexus identifies friend clusters on Twitter:
Pressecitron – control your image on the web:
O'Reilly – Designing Social Interfaces, a wiki that is becoming a book:
Shirky plugs DropBox "increased utility of cloud."
Mashable – the new Bebo:
TechCrunch – Google earth flythroughs:
Rheingold – computer literacy means learning to think critically about the Internet:
Pavig – Your business card is crap:
1938media says vbulletin is than wordpress (but maybe he got paid to say it)
Sierra – Eric Reis on start-ups "built to learn":
01 April 2009
Mashable's April Fool roundup:
Mashable – live twitter and stay productive:
Only he forgot to explain how to stay productive despite spending all your time in twitter…
TechCrunch – April Fools roundup:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/01/april-fools-youtube-flails-amazon-cloud-computing-in-a-blimp-3d-chrome-browsing-google-master-ai/
- http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/01/general-mills-enters-tech-news-space-with-acquisition-of-crunchgear/
Mashable – twitter comics:
TechCrunch – hack an after-party:
TechCrunch – Twitter to kill of autofollow:
Rheingold's vlog:
Rheingold – Evolver, a new social networking site from Reality Sandwich:
Mashable - Yahoo Sideline, an Open Source Desktop Twitter Keyword Monitor:
Gwyn – Polish Republic shuts down:
Sierra tweets DjangoPony:
Mashable and TechCrunch – MySpace and CitySearch team up to challenge Yelp:
- http://mashable.com/2009/03/31/myspace-local/
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/31/myspace-citysearch-partner-to-create-myspace-local/
Mashable and TechCrunch – wikia kills its google killer:
- http://mashable.com/2009/03/31/wikia-search-closed/
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/31/jimmy-wales-deadpools-wikia-search/
Tateru – Philip's Open Source viewer programme (with mention of Jacek):
Gwyn – one of her employees posts about BetaTech:
Mashable – twitter causes site crashes:
Mashable – Maslow and tweets:
TechCrunch – Tinker offers micropayments to microbloggers:
Mashable and TechCrunch – Facebook and Adobe Flash team up:
- http://mashable.com/2009/03/30/facebook-adobe-flash/
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/31/facebook-hooks-up-with-adobe-for-richer-social-applications-in-flash/
TechCrunch – Tinker, a Twitter "Events" firehose:
Rheingold – Howard's dream office:
Mashable – Twitter replies become mentions:

