Danton's Weblog 2009-04

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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:

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:

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:

Rheingold – DigitalOpen with Sun – if you're 17 or under:

Rheingold – Open Money:

Google yourself (Google profiles):

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:

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:

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 –

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:

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:

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:

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:

Mashable and TechCrunch – wikia kills its google killer:

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:

TechCrunch – Tinker, a Twitter "Events" firehose:

Rheingold – Howard's dream office:

Mashable – Twitter replies become mentions:

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