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==30 April 2009==

TC – Feldman's Wall Street movie:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/29/wall-street-20-the-twitter-script/

TC - Chrome videos:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/29/a-couple-chrome-videos/


==29 April 2009==

O'Reilly – we erase and rewrite our memories evey time we call them:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/your-brain-is-forgetting.html

O'Reilly – web transparent but cloud not:
*http://www.geek.com/articles/news/fourteen-universities-to-study-cloud-computing-with-5m-grant-20090427/

Abry – social media marketing tips:
*http://www.toprankblog.com/2009/04/social-media-marketing-tips/

Cloud – Business Intelligence vs the Platform:
*http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/all/business-intelligence-workgroups-vs-the-platform/?cs=32113

TC – Facebook opens its stream API to developers:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/27/facebook-opens-up-its-stream-api-to-developers/

Boo – Wordpress with memcache:
*http://www.mrboo.fr/wordpress-en-mode-turbo-avec-memcache-et-pecl/

Rfly - 1980 games:
*http://www.1980-games.com/

Labarre – Concentrate analyses your Google key words:
*http://www.2803.fr/logiciel/concentrate-pour-analyser-vos-mots-cles-google-5667/

PresseCitron: Performics study of Social Media:
*http://www.docstoc.com/docs/5229293/SocialMedia_EvolutionOuRevolution_Performics_Adtech09

Castera – SL à Oloron:
*http://www.david-castera.com/2009/04/il-ne-fait-pas-bon-faire-le-coq-a-oloron-sainte-marie/

Cloud – Bigram counts on tweets:
*http://anyall.org/blog/2009/04/performance-comparison-keyvalue-stores-for-language-model-counts/

Cloud – first impressions of Wolfram Alpha:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wolframalpha_our_first_impressions.php

==28 April 2009==
Mashable – using Facebook privacy settings:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/28/facebook-privacy-settings/

Mashable – register domain names on twitter:
*http://tweetname.com/

Arrington uses instapaper for easiest bookmarking:
*http://www.instapaper.com/

Mashable - Why you need social media:
*http://blog.asmartbear.com/blog/why-you-have-to-engage-in-social-media-even-if-you-dont-want.html

Mashable – Oyang on the future of the social web:
*http://blog.asmartbear.com/blog/why-you-have-to-engage-in-social-media-even-if-you-dont-want.html

==26 April 2009==
Rheingold – Japanese women invent cell-phone novels:
*http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/22/081222fa_fact_goodyear?currentPage=all

Pavig – Sugar (learning environment) on a stick (USB):
*http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/sugar-labs-releases-beta-of-live-usb-learning-environment.ars

Kuchner – world's smallest bodybuilder:
*http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?cl=13145642

Rheingold – Picocool:
*http://picocool.com/

1938media calls O'Reilly's twitter book the "scam of the day":
*http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/24/the-twitter-book-by.html

Mashable- Google imitates Digg:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/25/igadget-digg/

Shute – Dave Winer on the killer app that will replace twitter:
*http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/04/24/theNextKillerAppIsToTwitte.html

1938media – Project Diaspora is against Kuchner's mosquito nets:
*http://projectdiaspora.org/2009/04/16/celebrity-stunts-of-altruistism-are-killing-livelihoods-in-africa/

Shute - "Wow @pachube has hit 2 million API requests per day":
*http://www.pachube.com/

Notomodunwa – Google invests in Drupal:
*http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/google-invests-us-90000-in-drupal-004458.php

Notomodunwa disagrees with 1938media:
*http://twitter.com/notomodungwa/status/1612494376

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:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/24/dropbox-now-effortlessly-syncing-files-for-1-million-members/

TC – isthisyourluggage:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/24/creepy-alert-isthisyourluggagecom/

TC – Cloudclick lets you migrate Amazon Machine Images to Slicehost:
*http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/04/24/cloudkick-now-lets-you-migrate-your-amazon-machine-images-to-slicehost/

==25 April 2009==
Mashable – Twitter Followholics:
*http://mashable.com/2009/03/10/twitter-followholic/

TC – AlertFox web application monitoring tool:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/24/alertfox-launches-powerful-web-application-monitoring-tool-freebies-here/

Mashable – Facebook democracy:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/24/facebook-democracy-2/

Mashable – read ppt with gmail:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/23/gmail-online-viewer/

Mashable - Addicted to Facebook:
*http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/23/ep.facebook.addict/

Mashable – twine reader:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/23/twine-reader/

Mashable – what happened to Mike when Mashable tweeted:
*http://www.mikeslife.org/content/when-mashable-tweets

==24 April 2009==
Rfly – how to make a baby:
*http://www.otherthings.com/howtobaby/

Descary – Gantter, a free web project manager:
*http://descary.com/gantter-un-gestionnaire-de-projet-web-gratuit/

Boo (RT) – Twitter Job Search:
*http://www.twitterjobsearch.com/

Boo (RT) – Education Fail:
*[http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/1363/chvalz.jpg chvalz.jpg]

Pressecitron – sites about writing on the web (in French):
*http://www.presse-citron.net/15-sites-incontournables-sur-lecriture-pour-le-web-et-les-blogs

Boo – twitteuses:
*http://blog.brasseo.net/2009/04/23/10-twitteuses-a-ne-pas-manquer/

Labarre- converts files online for free:
*http://www.2803.fr/logiciel/convertir-des-fichiers-en-ligne-gratuitement-5651/

Cloud – comparing Cloud platforms:
*http://charltonb.typepad.com/weblog/2009/04/comparing-the-cloud-platforms.html

Cloud – VMware's vSphere, an OS for the Cloud:
*http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/04/vSphere

Cloud – Oracle's Red Cloud:
*http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/a-vision-for-oracles-cloud-platform-the-red-cloud/

Cloud – Sun purchase crashes Oracle website:
*http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=740

Donkey – GoAdv and leguide.com:
*http://www.journaldunet.com/ebusiness/breve/france/38362/l-offre-de-goadv-sur-leguide-com-parait-mal-engagee.shtml

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):
*http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/04/hashmobs.php

Kapor – Mozilla as hybrid organisation:
*http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/what-is-a-hybrid-organization/

TC – Tweetbomb (brought to you by the Singularity):
*http://singularityhub.com/2009/04/22/tweetbomb-a-tweet-to-shake-the-world/

TC – Orange partners with Wikipedia:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/22/the-french-come-calling-for-wikipedia-orange-strikes-mobile-deal/

Rubaiyat – Trubetskoy's "Lights":
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzfIDrL6eC4

Mashable – bad facebook manners (spoof):
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/22/facebook-manners/

Rheingold - Berkeley's Opinion Space Maps Online Comments
*http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/social_network/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217000197&sub$

Rheingold – Giussani on how internet (links) affects writing:
*http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/521/442

Rheingold – companies using Second Life:
*http://www.strategy-business.com/li/leadingideas/li00121

Mashable – tweeting too hard:
*http://tweetingtoohard.com/

Rheingold – Kelly's 9 laws (1994):
* http://wholeearth.com/issue/1330/article/338/the.nine.laws.of.god

Rheingold – Millenium Whole Earth Catalogue for $5:
*http://wholeearth.com/issue/1330/

==22 April 2009==
Cloud – connect your GoogleSpreadsheet data sources:
*http://vimeo.com/4275393

Labarre – Formation LinkedIn:
*http://www.centre-info.com/podmedia/category/formation-linkedin/

Labarre – Google Analytics is an API:
*http://www.2803.fr/internet/google-analytics-lapi-que-tout-le-monde-attendait-arrive-5643/

Abry – Trial:
*http://www.vincentabry.com/video-de-trial-exceptionnel-danny-macaskill-4682

O'Reilly – Eric Ries lean startup talk:
*http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x91fxp_stivostin-je-veux-travailler_music

Pressecitron – Stivostin needs a job:
*http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x91fxp_stivostin-je-veux-travailler_music

Shute - RedMonk on Oracle buying Sun:
*http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/04/21/settingsun/

TC – Netbase semantic indexing:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/22/netbase-offers-powerful-semantic-indexing-platform-that-reads-the-web/

Shute – ReactionGrid premieres realXtend:
*http://maxping.org/business/news/reactiongrid-premieres-realxtend.aspx

TC – Lacy says stop the hype cycle:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/19/bloggers-let’s-band-together-and-stop-the-hype-cycle/

TC – Whiskeymedia article on tech news:
*http://www.whiskeymedia.com/the-iconoclastic-business-problem

Sierra – In defense of eye candy, on A List Apart:
*http://www.alistapart.com/articles/indefenseofeyecandy

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:
*http://digitalopen.org/

Rheingold – Open Money:
*http://www.openmoney.org/

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:
*http://laptoplogic.com/resources/64-things-every-geek-should-know

Mashable – protecting your online identity:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/21/protecting-online-identity/

Rheingold – Mark Elliott on stigmery and wikis:
*http://mark-elliott.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/elliott_phd_pub_081007.pdf

Mashable – bloggers for hire:
*http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124026415808636575.html

Kutcher – KatalystHQ web series:
*http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090421005477&newsLang=en

Mashable – Godin on life is broken:
*http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/21/modern-life-is-broke.html

Mashable – how to make a message go viral:
*http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/135/made-to-stick-getting-your-ideas-to-fly.html

Shute – Sun Spot world (internet sensors by Sun):
*http://www.sunspotworld.com

==21 April 2009==
Bevan – Dusan on Google moving towards the 3d browser:
*http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/04/21/google-3d-take-two-moving-towards-the-3d-browser/

Sarkozy on Digg:
*http://digg.com/d1pAe6

Cloud – peeping into Twitter memcached:
*http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2009/04/20/peeping-into-memcached/

O'Reilly – Sterling says connectivity is poverty:
*http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19wwln-medium-t.html?_r=1

O'Reilly – venture hacks:
*http://venturehacks.com/articles/vertical-markets

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:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/21/lure-in-users-with-your-trackle-box/

TC – Calcanis on how to get into TechCrunch50:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/jason-calacanis-on-how-to-get-into-techcrunch50/

Rheingold – attention literacy:
*http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/rheingold/index?blogid=108

Shute RT Rheingold – what will you build in superstructed reality?
*http://play.signtific.org/node/12992#tyf09

Mashable – reminder, Bebo lifestreaming:
*http://mashable.com/2009/02/23/bebo-lifestreaming/

Mashable – two new Googlelabs projects:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/20/google-labs-makeover/

From a comment on Tateru's blog - Underlord on the limits of Second Life:
*http://thewordfrombelow.blogspot.com/2009/04/general-future-of-second-life.html

==20 April 2009==
Kapor – Chen on freemium:
*http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/04/20/3-key-ideas-from-a-recent-freemium-dinner-conversation/

Mashable – Twitter revolution:
*http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124000817787330413.html

TechCrunch – Hoffman's 3 rules for internet start-ups:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/19/reid-hoffman-my-rule-of-three-for-investing/

Mashable – check your username of 140 sites with knowem:
*http://knowem.com/

Pavig – Foolish Frost asks how to export content from SL:
*http://rezzable.com/blog/foolish-frost/expanding-horizons-virtual-worlds

Mashable – someone hacks Google for torrent searches:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/20/google-torrent-search/

Tateru – Czeret explains texture layers:
*http://seshat-czeret.blogspot.com/2009/04/theory-of-second-life-skin-and-clothing.html

TC – Oracle to buy Sun:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/oracle-to-buy-sun-hold-on-to-your-hats/

TC – Prezi for online presentations:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/prezi-is-the-coolest-online-presentation-tool-ive-ever-seen/

Mashable – Oyang on how mainstream attention will change Twitter:
*http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/04/19/what-happens-when-twitter-gets-mainstream-attention/

==17 April 2009==
Mashable – Pirate Bay found guilty:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/17/pirate-bay-verdict/

Mashable – visual guide to Twitter:
*[http://applicant.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/tweetcurrency1.jpg tweetcurrency]

TC – Product Planner maps how big websites function:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/16/go-with-the-flow-product-planner-maps-out-how-the-webs-most-popular-sites-function/

UgoTrade: environmental discourses in human-computer interaction:
*http://www.confectious.net/thinking/archives/2009/04/environmental-d.html

TC – AOL to take of Facebook Connect with lifestreaming and chat:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/16/its-a-socialthing-aols-plan-to-take-on-facebook-connect-with-lifestreaming-and-chat/

Mashable – pros to follow on Twitter:
*http://www.blogtrepreneur.com/2009/04/15/45-pros-you-should-be-following-on-twitter/

Mashable – Twitter's local monetization strategy:
*http://www.localsearchnews.net/twitter-the-local-monetization-strategy/

Mashable – social media news sites:
*http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/04/01/niche-social-media-news-websites/

Twitter in a spreadsheet:
*http://www.elliottkember.com/spreadtweet.html

TechCrunch – McKinsey's cloudy report on cloud computing:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/16/mckinseys-cloud-computing-report-is-partly-cloudy/

==16 April 2009==
Daniel Broche: Magento Enterprise Edition:
*http://www.programme-tv.net/news-tv/buzz/4967-buzz-susan-boyle-video/#

Donkey: villain canard:
*http://www.programme-tv.net/news-tv/buzz/4967-buzz-susan-boyle-video/#

Cloud – the Allosphere:
*http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joann_kuchera_morin_tours_the_allosphere.html

Cloud – 5 pillars of cloud:
*http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/04/Pillars

O'Reilly – build deeper connections on Twitter:
*http://www.twitip.com/6-tips-for-building-deeper-connections-with-twitter/

Richard (Tapahonte) – Campus In-World:
*http://mondes-virtuels.stonfield-inworld.com/social-campus-reunions-virtuelles/

TC – Keen says web 2.0 is fucked:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/16/interview-with-andrew-keen-at-the-next-web-2009-web-20-is-fcked/

Pavig – Stallman comments on Dune – SL conflict:
*http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/04/enforcers-of-dune.html?cid=6a00d8341bf74053ef011570211174970b#comment-6a00d8341bf74053ef011570211174970b

Mashable – revise emails:
*http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/silverman/2009/04/how-to-revise-an-email-so-that.html

Rheingold – Federman on multiple media literacies:
*http://individual.utoronto.ca/markfederman/WhyJohnnyandJaneyCantRead.pdf

TC – Microsoft plugs Cashback into its products engine:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/15/microsoft-tries-to-re-energize-cashback-by-plugging-it-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:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/15/universal-search-takes-off-kosmix-posts-419-growth-in-march/

Mashable – social media and SEO:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/15/social-media-seo/

UgoTrade – new magazine for open source virtual worlds:
*http://www.maxping.org

TC – Digg offers compromise on Diggbar:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/15/despite-huge-activity-digg-offers-a-compromise-on-diggbar/

Tateru – Bettina Tizzy on Blue Mars:
*http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-answers-and-more-questions.html

TechCrunch – DIY social network Grou.ps adds ranking system:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/15/diy-social-network-groups-adds-ranking-system-to-assign-privileges-to-contributors/

Shirky – the failure of Amazonfail:
*http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/04/the-failure-of-amazonfail/

TechCrunch – why Amazonfail was not a glitch:
* http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/14/guest-post-why-amazon-didnt-just-have-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:
*http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/04/50-excellent-corporate-website-designs/

Kronos – host Twiddla meetings on your website:
*http://www.twiddla.com/API/Reference.aspx

Gwyneth – Tessa Harrington's business-oriented OpenSim grid:
*http://spoton3d.com/

Rheingold – fear of twitter:
*http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/04/14/fear-of-twitter-technophobia-part-2/

Mashable – Facebook can get you evicted:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/14/facebook-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:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/14/in-quest-for-real-revenue-from-virtual-goods-hi5-teams-up-with-playspan/

Mashable – Social media data visualizations:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/14/data-visualizations-social-media/

==15 April 2009==

Françoise - Oddcast:
*http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php

Cloud – O'Reilly on the Sensor Web:
*http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Tim_O_Reilly_on_Twitter__Yahoo_and_the_Coming__Sensor_Web_

Cloud – Amazonfail and data:
*http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/amazonfail-shows-data-matters-too/

Cloud – Google App Engine Datastore:
*http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/04/14/UnderTheCoversOfGoogleAppEngineDatastore.aspx

O'Reilly – making a Pong:
*http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/code/category/Processing/454

O'Reilly – Ubuntu and Cloud computing:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/karmic-koalas-love-eucalyptus.html

Descary – tweets sur Evernote:
*http://descary.com/transformez-un-tweet-en-note-sur-evernote/

O'Reilly – Make:
*http://www.makezine.com/

Abry – RankSense:
*http://www.ranksense.com/

Abry - galaxy mindboggle:
*[http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg spaceb]

Abry – Windows XP enters final phase:
*http://www.clubic.com/actualite-270332-fin-phase-principale-support-windows-xp.html

Descary – Twazzup:
*http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twazzup_a_better_twitter_search_engine.php

O'Reilly – Wikipedia votes on move to CC attribution share-alike license:
*http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13967

O'Reilly – build your own iPhone app:
*http://training.oreilly.com/introiphoneapp/

@gnat – 4chan manipulates Time poll:
*http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/13/hacking-recommenders/

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:
*http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=544591116&v=feed&story_fbid=68902741305

Abry – remove the Digg bar from your blog:
*http://www.bloggingtips.com/2009/04/13/how-to-remove-the-digg-bar-from-your-blog-using-php/

==14 April 2009==
Arrington – StumbleUpon's efficient use of resources (funding):
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/14/stumbleupon-a-case-study-in-the-efficient-allocation-of-resources/

Mashable – Twitter tips for the workplace:
*http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/162943/10_twitter_tips_for_the_workplace.html

Rheingold – adaptivesemantics finds abusive language:
*http://adaptivesemantics.com/home/demo

TechCrunch (Lacy) – all-in-one device?
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/13/are-super-smart-phones-still-too-dumbis-the-all-in-one-device-dream-doomed/

Rheingold – The Company as Wiki:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_jhLGxH-m4&feature=player_embedded

Pavig - Adam Frisby on persistent vegetative simulation:
*http://www.adamfrisby.com/blog/2009/04/persistent-vegetative-simulation/

Sierra – RT gimmeshiny:
*http://gimmeshiny.com/

Shirky – the amazon troll's claim is untrue:
*http://bryant.livejournal.com/672165.html

Pavig – finding alternative applications:
*http://alternativeto.net/

Mashable – marketing purple cows:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/13/social-media-gimmicks/

Shirky – #amazonfail came from bantown:
*http://tehdely.livejournal.com/88823.html?thread=253943#t253943

==13 April 2009==
TechCrunch - Twitter worm woes continue:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/13/twitter-worm-woes-continue-fourth-round-of-attacks-by-mickeyy/

Tateru - Second Life for weak and broken?
*http://commonsensible.net/2009/04/second-life-land-of-weak-home-of-broken.html

Tateru - Piracy is not stealing:
*http://dwellonit.blogspot.com/2009/04/piracy-is-stealing-not.html

Pavig - good article about Copyright:
*http://www.lifehack.org/articles/management/shattering-a-few-myths-about-copyright.html

TechCrunch - FriendFeed better than Facebook:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/12/you-will-be-using-friendfeed-in-the-future-but-it-may-be-called-facebook/

Mashable – web design toolbox:
*http://mashable.com/2008/11/05/web-design-toolbox/

Gwyneth – Social Networking Fatigue:
*http://cbs4.com/local/twitter.facebook.user.2.981847.html

Twitter about their worms:
*http://blog.twitter.com/2009/04/wily-weekend-worms.html

Mashable – another twitter worm:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/12/mikeyy-another-twitter-worm-on-the-loose/

==12 April 2009==
O'Reilly – YouTube is doomed:
*http://www.businessinsider.com/is-youtube-doomed-2009-4

O'Reilly – Where 2.0:
*http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/becoming-location-aware-where.html

Descary – a script to reduce noise on FriendFeed beta:
*http://descary.com/un-script-pour-reduire-le-bruit-sur-friendfeed-beta/

Rheingold – tweetbots:
*http://www.tweenbots.com/

Mashable – StalkDaily founder claims to have produced worm:
*http://www.bnonews.com/news/242.html

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:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/11/diggbar-pros-cons/

Rheingold – animated history of Internet:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4

TechCrunch – blog authority and the statusphere:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/10/are-blogs-losing-their-authority-to-the-statusphere/

Mashable – Facebook applications for productivity and learning:
*http://www.selectcourses.com/blog/2009/100-awesome-facebook-apps-for-productivity-and-learning/

1938media – the Sanger-Wales conflict continues:
*http://blog.shankbone.org/2009/04/09/larry-sanger-vs-jimmy-wales/

==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:
*http://www.presse-citron.net/9-methodes-pour-augmenter-le-nombre-de-pages-vues-dun-blog

Abry – Pirate Bay launches IPredator, VPN for anonymous downloading:
*http://www.vincentabry.com/ipredator-de-pirate-bay-un-vpn-pour-le-telechargement-anonyme-4376

Entretien avec Vincent Abry:
*http://www.webmarketing-com.com/2009/04/10/3323-vincent-abry-un-oeil-sur-la-blogosphere-episode-7

Vincent Abry – free Bumtop for 3D desktop:
*http://www.vincentabry.com/telecharger-bumtop-le-desktop-en-3d-4599

O'Reilly – Nexus identifies friend clusters on Twitter:
*http://apps.facebook.com/_nexus_/

Pressecitron – control your image on the web:
*http://www.presse-citron.net/identite-numerique-10-regles-simples-pour-controler-son-image-sur-internet

O'Reilly – Designing Social Interfaces, a wiki that is becoming a book:
*http://www.designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns.wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Shirky plugs DropBox "increased utility of cloud."

Mashable – the new Bebo:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/10/bebo-growth/

TechCrunch – Google earth flythroughs:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/10/google-earth-flythroughs-come-to-the-browser/

Rheingold – computer literacy means learning to think critically about the Internet:
*http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/rheingold/detail?entry_id=38313

Pavig – Your business card is crap:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk

1938media says vbulletin is than wordpress (but maybe he got paid to say it)

Sierra – Eric Reis on start-ups "built to learn":
*http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/04/built-to-learn.html

==01 April 2009==
Mashable's April Fool roundup:
*http://mashable.com/2009/04/01/april-fools-09/

Mashable – live twitter and stay productive:
*http://mashable.com/2009/02/09/twitter-productivity/
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:
*http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/50-twitter-comic-strips/

TechCrunch – hack an after-party:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/31/guest-post-hack-an-afterparty-an-exercise-in-entrepreneurship/

TechCrunch – Twitter to kill of autofollow:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/31/twitter-to-kill-off-the-auto-follow/

Rheingold's vlog:
*http://vlog.rheingold.com/

Rheingold – Evolver, a new social networking site from Reality Sandwich:
*http://realitysandwich.com/
*http://www.evolver.net/

Mashable - Yahoo Sideline, an Open Source Desktop Twitter Keyword Monitor:
*http://mashable.com/2009/03/31/yahoo-sideline/

Gwyn – Polish Republic shuts down:
*http://ayumicassini.blogspot.com/2009/03/goodbye-polish-republic.html

Sierra tweets DjangoPony:
*http://www.djangopony.com/

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):
*http://www.massively.com/2009/03/31/linden-lab-ramps-up-open-source-viewer-program/

Gwyn – one of her employees posts about BetaTech:
*http://inbetween-worlds.net/2009/03/31/the-jobs-i-have/

Mashable – twitter causes site crashes:
*http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/02/03/dawn-of-the-twitter-effect/

Mashable – Maslow and tweets:
*http://www.theinnovationdiaries.com/2009/03/24/the-hierarchy-of-tweets-analysing-the-psychology-of-twitter/

TechCrunch – Tinker offers micropayments to microbloggers:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/31/tinker-goes-live-and-offers-micro-payments-to-micro-bloggers/

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:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/30/tinker-gives-twitter-its-long-awaited-events-firehose/

Rheingold – Howard's dream office:
*http://blip.tv/file/1937429

Mashable – Twitter replies become mentions:
*http://mashable.com/2009/03/30/twitter-mentions/

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