Danton's Weblog 2009-05
From SLuserguide
31 May 2009
Below is a mash-up of the week I missed.
O'Reilly – Google advance in searchability of javascript and flash, is it enough?
O'Reilly – Amazon may open source cloud api's:
O'Reilly – Freebase, Amazon's social database:
O'Reilly – how to publish data:
- http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/05/26/a-conversation-with-eric-rodenbeck-about-usefully-cool-design-and-engineering/
- http://oakland.crimespotting.org/api
O'Reilly – Blist is now Socrata:
O'Reilly using Google Web Elements:
O'Reilly – run your apps on Google's AppEngine:
O'Reilly – hardcore browser:
Shute – Sterling at Wired on Pachube feeds:
Gwyneth – Signpostmarv's metaverse plugin for wordpress:
Kronos – Google News Timeline:
Shirky – Microsoft's bad karma:
Tateru – HDgraph:
Tateru – new Homestead policy:
Tateru – why the viewer screws up when you take a snapshot:
Tateru (RT Eric Rice) – WWW on Flock:
Mashable - Social Media resources for developers:
Mashable - Twitter will change US business:
Mashable - GoogleWave Guide:
Mashable - Google Wave + Twitter = Twave:
Mashable - Digg adds twitter and facebook sharing:
Mashable - One tweet over the line:
Mashable - 20 Facebook tips:
Mashable - Goolge analytics for twitter traffic:
TC - Blekko search takes on Google:
TC - Spymaster twitter game:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/28/spymaster-the-twitter-game-that-will-assassinate-your-time/
- and backlash: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/29/spy-vs-spy-the-spymaster-backlash-begins-and-twitter-needs-to-fix-it/
TC - Bing Is Not Google:
TC - SourceForge Acquires Open Source Data Community Ohloh:
TC - GoogleWave combines email and IM:
TC - Embet widgets everywhere with Google's web elements:
TC - Viralheat measures real-time social content:
TC - Connect your thoughts tothe mindex with Imindi:
25 May 2009
Mashable – Sarah Evans on how to pitch Mashable:
O'Reilly RT – Huffinton on the twitter classroom:
Descary - Partager vos flux avec vos contacts sur GoogleReader:
Pressecitron – websites tendance:
Cloud – Axiis open source data visualization:
Cloud – Yahoo tests Hadoop:
- http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/hadoop/2009/05/hadoop_sorts_a_petabyte_in_162.html
- http://hadoop.apache.org/core/
Cloud via Governor – Carr on Google's data center:
- http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/04/google_lifts_it.php
- http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2009/05/22/cloud-computing-on-structural-advantages-and-lessons-from-history-emcworld/
Cloud – Enterprise 2.0:
Cloud - 1-9-90 rule: 1% of your population will create content, 9% will comment or engage with it, and 90% will just browse.
Descary via Tran citing Nick Carr – Timeswire:
24 May 2009
O'Reilly – Googlenomics:
Mashable – creating custom twitter backgrounds:
Pavig – thoughts about SL permission system:
- Dusan: http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/05/23/linden-lab-needs-to-think-tank-perms-and-the-world/
- Jacek: http://tentacolor.com/2009/05/21/permissions-and-choices/
- Grace: http://phasinggrace.blogspot.com/2009/05/second-life-killer-apps-and-weak-ties.html
Mashable Getting a video camera this weekend. Choice between Flip Mino HD & Kodak Zi6. Which is best?
O'Reilly – redesigning the front page of Talking Points Memo:
23 May 2009
TC – make your Google analytics public:
O'Reilly – Chief Conversation Officers:
Kronos - Daden announces Datascape, an information war room for the virtual world (Second Life):
TC – Twine bigger than FriendFeed:
Descary – convertir pdf en word ou excel:
Pressecitron – des bons titres pour son blog:
Descary – photos for your blog:
- istockphoto (cheap): http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php
- photoXpress (free): http://www.photoxpress.com/Info/FAQ
22 May 2009
AlKronos - Joining the Open Cobalt Ning group... (and noting @malburns is here! Hi Mal!)
TC – Streamy is Google plus FriendFeed:
Tateru – Evolver to create a 3D avatar of yourself:
TC – google friend connect integrated with netlog:
Mashable – create a twitter profile in google analytics:
Shirky – Amazon 3 wolf moon t-shirt (read the comments):
Mashable – evolution of social media api:
O'Reilly – mindcasting on twitter: http://jayrosen.tumblr.com/post/110043432/mindcasting-defining-the-form-spreading-the-meme
Mozilla jetpack:
- TC - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/20/strap-in-mozillas-jetpack-may-be-the-next-step-in-browser-extensions/
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/05/20/jetpack-mozilla/
Shirky – Google maps data api:
Mashable – build your personal brand on twitter:
Facebook's new apps directory is live:
- TC – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/19/facebook-verified-apps-rolling-out-tomorrow/
- Mashable – http://mashable.com/2009/05/20/facebook-application-directory-new/
- TC again - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/20/a-stroll-through-facebooks-new-app-directory/
21 May 2009
Rfly – top ten mistakes inventors make:
Pressecitron – searchmotive cherche dans les réseaux sociaux:
Cloud – elegance:
Pressecitron – profitez de la notoriete des autres:
MrBoo – travailleurs du web:
- http://www.travailleursduweb.com/index.php
- première expérience ecommerce: http://www.travailleursduweb.com/2009/05/19/ma-premiere-experience-de-commerce.html
Descary – Google sites (service de wiki):
MrBoo – version française du graphe Enberg: http://twitpic.com/5htab
Dauran - hallucinations auditives:
Dauran: le blog de Gally:
20 May 2009
TC – iText open source program for PDF:
Mashable – Juice sidebar for Firefox:
Mashable – back up your twitter archive (on "make use of"):
Mashable – 50 free social media icon sets:
Shute – code flickr about maps:
Mashable – rise of social music:
Google adds Friends' Trends to Reader:
Shute – Google Earth flight simulator:
Orban – old jews telling jokes:
TC – European social network Netlog (for "young people"):
Mashable – twitter business cards:
TwtBizCard, visit the site and connect your Twitter account with the app using OAuth.
TC – what's new at Yahoo:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/19/live-from-yahoos-end-of-the-10-blue-links-talk/
- Search Monkey: http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/
- BOSS: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
Arrington – login to Crunchbase, use your twitter handle:
Rheingold – attention scarcity:
"Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it" Power browsing…
Ross (O'Reilly) – what Google knows about you:
O'Reilly – programmers hack hardware:
TC- AdaptiveBlue Enhances Sticky Web Browser Companion Glue With API:
Tateru – MetaverseOz on SL retrospective:
Ev – FastCompany list of 100 most creative people in business:
19 May 2009
Cloud - Google's enterprise stategy (for their apps):
Cloud – Erlang and Yet Another Web Server:
Cloud – Amazon EC2:
- http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2009/05/amazon_cloudwatch.html
- http://blog.rightscale.com/2009/05/18/amazon-load-balancing-monitoring-auto-scaling/
MrBoo – portfolio of Steaw (François le Pichon):
Ev – Seth Simonds unfollowed 45,000 people:
Mashable – Twitter sees tools not ads for revenue:
O'Reilly – ship simulator on Google Earth:
O'Reilly – Technology bill of rights:
Facebook embraces open ID:
- TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/18/facebook-becomes-largest-openid-relying-party/
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/05/18/facebook-openid-2/
Amazon rolls out cloud management for EC2:
Mashable – Facebook's future is Facebook Connect:
TechCrunch – Gnip moves data from one social platform to another:
Mashable – Twitter apps for multiple accounts:
KathySierra - "Popularity" DEEPLY useful for driving resources. The most popular causes, hobbies, programming langs, etc. have more books, posts, vids...
18 May 2009
MrBoo - Amazon web services expand:
Mashable – free twitter backgrounds:
Shute – the fourth screen:
17 May 2009
Berreby – print green:
TC – stream vs. pages:
- http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/2009/05/17/search-engines-to-try-a-roundup-of-the-new-and-the-nifty/
Tateru reviews search engines:
- http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/2009/05/17/search-engines-to-try-a-roundup-of-the-new-and-the-nifty/
TC uses Akismet anti-spam plug-in for WordPress:
Mashable - Navegg calculates demographic profiles based on users’ online behaviour:
16 May 2009
Mashable – celebrity Facebook pages:
Descary – NY Times twitter wars:
Descary (RT) - recession lifts linkedin:
Cloud – change skills in business intelligence:
iMazine – wonderwheel mindmap de Google:
Abry – un fonds d'investissement collaborative:
Descary – web conferences on drop.io:
Donkey – Stand By Me:
Cloud – Google "squared" allows saving search in spreadsheet:
Descary (RT) – twitter icons:
MrBoo's micro-podcast:
15 May 2009
O'Reilly – cloud computing a natural conclusion of open source:
Mashable – Twitter sign-in comes to disqus:
Mashable - Google Blog Search competes with Technorati:
TC – Google Friend Connect:
Orban – gaming in 2030:
Shute - Wired on using Open Sim to simulate star clusters:
- http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/virtual-star-clusters/
- http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/07/19/astrophysics-in-virtual-worlds-implementing-n-body-simulations-in-opensim/
Arrington – internet addiction:
- Do any of you work: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/14/do-any-of-you-people-actually-work/
- Scoble: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/22/im-sorry-robert-but-its-time-for-a-friendfeed-intervention/
Sierra – how to design enjoyment:
Shute – locative media manifesto:
14 May 2009
Labarre – colorotate in 3D: http://webdesign.2803.com/couleur/une-palette-de-couleur-en-3d-cest-possible/
MrBoo: bit.ly traffic data:
Cloud RT problogger – 100 geeks to follow on twitter:
Rheingold: Ze Frank on grammar of DIY video.
Sierra – programmer rituals:
O'Reilly – credit card data mining:
O'Reilly – Google's rich snippets:
Mashable – Wall Street Journal conduct rules for using Twitter and Facebook:
MrBoo: repository for Debian LAMP:
MrBoo sur identi.ca:
Pressecitron –une pme doit avoir un blog:
Abry – twitscoop un outil du microblogging:
Abry – site references generated by social networks:
MrBoo – Yslow pour optimiser la vitesse de votre site:
Abry – faîtes votre tweetbook:
MrBoo – rush sur viedemome:
Mashable – applications for your Facebook page:
Mashable – create 3D social avatar:
Mashable – creative twitter icons:
Tateru's blog – SignpostMarv's WP plugins:
Mashable – Linux.com:
Twitter changes reply settings:
- Mashable: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/05/12/twitter-changes-reply-settings-again-users-protest/
- Mashable again: http://mashable.com/2009/05/13/fixreplies/
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/12/twitter-decides-were-not-smart-enough-for-replies-changes-them-again/
- Rick Mans (Cap Gemini): http://www.capgemini.com/technology-blog/2009/05/twitter_does_not_understand_di.php
Mashable – JetBlue's reply to Meaghano:
TC – FutureFeed:
Google and RDF:
- O'Reilly – Ian Davis says Google misses the point of open RDF: http://iandavis.com/blog/2009/05/googles-rdfa-a-damp-squib
- TechCrunch – a more structured web: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/12/google-takes-steps-towards-a-more-structured-web/
Geotagging photos in twitter:
- O'Reilly: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/05/06/the-absence-and-the-anchor/
- Shute: http://www.designundersky.com/dus/2008/10/31/geotagged-photo-cartography.html
13 May 2009
TC sponsor – mattermeter: http://www.mattermeter.com/flash/mattermeterwelcome.swf
TC – Google will crush Wolfram Alpha:
Mashable – change the world through social media:
O'Reilly – future of social technology:
Google news:
- Arrington: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/12/live-from-google-searchology/
- TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/12/google-launches-search-options-declares-real-time-search-biggest-challenge/
Sierra – advice for conference booths:
- http://thenonbillablehour.typepad.com/nonbillable_hour/2009/05/ten-rules-for-conference-vendors.html
Shute – longitudinal study of happiness:
Mashable – scamming twitter trends:
O'Reilly – strategy of discovery-driven growth:
O'Reilly – Performance based design with metrics:
O'Reilly – slideshare on Create More Value than You Capture:
- javascript:loadDataForSlide(1)
Mashable – GoalKeeper, a free hosted on-line project management tool, with emphasis on usability:
Turn WordPress into social network platform:
- Gwyneth – BuddyPress: *http://buddypress.org/
- Mashable – Blogs.mu: http://mashable.com/2009/05/11/blogsmu/
O'Reilly – Star Trek and "non-excludable" goods:
Mashable – lessons from WOW about social media success:
12 May 2009
AlKronos joined The ARCH Network on Ning.
Mashable – Prism for Firefox transforms web applications into desktop ones:
Shute – book "Identity in the age of cloud computing":
Cashmore - Yooouuutuuube.com
Sierra – graph paper napkins:
Sierra – visualcomplexity.com:
Gwyneth – high performance cache plug-in for WordPress:
Rheta Shan is dead:
11 May 2009
MrBoo: RWW France on bit.ly and twitter:
Descary – google trends on your blog:
Pressecitron – Pagerank for all the URL of your site:
Descary – transform a website into a desktop application with Mozilla prism:
Thanks to Pressecitron – Framasoft (et Alexis Kauffman):
Pressecitron – les bureaux des 20 top blogueurs français:
Berrebi - The new Twitterriffic is great.
Pressecitron (RT) – twtpoll:
Mashable – Wonderland remixed:
09 May 2009
TC – TwitDoc:
Shute – RWW on real time web:
TC – search goes real-time with Scoopler:
08 May 2009
O'Reilly – front-line mobile apps:
TC – video on the state of OpenID:
Gwyneth – SL the most used social media tool:
Rheingold – his students made this:
TC – Avatar Startup FUHU Strikes Deal With Acer To Put Widgets In PCs:
Mashable – seven deadly sins of social media (for branding):
TC - Schmidt On Netbooks: Forget Android, It’s All About Cloud Services
Gwyneth – online synthesizer:
O'Reilly – twitter runs Ruby on Rails on Linux machines:
TC – Stupefix launches API to generate videos:
Gwyneth - ideology-driven feature changes in SL (Prok threatened with suspension):
TC - FreshBooks Adds Collaboration Tool To Online Billing Service
O'Reilly – how to search the social web:
Tateru – exercise virtual fashion design in Frenzoo:
TC – Microsoft's Virtual Earth is better than GoogleEarth: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/07/where-awesomeness-meets-microsoft-integrates-photosynth-with-virtual-earth/
Tateru – Koster says avatars aren't tokens:
- http://www.massively.com/2009/05/07/tokens-matter/
- http://www.raphkoster.com/2009/05/06/avatars-arent-tokens/
07 May 2009
O'Reilly – Wolfram Alpha and SaaS:
Mashable – twitspeak:
O'Reilly – mechanical analogies to web:
Hrheingold @SharonG One of the reasons we created the social media classroom was that the forums in particular weren't adequate in Moodle or Sakai.
Mashable – track social networks with Google analytics:
O'Reilly – water footprint:
Rheingold: student-authored wiki textbook:
TC – Saracudah rips PayPerPost:
TC – the CrunchCam, with comments:
Abry – TwtAd:
Abry – Google Analytics blog:
Dauran – Google AdPlanner: http://adsense-fr.blogspot.com/2009/05/attirez-advantage-dannonceurs-sur-votre.html
Pressecitron – bloggueurs et billets sponsorisés:
Descary – free SEO grader for your site:
Mrboo RT @JCCapelli: RT @alexdc "Creating a startup is like jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down" -Reid Hoffman :D
Tapahonte: bateau de croisière écolo:
Bagatelles - consoglobe va commercialiser des ordinateurs & téléphones récupérés auprès d'entreprises et reconditionnés par Emmaüs:
06 May 2009
TC - Ning apps:
Rheingold – interactive multimedia tools:
Mashable – social media extensions for twitter:
Mashable – how to block Facebook photos of yourself:
TC office webcam:
O'Reilly – CSS navigation techniques:
TC – Google's next social step:
Mashable – alistapart on the Widom of Community:
Sierra – totally looks like:
TC – tweetmeme on the rise:
KathySierra:
- More #newbiepatterns-- Digital Photos: use histograms for shooting, Rule-of-thirds for cropping; Typography: learn to kern
- I also love "if you change only 1 thing..." newbie patterns. eg. adding "noseroom" to video makes amateur videos WAY better.
Intérroger les experts sur Newsy:
MrBoo – vinvin on hellotipi.tv:
Cloud - 37signals on using patterns in web design:
Tapahont – powersliding:
Rfly – Webevangelists parle de Twitter:
Dauran – wikio linkinfluence:
- http://labs.wikio.net/wikiopole/
- Pressecitron appelle le suivant "pompeur": http://www.vivanno.com/aggregator/?p=22852
Labarre – StartUp Academy:
Pressecitron – valoriser les commentaires:
Bagatelle – eCommerce Barcamp est une initiative de Olivier Martineau de 42stores et de Didier Glémarec de Leadshare:
Cloud – 5 elements of Business Intelligence:
05 May 2009
TC – SeeWhy tracks website abandoners:
Shute – introduce your toaster to your smoke alarm:
TC – Google reader fails at social thing:
Mashable's blippr plus Glue:
O'Reilly – Ignite:
Gwyneth on Yahoo's MyBlogLog and IntenseDebate:
- http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/GwynethLlewelyn/
- http://www.intensedebate.com/people/GwynethLlewelyn
O'Reilly – Apple gatekeeping (and their deal with ATT not to replace the dongle):
TC – top ten tech blogs:
Rheingold - the Doors of Perception newsletter:
Shute – ReadWriteWeb on Pachube:
Mashable – Protoshare for online collaborative prototyping:
O'Reilly – Saul Griffith's green products:
Facebook live in real-time:
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/?p=120216&preview=true
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/04/facebook-were-doing-it-live-sort-of/
04 May 2009
Bagatelles – ecommerce barcamp:
Bagatelles – what would Google do?
Berreby adds himself to the wefollow directory under #entrepreneur #judaism #internet:
Rheingold – Powers of Place:
Gwyneth joins some twibes:
Rheingold – twitter as social media case study:
Gwyneth trying SignpostMarv's first WordPress plugin that integrates with SL.
Mashable – 7 ways to create your social start page:
Rheingold – Larry Page commencement address:
Shute – Lilypad sew-in radio:
Mashable – twitter manners:
Shute – NYC resistor, a "hacking collective":
Gwyneth – ten page (!) article on social website overload:
Gwyneth – twitter grader for Second Life:
Mashable – let workers text and twitter:
TC – follow tech news on techmeme:
Mashable – social media has trouble monetizing outside of US:
Mashable – is RSS dead?
O'Reilly – iTunes applications store one-hit wonders:
TC – grow your blog:
Rheingold – your brain on Google:
Kutcher, Mashable: - Seesmic desktop:
O'Reilly - "kid driven" Destination Imagination:
O'Reilly – the man who made FriendFeed:
me_conversation.php
03 May 2009
O'Reilly – Wired FAQ about the Google book settlement:
O'Reilly – workshop on hacking as a way of knowing:
Mashable - 356,300,000 views on YouTube for Crank Dat music video by Soldier Boy
02 May 2009
TC – Google's enterprise cloud strategy:
O'Reilly – twitter dreams:
Rheingold – living with social media:
TC - Fixya adds product recommendations:
Link on TC site – Boonex Dolphin free community software:
01 May 2009
Abry – twitter integration on blogs:
Berreby – opensource mind-maps:
Berreby – Korben posts that Twitter gets hacked:
- http://www.korben.info/twitter-vu-de-linterieur-interface-admin-piratee.html
- http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/164182/hacker_i_broke_into_twitter.html
Om Malik:
Orban - Lessig's Remix is now CC and free:
Tateru – Anshe sells virtual voices:
TC - Buddypress adds a social layer to Wordpress
Mashable – personal branding:
Kutcher – big ball knockouts:
TC – techies on Time's most influential list:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/30/times-100-most-influential-people-includes-4chan-and-twitter-creators/
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/27/time-magazine-throws-up-its-hands-as-it-gets-pwned-by-4chan/
Rheingold - building a community information hub:
TC – Aroxo haggling engine targets eBay:

