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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:

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:

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:

Cloud via Governor – Carr on Google's data center:

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:

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:

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:

Shirky – Google maps data api:

Mashable – build your personal brand on twitter:

Facebook's new apps directory is live:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

Tateru reviews search engines:

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:

Arrington – internet addiction:

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 – JetBlue's reply to Meaghano:

TC – FutureFeed:

Google and RDF:

Geotagging photos in twitter:

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:

Sierra – advice for conference booths:

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:

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):

http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2009/05/warning-or-suspension-from-second-life-over-protest-against-copyright-erosion-and-opensource.html

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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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:

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:

Rheingold - building a community information hub:

TC – Aroxo haggling engine targets eBay: