Danton's Weblog 2009-06
From SLuserguide
30 June 2009
Tateru embeds a MetaPlace world:
Shute – Pachube augmented reality video:
Mashable – oDesk for freelancers integrates with Facebook:
Mashable – twitter visualizations:
Bing's Sanaz Ahari:
O'Reilly – personal democracy forum:
Shute – epredator on mobile devices for AR:
Orban - Singularity University:
Arrington RT – blogging still the foundation:
O'Reilly – business metrics at the Velocity conference:
O'Reilly – the Cathedral plus the Bazaar:
TC – bit.ly's inevitable clash with Digg:
Shute – Open Intelligence is using Amplify on Twitter:
Mashable – what Firefox has in store:
29 June 2009
Rheingold – Bollier disputes Kevin Kelly's use of the word "socialism":
Gwyneth – Hamlet gives a workaround for the Beta SL social Dashboard:
Rheingold – crowdsourcing the filter:
Arrington - new names for "moderators":
VideoBay:
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/06/28/videobay/
- TC: http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/06/29/yaar-the-pirate-bay-fires-its-video-bay-cannon-at-youtube/
Mashable – Facebook URL for ALL pages (no – you need 100 fans):
Arrington – online mobs:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/28/friendfeeed-syphilis-and-the-perfection-of-online-mobs/
- and Siegler on comment trolls: http://parislemon.com/2009/06/on-trolls.html
Mashable – Twitter plugins for Wordpress:
28 June 2009
TC – Aardvaark social search available via Facebook:
O'Reilly and Battelle essay for Web Squared:
Mashable – Tweetboard to add a Twitter forum to your website:
Michael Jackson's impact on the web:
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/26/chart-what-it-looks-like-when-everyone-searches-google-for-michael-jackson/
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/06/26/michael-jackson-web-impact/
TC – Bing, the easiest way to Google since Yahoo:
TC – Live Video on Facebook:
TC – Crunchbase VC Dashboard (from YouCalc):
TC - Real time taps into consciousness search taps into memory (Segal)
Mashable – Facebook to emulate Twitter with profile fans:
Tateru – technology is like crack:
26 June 2009
Mashable – creative twitter backgrounds:
O'Reilly (RT) - Bing is a copy of Kayak:
Mashable on mobile video:
Mashable desktop Twitter application:
Mashable – Evernote introduces shared notebooks:
O'Reilly and Battelle – web squared:
TC – the Twitter cycle:
TC – run all your collaboration tools on one grou.ps domain:
Mashable – twitter SEO:
Mashable – Glubble safe family network:
Mashable – criticism of Google's speed tips:
Gwyneth Llewelyn on lag:
25 June 2009
TechCrunch-branded Tweetdeck:
Mashable chat lounge (turns on for specific subjects):
Rheingold – Twitter on the wiki:
Mashable – Digsby IM client (links to social networks):
Tateru – LL releases SnowGlobe viewer:
Facebook Livestream with Ustream:
- TC – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/facebook-launches-a-live-stream-box-partners-with-ustream/
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/06/24/facebook-live-stream-box/
Facebook adds Everyone button:
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/facebook-brings-privacy-controls-to-publisher/
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/06/24/facebook-publisher/
TC – FriendFeed adds file sharing:
TC – iStockphoto to buy cheap photos:
O'Reilly – Google Govt Data project:
O'Reilly – what bad guys can do with your computer:
24 June 2009
O'Reilly – slow pages lose users:
TC – Software engineers are a good deal (see parts about open source):
TC - Google speed tools:
O'Reilly – tools for managing Twitter followers:
Sierra – how to announce (anything):
TC – Gmail Ninja:
TC – LinkedIn turns industry white papers into adds:
Kathy Sierra - If we show/value as role models only those w/ high-visibility, what are we teaching & reinforcing? Need more behind-the-scene role models.
Mashable – which Twitter Desktop app is most usable:
Kapor – Secrecy at Apple:
O'Reilly – we need pagerank for people:
TC – PageOnce iphone application combines all your online accounts:
Mashable – import your blog to posterous:
TC - Facebook's plan to wall off Google:
TC – Netvibes adds widget recommendations: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/22/dont-have-enough-widgets-in-your-life-netvibes-adds-recommendations/
Hamlet – OpenSim social network:
23 June 2009
Gwyneth Llewelyn on lag:
22 June 2009
TC – developer of OpenSocial leaves Google:
TC - Instapaper gets folders and goes social:
O'Reilly – web velocity:
O'Reilly – proxy servers for Iran:
TC - Bing's xRank beat Google Trends:
Rubaiyat – new media douchebags:
Mashable – back up your lifestream:
Tateru – Procedural City:
Mashable – Digg has a problem:
Rubaiyat - lots of keyboard cat:
O'Reilly – using information to make the company smarter:
Tateru – Grow 3 flash game:
21 June 2009
TC – click fraud BY Facebook:
Kapor – dispute finder firefox extension:
O'Reilly – open source car design:
O'Reilly – crowdsourcing video game design:
O'Reilly – community leadership summit:
O'Reilly – OSCON 2009:
20 June 2009
TC – Widgetbox hits 500 million impressions per month:
O'Reilly – embeds available on Google Book Search:
Shute – EU doc on the internet of things:
O'Reilly – Google is the open source platform:
Hrheingold .@tbeckett The dot before reply makes it visible to people other than the person you are replying to because of Twitter's change 2 reply
O'Reilly – Stubblebine's startup lessons from Twitter:
FriendFeed indicates context in subscription emails:
New Facebook inbox:
- Mashable - http://mashable.com/2009/06/18/facebook-inbox/
- TC - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/18/facebook-makes-it-easier-to-search-your-inbox/
TC – Google Flipper:
Shute – Psychosynthography (see link to her post):
Mashable – 50 social sites:
Rheingold – web tools for learners:
TC – Homeless Sims:
O'Reilly – Venn diagram of how to be happy in business:
Mashable – FriendFeed now counts in your blog's RSS:
O'Reilly – diagnosing SEO:
18 June 2009
Mashable – Google is a decision engine too:
17 June 2009
TC – Twitterfeed adds analytics:
O'Reilly – people prefer cockiness to expertise:
Rheingold (RT) - Lewis Hyde updates the idea of "commons":
Mashable's blippr for reviews:
O'Reilly – Twitter marketing land-grab:
TC – Q&A sites:
Sierra – Chindogu "weird tools":
Tateru – Metaverse Journal on Open Cobalt:
Sierra: "I believe lessons from lolcats, failblog, & graphjam could be applied to make nearly anything richer, more compelling":
TC – OpenAmplify's semantic web community:
TC – Facebook needs an everyone button to counter Twitter:
Facebook Search:
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/06/16/facebook-search-2/
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/facebook-fixes-search-but-only-in-beta/
TC – email collaboration with Tgether:
Mashable - Killer Facebook Fan pages:
Pavig – NWN on OpenSim Wayback machine:
Mashable – WordPress plugins for social media profile:
TC – TweetTabs for twitter search:
Shute – the 140 (characters) conference "characters":
Opera Unite:
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/06/16/opera-unite/
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/that-reinvention-of-the-web-thing-opera-was-talking-about-its-called-opera-unite/
O'Reilly - Community Structure Inference Algorithm
Facebook developers - get started:
- http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php
- FB & AWS: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/featured-partners/facebook/
16 June 2009
TC – Spiceworks for social IT management:
Mashable video lounge with twitter:
Mashable – twitter psychological profiling:
Mashable – use Produle to create flash widgets:
Mashable – Washington Post's Facebook connect:
Rheingold - how to analyze twitter data (Iran): http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/06/follow_the_developments_in_iran_like_a_cia_analyst.php
Rheingold: Obama campaign effectively managed hybrid of grassroots and hierarchical organizing over long term.
TC – inventor with ADHD:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADHD
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/this-guy-needs-an-investor-and-some-adderall/
TC – Chris "long tail" Anderson says the head of the curve will be free and the tail paid for:
Sierra – Lisa Reich on Don Norman's talk 'In Favour of Complexity' at uxlondon:
- http://www.disambiguity.com/random-inspiration/
- http://twitter.com/leisa/status/2179319361
- http://twitter.com/leisa/status/2179356020
Mashable – Twitter spam:
TC – Siegler likes Bing:
TC – on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog:
Hunch launches:
- Mashable – http://mashable.com/2009/06/15/hunch-decisions/
- TC - http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/hunchcoms-decision-making-engine-launches-someone-add-twitter-now/
Mashable – Adobe unleashed acrobat.com:
O'Reilly – stream fatigue:
Lessig – open access to research results:
Sierra- brainpower:
Pavig – with the Meerkatviewer you can back up your stuff:
Mashable – more twitter icons:
15 June 2009
Mashable – Facebook may undo Twitter-style homepage:
O'Reilly – web squared:
Shute – Sterling on Workshop on Ambient Media Computing:
TC – Scoble's Building 43:
TC – Heckendorn makes a Commodore:
O'Reilly – Mechanical Turk:
Shute – The Tank NYC:
Tateru and O'Reilly – Mo Hax on inadvertant contact for innovation:
14 June 2009
Tateru – new SL user interface:
- http://www.massively.com/2009/06/12/second-life-2-0-a-sneak-peek-at-the-new-user-interface
- Metaverse Journal: http://www.metaversejournal.com/2009/06/13/second-life-2-0-safe-choices
TC – news about Wizehive collaboration tool:
O'Reilly – Sun Wiki Publisher:
Twitter launches verified accounts:
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/06/11/twitter-verified-accounts-2/
- TC - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/11/twitter-starts-verifying-accounts-without-verifying-them/
Mashable – Fast Company on the 5 Ps of social media:
Mashable – Google wave extensions:
TC – YouTube adds syndication:
TC – Mozilla Jetpack .2:
Mashable – Associated Press stylebook covers Twitter terms:
TC – Synth of Apple's application wall:
TC – Trent Reznor criticizes twitter:
TC – the more followers you have, the more you tweet:
Mashable – Hubspot state of the twittersphere report:
Mashable – ten commandments of social media:
OpenSim regions destroyed in attack on HyperVM management software:
- Tateru: http://www.massively.com/2009/06/10/over-100-opensim-regions-wiped-in-weekend-exploit/
- Maria Korlov: http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2009/06/hacker-destroys-opensim-regions/
- http://blogs.computerworld.com/death_of_software_exec_adds_pathos_to_attack_on_web_hosting_firm
Sierra - rezed: http://www.rezed.org/
Mashable – Firefox add-on collections:
Mashable – are twitter users inactive
10 June 2009
O'Reilly – Twitter is not a conversation:
09 June 2009
Shute – emotional cartography:
Mashable – tools to organize your tweeps:
Mashable – Social Marketing Playbook:
Meebo for IM from various social sites:
- TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/09/meebo-community-im-tears-down-walls-goes-web-wide/
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/06/09/meebo-cafemom/
Rheingold: discussion boards:
Rheingold: Life Inc. video on money as debt:
O'Reilly – how Google evaluates search results:
06 June 2009
AlKronos So should I be installing modrex on OpenSim... or ditching it all in favour of RealXtend? Views?
Mashable – twitter journalism:
Shute – microsyntax wiki:
Yahoo adds apps to its sites:
- Mashable – http://mashable.com/2009/06/05/yahoo-apps-widgets/
- TC – Yahoo mail: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/05/yahoo-mail-now-with-extra-apps/
- TC – OpenSocial Apps: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/05/more-opensocial-apps-invade-myyahoo-mint-kaching-wordpress/
Shute – layer, the first augmented-reality browser:
Rheingold – choreographies for attention:
TC - Google makes speed tools public:
04 June 2009
Mashable - EFF Launches Terms of Service Tracker for Facebook, Google, and Others:
iFixit's Tear Down Platform:
- Lessig:*http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/06/fabulously_cool_ifixits_teardo.html
- TC: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/04/ifixit-helps-others-void-warranties-with-gear-teardown/
Googlesquared goes live:
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/google-squared-goes-live-puts-web-search-into-a-spreadsheet/
- Mashable:
Al Kronos uses maxping for OpenSim hints:
02 June 2009
Mashable - 10% of twitter users make 90% of tweets:
Netbook OS Jolicloud Prepares For Launch: Exclusive Screenshots To Whet Your Appetite
Shute - Christa Lopes Creates Seamless OpenSim-to-OpenSim Teleportation
Mashable - Google Wave: A Complete Guide

