Danton's Weblog 2009-07
From SLuserguide
July 31
TC embeds documents with docstoc:
TC tests echo comments:
O’Reilly – Microsoft’s decline:
O’Reilly – McFerrin and the pentatonic scale:
O’Reilly – human networks and organizational adaptivity:
TC – circumvent pdf restrictions with gmail:
July 30
Pavig – what AP meant:
Mashable’s twitter guidebook:
TC – gmail drops “on behalf of”:
O’Reilly – ape brain narcissism:
Mashable – iPhone hack:
Rheingold – social site ethnography:
Mashable – deal with social network overload:
Shute – tinychat:
TC - Wikia’s wikiAnswers:
Places to go in SL:
Mashable – Phish:
Arrington – maker’s schedule vs manager’s schedule:
Rubaiyat – unclasses:
July 29
Shute – slide wiki:
- http://sketching09.wikispaces.com/presentations
- Designer’s Affordances: http://sketching09.wikispaces.com/file/view/phil_van_allen_sketching09.pdf+
Sierra – better than yesterday:
Mashable – 7 places to watch great minds:
Kapor – software that cares:
Rheingold – an opus to Augmented Reality:
- http://digitalcortex.net/work/academic/an-opus-to-ar-it-begins/
- applying Baudrillard: http://digitalcortex.net/author/freedimensional/
- Tom Saunter: http://digitalcortex.net/about/
Mashable – addatweet enables commenting through twitter:
July 28
Tim Kelly (on FB) – MetaLIFE:
TC – OpenDNS can extend website outages:
MobileMe iPhone application:
Rheingold – concept maps (aka mindmaps):
Shute – Ori Inbar on Augmented Reality:
Tateru – use kill switches in SL scripts:
Mashable – LinkedIn tools to brand your business:
Ries – Andrew Chen on Silicon Valley noise:
July 27
O’Reilly – Entrepreneurs “ask and it shall be given”:
O’Reilly – inuit open source community for SaaS:
Mashable – develop your personal brand on LinkedIn:
Tateru – http-in adds to SL communications:
Ev – find which of your Facebook friends are using twitter:
Shute – wikitude beta:
Kapor is spending too much time using StumbleUpon.
TC – Facebook’s twitter-like follow feature:
O’Reilly - Microsoft donates driver code to Linux:
July 25
Mashable – Foursquare the new Twitter?
TC on paid tweets:
O’Reilly – Stallman says Pirate Party would hurt free software:
Kapor – the saga of MySQL:
Hrheingold #followfriday I find useful new tools from @RobinGood @CleverClogs @RWW @scobleizer
O’Reilly – Twitter 101 for business:
24 July 2009
Pavig – SL permissions should resemble those of OpenType:
Pavig – interactive web comic:
Shute - Android-powered household gadgets:
TC – Twitter 101:
Shute – Ginsudo on virtual currency:
Mashable – Digsby social IM client:
CG – iPhone security is broken:
TC – Google Latitude on the iPhone doesn't run in the background:
O'Reilly – talk by the Ubuntu community manager:
O'Reilly – increase sign-ups by 200 percent:
Gmail tries to make it easy to unsubscribe from spam:
- Mashable - http://mashable.com/2009/07/23/gmail-spam-unsubscribe/
- TC - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/gmail-tries-to-make-it-easier-to-unsubscribe-from-spam-newsletters-but-fails/
23 July 2009
The Windows file that saves your site visit record:
AgentLand:
On the subject of Twitter, O'Reilly admits: "Important to get on early; as with email and web, visibility gets harder later on".
TC - Social Browsing Assistant Glue Adds Recommendations
TC - EtherPad, a real-time Google Docs-like wiki tool:
Mashable – you can now change your Facebook username:
O'Reilly – an embroidery pattern language for Twitter:
TC - Rackspace is open-sourcing the specs for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs:
Mashable – 10 iPhone apps that use Facebook Connect:
TC – how-to video site:
TC - Google reader gives a friends-only "likes" option:
O'Reilly – Matt Damon's water org:
Upload photos to Facebook by email:
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/22/facebook-email-uploads/
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/22/bypass-loading-facebook-by-emailing-your-pictures-and-videos-in/
Rheingold – Kaltura Open Source video:
Arrington likes Seesmic web:
22 July 2009
CG – on a suicide at Apple:
O'Reilly – open source for America:
TC - Xing launches the world's largest encrypted OpenSocial, to assault LinkedIn:
Lessig – Rip, a remix manifesto:
TC – Robin Wauters uses Streamy:
TC – LocalBunny gives business custom twitter bots:
Mashable on Google Wave:
O'Reilly – the Mobile broadband era: "Thanks to services like Facebook Connect, Twitter API, OpenSocial, and “embeddable” flash widgets, I can create, converge and connect locally, but share that same information globally with minimal effort" (also, Tweetie iPhone client, and MobileMe).
TC – Best Buy use of twitter:
Shute – OpenKoLab:
Mashable – ten implementations of Facebook Connect:
Orban – EFF on surveillance self-defense:
Rheingold – Best Buy on The Company as Wiki (video):
Modis papers on complexity and change:
KathySierra Any product/service that you REALLY like and are/were willing to pay for, reverse-engineer the experience it gives you. Lessons surround us.
21 July 2009
Orban's spime presentation:
Mashable – SiteJabber hopes to be the Yelp-style review site of online services
Orban – new warning signs:
Orban buys Widenoise for his iPhone:
Pavig - Rezzable announces BuilderBot:
TC – Bitly's new "Bento" site design:
O'Reilly – Mark Bernstein on the Apple Store approval process ("I’ll probably stop buying stuff from the app store unless someone like Gruber or PeterMe extolls it"):
TC – "Likes" on Google Reader:
Tateru RT Ondrjeka: Incredimazing bacon flowchart:
Tateru says her blog comments are getting DOSed:
- Infoworld gets dosed: http://www.infoworld.com/t/platforms/blog-comments-getting-dosed-634
- Denial of Service: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
O'Reilly – Akamai's State of the Internet report:
TC - FriendFeed updates API:
Sierra – publishing, innovation and the web:
TC – play chess on iPhone using Facebook Connect:
Tateru's tips for SL noobs:
20 July 2009
Arrington – Transparency is the new objectivity:
TC – Diggbar shoots self in foot:
Burns – Incredible Disappearing Teacher:
19 July 2009
Mashable – Digg hijacks URLs:
Rheingold – learning is social and computational:
Sierra – Study Hacks:
TC – Fasterweb to help speed up websites:
Mashable – top twitter songs:
O'Reilly - Google can make us smarter:
18 July 2009
Torrid Luna (LinkedIn) recommends gridhop:
Archvirtual belongs to Networked Blogs:
Professional SLers on LinkedIn, on virtual engineering design:
O'Reilly – the jalopy economy:
Pavig – SkyOrb free planetarium and space simulation program:
O'Reilly – Wikipedia papers:
Stallman on the Right to Read:
MobileCrunch – web apps or native apps?
17 July 2009
O'Reilly – Fast Company on "create your own economy":
Rheingold – open source tools for "curating" the twitter backchat at events:
Mashable – Google says the browser is the platform of the future:
O'Reilly – SaaS at OSCON:
O'Reilly – GPL is flawed for the cloud:
Michael Nielsen on the Google Technology stack:
Michael Nielsen on open source modularity:
O'Reilly tweets Michael Nielsen, and I find another of his posts about Shirky's law:
TC publishes the Twitter papers:
Mashable – ShareIn tracks links and influence:
Ev recommends 1Password:
O'Reilly – Art of Community:
Shirky RT Nelson on OpenID:
TC – PlaySpan launches virtual goods marketplace:
Mashable – competing with free:
TC - Dazzboard to connect mobile and computer:
Rubaiyat – The Theory of Relativity, the musical:
16 July 2009
Arrington - Google's Direct NavigationCold War: http://www.mobilekick.com/155/the-direct-navigation-coldwar/
Tateru – free tools for SL content creators:
TC – Netvibes offers drag and drop widgets:
Mashable – website called InsideFacebook:
Mashable – is Penguin the Facebook Twitter app?
TC – People Search beta on LinkedIn:
Mashable - Facebook ads know what apps you're using:
Google Reader's social makeover:
- TC – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/google-reader-takes-another-social-step-with-people-search-and-likes/
- Mashable - http://mashable.com/2009/07/15/google-reader-followers/
Shirky - Google on crawl control:
15 July 2009
Mashable – United breaks guitars:
O'Reilly – Time on how rising gas prices will change world:
O'Reilly – Open Source paradigm shift (from 2004):
Shirky - Arduino is today's Altair:
Rubaiyat – things to say during sex:
TC – FriendFeed duck hunt:
TC – socialtext microblogging appliance:
Rheingold – Searls and Weinberger on what the Internet is – and isn't:
Rheingold – open mobile network:
Rheingold RT Whales - NIH and Wikimedia collaborate to improve online health information:
Mashable – social media business models:
Bing Tweets:
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/14/bingtweets-bing-twitter-search-results-side-by-side/
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/federated-media-teams-with-bing-for-bingtweets-its-exactly-what-it-sounds-like/
Kapor – Amazon Web Services Blog, in this case about SL event:
Wagner – Ninja iPhone:
Jan- Twitter kills comments:
Maracas – Firefox extension crapware:
14 July 2009
TC- TuneWiki:
Mashable – posterous vs tumblr:
Mashable re-posts IE's vomiting ad:
Gwyneth – Hamlet presents Lainy Voom's machinima:
TC – FriendFeed option to disable comments:
TC – gmail verified accounts key:
Kapor – Google OS:
- Manjoo says Google OS is doomed: http://www.slate.com/id/2222564/pagenum/
- Kapor responds: http://mkapor.posterous.com/prospects-for-chrome-os
Sierra – escape from cubicle nation:
O'Reilly – content is a service business:
O'Reilly – Zeldman on Apple chosing khtml instead of Mozilla's Gecko: http://www.zeldman.com/2009/07/12/web-standards-secret-sauce-webkit-in-iphone/
Tateru – a peek at the new SL installer:
TC – it's time to regulate SEO:
Sierra – Pirouz says Design Thinking is dead:
Mashable – create a community-powered blog with tumblr:
Mashable – Google Latitude:
12 July 2009
Kapor - ReadWriteWeb questions about Google Chrome OS:
O'Reilly - Anil Dash on Google's Microsoft moment:
TC – Dazzboard, an open iTunes:
Mashable – Google revenue equation and time you spend on web:
Shirky ambivalent about WikiLeaks:
Kathy Sierra A good soc media consultant should be able to answer a deep chain of Why/Who Cares/So What questions on why a biz should "join the convo"
KathySierra A business trying to understand/implement/"get" social media/whuffie should FIRST understand/implement/"get" system dynamics & modeling
Seesmic web:
- Rheingold: http://dannybrown.me/2009/07/11/seesmic-web-ups-ante-for-twitter-management-tools/
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/10/seesmics-browser-client-is-like-gmail-for-twitter/
Orban- Bruce Schneier says no OS can be virus-free:
Mashable – how to create a custom Twitter background:
Mashable - ImageShack hacked by anti-sec movement:
O'Reilly – Open Source in the Cloud:
TC – JS-Kit aggregates comments:
Mashable – TidyTweet to control spam:
O'Reilly – ten rules that govern groups:
Power.com sues Facebook:
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/09/powercom-countersues-facebook-over-data-portability/
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/09/power-sues-facebook/
Mashable – social media damage control:
Orban- Knowledge Ecology:
O'Reilly – memristors and AI:
Ev – Rosenberg's history of blogging:
Tateru – Google Chrome OS is not an OS (see who COMMENTS on this):
- http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/2009/07/08/google-chrome-os-isnt-an-os/
- Google announcement: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
Mashable – Justin.tv for live video on Facebook (to compete with Ustream):
Pavig – VLC open source video player:
Mashable – Groupable helps you find a sponsor:
O'Reilly – see the "also bought" list:
09 July 2009
Rheingold – Semanta point and click blog enhancement:
Hrheingold RT @MaryHodder love new bit.ly thing: put bit.ly/ in front of url in address bar creates shortened url. ask @JohnBorthwick & u shall receive
TC – 23andme analyzes your genome:
Embeddable Facebook pages:
- Mashable - http://mashable.com/2009/07/08/facebook-fan-boxes/
- TC - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/08/facebook-introduces-the-fan-box-take-that-myspace/
Orban – One to end hunger (Geldof):
08 July 2009
O'Reilly RT – Bing does some things better:
O'Reilly – Twittaround augmented reality for iPhone:
O'Reilly – Berners-Lee on linked data:
Tateru – http coming to SL objects:
Mashable – many fail whales:
TC – eBuddy for iPhone:
Google Chrome OS:
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/google-drops-a-nuclear-bomb-on-microsoft-and-its-made-of-chrome/
- Arrington: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/08/google-chrome-redefining-the-operating-system
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/07/google-chrome-os-2/
O'Reilly – using twitter bots:
TC – OpenDNS:
Craigslist Paris:
Shirky RT Ninja programmers:
TC – Technorati to unveil Twitterati:
TC – Official iPhone jailbreak:
TC – Amazon refuses data to mobile apps:
Mashable – editable MindMap on the future of blogging:
Mozilla wants to centralize all open web tools in one directory:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/mozilla-aims-to-centralize-all-open-web-tools-in-one-directory/
TC – get your friends to answer your questions with Aardvark integrated into Twitter:
TC – iPhone sound amp:
Mashable – new IE security hole:
TC – ZooLoo:
TC - Twinity creates virtual 3D models of real cities:
O'Reilly – SamaSource, in the TransCapitalist:
Mashable – MapSpread to manage your geo-data:
TC – use Pinboard instead of Delicious:
Yahoo Search Pad:
Pavig and Tateru - Rezzable pulling out of SL:
- http://rezzable.com/blog/rightasrain-rimbaud/rezzable-moving-second-life
- http://www.massively.com/2009/07/07/rezzable-moves-on-from-second-life/
06 July 2009
Shute – Kash Klash:
Shute – Boyd turns to Sterling about the future of money:
TC - Paypal reacts to Amazon threat with new API:
Shirky – Mullenweg defends Wordpress GPL:
Tateru – should we give the customers what they want?
Mashable – twitterification of Facebook:
Mashable – an article from April about Facebook privacy settings:
Arrington – Die Fail Whale:
O'Reilly/Shute – John Seely Brown on instrumenting the planet:
Tishe's posterous on SL camping in Times Square:
Arrington – Fred Wilson on freemium vs free:
TC – Polldaddy and Wordpress:
TC – Moonfruit (flash-based website maker, sister company of Gandi.net!):
Mashable – webworking from your iPhone:
Tateru – research on diffusion of User Created Content in SL:
Sierra – Brain Learners:
05 July 2009
TC – 50 cent and Sexman:
O'Reilly on Govt 2.0:
- http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/07/03/tim-oreilly-on-government-20/
- http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/07/03/tim-oreilly-on-the-history-and-future-of-government-20/
- http://www.slideshare.net/timoreilly/aspen-ideas-festival-talk-on-gov20
Kronos – Compare the Meerkat:
03 July 2009
Sierra – retweeting bird:
Mashable – filter your tweets:
Yahoo's Geomaker for web maps:
Orban – Open P2P Design:
TC – iPhone 3G jailbreak:
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/03/iphone-3gs-unlock-hits-web/
- http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/03/how-to-jailbreak-the-iphone-3gs/
TC – how much is SL worth?
Tateru interviews Raph about Metaplace:
- http://www.massively.com/2009/07/02/raph-koster-speaks-on-metaplaces-new-functionality-and-the-chan/
Mashable (RT) - Recent Michael Jackson rehearsal:
Mashable – find people on Twitter:
FriendFeed search results go real-time:
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/02/friendfeed-makes-its-search-results-real-time-too
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/02/friendfeed-real-time-search
Google blog search:
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/02/google-blog-search-trends/
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/02/google-blog-search-takes-two-steps-forward-one-step-back/
TC – Twine's new "Coverflow" design:
O'Reilly – Software as a Service a threat to Open Source?
Mashable – web tracking guidelines:
Orban – ChallengePost:
Mashable – more free Twitter icons:
TC – Twitter's Facebook Application is broken:
Bing adds tweets to results:
- TC: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/01/bing-keeps-its-foot-on-the-gas-adds-tweets-to-results/
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/bing-twitter/
Mashable – YouTwitFace:
Shute – Pachube and collateral damage:
TC – Facebook privacy transition:
LinkedIn – Lynn Fredericks about iPhone as a computer:
Jan – growing acceptance of social networking in the workplace:
Jan – Electromagnetic leak:
01 July 2009
TC – GDGT launches:
Facebook liveblogs Privacy Enhancements:
- TC – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/01/live-blog-the-facebook-privacy-conference-call
- Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/facebook-new-privacy-options
O'Reilly – books on best iPhone apps:
Mashable – using wikis for business projects:
Shute – Doors of Perception on the Internet of Things:
Socialbrite - SEO tips:
Facebook to announce privacy changes:
Rheingold – socialbrite social web for social change:
O'Reilly – Palantir analysis blog:
- Government analysis: http://www.palantirtech.com/government/analysis-blog
- Tech Blog: http://blog.palantirtech.com/
Shute – the Future of Money:
Twitter social interface changes:
- TC – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/30/twitter-rolls-ui-changes-to-simplify-your-social-connections/
- Mashable - http://mashable.com/2009/06/30/twitter-follower-pages/
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