Danton's Weblog 2009-07

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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:

Sierra – better than yesterday:

Mashable – 7 places to watch great minds:

Kapor – software that cares:

Rheingold – an opus to Augmented Reality:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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):

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

TC – how much is SL worth?

Tateru interviews Raph about Metaplace:

Mashable (RT) - Recent Michael Jackson rehearsal:

Mashable – find people on Twitter:

FriendFeed search results go real-time:

Google blog search:

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:

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:

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:

Shute – the Future of Money:

Twitter social interface changes:

Grace performs in SL and MetaPlace: