February 2011
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Oink!
-orforeverholdyourpeace:
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January 2011
150 posts
“Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the third major re-design in our...”
– Slashdot Launches Re-Design - Slashdot
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Phoenix OpenCoffee: Hackspace opens January 10th →
phxoc:
ASU SkySong is joining the ever-growing ranks of coworking spaces around Phoenix! I received some news recently that they’re opening a new space for entrepreneurs on Monday, January 10th. It’s called Hackspace and is
an open community where users can come together to share resources and…
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Tune in, Tweet on, Twit out: Information Snacking... →
This one was fun!!!
“This was very interesting and I had a “Wow, I learned something” moment with...”
– The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
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IBM Centennial Film: They Were There - People who changed the way the world works
“They Were There” is told by first-hand witnesses—current and retired employees and clients—who were there when IBM helped to change the way world works.
ibmsocialbiz:
Nice black and white video footage, music by Phillip Glass.
I liked this.
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betashop: Startup Year 2 →
betashop:
Today marks the 1 year anniversary of my latest company, fab.com.
Here are some of my thoughts on the difference between year 1 and year 2 of a startup.
Year 1: Ideas & Faith
Get something out there as fast as possible and iterate like mad to try to find some market traction.
Try…
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OpenSource advocates think copyright is very... →
To me the title of this short blog makes perfect sense. So why do I find it hard to convince people that those supporting open source are not a bunch of radicals who want anarchy so that they can steal software (or music or videos) at every opportunity?
Most of the open source geeks I have met are actually dead serious about software piracy. If they need to use DreamWeaver or PhotoShop or...
The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to... →
It was on Christmas Day that Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan first noticed strange things going on in Tunisia. Reports started to trickle in that political-protest pages were being hacked. “We were getting anecdotal reports saying, ‘It looks like someone logged into my account and deleted it,’” Sullivan said.
For Tunisians, it was another run-in...
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identicurse
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The Happiest Countries in the World
:: ASEP/JDS ::
The world population is quite happy in general, despite the crisis, the environmental problems or the illness. This is what can be derived from the great majority of studies carried in many regions for the last ten years.
Only some very specific regions can be considered ‘unhappy’, such as the axis formed in Latin-America by Ecuador-Peru-Bolivia, or the...
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Google Gravity
geekistan:
Google Gravity is a Google Chrome experiment made by Hi-Res! that initially loads a typical Google home page and then suddenly the elements are pulled down by gravity and you can start tossing them around!
Now try it on Firefox…
Visit www.google.com home page and key in “google gravity” and then click the “i’m feeling lucky button”!
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Social and technical issues of being yourself...
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Can Google Chrome or Firefox do THIS?
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Being yourself online
Most interesting to me:
Email remains the preferred form of communication for private sharing.
The matter of discrepancy between different identities on various social networks, as well as off-line, and the resulting cognitve dissonance.
Amplify’d from research.yahoo.com
Faceted Identity, Faceted Lives: Social and Technical Issues with Being Yourself Online
Abstract:
This paper explores key...
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How I wrote a Twitter timeline search app in two... →
The fail whale wasn’t that much of a problem:
If text ~= ‘Fail Whale’ then sleep(5 seconds) and retry
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embed.ly for Twitter
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Why Git is Better Than X →
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Platform Updates: New User Object fields,... →
Facebook Makes User Address and Mobile Phone Number Information Accessible to Third-party Apps Developers using Open Social
We are now making a user’s address and mobile phone number accessible as part of the User Graph object.
Because this is sensitive information, we have created the new usser_address and user_mobile_phone permissions. These permissions must be explicitly granted to your...
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Arrested Pirate Party Member Becomes Tunisian... →
Also known as @slim404
After weeks of public protests on- and offline the Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali resigned and escaped the country last Friday. Today, the head of the transitional government, Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi, announced his new cabinet members which include a familiar name. Slim Amamou, the Pirate Party member and freedom of speech activist who was arrested...
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Platform Updates: New User Object fields,... →
Facebook Makes User Address and Mobile Phone Number Information Accessible to Third-party Apps Developers using Open Social
We are now making a user’s address and mobile phone number accessible as part of the User Graph object.
Because this is sensitive information, we have created the new usser_address and user_mobile_phone permissions. These permissions must be explicitly granted to your...
