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Details on Marc Andreessen’s New Fund (Plus Five Other Interesting Things He Said): Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are announcing their much-anticipated $300 million venture fund this evening, aptly called Andreessen Horowitz. Marc Andreessen has long been one of my favorite people to interview, because he is tapped

NTT Docomo Buys 35 Percent Of PacketVideo For $45.5 Million: Mobile video is taking off in Japan, where mobile operator NTT DoCoMo just invested $45.5 million in PacketVideo, which s a long-time supplier of mobile video software. The all-cash investment gives NTT Docomo a 35

Tweetraising: The Potential For Charities On Twitter: Twitter has been hailed as an incredibly useful marketing tool for businesses and brands, both big and small, to disseminate information and engage with consumers on a massive scale. But what about non-profits? The ability

iPhone 3GS. Jailbreak. Mac.: Only a couple of days after George Hotz became the first hacker to release a jailbreak app for the iPhone 3GS on Windows, theres a Mac-compatible version out too. This time, Hotz got some help

Japan’s Rakuten: Can The Biggest E-Commerce Site You Never Heard Of Become a Threat for Amazo(...): The term e-commerce still lacks a universally valid definition, but even if you just bundle B2B and B2C transactions under it, its a multi-trillion dollar business globally. Last year, Nielsen found 86% of the global

Way Too Competitive: Tech Gurus Flock To World Series Of Poker: 6,000 or so people have congregated at the Rio hotel in Las Vegas for this years World Series of Poker to fight for $50 million or so that will be split among the last 10%

Since March, Internet Explorer Lost 11.4 Percent Share To Firefox, Safari, And Chrome: The new browser wars on on. More than a decade after Microsoft killed off Netscape with Internet Explorer, competition in the browser market has never been stronger. Just last week, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5, which

Cherry, The Mobile Operator That Doesn’t Care Whether You’re On Wi-Fi Or Not: The chances of me being genuinely amazed at something I see a Belgian tech company achieve are rather slim. But occasionally, it happens. Last week I went to local entrepreneur meetup BetaGroup and saw five

The Reality Of PR: Smile, Dial, Name Drop, Pray.: One thing I hated about being a corporate lawyer at Wilson Sonsini back in the day - we got to work on really cool deals (the last deal I worked on before leaving for a

Twitter + World Of Warcraft=Tweetcraft: For all of you World of Warcraft fans out there, theres a new Twitter client that is worth checking out. TweetCraft is an in-game Twitter client for WoW that lets you send and

Amazon Applying For In-Book Advertisement Patent: Before everyone gets in a huff, lets consider Amazons intentions with these patent applications. Surely they would never allow advertisements to be placed in books which you have purchased legitimately at full price, so lets

Interview: Karen Dyer, video game actor: Dearest CrunchGear readers: I recently had the honor and privilege of speaking to Karen Dyer, who is not only the voice of Sheva Alomar, from Resident Evil 5, but who also did said characters motion

PollDaddy Traffic Soars, Releases Ratings Widget With Possible Digg Competitor On The Horizon: Its no secret that bloggers love their polls — theyre a great way to increase user engagement, and sometimes you can even get some useful data from them. But most people probably dont realize just

Short Is Sweet: Postcards Begat SMS Begat Twitter: Recently, Ive noticed something. If you send me an email, the likelihood that Im going to respond is pretty small. But if you send me a message on Twitter, the likelihood that Ill respond is

Dotcom Crash-era Startup Reanimates By Trending On Twitter: Its not often that Internet companies last 10 years, but Moonfruit in the UK has proved pretty resilient. It survived the dotcom boom the first time round, launching with VC-backing, growing to 65 staff and

What’s Right and Wrong with Media Now: Like most things on the Internet, there’s a good side and a dark side to where the media business is headed.The good side is very good: thousands of layers of mostly needless middlemen and processes

CallWave Delists From NASDAQ; Fuze Meeting Rises From The Ashes: Its not easy to launch a successful WebEx competitor. Most businesses have long since established their system for dealing with web meetings, using old standbys like WebEx or GoToMeeting. And those businesses that are willing

Outsource Your Beta Testing To Prefinery (Invites): The beta testing stage can be the cornerstone to the successful development of a new site. And many startups have to conduct and implement beta testing of sites, surveys and analytics internally, which can be

Microsoft And Linux Hold Peace Tweets: Okay, its not exactly the Camp David Summit that took place in 2000 between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but sometimes the littlest gestures can go a long way.A couple of days ago, upon hearing

Video: 50 Cent Confronts Sexman: I dont recall how the YouTube user Pruane2Forever, aka Sexman, came on my radar, but I definitely remember a few of his videos from a couple years ago. (Heres a old favorite — Not Safe

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12 Gorgeous Vimeo Videos for Design Inspiration: Vimeo is becoming one of the most popular video sites for users who want a place to present high quality, artistic videos. Its elegant interface and user-friendly tools make the service an attractive website for artists, filmmakers and videobloggers. Because

Influx of Twitter Account Suspensions Creating Confusion: There seems to be a wave of suspensions going around Twitter today, and it’s turning quickly into an echo chamber of confusion and frustration. We’ve received several tips (the first one being from Mashable guest writer Matt Singley) that a

Facebook’s Twitterification: Is it the Right Move?: It’s tough to argue against the perception that Facebook’s been on a Twitter emulation spree. In the last month alone they announced public content sharing, profile fans, real-time search, and brand new privacy changes. All of this seems to be

Facebook Farce: Top British Spy Exposed on Facebook: There are red faces in the UK today after it emerged that private details about the incoming head of MI6 were posted to Facebook by his wife. The details included information about John Sawers’ family, residence, vacations…and a photo of

Die Fail Whale: Twitter Game Releases Your Whale Rage: The Fail Whale, signalling Twitter downtime, is a source of frustration for many Twitter users; now you can take out your rage in a fun Flash game called Die Fail Whale. Andrew Conn, a 26 year old designer and developer

11 Essential Social Media Stories of the Week: There were unknown lifeforms, #moonfruit, Firefox 3.5, and the sale of The Pirate Bay making social media news this week. From the shocking $78 million sale of the web’s pirating hub to the release of Firefox 3.5 and its killer

Twitter Cops Fight Scourge of Boring Tweets: With a rising wave of boring Tweets about which “nobody cares”, the Twitter Cops are out in force to stop rogue tweeting at the source. At least, according to a somewhat violent Cops parody on the frontpage of social news

15 iPhone Apps to Tame the Kids: Summer (which has just begun for half the world) is a time for road trips and vacations. That means lots of family fun, but it also means long boring car or airplane rides for the kids, layovers, and waiting in

Independence Day Logos Around the Web: It’s Independence Day weekend, and as people all across the US enjoy barbecues and fireworks, the top web companies are marking the occasion in their own ways: through custom logos and themes. While Google frequently changes its logo to mark

Sarah Palin Shuns Press: Talks to Twitter, Facebook Instead: Sarah Palin yesterday announced her plans to resign from the role of Governor of Alaska, leaving the press clueless as to why. Does she plan to retire from politics completely, or is she preparing to make a 2012 presidential bid?

World Domination: The iPhone is #1 in Japan: Since the release of the original iPhone in 2007, Apple’s smartphone has been on a steady climb upwards, taking huge chunks of the U.S. mobile phone market and giving even the BlackBerry a run for its money. The arrival of

Obama: Does He Pass the Social Media Test?: He used social media and the web unlike any other presidential candidate in history. Barack Obama’s incredible online presence turned into a grassroots movement culminating in his election as the 44th President of the United States. He was all over

7 Spectacular Fireworks Shows on YouTube: They sparkle, they shimmer, they explode, and they come out every 4th of July: fireworks! It’s the Independence Day holiday weekend here in the U.S., and the celebrations are about to begin.But if you can’t wait for the fireworks spectacular,

Tweetmeme Retweets Become Elite Next Week: Retweeting, as we’ve mentioned before (see HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter), is an increasingly popular way to share content on the web. Twitter is such a powerful tool for sharing media, in fact, that the former market leaders are racing

Task.fm Adds Smart Reminders via Twitter: A few months ago, we reviewed a unique reminder app: Task.fm. In our assessment, we noted its Twitter-like approach to reminders and its ability to decipher human language – you can tell it Task.fm “I need to call mom at

Happy Internet Dependence Day!: With the 4th of July weekend just hours away, it’s time to wish our US readers a Happy Independence Day! Hopefully you’ll be spending at least some of your weekend away from your computer and enjoying the festivities, but for

HOW TO: Discover and Get Feedback On New Web Apps: This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft

A Special Summer of Social Good Thank You: This week we ran a special Summer of Social Good charity promotion and many of you got involved. Mashable and the whole Summer of Social Good team would like to thank everyone who donated, tweeted, retweeted and showed their support.

Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters: Thanks to this week’s advertisers and partners for enabling us to bring you the latest social media news and resources. We’re particularly inspired by those brands that are engaging with our readers as part of our Twitter Brand Sponsors program:

Michael Jackson’s Memorial: The Biggest Web Event in History?: The web’s response to the passing of music legend Michael Jackson has been staggering. Social media was pounded with tributes last Thursday after the news broke, but next Tuesday could be a huge test for the entire infrastructure of the

Read/WriteWeb

An Updated List of Bad Company Names: A few years ago the Unofficial Dreamhost Blog circulated a list of the worst domain names. Domains like therapistfinder.com (Therapist Finder) and molestationnursery.com (Mole Station Nursery) seemed to top the list as the worst of

ThisIsLike Shows an Editable Web of Associations: Trying to explain ThisIsLike to a friend ends up sounding like a junior high locker conversation: He photographed a model, who is also a performing artist, who was in this band, and one of her bandmates was this

6 Great Tools for LSAT, SAT and GMAT Test Prep: Thousands of intelligent students seize up during standardized test season. Theyre the ones in the back of the gymnasium, frantically writing to the last minute and choking under the pressure of an egg timer. I

Bullied by Media, Palin Resigns: Regardless of your political agenda, Sarah Palin is right, there has indeed been a change in climate towards American politicians. Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska and spoke of how a real climate change began

12 Companies Targeting Early Tech Adopters: Our mission at ReadWriteWeb is to explore the latest Web technology products and trends. Were fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this goal. So, once a week, we write a post

Beta No More: Wikipedia Mobile Officially Launches with Important Changes for Editors: Although Wikipedias mobile site has been in various stages of development for quite some time, Wikimedias Lead Mobile Developer Hampton Catlin recently announced on the Wikimedia technical blog that the site is live on a new server and

Risky Business: Enterprise GRC Platforms Essential, Says Forrester: In a new report issued on the first of the month, Forrester Research has asserted the importance of enterprise platforms for governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). Pointing to big name corporate failures in the last

Web Trend Map 4 Goes Interactive, Beta Version Drops July 14th: We were very excited earlier this year when RWW made its way onto the latest edition of the Web Trend Map. For those of you

Cartoon: Search Engine Pessimized: Its happening to more and more of the blogs I read: the personality, quirkiness and unique voice that once made them so appealing to me are fading. In their place, an SEO-driven uniformity that puts keyword placement

ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 4 July 2009: Time for this weeks events guide, a regular feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, as good a time as any to review your conference plans.Know of an event taking place that should

It's Not Really a Party Until Someone Shoots Rockets Out of Their Butt: As America celebrates its 233rd year of independence from England today, many red-blooded Americans will celebrate the old-fashioned way, by going outdoors, having a picnic or barbecue, decorating everything in red, white and blue and

Expono: Flickr, Picassa and the Kitchen Sink: You cant swing a stick on the Web these days without hitting a photo or media sharing service. Some of the most popular ones like Flickr and Photobucket have become an indispensable part of our

Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Privacy, FriendFeed Trolls, iPhone Push, And More...: In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we analyze the latest changes to Facebooks privacy controls, investigate trolling on FriendFeed, explore the impact of push notifications on the

Risky Business: Enterprise GRC Platforms Essential, Says Forrester: In a new report issued on the first of the month, Forrester Research has reasserted the importance of enterprise platforms for governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). Pointing to big name corporate failures in the last

Ads Spotted on Twitter.com - Did You Notice?: Three months ago we reported thatAds Had Come to Twitter and it was a pretty big deal - until Twitter promptly said the word sponsored was only appearing on the site in error. Now the sponsored definitions of

Digital Media M&A: Mobile & Analytics Deals Up, Social Media Down: Peachtree Media Advisors has just released their latest report on digital media mergers and acquisitions. We posted their 2008 report back in January, and this is a mid-year 2009 update to that. According to Peachtree, there were

Expose Yourself on Launchly's Site Review Service: You know that scene in Alice in Wonderland where Alice is tumbling down the rabbit hole past all those miscellaneous chairs and birds? That same feeling of confused dread is often how users feel when

Ten Companies Twitter Should Consider Acquiring Next: If you were a little blue bird, with a good pile of money and a whole lot of hype, what would you buy to spice up your nest? There are so many little services

How to Install Chrome and Chromium Side-by-Side (So You Can Play with Extensions!): Were sure by now youve heard about the upcoming extensions that will soon arrive in Googles Chrome browser. Already weve seen a handful of these become available including AdSweep, a PageRank checker, Cleeki, and, as of yesterday, a

Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter: Has Twitter spam gotten a little out of hand? According to todays top story on Techmeme, it has. Apparently, marketers are calling for Twitter to filter out spam and other adult content from the microblogging service. You know,

GigaOM

Will Nokia Jettison Symbian for Android?: The Guardian reports that Nokia is planning a touchscreen mobile phone that runs Google’s Android operating system and the handset maker will likely show off the device at the Nokia World conference in September 2009. When I read the story

Marc Andreessen Sees Big Opportunity in Web’s Infrastructure: Marc Andreessen, the prominent founder of Netscape Communications, and his longtime business partner, Ben Horowitz, are teaming up again — this time to spearhead a new $300 million venture fund, called Andreessen-Horowitz, that will invest in companies of all shapes

CompuServe & My Journey to the Internet: Like a wrinkle in a crisp cotton sheet, sometimes our past and present come together all too abruptly, leading us down memory lane, a trip that often brings a wistful smile. I had that same feeling when I read the

Marc Andreessen Sees Gold Mine in Building Web’s Innards: Marc Andreessen, the prominent founder of Netscape Communications, and his longtime business partner, Ben Horowitz, are teaming up again — this time to spearhead a new $300 million venture fund, called Andreessen-Horowitz, that will invest in companies of all shapes

CompuServe & My Journey to the Internet: Like a wrinkle in a crisp cotton sheet, sometimes our past and present come together all too abruptly, leading us down memory lane, a trip that often brings a wistful smile. I had that same feeling when I read the

For Firefox, a Challenging Future Awaits: For much of this decade, Mozilla and its Firefox browser were the upstarts, out to beat the big, bad Microsoft and its Internet Explorer browser. Firefox, the descendant of Netscape, the browser that helped jump-start the web revolution, was nimble

For Firefox, a Challenging Future Awaits: For much of this decade, Mozilla and its Firefox browser were the upstarts, out to beat the big, bad Microsoft and its Internet Explorer browser. Firefox, the descendant of Netscape, the browser that helped jump-start the web revolution, was nimble

With Commercialization of the Cloud, It’s Déjà vu: For both providers and customers of cloud technology, these are exciting times, and yet, in the midst of all of the energy and confusion that the cloud inspires, I can’t help but think that we’ve been here before. I see

What to read on the GigaOM network: Will Michael Jackson’s funeral be live-streamed? (NewTeeVee)Is Obama building new energy policy council with cleantech leaders? (Earth2Tech)Must-have iPhone apps for air travel (WebWorkerDaily)14 free iTunes visualizers (TheAppleBlog)With the rollout of Symbian’s OS platform, expect a shakeout (OStatic)MIA: One of the

Will MySpace Kill MySpace Latino?: As MySpace struggles to regain ground it’s lost to Facebook and sort out its revenue woes, executive departures from MySpace Latino, a combination Spanish-English site targeted at U.S.-based Latinos that launched a little over a year ago, indicate it may

Smart Meters That Can Tweet, From a Utility That “Gets” Broadband: Germany’s Yello Strom might be the coolest utility in the world — it’s embraced the intertwining of energy and home broadband connections and is one of the few that manages its smart meter service directly via its customers’ broadband link.

Google’s App Engine Is Sputtering: Updated: Today we’ve received an email and seen multiple tweets alerting us to the fact that Google’s App Engine software development platform is down. We’ve emailed the company for details, but in the meantime, a check of the App Engine

Advertisers: Pay No Attention to the Data We Are Stealing: Several marketing associations supported by Google have banded together and released seven principles that they believe should govern online privacy. Are you ready for a journey to the Emerald City? Because the principles are the online advertisers’ attempts to stave

With Commercialization of the Cloud, It’s Déjà vu: For both providers and customers of cloud technology, these are exciting times, and yet, in the midst of all of the energy and confusion that the cloud inspires, I can’t help but think that we’ve been here before. I see

MagicJack’s Next Act: Femtos, Softphones, and…an IPO?: Amongst all the burning wrecks of the voice over IP startup scene, is it possible that a $40 device hawked on late-night TV may be emerging as one of the biggest VoIP success stories ever? If you believe founder Dan

America’s Secret Innovation Weapon: Immigration: On this 233rd celebration of U.S. Independence Day, in the midst of the worst economic recession in at least a lifetime, there is a national debate taking place as to the direction of the country. And while I’m confident that

Android This Week: Flash Coming to the Browser: The biggest news in the Android world this week came from embedded systems developer BSquare, which said it’s developed a version of Flash Lite for the Google phone OS. The BSquare Flash module will be distributed to OEMs as a

Why the Mobile Web Won’t Save Sirius XM: Things may finally be turning around for troubled satellite radio venture Sirius XM. Following a long and costly merger, the company became desperate for new financing just as credit dried up, and managed to avert bankruptcy only by selling 40

VentureBeat Presents MobileBeat 2009: Join the most influential investors, mobile industry executives, entrepreneurs, press and analysts at MobileBeat 2009 for one day of in-depth discussion, debate and power networking, held on July 16 at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco. MobileBeat will focus

Maybe “Paid” Is the Future of Online Business: In 1988, “Saturday Night Live” aired a parody commercial deriding clumsy business models. “At First CityWide Change Bank, our business is making change,” said actor Jim Downey, portraying a naive “service representative.” After listing various ways in which his company

37signals

PHOTO: Neat infographic: A beat-by-beat breakdown: Neat infographic: A beat-by-beat breakdown of a single track by “mashup DJ” Girl Talk.

Design Explorations: Basecamp Account Screen: As the new designer at 37signals, I am working on a series of short-term projects, much like the old 37express projects and my recent Highrise contact screen exploration. The idea is to work through some long-standing areas of the apps

QUOTE: 'Rock Star' is perhaps the most abused phrase: ‘Rock Star’ is perhaps the most abused phrase in the history of job listings. Nobody should be looking for a “rock star” accountant, HR recruiter or janitor. Whomever is posting these jobs is grossly misinformed as to the nature of

Reminder: Know what you're measuring: Yesterday David and I met with Sarah and Michael for a bit to get an update on how customer support/service is going. We recently switched from using Gmail to HelpSpot and we were curious how the transition felt. Basically, how

PHOTO: LessEverything's UI Test Results #3: Flipping: LessEverything’s UI Test Results #3: Flipping “See the Tour or Try Less Accounting Free” so button is on the right improved conversions from 12.3% to 13.8%.

Product Blog update: New Basecamp features, Highrise/Harvest integration, etc.: Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:Basecamp New File Uploading features in BasecampWe’re excited to announce a batch of improvements to File Uploads in Basecamp. Now it’s easier to attach multiple files at once, we’ve improved our progress bar

QUOTE: I don't care how good you are at programming: I don’t care how good you are at programming, finding bugs, whatever. If you’re rude, or if you speak poorly to people who don’t understand your… quirks…. you will wind up being shunted to the side. No one wants to

Mark's upcoming technical presentations: I have a couple of technical presentations coming up that I wanted to let everyone know about. I’ll be talking about a couple of things that have been holding my interest for the past few months: Chef and Erlang.For the

Lessons learned from Spike Lee's profile of Kobe Bryant: So the Lakers win another NBA championship. I haven’t always been a fan, but I’ve got to admit it was really fun to watch Kobe Bryant this season. He seemed to have an almost maniacal determination to win another championship.

Oldie But Goodie: Sketching with a Sharpie: I’ve always preferred sketching UIs with an as-thick-as-I-can-find Sharpie over a thin ballpoint pen or finely sharpened pencil.Ballpoints and fine tips just don’t fill the page like a Sharpie does. Fine tips invite you to

Your branding shouldn't give customers a headache: This new animated YouTube logo is super distracting. How are you supposed to concentrate on a video when there’s this flashing static/rainbow thing in the corner? It’s like the site is trying to force you to go fullscreen mode now.

Design Decisions: Results from the Basecamp account screen redesign: Just about two weeks ago we launched the a redesign of the account chart in Basecamp. This is where people can upgrade or downgrade their accounts.The goal was to increase overall upgrade conversions and encourage people who are on Basic

Working at 37signals: It’s been several weeks since I was hired here at 37signals so I thought it might be interesting to share some of my experiences so far.Ready, set, go!One of the best things has been how quickly I’ve been able to

PHOTO: Elbo.ws puts a special message at the top: Elbo.ws puts a special message at the top of the page for visitors who wind up there via Google.

The planning fallacy: We blame bureaucracy for being wasteful and taking too long when things like the Denver International Airport or Boston’s Big Dig arrive years overdue and billions over budget. But it’s not just huge organizations and the government that mess up

The risks Michael Jackson took on Thriller: In Artistic Value of Thriller , “Scorpeze” writes that many overlook Michael Jackson’s role as a songwriter and producer on his landmark albums and tend to overestimate Quincy Jones’ role. The post includes links to demos (Billie Jean, The Girl

"Good enough" instead of "absolutely perfect": For my first project since joining 37signals I’ve been working on an update to the venerable Account (Upgrade/Billing) screen in Basecamp. We’ll post more about that update and the process to get there soon, but I wanted to share an

Why it's wise to launch softly: How the term “trial balloon” originated: The Montgolfiere brothers came up with a design for the hot air balloon but wanted to make sure it would really work before getting in one themselves. So they first released several unmanned trial

QUOTE: Big, as a business model (let alone as an: Big, as a business model (let alone as an expression of the national mood), seems bound for obsolescence.—“A Study in Why Major Law Firms Are Shrinking”

Design Decisions: Redesigning Basecamp's global milestone view: Yesterday we pushed an update to the Basecamp global milestone view. This is the calendar-style view of all milestones on all projects over the next 3 months. The goal was to make this screen cleaner and more useful.The old milestone

O'Reilly Radar

Four short links: 3 July 2009: OECD Factbook -- Flash-built impressive data explorer from OECD. Go to Indicators > Load and, in the words of Ben Goldacre, prepare for nerdgasm. (via bengoldacre on Twitter)James Boyle is on Twitter -- author of the book The Public Domain.Sewers

Twitter Approval Matrix - June 2009: Last month I posted the first Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of May and different sources such as Hashtag.org, scraping archives, and observations. This month I received some help from Joe Fernandez the CEO of Klout.net

Ignite Los Angeles on 7/21! Submit a Talk: Ignite is coming to LA! As always speakers will get 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. Were going to be holding the geek event at Cinespace in Hollywood on 7/21. Submit a talk now.This will be the first Ignite

Four short links: 2 July 2009: UNESCO book: Open Educational Resources -- UNESCOs first openly licensed publication, a collection of papers and reports in the area of Open Educational Resources. (via glynmoody on Twitter)ETSI 2.0 -- Paul Downey ventures into the belly of the telco beast

Four short links: 3 July 2009: OECD Factbook -- Flash-built impressive data explorer from OECD. Go to Indicators > Load and, in the words of Ben Goldacre, prepare for nerdgasm. (via bengoldacre on Twitter)James Boyle is on Twitter -- author of the book The Public Domain.Sewers

Ignite Los Angeles on 7/21! Submit a Talk: Ignite is coming to LA! As always speakers will get 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. Were going to be holding the geek event at Cinespace in Hollywood on 7/21. Submit a talk now.This will be the first Ignite

Four short links: 2 July 2009: UNESCO book: Open Educational Resources -- UNESCOs first openly licensed publication, a collection of papers and reports in the area of Open Educational Resources. (via glynmoody on Twitter)ETSI 2.0 -- Paul Downey ventures into the belly of the telco beast

Twitter Approval Matrix - June 2009: Last month I posted the first Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of May and different sources such as Hashtag.org, scraping archives, and observations. This month I received some help from Joe Fernandez the CEO of Klout.net

Patrick Collison Puts the Squeeze on Wikipedia: Think about Wikipedia, what some consider the most complete general survey of human knowledge we have at the moment. Now imagine squeezing it down to fit comfortably on an 8GB iPhone. Sound daunting? Well, thats just what Patrick Collisons Encylopedia

In Defense of Social Media (At Least Some Of It): Scott Berkun just posted a great rant titled, Calling Bullshit on Social Media. I suggest everyone read it. Berkun raises good points - and I agree the hype around social media warrants taking a critical look. Despite being in general

Four short links: 1 July 2009: The Onyas -- New Zealand web design awards launch, from the people behind Webstock and Full Code Press. The name comes from good on ya, the highest praise that traditionally taciturn New Zealanders are allowed by law to give.The Year

Velocity and the Bottom Line: Velocity 2009 took place last week in San Jose, with Jesse Robbinsand I serving as co-chairs. Back inNovember 2008, while we were planning Velocity, I said I wanted to highlight best practices in performance and operations that improve the user

Patrick Collison Puts the Squeeze on Wikipedia: Think about Wikipedia, what some consider the most complete general survey of human knowledge we have at the moment. Now imagine squeezing it down to fit comfortably on an 8GB iPhone. Sound daunting? Well, thats just what Patrick Collisons Encylopedia

In Defense of Social Media (At Least Some Of It): Scott Berkun just posted a great rant titled, Calling Bullshit on Social Media. I suggest everyone read it. Berkun raises good points - and I agree the hype around social media warrants taking a critical look. Despite being in general

Velocity and the Bottom Line: Velocity 2009 took place last week in San Jose, with Jesse Robbinsand I serving as co-chairs. Back inNovember 2008, while we were planning Velocity, I said I wanted to highlight best practices in performance and operations that improve the user

Four short links: 1 July 2009: The Onyas -- New Zealand web design awards launch, from the people behind Webstock and Full Code Press. The name comes from good on ya, the highest praise that traditionally taciturn New Zealanders are allowed by law to give.The Year

Everyblock's Code is Open-Sourced: The code for Adrian Holovatys Everyblock has been released. The open-sourcing of the sites system were apart of the Knight News Challenge Program. Everyblock is very impressive site that

The Hacker Ethic - Harming Developers?: On Monday Neil McAllister posed the question is the hacker ethic harming American developers? Slashdot picked it up and Tim forwarded it to the Radar list. As you might expect, it resulted in some spirited discussion.James Turner kicked things off

The US Online Job Market Was (still) Down Big In June 2009: Updating my post from early June, the U.S. online job market† still hasnt shown signs of recovering from steady declines that began in September of last year. Compared to the same period last year, there were 50% fewer job postings

Radical Transparency: The New Federal IT Dashboard: Today, at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, Vivek Kundra, the US national CIO, unveiled the new IT spending dashboards at usaspending.gov. The dashboards are designed to help Vivek and the CIOs of individual government agencies get a handle

Micro Persuasion

10 Useful Tips for Tricking Out FriendFeed: via maketecheasier.com Great primer for newbies and veterans alike. The email notifications, when coupled with lists and Gmail filters, are outstanding and vastly underutilized by many.Permalink | Leave a comment »

The Big To-Do Over To Do's: Years ago, life was simple. You created a to-do list - on paper. You checked boxes. And that was that. Somewhere along the way, as technology unleashed more inputs into our lives, the simple to-do list

Rooting for the CrunchPad: Image credit: CNETIt sounds like Mike Arrington is getting closer to shipping the CrunchPad - a device that does one thing (surf the web) hopefully really well. Even though I am consolidating my technology, I want to see the CrunchPad

How I am Declaring My Independence from Technology Today: For those of you in the US, Happy Independence Day! There are lots of ways to celebrate this amazing holiday. In New York, the Statue of Liberty crown is finally re-opening. Every town, it seems, has

My Yahoo Adds Peer-to-Peer Polling: Do you My Yahoo? I still do, occasionally, though I iGoogle more these days. I have been using My Yahoo for over 10 years, but whats great is that they havent stayed still. Now My Yahoo

Question of the Day: Can a Phone Replace a Laptop?: This is something I have been thinking about lately: as smart phones (pick one, any one) get more sophisticated, can one get away traveling for business sans laptop? For me the answer to date has been: sort of. Basically, if

Friendfeed Brings "Best of Day" to Lists, Helps You Spot Trends from Friends: See and download the full gallery on posterousOne of my favorite Friendfeed features is called Best of Day. I use it all the time to hone in on the most liked/commented conversations.

Google Knows You: Here's a fun little find for a Friday. If you have a Google Profile and you're logged in to your Google account, search for the word me. Your profile will come up as the top result.

Video: PBS Mediashift Interview: I spoke with Rubel a couple months ago when he was visiting San Francisco for the Ad:tech conference. We met at B Restaurant near Moscone Center and I interviewed him with my Flip camera.Mark Glaser writing for Mediashift on pbs.orgTimestamps

Video Interview: Marco Arment of Instapaper: I took a quick trip uptown today to learn more about Tumblr and meet with their team. (I will have a video interview next week up with Tumblrs co-founder, David Karp.) While I was there I shot this five-minute interview

My Stats Reflect How the Web Is Changing: See and download the full gallery on posterousRobert Scoble is back to blogging, investing more time and attention this week there as opposed to Twitter and Friendfeed.He linked to me this week,

Video: Talking Twitter on "Big Think": via bigthink.com More videos are here. Full interview and transcript can be found here.Permalink | Leave a comment »

Voice Comments Are Open, Call in and Share Your Thoughts on Social Media: I promised you when the site lanched that we would use it as a place to experiment with new formats and concepts in co-created content. Heres one. Maybe it will fail miserably, well see.If you click on the box below,

Google Wave Is On My Radar: I keep a massive list on my computer called Discovery. These are products and services I am evaluating both for potential Edelman use as well as to satisfy my own personal insatiable curiosity for new technology. I thought I would

Immediacy vs. Reflection: My move from a blog to a lifestream format has elicited two kinds ofresponses so far: approvers and doubters. I don't think this has anything to do with me, but rather it's reflection of how we're adjusting to the broader

Getting the Mosterous from Posterous: Posterous has a number of little features that I absolutely love. Whats great is that they primarily benefit those of you who consume and engage with my content. (For more, see the photos I attached to the end of this

Put Eyes Behind Your Back: Monitor Your URLs on Twitter: I talk to a lot of people in PR about conversation monitoring. Everyone, it seems, recognizes the importance of monitoring Twitter for mentions of their brand (be it a corporate/product brand or personal one). However very few people bother to

Evernote + Lifestream = ???: via blog.evernote.com Evernote yesterday gave user the ability to share any notebook. I am already keeping a notebook in Evernote of things I want to add to the daily lifestream. What if I were to make this notebook public so

Today's Top Conversation: When Did You First Discover the Internet?: Im adding a new semi-regular feature to the stream called Todays Top Conversation. These will be pulled from Friendfeed via a widget, as described here.Todays topic: When did you discover the Internet and what were your first impressions?For me it

Quote of the Day: Social media consultants are this year’s life coachEric Suez via blog.getsatisfaction.com There certainly are a lot of consultants out there. Now I am biassed, but I would always recommend working with someone who can see the bigger picture.Permalink | Leave

CenterNetworks

Technorati Takes an Extended Holiday Break: Back in May it looked like Technorati stopped indexing blogs and links correctly. We were told that the issue was a result of the Technorati team moving their servers to a new hosting facility.Now we’ve learned via Thomas Marban that the

USA Celebrates Its Independence; We All Celebrate Our Google Dependence: Guhmshoo put together a cartoon that I thought was interesting. The cartoon suggests that while we are celebrating our independence here in the U.S., worldwide we are all celebrating our dependence on Google.James Thomas discussed his life without Google -

Breaking: Yankee Fan Tweets Boston Red Sox Fan: Earlier this week we broke the news when the official Microsoft PR Twitter account added their third tweet. Unfortunately we missed the chance to break the news that the account was now fully staffed and their first two tweets went

TC50 Ups The Previously Upped Ante: Doubles Down Demo: This morning we noted that DEMO was now offering some amount of money in advertising to the two winners at their startup-infomercial. As I noted in an update on that article, I am no longer sure if the total amount

DEMO Ups The Ante Against TC50 - Offers $2 Million To Winners: Last month I discussed presenting at the DEMO and TC50 conferences later this year. In the comments, Techcrunch50 founder Jason Calacanis noted that one of the big differences between the two startup-infomercial conferences is that his Techcrunch50 offers $50,000 to

Yahoo Mail is Down: I’ve been a happy Yahoo Mail user forever and to the best of my memory, I don’t ever remember the service being down. As of 7pm Eastern this evening, Yahoo Mail has not been functioning. The few times that I’ve received

BillFlo Discusses First Year Learnings: As an entrepreneur, it’s always interesting to read about lessons other startups have learned as they move on their journeys. Paperless invoicing startup BillFlo has just hit their one-year anniversary and have put together a list of some of the

Breaking/Exclusive: Microsoft Adds 3rd Twitter Message!: Last night while winding down and watching Ask This Old House, I was alerted to an important post by MG Siegler (MG writes for Techcrunch). The post noted that Microsoft Corporation is now tweeting (that means they are posting up

Tumblr Launches Photosets: NY-based microblogging service Tumblr has announced a new feature today: Photosets. Photosets takes a bunch of photos and creates a Flash-based slider/photoshow of the photos.You can either upload photos or link out to other photo locations (flickr, photobucket, smugmug, some

Pingdom Goes Free: Web site monitoring service Pingdom has announced the launch of a free plan option today. Paid plans are still available starting at $10. The free plan is only limited by the number of websites that can be monitored — which

Remember That Zoho Secret Launch? It’s Zoho Projects 2.0: No description.

Tatango Partners With Subway for SMS Marketing: I guess the people at group SMS service Tatango are loving the “Five…Five Dollar Footlong” commercial these days. Tatango has been testing a program with a 16-store Subway franchise in upstate New York over the past few months. The company says the

Got 250 Followers on Twitter? Best Buy Wants You!: This afternoon Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang posted a link to a new job opening at electronics retailer Best Buy. The job title is, “Sr. Manager - Emerging Media Marketing”. The job seems very similar to a former position I held

Fresh Web Jobs - June 30: Below are some of the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you.Featured Jobs:Technical Director at Your MajestyProject Manager at ModeaTechnical

Simply Hired Launches International Sites in Europe and South America: Job aggregation service Simply Hired has announced the launch of a variety of international sites today. The list includes local job search sites for Italy, Ireland, Belgium, Brazil and the Netherlands. Simply Hired notes that they are indexing over five

Amazon Offers Free Credit Card Processing: Amazon has announced that they are offering free credit card processing through their AmazonPayments division through the end of September. AmazonPayments is similar to PayPal and Google Checkout. The service allows you to accept credit cards for products, services and

Zoho Provides Clues to Their New Product: This weekend Online office and tools provider Zoho announced that they are launching a new product this week. They didn’t provide any details except a mad libs comment. Today they posted a bit more about the upcoming launch.What we know

StartupTicker Launches to Track Startup Activity: A new aggregator has launched today named StartupTicker. The idea behind StartupTicker is to aggregate startup news from around the world. It’s a really simple website - just a listing of the latest posts on the startups that they track.

Quantcast Adds Media Program: Web measurement company Quantcast has announced the launch of the “Quantcast Media Program” today. Quantcast describes the media program as, “connect(ing) Marketers and Publishers using consistent, actionable and accurate data applied at the impression level.”From the release, “The Quantcast solution

So What’s Zoho Launching This Week?: Some startups give exclusives (sadly)… some startups go with embargoes… some startups just go. Online office and tools provider Zoho has announced that they will be launching “something” this week. They promise that the launch will happen before July 4th.This

Webware

Marc Andreessen launches new venture fund: (Credit: Dan Farber/CNET Networks)Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also co-founder of Opsware, are launching on Monday a new venture fund, cleverly named Andreessen Horowitz (previous story).

Twitter under siege by 4chan: Update: Twitter has reacted to this raid by removing the term from its trending topics, but evidence can still be found on Twitter Search.A set of instructions for the raid on Twitter.(Credit: Insurgency

Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography: In addition to new features such as support for HTML 5, geo-location, and a noticeably faster engine, Firefox 3.5 added a new CSS rule that makes Web typography much more attractive.@font-face is a CSS rule that allows Web designers to

Sites that help you lodge complaints: Whether you want to target politicians, your employers, or companies that have done you wrong, there are a variety of sites across the Web that will help you voice your complaints. But beware that not all of them will actually

Google App Engine misfires: Technical difficulties forced Googles Web application hosting infrastructure off the air for about four hours Thursday morning.Customers who run their Web applications on Google App Engine were forced idle Thursday by a series

Microsoft: Bing needs to improve when news breaks: One of the biggest news stories in years caught Microsofts Bing a little off guard.The flood of traffic on the Internet following reports that Michael Jackson had been rushed to a Los Angeles hospital last Thursday, where he later died,

Google finally sued by makers of Finally Fast: Google has been sued again by a company mad over the use of its trademarks as keywords, but this one comes with a twist.Ascentive, the company behind those incessant Finally

Google Toolbar for IE speaks your language: Toolbars have long been an effective way for software publishers to add several features to a browser at once, and the Google Toolbar has long been among the most popular of these. Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer introduces revamped translation

Bing brings out the Tweets: Twitter messages from prominent writers like All Things D's Kara Swisher are now in Bing search results.(Credit: Bing)Microsoft is trying to get a leg up in the real-time search wars by adding Twitter

Google Search optimized for a mess of phones: (Credit: Google)Last December we showed you how Google refined its search results for iPhone and Android. The change loaded pages faster and fit the results to the screen

Yahoo's Delicious proves Chrome extensions real: Yahoo has released a test version of a Delicious social bookmarking extension for Chrome, one of the strongest indications so far that the technology foundation is coming to fruition in Googles browser.Extensions still

Opera widgets for the math and science whiz: I really like Opera (Windows | Mac) widgets. They all offer something unique. But I especially like the browsers science and math widgets.If youre someone who just cant get enough of planets, you love building mathematical graphs, or you enjoy

Bing's first month produces small share gain: Bing picked up half a percentage point of market share in June.(Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET)Bing took a baby step up the search engine ladder in its first month on the Internet.Microsofts share

New sites for gadget nuts: Gdgt and Retrevo: Gdgt, a new site co-founded by Peter Rojas (founding editor of both Gizmodo and Engadget) and Ryan Block (former editor in chief of Engadget) is opening up today. It is--surprise--yet another gadget site,

Facebook cleans up its privacy controls: Revamped privacy settings are coming soon to Facebook.The social networks privacy controls had gotten so sprawling that they were distributed across six separate pages and 40 different settings, according to a conference call

Gmail labels get higher placement, drag-and-drop: Starting Wednesday, Gmail users will find their labels farther up the left-hand side of their screen.(Credit: Google)Google is rolling out another tweak to its Gmail user interface that makes its labels behave a

Is Twitter freaking out over 'tweet' trademark?: Is Twitter getting possessive of its own name? Maybe.A developer building an application using Twitters API was told via e-mail that Twitter took issue with the user interface of his application, allegedly very

Marketcetera gives hedge funds cloud-based trading: If any class of financial-services firm should have become extinct in 2008, its the hedge fund. Hedge funds bled $154 billion in 2008, according to Lipper Hedgeworld, with 1,500 hedge funds closing shop, as reported by The New York Times.

Postbox gets extensions: Considering that its based on Mozilla Thunderbird, it was a bit of a surprise that add-ons werent available for Postbox when it debuted. Thats now been remedied in Postbox beta 13 for Windows and Mac. Given Postboxs emphasis on social

Twitter reworks following lists, adds functionality: Twitter is in the process of rolling out a new user interface update to its users. This update focuses on Twitters Following and Follower pages. In addition to a better looking list, Twitter has added more social actions to the

eHub

The Photographer’s Ephemeris: Ephemeris is an Adobe AIR application for photographers, primarily those who take landscape vista’s and need to calculate accurately the times of sunrise and sunset to achieve that perfect shot.

gdgt: A new kind of technology site -- a social gadget platform that enables you to connect with the community through your gadgets, and connect with your gadgets through the community. Its a place for you to engage with your devices

Tripntale: Helps you showcase your travel with maps, photos, videos and journals.

Philtro: Lets you rate tweets so you can find the most interesting, relevant tweets first. Its like a spam filter for your Twitter account. Currently in private beta but eHub users can get immediate access via the link.

Task.fm: New web based reminder app. uses semantic technology to provide a simple and intuitive way to create sms, phone and email reminders. Unlike every other reminder app, Task.fm doesnt require the user to enter the event, date and time. Rather,

charts.fm: Allows you to create your own music charts by (re)mixing the charts of more than 2500 radio stations, play the charts through, watch music videos, read the lyrics of your favorite songs and the bio of your favorite artists, find

Contenture: A new micropayment service designed for content-oriented sites, but works well with any of site. Fully automated - you pay a monthly fee, which is automatically distributed at the end of each month to all of the Contenture sites you

ParaTweet: Provides a real-time, full screen display of tweets pulled from any #tag or search term(s). It also provides powerful moderation capabilities that allow for any tweet to be approved or disapproved prior to showing on the screen.

VIrl: Share Your Photos, Shorten URLs & Spread the News. Use Virl for Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Delicious or Blogs & Websites.

RentWiki: A peer review and recommendation website to help people find a place to live. From local reviews to pros and cons about the area, in the hopes of making renting easier.

AskAround.Me: A location based Q&A service that helps you connect to the people around your physical location. Send a question to people around you, and AskAround.me members will try to answer. Oh yeah theres app for this too.

SellingBin: A source for buyback offers. Receive the highest possible buyback offer on your electronics.

CoTweet: CoTweet is a business platform that helps companies reach and engage customers using Twitter while supporting both proactive marketing communication and response-driven customer support .

LinkUp: A job search engine that gets jobs only from company websites. Site uses a lot of modern web tech (ajax/tabs/openID/etc) to make the service useful to job-seekers.

Pollution: An iPhone/iPod touch application providing a knowledge about your environment by focusing on the pollutants and their effects. By combining and crossing information extracted from numerous public databases, the app displays graphical information about polluting sources around a defined location.

LOVEBOX: A digital wristband to help raise money and awareness for different charities around the world via the web.

eHub Interviews Ambiently: Ambiently is a web discovery engine. To use it, you only need to put a bookmarklet onto your browser. Then, any time you view a webpage and want related information, just click the bookmarklet to see an ambient page that

Gnip: Gnip is radically simplifying the way companies access and integrate the web’s data for use in social and business applications.

All For Good: All for Good helps you to find and share volunteer activities with friends, family and colleagues. The site brings together listings from organizations and local groups to help you find volunteer activities that fit your time and talent - from

WolframAlpha: Knowledge-based computing. This first version is the beginning of a long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute

Museum of Modern Betas

Covet: Covetsearching thousands of brands from hundreds of online stores to find the most coveted fashion in your style. your size. on sale.

BestFewo: BestFewo (german)Deutschlands größte Suchmaschine für Ferienwohnungen(search engine for vacation rentals)Blog

RSS2Twitter: RSS2Twitterpublish your content to twitter, directly from your RSS feedsBlog

billFLO: billFLObillFLO invoices are computer readable, electronic invoices you can email to your customers. Customers import them into their accounting system with a click.Twitter

Re:Subj: Re:SubjReSubj is a discussion space accessible with browser or email.

sipgate: sipgateReplace your landline nowTwitter

Notable: Notable(email waitinglist)Notable helps your team collaborate through visual feedback on screenshots, via a chaos-free process so that everyone can express their opinion.Blog

Tweetboard: TweetboardTweetboard is a fun and engaging micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time, reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting.

myComics: myComics (german)eigene Comics hochladen, Favoriten auswählen, Comics kommentieren, beim Wettbewerb deine Stimme abgeben, und deine Comics beim Wettbewerb einreichen(upload and share comics)

chirbit: chirbitChirbit enables users to record, upload, listen to and share sound bites easily.How to Use Audio Microblogging for Your Work

Milo: MiloFind Products In Stock Now at Local Stores

Talenthouse: TalenthouseFor artists and creatives from all known disciplines and beyond, Talenthouse provides a platform to create new work, collaborate with each other and become recognized by a global audience.Blog

MyJobJabs: MyJobJabsvent out about crazy and funny instances that happen at work.BlogMyJobJabs.com – Jab About Work & Keep It Short & Funny

Taroby: TarobyRelax your inbox.Blog

scripty2: scripty2scripty2 is a powerful, flexible JavaScript framework to help you write your own delicious visual effects and user interfaces(the next generation of the popular script.aculo.us framework)scripty2: for a more delicious webBlog

Friction.tv: Friction.tvFriction.tv is an online platform for user generated news and opinion.

Grow VC: Grow VC(private beta)simplifying early stage fundingBlog

Vizerra: Vizerra (spanish)Vizerra es un software único que le permite visitar todos los lugares más hermosos del mundoVizerra – modelos 3D de los sitios más bonitos del mundo.

Sense of Fashion: Sense of FashionHome to indie fashion lovers, designers, shoppers, sellers and fashionistasBlogSense Of Fashion Is A Social Marketplace For Indie Fashion

Social Whale: Social Whale(follow on Twitter waitinglist)an extension to twitter’s service which will enable twitter users to use more advanced features like groups, tagging, etc.Blog

ProgrammableWeb

How to Add Geo Data to Your Blog Posts: Planning to blog your vacation? Why not geocode your blog posts, so that you can let visitors know where you are? Thats the idea behind a new tool for WordPress.

24 Mashups, 24 APIs: Movies, Music, Geo, Sports, and Nukes: This past week 22 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 24 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Glue , Google Gears Geolocation, Netflix,

5 New APIs: Sprint, Ericsson, and Volunteerism: In the past few days weve had 5 new APIs added to our API directory ranging from the new Sprint API, three APIs from Ericsson Labs, and the API for All for Good that helps you find

Yahoo’s Placemaker Yields the GeoMaker Project: You may remember our earlier post on Yahoo Placemaker, a new “geo-enrichment” platform that includes an API (our Placemaker API Profile) that can be used to make applications and data sets location-aware by determining

Twitter Increases Rate Limits by 50%: Your Twitter mashup just got 50% more content. And if you follow many people, you may have already noticed an increase in the flow of information. Why? Twitter just allowed developers 50% more calls per

Explore Seven Years of NYC Murders: A murder in New York is twice as likely to occur at night. And thankfully, weve just finished June, which statistically has slightly more murders than other months. For more, the

SaaS Vendors Need to Get a Clue About APIs: SaaS vendors need to get a clue about open APIs. Thats the takeaway from a panel discussion at last months Interop event in Las Vegas. According to Network Worlds coverage of the

All for Good: Volunteer Opportunities Via API: Developers interested in giving back to the community should check out All for Goods new API (our All for Good API Profile). If you are not familiar with All for Good, it is

Sprint Opens API: Gets Openly RESTful: In a first for US mobile carriers, Sprint has opened up an initial set of REST services for developers to play with for free at their new developer sandbox. With these services (Sprint API

53 APIs Used in 7 Days: Bing, Flickr, Last.fm, Ooyala, Salesforce, and 48 More: No sooner had we seen a record number of APIs used in a single week last week, than this week we now saw 53 different APIs used to build the 22 new mashups were add to our mashup directory this

6 New APIs: Polls, Stocks, Biodiversity, and Google: Here are 6 of the newest APIs added to our API directory. They include a Danish registry of biodiversity data such as species data, including plants, animals, fungi and micro-organisms; an API for conducting polls, a

200 Twitter Mashups: Whats hot in APIs these days? If you look for clues in what APIs are most often used in new mashups listed here on ProgrammableWeb, its the Twitter API. Not a surprise given how hot

Google Releases Virtual Keyboard AJAX API: Google has just released a new Virtual Keyboard API as part of its AJAX Language API that should enrich sites that use forms to collect information from multi-lingual users. This new API (our

The Top 10 Malware Sites - How to Avoid Them Using a Google API: Have you noticed an increase in the number of reports about malware and compromised web servers? Recently, a computer exploit known as Gumblar has been making news for its ability to launch exploits

API Value Creation, Not Monetization: Why is it that the most common questions people have about providing open APIs are often about monetization? While there are many possible answers, two reasons that stand out are: a) the API is a distribution channel, and when you

Hunch Launches API: Go Make Decisions: While Google leads the way in web search and Yahoo leads in the answers market, many upstart services are attempting to carve out new ways to provide smarter answers to your questions. Microsoft has billed its new search offering Bing

7 New APIs: Twitter Add-on APIs, United Nations Data, and Stock Tweets: In addition to the 6 new APIs we reviewed yesterday, another 7 were added to our API directory this week. These includes APIs for collaborative, social translation of site content, a service for personalized apparel, an

45 Different APIs used in 7 Days: From Digg to Netflix to FriendFeed to YouTube: This past week 27 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 45 different APIs were used to build them (certainly the most number of APIs weve seen used in a single week). Some of

6 New APIs: Monitor Amazon, Fight Spam, and Send Snail Mail: This week we had new web services added to our API directory ranging from small startups to the big names in web APIs. One of the more notable new ones comes from Amazon with their CloudWatch

6 Fun Sites to Track Your Trails: Whether for exercise, sight-seeing, or just for fun, most of us enjoy walking, running and biking our way through the city or the country side. Below youll find six mashups from the Programmable Web

Web2.0 List

How To Write Expressive Articles That Generate web traffic: How to write expressive articles that can pull in considerable web traffic

Russians Spend More Time On Social Networks Than The Rest Of World: comScore has aggregated some data based on its World Metrix audience measurement service and put together a study on social networking worldwide. Surprisingly, it appears that the Russians are more engaged with social networking than the rest of the planet

Get Maximum Income From Sell Private Ad: Remove a middle man between me and ones that could potentially be my advertisers and get the maximum income from selling private advertising

Can Sears Help OpenID Go Mainstream?: Its one thing when Internet companies like Facebook adopt OpenID, its another when a giant retailer like Sears Holdings Corporation embraces it. Sears has just announced that it will enable over 1 million monthly MySears and MyKmart visitors to use

Twitter followers 'can be bought': Twitter users who lack an audience for their messages can now buy followers.

Getting Started With An Effective Article Marketing Strategy: If you are looking to indulge into article marketing on the Internet then you should know that it is an effective way to generate publicity of your product and your business.

Want More Twitter Followers? Break Out Your Wallet: If you use self-described web site traffic and promotion company uSocial.net to buy votes on Digg and StumbleUpon, youll be thrilled to know its expanded its service to Twitter. For just $87, uSocial will generate an additional 1,000 Twitter followers

Celebrity death rumors spread online: After a string of real celebrity deaths last week, the Internet and online social networks killed a few more stars.

First Came Gizmodo, Then Engadget. Now, GDGT.: SAN FRANCISCO In the beginning, circa 2002, there was Gizmodo, a Web site with news and reviews of mobile phones, digital cameras other electronic toys that became the foundation of the Gawker network of Web sites.

StyleCaster Nets $4 Million For Personalized Fashion Community: Interactive fashion community StyleCaster has raised $4 million in Series A round of financing from investor Dan Gilbert, the chairman and founder of Quicken Loans.

Meebo Tries to Fill Moments Of Boredom With An Ad Network For Partner Sites: How do you advertise on a Web-based instant messaging service without interrupting conversations and annoying the hell out of users?

Flickr And Twitter are Now Officially Sucking Face: Flickr now lets you Tweet out any photos directly from the site.

Top 10 moments in Steve Jobs' career: As he returns to work after a serious illness, we take a look at the highlights of Jobs years at Apple.

Are online discount vouchers on the decline?: As weve reported a number of times, online vouchers have been one of the recent online success stories. Voucher searches shot up massively in the run up to Christmas as savvy shoppers looked to find a bargain during the recession.

YouTube Co-Founder Switches to Google: YouTube confirmed on Tuesday that Steve Chen, a co-founder and most recently YouTubes chief technology officer, was no longer working at the company. Mr. Chen left some time ago to work on unspecified engineering projects at its parent, Google.

Build Email Lists: Learn how to easily build huge, profitable opt-in lists! EBook reveals top marketing techniques to list building strategies!

bit.ly may beat Digg: Bit.lys Grand Plans, And Their Inevitable Clash With Digg: Bitly Now

Amazon Cuts Off Hawaii Affiliates: Amazon.com Inc. has informed its marketing affiliates in Hawaii that it is ending its business with them in order to avoid collecting sales tax in the state.

Epic Internet Musical : website story: the site has released Web Site Story, a five minute musical tribute to some of the webs most popular websites.

First look: Firefox 3.5 released, ready to "upgrade" the Web: Mozilla has officially released Firefox 3.5, the next major version of its popular open source Web browser. Ars takes a close look at the new version and evaluates its enhancements. Support for HTML 5 video and other important emerging Web

The Web 2.0 Show

Episode 54 - Spreedly: Adam and Josh sit down to talk with Nathaniel Talbott, creator of SpreedlyClick here for show notes.Download Podcast

Episode 52 - Zumo Drive: Adam and Josh sit down to discuss cloud storage and the implications with David Zhao from Zumodrive.com.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast

Episode 50 - Boxee.tv: Josh and Adam discuss Boxee with CEO and Founder, Avner Ronen and Andrew Kippen from Stage Two Consulting.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast

Episode B2 - Isaac Garcia at BarcampLA: Nick Dynice interviews Isaac Garcia of Central Desktop, the hosted collaboration tool for business teams for project management. This interview took place at at BarCampLA on March 4, 2006. Isaac talks about:Click here for show notes.Download Podcast

Episode 15 - Tantek Celik and Ryan King: In this SXSW interview, we snag Tantek Celik and Ryan King from Technorati and Microformats to talk about stuff they are working on…Click here for show notes.Download Podcast

Episode B1 - Ian Rogers at BarcampLA: Nick Dynice interviews Ian Rogers of Yahoo Music and, one of the contributors to the the Yahoo Music Blog. This interview took place at at BarCampLA on March 4, 2006. Ian talks about:subscription vs. al a carte music purchasingClick here

Episode 14 - Shaun Inman: We snagged Shaun Inman while we were at SXSW this year. We chat about what he has done, mint, piracy, and many other interesting things!Show notes to follow when Chris gets a chance…Click here for show notes.Download Podcast

Episode 13 - Lane Becker: Josh and I have a pre-show chat and then interview Lane Becker from Adaptive Path.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast

Episode 12 - Ryan Carson: We interview Ryan Carson in Episode 12. Ryan runs Carson Systems and took time to chat with us about starting out on his own! It was a great interview and Ryan is a very cool guy.On another note, we are

Episode 11 - John Green: UPDATE: The audio volume has been tweaked and the file has been switched, please list to the new file linked below.We chat with John Green of Savvica, creator of Nuvvo, the eLearning system.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast

Episode 10 - Dan Cederholm: We decided to go a different direction with episode 10 and focus soley on web design. Dan Cederholm joined us to talk about his experience in the field and his recent works. So grab your “bottle of wine”, sit back,

Episode 9 - Jason Fried: We interviewed Jason Fried in episode 9. He gave a very inspiring talk about start 37signals and how they handle their workload. Cool stuff.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast

Episode 8 - Tara Hunt: Well, episode 8 has been completed and uploaded for your listening pleasure.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast

Episode 7.2 - Jason Calacanis Part 2: Sorry for the delay guys, here is the second part of our talk with Jason Calacanis. We have been waiting for the show notes before we posted this one, but we figure it is better to get it out the

Episode 7.1 - Jason Calacanis Part 1: Ok, so the sound quality should be 110% better on this one… If I am still a “low talker”, then I am at a total loss. It is late, so I will post the show notes tomorrow after I write

Episode 6 - Jeff Barr: Chris and I interview Jeff Barr from Amazon. We are still working on the recording quality, episode 7 should be better.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast

Episode 5 - Chris Messina: In episode 5 we talk to Chris Messina of Flock. Please forgive the ocassional buzz and the muffled sound from the audacity noise removal.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast

Episode 4 - Kevin Rose: We forego the pre-interview chat and go straight into the interview, since we talked for so long!Click here for show notes.Download Podcast

Episode 3 - Om Malik: Enjoy our third podcast. We interviewed Om Malik.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast

Episode 2 - What is Web 2.0: No interview so Josh and I pontificate about Web 2.0 stuff.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast

Dion Hinchcliffe

Web 2.0 Architectures: What Entrepreneurs and Architects Need to Know: It's been a long time in coming and

Links for 2009-06-29: Improvisations � Seeking innovation? Look in new places. � MIT Sloan Management ReviewSeeking innovation? Look in new places - http://ow.ly/g2j7 (via @JKWinnovation) - #innovation #mit #wsj Debunking Social Media Myths - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.orgRT @HarvardBiz Debunking Social Media Myths

Links for 2009-06-28: brightkite.comI'm at Berlin - http://bkite.com/090z6 InfoQ: Twitter, an Evolving ArchitectureTwitter: An Evolving Architecture - http://bit.ly/goLpj Good breakdown of the internals.

Links for 2009-06-27: Twitpic - Share photos on TwitterIt's always great catching up with fellow ZDNetter @olivermarks. We discussed #e2conf and business trends http://twitpic.com/8aneo Twitpic - Share photos on TwitterChatting with the new CEO of http://www.twiki.net Jitendra Kavathekar (@jeetkavathekar) doing cool stuff http://twitpic.com/8aqvu

The Evolving Web In 2009: Web Squared Emerges To Refine Web 2.0: It's been five years now that we've begun to understand what Web 2.0 is, starting back in 2003. It's been a fairly impressive if winding road as a new online generation was born. But far from getting long in the

Links for 2009-06-23: DOD weighs greater use of social media -- Government Computer NewsRT @cheeky_geeky DOD weighs greater use of social media: Pentagon wants to link to young people http://tinyurl.com/nk275y #gov20 YouTube - Halfway through Day 1 at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2009A

Tips for Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications: I've been spending a good amount of time the last several weeks getting ready for

Social Aggregators Emerge To Manage Digital Lifestyles: It's beginning to look like 2008 might be the year of the social aggregator as users begin to employ these emerging new tools to better manage and track their various online relationships, both personal and professional. The introduction of these

The Social Graph: Issues and Strategies in 2008: One of the hottest topics in the online world in the last couple of years has been the growth of social networking services such as Facebook and MySpace, as well as the addition of a social element to existing user

Web 2.0 Predictions for 2008: It's the first work day of the new year and I thought I'd take some time to offer up my predictions for what will happen on the leading edge of the Internet this year. 2007 saw Web 2.0 -- defined

The 6 essential things you need to know about Google's OpenSocial: I've spent the last few days keeping track of the seemingly endless stream of news and blog coverage about Google's new OpenSocial model for social networking applications. OpenSocial has been described by some as Google's industry "chess move" to outmaneuver

The return of the Web 2.0 Blog and the latest: A Web 2.0 book, Enterprise 2.0, The New New Inte(...): It's been an incredible year in 2007 as we've continued to make

The Enterprise 2.0 Conference: Web 2.0 Continues Its Move To The Workplace: It's the second day of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference here at the Boston waterfront. Yesterday was the workshop day for the event as well as the much-ballyhooed showdown between Andrew McAfee and Tom Davenport, the original point of disagreement around

Web 2.0 Software Models Evolve as the Conference Season Begins in Earnest: I'm here in New York City this morning at the start of the AjaxWorld Conference and Expo which I'm the technical chair for this year. We expect it will be a exciting event that will bring the very latest developments

Best Practices and Challenges in Building Capable Rich User Experiences: Announcing Real-World Ajax: It's been nearly a year in the making but I'm finally pleased to announce the release of Real-World Ajax, a massive new compendium of

Social Media Goes Mainstream: While some will dispute what mainstream is defined as exactly -- with my own personal favorite being when my grandparents and their grandchildren both are doing whatever is under discussion -- the rise of consumer-powered media platforms has all the

Product Development 2.0: While the window on using the "2.0" suffix is probably closing, I thought it would be worthwhile to explore an especially significant trend in 2006 that will likely see much more widespread uptake in 2007. Specifically, I'm talking about building

The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2006: Looking back over 2006 it's clear that we've experienced one of the most remarkable growth surges in Web application history. Literally hundreds of Web sites and applications were launched this year and brought to our attention via the popular review

The Web 2.0 Zeitgeist, 2006 Edition: The end of 2006 is nigh upon us and this blogger for one had a terrific time covering Web 2.0 for those of you that are interested in following the topic. Love or hate buzzwords, there's little question that subjects

Time Magazine's Person of the Year: You and Web 2.0: Despite being considered so ten minutes ago in some corners of the the Internet, Time Magazine has selected Web 2.0 -- in particular those people that are directly shaping it -- as its esteemed Person of the Year. Specifically, Time

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Speaking at Refresh Boston tonight about designing in a recession: Having recently returned from An Event Apart Boston, I have lots of new design ideas to think about and explore. But one idea kept rearing its ugly head in conversation after conversation I had there: the economy. The economy has

Now blogging about personal informatics on the PopTech blog: What personal informatics is and why its of increasing importance to both laypeople as well as interface designers.

Not sure why I’m posting this video…: A moment of weakness in which I convinced myself that it would be nice for Bokardo readers to put a face with a name.

Is Good Design Replicable?: Is there a process that guarantees good design?

Behavior First, Design Second: As designers we must remember that behavior comes first. Always.

Avatars in Emails Increase Response Rate up to 20% for Rypple: After Rypple added avatars to emails, response rate improved between 15 and 20%.

New Service: Interface Evaluation (Usability Audit): Interface evaluation is a fast, economical way to get concrete design recommendations for improving your web application.

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