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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

TechCrunch50: You Want Advertising? We’ll Give You Advertising: Despite our best intentions, it looks like the DEMO v. TechCrunch50 war will continue, even with DEMO under new management.In 2007 we launched the first TechCrunch50 event - a place where companies can launch to

The Inevitable Anti-U.S. Backlash Has Started On Kiva: When we reported on Kiva.orgs decision to open up its micro-lending platform to U.S. entrepreneurs, Kiva CEO Premal Shah told us he was concerned about backlash in the community. Shah acknowledged that the decision to

Want The Obama “Hope” Artwork On Your iPhone? Nope, Says Apple.: Start Mobile has managed to get 18 separate iPhone applications approved by Apple. So youll imagine their surprise when one of them was recently rejected. But you may be even more surprised to find out

Tweetmeme Wants To Be The King Of Retweets: One of the most effective ways to amplify your message on Twitter is to get your followers to retweet it to their followers. Retweeting is also becoming a popular way to pass links around Twitter.

How To JailBreak the iPhone 3GS: Before I go defile myself with burgers and beer I wanted to jailbreak my iPhone 3GS for you all. The process was amazingly simple. Using a Windows netbook - it doesnt work under Windows 7

Coming Soon: Even More TechCrunch in London: It’s been a nice two weeks in San Francisco, but in about 10 hours I’m headed to SFO’s international terminal again. This time, I’m going to London. I’m traveling as part of a group of bloggers, authors and videographers called

Singing A New Tune: The Imeem Music Store.: Does embattled music streaming site imeem think it can take on iTunes? For the most part, nearly every streaming song on the site has a download button which links to both iTunes and the Amazon

Authorize.net Goes Down, E-Commerce Vendors Left Hanging: Talk about a serious outage. Payment gateway service provider Authorize.net has been down and out for several hours, a number of tipsters inform us. That has big implications: since the service is used by tens

Turn Web Content Into A Map With GeoMaker: At the end of last May, Yahoo released an experimental version of Placemaker, a “geo-enrichment” platform. What it does is help developers make applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content (think RSS

Brace Yourselves! “Asteroids” Headed For The Big Screen: According to The Hollywood Reporter, movie studio Universal has won a bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game Asteroids. Initially released as an arcade game back in 1979,

In India, Google Searches For Users With Print Ads: Different markets have different needs for marketing products or services. We all know that much. But that doesnt take away the weirdness of a company like Google advertising its core product (online search) by using

First iPhone 3GS Unlock Hits The Web: George Hotz, the 20-year old hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone, has released an unlock application for the iPhone 3GS codenamed purplera1n. The unlock that Hotz released is currently Windows only (Windows 7 not supported),

My Interview With Antitrust Expert Gary Reback: Google’s Looming Antitrust Issues: On Wednesday I spoke with antitrust attorney Gary Reback, the man who spearheaded the push to break up Microsoft in the nineties. The event was hosted by HBSTech at the Computer History Museum in Silicon

Does Anybody Still Use Second Life? And If So, How Much Is It Worth Today?: Analyst firm Next Up Research has published an extensive report on Linden Lab, the San Francisco company behind virtual world Second Life. The research is based on aggregate data and is available on SharesPost, a

As The DOJ Pounces, Google Makes Book Search Even Better: Google received some unfortunate news today, with the U.S. Department of Justice formally announcing the investigation of the $125 million settlement Google made with the Author’s Guild to pay authors a nominal fee for copyrighted

Google Voice Now Lets You Change Your Number. It’ll Cost You $10.: When I first signed up for GrandCentral a few years ago, I lived in a different city. As such, I had a different area code. And that was fine until I moved and Google, which

Fitnio: Finally, An iPhone Exercise App That Gives You Control Of Your Music: Since the debut of the App Store last summer, my iPhone has become an indispensable part of my workout routine. The phone makes it easy to track your workout progress both in the gym and

Dice Reports Murky Waters For Tech Jobs: After months of dismal unemployment numbers, this mornings continued growth in the unemployment rate from 9.4% in May to 9.5% for the month of June reinforces the fact that the U.S. is still very much

Mashable

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

Geocaching Down, Too: Today a fire hit a major datacenter in Seattle, taking money processor Authorize.Net down. This has caused many web-based financial transactions to grind to a halt, but Authorize.Net isn’t the only website that’s gone offline today. Another popular website has

Shooting at Arlington Apple Store: A somewhat distressing tech story today: a female employee at the Arlington Apple Store was shot in the shoulder this morning by a man who rang the doorbell at the back of the store. Fortunately the employee is said to

Should Twitter Crack Down on Pornography?: For marketers, Twitter has been a dream come true. It’s an open platform growing at a phenomenal rate. This combination can allow a single tweet to be seen by thousands of potential customers. But as Twitter continues its mainstream ascent,

Twitter Better: 20 Ways to Filter Your Tweets: For a complete collection of Twitter resources, check out The Twitter Guide Book, Mashable’s hub for all things Twitter.-Most Twitter users probably follow under a thousand other people, but that’s enough to make it hard to keep track of the

Authorize.Net Goes Down: As a lot of e-commerce businesses and Twitter users are noticing, the entire Authorize.Net infrastructure crashed a few hours ago. For anyone who makes a purchase online, this is huge; Authorize.Net is the largest service for accepting credit cards and

Google’s New Layout: Love it or Hate It?: Readers may have noticed that Google changed the way it displays search results this week: the Google logo is smaller, results are indented and spacing has been added above the search box. Google also removed the page size indicator, which

Want to Circumvent Green Dam? Buy a Mac: We’ve noted before that China’s Green Dam, web filtering program supposedly designed to block pornography, but in reality a serious threat to privacy and security, was obviously created in a haste, with many of its shortcomings being revealed as the

TweetCraft: Finally, You Can Tweet While You Raid: I don’t play World of Warcraft anymore. The doctor ordered me not to. Suffice to say that I actually started reading about TweetCraft 10 hours ago, and then ended up watching the entire BlizzCon ‘08 PVP tournament replay. However, if

UserTesting.com: Get Video of Real Users Testing Your Web App: 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

10 Ways to Find People on Twitter: Twitter is all about facilitating conversations, but until you’re following some people, it’s just a blank page. Once you find people to follow and talk to, however, Twitter becomes exceptionally useful. You can share thoughts, ask questions, get updates about

Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer: A Monstrous YouTube Hit: With 3.3 million+ YouTube views in the past two days, the video “Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer” (below) is taking the web by storm, becoming the most viewed video this week and beating out a performance of Michael Jackson’s

FriendFeed Adds Real-Time Search Results: Social activity aggregator FriendFeed, which re-designed earlier this year to show updates from friends in real-time, has just extended that same functionality to search. Now, when you search for a given term – like “Michael Jackson” – you’ll see updates

Google Blog Search Gets More Like Other Google Search Tools: Google Blog Search has just added a few features that users of other Google services are likely familiar with. First, you can now subscribe to any topic via RSS or Atom, like you already can do in Google News. This

GoDaddy Wants You to Go Twitter: Ideally, your brand has the same name across all of the social sites you use, and, it matches your domain name (for example, we’re mashable.com, twitter.com/mashable, and facebook.com/mashable). Realizing this fact, popular domain registrar GoDaddy has integrated Twitter registration into

iPhone 3GS Used to Film Music Video: Technologic Overkill: Not to be confused with the first music video about the iPhone 3GS (”Got My Mac on With iPhone 3GS“), the first video purportedly shot using the camera on the new device is making its way around the web. The

HOW TO: Get Retweeted on Twitter: Retweeting, as we explained in our article How To Retweet on Twitter, has evolved as the main way to reshare content you like on the social media service. There’s also a great deal of data we can glean from retweeting

Read/WriteWeb

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,

How to Be an Effective CEO: This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here.First-time entrepreneurs are usually also first-time CEOs. When you look at your first business card

MSFT Wishes You Happy Porn Browsing in New Vomit-Filled Video, Then Retracts Ad: Under waves of ever-increasing competition from Mozilla, Safari, and Google, Microsoft has released a series of edgy, PSA-style online videos to promote Internet Explorer 8.Featuring onetime Lois and Clark actor Dean Cain (who has apparently become the poor mans Bruce

Iran's Mobile SMS Up & Running; Will Twitter Start to Lose the Green Hues?: According to a report today from the BBC, Iranians are able to text message one another for the first time since the day before the presidential elections.SMS service, which political dissidents had used to spread messages and organize

How FriendFeed Could Become the Ultimate Social Media Tracking Service: FriendFeed, the multi-network activity aggregator co-founded by GMail creator Paul Buchheit, announced today that it has entered the crowded field of real time search. FriendFeed was already the best way to learn what early adopter social media users

eMusic Users Revolt Over Latest Changes: Since yesterday, eMusic, one of the worlds largest subscription-based music retailers, features music from Sonys catalog in its store. Most users on eMusic subscribe to the service because of the eclectic selection of independent music it

Google Updates Blogsearch - Where's the Innovation?: Google just announced a number of changes to its blog search engine, Google Blog Search, but none of them will knock your socks off. RSS feeds for search queries were added, something that no self-respecting search engine of

Rupert Murdoch: Facebook is Just a Directory: Rupert Murdoch, the 78-year-old CEO and chairman of News Corp., just gave a revealing interview to The Streets Dan Freed. In this interview, Murdoch argues that the latest headcount reduction at MySpace was necessary because the

Study says Patents Hurt Innovation: According to a study published in The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, patents may be harming our ability to innovate. Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts, written by Bill Tomlinson of UC Irvine

Social IDs Go Shopping: Kmart and Sear Implement OpenID: Users on Kmarts and Sears web properties can now use their OpenID credentials to sign up and log in to these sites. MyKmart.com and MySears.com, which are both owned by the Sears Holding Company, implemented technology

A Growing Acceptance of Social Networking in the Workplace: A June survey released by Facetime, makers of a gateway appliance for managing Web 2.0 applications, revealed the growing popularity of social networking applications in the workplace. Out of 1199 survey respondents, all IT professionals, there were more

Faviki's Social Bookmarking Tool Makes Semantic Tagging Even Easier: When we first looked at Faviki, a social bookmarking application which made its debut last year, we were intrigued by their idea of semantic tagging. What makes Faviki different from its competitors, services like del.icio.us, Diigo, and the

Israel 2.0: During the 1990s and early 2000s, Israelis were considered gurus in technology, research, and innovation. While the dot-com boom infused the offices of San Francisco with color, creativity, hope, and foosball tables, Israelis were hard

Changing Horses Midstream: The Next Big Sound Susses Out Early-Stage Changes: When the young (and we mean young) team for music-focused startup The Next Big Sound was accepted for the TechStars acceleration program, they had a good product.But a just one week into the tech/business mentorship process, they realized

Where's My Bus? D.C. Gov't Says There's an App for That: During the city of Washington, D.C.s crowdsourced Apps for Democracy 2 project, one of the top requested apps was a GPS notification system for public transportation.For those of you whove not had the pleasure of residing in our

GigaOM

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: Despite a knee-deep recession, the idea of giving away something for free and charging for something else later is bigger than ever. But is “free” selling? Or does “paid” have an online future?Tweet This

MJ Fans Flock to eBay for Memorabilia: Millions of people logged onto the web when the news of Michael Jackson’s sudden death broke last week, and they’re continuing to flock to eBay to get their hands on the pop king’s memorabilia. The online auction site said it’s

Thanks to Our GigaOM Sponsors!: We’d like to say thanks to this week’s GigaOM sponsors:PEER 1: Fully Scalable Hosting SolutionsRackSpace: Experience fanatical supportStrataScale: It’s your infrastructure – On DemandFuze Meeting: HD Meetings – From Fuze MeetingMozy: Back up your photos, music, and files with Mozy

AT&T: Simply Addicted to the iPhone: The launch of Apple’s new iPhone 3GS was the best sales day ever for AT&T’s retail stores, while the number of orders taken at its online store also hit an all-time high, according to an internal memo obtained by MacDailyNews,

Akamai to Make iPhone Video Streaming Smooth: Akamai today said it would provide adaptive bit-rate streaming to deliver video content from web sites to the Apple iPhone 3G and devices running the iPhone OS 3.0 operating system. Basically, using adaptive bit-rate streaming means folks can watch streaming

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: 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 status

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

The Bell Tolls for Plasma TVs: In the market for a new TV? These days, there are bargains galore, especially when it comes to those with plasma screens. The Wall Street Journal reports that the growing popularity of their LCD cousins has TV makers such as Pioneer

Do Lower Phone Bills Justify Ads on Your Mobile Phone?: Orange, a UK ISP and mobile phone company, is reportedly close to signing a deal with an ad-supported mobile virtual network called Blyk that would offer certain Orange customers credits on their service in exchange for receiving text-based ads on

When SaaS Hits Critical Mass, the Game Changes: When a SaaS application gets popular enough, features matter less and the underlying ecosystem matters more. There’s a tipping point at which network effects outstrip software features. When that happens, users get the benefits of additional functionality — and the

Government Enforces the Status Quo With Broadband Stimulus Bucks: The two national agencies responsible for allocating $7.2 billion in broadband grants as part of the stimulus bill today released the rules governing the process and said the government would provide about $4 billion in loans for the first of

Facebook Simplifies Privacy But Wants You to Share More: Facebook is testing a set of changes to its privacy settings that will make it easier for folks to control what they share and with whom. Essentially the Palo Alto, Calif.-based social network is betting that if its users have

Today the Stars Aligned for Satellite Cos: Globalstar today closed on $738 million in financing, while rival satellite operator TerreStar launched its new bird, TerreStar-1. Globalstar plans to use its money to fund operations and launch a new generation of satellites in 2010 that will deliver all

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, you’ll be thrilled to know it’s expanded its service to Twitter. For just $87, uSocial will generate an additional 1,000 Twitter followers

What to read on the GigaOM network: eReader now matching Amazon’s e-book pricing (jkOnTheRun)How to beat the remote working blues (WebWorkerDaily)Video: Apple’s HTTP adaptive video steaming in action (NewTeeVee)Cheat sheet: Google’s PowerMeter vs. Microsoft’s Hohm (Eath2Tech)Question: What do you do with “retired” Macs? (TheAppleBlog)Report: Open-source smartphone shipments

37signals

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

New Jobs on our Job Board: iPhone Developer Jobs, Apple, Trek, Wall Street On Demand, etc.: Here’s a sampling of available Design and Programming jobs.iPhone Developer JobsBig in Japan, Inc. is looking for an iPhone Developer in Dallas, TX.View all iPhone Developer Job listingsDesign JobsApple is looking for a Creative Director, Information Architecture in Cupertino, CA.Rocket

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

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

Four short links: 30 June 2009: Military Open Source Software Conference -- 12-13 August 2009 in Atlanta.Govloop -- a Social Network for Gov 2.0. Gov 2.0 could easily become the intersection of talk radio and social media consultant inanity. As with the Web 2.0 lunacy, when

Bing's Sanaz Ahari on System Feedback (2 of 2): A couple of weeks ago Bing had a small search summit for analysts, bloggers, SEO experts, entrepreneurs and advertisers. It was held in Bellevue; they put us up in the hotel and fed us. While there we received demos from

Personal Democracy Forum conference: initial themes: So whats this conference youre going to? asked my friends, notbraced for an explanation that usually took me more than ten minutes.Ultimately, though, they all ended up excited about the ideas behindPersonal Democracy Forum.These friends care about politics. They take

Want A Job? Learn SharePoint, Says Gary Blatt: Even with an improving economy, theres still a lot of developers out there who are looking for work. And though it may make seasoned Open Source hackers cringe at the thought, one quick way to find employment may be to

Micro Persuasion

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

Blogs are Out of Beta, But Bloggers Should Always Be in Beta: via baekdal.comThe image above is one of the most important graphics I have ever seen. In fact I stare at it every day on my desktop to remind me that a) there will always be shifts

Why YouTube Caps Videos to 10 Minutes: Now that I am (finally) doing more with video, I was surprised to learn that YouTube limits uploads to 10 minutes. The irony is they recently doubled the file size to two gigs. So if they dont care about storage, why

Video: Abbey Klaassen, Digital Editor, AdAge: via youtube.comThis morning I had breakfast with with Abbey Klaassen from AdAge (you can follow her on Twitter here). In this brief four-minute video interview she talks about the role of digital in the marketing mix, how Advertising Age is

Twitter: Avg User has 126 Followers, Runs an App: Some new stats on Twitter straight from the source...-the average user has 126 followers;-only 20% of its traffic comes through the Twitter website; the other 80% (logically) comes from third-party programs on smartphones or computersvia guardian.co.uk and The Raw Feed.Whats

CenterNetworks

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

Seesmic Relaunches Website; Video Service Pushed to the Bottom: Yesterday I noticed that social activity community streaming tool Seemic had relaunched their frontend website. Normally I wouldn’t write about a simple design change but the change goes deeper than just design. It appears that the original Seesmic video service

CovetedList Offers a Fashion Search Platform (video): CovetedList is a NY-based startup that provides a fashion-specific search platform. Basically what CovetedList does is provide a way to find outfits that match you and your specific needs. They start with asking what should you were and allow you

Webware

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

Firefox 3.5 in pictures: Tag parser: Error processing tag slideshow. java.lang.NullPointerException

Skype updates for Windows and iPhone: Skype is certainly on roll this week. Just yesterday it converted the latest beta of its Windows Mobile phone software into a full-fledged release. On Tuesday the VoIP company did it again for

eHub

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

Twitshirt: Turn your witty tweets into t-shirts, and get one dollar back for each one sold. You can opt in by joining on the web site or on Twitter, and youll get your own product page.

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

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

Yahoo SearchMonkey Adds More Structured Data, NewsML, and Google Base: Yahoo has announced some new updates to SearchMonkey its relatively new platform that allows web sites and web content publishers to format and custom search results on Yahoo search pages. The new updates include

Digg Gives Developers More Ways to Make Money: Popular social news service Digg has announced some changes to its API (our Digg API Profile) that should make existing and prospective developers who use the API a bit happier.

The Nokia Platform: Mobile Apps, Maps, and $250K in Prizes: Nokia, with new devices like the Nokia N97 making gadget blog headlines and the opening of the Ovi Store last month, is in the midst of a big push to expand and

Web2.0 List

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

BREAKING: The Pirate Bay Sold For $7.8 Million: Today, Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has announced it has acquired The Pirate Bay website for 60 million SEK, which is roughly the equivalent of $7.8 million USD.

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

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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

Profitably Running an Online Business in the Web 2.0 Era: One of the things I'm doing this week is preparing for a presentation at Web Builder 2.0 on how to monetize mashups in Las Vegas next week. Consequently, I've been pulling together notes, talking to mashup creators, and studying real-world

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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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