October 2007
p0ps: Just gave Cam (hellocameron) a practice...
p0ps: Just gave Cam (hellocameron) a practice interview to warm him up for the LA Times tomorrow. If he keeps it simple, he’ll be fine… (via Twitter / p0ps)
September 2007
Facebook to Add Groups - More Targeted Networking,...
A look at the Facebook’s What’s New page indicates that the site is going to begin letting its users sort and categorize the people in their networks.
We’ll let you organize that long list of friends into groups so you can decide more specifically who sees what.
We have seen an almost identical implementation on Pownce, where you can make groups and assign different friends to...
p0ps: After too many hours working for our...
p0ps: After too many hours working for our employers this week, many hours interacting with friends and family, it’s Sunday, we’re going to paint. (via Twitter / p0ps)
Marantz Intros PMD620 Portable Media Recorder
Marantz Professional introduced a new digital audio recorder designed with podcasters in mind, the PMD620 Solid State Portable Recorder, at the Podcast Academy, held this week in Ontario, California.
The PMD620 is a prosumer-level device, featuring a pocket-size form factor, an easy-to-use interface, and built-in stereo mics and speaker.
Highlights:
Two high-quality omnidirectional condenser...
Collection of Top 30+ Facebook Blogs
We have been sharing thoughts, insights and news at Facebook Observer on happenings from the world of Facebook.
Here’s our take on some of the recommended blogs which address news from the world of Facebook & other social networking platform. Visit these blogs, add them to your blogroll and don’t forget to link & visit us at Facebook Observer. Feel free to add more in comments.
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Revver pays $1 million to video creators and...
Earlier this month Revver announced that it had paid $1 million to video creators and promoters over the past year. Revver has been a pioneer in combining CC licensing (videos on Revver are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives) and compensation to creators via an ad-based model. Creative Commons used Revver as part of its fall fundraising campaign last year (watch Wanna Work...
In Search of Belonging
Discussion at Picnic between Marc Canter, Susan Kish and Danah Boyd.
Forming cliques and joining communities are human nature. The Internet, TV, music, mobile devices, virtual reality, gaming, and print media make it easier for people to form communities in which they can access information, share resources and connect with others. This discussion looks at communities of interest and their...
p0ps: Cam (hellocameron) is not the only one...
p0ps: Cam (hellocameron) is not the only one getting attention, my (p0psharlow) “24 Hrs of Flickr” photo is featured here: http://urltea.com/1m8c (via Twitter / p0ps)
p0ps: blasting Hendrix, Ruth is working tonight,...
p0ps: blasting Hendrix, Ruth is working tonight, I’ll settle down to help my friend Cam (hellocameron) prepare for his LATimes interview. (via Twitter / p0ps)
Turn Gmail (or any E-mail Account) Into a Social...
There’s been a lot of chatter about the entire concept of social graphing. I have no idea if there is validity here or not. And certainly people smarter than I am are talking about the potential viability of the entire concept. However, what I do know is that a lot of us are increasingly participating in social networks and we need a way to track it all. Also, most of us are hooked on email...
p0ps: @hellocameron - 2 weeks before your first...
p0ps: @hellocameron - 2 weeks before your first gallery show & a rock star pays big bucks for one of your paintings on-line - can u say who? (via Twitter / p0ps)
Steve Jobs, Motivational Speaker For Yahoo (Om...
Steve Jobs, Motivational Speaker For Yahoo — Guess who stopped by to give Yahooligans a little pep talk? Steve Jobs! He told the gathering of 300-odd Yahoo (YHOO) vice presidents that they can do anything. The company with one of the largest Internet user bases can do and achieve anything, he apparently told them.
Source: GigaOM
Author: Om Malik
Link: ...
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“CloverfieldClues points out that Deep-sea crab makes an appearance in the...”
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“ruth became a true “bohemian wanderer” hitchhiking to New York, New Orleans, and...”
– Women of the Beat…ruth weiss Biography
TWITTER TOOLBOX: 60+ Twitter Tools
Twitter is a great service, but it would be nothing without the other sites, tools, and apps that help you get the most out of it. Here we highlight more than 60 of our favorite Twitter add-ons.
See also: 8 Awesome Firefox Plugins for Twitter (more…)
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5 Stories You May Have Missed This Week — And...
• Amazon vs. Apple — where should you shop for MP3s?• Why Facebook needs big money…fast.• VoIP and its self-imposed cheap-calling rut.• Midnight iPhone Madness in NYC.• A Silicon Valley Funding Advisory (inspired by the Dept. of Homeland Security). (via Stephen’s shared items in Google Reader)
“So why are Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Red Hat and many other large technology...”
– Conflicts Of Interest: Why Do Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Red Hat And Others Support The National ID Card?
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Deconstrucing Google's Billboard Experiment
Last week’s coverage of Google’s Goog-411 billboard in Olean brought forth a number of other sightings of the billboards in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, Ca. & Tonawanda , Buffalo and Limestone (even smaller than Olean) NY.
While there may be others yet to appear and more billboards coming from Google, the very specific geographic clustering of the billboards in Western...
Chat Rooms for Google Talk
PartyChat adds one of the many missing features from Google Talk: chat rooms. You need to add partychat@gmail.com as a friend and use commands to create a room or join an existing one. To make sure nobody joins your room accidentally, password-protect it. PartyChat is an open-source project created by a Google employee: Akshay Patil in December 2005, not long after Google Talk was released. Since...
Sprint Realizes That People Hate Forced Contracts,...
It’s become quite clear that people absolutely hate the forced two year contracts and early termination fees from mobile operators. It appears that some of the operators are finally getting the message. In discussing how it’s going to offer its eventual WiMax offering, Sprint is now saying that there will be no mandatory contracts with early termination fees — instead, it will...
Microsoft bows to pressure on XP (BBC)
Microsoft bows to pressure on XP — Customer demand has forced Microsoft to extend the shelf life of Windows XP by five months. — Microsoft was scheduled to stop selling the six-year-old operating system on 30 January 2008 to leave the field clear for Vista.
Source: BBC
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7017624.stm
Techmeme permalink (via Stephen’s shared items in...
Clever Hippo: A Better Search Tool for Facebook...
With thousands of apps now on Facebook, the current browse and search options can become a little cumbersome. To try and solve that problem, Clever Hippo has launched a search tool for Facebook apps, and it’s pretty useful. For starters, Clever Hippo allows you to search for a term, and then refine your results by daily active users, percent of active users, or most recently added. The tool...
Facebook -- In The Works: Groupings, I Hope, Not...
Facebook has ‘groups’ in the works:
[from Facebook | What’s New]
In the Works
Sort out your friends.
We’ll let you organize that long list of friends into groups so you can decide more specifically who sees what.
Please don’t do this the wrong way: subdividing into discrete collections, where someone is either a Work friend or a Play friend, but can’t be...
p0ps: sometimes you see a photo which goes beyond...
p0ps: sometimes you see a photo which goes beyond the camera being in the right place at the right time http://urltea.com/1lwo (via Twitter / p0ps)
“Social Networking for Bloggers 9rulesshot.PNG 9rules - : You can create a...”
– 80+ Online Communities for Bloggers
Unlocked iPhones (Temporarily?) iBricked
As Apple warned earlier this week, the latest firmware update did, in fact, “break” unlocked iPhones and kill unofficial 3rd party iPhone apps. It’s still not clear how intentional this was, but it still seems like something that Apple should have made at least a little more of an effort to avoid. The folks who unlocked their iPhones and who were installing 3rd party apps were...
80+ Online Communities for Bloggers
Blogging can be a lonely business: we’ve gather together more than 80 forums and communities for bloggers to join. (more…)
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12 Social Bookmarking APIs
Earlier this week Alex Iskold over at Read/WriteWeb took a good look at social bookmarking services but one of the things not covered in that piece, but of interest here, is just how many of the competitors in that space offer an API. How many? As of now we have 12 bookmarking APIs in our (via Stephen’s shared items in Google Reader)
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Use Your Cameraphone as a Visual To Do List
OK, since you clearly like these hackery posts (e.g. the one I wrote last night), here’s one more on the topic. Then it’s back to the normal fare here.
I am on a quest to figure out how I can use web services to run my entire life at home and work. I have two key requirements: 1) that I can easily get data in and out of the online service and b) that I can access my information...
“In “Making a Difference: Pushing Back on DRM at MIT,” Anna Gold, Head of the...”
– MIT Libraries News » Blog Archive » Libraries Launch Scholarly Publishing & Copyright Podcast Series 