May 2009
Daniel Jalkut: Hey Apple, spend some of that cash... →
Daniel Jalkut
Hey Apple, spend some of that cash horde on acquiring Twitter and become a “real” social web presence overnight. Also, shudder. What if?
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Google links to stories on Twitter →
Google News Automatically Tweeting Stories @GoogleNews by Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land (Apr 29) “The Google News Blog announced they have joined Twitter to automatically post links to top…
April 2009
Electricity — Visualizing The Grid →
Visualizing The Grid
The U.S. electric grid is a complex network of independently owned and operated power plants and transmission lines. Aging infrastructure, combined with a rise in domestic…
Verizon Does Not Deny iPhone Talks →
A Verizon Wireless spokesman, reached for comment, did not deny that Verizon (VZ) is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone. “We’re always ready to talk with suppliers, but nothing to…
Judge Turns Akamai-Limelight Patent War In... →
Akamai Technologies (AKAM) said late Friday night it will appeal a motion that a U.S. judge in Massachusetts ruled in its long-running patent war with rival content delivery network…
The Pirate Bay and The Pirate Google →
ThePirateBay has links to content hosted elsewhere that’s available for download using the BitTorrent protocol. The site also provides a search engine for finding that content, and a page for…
The Adaptive Value of Human Institutions:*... →
Keynes & Marx thought “that productivity would grow sufficiently to allow our needs to be met with very little labour,” and that humankind’s biggest preoccupation in the future would be leading…
ExpanDrive 2.0 →
ExpanDrive is one of my favorite utilities — it lets you mount remote server volumes over SFTP and treat them like external hard drives attached to your Mac. New in version 2.0 is support for Amazon…
Facebook Democracy At Work: The First Step →
Facebook today announced the preliminary results of the site governance vote; an important step in the history of Facebook in which the users were called to vote on the site’s future terms of use….
RealTime: No YouTube revolution yet →
YouTube RealTime, a new technology that brings an as-it-happens social aspect to Google’s video-sharing site, shows promise but suffers shortcomings.RealTime has the potential to bring some of the…
What San Francisco/Silicon Valley can learn from... →
Yesterday I was lucky enough to visit Zappos and get a tour and talk with some of their executives, including Tony Hsieh, CEO.
Up until now most of what I knew about Zappos was that…
emarketer Projects Twitter Growth →
I always love reading future projections where people take a little bit of information and then extrapolate that into the future. Remember the stock market analyst who projected that the Dow was…
Ifbyphone enables carriers to provide customers... →
Ifbyphone, provider of numerous phone automation services for businesses to improve customer conversation has taken another step to expand its services by providing numerous…
Doctorow Takes Big Entertainment to Task →
Cory Doctorow claims that the entertainment industry is digging itself into a deep hole by holding onto ancient business tactics and working against its consumers
