Tweetmeme Wants To Be The King Of Retweets (26)
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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. They are becoming the new currency of the Web because of the power of passed links. One service in particular, Tweetmeme, is cornering the market on retweets by making it easy for blogs and other sites to add a retweet ...
Singing A New Tune: The Imeem Music Store. (via feedly) (8)
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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 MP3 store. But it is quietly testing its own music download store which bypasses iTunes and Amazon and sells MP3s directly. For instance, this is the case with some Sub Pop artists, such as Iron and Wine and The Shins. ...
Twine using Flash to deliver your "stream of shared links as a deck of headlines you can shuffle through" [via TechCruch] (11)
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What is the best way to sift through a stream of information? The list view seems to be the most popular because it is information-dense and easy to scan, but it can be overwhelming. More visually appealing ways to manage data are needed. Twine, a site which lets you collect and subscribe to different interest feeds, just introduced a new way to wade through its streams. The new Flash visualization presents your stream of shared ...
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felix said:
I officially hate coverflow.
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Caio Cesar said:
Alguém aí já conseguiu usar o twine direitinho? Juro que tentei, mas não rolou...
iPhone App Prices Fluctuate As Developers Adjust To OS 3.0; Nav Apps Gain Pricing Power (12)
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Ever since OS. 3.0, the latest operating system for the iPhone, launched on June 17, prices among the top 100 apps in the iTunes App Store have been fluctuating wildly as developers push out apps taking advantage of all the new features in the OS. Some of the new features we are starting to see in apps include push notifications, turn-by-turn navigation, cut-and-paste, embeddable maps, access to external accessories, search within apps, and subscriptions. Mobile ...
Firefox 3.5 Hits Five Million Downloads in 24 Hours. Respectable, But Not A Record. (15)
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In the first 24 hours since its release yesterday, Firefox 3.5 has been downloaded more than 5 million times. (It took only a few hours to pass a million). That is certainly respectable, but doesn’t quite measure up to the mania that Firefox 3.0 set off last summer, when it achieved a “world record” 8.3 million downloads in a single day. Maybe we’ll have to wait for Firefox 4.0 to beat that record. But Firefox ...
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Daniel Jomphe said:
I like these % market shares: Firefox 29%! Chrome 3%! IE down to 63% :)
FlickrとTwitterが正式にキッス (9)
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6月にFlickrは、Twitterとの連携の試行として、ユーザーが両サービスのアカウントをリンクできるようにした。この実験では、メールによるアップロードのみが対象で、同時にhttp://flic.krの短縮URLを使ったFlickr上の写真へのリンクをTwitterに送っていた。このたびこの連携がFlickr2Twitterという正式な機能となった。 メールによるアップロードに加えて、Flickrでサイト上のどの写真も直接Twitterに送り出せるようになった。事前にTwitterアカウントをリンクしておけば、Flickrの好きな写真を選んで「Blog this」ボタンをクリックすると、配信オプションの一つとしてTwitterアカウントが表示されるようになる。これは、自分でアップロードした写真にもサイト上で見つけた誰かの写真にも使える。近いうちにTwitterで、http://flic.krのリンクをしょっちゅう見かけることになるだろうと想像している。 デスクトップやモバイル用Twitterクライアントに、Flickrオプションを追加したいというデベロッパーは、既存のFlickrAPIを使える（詳細はこちら）。そうなれば、クライアントのプルダウンオプションのTwitpicとyFrogに仲間ができることになる。 CrunchBase Information Flickr Twitter Information provided by CrunchBase [原文へ] （翻訳：Nob Takahashi）
Can Open Government Be Gamed? (24)
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If information is power, the first step to gaining power is to get the right data. The Obama administration is a big proponent of opening up government data and making it digitally available. Today at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City, the government’s new chief information officer Vivek Kundra announced USAspending.gov, a new site which launched today that tracks government spending with charts and lists ranking the largest government contractors (Lockheed, Boeing, Northrop ...
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Brian Wilson said:
Despite the moves towards opening up government the Obama Administration has made, it seems that the lobbyists still have an edge--but only because they actually care (because their paying clients care).
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Adam said:
Short answer...yes
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Ryan Sholin said:
Erick Schonfeld runs down a small sampling of some of the open government initiatives and data sets coming out of the Obama administration, then says: "Except there is one big problem: indifference. Most people will not do anything with that data. The ones who are most motivated to use the data about to be unleashed are exactly the special interests who run Washington today." Really? Um, I happen to know some journalists who are pretty good with data like this...
Apple Wants You To Know Steve Jobs Is Back At Work (12)
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Steve Jobs is officially back at work, according to Apple PR. Even though he had a liver transplant earlier this year, a detail which was leaked to the Wall Street Journal and conveniently reported on a Friday night after the markets had closed. Last week, Jobs was spotted back on Apple’s campus and was even quoted in a press release! Today, Apple is hammering home the message that Jobs is back on the job, telling ...
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Mario said:
Jobs un po' meno key person...
Google’s Africa Strategy: Search And Trade Via SMS (40)
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Not only does Google want to organize all the world’s information, it also wants to make all that information available to everyone in the world. For the majority of the world’s population, that means making it available on a cell phone, and not a fancy iPhone or Android with a Web browser either. I’m talking about $10 cell phones with not much more than voice and SMS capabilities. If Google can reach people, especially in ...
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Ryan Sholin said:
Fun stuff. The Q & A is most interesting to me -- I wonder if it allows users to mark the "right" answers so they get saved and archived for the next time someone asks that questions.
Bring Twitter Talk To Your Site With Tweetboard (60)
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As Twitter becomes the default conversation spot on the Web, we’re going to start to see tools which combine site-specific conversations with Twitter. One example is Tweetboard, which creates a Twitter-powered forum for any site. Once a site adds the Tweetboard code to their site, a site-wide tab appears which allows visitors to have forum discussions by simply logging into Twitter (via OAuth). All the conversations are threaded, and comments appear on Twitter as well, ...
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Sean Blanda said:
whoever ties together the separate conversations happening on ff, twitter and blogs will be a gazillionaire.
How To Save The Newspapers, Vol. XII: Outlaw Linking (59)
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Of all the misguided schemes put forth lately to save newspapers (micropayments! blame Google!), the one put forth by Judge Richard Posner has to be the most jaw-dropping. He suggests that linking to copyrighted material should be outlawed. No, Posner does not work for the Associated Press (which also has some strange ideas on linking). He is (normally) considered to be one of the great legal minds of our time. Posner is a United States ...
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Cliff Gerrish said:
When links are outlawed, only outlaws will have links...
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deeped said:
Ännu ett exempel på hur traditionella media, och upphovsrättslobbyn får saker om bakfoten. För allvarligt: jag gillar upphovsrätt om den också skapar nytta för människor - men idag ser vi en upphovsrätt som snarare skyddar sitt innehåll in absurdum.
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greg said:
good one, Posner. jackass.
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Devlin D said:
The news industry is so hopelessly lost if anyone actually took the time to make this argument. Completely stupid and even if enough stupid people got behind it it be next to impossible to implement and would be a complete failure otherwise.
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David said:
It's times like these that I wish there was an importance qualification along with the share button on Google Reader...
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Corey said:
Quick, sell all your Google shares!!!
The Top 100 Networked Venture Capitalists (52)
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Do venture investors with the biggest and best networks end up producing the best returns? An academic paper from a few years ago by Yael Hochberg, Alexander Ljungqvist, and Yang Lu titled “Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance” (embedded at the bottom of this post) suggests that is the case. They looked at historic venture returns and found that “better-networked VC firms experience significantly better fund performance,” as measured by how ...
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Denny said:
Yup. My previous started got a pass from all 10, thus proving their acumen.
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Jeroen said:
Johannes... klinkt bekend?
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Chart: What It Looks Like When Everyone Searches Google For “Michael Jackson” (36)
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Just like every other major Website, Google was inundated with people looking for news about Michael Jackson yesterday. Above is a chart showing the volume of search queries for the deceased pop star. Searches peaked right around 3 PM PDT, as people all over the world were trying to find out information about his passing. More details on the Google blog. Update: Here’s a graph that was posted by the Facebook Data Team showing off ...
The Real Time Search Dilemma: Consciousness Versus Memory (27)
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One of the hottest areas of search right now is real time search, which attempts to find results based on what is happening right now. Twitter’s search engine fast becoming one of the key ways to navigate the service and discover what people are thinking about any subject at any given moment. Facebook is testing out ways to let you search your personal stream. Google is waking up to the challenge as well (Larry Page ...
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Erik Ford said:
This underlines common dilemmas that occur in transitioning the functionality of technology while preserving the quality and true value of the service/ app/ offering.
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James Campbell said:
Real time search engine algorithmic info
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Jaron said:
CRITICAL DICHOTOMY: Recency vs Relevancy
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andrewcsfan said:
Not only real time search, RSS is difficult to filter too
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Andrew Hogue said:
This meme is a bit oversimplified for my tastes, but makes for good pondering nonetheless, especially for someone on the inside of the "memory"...
Study Suggests People Prefer Bing’s Design To Google’s, But Still Won’t Switch (55)
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Brand loyalty is a powerful thing, especially when it comes to technology. Consider the battle brewing now between Google and Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing. Even if Bing proves to be just as good as Google, it might not matter because of the strength of Google’s brand. An independent usability and consumer preference study, which we’ve obtained and embedded below, suggests as much. It was conducted by the Catalyst Group, a usability research and design ...
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Nate said:
Brand loyalty will be very difficult to defeat here. Something that is just equal will not suffice.
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doug.vs said:
BING!
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Harry Brignull said:
Spot the error in this write-up (hint: eye tracking & statistical significance)
Wikinvest Hopes Redesign Will Attract The Yahoo Finance Crowd (13)
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Finance sites like Yahoo Finance and Google Finance haven’t changed much in the past ten years. The fonts are different. Maybe there’s some more real-time quotes and fancier, interactive charts. But at their core they all follow pretty much the same formula: dump as much data on the individual investor as they can and let them figure it out. Wikinvest, which started out as a crowd-sourced investing site, is trying to change all of that ...
Google’s Mobile AdSense For iPhone and Android Apps Now In Public Beta (36)
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Google is moving into the mobile ad market with AdSesne for mobile apps. Over the past few months, Google has been testing both text and graphical ads with ten mobile app developers, including Shazam and Urbanspoon. Today it is opening the private beta to more developers who meet certain criteria. These are contextual ads for iPhone and Android apps. They can be targeted by “applications, locations, categories, or keywords,” according to Google’s Mobile AdSense information ...
