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The Risk in Using Twitter as a Public Utility (20)
on Micro Persuasion (94) permalinkDespite all of its recent up-time troubles, Twitter's growth has been on a tear lately. According to Google Ad Planner data, time spent is off the charts at a staggering 550 seconds per user in the US and 560 seconds globally. Compare those figures to 480 seconds per user for CNN - a site that's at least 10 years older. In addition, as you can see from the chart below, daily unique users are skyrocketing ...Shared by _dot_ (70) Alex (47) atul (357) Brad Davis Seal (87) BrendanCooper (7) CannonGod (479) David (26) dobata (753) Hooman Radfar (8) Jason (42) John Magnus (146) Kami Huyse (35) LJ Banks (7) louisgray (459) Nancy Sagar (10) Nicole Simon (92) Paul Reid (61) Robert Safuto (17) Sam (80) Tiffany Monhollon (34)Contribute comment
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Ex-Twitterer Blaine Cook soon out of Yahoo [Twitter] (5)
on Valleywag (641) permalinkDoes Twitter miss former architect Blaine Cook, the technician who was simultaneously blamed for the site's outages and hailed for keeping it alive? We're guessing so, if only because Cook's long-haired mug still — still! — gazes from Twitter's jobs page. Cook recently took a job at Yahoo's Brickhouse incubator. He was chummy enough with his coworkers to show up at a going-away party for departing Brickhouse chief Chad Dickerson. But Cook is apparently a ...Contribute comment
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John McCain Says Putin Wants Alaska Back (1)
permalinkOh, this is perfect. Now that America is almost free of its bellicose twat of a president who thinks it's fun to holler at random countries sitting on large oil supplies, we have another bellicose twat in the ranks making lots of noise at, let's see, RUSSIA. Here is what ...Shared by Jason (42)
- Jason said: *sigh* John McCain is the only candidate in the last 20 years old enough to remember the Russian Empire.
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Looking Beyond Traditional Data Centers and into The Cloud (1)
on GoGrid Blog (4) permalinkKenneth Brill, executive director of the Uptime Institute, wrote an eye-opening commentary on Forbes.com titled: “Servers: Why Thrifty Isn’t Nifty” yesterday. What really grabbed me was his introductory sentence: “We are currently in the biggest data center construction boom in history.” He postulates that this is partially due to Moore’s Law which states that the number of transistors on a chip could double every 24 months which has translated into a boom in IT and ...Shared by Jason (42)Contribute comment
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George Bush to Bob Costas: America doesn’t have any problems (3)
on Crooks and Liars (304) permalinkBob Costas presses George Bush on the rise of China and the leverage (or lack thereof) of the United States in helping shape our relationship with them. What does it say about the state of political journalism in this country when a sportscaster — alebit a well-informed and politically-engaged one – shows them up in an interview with the President of the United States? Download | Play Download | Play Q But given China’s growing ...
- Jason said: Oh man... what's really sad is that in Dubya's circle there really are no problems. Everything's rosy for rich oil execs.
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Early adopters vs the Mainstream: Google Insights points out websites only used by Silicon Valley nerds (39)
on Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen (68) permalinkIntro to Google InsightsI have recently been playing around with the insanely useful Google Insights for Search product. You should definitely try it out if you haven't. It's basically Google Trends on steroids, and shows you a ton of data on any search you try. An SEO wizard's dream, basically. It's described as: With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames. Basically you put in ...Shared by | Balu | (48) Alejandro-S (73) Allen (19) ario (38) atul (357) Chris (152) Chris Roat (4) Christopher (19) Dan York (25) Eran Kampf (5) Erik Bruchez (24) Gabriel Weinberg (10) hank (3) Jaime (89) Jason (42) Javed (368) Jeff Schmidt (61) Magnus J (21) Mark R (30) Marshall Sponder (95) Martin (46) Mihai (2) Mike (7) Mike F (1545) Mike Kujawski (15) Nelson Minar (23) Nice Fish Films (160) Paul (29) Peter (18) Peter H (57) Phil (8) rzklkng (342) sarahintampa (364) Tad Chef (453) thattalldude (62) Tim (5) Tim Saylor (4) Xdroot (132) Yusuf (11)Contribute comment
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Top 10 Ways to Use Social Media to Make You Money (8)
on Web 0.2 - Hao Chen (17) permalinkGet a job.Shared by Adam Helweh (21) dobata (753) DOCBook Howto (319) Hao (32) Jason (42) John (6) Martin (24) Mladen (124)Contribute comment
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A Children’s Treasury of Stupid Bush-In-China Pictures of Ladies’ Volleyball (2)
permalinkSo, George W. Bush sure enjoyed his Olympic Chinese holiday! Here he is with the volleyball girls, living every heterosexual man's dream. Let's see how many ridiculous ways your beloved Mainstream Media tries to describe this scene, in a Children's Treasury of dumb captions about the president pounding the asses ...Shared by Jason (42) Jeff Schmidt (61)
- Jeff Schmidt said: too awesome
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Museum ejects Thomas Hawk over boob shots [Rumormonger] (4)
on Valleywag (641) permalink[UPDATE: Hawk's best defense comes from a third party post: "blint actually landed that accusation from the foyer, shouting it up to us, accusing us of looking down her shirt. from above, the ticket taker was just hair and neck."] Zooomr founder Thomas Hawk was walked out of San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art by security guards on Friday, adding to the lensman's history of run-ins with authority figures. Museum rules allow handheld non-flash photography ...Contribute comment
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Why Twitter Has Failed: The Power of Time and Mainstream (7)
on SheGeeks (82) permalinkTo a certain extent Twitter is a mass failure. Andy DeSoto points out hints of Twitter’s failure thus far with “What the iPhone Application Store tells us about Twitter”. While Twitter is a major hit within our web bubble, it’s a major failure in the real world. Twitter and Mainstream Success Now don’t get me wrong, I love Twitter. I’m considered one of the “go-to” women for Twitter advice, apps, and more. I’ve done so ...Shared by Andy (78) Caleb Elston (82) DOCBook Howto (319) Elizabeth (60) Jason (42) Mike F (1545) sarahintampa (364)Contribute comment
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Interview: Gregor Hohpe on Conversation Patterns and Cloud Computing (2)
permalinkIn this interview, recorded at QCon London, Google architect Gregor Hohpe talks to Stefan Tilkov about his new work on conversation patterns, building upon his earlier work on enterprise integration patterns. Gregor also talks about the similarities and differences in several approaches to cloud computing. By Stefan TilkovShared by Jason (42) peter keane (30)
- Jason said: Gregor Hohpe is always worth listening to
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When does blog ranting become slander? (5)
on broadstuff (23) permalinkVery interesting post by Jeremiah Owyang on the impact of a "big audience" blogger dissing someone far lesser known. Essentially, a very well known blogger called a person who had minimal online presence an "a-hole" after they had a disagreement. The blogger blogged, digged etc and as Jeremiah notes: Today, if you do a search result and examine the first search engine results page (SERP) you’ll notice that as of today 9/10 results are tied ...
- Jason said: Great post on this stuff. I liked the description of a "vicious feudal hierarchy".
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When can paying people become counterproductive? (4)
on Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog (17) permalinkI’ve posted in the past about how points can be used to drive user behavior. Last week the Washington Post explored when play becomes work, and talked about some of the downsides of using rewards systems: More than three decades ago, Edward Deci, a social and personality psychologist at the University of Rochester, found the first experimental evidence of a phenomenon with wide relevance to the way most Americans conduct their personal, professional and social ...Contribute comment
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Cloud Wars: Russia's Cyber Botnet Army (1)
on ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud (8) permalinkSlashdot as well as several sources are reporting that Russia has unleashed a full cyber attack using it's newly created, government sponsored compute cloud (botnet) on The Government of Georgia. What's more, word on the size of this botnet is supposedly no more then a 10,000 - 20,000 nodes. I'm also told this private "botnet" is composed primarily of AMD machines and utilizes a similar architecture to another military botnet reportedly built in a shady ...Shared by Jason (42)Contribute comment
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Qi4j 0.3 released (2)
permalinkI'm happy to announce that Qi4j v0.3 was just released. This version includes the 4th generation of the internal runtime, which now has been refactored so much that it is several times lighter and easier to work with than the previous incarnations. We are seeing more people coming in from "outside" to help out, and especially Michael Hunger provided great advice in how to restructure and refactor the runtime. There are so many improvements in ...Shared by Bob Lee (42) Jason (42)
- Jason said: This is very cool stuff. Got to find some time to try it out at some point.
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Scaling-Out Web Application with GigaSpaces XAP. Part I (1)
on The GigaSpaces Blog (6) permalinkOverview Building a reliable, automatic scaled-out infrastructure for your web application is not a job for the faint of heart. It often involves deep knowledge of your application servers or getting expert consulting. Sometimes both. GigaSpaces XAP application platform will let you do that, and more, with just a few easy steps and at a much lower cost. Starting from version 6.6 m1 of GigaSpaces XAP, one can deploy not only spaces and PUs (processing ...Shared by Jason (42)Contribute comment
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Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender? - ReadWriteWeb (38)
on ReadWriteWeb (3323) permalinkOne academic warns that it might and says we need to pay attention to it. As machines learn to understand what the web means, what perspective will they understand it from? Who is teaching them? "Objective" descriptions of the world and the relationships in it can cause real problems, particularly for people with little power in those relationships. How will the emerging Semantic Web understand relationships and what will that mean for us as human ...Shared by !&# (129) Ajay Pathak (43) Alberto (32) AldoBucchi (4) Andrei (54) Andrew (15) Andy Kaplan-Myrth (17) cannedtuna (13) CannonGod (479) Chris J Guerra (50) Daniel Bachhuber (22) Daniel Langendorf (97) ehu4ever (256) Gene Locklin (377) GeniusBoyWonder (40) Jason (42) Jeff L. (74) Jenny Ryan (3) Jo Booth (20) Joe (152) John Magnus (146) keith (81) mediaChick (15) Michael Fidler (65) MiramarMike (59) Neal Jansons (83) Nice Fish Films (160) Núria (31) Ray Grieselhuber (61) Richard (23) Rob (322) Rob Jongschaap (336) Sachendra (32) sarahintampa (364) soupenvy (28) Spudsstuff (81) terababy (5) trentono (25)Contribute comment
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Synthesis SyncML Client for iPhone/iPod Touch (2)
permalinkCategory: Productivity Released: Aug 03, 2008 Price: Free Description:Synthesis SyncML Client for iPhone/iPod Touch OS brings SyncML standard based data synchronisation to iPhone and iPod touch devices. This allows mobile over-the-air (OTA) data synchronisation with any compliant SyncML server (such as Oracle Collaboration Suite, goosync.com, consolidate.at, Open-Xchange, MDaemon, eGroupware, ZYB, mobical, DeskNow, Synkia, ScheduleWorld, neopim.com and many more).Shared by Jason (42) Ryan (81)
- Jason said: Possible competitor to MobileMe?
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