January 2011
47 posts
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The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to... →
… After more than ten days of intensive investigation and study, Facebook’s security team realized something very, very bad was going on. The country’s Internet service providers were running a malicious piece of code that was recording users’ login information when they went to sites like Facebook.
The day part of the Internet died: Egypt goes dark... →
… The Internet blackout in Egypt shows that a country with strong control over its Internet providers apparently can force all of them to pull their plugs at once, something that Cowie called “almost entirely unprecedented in Internet history.”
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37signals Product Blog: We’ll be retiring our... →
… We’re sad to see OpenID go. The promise was grand. Life would be simpler if we only had one login, but in this case, the cure was worse than the disease.
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Twitter Is Blocked In Egypt Amidst Rising Protests →
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“… I’ve just removed the option to signup for a new account using...”
– via Twitter / @DHH
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Dragon Speech SDK Arrives for Android, iOS ...... →
… The SDK is free to download and use for 90 days, but when the app is ready for market, developers will need to choose from a variety of tiered pricing plans before listing the app for download or sale . A number of media outlets reporting this news incorrectly said that the SDK was “free,” missing this rather important disclaimer.
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Google Mobile Web: Now With Interactive Weather →
Works cross platform … Web based widget that displays when you search for “weather”
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Let's Be Serious: Eric Schmidt Got Canned →
… Specifically, everyone had better hope that Larry will prove to be the next Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg, not the next Jerry Yang.
Wolfram Alpha API Now Free and Open to All →
… Computational knowledge engineWolfram Alpha has just become more accessible from a variety of applications. Wolfram Alpha has thrown open access to its API to all developers with version 2.0 of its Wolfram Alpha API, allowing you to integrate its results into a variety of sources of web, desktop, enterprise and mobile applications.
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“… Google said Thursday that Larry Page, its co-founder and president of...”
– Google Co-Founder Takes Over as Chief Executive - NYTimes.com
How DBpedia Treats Wikipedia as a Database →
… DBpedia is a fascinating project, showing the importance again for communities to develop distributed systems that enhance the Web and in turn enrich Wikipedia.
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Why does Google fail at social media? - Quora →
My favorite Scoble point …
… 6. They are not facing an incompetent competitor. With search they faced competitors who, really, had already given up on improving search and were, basically, incompetent. Not true with social. Here there were a group of very competent and innovating competitors.
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Yahoo! Opens to Third-Party Authentication with... →
… From Yahoo!’s perspective, any signed-in user engaging with Yahoo! services is a valued user, whether she authenticates using a Yahoo!, Facebook, or Google ID.
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“… In short, Samsung wants to charge carriers for features added to...”
– This Is Why Your Galaxy S Phones Haven’t Updated Past 2.1
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Weespr: Our experience with App Engine →
weespr.com
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Facebook Suspends Phone & Address Sharing Feature →
… Douglas Purdy, director of developer relations, just posted on the Facebook developer blog to explain that Facebook agrees with its critics that the feature could be better implemented and the company will be pulling it until changes are made.
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“… Underscoring the confluence of technology, politics, and marketing, the...”
– W3C promotes HTML5 with new logo | Deep Tech - CNET News
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Facebook Apps' New Access to Contact Information... →
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“… Apple CEO Steve Jobs has just announced that he is taking a medical...”
– Apple CEO Steve Jobs Announces Medical Leave of Absence
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Yahoo Says It's "Absolutely Committed" to Flickr →
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Boingo Wireless Files For $75 Million IPO →
… In the future, the company plans to expand its network to more airports as well as to shopping malls and sports/concert arenas. And Boingo says it will enter new roaming agreements with other network and hotspot operators. Additionally, Boingo will be looking to expand its presence internationally.
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W3Fools Takes on W3Schools →
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Google Clarifies Their H.264 Stance, Hands Keys Of... →
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So Much For Standards, Google Says WebM Plugins... →
“… a founder leaving a startup before profitability or an exit has been...”
– Posterous Founder Leaves Startup, Goes to Y Combinator as Design Guru
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“… There has been a lot of discussion regarding this week’s announcement of...”
– Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change
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“… In its first two years, Chrome development took a more collaborative...”
– Google Chrome gets new developer hierarchy | Deep Tech - CNET News
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Adrian Roselli: H.264 Getting Dropped from Chrome →
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Google’s Video Format War - Adaptive Path →
… Here’s a breakdown of which HTML5 video codecs each of the major desktop browsers supports:
Can One Laptop Per Child Save the World's Poor? An... →
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Official Google Blog: Now available: Google Places... →
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Google’s Hotpot Recommendation Engine for Places... →
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“… In addition to supporting H.264, Chrome currently bundles an embedded...”
– Daring Fireball: Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping of H.264
Excellent questions from Daring FireBall re: Google Dropping H.264 from Chrome … I’m wondering if this will backfire on Google … some web developers might revert back to a Flash player to get...
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“… We release major new features every 6-8 weeks and we’re working on...”
– Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: BigCommerce - (37signals)
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“… A total of 6,939 tweets per second were sent just seconds after January...”
– New Year’s Tweets Set New Record
“… Heinemeier Hansson counters. “Most people aren’t productive in their...”
– David Heinemeier Hansson - .net magazine
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To fight spam, Google Apps adds e-mail signing →
Looks like Netvibes is here to stay for a while
Hadn’t seen this post from Netvibes in March 2010 … They’ve been successful providing a free service, a premium white labeled service & being profitable … Netvibes Reaches Profitability
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Google Apps Gives Schools a Better "Walled Garden"... →
WatchBig Omaha Video Series: Jason Fried of 37signals - Silicon Prairie News
WatchBig Omaha Video Series: Matt Mullenweg & Robert Scoble - Silicon Prairie News
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WatchBig Omaha Video Series: Dennis Crowley of foursquare - Silicon Prairie News
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Google Shared Spaces →
Create & host a Google Wave gadgets on this new Google Labs project.
Related link(s):
Google Shared Spaces: How We Made It
Google Shared Spaces: Why We Made It
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What 20 Minutes On Facebook Looks Like: 1M Shared... →
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How Twitter Uses NoSQL →
“… China on Thursday announced that it had made illegal the use of Skype,...”
– China makes Skype illegal - Telegraph