September 2009
26 posts
The Facebook divorce | Salon Life →
Another look at how Facebook and other mediated communication can introduce new ways of managing and dissolving relationships (c/o AM)
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Your Guide to Music on the Web, Part II |... →
Part of two of an article looking at different online services to support your music consumption desires.
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Twitter and Facebook Investment Terms and Game... →
ReadWriteWeb carries out some leg work to analyse the recent investment rounds for Twitter and Facebook.
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6 Incredible Twitter Powered Art Projects |... →
Six mashups for visualisations based around Twitter.
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Twitter Confirms New Funding | NYTimes.com →
“Twitter confirms that it raised a significant round of funding and thanks its new investors.” Good news for users.
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The Top Six Reasons Companies are Still Scared of... →
Businesses can still be apprehensive about social media. This blog outlines 6 possible reasons for this.
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The Aggregated Eavesdrop | Public Address →
Russell Brown discusses Twitter use in New Zealand and a 3rd party monitoring mashup called “TrendMaps”.
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Clay Shirky’s bracing dystopianism | Media Nation →
Internet and social sofware guy Clay Shirky discusses journalism in light of the internet revolution.
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F.C.C. Chairman Seeks to Protect Free Flow of... →
The latest on how the U.S. might handle the prickly (but essential) net neutrality cause.
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Closing In On Launch, Twitter Tweaks Its Retweet... →
Preliminary snap of the new direction for handling retweets on Twitter. The API for accessing retweets will change as well as new user features.
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Posterous Adds Theme Support; Continues To Grow |... →
Another great lightweight blogging service “Posterous” now offering themes.
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Ultra-fast internet in 10 years | NZ Herald →
The NZ Herald have announced a plan to improve internet speeds up to 100mbps over 10 years. Affects urban areas naturally.
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NZ Post confident of Google security, robustness |... →
More on NZ Post’s enlightened view of cloud computing and app management. This piece references a recent NZCS review of security in the cloud.
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'Government cloud' coming from Google next year |... →
Google is to provide cloud computing services to US government agencies.
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Facebook Crosses 300 Million Users. Oh Yeah, And... →
Facebook are now cash flow positive and surpassed 300 million users. These are significant milestones.
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Twitter Changes TOS, Opens the Door for Ads |... →
Twitter expands its terms of service (TOS). Advertising is one of the additions.
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Twitter to release revenue-generating feature in... →
Twitter planning to release an analytics dashboards for businesses to monitor their brands. Probably in the 4th quarter.
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Twitter And The Revenue Dilemma | Techcrunch →
One thing every venture capitalist knows but rarely talks about is the revenue problem with hot startups. When a startup is growing like …
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Internet-Manifesto →
Seventeen declarations reflecting how the world is today thanks to the internet. The focus is journalism but much of the ideas can be applied more generally.
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Verify your Twitter Identity →
Only celebrities can be verified on Twitter presently. However, for everyday folk, Crederity are offering a free Twitter verification service. Bad news: US and India only.
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As Twitter Continues To Grow, Popular Users Widen... →
Search specialists “Rapleaf” have conducted research into Twitter usage by analysing 40,000 users. They provide trend analysis of this group in terms of follower rates.
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Facebook Exodus | NYTimes.com →
Some people are becoming dissatisfied with Facebook for one reason or another. This article looks at some of the causes.
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Chrome OS: The Code Clues Are Out There |... →
Techcrunch discovered a few tidbits of developer talk about Chrome OS. Can’t wait! (and I don’t get excited by OS, ever).
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Google Operating System (Unofficial Google Blog) →
Unofficial news and tips about Google. A blog that watches Google’s latest developments and the attempts to move your operating system online.
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August 2009
32 posts
25 Years Later, First Registered Domain Name... →
Missed this piece at Techcrunch discussing the very first domain name registration way back in 1984.
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What is the Future of Teaching? | Mashable →
Interesting piece at Mashable about a recent study into the efficacy of online learning techniques. Results seem positive but requires deeper analysis.
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Super Friends Guide to HTML5 Hiccups →
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Jeffrey Zeldman and friends bring you this guide to the major niggles and inconsistencies in the HTML5 specification. Lots of valuable clarification, common sense and good suggestions here people.