December 2008
30 posts
O'Brien: Nine predictions for Silicon Valley in... →
Chris O’Brien at the San Jose Mercury News makes several good observations about the coming year. His view of Google versus Facebook is worth noting.
What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About... →
The public assumes that wireless carriers’ costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a heavy curtain.
From Zero to Xing: Socialmedian's 2008 Drive to... →
Socialmedian was acquired by Xing for a purchase price of $7.5 million, an excellent return for the bootstrapped startup which had raised less than $1 million in funding.
Pleased by angstro.com (in Beta, leverages LinkedIn contacts)
Internet tops newspapers for new gathering →
Pew Research Center says this is the first time in history the Internet has topped newspapers as the main source of national and international news.
New York Times: November Was So Terrible, Even Our... →
Revenue was down 13.9 percent. Ad revenue was down 20.9 percent. The really awful news: Internet ad revenue and overall Internet revenue actually declined in November, down 3.8 percent and 2.6…
Online Journalism: Donations Accepted →
Amid traditional media’s bloodletting, nonprofit news outfits like Spot.Us are experimenting with community-funded journalism on the Web
Lawrence Lessig Proposes iEPA →
In this Newseek opinion piece, widely admired thinker Lawerence Lessig proposes an “Innovation Environment Protection Agency,” charged with a simple founding mission: “minimal intervention to…
Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) Flipcards →
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). These are the Mobile Web Best Practices Flipcards, which summarize the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 document. The flipcards are a useful reminder of the sixty…
W3C MobileOK Checks Mobile Friendliness of... →
Earlier this month, the World Wide Web Consortium announced the availability of the W3C mobileOK checker, a free service that performs various tests on a Web page to …
http://twitturly.com/ is interesting …
Important work can be done while daydreaming -... →
Subjects able to catch themselves daydreaming exhibit increased creativity. Jonah Lehrer Interviews Jonathan Schooler, a psychologist at the UC Santa Barbara; Malia Mason, a neuroscientist at…
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Semantic Sense for the Desktop →
Semantic Web for personal documents. “This might be the semantic desktop that actually survives,” says Nova Spivack, CEO of the company behind Twine, said, “There’s a lot of potential to build on…
Report Blames Rumsfeld for Detainee Abuses →
Donald H. Rumsfeld and other officials bear major responsibility for abuses committed by American troops in detention centers, a Senate report said. The “report” only restates the obvious. Rumsfeld,…
checking out toluu
Signing up at trueknowledge.com with a beta invite
20 Incredibly Useful Themes and Plugins to Boost... →
Sometimes we just want to get our WordPress Admin area to look neat and professional just to add a bit more functionality and enhance the way we use it.
Pownce Community looks to Six Apart to do the... →
Pownce users are commenting on 6A’s blog to ask why they are shutting down their beloved site.
8 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools You've Never... →
Social media monitoring lists have been done to death, but you’ve probably not heard of these 8 vital tools.
ooo … I get to play with GOOG FriendConnect
Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Mathematical... →
Zipf’s law is a testament to the order in our world, showing that the same patterns emerge in a wide variety of situations. The linguist George Kingsley Zipf first proposed the law in 1949, when he…
When To Show A Video Ad →
Analysis of when to show an online video ad, given viewer attention span - and the likelihood that the targeted audience will stay and watch post-roll ads.
35 Stunning Black and White Logos →
Yes, these are nice logos - and all in black and white.
Ohio’s leading newspapers to share stories across... →
The Columbus Dispatch, The Toledo Blade, the Cincinnati Enquirer, The Akron Beacon Journal, The Plain Dealer formed the Ohio News Organization to share their top stories.
Six Apart Welcomes Pownce →
I am pleased to announce that today we are welcoming the Pownce team and technology to Six Apart. Pownce launched in June of 2007 and opened to the public earlier this year, but, as mentioned on the…
Japan Airlines CEO Cuts His Pay, Earns Less Than... →
To him, it’s nothing strange, but will you find anyone like him in the U.S.? Probably not. He isn’t one who earns $1 and then makes millions in company stock and other bonuses. He’s cut back on other…
Spacehack.org launches! →
SPACEHACK is a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. interact + connect with the space community.
Wondering what it means that the Pownce founders are going to Six Apart