How To Choose A Web Development Framework
See Larry Dignan about Rails and Twitters scaling problems.
Why We Forget To Spell
Do we unlearn spelling (see Christopher Dawson)?
One Day In The Life Of Nicholas Negroponte
Two Takes On Data Portability
Data Portability is a big issue these days with the Facebook Google thing about Friend Connect (see TechCrunch).
The Indian government is happy about Google:
See TechCrunch about Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man.
Déjà Vu
Simply Explained - Part 17
Sorry for the lame joke!
I just couldn't resist.
How Do You Know You're A CIO
Read Michael Krigsman if you want to know whether you are a bad CIO.
But what if you don't know whether you're a CIO at all, read this.
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The New Social APIs
New social API Friend Connect from Google (see Garett Rogers)
My Guess Of The Week - Part 2
Thank God That's Over
Geeks In The Wild
Monetize Social Graphs
Robert Scoble tried it (see TechCrunch a couple of day ago).
Register writes (seen through Steve O'Hear):
Many social networking cheerleaders see this type of business as their own AdWords goldmine, while failing to appreciate that a general ongoing interest in “sports” is nowhere near as valuable to marketeers as a Google search on a particular day for “Adidas football boots”.
It seems, making money out of your virtual friends is not too easy.
My Guess Of The Week
See on TechCrunch: Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers
The Tinynet
MacGyver 2.0
Is a new MacGyver Film In The Works (Slashdot)?
(Update: After thinking one night I've thrown the last sentence about Obama and Clinton out. No political reasons. It was just not funny.)
You Cannot Eat Tweets
The Emergency Gillmor Gang was great. I liked especially Michael Arrington (as always). But while I was listening to him I wanted to say him that there has to be at least one company not being in the ad business.
The new Microsoft
Just 2 More Slogans
Facebook is just for fun (see new chart from FlowingData, seen through TechCrunch)
Speaking of Yahoo (now that Microsoft has walked away, see TechCrunch). I've never understood Yahoo. What is it? Is it advertising, is it media, search, mail, ...?
Do you remember the Peanut Butter Manifesto (see WSJ)?
The Long Way To Mainstream
Thank god the early adopter phase on Twitter is over (see Scobleizer and TechCrunch).