May 2008
42 posts
SarahLacy.com: Sue Decker Speaks! →
I’m not going to lie: It was a long day at Yahoo today. Some 16 hours long, not counting my commute from SF to Sunnyvale, back to SF, back to Sunnyvale, and one day— I hope!!— back to SF. But we…
May 6th
Idea for a blog: Few of the things I’m into could be considered mainstream. Make it easy for them to join our niche with explanations etc.
May 6th
How To Create SMART tasks →
Shared by Nick Thanks for the reminder [integrates into daily life] We’ve covered task management a few times here on WWD - notably in our roundup of 20 different ways to track your task…
May 6th
The Declining Value Of Redundant News Content On... →
Shared by Nick http://www.mylittleunderground.net/products/commands/02.jpg Yes, that’s a silly example, but is it really all that different from what’s happening on the web? Can you imagine a…
May 6th
Twitter's problems are the result of... →
Shared by Nick I think the XMPP interface is a great idea for updating, but don’t discount the http interface. It will still be the only way to pull down user history and user info. The problem…
May 6th
The Tumblr-fication of Google Reader →
Shared by Rex Pechler An interesting perspective on the new Google Reader features. A new feature that will be recognized as a tumblelog by the tiny fraction of the world’s inhabitants who…
May 6th
Crazy signs posted in Hoboken →
5/5/2008: Was busy doing other stuff most of the day, but many readers sent pictures of this sign that was posted all over town today. I don’t even want to imagine the story behind this…
May 6th
Yahoo Chief Says Microsoft Was the Stubborn One -... →
Shared by Nick They can point fingers in any direction they want. The deal didn’t go through. Either start talking again or let it go. In an interview, Mr. Yang, Yahoo�s co-founder and chief…
May 6th
notes, thoughts, ideas and responses » The Magical... →
Earlier I said how much my friend and I enjoy twistori and tonight marks the first time we’re recording the Top 5 tweets that grabbed our attention during the 45 minutes we watched.
May 6th
Twitter + Star Wars = Good Times →
Shared by Nick “Good luck, you’re gonna need it” One of the things I love most about Twitter is the way interaction between friends and followers can take on a life of its own. Today I casually…
May 6th
Battered Yahoo Admits It Overplayed Hand; Open To... →
How’s this for a quick cave? Less than 48 hours after Microsoft (MSFT) pulled the plug on its Yahoo (YHOO) offer, Yahoo has already admitted publicly that it would have been willing to do a deal…
May 6th
The Secret: # The Secret "Law of... →
~ Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. ~ Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. ~ Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he…
May 6th
Nine Inch Nails Give Yet Another Album For Free →
Wow, so this was the special surprise they were talking about when they released their new single, Echoplex, for free …
May 6th
4 Great Sites For Finding Popular Content |... →
Community recommendations are becoming all the rage these days. While, Twitter and FriendFeed are popular ways to get recommendations within your personal networks and within a community, they…
May 6th
Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Sam... →
ABC’s Nightline has been following Senator Obama on the trail today as he campaigns across North Carolina and Indiana from daybreak to midnight for every last vote. Tonight they will air a special on…
May 6th
New Nine Inch Nails Album Distributed As Free... →
Shared by Nick I listened to it today, it isn’t bad at all. Trent Reznor is distributing the new Nine Inch Nails album “The Slip” as a free download via Creative Commons. Related…
May 6th
iPhone as Tricorder - The Unofficial Apple Weblog... →
iPhone as Tricorder Posted May 1st 2008 9:30PM by Dave Caolo Filed under: Humor, iPhone Set phasers to Huge Frakking Nerd. I’ll be honest and admit to trying this as soon as I saw it….
May 6th
Messing around with linkriver. Got to settle in and get all my feeds imported.
May 6th
Strike that, linkriver acquired!
May 6th
I want a LinkRiver account. Can anyone hook me up with one?
May 6th
A New Kind of Social Networking Search/Discovery... →
May 6th
Listening to the NewsGang with @stevegillmor. Things go live at 4pm EST/1pm PST
May 5th
Pancake Night was awesome! - http://bkite.com/003fG
May 5th
I’m at 538 Washington St, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA - http://bkite.com/003fE
May 5th
isoHunt and MPAA Debate Legality of BitTorrent... →
The isoHunt vs. MPAA case has been dragging on for more than two years now. It basically comes down to the question whether a BitTorrent site is facilitating copyright infringement by indexing…
May 4th
“In my view, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has gone way beyond fiduciary duty…I expect to see the stock tank, and deservedly so.” http://is.gd/bQV
May 4th
What’s Mainstream Technology? Ask Joe Average, The... →
Interesting thought floating around whether these social aggregators like FriendFeed will ever go “mainstream.” Of course, that begs the question - what is “mainstream,” exactly? I personally…
May 4th
Twitter 101: Clarifying The Rules For Newbies →
Lots of Twitter guides tell you what you should do, but rarely explain how it should be done.   When joining Twitter, finding a “tweeting”, or messaging, balance will be rocky at first….
May 4th
Reality 1, Scoble 0 →
Scoble:. Yahoo is a bleeding animal. Left lying, gasping for its breath, after a larger animal (Microsoft) struck and then walked away after it proved too difficult to eat. Reality:. Yahoo’s…
May 4th
friendfeed is addicting. I blame the MS/Y! news rush for pushing me into it. When will I find the time to unplug?
May 4th
Interesting Gillmor Gang. Looking forward to next week.
May 4th
Morph Monkey Spreads Chlamydia On Facebook →
A new app from the American Social Health Association aims to spread Chlamydia on Facebook to raise awareness of the disease. The Morph Monkey Facebook app looks fairly benign at the…
May 4th
listening to @stevegillmor and his gang talk about the MS/Y! deal. Clearly Google is the big winner.
May 4th
Breaking: Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks... →
Microsoft will announce shortly that they have withdrawn their offer to acquire Yahoo. Talks between the two companies and their advisors broke down earlier today, according to a source close to…
May 4th
Chat Logs →
One of the great features of Gaim (now Pidgin) back in the day was logging. You could log all your chats in txt form or in HTML and go back and read over them later. You could quote from…
May 4th
Microblogging should be decentralized →
Scott Hanselman asks the question that should be on all our minds, as we come to depend more and more on Twitter. We need to do something about our over-reliance on a centralized system…
May 3rd
Miss Piggy sings Peaches’ Fuck the Pain Away →
Brilliant. The best in a while.
May 3rd
stopping at a wendys before iron man. I hate fast food.
May 2nd
leaving for iron man at midnight
May 2nd
Hoboken QotD - Drinking Age →
5/1/2008 Question of the Day: Lower the drinking age? Some states are considering lowering the drinking age back to 18. Since Hoboken is a town known for it’s bars and night life, would this be…
May 2nd
Looks like there’s already a CAM of Iron Man. That didn’t take long
May 1st
Xobni is amazing. I work at a help desk and this ups productivity in a way I never dreamed of.
May 1st