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…
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.
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…
The Declining Value Of Redundant News Content On... →
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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…
Twitter's problems are the result of... →
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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…
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…
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…
Yahoo Chief Says Microsoft Was the Stubborn One -... →
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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…
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.
Twitter + Star Wars = Good Times →
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“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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
New Nine Inch Nails Album Distributed As Free... →
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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…
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….
Messing around with linkriver. Got to settle in and get all my feeds imported.
Strike that, linkriver acquired!
I want a LinkRiver account. Can anyone hook me up with one?
A New Kind of Social Networking Search/Discovery... →
Listening to the NewsGang with @stevegillmor. Things go live at 4pm EST/1pm PST
Pancake Night was awesome! - http://bkite.com/003fG
I’m at 538 Washington St, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA - http://bkite.com/003fE
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…
“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
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…
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….
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…
friendfeed is addicting. I blame the MS/Y! news rush for pushing me into it. When will I find the time to unplug?
Interesting Gillmor Gang. Looking forward to next week.
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…
listening to @stevegillmor and his gang talk about the MS/Y! deal. Clearly Google is the big winner.
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…
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…
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…
Miss Piggy sings Peaches’ Fuck the Pain Away →
Brilliant. The best in a while.
stopping at a wendys before iron man. I hate fast food.
leaving for iron man at midnight
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…
Looks like there’s already a CAM of Iron Man. That didn’t take long
Xobni is amazing. I work at a help desk and this ups productivity in a way I never dreamed of.