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12 Aug 2010 10:40

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Tech: Apparently, you’ll be able to see a freaking meteor shower tonight

  • It’s August, so it must mean meteor showers! At least that’s what NASA says, which is why they’re hosting a chat later on today to discuss the Perseid meteor shower peaks, which will be hitting today and tomorrow., leading to awesome images like this one. We like space. It’s kind of a big place. source
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11 Aug 2010 22:28

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Tech: Treesaver and Nomad Edition: The latest web magazine twist

  • While the magazine is interesting, the technology is way more interesting. Treesaver is a HTML5 platform designed for magazine content in a way that is very versatile and adapts to the viewport on the screen. Which is frickin’ rad. As for Nomad Edition, the magazine format which will use the to-be-open-sourced technology first, we liked the idea until we read the phrase “links will not be embedded in the Nomad Editions content” in this New York Times article. Boo. You don’t get the advantages of this format. You lose instantly. Go directly to jail, do not collect $200. source
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11 Aug 2010 10:48

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Tech: Twitter’s official “Tweet Button” should piss off Tweetmeme

  • First off, this is really unfair. Twitter has, on multiple occasions, taken things that its developer base have nurtured and created and made their own versions. Tweetmeme, in some ways, may have set itself up for a situation like this – the design of the button was such that it could slow down big sites (we recently switched to the quicker Topsy for this reason), and the color scheme (which couldn’t be changed) was too loud for a piece of furniture. But really? Why didn’t Twitter just buy them out rather than compete directly with them? This is how not to keep your platform’s developers very happy. One key point to make here: If Twitter is uninterested in the analytics end, Tweetmeme may still have a market even despite this. source
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11 Aug 2010 10:19

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Tech: Google Wave’s wake: Some people really want to save it

  • 29,000 fans can’t be wrong (right?) source
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10 Aug 2010 09:36

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Tech: Google and Verizon’s net neutrality deal: As bad as it sounds

  • The agreement outsources the FCC’s powers and authorities to the very industries these rules are supposed to oversee.
  • Public Knowledge Senior Director Sherwin Sly • Discussing yesterday’s deal of an announcement between Google and Verizon. This is the sticking point many other people and groups have, just an FYI. Sure, it’s good for them to talk to the FCC about this kind of thing, but they’re basically trying to set public policy for everyone with a bunch of backroom deals. Sounds shady to us. Many feel that there’s a hidden agenda at work here, and if they do use this self-appointed authority, it could be dangerous. source
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07 Aug 2010 21:39

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Tech: The hammer falls on an Apple exec for #antennafail

  • cause Apple has a nasty PR fiasco after their iPhone 4 antenna has a bunch of embarrassing issues, forcing a sorta mea culpa.
  • effect The company’s relatively new senior VP for iPhone hardware, Mark Papermaster, no longer has a job. Sorry. source
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05 Aug 2010 20:31

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Tech: Activity or followers: Which matters more on Twitter, anyway?

  • More active users are more influential, according to HP Labs. The company’s Social Computing Lab did research into whether or not users with a high number of followers are really the site’s most influential. And the answer? No. “To become influential, users must not only catch the attention of their followers; they must also overcome their followers’ predisposition to remain passive,” the report notes. So in other words, annoy the crap out of your followers! source
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05 Aug 2010 20:13

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Tech: Did the New York Times totally fail on Google/Verizon article?

  • @NYTimes is wrong. We’ve not had any convos with VZN about paying for carriage of our traffic. We remain committed to an open internet.
  • A tweet from Google’s public policy feed • Denying the New York Times’ claims that they plan to play turncoat on net neutrality with Verizon. We must say, it’s not often the NYT gets a story totally wrong, and, well, this is kind of a biggie to get wrong. To top it all off, Verizon is also denying the claims. Embarrassing. (For what it’s worth, the Times article is still up with no correction in sight.) source
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05 Aug 2010 10:12

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Tech: Is Google throwing net neutrality under the bus for Verizon?

  • What the #(&!, Google? We thought you were above listening to big telecom’s advances to shape internet bandwidth. So, why have you been secretly talking to Verizon for nearly ten months about basically ending net neutrality? You’re a big enough company that you could’ve totally prevented this from happening. So why give in? What benefit is there to either you or your millions of users? Unbelievable. We thought you were cut from a much tougher cloth. Screw “Don’t be evil,” guys. It’s dead. Google killed it in one fell swoop. (Oh yeah, there’s this other report which basically contradicts The Times. And this one. We hope these are right. But we’re still keeping the unchecked rage above because we’ve never been so angry at Google before and it’s a new feeling to us.) source
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05 Aug 2010 00:12

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Tech: Facebook buyout: Friendster’s patents worth more than Friendster

  • $39.5 million the amount MOL Global paid for the also-ran, down on its luck social networking site, with a very depressing history, last year
  • $40 million the amount Facebook then paid MOL Global for Friendster’s broad patents on social networking (and a couple minor unrelated things) source
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