Submitted by Pink Lisa
from Google Reader:
Winston Churchill once predicted that it would be possible to grow chicken breasts and wings more efficiently without having to keep an actual chicken. And in fact scientists have since figured out how to grow tiny nuggets of lab meat and say it will one day be possible to produce steaks in vats, sans any livestock.Pork c (Read More)
TechCrunch
Today, during the Filtering the Stream roundtable at our RealTime CrunchUp, Seesmic’s Loic Le Meur asked why Facebook isn’t giving third parties access to their Friend Lists. Obviously, that’s a good question now that Twitter has starting giving third parties access to its Lists feature via an API. Normally, you’d expect a (Read More)
My Clippings on NewsGator Online
PreludeYou take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.In the Matrix, Morpheus presents Neo with a choice: he can ta (Read More)
Sean's shared items in Google Reader
Have you ever heard of Twitter tags? No, I’m not speaking of those search functionaries known as #hashtags, I’m talking about regular tags that are a staple of bookmarks and blog posts.The ability to sort and share are fundamental to how we interact with digital information. However, Twitter seems to have ignored the power (Read More)
: I had to Google "folksonomy" but yes I think the social aspect of categorization could be a major feature. Thanks for introducing me to a new word. :)
Submitted by Stewbagz
from blog:
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a shel of my former self
Awareness is rising of the impact on business of networked employees—those workers who are continuously connected to their social circles and can tap into them at will. The discussion seems to be shifting, ever so slowly, to the characteristics of companies that, rather than inhibiting these traits, want to reap the benefit (Read More)
FriendFeed - gregsantos
Viral videos are mostly funny and/or interesting. They value add our life either with laughter or knowledge, motivating us to pass them on.The video concept is usually dead simple but the visual can be so hard to create.Whether the video is share worthy is very subjective. Even when the maker thinks it is viral, the world m (Read More)
Submitted by Crenk
from blog:
Social networks as they exist depend on the number of friends you start off with and thus you expand your network based on your existing network and grow from there. For many, not having an online presence makes it heard to start a social network when there is no online network to utilize to start. For [...]. (Read More)
Mashable!
Another new virus is spreading through social networks, this time, via Facebook. This one – known as Bredolab – masks itself as a “Password Reset Confirmation Email,” appears to come from Facebook, and attaches a file that purports to contain a new password. That file is actually a trojan horse that will download a host o (Read More)
VentureBeat
(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. You can watch it here live or update as we go. This is paraphrased.)Paul Buchheit, who created Gmail and co-founded FriendFeed before it was acquired by Facebook, is giving a talk entitled “They told me to wi (Read More)
TechCrunch
By now we’ve all likely seen the new “report spam” links on each Twitter user’s profile. Twitter rolled out that feature on twitter.com yesterday, and plans to roll out an API, so third-party apps can use it, sometime today. But Twitter has also quietly rolled out another new feature aimed at cleaning up the stream: Blockin (Read More)
Submitted by Natalia Corres:
Careful what you endorse in a blog - make sure you have full disclosure if you are affiliated or are compensated by the product or service... (Read More)
Submitted by Ping Elizabeth
from blog:
Original Source: Dell uses social media to gather employee ideas, Ragan Communications, Andrew AnaloreEmployeeStorm allows employees to submit company ideas, speak candidlyWhen it comes to internal communications, global technology giant Dell may have hit on the perfect storm: a social media platform, dubbed EmployeeStorm, (Read More)
Mashable!
The Smarter Cities series is supported by IBM. Read more about building a smarter planet on the IBM A Smarter Planet Blog.I haven’t been to the doctor in almost 2 years. It’s not that I haven’t been sick during the past couple of years, but rather that finding a new doctor (I moved about 18 months ago) and finding the time (Read More)