Submitted by Saxonchap:
In these days of electronic social media, we need not forget we are only human afterall, and that we owe our lives to those who would make us humble. (Read More)
: Mr Allingham, whose life spanned three centuries and six monarchs, has five grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren, 14 great-great grandchildren and one great-great-great grandchild.
beaushelby's posterous reading list
We recently announced our Twitter API, which lets you use Posterous as the image hosting service inside your favorite Twitter client. Since then we've been added by over a dozen of the top Twitter clients available! Today we're taking the next step and releasing our full posting and reading API. On the posting side, the A (Read More)
Submitted by Fruchter
from Google Reader:
Twitter is up to their old antics of adding limits again, changing the API, and not telling developers as they do so. This morning Twitter released into production new limits around their verify_credentials() method in the API, only allowing users to verify their usernames and passwords through Twitter applications 15 time (Read More)
: Well I think it's well proven that US inteligence has failed miserably and resulted in war crimes during the Bush era ... so it's hardly surprising that reliable intelligence gathering should now be outsourced too.
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They're gone! After outcry, Time Warner uncaps the tubes
After a public outcry and the attention of several members of Congress, Time Warner Cable has stopped its trial of Internet data caps, but not before making "metered billing" a tough sell for all other American ISPs. (Read More)
: The rip-off charging by monopolies has to stop - and this is a major step - because you know they would have abused it. Is TWC still charging NYC consumers $29 a month for free calls in NY State as part of its bundles? I can call Europe for free using Vonage ... why would I pay TWC all that money? Just an example ...
Submitted by Dominik
from Google Reader:
"The Guardian launched what it is calling its 'Open Platform' a set of content APIs and a collection of datasets. Matt McAlister, head of the Guardian Developer Network, said that the 'Open Platform' was a suite a data and services to allow people to build applications with Guardian content. The APIs will feature 'full fat' (Read More)
Submitted by Saxonchap:
Excellent - Microsoft working on damage control months before the product even comes out! Don't they realise nobody wants Vista?. (Read More)
CAREER-BROKERS's shared items in Google Reader
Facebook have made alterations to their Terms of Use which now states that anything you put onto the site at any point in time - they can do with as they please.Previously, when you closed your account, any rights to your own content would expire - now it still all belongs to them. It means the site can legally sell your c (Read More)
TIME
President Barack Obama plans to appoint senior administration officials -- rather than a single "car czar," as had been discussed-- to oversee a restructuring of the auto industry. (Read More)
: President BO: Would it not be as simple as appointing someone who could suggest to the auto-companies that they actually innovate and design/build a product the American public would want to buy in the first place? Or, perhaps it's as simple as stopping them from burning millions of dollars fighting tougher emissiosn controls as the rest of the world - including their competitors - head towards a greener planet?
Louis Gray - FriendFeed
We are most definitely in the midst of an evolution of the blogosphere. The recession is causing reality to hit home. Some of the A-List bloggers are leaving the business. What’s going on here? Missy Ward tweeted out a link to this story on WebProNews. Apparently, Dan Lyons (aka “fake” Steve Jobs) is now quitting blogging. (Read More)
: Good read on the state of blogging, though I'd add that if you're well focused in an area other than Tech blogging that has a large enough readership to attract there's still lots of room for new bloggers to jump in and do well out there.
: Perhaps blogging activity is down because folks are too busy tweeting and seeing who is following them on Twitter instead? There are only so many hours in the day and with all these mini-apps sprouting up, it's virtually impossible to truly focus for fear of being left behind.
The Inquisitr » Tech
Before we go any further I should make something clear – just in case you haven’t figured it out by now – I am not a fan of Facebook. I don’t agree with its terms of service which gives them total ownership over anything I do while I am there. I don’t like some of the moves that they have; or are rumoured to be looking at, (Read More)
: I haven't yet brought myself to use FB for business .. it just hasn't seemed the right thing to do. But FB's seeming approach - to wait and sift out the good from the ugly of Web 2.o - is going to ensure that their product remains viable.
: I've never heard anything so ridiculous in my life. That's the equivalent of slagging of an email programme for having a "reply" button, just because the earliest Usenet readers had the same feature. System APIs for external connection have been around since the 1990s (at least). If you don't like a system, or the rules it imposes on you when you use it, then don't use it.
TechCrunch
Last October, Google signed a $125 million settlement with the Author’s Guild to pay authors for copyrighted works it has scanned and made available on the Web through its Google Book Search project. More than 7 million books have been scanned by Google so far, a large portion of them out of print. Today, the Google Book (Read More)
: I'm not sure who is the biggest culprit at this point - Google or the Author's Guild. Bluntly, Google broke the law - riding all over any kind of decency in their normal arrogant approach to the world. Don't get me wrong - Google has great products - but that does not give them the right to break the law. The AG presumably went for the promotional potential versus their legal obligations. YOu can bet it woudl be different if Google went after, let's say, older Disney products (another copyright debacle in its own right).
TechCrunch
In the folk-lore of the UK internet startup scene, WebMission has past into legend. OK, so that might be putting it a bit strong. But the trip last year to take 20 UK startups to Silicon Valley to network, market themselves and see just how that world works has created a very strong base of relationships between the startup (Read More)