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The tragedies that killed three Apollo astronauts and two space shuttle crews have anniversaries during less than one week's time: Apollo 1 on Jan. 27, 1967; Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986; and Columbia on Feb. 1, 2003. (Read More)
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"Tech" via Carlos Lorenzo in Google Reader
I know I am a technology guy, and I am very logical and literal. Because of this I get annoyed when people use conversation and Twitter, Microblogging, or Status Updates as synonyms. Have you ever tried to have a conversation on Twitter or Identi.ca?Part of the reason for my annoyance this morning are two blog posts regardi (Read More)
: When you reply to a status update it starts to become a conversation. Due to the "half duplex" nature of Twitter it's kind of hard to thread it together. I think people like Twitter because it is SIMPLE.
: I think as all of these products mature--FB, Twitter, MS even--the playing field will narrow, and the products will do more to differentiate. Right now, the key to ubiquity is the open platform that exists from site to site--I hope as the field narrows, that open platform mentality is not lost.
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Microblogging service Twitter's habit of playing fast and loose with user passwords may be coming to an end, if a technical trial started today can be successfully implemented by its development team. Earlier this month, the company saw the accounts of users from Barack Obama to Fox News to Britney Spears get "hacked." Mo (Read More)
: fantastic news. The first step to sharing IDs around the net in a formal open secure manner through OAuth. The world could change over the next few months.
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When Michael's son used his Christmas money to buy a copy of Madden 09 from Walmart, he though he was buying a copy of Madden 09, not a blank disc that said "Redneck Sh*t.". (Read More)
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By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Twitter/FriendFeed)Damon Cortesi, the man behind TweetStats, DM Whacker, and First Follow, has just made my life a whole lot easier by allowing me to learn more about the people I follow through search. The service, called TweepSearch, aims to allow you to search for specific people you want (Read More)
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Obama continues his web outreach today, announcing in his YouTube address that he will soon launch Recovery.gov, a site for tracking “how and where we spend taxpayer dollars”. Is this a new form of web-enabled transparency?. (Read More)
: Socialism 2.0 will utilize every aspect of social media and social networking. I doubt it will be truly transparent. I think American citizens would revolt if they actually knew the things our government spends money on.
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Die-hard Twhirl fanatics (like me) can celebrate the start of the weekend with a fresh new update to the desktop Twitter app. Albeit just a preview release, Twhirl v.0.8.8f is here and includes a few extra gems for Twitter, Seesmic, and Ping.fm fans to make the most of the popular Adobe AIR desktop client.The new release ad (Read More)
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You’ll always notice that of the 5,000 followers that a social media expert has that about 5,000 of them are also other social media “experts”. Like any good Ponzi scheme the lead zombies make a living feeding the aspirations of the worker level drones who parrot their every tweet. It's high time we decima (Read More)
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According to a rather speculative report by research firm ABI Research, location-based social networks like Brightkite, GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt could reach revenues as high as $3.3 billion by 2013. (Read More)
: A friend of mine had idea to day for a "Train Me" LBS app for iphone. Idea is person could click a button to find personal trainers available that day near them, read reviews, etc. What do you think?
: I think urbanspoon is on to something with their LBS iphone app. Being able to find out what the community recommends as the best restaurants near to where you are right now is awesome.