Month: March 2009

  • links for 2009-03-31

    Z Trek: The Alan Zeichick Weblog: Secrets of social site success "You’ve got to trust your community to do the right thing – but also make it easy to clean up after people if they misbehave." Short summary of the Jeff Attwood and Clay Shirky talk at EclipseCon. (tags: eclipsecon jeffattwood clayshirkey socialnetwork social community […]

  • links for 2009-03-30

    YouTube – Did You Know Really cool video, really informative. (tags: video youtube education china india socialnetworking technology internet statistics information career work google) He’s Mad, Apocalyptic, Tearful, and a Rising Star on Fox News – NYTimes.com I wouldn't normally say this but, Glen Beck you are a real class act and I mean that […]

  • links for 2009-03-29

    BBC NEWS | Americas | Spain court mulls US torture case "Spanish judges have agreed to consider charging six former US officials with providing legal justification for torture at Guantanamo Bay." Go Spain. (tags: usa spain guantanamo law politics humanrights torture) White House Announces International Meetings to Address Energy and Climate Issues – NYTimes.com "The […]

  • links for 2009-03-28

    Drupal 7 User Experience Project Want to make Drupal better, go and help out. (tags: drupal cms programming usability ui userinterface design webdesign) Get Ready For Java On AppEngine Java on AppEngine would be pretty cool, though if they ever get PHP running, them I'm in business. (tags: appengine google cloud-computing php java) WWdN: In […]

  • links for 2009-03-26

    Twitter Confirms Paid Pro Accounts On The Way "Key point: Companies and individuals will always be able to use Twitter for free; the for-sale features will be add-ons." Good news for Twitter being able to stick around. (tags: twitter business marketing socialmarketing socialmedia information advertising) Gametrailers.com – Onlive – GDC 09: Debut Tech Interview Part […]

  • links for 2009-03-25

    BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | N Korea treats journalists 'well' "The United States says it has received assurances from North Korea that two American journalists who were detained there last week will be treated well." Somewhat good news, though how much I trust it is something else. (tags: usa politics media journalism currenttv northkorea sweden) […]

  • links for 2009-03-24

    Developers Using PhoneGap to Create Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Very cool multi-platform framework for mobile phones. "The creators of PhoneGap think it's nonsense that developers have to write the same app in several different programming languages to reach the widest swath of mobile phone customers, so they developed an open source, cross-platorm framework that bridges the […]

  • links for 2009-03-23

    WeFollow: A User Powered Twitter Directory Add yourself to WeFollow and get people interested in topics you specialize in following you. (tags: twitter wefollow marketing advertising socialnetworking socialmedia microblogging) The Future of Twitter: Social CRM Twitter has a real possibility as a socialCRM system. This idea will have legs. (tags: twitter socialnetworking socialwebsites socialcrm crm […]

  • links for 2009-03-22

    China’s Leader Says He Is ‘Worried’ Over U.S. Treasuries – NYTimes.com "The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, spoke in unusually blunt terms on Friday about the “safety” of China’s $1 trillion investment in American government debt, the world’s largest such holding, and urged the Obama administration to offer assurances that the securities would maintain their […]

  • Firefox vs. Chrome

    PC World yesterday ran a piece on Chrome and Firefox, comparing the two and essentially Firefox was dead and Chrome was going to win the latest browser battle. Run Chrome and Firefox side-by-side, and Firefox is embarrassingly slow. It’s not even in the same league. It’s an old man on the running track trying to […]