links for 2009-05-14

Advance the Geek.

"Now, you'll be able to view your stream and publish information into it from places you never could before — like your desktop computer or your mobile phone. Your stream will appear just as it does on Facebook.com and maintain the same privacy settings. We believe that the ability to see more and more of what is happening around you will lead to greater openness and transparency." Good job Facebook.

"Electronics giant Sony has reported its first annual loss in 14 years, after being hit by a big drop in sales." Wow.

Not so small twitter.

Good for them.

What should the NY Times do with it's Twitter feed: "The feed should be used to push links to stories that would interest someone in this community. But not just stories from the NY Times."

"President Obama traveled Wednesday to the university that does not think he has done enough to merit an honorary degree and declared that he agreed."

To what lengths will you go to replicate bugs?

I fully agree.

"The United Nations Security Council has asked the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tiger rebels to ensure the safety of civilians trapped in the conflict."

"Swine flu has reached 33 countries, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, and there have been deaths in four nations: Mexico, the United States, Canada and Costa Rica."

"Apple continues its unbridled censorship of the iPhone app store by rejecting an application that depicts Jesus raping retarded children with Hitler's penis." Lol.

"The problem with Sling Media’s new new iPhone application has nothing to do with the fact that it’s running on the iPhone, an AT&T spokesman, responding to the controversy over the new program, told me today. The problem with Sling Media’s new new iPhone application has nothing to do with the fact that it’s running on the iPhone, an AT&T spokesman, responding to the controversy over the new program, told me today."

Moving back in with the parentals', yeah no thanks.

"A grotesque carving in mammoth ivory is arguably the world's oldest depiction of a human figure, scientists say. The distorted sculpture, which portrays a woman with huge breasts, big buttocks and exaggerated genitals, is thought to be at least 35,000 years old." That's cool.

"More new finds in iPhone 3.0 Beta 5: it seems like those Restriction Settings — allowing parental control over apps based on ratings — we heard rumored in the wake of Reznor-gate have been surfaced in the latest beta." Oh boy.

"My gut feeling is that we’ve seen the last Steve Jobs keynote address. I don’t think he’s leaving the company — and his medical leave has been scheduled to run through the end of June — but I wonder if he’s done as the company’s spokesman."

"Honoré Sharrer, a noted American artist of the 1940s and afterward whose bold, witty, incisive paintings documented the daily experiences of ordinary working people, died in Washington on April 17. In an era in which many of her contemporaries had begun to explore Abstract Expressionism, Ms. Sharrer remained committed to figurative art as a powerful vehicle for social criticism."

"All MySpace has to do to get the guaranteed payments is make certain search page view requirements. They’ve made those page view requirements easily, says our source, mostly by destroying the user experience. At this point Google probably feels like it’s paying off a mortgage on a house worth half of what it paid for originally. They may be glad to just be able to walk away from it all as soon as possible." Oh MySpace.

"Monty Program Ab and Percona today launched the Open Database Alliance. The Alliance will be a center and provide infrastructure for companies and individuals to develop, collaborate and do business around open source databases with MariaDB/MySQL as our initial focus." Awesome news for MySQL and databases overall.

What was Twitter thinking?

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"You can now get email / IM notifications for individual groups and individual people. Just click "Email / IM" on any profile page. Once you have turned on notifications for a feed, it will also be visible on your notifications page"As Twitter cuts down on the noise, FriendFeed turns it up, I vote for FriendFeed.