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links for 2008-04-14
Techcrunch.com Error Message Coolest error message ever. (tags: programming Humor) Virtuous Code › Why Your Social Website Should Support OpenID Good arguments as to why websites should support OpenID, though only from the viewpoint of the end user rather than the website owner. (tags: Internet webstandards security programming socialmedia) Is Your Community For Sale | […]
April 14, 2008
links for 2008-04-13
Twitter takes hold in my physics class | Education IT | ZDNet.com (tags: twitter socialmedia technology Education tstemlink) Fewer Options Open to Pay for Costs of College – New York Times How has the current credit crunch made paying for college harder. (tags: Education Financial college recession) BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Why […]
April 13, 2008
links for 2008-04-12
A VC: Delicious What happens when we start to use more services through secondary access, such as API’s and less through the web interface? We need a new way to track web stats. (tags: analytics api twitter WebComics) Gartner Says Vista Will Collapse. And That’s Why The Yahoo Deal Must Happen (tags: Google microsoft software […]
April 12, 2008
Daily Links April 9th, 2008
Lots of news from Yahoo in it’s efforts to fight off the takeover offer from Microsoft. Yahoo announced they will go through a two week trial period outsourcing their search ads to Google News Corp is in talks to join with Microsoft in it’s takeover offer for Yahoo AOL and Yahoo are looking at joining […]
April 10, 2008
Daily Links April 8th, 2008
I keep finding that there is a ton of stuff day in and day out that I want to talk about but I don’t have the time or it isn’t really needing a full blog post to devote to. However I still wish to inform people about some of the most interesting stuff I find […]
April 9, 2008
Criticizing America
Recently there has been a political storm brewing over Reverend Wright. This man was Senator Obama’s former pastor and his sermons are to put it bluntly rather controversial. Here is a video of one them receiving the most coverage from the media outlets, at the end of which he says “God damn America”. This has […]
April 6, 2008
Changes To My Online Presence
This week has been an interesting week for me in terms of what I am doing online with my various social networks. Reducing the number of websites/social networks that I have Moving away from Facebook and more to FriendFeed Loving and Using Ping.fm heavily So what exactly am I doing with each of these? I […]
April 3, 2008
Apple Pushes Safari Through Apple Software Update
Apple which is legendary in some circles as being described that it can do no wrong, well that just proven as not true today. The big story of the day is that Apple pushed onto Windows users via the Apple Software Update, Safari 3.1. What occured is that if you have iTunes or QuickTime you […]
March 21, 2008
Facebook’s Newest Privacy Features
Facebook this morning released a system of new privacy controls for user profiles. These controls allow you to create groups or lists of friends. You can then apply very specific privacy rules to each of these lists or even one particular friend. This is a huge step forward in my opinion and one that I […]
March 19, 2008
Ummm, You have to umm be confident, like yeah
Are you serious??? Is pretty much what went through my head all yesterday listening to a round of speeches by students on their future career. Some quick background information, currently I am taking a public speaking class, and the class admittedly is pretty boring for me as I did debate in high school. The class […]
March 13, 2008

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