Micro Persuasion
Here's how I've set up my lifestreaming flow...Capture:: This is where I collect my inspiration for content and create it. I am increasingly using Friendfeed as a front-end filter for all my social network content. I read feeds in Google Reader. I build mindmaps using Mindmeister and Mindnode. Finally, I create media on my (Read More)
Web Strategy by Jeremiah
Top Bloggers Spend Less Time BloggingI’ve noticed a gradual change in what we know as blogs when Scoble and Shel wrote the book on Naked Conversations. Both of them are now focused on micromedia: Shel has an upcoming book on Twitterville, and Scoble spends more time promoting Friendfeed than his own blog. Secondly, I just (Read More)
: Life-streams might be the new journal-style blog. But people who are marketing themselves as consultants or authors still need a more robust blog with posts that read like articles. Once they get (internet) famous, rich, or lazy, then the life-stream only presence can suffice.
Google Operating System
Google Labs has a new experimental project that could become a part of Google Maps: City Tours. The service "helps you identify points of interest and plan multi-day trips to most major cities. You just specify the location of your hotel and the length of your trip and City Tours will map out an itinerary for you," explains (Read More)
Nico's shared items in Google Reader
Team socialmedian strikes again with our 3rd application on XING since XING acquired socialmedian in January 2009.The newest application: Twitter Buzz.In recent months, we've launched a number of features with a single goal: Making XING even more valuable for as many of our members as possible. We listened to member feedba (Read More)
TechCrunch
When Facebook’s Vanity URL landrush kicked off nearly two weeks ago, over 500,000 people registered their new names in a matter of 15 minutes. Over the following weekend, nearly 6 million users staked their claims. The most desirable names, like ‘Jason’ or ‘Mike’, were snapped up in a matter of seconds (if they weren’t al (Read More)
Official Google Blog
Science fiction books and movies have long imagined that computers will someday be able to see and interpret the world. At Google, we think computer vision has tremendous potential benefits for consumers, which is why we're dedicated to research in this area. And today, a Google team is presenting a paper on landmark recogn (Read More)
TechCrunch
If you’ve tuned your TV to CNN at all over the past week, you’ve probably witnessed a sweeping love affair. I’m not even kidding when I say that I think CNN’s anchors have used the word “Twitter” more than they have uttered “CNN” during that time. And while some people hate that, I think it’s great, because the service is p (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg
from Twitter:
I finished the amazing 2nd season of Breaking Bad while on the treadmill today. What's next? Suggestions?. (Read More)
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - MySpace, the social network owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, said it will cut 30 percent of its staff to lower costs as it struggles to stay popular in the face of rising competition.MySpace will be left with about 1,000 employees, it said in a statement released on Tuesday. The company declined to (Read More)
TechCrunch
Twitter had been planning to have a 90 minute downtime tonight for maintenance. Given what’s going on over in Iran right now, that was a problem. And so Twitter has decided to reschedule the maintenance so the protests can go on.This is a good move by Twitter. It clearly didn’t want to have to move the maintenance window th (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk
Opposition activists ratchet up rhetoric against Ahamdinejad and supreme leader of countryOutraged supporters of the moderate candidate, Mir Hussein Mousavi, who claimed his defeat in the Iranian election at the hands of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was manipulated, took to the streets of Tehran again today raising the pro (Read More)
The Page - by Mark Halperin on TIME.com
Ahmadinejad's challenger urges Iranian government Sunday to nullify the presidential election, saying it is the only way to restore public trust. . (Read More)
NY Post: All
You'd think nothing would get under the skin of search giant Google. But co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his... (Read More)
Google Operating System
Google prepares to launch a service that indexes and ranks content from microblogging services like Twitter. Since it's very easy to post updates and the posts are usually very short, micro-blogging services are great for live blogging, posting real-time information about an event.Twitter's search engine has two important d (Read More)