Twitter / jkalucki: followspam

Twitter / jkalucki: "followspam"

Ah! Followspam is a fine phrase. It's rare that I get twitter follow that not a bot ...

"Nerdic" geek speak is fastest growing language

"Nerdic" geek speak is fastest growing language: "The explosion of technology has created the fastest growing language in Europe, according to research published today.

Dubbed 'Nerdic', this new way of communicating via technological terminology has developed separately to English and become the shared language of Europe, allowing people to communicate without geographical boundary."

Bah, a rotten word that will not survive the telling. Speaking as one cryptolectic to another ... Jargon-1 does point and laugh.

The Facebook Blog | Mini-Feed

The Facebook Blog | Facebook: "The option to import stories from other sites can be found via the small 'Import' link at the top of your Mini-Feed. Only a few sites—Flickr, Yelp, Picasa, and del.icio.us—are available for importing at the moment,"

Yay! More noise in the update feed. Probably even more duplicate notifications from various forwards and feeds and lifestreams. Joy. Doubt if they can make the mini-feed useful, tuning updates is a great idea, but, it doesn't seem to work that well.

FriendFeed - Air

A much desired Air app was written for FriendFeed ... Alert Thingy! Unfortunately on Windoz it alerts into the menu bar, making it alerting as well as demanding. Back into the bit bucket with it!

Oddly enough there is no way to give them feedback. No blog, email, contact form, google group, friendfeed account, ... nothin'. Hardly friendly!

Feedalizr to the rescue! A much better thingy. With the blog, contact form, and twitter account. Still really odd to not have a friendfeed account.

[FRIENDFEED] Put Alert Thingy to Bed

A few of us were joking about the 'via Alert Thingy' spam and saying it would be funnier if it said 'in bed'.

With this Greasemonkey script it will :)

Bringing Blogging To Your Social Networks

Six Apart - News and Events: Bringing Blogging To Your Social Networks

We are excited to launch the first cross-platform blogging application for Facebook -- Blog It Powered by TypePad. We support bloggers on Blogger, LiveJournal, Movable Type, Pownce, Tumblr, TypePad, Twitter, Vox, WordPress.com and WordPress.org!

Plus, after you've posted using Blog It, you can choose to automatically share your post via Twitter and Pownce, in addition to the Facebook Newsfeed.

Arrrg! An auto-twat. Trickle down Friendzy is not my friend.

BlogIt, now with AutoTwat! Ask me how!

ReadWriteWeb hopes that it will tear down that wall ... "BlogIt may be just a beachhead landed in the hostile territory not of Facebook, but of online identity chaos in general."

Twitter / RU4Real

Twitter / RU4Real: "DO NOT FOLLOW THIS ACCOUNT. It is part of an experiment to see how many people actually read the pages of the people they follow."

Too funny. A Friend trap. Fewer Followers that I would expect ...

The Horror!

I opened The List today, oh boy. What a flashback!

Coming soon to a dive near me!

Eddie Money
War
Lynyrd Skynyrd
REO Speedwagon
Foreigner
The Tubes
Night Ranger
Yes
Donna Summer
Boz Scaggs
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
The Beach Boys
Joe Cocker, Steve Miller Band
Tower Of Power
Cheap Trick, Heart, Journey

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64/907!

Now about those abandoned AssetBar greader feeds ...

Rick Roll It!

Rick Roll It! - Twelve Mountains

On Monday, John Gruber made a suggestion suggestion on Twitter:

The guy who owns rickroll.com should turn it into a URL shortening service.

And the horror was unleashed ... Rick Roll It! — a new URL shortening service.

Top Chef Dinner & Screening Party Wednesdays

Top Chef Dinner & Screening Party Wednesdays

It's no secret that San Fran is straight up representin' on this season of Top Chef with not one, but four SF foodies: Chef Ryan Scott (Myth Cafe), Chef Zoi Antonitsas (SF Restaurant Consultant), Chef Jennifer Biesty (Coco500 Restaurant) and Chef Erik Hopfinger (Circa Restaurant).

What better way to watch Top Chef than while eating a four course meal cooked by one of the contestants? Every Wednesday night, Hopfinger will serve up a tasty four-parter inspired by that week's show. Then stick around for a screening with a restaurant full of Top Chef fans. I wonder what will happen to this weekly event when (excuse me: if) Hopfinger gets told to pack his knives and leave? I guess we'll just have to hope he makes the cut.

Dinner: 6pm-10pm ~ $49 four-course menu

Top Chef! 10pm-11pm

http://www.circasf.com/

Sound like fun! But, unfortunately, Top Chef shows his food ...

Good news is that going.com finally spit up something interesting.

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366/910.

Cleaned up some of the old Add folder. Actually unsubed from a few. Oh, and probably added three.

April Fools Day

SANS Internet Storm Center busts out with the list, including

A very fine passwd file http://packetstormsecurity.org/err0r.txt

Infoworld list of their posts, one of which topped TechMeme for much of the morning. http://www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=96815

And the day wouldn't be complete without a rfc! http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5241.txt

Or a book full of them! Books : The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs

Bloglines Toolkit 1.7.0: Don't Back Down

It's been a monstrous fifteen months since I last updated the Bloglines Toolkit.

That's about it really - functionally, everything else is the same as it ever has been, just in more languages and updated to work in the latest version of Firefox (and it should continue to work in Flock too, but I don't use Flock, so I don't know that for sure.

Bloglines Toolkit 1.7.0: Don't Back Down


Whoa, now that I'm all settled in with greader and FriendFeed Share, back comes the ole bloglines clip extention. Huh.

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King: "bards of Azeroth are finally stepping into the spotlight on their own terms, proving once and for all that while just about anyone can pick up a sword or cast a spell, only a true hero can vanquish evil with the power of ROCK!"

Armed with a trusty axe, killer riffs, and a ton of attitude, the guitar-wielding bard is the second hero class to be introduced in the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion for World of Warcraft.

"Mosh Pit," which briefly boosts the group’s movement speed while its members stay within range.

Chance on hit: Unleash a killer riff that blows your target’s mind.
"This one goes to eleven."

Hah! The Shoegazer attack. I knew it!

and

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announces its long-awaited return to console gaming with World of Warcraft: The Molten Core

World of Warcraft: The Molten Core will include single-player and multiplayer versions, fully loaded with nine different shapes (and possibly colors) representing the current World of Warcraft character classes.

Helvetica Serif

Helvetica Serif: "FontFont have announced that they are to release Helvetica Serif, following the discovery of drawing of that typeface by Max Miedinger. The sketches which were discovered by Miedinger’s granddaughter have been redrawn to create the digital version shown above."

Oh! Now that's the way that's it done. Tradition!

Changes at the World’s Top Company Cafeteria � Food Gal

Changes at the World’s Top Company Cafeteria: "Yes, that would be at Google in Mountain View.

Executive Chef Josef Desimone is jumping ship to become Facebook’s very first executive chef."

Whoa, they're even running off with the chefs.

Super Pii Pii Brothers

ThinkGeek :: Super Pii Pii Brothers: "Prepare yourself by strapping on the included belt harness and jacking in your Wiimote. A series of toilets are presented on screen and the challenge is to tilt your body to control a never-ending stream of pee. Get as much pee in the toilets as you can while spilling as little on the floor as possible. Sounds easy eh? Well the toilets open and close whack-a-mole style and occasionally the stray cat or other cute critter pops up. Spray a cat for extra points. Get too much pee on the ground and your game is over."

Oh! We so need one at my local! And a sign that says "You must be this level to use the restroom".

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Colorwars Bloat!

greader x/154

As cool as Treads is, greader doesn't tell you anything about your feed state or aging. 1000+? Oh, thanks. That's just great.

ProBlogger Launches PayPerTweet

ProBlogger Launches PayPerTweet: "Opportunities will exist in the coming weeks for our ‘ReTweet’ program whereby Twitter users help messages to go viral for advertisers by joining together to ReTweet the paid Tweets of others."

Next up, Micropayments!

Heard the one about the Twitter Business Plan?

Meetingboarding

Mitch Kapor’s Blog: "Meetingboarding: (n) the sensation of being unable to breathe arising from continuous immersion in meeting after meeting"

10 Downing Street Busts Out

10 Downing Street website: "10 Downing Street - the historic office and home of the British Prime Minister"

Busted out with accounts on Twitter Flickr and YouTube

Tried Out FriendFeed's Imaginary Friend, DowningSt

tribe.net falls in

Whoa, LJ may have some ownership issues, but, it looks like tribe lost all of their clues.

Deleting the Brainstorm tribe: "I have been pondering deleting the Brainstorm tribe over the past few weeks. I spend a lot more of my time on the Gold Star tribe, and they drive new development a lot better than this tribe."

Gold Star Club: Tribe for Premium Subscribers of tribe net. Questions pertaining to memberships can be posted

"Tribe was one of the early SNs to support and produce FOAF. The founders left. An aggregator appeared that read that data and republished it. Tribe members got upset about their data appearing elsewhere on the web. The Tribe developers decided to deal with the storm by simply removing the code."

Voidstar - Tribe.net Drop FOAF

Anti-emo pogroms rage throughout Mexico

Anti-emo pogroms rage throughout Mexico - Boing Boing: "the violence began March 7, when an estimated 800 young people poured into the Mexican city of Queretaro’s main plaza “hunting” for emo kids to pummel. Then the following weekend similar violence occurred in Mexico City at the Glorieta de Insurgents, a central gathering space for emos."

Huh, Punks vs. Skinheads lives again. Looks like a dash of organization via tech and/or social networking. "Putting the Mob back in FlashMob"

Facebook Now Recommends Friends

Facebook Now Recommends Friends: "Facebook has quietly rolled out a new feature that suggests “people you may know.”"

Ack! People People everywhere but not a friend in sight. Needs a 'Go away!' button ...

Color Wars

Color Wars 2008: "3 You must be in your team uniform (do your best)."

beerteam need to post images in team colors (holding a beer).

TeamRAWR just throw your sign up in front of your cat & snap the shot.

teamoctarine should wear a pointy hat.


rainbowteam is giving people titles like "Our Director of Chromatic Branding & Vertical Arc Integration Operations."

TeamRAWR: hey @nakedteam - happy BUNday!

plaidteam has an avatar maker

PussyPinkTeam has a group flickr account

A couple more teams:

Team Falk
team awesome
TeamLeetGeeks


Fun icons and results at the Flickr colorwar tag

Love the cat on the meat team ... Meaty Samantha 3

Huh, guess Color War is a summer camp tradition.

Color Wars

Color Wars 2008

Buh? First war is RoShamBo via Flickr tags? Seems odd to have to go to another service. Although the Team Uniform bit is funny.

first colorwar game: rule #3: "You must be in your team uniform (do your best)." ... Easy for us!

Naked Team

Guess Meat Team could do the same ...

That child was so ugly, they had to put a pork chop around his neck to get the dog to play with him

Meat Ning

Dunno what Invisoteam is going to do ...

Khan Rocks

Mashable went green.

Evil Team
Losing Team
Team Doom
Beer Team

Where is Team Venture?

ColorWars

Color Wars!

A good way to follow the action is to watch one of the captains 'with friends'
Color Wars
Team Team

In All Teams has a great All Team background.

Black Watch Team
Bacon Team
0xBADA55
Rainbow Team
Team Monochrome
Invisoteam
doorhingeteam

Team Coffee dropped a page of backgrounds and icon boarders.

Chartreuse Team has a page linking to facebook and flickr groups.

The Black Team has a page linking to a cafepress store and a flickr group

Member:

Team Octarine

Twitter Teams

Twitter Teams | Jangro.com: "Out of the blue (no pun intended, you’ll see), Ze Frank declared that he was on the “Blue Team”. No explanation, he changed his picture to contain a blue team badge on the bottom, talked it up a bit, and that was it, @blueteam is born.

Now different colored teams have popped up."

@ZeFrank tweets the Blue Team. Blogs about color wars and cuts the domain Color War 2008.

Looks like there's a team controller ColorWars and a team member aggregator

Team Tartan has a blog.
Team Clear has a Wiki.
Plaid Team is using hashtags and has a Facebook Group.

Favs

The A Team
NoTeam
TeamRAWR

Member

Team Booze
Team Coffee
Team Meat

FriendFeedFeed

FriendFeedFeed: "Aggregate all your social networking aggregator feeds into one aggregated feed of aggregator activity feeds!"

Yea!

The PointCast Logo cracked me up!

'Major League Eating: The Game'

'Major League Eating: The Game' Coming Soon for the Nintendo Wii: "Soon you'll be able to channel your inner Joey Chestnut or Takeru Kobayashi by playing Major League Eating: The Game for the Nintendo Wii. Mastiff, the game's publisher, has announced that it will be released on the Wii on May 12 in North America as a downloadable WiiWare title, for one or two players, with the killer feature of online play and leaderboards.

The game will make 'extensive' use of the Wii Remote to 'simulate a variety of eating techniques including the cram, toss, and 'typewriter.' Burp-offs and Hot Potato challenges during the contests keep the competition intense and eaters on their toes.'"

Oh! Want.

Ah! The International Federation of Competitive Eating has a feed!

Snarf!

Iron Chef Boyardee

Iron Chef Boyardee: "Iron Chef America is more bogus than even I had imagined. ... The choice of Iron Chef had clearly been made much earlier, because two of the Iron Chefs standing on the pedestals in roiling clouds of fog were out-and-out imposters."

A fun spectator rant. The long shots of the three (three, not four, and not five) Iron Chefs has always bugged me ...

And, in other Food Frenzy news, Top Chef foie-hawks

AdFreak: Poker-faced Enzyte maker caught bluffing

AdFreak: Poker-faced Enzyte maker caught bluffing: "The man behind Enzyte is facing more than 20 years in prison and millions in forfeited revenue after a federal jury found him guilty Friday of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, bank fraud and money laundering.

Prosecutors claimed customers were bilked out of $100 million through a series of deceptive ads, manipulated credit card transactions and the company's refusal to accept returns or cancel orders.” Steve Warshak, the founder and president of Enzyte distributor Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, was convicted along with his mother."

Huh, I could swear that I was still seeing commercials. Maybe they were long-running pre-pays or maybe I'm watching really old dvr shows ...

Forumwarz

Forumwarz - Spoilerpedia - Main Page: "Forumwarz is the first 'Massively Single-Player' online RPG completely built around Internet culture."

A role-playing game so epic you will never again leave your mom's basement!

When you enter a forum, a Toolbar will be placed on the bottom of your screen. It is your primary battle interface.

Your Toolbar displays your Ego and Secondary Attribute on the right-hand side. Keep an eye on them, because if your Ego runs out you will die!

David Allen

I’d say enough coffee, enough alcohol, enough humor and you can handle anything.

David Allen

The Battle for Craft Beer

The Battle for Craft Beer: "Home-brewing is currently illegal in Alabama. A brewpub can only operate in a historical building situated in a county that sold alcohol pre-Prohibition. You can be fined for bringing two cases of beer into dry counties. And most problematic for craft-suds fiends like Carter, Alabama (along with Mississippi and West Virginia) prohibits the sale of beer that’s higher than 6 percent alcohol by volume (5 percent alcohol by weight)—just a bit stronger than a Budweiser (which has 5 percent ABV)."

Whoa, I knew that there were goofy laws on the books, state liquor stores, dry sundays, and the ilk. But, capping beer alcohol percent is cruel and quite odd.

Bloglines Suffers Major Outage

Bloglines Suffers Major Outage: "RSS reader Bloglines has suffered a major outage over the weekend with the service simply ceasing to update any blogs from just before midnight PST February 24.

Bloglines users are not happy with the outage, with some already signing up for other services, and other comments including such as “Remember when they at least showed the plumber?”"

Awww, drat. And here I thought that I caught up all by myself. Sheesh, they still haven't posted to the bloglines blog.

Ditto for assetbar

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50/850 feeds bloglines
540/168, 2 friends greader
/50 feeds, 0/6 friends assetbar, mostly greader shares

and, wow, does greader do the epic fail with just a few hundred feeds

Living Card Games

Fantasy Flight launches “Living Card Games”: "a new sales model for A Game of Thrones and Call of Cthulhu collectible card games. Both games will fall under the new banner of the “Living Card Game,” or LCG. The LCG format will feature starter boxes with a large assortment of cards. Rather than traditional random blind booster pack releases three or four times per year, an LCG will have monthly releases all year round. Every month, FFG will produce a new pack containing 40 fixed cards for $9.95 – one each of

10 cards, and three each of another 10 – allowing the game to grow and evolve, yet letting new players easily join in down the line."

Odd format, but certainly better than Tragic: the Addiction's brain dumps of 250+ cards, some of which were obviously broken (Umezawa’s Jitte, Fact or Fiction, Gifts Ungiven). I'm certainly in for a couple of cycles ...

O Noes!

Parrot 0.5.2 "P.e. nipalensis" Released - parrotcode: "Parrot now has a LOLCODE implementation! Not an 'enterprise-class' computing language, you say? We don't expect anyone to use it for their next app, but at less than 500 lines of source code (and most of that in a subset of Perl 6), it demonstrates the power of the Parrot Compiler Toolkit. See http://lolcode.com/news/i-haz-a-parrot

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"?
 AWSUM THX
  VISIBLE FILE
 O NOES
  INVISIBLE "ERROR!"
KTHXBYE

filezorz

Wordz Fail.

Golden Clog Awards

Eater SF: SobeWire: Live-Blogging the 2008 Golden Clog Awards: "THE ALTON For being on Food Network and yet, somehow managing to Not Suck"

heh, some goodly bits from The Bourdain and The Ruhlman.

Every child in school numbered for life

Every child in school numbered for life - Times Online: "The new database will be known as MIAP (managing Information Across Partners). To be registered on the new database every 14-year-old will be issued with a unique learner number. The ULN will be used by government agencies to track individuals until they retire. Ultimately, it will create a numbered database for every citizen aged 14-plus in the UK."

I feel safer already!

Adactio: Journal—Foo fighting

Adactio: Journal—Foo fighting: "My subject was the password anti-pattern. Brave representatives from Facebook, Plaxo, Twitter, LinkedIn, Dopplr and Pownce showed up to be named and shamed (though most of the shame was reserved for Google in not providing an API for contacts). I can’t talk too much about some of the things that were said but it was by turns frustrating, exhilarating, inspiring and depressing."

Nice that someone's out there swingin'.

Ben 10 Turns 15 As Cartoon Network Fave Targets Tweens

When the new show, Ben 10: Alien Force, premiers this spring, Ben will be 15 years old. The 10 in his name refers to the number of new aliens Ben can transform into when using the “Omnitrix.

With Ben now an adolescent, merchandising can now include remote control vehicles, electronics and other categories, which wouldn’t have made sense tying in with a tween character.

This is one of the first times a show at the height of its popularity is aging its lead character.

Ben 10 Turns 15 As Cartoon Network Fave Targets Tweens

Aging a character makes sense, but, somehow offends my TV-given sensibilities. The pitch must have been funny, "just think of the advertising!'

Yahoo! oneConnect

Yahoo! oneConnect will be the first mobile product with an open architecture that aggregates communications tools - email, instant messaging (IM), text messaging (SMS), and social networks.

Give consumers the capability to view their contacts by their most recent status updates on popular social networks, as well as update their own status on their favorite social networks.

Yahoo! oneConnect

Whoa, a mobile social Aggregator. That should leave a dent in the market, but, it seems like a weird one-off. Sure is ugly.

Haiku/BeOS

Haiku brings back those BeOS glory days - Engadget: "open source replacement for the gone-but-not-forgotten BeOS of yore is maturing nicely,"

Haiku is an open-source operating system currently in development designed from the ground up for desktop computing. Inspired by the BeOS,

http://www.haiku-os.org/

Textonyms

A new language is being developed by mobile phone-addicted kids based on the predictive text of their treasured handsets.

Key words are replaced by the first alternative that comes up on a mobile phone using predictive text -- changing 'cool' into 'book', 'awake' into 'cycle', 'beer' into adds', 'pub' into 'sub' and 'barmaid' into 'carnage'.

The replacement words -- technically paragrams, but commonly known as textonyms, adaptonyms or cellodromes -- are becoming part of regular teen banter."

Textonyms give mobile phone addicts a new language�


Textonyms! Cellodromes! Swoon!

Nip Joints

Nip Joints: "Nip joints, also known as shot houses, are unlicensed establishments (usually private residences) where alcoholic beverages are sold by the drink for both on-and off-premise consumption. Beverages of all types are sold, including illegally produced moonshine."

Huh, sort of like Underground Restaurants for booze. A shame that they didn't continue with the words Speakeasy, Smokeasy and go with Shoteasy.

Tweetmeme

Tweetmeme: "Thus tweetmeme was born, put simply it watches what is going on within twitter and picks up anyone posting links to content. We then track how many other mentions of the same content are made (and how influential they are.) and present them in a simple format."

Woe, three more feed buckets. Nice idea which doesn't seem to be yielding much other than itself ...

FriendFeed

FriendFeed: "Does one of your friends Twitter way too often? Is the long discussion about bacon-flavored cookies getting old? Now you can easily hide individual services from people you are subscribed to, mute individual discussions, and a whole lot more by clicking the 'Options' link under an entry in your feed"

Perfect! One less copy of the tweet. FriendFeed is quickly becoming the best at the morass of lifestream aggregators, comment anywhere weirdnesses, and it'll even toss stuff into your feed with a bookmarklet.

ashton @ FriendFeed

Martian Fluxx

Shown here is a collage made up of some of the Keepers you'll find in the Martian Fluxx: Mars, the Mothership, the Flying Saucer, the Tripod, the City, the Cow, the Ray Gun, the Space Suit, and the Tentacle.

In Martian Fluxx, the players are invaders from Mars, and the Creepers are those pesky Pathetic Humans who are always getting in our way, keeping us from winning. Cows of course are Keepers because for Humans and Martians alike, they're good eating. There are actually two Cow Keepers in the game; if you have them both you can win with the Goal 'Two All-Beef Earthlings.'

The idea of making us the Martians came about as I realized the Martians are the ones who get all the cool stuff!

Wunderland

Yay! Martians and Zombies! Fluxx Roxx!

Yelp: Events

San Francisco Events, Concerts, Film, Nightlife, Festivals & More | Yelp

Buh? Events in Yelp? No rss feed. Not very well integrated with the rest of the site. Oh, well, not like I need another event system.

Few crying into beers at decline of big six breweries

Few crying into beers at decline of big six breweries: "Many of the great names of British brewing have downed their final pints and headed for the exit.

Once there was Bass Charrington, Allied Breweries, Whitbread, Courage Imperial, and Watneys. Scottish & Newcastle was yesterday added to that list of once-mighty brewers.

Who will mourn the passing of the so-called “Big Six”? Not the British pub-goer who long ago signalled indifference to the brewers’ product. New generations, led by women, demanded something else – and got it in the form of lagers, wine, soft drinks, alcopops, cocktails, spirits and Babycham."

Sigh, the Multinationals just keep killing them and giving us Zima.

Blue Bottle Coffee

Blue Bottle Coffee opens in Mint Plaza!

Professionals have long been willing to pay prices in the five figures for the perfect espresso machine, but the siphon bar does not make espresso. It makes brewed coffee, as does another high-end coffee maker, the $11,000 Clover, which makes one cup at a time. Together, they signal the resurgence of brewing among the most obsessive coffee enthusiasts.

New York Times

Wasn't much local coverage, which let me to TheShot. New Feed!

"“Blue Bottle was way cooler when you could drink espresso shots made by a tattooed slacker over a sewer cover in a back alley,”"

Trip Report: Blue Bottle Cafe @ Mint Plaza � Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com

Also: Flickr: Photos from bluebottlemintplaza

What’s a Troubadour to Do?

Brand Autopsy: "Why give away her recorded music for free? As mentioned, a CD or an MP3 file is essentially a direct mail piece to get someone to buy a concert ticket. If indeed a musician can make more money from selling tickets to a live show, shouldn’t they market themselves to sell tickets and not CDs?"

Free mp3s and more concerts sounds like a great result from the major labels flailing about.

Delicious Integrated Into Yahoo Search Results

Delicious Integrated Into Yahoo Search Results: "Yahoo is testing the integration of Delicious user generated bookmarks into Yahoo search results pages (Yahoo acquired Delicious in late 2005)."

Nicely integrated searches. One less search engine in the old browser!

Blogger as OpenID provider

Blogger as OpenID provider: "As we hinted before, we’ve been working on making Blogger an OpenID provider. With our latest Blogger in Draft release, we’ve done just that. You can now use your blog’s URL as an OpenID URL on any website that accepts OpenID 1.1 authentication."

Yay! I've been using this dumb dump blog as a landing page for years. Perfect to use it as a login for the many places that point here ...

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The Forbes Fictional 15

He’s mysterious, he’s innovative, he’s probably a little insane, and he’s rich. According to Forbes Magazine, Mr. Willy Wonka is currently the 13th richest fictional character in the universe, ranking just above Lucius Malfoy. Take that, Slytherin!

Willy Wonka: Billionaire

Check the The Forbes Fictional 15 for more, including Ming!

Free Bothel Visits Webcast

Big Sister is marrying 21st-century technology with the world's oldest profession to profit from the public's appetite for ever-more graphic reality TV. Every move is recorded by more than 50 video cameras mounted everywhere from the toilets to the bed posts.

At Big Sister, about a dozen guests perform on camera each night, and the Web site gets 10,000 to 15,000 hits a day.

Bloomberg

Ack! Even more Reality? Sheesh, Cyborgs R Us.

A new McBrew threatens Starbucks

Yet in its efforts to expand and attract less affluent customers over the past couple of years, Starbucks has started to become more like McDonald's -- even as McDonald's, for its part, has been moving upmarket to become more like Starbucks.

Last year Starbucks' share-price fell by 42 percent, making it one of the worst performers on the NASDAQ exchange."

McDonald's has already made smaller forays into the coffee market, and with some success. Last year Consumer Reports, a trade magazine, rated its filter coffee more highly than that offered by Starbucks.

A new McBrew threatens Starbucks

Sheesh, good McCoffee? Next, Starbucks will have food and then it won't even matter what grey water we drink. Oh, they already did?

With friends like these ...

Clearly, Facebook is another uber-capitalist experiment: can you make money out of friendship?

Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?

With friends like these ...

True That. Although the pubs around here are full of ubergeeks.

Startup Schwag

Startup Schwag: is a web2.0 startup schwag tshirt of the month club. It’s based on a simple, wonderful idea recently abandoned by RubyRed Labs in San Francisco: Valley Schwag. They shipped Silicon Valley schwag to subscribers every month."

A Barnacle Startup? Are the shirts stamped 'beta'? Certainly a sign of Bust 2.0 ...

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FriendFeed Blog: See popular items from your friends-of-friends

As of today, you will start seeing your friends' comments and "likes" in your own feed.

FriendFeed Blog: See popular items from your friends-of-friends

Ah, a friendly feed. The social feed got three sizes larger that day ...

Why CondeNet Is Banking on Facebook

Why CondeNet Is Banking on Facebook: "Flip.com launched in February as CondeNet's effort to target teen girls with an ambitious social media site. Less than a year later, the digital arm of Conde Nast is reversing course to embrace a distributed media strategy and converting the destination site into a series of applications that will live on social networks, starting with Facebook."

Funny, I didn't figure that flip.com would fly. "Hey, this site would make a great widget".

Ten Reasons We're Doomed: CES Edition

it might look like it's all product announcements and good times, but that's far from the truth. In reality, it's a vile clusterfuck of nerds, sluts and suits; a deadly combo.

1. Booth Babes
Are we such simple people? Are we so easy to manipulate that all it takes for us to decide that a product is worth writing about or purchasing are some out-of-work strippers in skimpy outfits handing out 64MB thumb drives? Yes!

2. Gimmicky Booths
Cheesy fake game shows? Yes, that'll make me take your company seriously. Magicians? Wow, I am optimistic about your company's potential in the CE marketplace.

Ten Reasons We're Doomed: CES Edition

Oh, yea! Almost makes me want to wander the floor of Macworld with a clipboard and a TV-B-Gone.

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187/817.

A couple of nights out will do that ...

And yea old greader is stuck at 1000+.

FindMeOn.com : Intellectual Property Announcement

FindMeOn.com Blog: "As one-of the earliest, if not the first, entity dedicated to Social Network Portability, FindMeOn.com pioneered many of the systems, methods, and techniques now common to online identity indexing, standardizing, searching and porting."

Oh, great. In the deadpool and evil to boot. They should at least get the service up if they want to dibs on the obvious.

Strip clubs | The Texas pole tax

Strip clubs | The Texas pole tax | Economist.com: "On January 1st the state's strip clubs began imposing a $5 surcharge for each visitor. The “pole tax,” as it is commonly called, is expected to bring the state an additional $40m in revenue each year."

Ah, I'm afraid that these words have been altered forever for me ...

Facebook Profile

Facebook Profile: "this tool will give users the option to move extra profile boxes to an “extended portion” of their profile. Users can choose to move these boxes; we will recommend that they keep the Friends Box, Mini-Feed, Wall, Basic and Personal Information as well as the top 12 application boxes they have added. At the bottom of the profile will then be a link to “Show Extended Profile”. Any user will be able to expand the profile at any point in time to see all the applications a user has added to their profile."

Whoa, a nice piece of ajaxy goodness. A big yellow 'move stuff' banner turns into a box with recommended moves checked, then the profile rearranges without repainting. No choice to drop the wall into the extended bit, though. Wall seems like an old bit of MySpace lingering on.

Twitter Jobs

Twitter Jobs: "Twitter is seeking a Business Development Manager who is focused on bringing Twitter's potential to mobile and IM operators the world over. You'll be tasked with building and maintaining strategic partner relationships and dedicated to producing results in the form of cost-reduction, localized promotion, and revenue."

Ah! There's a bit about that revenue stream that everyone was going on about a few weeks ago. Never saw anything that came out of the chatter ...

Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES

Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES: "CES has no shortage of displays. And when MAKE offered us some TV-B-Gone clickers to bring to the show, we pretty much couldn't help ourselves. We shut off a TV. And then another. And then a wall of TVs. And we just couldn't stop."

video

So much fun! And here I only turn off the bellowing at sports bars ...

Nick Bradbury: Feed Overload? Hit the Panic Button!

Nick Bradbury: Feed Overload? Hit the Panic Button!: "The 'panic button' in this case is a feature I've added to the next pre-release of FeedDemon 2.6. FeedDemon will automatically detect when you've got a ton of unread items, and then offer to mark them (or a subset of them) as read."

Oh! Nice. I need several of those! I would be great if Google Reader trends would do that and even suggest feeds to drop.

A Taste for Brews That Go to Extremes - New York Times

Many beer lovers are aghast at the creative liberties American brewers are taking with traditional styles, feeling that the bigger-is-better principle is reducing American brewing to the equivalent of a frat party.

To judge for ourselves whether these transgressive beers were simply stretching boundaries in creative ways or were the doomed siblings of cars with tail fins, the tasting panel sampled 25 examples, all from American brewers.

Phil likened the appeal of these beers to the macho allure of hot sauces, which almost dare enthusiasts to try the hottest ones.

A Taste for Brews That Go to Extremes - New York Times

Nice! I'll take my Pliny young, please! Odd selection of beers, guess I'm just spoiled with all of the west coast hop bombs ...

Knights of Moleskine, Spirit and Ale

Knights of Moleskine, Spirit and Ale: "the Knights of Moleskine, Spirit and Ale are dedicated to Journaling, Drinking Good Beer and a Spirtual Way of Life. 'Libertas de Juditium. Unitas per Variantia.'"

Whoa, alternate universe. A beer Moleskine mashup?

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0/803. And they said that it couldn't be done ...

klostu.com

About us - klostu.com: "A Klostu account is also a powerful unified identity which can be used to automatically signup and login effortlessly to any board"

Sheesh, and here that I though that last year was "get out of beta free". I was beta begging for 'super early beta invites' last year around this time.

10 things I hate about your social network

I don’t want to give you my photos. I already have them at flickr. Let me stream them in, avatar and all.
I don’t want to post anything on your wall. It’s lame - I do my blurting at twitter. And pownce.
I don’t want another blog. One and a half is plenty.

It’s time to make the portable bits portable. Focus on people vs users. Presence vs profiles.

Aaron Mentele, Charisma 18 » 10 things I hate about your social network

Heh! Just so. One day they will learn to play well together. They probably just need a time-out ...

Not as punchy as my usual YASN 'about me'.

Why can't social networking sites bother to network with one-another?
Are they that anti-social?

http://hownottoblog.com/index.php/2005/03/18/ (domain gone)

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5/807!

Dragged some noise (like the BART feed, which is useless) and some postless wonders to the delete folder. We'll see if they fall out ...

XING: Update: No Online Ads On Premium Members’ Profiles

XING: Update: No Online Ads On Premium Members’ Profiles: "Premium Members are exempt from all advertising on the XING platform – both in terms of their own profile page and their general user experience on the XING platform. Basic members will continue to see ad banners on their start page, on profiles of other basic members, the search and search results pages, and other parts of the platform."

Oh! Another goes ad or pay. Livejournal seemed to do well with that model, sort of doubt that Tribe will make a go of it ...

What This Gadget Can Do Is Up to You

What This Gadget Can Do Is Up to You: "Neuros Technology International, based in Chicago, is providing full documentation of the hardware platform for its recorder, the Neuros OSD (for open source device), so that skilled users can customize or “hack” the device — and then pass along the improvements to others.

Because the OSD saves the recordings in the popular compressed video format MPEG-4, the programs can be watched on a host of devices, including iPods and smartphones.

The OSD has not only open hardware, but also open software: it is based on the Linux operating system."

Nice! They certainly got the jump on Android for TV

social-network-anti-patterns

social-network-anti-patterns: "Since so many sites seem to use your uploading of your address book as tacit/implied permission to spam all your friends with invites, this will annoy your friends, and make you look foolish."

Ah, quechup! That's what it's called. It gives a flavor to bacn and spam.

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5/819

singlism

singlism - Double-Tongued Dictionary: "This notion that you can live a full and completely happy life as a single person is so underrecognized that people who feel that way are reluctant to say so"

Singlism is very bit as ugly a word as Quirkyalone. Come on people, put your heads apart and work that OED!

"obiticide"

"obiticide" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary: "the Star did in fact kill a couple of well-known people by mistake, a practice known as “obiticide,” or death by media"

FriendFeed - Account Settings

To make it possible for you to subscribe to your personalized FriendFeed in feed readers, iGoogle, and a number of external sites, we generate a secret key for every user that lets those products get a read-only view of your FriendFeed without knowing your password.

FriendFeed - Account Settings

Ah, and another fine idea.

ashton @ friendfeed

Jaiku

Jaiku's main goal is to bring people closer together by enabling them to share their activity streams.

Jaiku | About Jaiku


Oh! You can subscribe to people and then drop specific feeds. Instead of seeing the twitter and then the copies from pownce, friendfeed, facebook, jaiku, and YAPresence. Now I can see one less! What's a word for an item that you see multiple times in various feeds? It's certainly going to get worse downstream from Google Reader ...

Per account api keys is something that every service should do.

ashnod @ jaiku

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90/817.

Oh! The paywall for Adweek and Brandweek seem to be gone. Yay! More feeds.

14 American Apparel Models Freed In Daring Midnight Raid

14 American Apparel Models Freed In Daring Midnight Raid: "Acting on information gathered from billboards, alternative weeklies, and Internet banner ads, an FBI strike team liberated 14 dazed, sallow, and undernourished American Apparel models in a raid on the controversial organization's downtown Los Angeles compound early Monday."

Perfect! Every once in a while I'm sitting on the Muni reading the Onion and when I reach the last page, I realize that I've been mooning the grandmother with the sleazy ad on the back page. copyranter's been all up in AA's business ... and we have yet another feed!

darkgate comic slurper

darkgate comic slurper: "The latest strips of your favourite web-comics slurped from the internet."

Best comix feed evar! You don't even have to create Yet Another Account, just pick 'um, grab your feed, and enojoy.

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89/814. It never stops!

Now, about that 1000+ over in greader ... I am enjoying Google Reader trends, though.

Facebook's "Secret Crush" malicious widget

Facebook's "Secret Crush" malicious widget: "Secret Crush appears so far to have infected about three million Facebook users."

'Secret Crush' malicious-code widget tells you someone has a 'Secret Crush' on you, and if you want to find out who it is, you first have to invite five friends to use it by using the Facebook invitation process,"

Instead, Lovet says, the application displays a small iFrame with a download link that will try to infect the user's computer with the Zango spyware software to serve up ads."

Nice! Overdue, I'd say. Facebook's got the viral ...

Who will be the next Open Source Public Enemy #1?

Who will be the next Open Source Public Enemy #1?: "The SCO Group was delisted by NASDAQ. It was the latest bump down for SCO, best-known in recent years for claiming it owned Linux"

Sheesh, I'd forgotten all about sco. Good riddance.

Facebook | US Politics

Facebook | US Politics

ABC / Facebook / Politics. I certainly didn't see that coming. They're even getting good response numbers.

Haute Barnyard

Haute Barnyard - BuzzFeed: "for you foodies out there, it's the phrase that Adam Platt coined for restaurants that only serve food that's in season."

Funny. Surprised that the term so sticky, though. Especially with the food freaks who seem to have small humors, artfully arranged. I'd guess they'd go with "Seasonality" or "Freshies" or the ilk.

Facebook to Scoble: all your data belong to us

Facebook to Scoble: all your data belong to us: "intentionally or unintentionally, celebrity blogger Robert Scoble has put himself right at the center of the data portability issue, and at the same time is helping to expose the fascicle nature of Facebook’s claims of openness."

Great title! The blogging anthill was certainly overturned. For a while there you couldn't get a meme in slantwards. Turns out that Plaxo was scraping Facebook. Sheesh, it wasn't so long ago that Plaxo was spewing bacn. I'd certainly never trust them with any credentials. Seems overdue for a LOLSocial ... Plaxo, Fail!

Ah, luckily captured on this video of 50 hours of Techmeme in 50 seconds.

Airport profilers: They're watching your expressions

Airport profilers: They're watching your expressions:
TSA officials will not reveal specific behaviors identified by the program -- called SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Technique) -- that are considered indicators of possible terrorist intent.

"Ordinary people who are feeling anxious are 'much more open with their body movements and their facial expressions as compared to an operational terrorist (thinking) 'I've got to defeat security,' ' Maccario said. 'We're looking for behavior indicators that show a certain level of stress, fear or anxiety above and beyond that shown by an anxious member of the traveling public.'"

Avram Grumer draws a vivid parallel to Orwell's facecrime

Google Reader/Share

Updates from Your Gmail Contacts

Ah! Finally found shared stuff. It used to be on the same page as Google Reader - Shared, but, guess it found a new home when Profiles came along. Still finding it quite odd to have feeds in the reader via chat.

Google Reader - Ashub

Google Share - Ashub

Google New Year's Logo With Easter Egg

Google New Year's Logo With Easter Egg: "there’s a sort of easter egg hidden in the Google-colored confetti at the bottom of the logo. If you look closely, you will notice it reads SYN SYN/ ACK ACK"

Sweet. Plenty of Google Doodles to choose from!

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33/805. Keeping it down!