Tribe deal

Mark Pincus Blog: Tribe deal: "tah Street Networks and New Systems Associates today entered into an operating agreement to manage Tribe.net (http://www.tribe.net), add competitive social networking features to the site, and revitalize the Tribe community.

New Systems Associates is an LLC formed by long-time Tribe members who believe in protecting and expanding Tribe's unique culture."

Huh, guess they're keeping the lights on. Doesn't seem like anyone's home, though. Guess the hive from Tribe is still kicking, as well ...

http://www.free-association.net/

Anti-pattern recognition

Adactio: Journal—Anti-pattern recognition: "Eager geeks rushed to sign up for the contact aggregation service. The second step of the process involved handing over your Twitter username and password. This request was dutifully obeyed by the eager geeks."

Sigh. Eager little geeks with Quechup all over their faces.

"Twitter often feels like being in an abusive relationship with a Fail Whale" - Jeremy Keith

Announcing LinkedIn Events

Announcing LinkedIn Events: "Now all LinkedIn users should be able to find events and conferences that are most suitable for your career based a combination of your professional network and information culled from your LinkedIn profile."

Oh! Geeze, there's an obvious one. Dunno why they waited for multiple news, module, and OpenSocial redesigns before springing it.

Change has come to America | Change.gov

Change has come to America | Change.gov: "Change.gov provides resources to better understand the transition process and the decisions being made as part of it."

The YouTube Presidency: "Today, President-elect Obama will record the weekly Democratic address not just on radio but also on video -- a first. The address, typically four minutes long, will be turned into a YouTube video and posted on Obama's transition site, Change.gov, once the radio address is made public on Saturday morning."

"Added Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation, a D.C.-based nonprofit that advocates for government transparency: "We're living, after all, in the Internet era. This is an individualized version of the 'fireside chats.' It's not delivered between 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. but whenever anyone wants to see it. I don't know if it necessarily creates transparency -- it's still a controlled, one-way message. But it creates the aura of a much more accessible presidency."

It's been fun to watch YouTube videos on network news. Broadcast media is starting to look as dated as newspapers.

Still no news on the appointment of the 12 disciples, though ...

Google robots.txt

http://google.com/robots.txt

User-agent: zombies
Disallow: /brains

Rick Astley to Perform at EMAs

Rick Astley to Perform at EMAs: "The Internet voters have spoken, and (surprise, surprise), it looks like Rick Astley is ahead in the polls for MTV Europe’s “Best Act Ever” award."

Buh? That's just not right ...

FriendFeed Blog: View your FriendFeed in real-time

FriendFeed Blog: View your FriendFeed in real-time: "In our new, experimental real-time view, comments and posts will appear at the top of your feed as quickly as they arrive. This is accomplished by a technique called long polling, where our server doesn't respond to your browser's request until there's something it wants to send."

Smooth scrolling updates and pop-out windows! Nice. More SortDurAttentionSuck.

Mother's Cookies abruptly shut down

Mother's Cookies abruptly shut down: "Mother's Cookies, an Oakland institution for 92 years, has been shuttered, its owner seeking bankruptcy protection for the company."

"Mother's later had a series of corporate owners: a Belgian company, Artal B.V., bought it in 1991; it was owned by Specialty Foods Corp. of Illinois in the late 1990s; in 2000, Specialty sold Mother's and Archway Cookies to Parmalat, which in turn sold the combined business to Catterton for an undisclosed sum."

Ohhh. No more waxen animal crackers with BBs on them? Shame about the Archway soft cookies with jam filling, though ...

Update: "Kellogg's announced it would acquire trademarks and recipes to the famous Circus Animal cookies, as well as the sandwich cookies and wire-cut cookies."

The beloved pink and white Circus Animal cookies are saved!

Hammer Films has risen from the grave

Hammer Films has risen from the grave: "Classic film fans lock up your daughters, take up your wooden stakes and prepare to battle the forces of darkness: Hammer Films has announced it s called action on its first horror production for over 30 years."

Yay! Steaks all around!

The Beer That Takes You Back . . . Millions of Years

The Beer That Takes You Back . . . Millions of Years: "The result is Fossil Fuels Brewing Co., which ferments a yeast strain Cano found in a piece of Burmese amber dating from about 25 million to 45 million years ago. The company -- in which Cano is a partner, along with another scientist and a lawyer -- introduced its pale ale and German wheat beer with a party last month at one of the two Bay Area pubs where Fossil Fuels is made and served.

It's been on tap for two years at Stumptown in Guerneville, Calif."

social notworking

Word Spy - social notworking: "social notworking pp. Surfing a social networking site instead of working."

Bloglines | My Feeds (3) (28)

18/1025 feeds

Hit the shiney Mark All Read button after not reading much for a couple of weeks ...

Compari Liqueur Will Make Coffee Hooch, Illyquore

Compari Liqueur Will Make Coffee Hooch, Illyquore: "Campari, the Italian liqueur company is blending with Illy to give you a better buzz two ways. Together, they will make a new coffee liqueur drink called Illyquore."

Humm, I see that Starbucks and Godiva are already in this nitch. Hope they keep some herbal bitter in the mix, otherwise it won't be good for much more than a bump in the x-tini, sex-on-the-x, and Aqualung family of spew.

On the other foot, maybe they'll spike interest and we'll get another entry in the beer family like Redhook Doubleblack Stout

Emily the Strange Film

Emily the Strange Film: "Counterculture icon Emily the Strange will soon star in a long-anticipated feature film, and Dark Horse Entertainment President Mike Richardson has signed on as the film’s produce"

Nice! If doomed ...

Hell's Kitchen The Game

Hell's Kitchen The Game: "Hell’s Kitchen is a US TV phenomenon as renowned Gordon Ramsay puts aspiring chefs through a rigorous culinary bootcamp. Experience the show's pressure-cooker atmosphere as you go through a series of kitchen and dining room challenges."

Those willing to fork up $19.99 can get the "uncensored" version with "language not suitable for all audiences

Buh? So many things wrong with this that the head spins.

Twitter Status - With friends tab and feeds

Twitter Status - With friends tab and feeds: "Recently we made a change to remove the With Friends tab from user profiles. We did this after finding out that this tab was both a relatively rarely accessed as well as computationally expensive page for us to serve. At the same time we removed access to the feeds for this page."

Doh! Loose your feed, loose your friends. Sheesh, do people actually use the UI and page back though messages?

Guess I'm getting my Twitter via a feed from http://friendfeed.com/?service=twitter

Plurk.com

Plurk.com storm on Twitter and Friendfeed ... may as well play along!

A couple of user lists

ashnod @ Plurk.com

The Facebook Blog | Facebook

The Facebook Blog | Facebook: "A recent place where we've been fighting the spam battle has been through sites that ask for a user's login information to use a contact importer, and then spam all of their friends. Right now, the sites that are asking for this information, and that we are blocking as a result, gain complete access and control over your account when you enter your login info—your photos, your private messages, and your friends."

Well, it's a good start for one of the super-powers to take issue with the practice. Even if they still have a Friend Finder begging for email passwords.

Papers Written by Googlers

Papers Written by Googlers: "Below is a partial list of publications by people after joining Google, organized by category."

Whoa, dunno how I missed this section. New Feed!

RSS Feed Mayhem

[scribkin] RSS Feed Mayhem: "A radical new plan was hatched that we both agreed to abide by, starting today. We would dump all our RSS feeds out of Google Reader and only add new feeds based on a set of rules:"

Whoa, Drastic. I've certainly got too many unsorted/ignored feeds and need to get some filing done. Some odd combination of grazr, toluu, shyftr I think ...