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"Among other words that the New Oxford American Dictionary considered as candidates for the 2009 Word..."

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:21:23 -0800

“Among other words that the New Oxford American Dictionary considered as candidates for the 2009 Word of the Year was hashtag, which the Oxford folks define as a sign added to a word or phrase that enables Twitter users to search for tweets that contain similarly tagged items.”

- Facebook, Twitter add new words to dictionary - The Boston Globe

"Serendipity is becoming more and more important. You have to be able to find things you didn’t even..."

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:11:00 -0700

“Serendipity is becoming more and more important. You have to be able to find things you didn’t even know existed — it becomes more and more critical to your success. From my perspective, it’s more about serendipitous encounters with people, though, than information.”

- John Hagel, a well-known author and co-chairman of Deloitte & Touche USA’s Silicon Valley-based research center.

"The freemium model, with roots in Asia, is built on the concept of giving away games, then charging..."

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:59:29 -0700

“The freemium model, with roots in Asia, is built on the concept of giving away games, then charging players 25 cents to $10 to buy so-called virtual goods that enhance their gaming experience.”

- Really? Asia? No mention of 37Signals? “For social networks, it’s game on” - USATODAY.com

yaydarkness

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:05:41 -0700

yaydarkness

Consent to Use of Data.

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:57:51 -0700

You agree that Apple and its subsidiaries and agents may collect, maintain, process and use diagnostic, technical and related information, including but not limited to information about your computer, system and application software, and peripherals, that is gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, product support and other services to you (if any) related to the Apple Software, and to verify compliance with the terms of this License. Apple may use this information, as long as it is in a form that does not personally identify you, to improve our products or to provide services or technologies to you.

—From Apple’s software license agreement for Snow Leopard

"Streamnets are ad-hoc networks created by Spimes or other sensor based machines in order to..."

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:46:56 -0700

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Streamnets are ad-hoc networks created by Spimes or other sensor based machines in order to advertise their activity streams onto the Internet. These networks don’t need to be online all the time, don’t require high bandwidth, and will use any existing communications technology, most probably wireless through GSM or even other types of RF for shorter or longer distances.

Streamnets are not supposed to be two-way channels, but rather pipes where the machines will dispatch fire-and-forget information about their activities. At the other end of these pipes there will be activity stream aggregators, indexing, munching and filtering all information sent by the machines.

Occasionally, the machines will want to read information from the Streamnet. To do it, they’ll publish a request at an aggregator that will obtain the requested information. The machine keeps polling the aggregator at given intervals of time, until the information is finally available.

”

- Bruno Pedro on ”Streamnets”

marco writes: And, since very little of this is exciting enough...

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:00:16 -0700

marco writes:

And, since very little of this is exciting enough to justify an entire event, I’m assuming that the main focus of the event will be a new version of iTunes and new content accessibility, such as iPhone TV rentals.

But I’m thinking this event is all about Apple’s new media format, hinted at previously, that will allow for interesting new ways to both publish and consume music on Apple devices… so what about the devices? This time it’ll be about the content!

"The thing is that we don’t know what activities, are a waste of time until we waste some time..."

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:11:34 -0700

“The thing is that we don’t know what activities, are a waste of time until we waste some time pursuing them. Then there’s the converse when an apparent distraction turns out to be valuable. I thought Twitter was a simple distraction from more serious efforts when I first started. It turned out those more serious efforts were in fact the distraction.”

- Shel Israel, Does Multitasking impair real learning?

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Are we motivating the wrong behaviors?

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:07:44 -0700

Are we motivating the wrong behaviors?

from microsyntax [via @kathysierra]

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:27:32 -0700

from microsyntax [via @kathysierra]

How Hashtags are Remaking Conversations on Twitter - NYTimes.com

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:42:07 -0700

How Hashtags are Remaking Conversations on Twitter - NYTimes.com

staff: On taking over the world, and other things…

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:49:22 -0700

staff:

On taking over the world, and other things…

"Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would..."

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:10:09 -0700

“Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.”

- Thomas Jefferson, around the time when copyright was being conceived (via Dave Gray)

"The digital commonwealth reflects an understanding of the dynamics that have led to technology..."

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:29:05 -0700

“The digital commonwealth reflects an understanding of the dynamics that have led to technology successes like Google Maps, Facebook, Twitter, and the iPhone app store: the platform provider creates enabling technology, “rules of the road,” and visibility for participants, and then gets out of the way, leaving room for third parties to create additional value. This is a great model for all future government technology efforts.”

- Tim O’Reilly, Why Aneesh Chopra is a Great Choice for Federal CTO

nicholasscimeca: These are so crazy.

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:40:59 -0700

nicholasscimeca:

These are so crazy.

"Is this post an indictment about a lot of what I’ve said and written about why the social Web..."

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:33:06 -0700

“Is this post an indictment about a lot of what I’ve said and written about why the social Web is so powerful? A little bit, yeah. I’ve always been an optimist and some of the things I said at this two-day blogger retreat shocked me. Two years ago, I would have heartily agreed with Johnson’s rosy statements about the good in humanity. Not anymore. As I wrote in my book, the Web isn’t good or bad, it’s just a medium for channeling raw human nature. What I wrote about the Web wasn’t untrue— I just gave human nature too much credit.”

- Sarah Lacy on her decision to no longer use Twitter for personal communication: No More SarahLacy™

"[Lene Hau] and her team made a light pulse disappear from one cold cloud then retrieved it from..."

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:54:08 -0700

“[Lene Hau] and her team made a light pulse disappear from one cold cloud then retrieved it from another cloud nearby. In the process, light was converted into matter then back into light. For the first time in history, this gives science a way to control light with matter and vice versa.”

- Light and matter united

"That’s because the America you grew up in… was segregated."

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:42:44 -0700

“That’s because the America you grew up in… was segregated.”

- JON STEWART, responding to Sean Hannity saying that President Obama is “literally ripping apart the foundation of the America we knew and grew up in”, on The Daily Show (via inothernews) (via aodouls) (via explorers) (via kayrutledge)(via furrowedbrow) (via asprettyasasong) (via mikehudack)

"If you stare at your shoelaces while you walk, you’ll run into a tree. If you look too far off..."

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:36:50 -0700

“If you stare at your shoelaces while you walk, you’ll run into a tree. If you look too far off into the distance, you’ll trip on those shoelaces. And tie those shoelaces regardless!”

- via Gong Szeto