May 2009
23 posts
May 29th
Breaking Bad News with Baby Animals →
May 27th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-24) →
Eric Clapton (15)  The Killers (9)  T.I. (6)  Röyksopp (5)  Paul Simon (4)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 25th
RunPee Will Tell You When to Leave to Pee in... →
May 20th
'Gossip Girl' Name-Checks Loopt →
Nice buzz for mobile social networking startup Loopt: The company got name-checked on last night’s “Gossip Girl” season finale, meaning hundreds of thousands (millions?) of its target…
May 19th
Facebook Supports OpenID for Automatic Login →
In continuing with our efforts toward greater openness, we are excited to announce that Facebook is now an OpenID relying party. We’ve been engaging with the OpenID community for a while now….
May 18th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-17) →
Gotye (12)  Kanye West (3)  DeVotchKa (2)  Eminem (2)  Bob Dylan (2)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 18th
May 18th
Twitter Decides We’re Not Smart Enough For... →
Twitter is officially getting dumbed down. For the second time in less than two months, Twitter has changed its @reply system, this time by removing an option that has existed for many months…
May 13th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-10) →
Jay-Z (12)  OutKast (5)  Cloud Cult (1)  Fujiya & Miyagi (1)  Dave Brubeck (1)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 11th
Did Mark Zuckerberg's Inspiration for Facebook... →
By now, we are all familiar with Mark Zuckerberg’s success story. The explosive international growth of Facebook to over 200 million users continues to land the young founder and CEO in top…
May 11th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-3) →
Tapes ‘n Tapes (34)  Lil’ Wayne (17)  Ghostface Killah (15)  Cloud Cult (15)  In the Heights (11)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 4th
The Real Reason Text Messages Are 160 Characters... →
I always thought text messages were limited to 160 measly characters because of some archaic pre-1970s technical standard. But apparently, it’s because some German dude thought 160 was…
May 4th
May 4th
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May 2nd
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The Social Web TV: from the Facebook Open Streams... →
Monday evening was historic, and the crew from The Social Web TV were there to participate and to record this epic moment in the evolution of the Internet. This special “highlights” episode is not…
May 1st
REMIX now ccFree →
The Bloomsbury Academic Press version of REMIX is now Creative Commons licensed. You can download the book on the Bloomsbury Academic page.
May 1st
See Wolfram Alpha in Action: Our Screenshots →
Shared by Jake Levine Semantic Powerhouse Last weekend, we attended a web demo of Wolfram Alpha, a new “computational knowledge engine” based on the work of Stephen Wolfram. Some have…
May 1st
The Wolfram Alpha Demo Returns, This Time With... →
Yesterday, days of hype culminated in the unveiling of the Wolfram Alpha search engine, which made its debut at a presentation put on by Harvard University’s Berkman Center….
May 1st
In 1942, The Washington Post Warned "Think Before... →
Disney exec explains Hulu deal [PaidContent] Diller: “We’d love to (have) Yahoo Personals” [PaidContent] In 1902, the Boston Globe described “Face Book The New Fad,” [NYT] In 1942,…
May 1st
Twitter Now Mainstream Enough To Be Basis For Lame... →
Shared by Jake Levine This is ridiculous Congratulations Twitter founders Ev, Biz, and Jack: You’ve made it far enough into the mainstream lexicon that companies are now spending good money to…
May 1st
My Google Profile →
Check out my new Google profile.
May 1st