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I get the feeling last.fm will be just fine; what CBS have _really_ acquired is AudioScrobbler. That data’s worth a fortune.
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Tagged as:
conferences, me, reboot, reboot2007, reboot9, talks.
Reboot
Recent radio silence has mainly been down to last ditch preparation for Reboot. And this post itself is a bit of a placeholder – I’m about to leap on trains to take me to planes, so there’s little time to write.
I’ll be in Copenhagen from this afternoon until the weekend. Can’t wait for the conference – last year’s was awesome. I’ll also be speaking at the conference, about modern manners for the digital world. I think it could be interesting, but I’m quite nervous about it.
I’m on email and Twitter as ever. If you’re Rebooting: do say hello.
Update: Will be late to CPH; the flight is delayed. Boo, hiss. Hopefully I’ll make the pre-boot party, but it’ll be tight…
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Some good tips from Geoffrey Grosenbach
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“‘Facebook hasn’t told people they are now being exposed to third party applications,’ Roschke said. ‘They have made the general announcement, but there was no notice to me as to whether I wanted these settings.”
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Dave Winer++ : “As a system designer, I’d like to believe that Twitter or something like it will always be there. I’m not sure of that yet, but it seems we’re close.”
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Facebook’s new development platform looks fantastic – very rich, very unusual for its sector.
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What it says on the tin.
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The best products came from those odd teams that managed to compromise. The technology was clumsy and the emotional benefits of the software shaky. But it was better than the crap that customer had to put up with before.
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PdfCompress is a Mac OS X utility for reducing the size of PDF files.
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Pennypacker is a Firefox extension that enhances Penny Arcade with favourites and tagging.
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“Facebook has roughly 200 dedicated memcached servers in its production environment”. Blimey. 200 x 16GB is a LOT of cache. Still, 99% of hits go straight to cache – impressive!
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Tagged as:
api, behaviour, interaction, messaging, science, telescopes, twitter.
Twitter: a messaging bus for telescopes (and almost anything else you’d like to overhear)
One of the things that’s been making me happiest recently has been the fact that Jodrell Bank’s telescopes have been Twittering. These big machines, peering into the cosmos, chattering to themselves about where they’re currently pointed – and that chatter is overheard and reproduced on the web. Obligatory screengrab, in case Twitter is down:
It’s cute, and adds to the growing number of non-humans burbling away on Twitter. As I thought about this, it became clear that Twitter isn’t just “the status message turned into communication” (as I usually describe it), but a human-readable messaging bus. Continue reading this post…
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“SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, for reading RSS and Atom syndication feeds.” …and it’s not Magpie!
Links & notes for this month
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I get the feeling last.fm will be just fine; what CBS have _really_ acquired is AudioScrobbler. That data's worth a fortune.
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Some good tips from Geoffrey Grosenbach
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"‘Facebook hasn’t told people they are now being exposed to third party applications,’ Roschke said. ‘They have made the general announcement, but there was no notice to me as to whether I wanted these settings."
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Dave Winer++ : "As a system designer, I'd like to believe that Twitter or something like it will always be there. I'm not sure of that yet, but it seems we're close."
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Facebook's new development platform looks fantastic - very rich, very unusual for its sector.
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What it says on the tin.
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The best products came from those odd teams that managed to compromise. The technology was clumsy and the emotional benefits of the software shaky. But it was better than the crap that customer had to put up with before.
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PdfCompress is a Mac OS X utility for reducing the size of PDF files.
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Pennypacker is a Firefox extension that enhances Penny Arcade with favourites and tagging.
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"Facebook has roughly 200 dedicated memcached servers in its production environment". Blimey. 200 x 16GB is a LOT of cache. Still, 99% of hits go straight to cache - impressive!
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"SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, for reading RSS and Atom syndication feeds." ...and it's not Magpie!
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I think this has been updated. Worth bookmarking, anyhow.
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The Jodrell Bank telescopes are twittering what they're looking at. Beautiful. Devices talking to devices.
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will_paginate gets a nice big 2.0 update, but alters the API. This needs looking into, really.
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"the idea of a page has such a deeply rooted connotation in centuries of printed matter that Web novices tend to think of Web pages as simply finite blocks of text and images, with functionality and interactions as only superficial garnishes."
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Quite remarkable; alternate-history of SF as if it were all written by Chinese authors. Inventive, witty, deft.
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"I hate the term User Generated Content... I consider it a pejorative that reveals a lot about the person saying it. It makes members of your site feel like dutiful robots, crapping content that you convert into cash." Great article!
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