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nelson : URL Snooper - Shows you all the URLs you're downloading by sniffing packets
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nelson : 10 Minute Mail - Disposable address service; all ajaxy, very nice
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gleuschk : Michael Nielsen » Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted? - this is a really fantastic essay. pushes all my buttons
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gleuschk : honestly, who could be expected to make the right decision - and the rest of the distractions won't even fit
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Andy Baio : Shaun Inman releases Fever, an elegantly designed feedreader - PHP/MySQL app, it recommends stories in your feeds based on link popularity
Greg Storey : No matter how many times I asked, Shaun never gave me a access to Fever beta. - Despite his small error in judgement, Fever is awesome and will undoubtedly breathe new life into feeds.
Cameron Moll : Fever, a new feed reader from Shaun Inman - Fever°, a new feed reader from Shaun Inman, is "your slice of the web" mixed with Twitter Trending Topic-like personalization. "Fever reads your feeds and picks out the most frequently talked about links from a customizable time period. Unlike traditi
philgyford : Fever° Red hot. Well read. - Self-hosted, pay-for feed reader. Looks like a lovely interface and an interesting way of organising feeds and posts. (via Daring Fireball)
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Simon Willison : Opera Unite - Opera Unite. Opera’s big announcement: a developer preview (“labs release”) of their new web-server-in-your-browser feature, Unite. Includes an Opera-hosted proxy to help break through your firewall. The web server can be customised using server-s
Greg Storey : Opera Unite is here. - Downloading now. You should too.
Andy Baio : Opera Unite - web server hosted in the browser using Opera's proxy servers for a simple URL; file sharing seems the most useful
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deusx : It’s The Internet Stupid › A Comment on Notice of Inquiry, FCC GN Docket No. 09-51 - "There’s risk in confusing broadband and Internet. If the National Broadband Plan starts from the premise that the U.S. needs the innovation, increased productivity, new ideas and freedoms of expression that the Internet affords, then the Plan will
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27 days ago
Greg Storey : A long demonstration of Google Wave. - Uf-da!
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deusx : Sony Pictures CEO: The Internet Is Still Bad | Techdirt - "A week and a half ago, Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton made some news for saying that nothing good had come from the internet, period. Plenty of online sites (including ours) took him to task for that, wondering how one gets to be the CEO of a majo
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Greg Storey : Can you copyright a Tweet? - A response to Mark Cuban's post on the subject.
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Greg Storey : "Just because the economy is bad, it doesn't mean you have to be unhappy." - Go read Oliver's interview with Don Zeldman.
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1 month ago
deusx : Mozilla in one sentence « commonspace - "The Internet is the greatest development of our lifetimes. Mozilla exists to foster the Internet such that all people are able to realize its full benefit. We are a people-driven movement to protect choice and freedom on the Web. Join us!"
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2 month ago
nelson : Google's routing problem - Half the Internet was sad today when Google got slow. Sounds like they had a routing mishap.
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Eric Meyer : In defense of the low-fiber tweet - Damn right. So, so damn right.
Greg Storey : "I find no value in your 90% of your tweets." - Your first problem, Captain Dill Hole, is that you try to find value in tweets. Go fish.
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Greg Storey : "The Wisdom of Crowds theory does not mean that people are smart in groups—they're not. Anyone who's seen an angry mob knows it." - So true.
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Andy Baio : Dreamhost's history of WebRing - sold for $3.5 million to Geocities, vested to $100M in Yahoo stock by 2000, and bought back for $10,000
deusx : DreamHost Blog » They’re Internet History - "Back in 1998, who would have thought WebRing would outlast GeoCities?"
philgyford : DreamHost Blog " They're Internet History - More stuff about the history of GeoCities and WebRing. (via Waxy)
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deusx : Remote Revolution: Why Digital Natives Will Usher in the Remote Revolution - "As it has been mentioned before on this blog and will continue to be addressed, the single greatest hindrance for the remote revolution is simply tradition. With an influx of highly skilled information-ready workers who can present a compelling case
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Jeremy Zawodny : on url shorteners - on url shorteners: they are fail
nelson : URL shorteners bad - Thoughtful essay on how tinyurl, etc are bad for the Web
deusx : joshua's blog: on url shorteners - "So there are clear benefits for both the service (low cost of entry, potentially easy profit) and the linker (the quick rush of popularity). But URL shorteners are bad for the rest of us.I feel that shorteners are bad for the ecosystem as a whole. B
Andy Baio : Joshua Schachter on the dangers of URL shorteners - interesting that Archive Team is already working on crawling the TinyURL db
cobra libre : joshua schachter on url shorteners - Besides, there are plenty of services that are intended to be used for publicly pointing to links -- unlike Twitter. #
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Greg Storey : "People want to feel connected to each other." - To anyone who creates, print that out and put it on your wall.
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Greg Storey : Women over 55 are the fastest growing demographic on Facebook. - I bet it has a lot to do with baby photos.
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Greg Storey : Twouble with Twitters. - So funny because it's true.
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