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| Friendfeed & Twitter |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 1:43 pm |
| Tags: Micromeme, Micromedia |
| As you know, I’m very active on twitter (my profile), if you haven’t already, read how I use Twitter. Yesterday, I lost 1000 followers, due to Twitter removing spammers “Twammers” most were bots that were publishing content to feed their websites or client sites –more from Cnet Yesterday, I was live tweeting the |
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| Portland goes Open Source |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 1:27 pm |
| Tags: Conferences |
| This week we're at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, OR. There are lots of great talks -- from how Google does code reviews to XMPP with Flickr and FireEagle to the state of OpenID. We're really excited about all the cool stuff that's going on. If you're at OSCON, we really hope you'll come and hang out at our booth to see |
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| Burg Theater Watch: Metropolitan Cinema & Apts. Rising Fast |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 1:22 pm |
| Tags: Brooklyn Williamsburg |
| We know all about the hype now surrounding the Brooklyn Bowl, but what about that other Big Burg Entertainment Thing, the Metropolitan Cinema & Apartments? They'd been stalled so long (partly by a Stop Work Order) that it looked like it was never going to happen, but the structure--which is an add-on to an existing one, has now hit five stories. |
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| Open Web Foundation Launches to Do the Dirty Work for Data Portability |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 1:19 pm |
| A new nonprofit organization called the Open Web Foundation is launching this morning with backing from some of the biggest companies on the web and the involvement of some of the web's most innovative individuals. Organized in as a decentralized community of developers, in the fashion of the Apache Software Foundation, the OWF will serve as a |
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| Neighborhood Watch: LES, Pre-Gold Rush: The benefit of Google's somewhat outdated... |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 1:12 pm |
| Tags: Manhattan Lower East Side, Quicklink |
| The benefit of Google's somewhat outdated satellite photos? Plotting all the ways the Lower East Side has changed in a very short period of time. [Bowery Boogie] |
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| AdMob Launches iPhone Ad Marketplace and Gives $1 Million in Ads to Developers |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 12:45 pm |
| Tags: News |
| Today, the mobile advertising marketplace AdMob released a new, global marketplace for iPhone ads. The most interesting aspect of this is that these ads will be specifically tailored to the iPhone and will also be highly interactive. To promote this launch and the new platform, AdMob is giving away a total of $1 million to iPhone developers to |
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| Here's Greenpoint With Micro Neighborhoods: Little Loftland |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 12:45 pm |
| Tags: Brooklyn Greenpoint |
| We can't say we've ever heard of Garbagetown or Sewagetown before, but the thoughts are certainly familiar ones, particularly for the fragrant area around the striking Newtown Creek sewage treatment plant. Little Loftland is nice, as are North Vinyl Siding and South Vinyl Siding, although being argumentative, New York Shitty prefers Vinyl Siding |
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| Jacobi Jayne & Co |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 12:44 pm |
| Tags: Recreation Leisure, Conservation |
| Site URL: http://www.jacobijayne.co.uk |
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| Top Chef Into 20 Bayard?: Were those production assistants for Top... |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 12:31 pm |
| Tags: Quicklink |
| Were those production assistants for Top Chef bringing cameras and equipment into 20 Bayard on Karl Fischer Row the other day? Well, a sign in one of their vans said "Magical Elves," which is a production company works for Bravo and contestants have been spotted around town. All that one of the assistants bringing stuff into 20 Bayard would say, |
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| The Final Days of DRM: Yahoo Music Store Closing, Will Eat Your Purchased Music |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 12:25 pm |
| Tags: Music |
| Digital Rights Management technology is dying, it's becoming understood that hobbling tunes to enforce scarcity isn't the best way to monetize the music business online. What about all the suckers who bought DRM laden music in recent years, though? When the Yahoo! Music Store closes its doors this fall, the company announced today, past |
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| Purchase Building Destructoporn: The Purchase Building was an Art... |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 12:21 pm |
| Tags: Quicklink |
| The Purchase Building was an Art Deco-ish structure under the Brooklyn Bridge that no one had any interest in saving, and it's last act as it comes down is some destructoporn. It will become part of Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, a large open space under the bridge, possibly by the end of next year. [Brownstoner] |
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| World of World of Warcraft |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 12:15 pm |
| Tags: Funny |
| ‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’. Funny, and also an interesting thought. We want more realistic virtual experiences and I guess it will eventually come down to this. I bet I don’t have to explain what World of Warcraft is. |
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| Buildium.com - Online Property Management |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 12:14 pm |
| Tags: Web App Tools |
| What it doesBuildium is an online property management tool. It plays host to a complete suite of features; these include accounting records, tenant and payment tracking, online access for board members, electronic payments, online maintenance requests, and marketing. Users are able to organize and manage all their finances with separate books |
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| And Now, the Dessert Truck Wars: Does anyone else think the gourmet... |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 12:05 pm |
| Tags: Manhattan East Village, Quicklink |
| Does anyone else think the gourmet dessert truck scene is starting to mirror the Chinatown Bus Wars? At first, it was a "the more, the merrier" brand of capitalism exploiting an underserved niche. Now, overcrowding has resulted in small-scale turf wars, escalating to the point where dudes are shouting at each other outside Trader Joe's. How long |
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| Five Best Alternative File Managers [Hive Five] |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Hive Five, Feature, File Explorer, File Management, File Managers, Top |
| If you're any sort of power user, you've bumped up against the limitations of your operating system's default file manager on countless occasions. The fact is, for advanced file browsing and manipulation, sometimes the default applications—like Windows Explorer or Mac OS X Finder—just don't cut it. On Tuesday you shared your favorite |
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