Stowe Boyd notes a post by Tim Kastelle describing a David Lazer talk: *Lazer asked how many people there were under 30 years old – about 40% of the people raised their hands. Then he asked how many of those people had a Land Line – and not one of them did. He repeated the exercise with people over 45, and about 2/3 of us still have a landline. (more)

Landmark Digital, makers of Shazam software, are threatening Roy Van Rijn over Patent infringement. (more)

Tele Phone that isn't Mobile.

part of California including San Francisco and Silicon Valley

Paul Saffo says the Bay Area should start acting like a City State. (more)

Zed Shaw has been working on Mongrel2, a complete redesign of the Mongrel Web Server to be an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server. It's written by the original author of Mongrel, and uses the Mongrel HTTP parser, but everything else is new. The goal is to create a web server specifically designed for web applications (WebApp-s) over serving files. (more)

Futurist? (more)

Commanding General, Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I) from January 26, 2007, to September 16, 2008.[1] As Commander of MNF-I, Petraeus oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq. (more)

Virtual Book Store. (more)

Open Social Networking Model. (more)

Google is releasing an App Inventor for Android. It seems like they're positioning it as Educational Technology to be coded by students and teachers. Is this closest to Scratch, HyperCard, VisualBasic, or Pro Graph? Will this be a good Language For Learning Programming? (more)

Epic Win turns your To-Do List into a Real World Game.

Counter Intelligence policy, championed by David Petraeus in Iraq and Afghanistan. (more)

Virtual Book Store. Focused on used, rare, Out Of Print (though they sell new books also). (more)

Marc Barrot's Web Outliner is being actively built on top of by Dave Winer now.

Mark Pesce has announced the launch of Plexus, an Open Source project building a P2P Open Social Networking Model.

Apple Computer has changed the IPhone SDK to block "cross-compilers" (e.g. systems that build Cross Platform Fat Client apps). (Note this also applied to the IPad.) (more)

KellyVlahos gives some alternatives to our current COIN approach to Afghanistan, responding to Andrew Exum's challenge.

Scott Snibbe says "Arts wants to be $0.99" (a play on Information Wants To Be Free), happy to be able to deliver his Interactive Art as software for Mobile-s, Tablet-s, etc., instead of as small-audience installations. As I write this, Gravilux is the number one Free IPad App on the iTunes Store. It’s ahead of The Weather Channel, ABC Player, and Netflix. What’s number two? A game? A TV station? A productivity application? IBooks. We are in a beautiful new world where participative media (Participatory Media) flowers.

Open Social Networking Model project. (more)