From Alexander Patterns.... (more)

FaceBook will start letting users download their data. (more)

Why did Municipal Wifi fail? Regardless of some Government Failure at caving into TelCo-s in some states and blocking the projects, the real barrier is the technology/cost problem. WiFi is too limited (by FCC decree) in power to cover large areas. Maybe Analog Tv White Spaces will do the job...

Sections of Analog Tv Spectrum between TV station frequencies. The white spaces within 54-698 M Hz are possibly available for Open Spectrum. (more)

pseudo-LadyBug prevalent in Barrington Il. (more)

Universal Product Code (BarCode number)

Pretty Magazine-like UI for the IPad, driven mainly by links in Twitter and FaceBook. (more)

Paper Li generates a pretty Magazine-like page of links/images based on who you follow on Twitter. Some surprisingly-old (e.g. 9 days) stuff shows up there.

Twitter has launched its own t.co Url Shortener. The URL-s can only be used in tweets.

Isen newsletter includes new VoIP Over WiFi tech.

The new Nokia N80 Internet Edition supports VoIP Over WiFi. (It also uses the Symbian S60 OS that supports Python.) It has SIP support. The Gizmo project is working with it already. (more)

Richard Mac Manus interviews Mike Mc Cue, co-creator of FlipBoard. We have about 70% of our users connected up to FaceBook or Twitter, or both. And about 30% just use it to plug (RSS) feeds into Flipboard and read those feeds. So, there are definitely two different types of users. There's the more Social Networking-oriented user and there's the RSS news reader type of user.

FlipBoard is the hot buzz-topic du-jour. It's "your personalized, social Magazine" reader for the IPad. A pretty Universal Inbox with a Social Network Context: actually it's not even an RssAggregator, but rather focuses on scraping links from Twitter and FaceBook. I’m sure lots of publishers won’t like what they see inside Flipboard. Hrm that sounds like a problem, esp if they hide publishers' ads. (more)

Seth Roberts finds that eating a half-stick of butter every day improves his speed on Basic Arithmetic. Not exactly a Good Diet - although he questions the Framingham study.

optical machine-readable ID code (more)

Ash Maurya on achieve Flow State in a Lean Startup, esp as a technical founder (or esp a One Man Show).

For a taste of what an Open Cell Phone could lead you, vs the closed IPhone, read Bruce Sterling's "Dispatches from the HyperLocal Future" piece (Nations-Lite) - You see, the difference between the old-fashioned Semantic Web and the new HyperLocal Web - that's hyper as in linked, and local as in location - is that the databases of the new Web are stuffed with geographic coordinates. Real positions. Real distances. So the bodyware I carry in my pockets and travel bag broadcasts its location to any device within earshot. (Of course, the RFID chips embedded in everything help the manufacturer get it out the door, but I programmed my own tags so I can't lose anything.) Room Ware - that's houseware to you troglodytes who still live in houses - is the stuff that runs a hotel room. You know, the remotes that control temperature and unlock the liquor cabinet, plus the window overlay that displays the weather forecast and traffic conditions. Street Ware is my mobile's navigator, plus social tags, ad filters, and all those black-and-white BarCode blotches painted on walls like graffiti. City Ware is the next scale up. That's how the Local Government monitors traffic, chases down leaky water mains, and keeps tourists on the straight and narrow. State Ware, nationware, globalware - you get the idea. (more)

player in Book Reviews And Groups (more)

company run by Ricardo Semler

BitLy and other Libyan Domain-s are at risk. NIC.ly seems to want to extend their reach beyond the domain itself and regulate the content of websites that use a .ly domain. The concept amounts to censorship and makes .ly domains untenable to be used for user-generated content or url shorteners.