The two Adam Rifkin-s collaborated on the new Show Time TV series "LOOK" about ubi-CCTV.

Adam Rifkin explains why Google can't build Social Software. Google apps are for working and getting things done; social apps are for interacting and having fun. (more)

Stowe Boyd is seeking an Urban Village within a 2hr Commuter Train ride from NYC. Wow, that's a big radius... (more)

Charlie Stross explains why 1 book from his Merchant Prince series isn't available as EBook. (more)

Being able to (more)

the archetypal Empire (more)

global enforcement of Time Zone-based time synchronization, supported by Atomic Clock-s.

Taking a look at Pivotal Tracker.

Software Forge written in Ruby On Rails (more)

Eric Ries on figuring out what your Minimum Viable Product (v1 to launch with) is. (Customer Development) (more)

see Minimum Viable Product (more)

The PyCharm Python IDE reached its v1.0. (more)

FaceBook Developers are Increasingly Concerned About Platform Reliability. Yesterday the company posted that they were “investigating issues that may be causing some Platform apps to fail to load”. While the volume of errors appeared to hit a new high yesterday, the Facebook Platform’s reliability had been at an all-time low for over a month now.

Ian Bicking has a CherryPy rant. No one knows how to do this stuff in CherryPy. No one seems to have any authoritative answer on how you deploy these apps - how you move between servers, how you change the application root, how you put apps together into a single server. Everything is ad hoc stuff that just barely works for one app on one server. It's all "recipes". Recipes are often just stuff that no one cares enough about to do right. This is too central to what CherryPy is supposed to be doing to be a recipe. (Ian wrote Python Paste.)

E Commerce company for Live Event ticket sales. (more)

Credential/certificate you give to other parties so they can interact with you via Public Key Cryptography methods (e.g. RSA, PGP/GPG). (more)

*Nathan Lewis is the principal of Kiku Capital Management LLC, which manages a private investment partnership. (more)

Google first launched its Url Shortener for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner last year. (more)

Jack Dorsey is apparently working on a Mobile Payment system called SquareUp which appears to involve (more)

network of science-related blogs run by SEED (more)