Oracle is spinning out OpenOffice to a community project. Would the Document Foundation be a likely successor? That would be quite a surprise but a welcome one, too. The Document Foundation is a creation born out of frustration after Oracle purchased Sun. In September 2010, the group formed after Oracle refused to turn OpenOffice over to the open-source community. They forked OpenOffice and created Libre Office.

M G Siegler notes how popular the IPhone camera is among FlickR users, and the collapse of Point And Shoot usage. Unfortunately, as the comments show, the underlying chart and his narrative are misleading because of focusing on just the top devices per category in a highly fragmented market. Also, commenters note that (a) Android devices make it easier to post to Pic Asa so that might skew some data, and (b) FaceBook may be the biggest Photo Sharing site now, so perhaps more "representative".

Is a Location Based Service Back Lash starting already? If I still lived in NYC, and didn't have kids to absorb my evenings, I could still see it being valuable to hook up with tribe members. But I'm less convinced for other markets.

Austin Kleon on Creativity ("How to Steal Like An Artist"). Nothing is original... You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see. You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences.

AJAX libary (more)

model of Selling process that involves multiple stages, and thus some leads drop out at each stage, so there are fewer and fewer prospects left... (more)

Kevin Kelly ponders the inherent nature of the book and applies it to potential future EBook designs. One quirk of networked books is that they are never done, or rather that they become streams of words rather than monuments... But why bother calling these things books? A networked book, by definition, has no center, and is all edges... At the moment we are in a scramble to find the right container for digital books. Released from their paper shells, books seem to need more than the open vastness of the web. They like the viral compactness of a PDF, but not its rigid appearance... In the long run (next 10-20 years) we won't pay for individual books any more than we'll pay for individual songs or movies. All will be streamed in paid subscription services; you'll just "borrow" what you want. (Streaming)

Conde Nast is buying ReddIt. (more)

creator of EGroups (which became Yahoo Groups) (more)

A-B Test analytics site (more)

So I bought Timothy Ferriss's Four Hour Body (absent any other action, buying a book about Physical Fitness works as well as signing up for the gym). I bought it through Barnes And Noble. (more)

I'm playing with Tiddly Space.

The QuietCare Creation Myth is actually true.

Evan Williams bought back Odeo from its investors (MBO) to create Obvious Corp. He says it's not going to be a Vanity Incubator, but I'm not sure I believe it. (more)

PodCasting company started by Evan Williams that he shut down to create Obvious Corp/Twitter.

Story about creation of something. (more)

Jackson Miller on the inspiration for Self Schooling/UnSchooling he got from an article by William Upski Wimsatt. Wimsatt's NoMorePrisons ISBN:1887128115 (available as EBook) sounds very interesting. (Update: yes, a good read.)

Cisco is buying Pure Digital, maker of the Flip Video Digital Video Camera. (more)

the ultimate BigCo, a large collection of often-unrelated businesses (more)

Shangri La Diet self-experimenter (Quantified Self) (more)