Google Plus has set a RealNames policy. (more)

Digital Music format, (more)

Anwar Al Awlaki was killed by the US today. During the Bush years, civil libertarians who tried to convince conservatives to oppose that administration's radical excesses would often ask things like this: would you be comfortable having Hillary Clinton wield the power to spy on your calls or imprison you with no judicial reivew or oversight? So for you good progressives out there justifying this, I would ask this: how would the power to assassinate U.S. citizens without due process look to you in the hands of, say, Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann? (more)

book by Neal Stephenson, ISBN:0380977427 (more)

Fred Wilson/Brad Burnham/Albert Wenger VC firm (more)

Having nudged GMail users over to SSL in the past, Google is starting to bump sign-in search users there also. This has some Privacy benefits for users on unsecured HotSpot-s. (more)

Software Industry Trade Guild (more)

page was renamed from z2011-02-12-GrossUbermediaBuysTweetdeck (more)

Ash Maurya Lean Startup (more)

I'm Director of UX (User Experience) at Hub Spot, which acquired Performable, where I was co-founder and VP of Customer Experience. (more)

Ash Maurya is testing a new UserCycle service, a CRM for WebApp-s, to manage customer Engagement/dialogue. (more)

Phil Jones has joined the UK Pirate Party, and made a number of policy recommendations.

The new Del.icio.us will be relaunching soon under AVOS management. (more)

General Assembly, a Start Up Incubator that hosts entrepreneurship classes for the community, announced a $4.25 million round of funding and a partnership with General Electric today. In addition, Business Insider has learned that the four founders have been looking into two more retail spaces, one in midtown Manhattan and another abroad, most likely in London. (more)

P2P Education (more)

Camera for taking movies (Video). (more)

Dale Dougherty thinks we need open/public online directories of F2F Learning opportunities (classes, hackdays, etc.). (more)

Google is killing Google Buzz, JaiKu, Code Search, GoogleLabs, etc.

Stowe Boyd wants his Calendar to be an editor of time-based info, not just a view/aggregator. It occurred to me the other day that the basic "publish/subscribe" model that underlies the iCalendar approach is inadequate, and is actually the opposite of what is needed. Or at least it is the opposite of what I want. The last thing we need is two dozen applications, all of which have some sort of event management build into them, publishing their information in such a way that it winds up in a read-only format in ICal. In my case, those apps include invoicing software, reminders from various to-do lists, and events listings. I Commented - I'm not sure I agree. That source/master application may have rules which need to contrain something that appears simple like a date change. I think it makes more sense to have the Calendar be a type of Universal Inbox which makes it easy to jump to the source-app via Single Sign-On so you can make changes there with all the appropriate business logic available. Stowe hints at that as a fallback, but I think that fallback needs to be the default. (See AppLog for general version of this issue.)

For AEP purposes, taking a look at Dance-EventCalendar-s (esp those that scrape ICal or have an API to publish to). (more)