links for 2008-02-29

Technology Populism: Risks & Rewards - ReadWriteWeb
Great article about how tech savvy workers are taking over, I’ve been seeing this happening for a few years now.
(tags: tech technology IT)

The Real Story: Why ComScore’s Google Clicks are Flat
Interesting take on how a small change has made a massive difference!
(tags: SEM google advertising CTR tech technology)

MoFuse Instantly [...]

links for 2008-02-24

SimplePie: Super-fast, easy-to-use, RSS and Atom feed parsing in PHP.
I’ve looked at a few RSS PHP parsers recently, this seems like one of the better ones!
(tags: php rss parser development)

links for 2008-02-19

Gmail’s Humble Beginning
Interesting post on the early days of GMail, iterate and listen to your users, sage advice.
(tags: gmail google development innovation)

links for 2008-02-18

IAB Global Summit (Events @ Digital)
(tags: iab advertising event)

Twitxr a Twitter clone with bells on

Twitxr is a twitter clone with image upload and location features built in to a native iPhone client.  Your iPhone needs to be jailbroken, you can install it through the Installer app, look for iTwitxr in the Network section.
I’m not sure about the location aspect, definitely some privacy issues with this feature.  Anyway follow me [...]

President Bush is planning on blowing up a satellite!

I can’t believe the U.S. are seriously considering doing this?
George Bush has ordered a broken spy satellite to be destroyed before it hits the Earth because of potentially deadly toxic gas in the vehicle’s fuel tank.  Sky News

Battening down the hatches at Yahoo!

Seems like Yahoo! is battening down the hatches in a pretty major way, lots of people being fired or leaving and now this from infosthetics.com:
 ”an anonymous source just informed me the entire Yahoo! Design Innovation team (once coined yHaus) has been laid off, part of a closing-down of all innovation teams at Yahoo. In addition, [...]

links for 2008-02-14

GameLayers, Inc. | PMOG
This is just too cool.
(tags: games web MMOG data attention)

about-this-site-redux
Love it…
(tags: russ beattie)

links for 2008-02-13

Reuters Releases Calais Web Service
This is really interesting, the idea of being able to easily use these kind of services to build dynamic metadata from content opens up some interesting use cases.
(tags: webservices semantic web api)

links for 2008-02-12

FlexiScale - Utility Computing On-Demand
Interesting service.
(tags: ec2 amazon utility computing service Web)

GCap to pioneer ‘listen and buy’ radio for iPods | Media | The Guardian
(tags: media radio streaming)

CNN to Launch Citizen Journalism Portal iReport
This sounds interesting. Citizen journalism is a buzzing area right now.
(tags: citizen journalism web news)