September 2009
Under Guardian guidelines on tweeting, I will now continue to say whatever I want. Hiding my opinions isn’t the same as not having them.
Bemusing the inhabitants of the Valley Tavern with our British musics. Hah!
Reuters: Sony’s PlayStation chief: We’ll get iPod... →
Jack Tretton is bullish on portable gaming, but could pride come before a fall?
What are the two sorts of Cloud infrastructure... →
Interesting comparison by Francis Irving at MySociety.
PaidContent: More Last.fm old timers jumping from... →
New Twitter Funding confirmed →
Evan Williams confirms “significant” money coming from set of investors.
Hacker Forum Got Hacked →
Pakbugs, where people would gather to swap hacking and credit card hacks, got hacked and the emails and passwords posted to the Full Disclosure mailing list. Gotcha.
Finally saw Inglourious Basterds. A good movie was hidden in there somewhere, but someone should rein in Tarantino’s indulgent whims.
BREAKING: BBC news website headlines ‘full of weird quotes’
Wrote about Microsoft’s bad ads - and remain amazed that people think the Windows 7 party ad is an elaborate spoof. http://bit.ly/PMPBd
Spotify suggests Hall & Oates. Are you moonlighting, @paultweedy?
Downing St’s tedious Flickr stream appears to have ditched the PM in favour of Sarah Brown recently. What does it mean? http://bit.ly/pIfAu
Gap founder Donald Fisher’s huuuuge art collection is going to the SFMOMA. This is good. http://is.gd/3F61p
M-Pesa’s great @amanda @mathewi - but it’s proven difficult to replicate that success outside Kenya. More here: http://bit.ly/2Htifk
Drudge, other sites flooded with malicious ads →
More ‘malvertising’. This could pose a threat.
Wired: Microchip in the eye seeks to restore lost... →
Cybernetic enhancement!
Reuters: Judges in Microsoft-i4i case question... →
Appeals hearing looks at $290m awarded by Texas court
Funny by @jasonfried http://bit.ly/2oPbr3 - ‘valuation’ really means Twitter must now find $1bn somewhere for backers to make profit.
NYT: Kroes, Europe’s antitrust chief, hopeful of... →
With two months left before she steps down, Neelie Kroes wants to settle things
ZDNet: Intel teases 22 nanometer chips →
“Moore’s law is alive” they say - but so tiny!
Jeff Reifman: The Road to a Balanced Budget Leads... →
Is Microsoft a tax evader? Avoider? Or simply doing what it can?
Calling all Football Weekly fans (or Italian football connoisseurs): the legend that is James Richardson is now on Twitter. Hello @acjimbo !
The latest episode of the Guardian’s Tech Weekly is live, with Joi Ito (Creative Commons) and BBC4’s Electric Dreams: http://bit.ly/9LxL3
Who owns Flickr again? I forgot. OHRIGHT.
MediaPost Publications Q+A: Omniture CEO Josh... →
Will we all have to quit and restart our browsers? (No..)
OK, scratch what I said about Tweetdeck last week. The version I’ve started using has a much better feel.
Looks like I’ll be visiting Blighty in mid-November. Will get my first glimpse of new Guardian Towers. Anyone fancy meeting up?
Looks like I have a quorum for London Bobfest 2009, to be held in mid-November. Must do a Brighton leg, too. And Suffolk.
Logic of @hwallop lifting @timjonze: “I did credit you, just very quietly. But I didn’t plagiarise. Oh, I did? Happens a lot, get over it.”
HowTo: How to make your feed cloud-aware →
Dave Winer explains how to make your RSS do a sort of Twitter thing in a real time web way.
PaidContent: Yahoo to spend more than $100m on... →
That’s about a quarter of the company’s annual profit
LA Times: Google is searching for users in China →
Surface squabbles with the authorities mask the real problem - not many Chinese people know what Google is
Loving the wild man mugshot of @ruskin147 in this picture: http://bit.ly/140L2U Remind you of anything? http://bit.ly/3viR3r
PaidContent: Yahoo to spend more than $100m on marketing campaign http://bit.ly/R6Bqj
Why did Facebook publicise its $9.5m privacy settlement late on Friday? So we wouldn’t write about it today! Oh. http://bit.ly/OmJyk
BBC NEWS: Silicon Valley 'seeing revival' →
WSJ: A case for valuing Twitter at $2.7 billion →
eWeek: How the Joltid suit is a ploy to buy back... →
HP names Marc Andreessen to board of directors →
Insurers Shun Multitasking Speech Devices -... →
Text-to-speech devices to help your medical condition? American insurers say no.
Twitter’s changing everyone’s bloody avatar - all I see is a sea of colourful birds. Well done! Hopefully it’s just a glitch.
“If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods on, they’ll miss lots of special offers.” http://bit.ly/2999ty
Scotsman: Nesta puts £180,000 into 27 fledgling... →
PaidContent: The story of Google's offer for On2 →
How to Make Solving Problems Fun - Peter Bregman -... →
A Wii as an incentive works better than money
Reuters: EU in informal talks on Microsoft, Yahoo... →
Zune HD: You call that a browser? | Digital Noise:... →
Oh dear, seems the Zune has not got a fan. “Doesn’t look like any version of IE I’ve ever seen.”
Article-level metrics at PLoS – addition of usage... →
Who’s reading your science paper?
Google acquires reCAPTCHA →
AllThingsD: Former Bebo CEO Joanna Shields to lead... →