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Advance the Geek.

“Now, you’ll be able to view your stream and pub­lish infor­ma­tion into it from places you never could before — like your desk­top com­puter or your mobile phone. Your stream will appear just as it does on Facebook.com and main­tain the same pri­vacy set­tings. We believe that the abil­ity to see more and more of what is hap­pen­ing around you will lead to greater open­ness and trans­parency.” Good job Facebook.

“Elec­tron­ics giant Sony has reported its first annual loss in 14 years, after being hit by a big drop in sales.” Wow.

Not so small twitter.

Good for them.

What should the NY Times do with it’s Twit­ter feed: “The feed should be used to push links to sto­ries that would inter­est some­one in this com­mu­nity. But not just sto­ries from the NY Times.”

“Pres­i­dent Obama trav­eled Wednes­day to the uni­ver­sity that does not think he has done enough to merit an hon­orary degree and declared that he agreed.”

To what lengths will you go to repli­cate bugs?

I fully agree.

“The United Nations Secu­rity Coun­cil has asked the Sri Lankan gov­ern­ment and the Tamil Tiger rebels to ensure the safety of civil­ians trapped in the conflict.”

“Swine flu has reached 33 coun­tries, the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion said Wednes­day, and there have been deaths in four nations: Mex­ico, the United States, Canada and Costa Rica.”

“Apple con­tin­ues its unbri­dled cen­sor­ship of the iPhone app store by reject­ing an appli­ca­tion that depicts Jesus rap­ing retarded chil­dren with Hitler’s penis.” Lol.

“The prob­lem with Sling Media’s new new iPhone appli­ca­tion has noth­ing to do with the fact that it’s run­ning on the iPhone, an AT&T spokesman, respond­ing to the con­tro­versy over the new pro­gram, told me today. The prob­lem with Sling Media’s new new iPhone appli­ca­tion has noth­ing to do with the fact that it’s run­ning on the iPhone, an AT&T spokesman, respond­ing to the con­tro­versy over the new pro­gram, told me today.”

Mov­ing back in with the parentals’, yeah no thanks.

“A grotesque carv­ing in mam­moth ivory is arguably the world’s old­est depic­tion of a human fig­ure, sci­en­tists say. The dis­torted sculp­ture, which por­trays a woman with huge breasts, big but­tocks and exag­ger­ated gen­i­tals, is thought to be at least 35,000 years old.” That’s cool.

“More new finds in iPhone 3.0 Beta 5: it seems like those Restric­tion Set­tings — allow­ing parental con­trol over apps based on rat­ings — we heard rumored in the wake of Reznor-gate have been sur­faced in the lat­est beta.” Oh boy.

“My gut feel­ing is that we’ve seen the last Steve Jobs keynote address. I don’t think he’s leav­ing the com­pany — and his med­ical leave has been sched­uled to run through the end of June — but I won­der if he’s done as the company’s spokesman.”

“Hon­oré Shar­rer, a noted Amer­i­can artist of the 1940s and after­ward whose bold, witty, inci­sive paint­ings doc­u­mented the daily expe­ri­ences of ordi­nary work­ing peo­ple, died in Wash­ing­ton on April 17. In an era in which many of her con­tem­po­raries had begun to explore Abstract Expres­sion­ism, Ms. Shar­rer remained com­mit­ted to fig­u­ra­tive art as a pow­er­ful vehi­cle for social criticism.”

“All MySpace has to do to get the guar­an­teed pay­ments is make cer­tain search page view require­ments. They’ve made those page view require­ments eas­ily, says our source, mostly by destroy­ing the user expe­ri­ence. At this point Google prob­a­bly feels like it’s pay­ing off a mort­gage on a house worth half of what it paid for orig­i­nally. They may be glad to just be able to walk away from it all as soon as pos­si­ble.” Oh MySpace.

“Monty Pro­gram Ab and Per­cona today launched the Open Data­base Alliance. The Alliance will be a cen­ter and pro­vide infra­struc­ture for com­pa­nies and indi­vid­u­als to develop, col­lab­o­rate and do busi­ness around open source data­bases with MariaDB/MySQL as our ini­tial focus.” Awe­some news for MySQL and data­bases overall.

What was Twit­ter thinking?

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“You can now get email / IM noti­fi­ca­tions for indi­vid­ual groups and indi­vid­ual peo­ple. Just click “Email / IM” on any pro­file page. Once you have turned on noti­fi­ca­tions for a feed, it will also be vis­i­ble on your noti­fi­ca­tions page“As Twit­ter cuts down on the noise, Friend­Feed turns it up, I vote for FriendFeed.