Yostivanich

Good for Palm, about 50,000 phones sold on the first two days.

Walk­ing through Google Wave.

All about the sex.

“That’s a good response, but it sure seems to be based on a dif­fer­ent under­stand­ing of Twit­ter than many power users and early adopters would offer. The idea that not fol­low­ing peo­ple is the best way to avoid miss­ing things is very counter to the approach that other peo­ple take. That’s what groups are for, some­thing hugely valu­able that 3^rd party desk­top clients offer and the Twit­ter web inter­face does not. Ev and Biz Stone don’t appear to use desk­top clients, though. Will they con­tinue to offer the kind of tech­ni­cal sup­port that desk­top app power-users need? How about even bet­ter tech­ni­cal sup­port to fos­ter even more inno­va­tion? Those are the kinds of ques­tions that arise when this ser­vice provider appears to be using its own ser­vice in a man­ner so dif­fer­ent from the way that jour­nal­ists, mar­keters, pro­fes­sional net­work­ers and other power users use it.” So very few peo­ple at Twit­ter are power uses of the sys­tem, how does that change the system?

“It’s just going to get worse, and Twit­ter needs to put some solu­tions in place. For a start, they should pull trends. By list­ing trend­ing top­ics, they’re in turn help­ing to gen­er­ate all this spam, some of which may harm their own users. Pull trends until some actual spam pro­tec­tion is in place.” I agree Twit­ter has a spam prob­lem and it’s only going to get worse.

“how to be happy in busi­ness — venn dia­gram” Cool diagram.

“The eldest son of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il appears to have con­firmed reports his younger brother has been des­ig­nated the country’s next leader”

“The leader of Lebanon’s gov­ern­ing pro-Western coali­tion has claimed vic­tory over a Hezbollah-led bloc in a tight par­lia­men­tary elec­tion. Saad Hariri said his 14 March alliance would retain its major­ity in the 128-member par­lia­ment. A politi­cian close to the Hezbollah-led bloc, sup­ported by Syria and Iran, admit­ted defeat in Sunday’s elec­tions, Reuters news agency reported.” Interesting.

“Right now, Twit­ter and its poten­tial for progress is lim­ited only by the infor­ma­tion, direc­tion, and edu­ca­tion pro­vided by Twit­ter itself in order to demon­strate and teach exist­ing and new users how to truly use and take advan­tage of this new and dynamic infor­ma­tion ecosys­tem. While Twitter’s API is empow­er­ing third-party devel­op­ers to cre­ate Twit­ter­verse of excit­ing, use­ful, and enter­tain­ing appli­ca­tions that enhance the Twit­ter expe­ri­ence, it can not out­source nor rely upon the com­mu­nity to teach the world how to use Twit­ter. Pro­vid­ing rec­om­men­da­tions on peo­ple to fol­low doesn’t really help at all.”

“Cen­sor­ship, she said, comes from fear of infor­ma­tion and the idea that knowl­edge can be dan­ger­ous – which she traced back to Eve’s temp­ta­tion in the Gar­den of Eden.” Cen­sor­ship makes things fun to find out about.

“The Pirate Party has won a huge vic­tory in the Swedish elec­tions and is march­ing on to Brus­sels. After months of cam­paign­ing against well estab­lished par­ties, the Pirate Party has gath­ered enough votes to be guar­an­teed a seat in the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment.” Very cool.

Detroit is going to get a lot worse probably.