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links for 2008-05-17

May 17th, 2008

An Apple a Day: The Top Ten Rants on Twitter
(tags: twitter culture psychology)

Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Mike Arrington is Right, Facebook is Wrong «
Does Facebook have the right to block FriendConnect and what is the most important thing to consider when looking at data portiabilty.
(tags: facebook scoble arrington friendconnect google dataportability [...]

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links for 2008-05-15

May 15th, 2008

BBC NEWS | Americas | Edwards endorses Obama in US race
(tags: politics obama usa)

Jonathan Schwartz’s Blog: JavaFX as Rich Internet Application Platform
Sun’s CEO comments on what happened in the last JavaOne Conference, focusing on JavaFX.
(tags: java air programming javafx sunmicrosystems)

Andy Carvin’s Waste of Bandwidth: Almost Arrested for Taking Photos at Union Station
This is pretty stupid [...]

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links for 2008-05-14

May 14th, 2008

Privacy: Charter To Begin Tracking Users’ Searches And Inserting Targeted Ads
Thanks Charter messing with my internet service, just what I wanted.
(tags: advertising internet privacy isp security)

Study shows that stimuli unrelated to decision can still influence men’s choices
Sex really does sell, in case you were worried.
(tags: sexual business marketing psychology advertising)

Doc Searls Weblog · Handbasket weaving
Something [...]

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The Rise of the Generalist

May 13th, 2008

Recently Steve Rubel posted about What’s the Future Like for a “Renaissance Man” in a Connected World?. In this post he discuses how even though we would think that with the internet an individual could have broad knowledge about the world, instead people specialize in their particular area of expertise. He then says that he [...]

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links for 2008-05-13

May 13th, 2008

2.99 Gas - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
Chrysler has a new program that guartnees 2.99 a gallon gas for new owners of Chrylser cars, amazing idea.
(tags: chrysler cars economics gas business)

Dumbest Generation?
Is this dumbest generation, Eric Burke takes on that question and wins.
(tags: education youth)

Feministing: Yogurt: What else could a woman possibly [...]

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