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Announcing Tech.NewsJunk.Com
There's a new site on the net today: http://tech.newsjunk.com/ It's the counterpart to the political NewsJunk, which is focused on news of the 2008 presidential campaign. The Tech site is focused on technology product news. I created the site beca
Independence Day
It's the day when we say we're not dependent on Great Britain. Of course that part of the holiday long ago lost its meaning. But maybe the whole thing, maybe the concept of America has lost its meaning. Matthew Yglesias, a surprisingly young blogger
XMPP and Twitter, coming back on?
This post on the Twitter status blog, gives hope to developers wanting to hook into the full Twitter flow, the same flow that now only Summize has access to. Here's what they said: "We're hopeful that once we've improved the stability of the service
Federating identi.ca?
I note that a number of programmers I respect are trying to launch instances of the software behind identi.ca. If they're successful, and if there is a decent way to connect them into a federation (meaning we can communicate even if we're using diff
RMack on Internet freedoms
I was catching up with On The Media earlier this week, and who comes on but my friend and former Berkman colleague Rebecca MacKinnon. I love those kinds of surprises, it lets me catch up, in a multimedia sort of way (it's better than reading an essay
Oh happy day!?
A Twitter clone that's all-the-way open? Did Christmas come early this year? http://identi.ca/doc/faq Marshall has a writeup. I am dave over there. Follow me! First thing --> looking for an API. It supports the OpenMicroBlogging protocol, which I ha
Social cameras, on the way
Bijan got a preview of the iPhone 2.0 software, which adds location to the camera. It's a piece of the social camera puzzle. When you come back from vacation where there are lots of other people taking pictures, go to Flickr 4.0 and enter the locatio
How to stop chasing the news
My Internet writing is so distributed these days, there are five main places I write, and a host of others where I write peripherally. Here are the five: 1. Scripting News (and its RSS feed). 2. The comments here (managed by Disqus). 3. Twitter (used
Podcast with the Gnip guys
I caught up with Eric Marcoullier and Jud Valeski of Gnip in Eric's car, this afternoon. http://mp3.newsjunk.com/interviewWithGnip.mp3 Earlier today, on Scripting News, I asked Twitter to use Gnip to communicate with developers so the network can c
I wish Twitter would partner with Gnip
Yesterday I wrote a teaser piece masquerading as a vision piece. The vision is not mine, it's Eric Marcoullier's, a very affable and brilliant entrepreneur from San Francisco, who founded MyBlogLog and sold it to Yahoo for big bucks a few years back.
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