blog.pmarca.com: Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web (6)
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First, I'm very happy to say that Ning will be rolling out our formal production support for Open Social in June. In case you missed the news at the time, Open Social is a standard way, sponsored by Google, to build new features ("gadgets") and/or plug those features into social networks all over the web, including social networks on Ning. Ning has had beta versions of Open Social running for six months now so we're ...
Google Reader officially adds search, more improvements (2)
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Share anything. Anytime. Anywhere.
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jasonshellen said:
Share with a bookmarklet, add a note, share items with a note. Change the theme of your shared items public page. These are all awesome enhancements. Way to go Reader team! This is about 95% of what I use del.icio.us for so I expect that to drop off a bit. Very cool.
Polaris Goes Plinky « VCMike’s Blog (1)
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A take on Plinky from our main man Mike Hirshland over at Polaris Venture Partners. Thanks Mike!
Four Firsts for Feeds (3)
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For the last few years or so, I've been fortunate enough to have my day job involve thinking critically about reading feeds. As a result, I've been musing about first principles.When Google Reader was first pitched, we had only one guiding principle for building software that would deal with feed reading and that's mostly worked well. But after years of development I think it'd be nice to have a more developed set of principles to ...
Apologies in advance to Mr. Hamilton (1)
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[Today's guest post is from the author of one of the most profound Twitter feeds on the Internet, Josh Allen, aka Batman. Mr. Allen's websites include Fireland, The Knowledge for Thirst, and The House of Wigs. He is also a frequent contributor to The Morning News. Mr. Allen has agreed to pay for the ambulance ride to the hospital my father will be taking after reading the following post, entirely with the dollar bills he's ...
The Long Goodbye - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog (1)
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Adding to the weirdness of this event, the Democrats were standing there under a banner that looked like it was promoting John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee. Actually, it said that McCain equals a third Bush term, but if you just glanced at it, it looked like it was pro-McCain.
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Oh good lord. Someone hire Aaron Sorkin to write lines and direction for politicians.. this is getting more painful to watch every day. Gah!
CAFE? Yeah right! says Porsche (1)
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Filed under: Diesel, Hybrid, MPG, PorscheThe way the draft rules have been defined for the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard, Porsche is at a distinct disadvantage. Because the standards for any given vehicle are based on the size of the vehicle, Porsche's relatively small cars have to meet a higher standard than other manufacturers. Apparently Porsche doesn't really care. Detlev von Platen the new CEO of Porsche Cars North America has declared that the ...
iClooly iPod touch stand hopes to be an iMac when it grows up (2)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets There you have it, RockRidgeSound's iClooly stand for your iPod touch. The ¥4,980 (about $47) accessory features a 90-degree pivot joint, dock-connector cut-out, and headphone extension cable in the box. The perfect little buddy for your iMac skipper when these set sail on June 7th.[Via Impress]Continue reading iClooly iPod touch stand hopes to be an iMac when it grows upRead | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Cost of converting entire U.S. to electric cars? Zero. (3)
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How much would it cost to convert the entire U.S. fleet of passenger cars, which collectively burn 40 percent of the oil that we use, to electric cars? Let’s look at some numbers: total oil consumption in the U.S.: 21 million barrels every day (CIA Factbook) cost per barrel: $130 days in year: 365 total spent per year: $1 trillion percentage of oil consumed by passenger cars: 40 total spent per year on oil for ...
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There are other issues such as the chemistry used to create batteries, drain on current inefficient power grids, battery life and longevity, but I like the direction.
DEFENDS LONG-RUNNING CAMPAIGN - New York Post (1)
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Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama.
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Way to keep it classy Hill. We are not amused.
George Washington's Blog: Congratulations, America ... Children are Being Tortured in <i>Your</i> Name (1)
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Even if you believe in the need for war, you couldn't possibly want these things done in our name, could you America?
Davis couple celebrate landmark state ruling - Sacramento Bee (1)
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Davis couple celebrate landmark state rulingSacramento Bee, USA - May 16, 2008The activist couple sometimes known as "Shellen" were married for six months in 2004 when San Francisco performed gay marriages that were later invalidated ...
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Turns out I'm a nice lesbian couple. Who knew?
Google Ends Hello (1)
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Google is shutting down Hello, Picasa’s photo sharing service which was part of the Picasa acquisition back in 2004. On the program, Wikipedia writes: <<Hello by Google’s Picasa is [was] a free computer program that allows users to send images across the Internet and publish them to their blogs. It is similar to an instant messaging program because one can send text, but Hello focuses on digital photographs.>> I made a copy of Hello’s old ...
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Hello was awesome. It showed a lot of the Picasa teams forward thinking about photos and co-browsing on the web. I always wanted a Mac version, of course I'm still waiting for a native Mac version of Google Talk as well. Hopefully it is gone but not forgotten.
I just tried to 'Like' something in Google Reader. *sigh* I (1)
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I just tried to 'Like' something in Google Reader. *sigh* I wish FriendFeed and Reader would stop dating and just get married already. I know it seems soon but when you know, you know.
NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, (1)
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Even though there's no love lost between NBC and iTunes, that doesn't mean NBC doesn't love you! At least if you've got an iPhone or iPod touch. They're streaming full episodes of 30 Rock and The Office to iPhones (and touches) in Quicktime, for free, with NO ads. They work, nicely, but the major catch is that if you exit Safari, you've gotta re-DL all over again, and the files are huge, so is this ...
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To download the 3GP files directly sans DRM:1. Install User Agent switcher in Firefox2. Google "Safari iPhone useragent" and add one to the above switcher3. Visit: http://m.nbc.com/iphone/fullepisodes.shtml after switching to the iPhone User agent. Perfect for syncing to your iPhone. Blurg!
Caps Lock No More! (1)
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One thing that used to annoy me while typing was hitting the “caps lock” key every time I was going for the the “A” key. I am a sloppy typer, so this happened very often. I find this especially easy to do with the way the keys are laid out on my MacBook Pro, and the fact that you barely have to hit the keys to get them to respond. This is by no means ...
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jasonshellen said:
This is great, I just made this week. Found via: CW's shared items
YouTube - Dance battle with Miley Cyrus, Adam Sandler, Chris Brown (1)
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Thought I would try noting this in Reader since it's AWESOME!
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Thx to Nicolas V. and Photo Basement: For one day, though, this man was full of win.
