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Dad does... changeAgent ALM dev, hideoutchicago.com web, omniuser.org board, chicagoSkatePatrol, elmBikeClub, yearRoundCycleCommuting & advocacy, IRL/SLO combo!

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Twitter status: Karoli: @Shoq he was the nuke the well guy. Among other things. History, rewritten

Karoli: @Shoq he was the nuke the well guy. Among other things. History, rewritten

 
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Feed: Into the Slaughterhouse

The beloved Vancouver East-side epicenter of consumption continues to crescendo. Recent years have seen a renaissance in eating and drinking explode, with local veterans of hospitality ambitiously sowing seeds in every available space. The particular allu

 
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Feed: Which company are you?

In the fight between the big four companies in the tech world (Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft), we are seeing the emergence of different styles. A new generation of companies is now looking to emulate these models at a much smaller level, breaking

 
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Feed: In Defense of Links, Part Two: Money changes everything

Shared by Kevin Marks Exactly. That we now need specialized client software like Readability to repair these pages is telling.

This is the second post in a three-part series. The first part was In Defense of Links, Part One: Nick Carr, hypertext and de

 
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Feed: Twitter + OAuth update

A fascinating post on Ars Technica on the Twtiter implementation of OAuth.

It confirms a concern I had. Since the OPML Editor is open source, and it supports Twitter's implementation of OAuth, I didn't see what good it did to pass around "secrets" in the

 
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Feed: Facebook Bug Prevents Users From Commenting And Liking

This morning we began receiving reports that Facebook Pages had a major flaw that was preventing users from commenting an liking stories. Some Page administrators were even unable to access the page content. While we’d assume that Facebook is actively wor

 
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Feed: AirSketch with Zoom

AirSketch, the iPad drawing app that lets people open a page in their web browser to see what you’re drawing as you draw it, has added zoom to the app! This makes it easier to do fine lines and smaller writing. It’s still not perfect; the text is a little

 
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Feed: Bishop Takes Knight

It didn’t take long to do the math as Steve Jobs unveiled Ping, the social music recommendation engine baked into iTunes 10. In one deft move, Apple brought itself into the social networking market with a near-instant enrollment of up to 160 million. And

 
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Feed: Some Mozilla History, dmose, Hockey

I’ve known Dan Mosedale a long time. He was already at Netscape working in the browser realm when I arrived in the fall of 1994. In fact, of all the people working on Mozilla and browsers in the world today, I think Dan was probably the first. Not the per

 
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Feed: Penn and Teller take on vaccines | Bad Astronomy

I have long beaten the drum against the antivaxxers: people who falsely claim that vaccines cause autism, or are loaded with toxins. These groups are loud, in many cases vicious, and all have one thing in common: they are wrong, wrong, wrong. The evidence

 
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Feed: Which company are you: the Refiner

In an ongoing series of posts on the differences between large tech companies, I look at the different models they take (refine,tinker, push, attach) and who their spiritual children may be. In this entry, it’s all about the refiner.

The Refiner: Apple

 
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Feed: Ping: It's even worse than it appeared

Further examination of Apple's new social network reveals more problems.

To review from last night's post:

1. It's awkward, at least, that it runs in iTunes and not a web browser. There's no Back button, no way to copy the address of a page and share it

 
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Feed: The New York Times Is Dead Wrong

Shared by Kevin Marks Now there's a variation on a theme: Yiddish has a thousand words for fool...

As a public speaker, I'm always looking for ways to engage my audience. One old trick — which I never use, precisely because it is so old — is to challenge

 
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Feed: Why I like building with modular Linux Gadgets

With all the talk about iPhone vs. Android wars, it's easy to forget that Linux was once discussed as a popular platform for rapid prototyping gadget development. The more projects I do with the BeagleBoard, the more emails I seem to get from fellow engin

 
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Feed: 20′s Plenty For Us

20's Penty For Us from Streetfilms on Vimeo.

The 20's Plenty For Us campaign supports 20 mph speed limits for all residential roads in the UK. Lowering speed limits makes roads safer and neighborhoods more livable.

Related posts:Streetfilms: DIY Streets

 
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Feed: The Nokia N8 Photo Awards. Please help to spread the word

If there is one Nokia related activity that I am most proud of it is the creation and promotion of the Nokia N95 Flickr User Group. For many years it was the largest Flickr group dedicated to a single smartphone.As of today, it has about 2000 members and

 
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Feed: Gmail’s Permanent Failure: Only Humans Can Build Software For Humans

Editor’s note: Guest author Adam Rifkin is a Silicon Valley veteran who organizes a networking group for entrepreneurial engineers called 106 Miles. In this post he argues that Gmail is perhaps not the best vessel for Google’s social ambitions.

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Feed: What Hotel Towels Can Teach You About Facebook Fans

Have you ever noticed that no matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to grow as fast as that one Facebook Page which is adding thousands of fans a day with little effort? The secret isn’t actually much of a secret. It’s called “social proof”. According t

 
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Feed: ZTE well on its way to become the fifth handset maker worldwide

After experiencing a 40% year-on-year growth in handset shipments during H1 2010 with a total of 28 million devices moved, ZTE may reach its goal to become fifth biggest handset vendor sooner than previously thought.

With so many devices shipped in the p

 
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