Web curation for December 7th 2010
Filtering the web so you don’t have to for December 7th 2010
- Five Affordable Holiday Fashion Tips – SanDiegoBargainMama.com –
- What we have here is one of the great comeback stories in the history of competitive punctuation –
- Fundry.com Wants to be Kickstarter for Developers –
Fundry.com is like KickStarter for web developers. The site was started by Stateless Systems, the company backing projects like CushyCMS and Droolr. Unlike Kickstarter, however, funders get to vote on whether to accept features before releasing funds.
Here's how it works, according to the Fundry.com web site:
When a Developer has completed a feature, all funders of that feature are notified and invited to vote to accept or reject the feature. To receive all the funding for that feature the Deve.. show all text - Tracked Down: Google Just Quietly Launched An Official Latitude iPhone App –
I guess Google really is in a feisty mood tonight. After the Chrome Web Store, Chrome OS, some leaked Google +1 information, and a Google Groups re-launch, we’ve just gotten word that Google has launched an official Latitude app for the iPhone. But oddly, it’s only available right now in the Japanese version of the iTunes Store. But we suspect that will change shortly. (Update below: Looks like Google quickly pulled it before it got any farther.)
Back in May, Google told us that the.. show all text - WikiLeaks: Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan Cops – Houston News – Hair Balls –
Another international conflict, another horrific taxpayer-funded sex scandal for DynCorp, the private security contractor tasked with training the Afghan police. While the company is officiall…
Continue reading "WikiLeaks: Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan Cops" > - Silicon Valley-Bound, Waze Drives Its Way Into A Big $25 Million Round Of Funding –
About a week ago, we noted that social mapping company Waze was getting big. Actually, with over 2 million drivers helping them map the planet, and over 250 million kilometers logged, they’re already really big. And today investors are putting their money where the miles are as the company has just raised a $25 million Series B round of funding.
The large second round is being led by existing investors Blue Run Ventures, with other existing investors, Magma Venture Partners and Verte.. show all text - 4chan rushes to WikiLeaks’ defense, forces Swiss banking site offline –
The forces of Anonymous have taken aim at several companies who are refusing to do business with WikiLeaks. 4chan's hordes have launched distributed denial-of-service attacks against PayPal, Swiss bank PostFinance, and other sites that have hindered the whistleblowing site's operations.
A self-styled spokesman for the group calling himself "Coldblood" has said that any website that's "bowing down to government pressure" is a target. PayPal ceased processing donations to the .. show all text - U.S. to Host World Press Freedom Day in 2011 –
- The Network Computer Arrives…Finally!: Tech News « –
Thank you Eric Schmidt for taking me down memory lane, to the heyday of another bubble, in another century. Today, at the launch of Chrome OS — a new Google operating system for web-centric computing — Schmidt talked about 1997 when he (then at Sun Microsystems) and Larry Ellison and everyone else talked about the idea of a network computer.
Network computer, at the time, was defined as a stripped-down machine, with little or no moving parts, cheap processors and ample bandwidth to .. show all text - How Wikileaks has woken up journalism. « Emily Bell(wether) –
If you follow the latest cache of diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks and reported by the Guardian, The New York Times and others it is impossible not to conclude that this is a pivotal moment for journalism, its teaching and its practice. In a masterful piece on The Guardian’s website, John Naughton writes that :
The most obvious lesson is that it represents the first really sustained confrontation between the established order and the culture of the internet. There have been skirmishe.. show all text - Twitter Blog: Now Playing on #newTwitter: Embedded Music, TV Shows, Slides and More –
One of the most popular features of #newTwitter is the ability to check out photos, videos, and music directly in the details pane. Click on a Tweet with a link to media, and the details pane on the right lets you view embedded media from partners like YouTube, Flickr and USTREAM. You can also hear iTunes song previews and share music with your friends by linking your Twitter account to Ping, iTunes’ new social network for music. We’re on a mission to give you more great multimedi.. show all text
- CONFIDENTIAL! Looks Like “Google +1″ Was Just Accidentally Revealed (Pic) –
While we haven’t 100 percent confirmed it yet (update: we’ve confirmed with a source), what you see above is what we do very much believe to be a picture of Google’s latest social foray. Yes, it’s the artist formerly known as “Google Me”, then known as “Emerald Sea“, and now known as “Google +1“.
As you can see, it’s a toolbar that exists along the top of Google’s properties — in this case, Google News. There&rsq.. show all text - CONFIDENTIAL! Looks Like “Google +1″ Was Just Accidentally Revealed (Pic) –
While we haven’t 100 percent confirmed it yet (update: we’ve confirmed with a source), what you see above is what we do very much believe to be a picture of Google’s latest social foray. Yes, it’s the artist formerly known as “Google Me”, then known as “Emerald Sea“, and now known as “Google +1“.
As you can see, it’s a toolbar that exists along the top of Google’s properties — in this case, Google News. There&rsq.. show all text - Twitter Blog: Now Playing on #newTwitter: Embedded Music, TV Shows, Slides and More –
One of the most popular features of #newTwitter is the ability to check out photos, videos, and music directly in the details pane. Click on a Tweet with a link to media, and the details pane on the right lets you view embedded media from partners like YouTube, Flickr and USTREAM. You can also hear iTunes song previews and share music with your friends by linking your Twitter account to Ping, iTunes’ new social network for music. We’re on a mission to give you more great multimedi.. show all text
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