TechLifeWeb

What I’m reading and finding for March 27th 2011 through March 28th 2011:

• SimpleGeo Launching ‘Storage’: A Distributed Hosted Database For Location Data –
  techcrunch.com - Jason Kincaid
  

  The story of SimpleGeo is a familiar one: two founders — Matt Galligan and Joe Stump — set off to create location-based games, only to find that the tools they wanted to use to build their apps didn’t exist yet. So they switched gears and decided to build what they wished they had: a suite of tools optimized for the creation of location-based services (which was probably a good call given the explosion of location-aware mobile devices).
  The startup launched almost exactly..  show all text
• The New York Times – Breaking News, World News & Multimedia –
  nytimes.com
• Full List – 140 Best Twitter Feeds – TIME –
  time.com
• Paul Baran, Internet Pioneer, Dies at 84 –
  nytimes.com
  Mr. Baran was an engineer who helped create the technical underpinnings for the Arpanet, the government-sponsored precursor to today’s Internet.
• RIM: The inmates have taken over the asylum | Monday Note –
  mondaynote.com - Jean-Louis Gassée
  

  by Jean-Louis Gassée
  Once upon a time, the Blackberry was the king of smartphones. After a succession of Psion PDAs and Palm devices, I loved my Blackberry, it was the perfect PIM (Personal Information Manager). Email, contacts and calendar functions worked well together — and Exchange integration was the killer Enterprise feature. It even made phone calls! On Verizon, that is. Year after year, RIM kept improving its product and expanding its worldwide distribution. The Blackberry ..  show all text
• From Twitter – RT @davewiner Amazon.com lets you play with an Android virtual machine, try apps before you buy them. #wow http://r2.ly/8pyi
• When Twittering Gets in the Way of Real Life – WSJ.com –
  online.wsj.com