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What I’m reading and finding for November 9th 2011 through November 10th 2011:

• From Twitter – RT @TechCrunchApple Releases iOS 5.0.1 To Fix iOS 5 Battery Issues http://t.co/lq9n8TF9 by @sarahintampa
• Watch Rick Perry’s Campaign End Before Your Eyes-
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• Eddie Murphy Drops Out of Oscars Telecast-
  nytimes.com
  - By MICHAEL CIEPLY
  

  The hasty departures represented an embarrassing collapse of the Academy’s plans for the Oscar presentation
• From Twitter – http://t.co/CO5sM3t6 London Free WiFi Scheduled to Arrive in London This Week, More to Follow in 2012
• From Twitter – http://t.co/Vgu4BCQi Live TV features coming to the Boxee Box
• The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)-
  blog.pinboard.in
  - Maciej Ceglowski
  

  I first came across the phrase social graph in 2007, in an essay by Brad Fitzpatrick, though I’d be curious to know if it goes back further.
  The idea of representing relationships between people as networks is old, but this was the first time I had thought about treating the connections between all living people as one big object that you could manipulate with a computer.
  At the time he wrote, Fitzpatrick had two points to make. The first was that it made no sense for every social website to try  show all text
• Penn State Said to Be Planning Paterno Exit Amid Scandal-
  nytimes.com
  - By MARK VIERA and PETE THAMEL
  

  Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to people briefed on the matter.

What I’m reading and finding for June 27th 2011 through June 29th 2011:

• From Twitter – Nice hack RT @newsycombinator Invite your entire Facebook graph into Google Plus http://j.mp/lCYibD
• From Twitter – RT @newsycombinator IBM develops ‘instantaneous’ memory, 100x faster than flash http://j.mp/moqCU2
• From Twitter – RT @laughingsquid WordPress 3.1.4 has been released http://j.mp/iIShFA
• Biz Stone: It’s So Obvious -
  bizstone.com
  - Biz Stone
  

  Believe it or not, Jason is the smartest of the trio. 

  My career in developing large scale systems that allow people to express themselves and communicate started in 1999 with Xanga. I left after a couple years and got more academic about the democratization of information on the web. Ironically, I wrote two books about blogging. In 2002, I tried to start a microblogging service but have you heard of Sideblogger? Didn’t think so.

  When I joined the Blogger team at Google in 2003, my new envir…  show all text

   
• SecretSync – Client-side encryption for Dropbox – SecretSync is a great way to easily share proprietary, sensitive information using online synchronization utilities like Dropbox.
• From Twitter – RT @TheNextWeb The BBC lets online @Wimbledonlisteners control the sound balance http://j.mp/kduwZE by @TGW_Paulon @thenextwebuk
• Twitter for Newsrooms – Twitter Media -
  media.twitter.com
   
• From Twitter – RT @science Solar powered 3D printer makes glass objects out of sand in the Sahara desert http://bit.ly/jJ6Eyf / cc @bre

Sites that I found interesting for January 24th 2009 through January 28th 2009:

• Google Introduces A New Weapon In The Fight For Net Neutrality: Measurement Labs – Google announced today that it will give end users the tools to figure out whether internet service providers are interfering with their broadband connections by blocking or “throttling” certain applications.
• Google adds offline and ‘flaky’ modes to Gmail –
• How to Choose Chart Types – A flowchart for choosing chart types.