Way Of Life? Quality Of Life? (more)

PathCom has been scraping its users' Address Book data without permission. Upon inspecting closer, I noticed that my entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path. (more)

TV is going the way of the dinosaur, and the deadly comet is called BitTorrentLive. Today, Bram Cohen, the author of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) Sharing protocol, demoed his latest creation at the SF Music Tech Summit. BitTorrent Live lets any content owner or publisher stream Video to millions of people at good quality and with just a few seconds of latency…for free or cheap.

DHH on the fact that you can build a Life Style Company Start Up on your own terms (e.g. part-time), and seeks a new word for this. Start Up is a great one, but I feel like it’s been forever hijacked for this narrow (aka Burn Out) style, and “starting a business” just doesn’t have the sex appeal. Any suggestions? The thread quickly settles on BootStrap!

BalsamiqStudios makes a Wire Frame/Mock Up (Design) tool called Balsamiq Mockups. The founder was interviewed for Signal Vs Noise.

I generally excuse Income Inequality in the US on the basis of what I assume to be greater Income Mobility. (more)

Calendar/Location Based Service/pre-CheckIn service (more)

online auction site, originally intended for trading Pez dispensers (more)

Interesting interview with Richard Nash, who recently left SoftSkullPress to launch Cur Sor, a new Book Publishing player. (Cursor will establish a portfolio of self-reinforcing online membership communities (Virtual Community)... Each will have tiers of membership, including paid memberships that will offer exclusive access to tools and services, such as rich text editors for members to upload their own writing, peer-to-peer writing groups, recommendation engines, access to established authors online and in person, and editorial or marketing assistance. Members can get both peer-based feedback and professional feedback.) (more)

New nodes I should get around to creating. Gotta figure out (a) what to say, and (b) what to connect them to. (more)

Bio Technology (more)

aka Noo Tropic (more)

aka Open Source Hardware

Andrew Orlowski says We'll call ourselves Stuckists. We like Open Hardware, and we like routers that don't care about the packets that run through them. We'd like to be stuck there. Where will we be in a world of Multiple TCPA-s? (more)

Back in Oct'2011 Google started announced higher pricing for significant use of Google Maps, effective Jan01. Sites will receive 25,000 free map views per day, which translates to 750,000 pageviews per month. Developers using more than the free limit will begin paying $4 per 1,000 pageviews. (more)

a weird/lite Semantic Web Wiki Hack... (more)

Find on Wiki Name-s (including in page bodies) (cache list for super performance!). Find "like" pages (same first word or same last word). (Wiki NameNetwork) (more)

a Route Around; Maker (more)

particular instance of a Web Server running a WikiEngine to support 1 or more WikiSpace-s.

Open Street Map (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable GPS devices. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open Street Map> (more)