Socialtext (more)

PlainText Data Synch service, esp for Mobile NoteBook apps (more)

Python creator Guido Van Rossum has left Google for Drop Box.

Drop Box is broadening the reach of their API. We started with the Sync API, which let developers take advantage of the file syncing technology that took us years to get right. And today, we’re announcing a suite of tools that fundamentally simplifies how developers can build across devices and platforms... With the Datastore API, we’re moving beyond files and providing a new model for effortlessly storing and syncing app data. (more)

For Profit WikiFarm founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley (more)

WikiFarm (more)

WikiFarm (more)

WikiFarm with special sauce (more)

Company that took over the WetPaint WikiFarm. (more)

(This is a copy of a page from my Private Wiki, provided here as possible content for First Pages To Create In Your Private Wiki Notebook.) (more)

Paul Graham adds a weapon to the SpamWars - filters to auto-follow links within spam, to generate huge amounts of load on spammer's servers. He separately reviews the success of Bayesian Filter-s, and compares a variety of (tech and non-tech) SpamWars approaches. (more)

Rudy Rucker is guest-blogging at Charlie Stross' space. His first post updates his LifeBox thinking, crossing it with the concept of immortality, tying that to his NestedScrolls autobiography. His MVP is simply a Search Engine attached to blog archives. In the comments, he notes yes, the hard part is animating the lifebox, putting the ghost in the machine. I'll say a bit more this in my next post. This said, if you have a large enough data base, you really can have your lifebox fake being you quite well. I Commented to wonder if there's a way to merge a blog dataset with ELIZA code. (more)

Thirty7 Signals has been encouraging users to use Twitter for support questions: Many of the questions coming in via Twitter are simple ones asking if Basecamp can do this or that. But lots of tweets mentioning them do not need response. So they built an internal dashboard to manage/filter the flow. (Strange how this seems isolated from non-Twitter support workflow.) (more)

SlashDot thread about people's ability to recognize words that are scrambled, as long as the first and last letters are kept in the right position. As someone noted, this sounds like a problem for Bayesian Filter-s in the SpamWars.

Special case of Raw Food. Milk that has not been pasteurized or homogenized. (more)

Cult/Tribal Loyal Ty to the Nation-State

Brain Fart Of The Day: WikiEbook.

Date-stamped page for a given week where you do your Daily Review and Weekly Review.

Bringing a Reality Hacker attitude to Self Improvement.

Dr Drang wants a server-free Personal Wiki. I think he really means he wants one that uses the File System and not a Data Base. Plenty of WikiEngine-s work that way. He also rejected Tiddly Wiki and VoodooPad. (more)