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- Twitter spam and motivation to report it "Fundamentally, I believe Twitter’s priorities here are wrong. Twitter needs a far more aggressive, automated, proactive, heuristic-based anti-spam system. And if someone has trouble legitimately tweeting a link with no text to 100 people in a row who don’t follow them at precise 1-minute intervals, that’s just the price we’ll have to pay."
- „Menschen interessieren sich nicht für Maschinen, Menschen interessieren sich für Menschen“
- Introducing DevBeat, VentureBeat’s new developer-focused channel
- What does it cost to deliver a newspaper to subscribers? "So, plus or minus a largish margin of error (maybe 15%), the cost of a subscription equals the average cost of printing, packaging (putting in all those inserts, bundling, etc), distribution and managing the circulation department."
- Distracting chatter is useful. But thanks to RSS (remember that?) it’s optional.
- Amazon Launches Kindle Textbook Rental Service, Allows Students To Store Notes In The Cloud Die Bibliothek der Zukunft? "Amazon is now allowing students to rent textbooks on their Kindle and Kindle apps. The e-commerce giant is launching Kindle Textbook Rental today, which allows students can save up to 80% off textbook list prices by renting textbooks from the Kindle Store."
- RSS-Feed eines Google+-Profils im Google Reader erstellen:1. G+-Profil ID d Einfach und praktisch.
- Bild flutet ARD mit Anfragen
- Does Mark Zuckerberg have a "skeleton key" granting him access to every member's Facebook profile page and information? Antwort: Nein.
- Free Start-Up ideas "Cut out the middle men. It’s all about connecting people P2P."
- The Internet Is My Religion "I think we should prepare ourselves for all kinds of new religions based around the idea of a planetary soul. As in a single web of electronic neurons around the globe, connecting all sentient beings. The Noosphere will go from a hypothetical speculation by a Catholic priest to an outright competitor to the Catholic faith. We will see the rise of Noosnics, Globalists, Overminders, Bit Monks, Quantumarians, and a hundred other sects and cults that take seriously the idea of a glorified planetary spirit as a reflection of the divine."
- Twitter Class of 2010/11
- Chicago Tribune: Open Source Twitterfeed-Alternative und CSV-Toolkit in Python
- The real Rupert Murdoch exposed
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