] From the Garage: Lessons Learned Birthing and Building
] Web Start-ups
] I had a great time at Etech last week and want to thank
] Marc Hedlund and Tim O'Reilly for the opportunity to
] speak. I think my presentation went over well, and being
] that it was the last session of the conference, I was
] pleasantly surprised at the packed room. Several people
] asked for a copy, so here it is.

wingedpig.com: From the Garage: Lessons Learned Birthing and Building Web Start-ups

] Welcome to Google Code, Google's place for Open Source
] software.

Some fun looking releases for the Python and/or Multithreaded inclined.

Google Code

Decius wrote:

] What are people's thoughts about replacing the topics system
] in MemeStreams with a folksonomy like Del.icio.us?

I strongly support it and have been working on a message about it.

I, for one, have abandoned the "Topic" bar -- I don't look at the autogenerated topic subpages, and I no longer file appropriately. "Misc", generally. I would care more if I had my own tag-file system; putting in a bunch of free form key words is much more intuitive to the stream of memes that I've come to use on a regular basis.

Lacking them, I'm forced to consider memestreams like a Web Generation 2.5 app where its real comparables (delicious and that ilk) are Gen 3.
(Yes, I have a generational taxonomy).

RE: Folksonomy conversation

] As Caterina wrote, this isn't about just throwing
] millions of users at Flickr or bolting Flickr onto Yahoo!
] Photos. Think more deeply about it. There are many parts
] of Yahoo that will be Flickrized in the coming months.
] And with more resources available, Flickr itself will be
] able to grow like never before.

Longterm Yahoo-buy-Flickr Yahoo advocate blogs about the acquisition.

Thoughts on Flickr and Yahoo (by Jeremy Zawodny)

"It looks like your search terms were detected by the
Total Information Awareness filter..."

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] A man cooking in his kitchen was shot after one of his
] cats knocked his 9mm handgun onto the floor, discharging
] the weapon, Michigan State Police said.

Yahoo! News - Cat Shoots Owner

] Greetings from CeBIT 2005 in Hannover, Germany. CeBIT is by far
] the largest technology fair in the world.
]
] Some statistics on CeBIT 2005:
] - 6270 exhibitors from 70 countries
] - 27 hangar-sized halls filled with booths
] - Over 300,000 square meters of exhibition space
] - Over half-a-million visitors are expected over the next 8 days
]
] Just to jog around the exhibition area takes over an hour.

F-Secure : News from the Lab

Rattle wrote:
] Trudeau has finally gotten around to addressing the passing of
] HST in Doonesbury. Check the comic before the linked one as
] well.

With all the syndicates, there is a two week buffer. How the various news-driven comics (Doonesbury, Boondocks, etc) play within that constraint is sometimes as interesting as the content itself.

RE: Doonesbury - Uncle Duke's head explodes

] One in five online consumers are exposed to media created
] by other consumers that could influence their use of
] drugs and other medical products and services, according
] to a study by JupiterResearch.

Healthcare Consumers Rely on Consumer-Generated Content

] Michelangelo was the first virus to draw serious media
] attention, in March 1992. One reason for this was its
] destructive payload [on 6 March, the anniversary of
] Michelangelo's birth, it destroyed data on the victim's
] hard disk]. Another was the 'doom and gloom' predictions
] circulating at the time about the virus. One US
] anti-virus company went so far as to predict that data on
] five million PCs would be destroyed. As it turned out,
] less than 10,000 PCs lost data as a result of
] Michelangelo.

Viruslist.com - Analyst's Diary