Archive for August, 2008

Assorted links

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

“1. The book boyfriend 2. Should you laugh at UFO research? 3. Is there excess conformity in economics? 4. A new theory of the genetic origins of homosexuality”
via Marginal Revolution

How a Business Could Use Friendfeed For Collaboration

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

“I was squinting at Friendfeed today, and I realized that it could really work nicely as a business collaboration tool in a few different ways. Between all the various aggregation points, and the rooms function, I think the platform has everyone one would need to cook up a collaboration environment. Here’ s what I mean. Information Inputs You could configure the following inputs of data to Friendfeed for your team’ s account: * RSS feeds for blogs and other items …”
via Mashable!

Microsoft Set to Launch Social Bookmarking Service Next Month

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

“Microsoft is ready to dive into the social bookmarking arena. After previewing a version of its own Delicious competitor back in May, the company is now set to launch Microsoft Social Bookmarks next month, an effort that will initially focus on techies by offering versions of the site on MSDN, TechNet, and Expression. The site has been in testing with what evangelist John Martin calls “thousands of technical professionals,” and the results so far speak for themselves, as the popular …”
via Mashable!

Why the Mormon-Facebook Rumor Made Sense

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

“Several bloggers high and low took a great deal of heat for publishing a rumor yesterday that the Mormon church was looking into purchasing or acquiring social networking giant Facebook. WinExtra , The Industry Standard , Inquisitr and VentureBeat all covered the rumor that seemed to originate from Zach Klein and Brady Brim-DeForest . Zach Klein said on his blog: I heard from an employee close to the deal that the Mormon church’s genealogy business made an unsolicited bid to …”
via Mashable!

18 iPhone Drinking Apps to Get the Party Started

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

“Blackberry, SideKick, Nokia users, put aside your differences: Let’ s grab a beer! It could go all night, and of course, you’ ll need to hang with me because I have the best drinking apps. Here are 18 iPhone drinking apps that will keep track of how much you’ re drinking, store drink recipes, help you figure out what to tip your bartender, and more. Which have you tried out? Tell us more in the comments! BeerCounter – You know …”
via Mashable!

Obama Spoils the SMS Surprise and Still Hits a Triple

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

“I’m still waiting for my text message. As the world now knows – courtesy of CNN’s Twitter feed , and now countless channels elsewhere – the junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama , has chosen the veteran legislator from Delaware, Joe Biden , to accompany him on the ticket for the final months of the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaign. Speculation was palpable in the latter half of the week, Friday especially, but the guesswork has since been officially validated. …”
via Mashable!

Top economic misconceptions of the lay people you wish you could correct?

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

“That was the first request. Economic misconceptions interact with values to skew overall judgment, but the value judgments are usually the main problem. Consider how “anti-foreign bias,” to borrow Bryan Caplan’s term, often causes people to oppose free trade. The…”
via Marginal Revolution

30+ Plugins to Make Your WordPress Blog More Social

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

“WordPress blogs are getting increasingly social, giving readers the ability to bookmark your site to a number of services, get to know you better in more ways than just your comments section (and vice versa), and view your activity on a variety of social sites. We’ ve compiled a list of more than 30 plugins that will let you make your WordPress blog more social. This collection of plugins just begins to scratch the surface of what’ s available out …”
via Mashable!

Music Streaming Service Grooveshark Lite Takes Aim at Pandora and Last.fm

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

“Grooveshark is launching a new online music streaming service called Grooveshark Lite today that aims at creating a better all-around experience than what you’ ll find on Last.fm and Pandora . And although it has some issues, it’ s a service that you’ ll definitely want to check out that may make you think twice about using its competitors’ services. If Pandora had a love child with Last.fm, its name would be Grooveshark Lite. Grooveshark’ s service lets you input …”
via Mashable!

The drink-ice cube ratio

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

“Sorry Europeans, but some drinks taste better with ice cubes. The key is to get the ratio right. As a first approximation, there are two main problems. First, the ratio of drink to ice cubes may be too high. In…”
via Marginal Revolution