mad dog in the fog

"The vast majority of respondents love their iPhones. Ninety-one percent said they were totally or very satisfied with them. Seventy-eight percent rate it as an excellent or good value, counting the cost of wireless service."

"While Wall Street writhes in agony, how are things in the land of tech? Well, maybe not business as usual. But there are certainly worse places to be."

"What’s the outlook for software-as-a-service vendors as the current financial and credit maelstrom continues? The question is especially relevant for ISVs, IT solution providers and entrepreneurs who are weighing up whether now is the time to press ahead with SaaS initiatives. It seems inevitable that the blow-up on Wall St will make credit scarcer and more expensive for everyone. But if there’s less money being spent in the economy as a whole, does that mean more or less being spent on SaaS?"

"At first glance this parallel society has been made, quite literally, in the image of our own. But in truth it's more like a Photoshopped image — the nice parts accentuated, the inappropriate bits cropped away. So it goes with any online community, of course. Behavior must be moderated and a communal ethos must be preserved; Wild West cliches aside, total freedom at any entity like this would sink it in a storm of lawsuits, flame wars and gridlocked cacophony. So directors of community exist. And while the job of nurturing and policing any online realm would make for a fascinating study, I was particularly curious about how it worked at Flickr."

Now rumors are flying around the Net about a new device, with Apple retailers being asked to return their existing Apple TVs by Sept. 30 and mysterious placeholder SKUs showing up in Futureshop’s inventory system.

"Current & Twitter have teamed up for the very first time to integrate real-time Twitter messages (aka "tweets") over major portions of a live television broadcast."

"Our data appeared to be highly non-normal. Users’ online social network sizes varied greatly from 5 to 1495 (Facebook average: 314; Twitter average: 126). Real life estimates also varied from no friends to 1000 friends (Facebook average: 168; Twitter average: 143). (See below.) (Side note: It’s interesting that real life network sizes averaged out to be very nearly Dunbar’s number of 150: or the limit of the number of active social connections that humans can maintain."

"I was born in 1972, my favorites were Sesame Street and The Electric Company. Both shows were cool, urban, fun programs that guest starred popular actors and musicians. Take those two shows, add Pee Wee’s Playhouse, and mix it all up with Deee-Lite’s video for “Groove Is In The Heart” and you have Yo Gabba Gabba!"

"The bay area is an amazing place for technology meetups, there’s about 4 tech related events, workshops or mixers almost every night. What’s even more interesting as this group even extends to social events on the weekends, it’s a true community"

First impressions of Google's new G1 phone

"On Saturday, the dream will be realized when the new academy, a $488 million architectural and environmental gem, makes its public premiere in Golden Gate Park."

Cross-platform collaboration tool allows you to share your desktop

"CrowdSound gives businesses the opportunity to open up the suggestion box for everyone to see. Work with your customers to improve your company, your products, and your lines of communication. It's feedback gone social."

1 TB of free media storage

Open source social network software

Impressive set of screenshots for various design patterns

Preview of a new electronic reader designed for business.

List of Twitter clones for the enterprise

"…can the Mountain View online goliath continue its winning streak for another 10 years? Unlike during its infancy, Google now has a target on its back along with a sizable workforce – 19,604 across the globe – that makes it difficult to be nimble."

"In essence, Facebook users didn’t think they wanted constant, up-to-the-minute updates on what other people are doing. Yet when they experienced this sort of omnipresent knowledge, they found it intriguing and addictive. Why? Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does — body language, sighs, stray comments — out of the corner of your eye."