Martin Stabe- MediaGuardian: Simon Willison joins Guardian News & Media

"Former Yahoo and Lawrence Journal World developer Simon Willison has been recruited by Guardian News & Media as a software architect, it was announced today."

Ethan Zuckerman

links for 2008-08-22

ethanzuckerman.com/blog -Bloggers of the world, let's shop! | The Australian A nice version of the "online access doesn't equal democratic revolution" argument from Antony Lowenstein - "The young online tribe is more interested in discussing sex, drugs and rock'n'roll than political revolution" (tags: internet democracy china blogging consumerism trends ideas) A Photo Editor - Media Needs A Makeover Some interesting [...] more »

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Niall Kennedy

Intel and Yahoo! announce Widget Channel for HDTV

www.niallkennedy.com -The Internet is coming to your TV, reclaiming your split attention span from the other gadgets around the house. Intel announced its latest effort to power your living room yesterday with new media processors, reference designs, and software stacks that may eventually find their way into the cable boxes, Blu-ray players, and home media centers of 2010. Intel partnered with Yahoo! to deliver Internet-connected widgets, advertising, and content to potential partners with a software stack branded T more »

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Ethan Zuckerman

The Economist visits with three digital nomads

ethanzuckerman.com/blog -The Economist has an online feature this week on Digital Nomads, people for whom mobile connectivity has become a central part of life. The piece features three videos, with the CEO of Sun Microsystems, Jan Chipchase of Nokia in Tokyo, and a podcaster and IT worker in Mumbai. The last of these is the most [...] more »

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Loic Le Meur

Les marques vont se prendre les pieds dans le plat de Twitter

loiclemeur.com/english -Je lis brands that suck on Twitter et je me permets de donner un petit conseil autour de Twitter. Si vous n'avez pas encore votre nom de marque sur Twitter vous devriez vous dépecher, même si vous ne l'utilisez pas,... more »

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Mathew Ingram

Disqus: Blog comments just got better

mathewingram.com/work -I’m late on this news, but I would be remiss if I didn’t mention today’s update to the Disqus hosted-comment service, which I’ve been using on this blog for some time now. As I’ve said before, I think Disqus is one of the best comment systems going, and now it has gotten even better. One [...] more »

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Steve Outing

My blog for the iPhone age

steveouting.com -Thanks to a cool plug-in for Wordpress called WPtouch from BraveNewCode.com, this blog now has an iPhone version. That is, if you view steveouting.com on an iPhone, it will automatically pick up the mobile version. If you’re curious what it looks like and don’t have an iPhone or iTouch, there are some iPhone emulators out there, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "My blog for the iPhone age", url: "http://steveouting.com/2008/08/12/my-blog-for-the-iphone- more »

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Paul Kedrosky

Newsflash: Google is a Ponzi Scheme

paul.kedrosky.com -It came to me today during a flight from San Diego to Kansas City: Google is a Ponzi scheme. Really. How do I know?  Well, Hitwise just released a report showing that Google now has over 70% of the search market, which is a staggering number, and seemingly continually growing. more »

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Mathew Ingram

No one actually “follows” 2,000 people

mathewingram.com/work -There’s plenty of discussion out there (and I use that term loosely) about Twitter imposing limits on the number of people users can follow. This seems to have gotten started by a post from Brent Csutoras saying he ran into a 2,000-follower limit and was surprised by it, even though co-founder Evan Williams described the [...] more »

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Alec Saunders

Squawk Box August 12 - Guest Andrew Mahon

saunderslog.com -This morning's guest was Andrew Mahon of Nokia, who was here to chat with us about Nokia Email. You may be wondering, as I was, why Nokia is getting into the email game. Rest assured, you're not getting another email inbox. What Nokia has done is to "mobilize" your existing mailbox. Nokia Email is a service that integrates tightly with your existing mailbox (POP and IMAP supported) and then "pushes" updates from those mailboxes to your supported Nokia handset. So far as I more »

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