Social Media

Relationships are Complicated
Factory City by Chris Messina it’s not good enough to simply dismiss the trend of social networking because our primitive technological expressions don’t reflect the complexity of real human relationships

The economy of Friending
WinExtra by Steven Hodson First to market social networks got people like Robert Scoble, Dave Winer, Jason Calacanis and others like them involved early.

Cloud Computing

If There’s a Consultant in the Room, You are Not ‘Cloud Computing’
Fast Forward Blog by Joe McKendrick Simplicity is the watchword for cloud computing; anything that suggests different may still be traditional-load-and-fight-with-the-software computing.

The gBrowser is coming - disguised as Google Gears
Open Source Web>2.0 Technologies by Roberto SacconJavascript APIs providing HTML5-compliant functionality make for accessible, easy indexable and open standards oriented near future of the web

EntApp

Grabbing your attention
Synch.rono.us by Adrian Spender Lotus Connections exposes data via Atom feeds to subscribe to and consume the Blogs, Dogear bookmarks, Communities and Activities.

Community Equity at Sun Microsystems
unstruc... by Daniela Barbosa The Information Equity captures the social activities around an information and dynamically calculated a numeric value which represents its importance, relevance and quality.

Web 2.0

Google Releases AJAX Language API
ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone The new API can handle language detection, so you could tell your chat client to detect whatever language is being spoken and then translate it to English

Open Letter To Google: Do The Right Thing, Divest Yourself Of Performics
Search Engine Land by Danny Sullivan Google's in the SEO business now, selling services through DoubleClick's Performics to people who want to rank well on - um - Google.

Security

Avoid Facebook App Regulations. Send Updates through Social.im
Mashable! by Kristen Nicole Social.im, a Facebook instant messenger client that lets you chat with your Facebook friends on a desktop client.

Your Email Password: Why We Need Authentication Standards
ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick With the release of the Google Contacts API this week, developers don't have much excuse to ask for GMail username and password.

Storage

Video is King
Storage Effect by Pete Steege Conspicuously absent from Byte and Switch’s list is the home market. Granted, much of this is not networked, but for the first time, consumer data has surpassed business data in volume.

Anonymize BitTorrent Transfers with BTGuard
TorrentFreak by Ernesto BTGuard does not have any bandwidth or volume restrictions; the speeds were almost equal to an unsecured connection.

CIO

Why We Need To Go To IPv6. Now.
The PhoneBoy Blog by PhoneBoy The short answer: It would increase battery life for mobile devices.

The Flip Side of the Multitasking Argument
Daring Fireball by Mark Wilson Apple has designed the current SDK limitations to maximize battery life and performance system-wide.

Midmarket

Starbucks Transformational Agenda
Brand Autopsy by John Moore Time will tell if Starbucks corporate culture will adapt to social media and when (or if) Starbucks will implement customer ideas.

iPhone SDK comparison chart
Engadget by Nilay Patel The iPhone's just-announced SDK sounds like a winner. But how does it compare to its well-entrenched competitors?

Mobile & Wireless

Airwaves Auction Winners Named
Wired by John Dunbar The spectrum was made available thanks to the nationwide transition to digital broadcasting.

Honest thoughts about the iPhone SDK announcement from a Nokiaholic
IntoMobile by Stefan Constantinescu Will Nokia copy this App Store method? They already do for Maemo, the Internet Tablet OS, and the Download! client on S60 devices.

App Dev

Apple Bans Firefox, Lisp, Ruby, Python, Rhino, Java...
Rob Sayre's Mozilla Blog by Rob Sayre No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs.

It’s an Atompub World
Ongoing by Tim Bray Microsoft is betting on Atompub for Windows Live. With Google and WordPress and big chunks of Java middleware, this really does feel like a bandwagon.

Desktops & Laptops

Revealed: The Reason For Apple Tuesdays
MacApper by Fraser Drew We look at every single product, products we’re having trouble with, products where the demand is larger than we can make.

The Joy of Webpads
The Tao of Mac by Rui Carmo Overnight, and despite a few constraints, I completely ditched the N810 as my source for news.

VOIP

Being Virtual and Being in Person
VoIP Watch by Andy Abramson One executive I spoke with cited the ability to meet with half a dozen clients in a day using telepresence compared with how long it would take to travel to each client location.

Kyte: This Year's Twitter?
Silicon Alley Insider by Peter Kafka Kyte makes it as easy as possible to capture video with any mobile phone with the capability and post it to your own channel on the site.

Infrastructure

Extending The Internet: The Peernet OpenMesh
Robin Good's Latest News by Robin Good A distributed architecture based on open-standards, that can re-construct its data and which can function regardless of the number of peers involved, seems ideal for guarding against such possible future catastrophic changes.

FYI: Last time a $100MM fund didn't turn out all that great
Hacker News/NY Times by Lawrence M. Fisher When Java was really taking off, the question was how do you get applications going, Eric Schmidt, Sun's chief technical officer said.

Channel

Intel Atom Will Bring Cheaper "Nettop" Computers
Gizmodo by John Gruber Intel calls the system a "Nettop," and it will use the Atom Centrino processor to run Vista without Aero, XP or Linux

Does iPhone Need The iFund?
GigaOM by Om Malik Focus areas include location-based services, social networking, mCommerce, communication, and entertainment.