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Make that a "maybe". Discuss more details from Mashable at

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=725691

Strange how two stories on same day don't get analyzed together. Consider how Techcrunch reports that online ad revenue is off by 85%:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/online-ad-revenues-at-t...

The New York Times discovers the local (in San Francisco?!?) potentials of Twitter for small businesses. Yes, even street cart vendors.

I'm still waiting for AT&T to function well enough in my little backwater to make iPhones feasible... not to mention for 1/4 of the population to be internet-savvy (or have heard there is a "tech revolution").

If anybody wants to move to a high desert town with huge hours of sunshine per year (and in need of a revolution/awakening)... email me.

Maybe less is sometimes more. Facebook serving 1B/month while Youtube serves 1.2B/day.

But, last I heard, Google is yet to make money off Youtube. Facebook may be finding that video can be an value-adding supplement to its business, not just a bandwidth-sucking enticement to the lowest-common-denominator of the masses. [ "not that there's anything wrong with the latter" - it just doesn't seem to make for a profit center, even for Google.]

You don't have to take the word of Techcrunch. I've been reading it regularly for a while now and like its stories and links enough that it has reduced my reliance of several feeds:

http://www.techinvestornews.com/page-one.html

Yes, as they say:

""Some percentage of the jobs actually performing infrastructure services, monitoring, and datacenter operations in-house will shift to cloud service providers like Google, Amazon, and the telcos..."

But for start-up entrepreneurs, this can be the good news: that the creative work of assessing a consumer/business niche of need can move more quickly to the creative work of filling that niche need in better ways.

The cloud can really be the friend of our enterprising spirits.

Okay, so I'm a student new to REST. Yet it seems obvious. And simple.

I would have found it helpful to see description of what behavior would constitute NONrestful behavior. POSTs? POSTs that are used for navigation instead of submitting information?

Or even changed to "nibble away at browser share", considering the findings (even among zdnet.com.au visitors), given:

"For the month until 21 July, 5.2 per cent of ZDNet.com.au readers used Chrome, compared with 3.5 per cent for the same monthly period six months ago. 5.9 per cent used Safari, compared with 4.4 per cent six months ago. ZDNet.com.au generally receives several million page impressions each month."

"Internet Explorer lost 1.3 per cent to remain in the lead with 50.7 per cent, while Mozilla Firefox also sank 1.8 per cent to reach 37 per cent."

With a new admin (well, relatively now, now) that has (if memory serves) announced that it is "open to open source" this is prime time for such a concerted OS strategy.

If they can pull off a revolution in openness they just might make it attractive to work for federal agencies.

Although I find this fellow's blog has strings of provocative ideas, I have to throw a bit of coolish water on the significance of "cognitive dissonance." It's an old concept from social psychology - and it's just one way of looking at some behavioral phenomena.

For alternatives, study up on what social psychologists call "attribution theory."

I thought the title was going to lead to a rant about the web isolating people socially, but actually this shows some of the real power of web (at least for people with hot enough connections) to enable people to share...

maybe especially cool for connecting with shut-in friends/relatives. The web is about connecting and here's another great expression of that potential.

Okay, I'm sold enough to give it a try. But I'm not a graphics professional... just a coder who doesn't have the bucks for PS.

It may work for the occasional tweaking, but are there any graphics pros out there that have tried this?

Although the title has link-bait value, if taken seriously I would say that it basically reveals an author with limited vision.

In my experience there are nearly no documents (that have any significant value to me) that I would not want to see "webified". I love the options provided - to excerpt, cut/paste, add links, etc. Needless to say... no big scribd fan here.

I was in the dark about Acquia vis-a-vis Drupal. So, FYI (from wikipedia.org/wiki/drupal):

"In 2007, a Drupal-focused company, Acquia, was created by Drupal project lead Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson. Acquia announced a subscription-based service for Drupal at Drupalcon Boston 2008 and started services with Acquia Drupal, a distribution based on Drupal 6, in September 2008. Subscriptions include one or more Drupal distributions, a set of companion network-supplied value-add services, and access to a Technical Assistance Center."

I guess here's answer to question my wife often asks me, "why do people dedicate their time/energy to "free" open source software." Sometimes it places you right to make some money through support/special_features.

And the key word in this title: correlation

Part (or all) the correlation may come from the extra money ( = staff time) to invest in social media.

I keep 1 high priority email account that beeps me with any new message. And several others with assigned purposes.

This enables me to stay (best I can) focused on "code alone" ( plus HN for breaks ;).

I've got to go with the "none" crowd.

I don't consider coding an easy or natural activity to me... until I really get into sort of a zone. Sometimes I have to close my eyes (as well as ears) and stop staring at the screen... so that complete lack of input lets my brain percolate a fresh way of looking at a project.

What can I say? There's lots of different mind-styles out there. Took me a long time to find my own.

Did he just ask, in effect, "Why do developers develop communities, but testers don't?"

I can't resist answering, "Because testers would much rather test communities."

But actually, I'm serious: It takes a different mind-set (IMHO) to be a great tester than it does to be a great developer - and it probably is the latter that are inclined to build (develop) a community.