Group items tagged

a new service that is trying to bridge the world of Google+ and Twitter by watching your public profile for + posts with #p2t in them.  It will then cross post them to Twitter. In invite-only as of July 10. 

Google blog post about adding pivot tables to Google Docs. 

Facebook post bout how to enable a form of two factor authentication via SMS.  This system requires you to have your phone with you if you are accessing facebook from a new machine.  

Last Friday was my last day at the White House. As I begin my fellowship at Harvard University, I'd like to share my reflections on public service.  "On a bright February day, the previous morning's dusting of snow melting on the ground, I arrived at a White House that was, as the Washington Post put it, "stuck" in the "Dark Ages of technology." In their words, "If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past." As my team congratulated me on the new job, they handed me a stack of documents with $27 billion worth of technology projects that were years behind schedule and millions of dollars over budget. At the time, those documents were what passed for real-time updates on the performance of IT projects. My neighbor's ten year old could look up the latest stats of his favorite baseball player on his phone on the school bus, but I couldn't get an update on how we were spending billions of taxpayer dollars while at my desk in the White House. And at the same time, the President of the United States had to fight tooth and nail to simply get a blackberry.  These were symptoms of a much larger problem.

One of, if not the first, tool someone deployed to leverage the initial API for Google+.  This will get you some metrics of your public posts on G+

As some time passes we're getting a better understanding of what's going on with the iphone and android tracking data.  This post summarizes the research done as of 24 April, 2011. 

Recombu intends to use this post to keep track of which Android Smartphones will be upgraded to ICS. 

Mapping the riots by "Indices of deprivation" -- essentially how poor is the neighborhood

Facebook copies Google+'s sharing ideas. .  

Chris Anderson, the founder of TED, describes his battles with email and strategies for minimizing its impact on yourself and those to whom you send email.  

Before May 1st, not even the smartest of machine learning algorithms could have predicted Keith Urbahn's online relevancy score, or his potential to spark an incredibly viral information flow. While politicos "in the know" certainly knew him or of him, his previous interactions and size and nature of his social graph did little to reflect his potential to generate thousands of people's willingness to trust within a matter of minutes. While connections, authority, trust and persuasiveness play a key role in influencing others, they are only part of a complex set of dynamics that affect people's perception of a person, a piece of information or a product. Timing, initiating a network effect at the right time, and frankly, a dash of pure luck matter equally.