scagliarini's linx

1. Yesterday was a rough day because the tr.im service had a lot of outages and that made my 40-twits app unreliable. But it's now updating consistently, so I hope the worst is over. 2. I've added a second user, the prolific linker, atul. His report is here. He's...

In announcing the launch of wp.me, a new URL shortening service for wordpress.com hosted sites, Matt Mullenweg stated the much-need obvious about the increasingly competitive market. “While URL shorteners have had some incredible usage tied to the growth (and...

another account. Please enter a different username The email address you have entered is already in use. Study Produced for Online Publishers Says Proprietary Content Is Better Channel Than Portals or 'Ad Networks' For a time, Internet advertising was a rising...

Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming? Studies like this one by Pear Analytics drive me batty. They concluded that 40.55% of the tweets they coded are pointless babble; 37.55% are conversational; 8.7% have "pass along value"; 5.85%...

Slate is running a story about how searching the internet and keeping up with events through instant communication can fulfill biochemical needs within our brains . Research has shown that anticipation and simply "wanting" can stimulate dopamine production in...

Mahalo.com is a human-powered search site that launched in May of 2007. About one and a half years later Mahalo launched Mahalo Answers. Rather than explaining the site myself, here is a brief summary of Mahalo Answers straight from the horse’s mouth: The site...

including the major TV networks? If you want to take action, visit the website http://www.weareallone-support.org 1. Speaker: Indigenous Native American Prophecy, 0:00 - 1:22 Red Crow Westerman. 1:33 - 9:53 Oren Lyons 2. (Planet Earth) Award-winning BBC nature...

We all scan headlines, whether it's the printed newspaper, Techmeme, Huffington Post, Hacker News, Seeking Alpha, Google Reader, Google search results, or Twitter. That's the way we consume information. For any given set of headlines, we might click on one link...