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Instapaper is a little app that started out as a side project. Now it's a thriving one-man business. We talk to Marco Arment, Instapaper's founder and sole employee, about the app economy. http://www.npr.org/blogs... - Adewale Oshineye

"submitted by reddit to blog." - Adewale Oshineye

"Better organization and document management could solve some of the problems. But attempts to fix corporate document management also caused some of them, so one has to be careful. We might've had better luck if more of the physical office libraries still existed. We only retained some of the documents because one of them did. Memory of techniques and importance is even harder. Maintaining a continuous gradient of ages in the company probably helps, so you don't fall off a memory cliff when one cohort of employees retires. But maybe engineering archaeology will always exist. The more I look around, the more the engineering world, once you go back more than a few years, looks like subterranean New York City. A mass of strange engineering feats humming away out of sight, produced by long-forgotten ancient peoples, leaving only fragmentary maps and diagrams." - Adewale Oshineye

European launch partners for timeline - Adewale Oshineye

"Luckily, while I was looking in the iTunes directory, I noticed a sub-directory called "Previous iTunes Libraries". Inside that dicrectory were several copies of my "iTunes Library.itl" file. The most current one was about three months old - probably the last time I upgraded iTunes." - Adewale Oshineye

"iTunes Library.xml contains some (but not all) of the same information stored in the iTunes Library file. The purpose of the iTunes Library.xml file is to make your music and playlists available to other applications on your computer. If you delete the file, iTunes creates a new copy from the iTunes Library file." - Adewale Oshineye

"This file contains some (but not all) of the same information stored in the iTunes Library file." - Adewale Oshineye

Everything you ever wanted to know about how iTunes stores it's data - Adewale Oshineye

Networks of services that dynamically discover each other via DNS over the Internet - Adewale Oshineye

Networks of services that dynamically discover each other via DNS over the Internet - Adewale Oshineye

"The draft paper I am presenting, “But the Data is Already Public”: On the Ethics of Research in Facebook, retells the circumstances around the T3 project and my partial re-identification of the dataset. It also describes some of the good faith efforts made by the T3 researchers to try to ensure the anonymity of the data, but exposes the limitations and errors in their procedures. Finally, it highlights the broader challenges for engaging in research on/in social networking sites that this case brings to light. " - Adewale Oshineye

"A study which is to be unveiled on August 4th at Black Hat, a security conference in Las Vegas, suggests that day is close. Its authors, Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross and Fred Stutzman, all at America’s Carnegie Mellon University, ran several experiments that show how three converging technologies are undermining privacy. One is face-recognition software itself, which has improved a lot. The researchers also used “cloud computing” services, which provide lots of cheap processing power. And they went to social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn, where most users post real names and photos of themselves." - Adewale Oshineye

Dr. Astro Teller is currently Director of New Projects for Google, working to help the company explore new potential business areas. Astro is also co-founder and a current Director of Cerebellum Capital, Inc, a hedge fund management firm whose investments are continuously designed, executed, and improved by a software system based on techniques from statistical machine learning. Astro is also co-founder and a current Director of BodyMedia, Inc, a leading wearable body monitoring company. From 2007 to 2010, Astro was the founding CEO of Cerebellum Capital. From 1999 to 2007, Dr. Teller was the founding CEO of BodyMedia, Inc. From 2003 to 2010, Astro was a co-founder and Chairman of Zivio Technologies, an intellectual property holding company. Prior to starting BodyMedia, Dr. Teller was co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Sandbox Advanced Development, an advanced development technology company. Before his tenure as a business executive, Dr. Teller taught at Stanford University and was an... - Adewale Oshineye

Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at MIT’s Media Lab. He joins us to talk about Google Plus, fan fiction, serendipity, and universal imperfect multilingualism. http://tummelvision.tv/2011... - Adewale Oshineye

"The illusion of asymmetric insight makes it seem as though you know everyone else far better than they know you, and not only that, but you know them better than they know themselves. You believe the same thing about groups of which you are a member. As a whole, your group understands outsiders better than outsiders understand your group, and you understand the group better than its members know the group to which they belong." - Adewale Oshineye

HP proved that most people don't want to buy an incremental improvement to the iPhone that can't run iOS apps. Then just for kicks, HP went and proved the same point again with the TouchPad. The lesson to other mobile companies, I think, is that unless you're a low-cost Asian vendor, you need to differentiate from Apple, not draft behind it. - Adewale Oshineye

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Citation Needed - Adewale Oshineye

"The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to be made to any   information anywhere. The address format includes an access method   (=namespace), and for most name spaces a hostname and some sort of path. " - Adewale Oshineye

A growing number of minimalists are trying to cut down on physical commodities and replace them with digital counterparts. So is it possible to live out of a hard drive? And in future could less definitely be more? http://www.abc.net.au/rn... - Adewale Oshineye

This is the point when WTD stops being daily - Adewale Oshineye

Notable for the phrase "personally predictable information" - Adewale Oshineye

"If you want to think like a pioneer, focus on the problem you're trying to solve. The actual problem. Don't jump directly to what everyone else is doing and then rephrase your problem in terms of that solution. " - Adewale Oshineye

There's a very interesting side effect to becoming an expert: you can start experimenting with improvements and features that would have previously looked daunting or impossible. And those are the kind of improvements and features that might all of a sudden make your program appealing to a larger audience." - Adewale Oshineye

The Hipstamatic and Instagram filters were designed with clear goals in mind: to emulate certain retro-camera aesthetics, to serve as starting points and inspirations for photographs. Or more succinctly: they were built to be used. If you find yourself creating something, and you don't understand how it will be used, and you don't plan on using it yourself, then it's time to take a few steps back and reevaluate what you're doing. " - Adewale Oshineye

The future is more interesting" - Adewale Oshineye

Huffduffed from http://academicearth.org/lecture... - Adewale Oshineye

Have you tried the Tumblr bookmarklet? - Adewale Oshineye

No, but I assume that since you mention it, it's pretty solid. The thing is, sites like Friendfeed and Tumblr want you to share things from around the internet, but Facebook and Google+ want you to spend time on their sites mainly, so it makes sense that their bookmarklets and random sharing functionality are subpar. - Andy Bakun

The Critical Path #1: The Five Year Plan - 5by5 http://5by5.tv/criticalpath/1 - Adewale Oshineye

Creatiplicity: The Podcast of Fusion Ads http://creatiplicity.com/2011... - Adewale Oshineye

The four-year-old site is helping media outlets like The Huffington Post and The New York Times start tumblogs to better engage readers and even puts together social events so its bloggers can meet. But some analysts think people are eventually going to have to put a limit on the number of online communities they're involved with. http://www.npr.org/blogs... - Adewale Oshineye