In Case You Missed It. Weekend Worthy Tech Related Reading

In case you missed them – here’s some interesting technology links and articles to get yourself up to the bleeding edge of technology over the weekend.

(Updated as of  March 14, Sunday)

Clarifying a couple points
Valleywag used a recent podcast I did as material for two points in Six Delusions of Google’s Arrogant Leaders. The two assertions that used my comments as material were “Google’s wealth means Google ‘gets it’” and “Google must sacrifice user privacy to grow.”
Source: Matt Cutts

Apple Now #3
At Friday’s close, these were the five highest market cap U.S. companies.  The biggest oil company. The largest retailer. The leading software company. A conglomerate run by the world’s most respected investor.

Semantics as the Future of Search
In Part I of our two-part “Thinking about the future of search” series, we discussed the social recommendation side of the future of search.  Here, we’ll explore the possibilities of semantic search.
Source: Hypios

Google ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure to Shut Down in China (Update1)
Google Inc. has drawn up detailed plans to shut its search engine in China and is “99.9 percent” certain of going ahead with the closure, the Financial Times reported today, citing a person it didn’t name.
Source: Business Week

One Click Twitter-Clone Now Offered By DreamHost
If you visit the DreamHost blog today, chances are you’ll give a quick guffaw, shake your head in dismay at the state of the Internet and quickly close the browser tab.
Source:  Read Write Web

STAT OF THE DAY: 29 Million People Use The Facebook iPhone App
That’s about a third of the 75+ million iPhone and iPod touch devices that have been shipped so far — a huge percentage of phones. Most super-successful iPhone apps only have a fraction of Facebook’s users.
Source: Business Insider

How Google Approaches Social Media As A Team Sport
According to a recent Smartbrief survey, time is the chief obstacle to engaging in social communities. However, if a business makes social media a team sport, as Google does, anyone can succeed.
Source: Steve Rubel

Forbidden Fruit: Microsoft Workers Hide Their iPhones ($MSFT)
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. employees are passionate users of the latest tech toys. But there is one gadget love that many at the company dare not name: the iPhone.
Source: Business Insider

Court Says Apple Doesn’t Own The Letter “i”
Apple has been dealt a severe blow having been told that it no longer has a monopoly on the letter “i” as part of the name for its products.
Source: Alley Insider

Internet ‘in running’ for Nobel Peace Prize
The internet is among a record 237 individuals and organisations nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Source: Wall Street Journal

Wee Mousie, Fear Not a Touch PC
What’s so great about the mouse, anyway? How is it natural to drag a plastic box across a horizontal surface to move things on a vertical screen two feet away?
Source: New York Times

Why Big Data? Here’s Why I’m Interested
I just had my 2nd conversation this morning before coffee about this fabulous Economist special report on Big Data.
Source: Marshallk

Video Chat on the Plane? Illegal? OK? Legal Gray Area?
I’m writing this at around 36,000 feet, on a United Airlines flight between New York and San Francisco. That’s not so unusual – anymore – Wifi had been on planes for over a year now, and I’ve grown accustomed to the service.
Source: John Battelle

The Power User’s Guide to Google Apps
Using just a small fraction of Google’s vast application offerings? That’s about to end!
Source: Maximum PC

The payment argument is nonsense
In response to my HTML5 apps argument a few people came back to how the payment thingy is missing from my idea, and how it will (apparently) be worthless because of that.
Source: Quirksmode

Which web are you from?
Although I appreciate the global convergence of like minds, I’m terrified by the plague of group think. My interests and the nature of the web allow me to move effortlessly between communities without fear of excommunication.
Source: Victus Spiritus

How to Choose the Right Apple iPad for You
If you are not interested in Apple’s coming iPad and have no intention of buying one, then you may want to skip this post.
Source: New York Times

Apple’s iPhone 4.0 software to deliver multitasking support
Apple this summer will go a long way towards silencing critics and catering to one of the most prevalent demands of its iPhone user base, when it introduces a multitasking solution through the handset’s 4.0 software update that will finally allow several third party apps to run concurrently and in the background.
Source: New York Times

From tiny dotcoms the mighty internet has grown
It’s been 25 years since the first domain name, Symbolics.com, was registered. Rhodri Marsden remembers the small victories that have made web history.
Source: The Independent

Flash and Standards: The Cold War of the Web
You’ve probably heard that Apple recently announced the iPad. The absence of Flash Player on the device seems to have awakened the HTML5 vs. Flash debate. Apparently, it’s the final nail in the coffin for Flash.
Source:  A List Apart

Random thoughts on being an entrepreneur
I wouldn’t say I was an authority on entrepreneurship, certainly not in the same league as people like Fred Wilson or Jason Calacanis. That being said, the last couple of years haven’t been too shabby, either.
Source: Gaping Void

10 Tips for Moving From Programmer to Entrepreneur
Many of the people over at BarCamp are working on/struggling with the transition from programmer to entrepreneur. While I was never a truly “hard core” programmer (meaning lock me in the basement with Mountain Dew for a week and I’ll come out with 100,000 lines of code)
Source: UserScape

Chatroulette Dude: I Don’t Want to Sell. But I’d Like Google To Pay.
The New York Times gives us one more reason to peek into Chatroulette: Anawesome interview with Russian teenager Andrey Ternovskiy, who built the voyeur/chat site everyone loves to talk about.
Source: All Things Digital

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