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links for 2007-03-06

Colin Henderson

The 50 Most Important People on the Web – Yahoo! News Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web. At PC World we love online personals, social networks, and videos of people falling on their keisters as much as the next person, but withou (tags: PCWorld top+50 web internet) Need Help with SRV records – Managing communication (email, calendar, and chat) | Google Groups XMPP set up for Google apps (tags: google+apps XMPP) srv.png (PNG Image, 1229×324 pixels) (tags: google+apps XMPP) Continue reading links for 2007-03-06

Payments

The end of the cash era | Economist.com

Colin Henderson

 The Economist has a leader and detailed article on the digitisation of small payments, and resulting reduction in use of cash. Yet signs of the new order are everywhere (see article). This week mobile-phone operators announced services that will allow people to use their handsets to remit money to those in other countries, even if both parties do not have bank accounts. Numerous mobile-phone shopping-systems are entering commercial use, especially in Asia. Japan has roughly 500 smart-card operators that supply “digital wallets”. Edy, the biggest, oversees 15m transactions a month at 43,000 stores. In America MasterCard, Visa and others have … Continue reading The end of the cash era | Economist.com

Web/Tech

The 50 Most Important People on the Web

Colin Henderson

 PC World produces a great list of the top influential people on the web.  Its a great list, and its particularly good to see people like Scoble, and Matt of WordPress.  Enjoy! We considered hundreds of the Web’s most noteworthy power brokers, bloggers, brainiacs, and entrepreneurs to figure out whose contributions are shaping the way we use the Web. We whittled the list down to the top 50–well, actually the top 62–people, but as you’ll see, there are some you just can’t separate. Source: The 50 Most Important People on the Web – Yahoo! News   Technorati tags: PCWorld Continue reading The 50 Most Important People on the Web

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Prosper Membership Leaps to 200,000 and Funded Loans Top $40 Million

Colin Henderson

 P2P social lending by Prosper continue to grow, as people get accustomed to the concept.  They have been around about 18 months and doubled their user base in the last 4 months. SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Prosper (www.prosper.com), America’s first people-to-people lending marketplace, today announced that over the course of the last four months its membership and funded loans have doubled. As a result, Prosper’s membership base now consists of more than 200,000 individuals with over $40 million in loans funded on the marketplace. Source: Prosper Membership Leaps to 200,000 and Funded Loans Top $40 Million They recently held ‘Prosper days’ … Continue reading Prosper Membership Leaps to 200,000 and Funded Loans Top $40 Million

Social networks

Stowe talks about the changes at USA Today

Colin Henderson

 USA Today has introduced a new site suggesting they are a social network. Stowe disagrees. Sure, USAToday (and WSJ, NYTimes, etc.) want to be ‘destinations’ where people ‘go’ as opposed to just winding up as RSS streams. But will we actually go to these places? Especially if there are dozens or hundreds of them? How many news apps do you want to sign up to? And if you wanted to have a social experience around news media, wouldn’t you want it to be open? Like the blogosphere? Source: /Message: USAToday.com Goes Social, Sorta Stowe is right.  First of all, it’s … Continue reading Stowe talks about the changes at USA Today

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Social media overload – twitter.com

Colin Henderson

 Scoble continues to lead the charge, by adding all the twitter users to his list.  Twitter is one of those incredibly annoying things, yet, it is starting to originate comments about things that don’t show up in blogs. Well, I’m not overloaded enough, so today I’m adding all 719 of my Twitter followers as friends which means my home page is fast and furious. Why do that? So I can listen in on 719 of the world’s early adopters Source: Social media overload « Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger   Technorati tags: twitter Continue reading Social media overload – twitter.com

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Making Windows Vista Sing: Robert Fripp and the Vista Melody

Colin Henderson

No commentary required.  Just page down, and select ‘watch’.  If you appreciate music you will appreciate this genius at work. On May 4th, 2006, Steve Ball invited Robert Fripp back to the Microsoft campus for a second full day of work on Windows Vista following up on his first visit in the Fall of 2005. This time we get an even deeper glimpse into the creative process as the Windows Product team continued to refine their search for melodies, rhythms, and orchestrations that could become the new Windows Vista startup sound. Source: Making Windows Vista Sing: Robert Fripp and the … Continue reading Making Windows Vista Sing: Robert Fripp and the Vista Melody

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Stocks: Worst week in 4 years

Colin Henderson

 Worth noting for the record .. this was a rough week on the stock market. Stocks slump Friday at the end of Wall Street’s worst stretch since 2003; blue-chip averages down more than 4 percent on week. By Rob Kelley and Alexandra Twin, CNNMoney.com staff writers March 2 2007: 5:54 PM EST NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Stocks slumped Friday, at the end of the worst week on Wall Street in four years, as worries about growth at home and abroad caused investors to stage a mass exodus. Source: CNNMoney.com Market Report – Mar. 2, 2007   Technorati tags: stock+market Continue reading Stocks: Worst week in 4 years