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POPSSteal my content, please!
I completely agree with Scoble on this one, although I can understand why people who make their living directly from their creations have a hard time letting go of the fear of giving away at least some of the rights to their content. Cory Doctorow began releasing all of his literary work under creative commons licenses years ago, allowing people to freely download and distribute his work under some light provisos. I downloaded and read "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" on my palm pilot, freely and legally, and was hooked. Because of that, I've read a huge amount of his writing, become a mammoth fan, and will likely purchase every book he publishes. I've also published everything I've written, shot, and produced under a similar license. While that certainly hasn't brought me traditional commercial success, it has definitely accelerated serendipity countless times for me, and if you trace out the effects of those 'lucky' events, it's helped shape both my career and life.
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POPSFacebook CEO - Major overhaul of App platform coming From everything I've heard so far (mostly from scoble's Qik videos from Davos and this post, but also a few other rumbings), Facebook is working hard to make the App platform less spammy, and to enable developers to build deeper, more powerful apps which really extend Facebook's functionality. If they really go the "google androiod" route with this, and allow developers to build apps which users can swap out (think superwall, but actually in place of the stock "wall" app) this could shape up to be a great year for FB. It's also good to hear Robert echo some of the things that I felt when meeting Mark - he's an extremely humble, shy, interesting person, who's genuinely geeking out about this stuff at work every day. With someone that passionate about the future of the net and what they're building at FB, I'm pretty confident that good things are yet to come.
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POPSAnyone with a good local pharmacy, help! I called our awesome local pharmacy in Astoria to see if they had any on the shelves, as they've been keeping me in plenty of my trusted real abuterol (with CFCs, but it works better), but no luck on the Cylert. If you have a good local pharmacy that you think might stock Cylert (aka Pemoline), or are in another country which hasn't banned it, please call to see if there is any available. If there is, contact Len directly through his twitter account or comment here and I'll get in touch with him. The phonecall to my local pharmacy took 5 min. Please take a few minutes if you can, it could save a life!
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POPSIs @scobleizer part of friendfeed? I have always been under the impression that Robert is not affiliated with the company friendfeed. Maybe that's wrong. And i certainly don't want to jump the gun. But after reading this comment he posted, it seems odd that he referred to friendfeed as "we". Being that he is such an influential member of the social web, i'd be interested in knowing if there is an affiliation there.
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POPSBored with Facebook ? Is the increasing usage of Facebook in the workplace a sign that the network is more and more used for career-oriented purposes or just a sign that people are also bored...with their job ?
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POPSPrint may be dying, but the news is not One of the reasons I read Mathew Ingram's blog is because of the well thought out, intelligent commentary on his selection of topics. In this case, he does a great quick analysis of the current discussion of whether newspapers are dying or not. His point, and a good one, is that the purpose and need of the newspaper companies is still there - but the "paper" part is what will probably go into the dustbin of history. Mathew (again) has inspired my opinions on the topic, which I'm writing and will share on my blog (http://rickmahn.com) by tomorrow. Interesting if you have an opinion on newspapers or not.
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