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• I really dislike DST. This whole time change thing has got me screwed up again.
• IDEAfest yesterday was great. I’ll be posting my slides soon (just wanted to add some stuff to the end). Chris LaBossiere wrote a great post on social networking, inspired by the event.
• Skittles ran an interesting marketing experience this past week. They made the homepage of their site a search for “skittles” on Twitter. People quickly took advantage of that, posting all sorts of things, which forced the company to change from Twitter Search to Facebook.
• Darren wrote about a service called ZinePal – it lets you print your blog. Actually looks kind of neat.
• Really looking forward to the end of the week – Sharon and I are off to Calgary for the weekend for Dine Out Calgary. We’ll be back Sunday evening to see Bill Maher at the River Cree Casino!

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• I sort of already do this when I post my “Sleeping” update at night – Yawnlog is a social sleep tracker. There really is an app for everything!
• FriendFeed posted a really interesting entry about how they use MySQL to store schema-less data. They currently have over 250 million entries in their database, not counting metadata!
• Computerworld’s Mike Elgan called podcasting “the most underappreciated, underutilized media ever” in a new opinion piece this last week.
• What did the Internet look like in 1996? Slate took a peek this week. AOL is mentioned six times in the article, Netscape four times.
• I’m going to write about my new Netbook soon, but in the meantime, check out this article from Wired: The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time.
• Another great essay from Paul Graham: Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe. Don Dodge has some good discussion of the idea here.
• Looks like I need to have a blogging evening/day – my backlog of posts is getting awfully long!

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• Just got back this evening from Vancouver. Had a great time at Northern Voice! I’ll write up my post-mortem later this week.
• I finally got my Dell Mini 9 netbook! It was delivered on Friday, so I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet.
• Though it didn’t win for Best Picture tonight at the Oscars, The Dark Knight still had some good news this week – it surpassed $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales.
• This is pretty coo: the hardware behind the newest WordPress.com data center.
• For some reason, I find myself interested whenever I come across another Dubai-related link. Jason Kottke wrote recently about a post by David Galbraith, and summarized: “What’s the biggest problem with Dubai? It doesn’t have the cultural bedrock needed to support a destination city.”
• Cool visualization, though I don’t agree with all of them: The Trilogy Meter.
• My photos from Northern Voice are here, and my photos from Illuminate Yaletown (which I’ll write more about later) are here.

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• Sharon and I went to Normand’s for dinner last night. The service was great, and the food was pretty good too. They were non-stop busy, all night. I have a few photos to upload still.
• This is such a great list – 15 things all airports should have.
• Lots of software companies do continuous integration, but how many do continuous deployment? The folks IMVU have an incredibly inspiring deployment process.
• I couldn’t agree more with Darren about phone books – it seems bizarre that we still have them in 2009. Such a waste.
• The Moonlight team shipped version 1.0 this week – congratulations! Silverlight is doing better than you might think.
• Twitter doesn’t have a business model to announce just yet, despite all the discussion early in the week that they would start charging companies.
• I’m getting excited for Northern Voice! Megan and I leave Thursday evening.

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• Just got back from celebrating Andrea’s birthday at King Noodle Hot Pot, and I feel like I gained a hundred pounds! Very good though, and she was definitely surprised. Happy Birthday Andrea! Pictures are here.
• On Friday, Sharon and I went to Eden Lilly for “a very sexy party” which Sharon wrote about here. Yesterday we went to check out the Royal Bison Craft & Art Fair, which you can read about here.
• Despite repeated statements to the contrary, Microsoft will indeed change the behavior of the UAC control panel in Windows 7. All you need to know is that this’ll make Windows 7 more secure.
• Very cool from the New York Times: the Article Search API. With it you can search through more than 2.8 million articles from 1981 until present, via 35 searchable fields.
• Opera is working on a new Javascript engine called Carakan. I’m glad to see the JS-engine wars heating up!
• Facebook has joined the OpenID foundation. That’s pretty cool, and something I didn’t think would happen.
• Another interesting (and long overdue) announcement from Facebook – they’ve opened up the status API to other applications.
• Should be a couple of Twestival-related articles published this week! If you’re planning on joining us on Thursday, please register online.

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• Didn’t watch all of the Super Bowl today, but caught most of the second half. Quite entertaining! Now I’ll have to go watch all the commercials online. One thing I already watched was the Transformers 2 teaser! It’s gonna rock!
• Also: It should be called Handegg.
• On Friday, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) announced a 20-year deal with Wi-Fi Rail Inc., to outfit 104 miles of track and 43 stations with wireless Internet access by 2011. It won’t be free to use, but it’s not too expensive – yearly access will cost $300 when fully complete.
• I think this is cool: TripIt has an API! Now I want a WordPress widget.
• CoverItLive is a service that helps you live-blog an event. On Wednesday, it was announced that they raised $1.2 million. One to keep an eye on, I think.
• Long Zheng posted about a potential security issue with the way Microsoft has implemented UAC in Windows 7. I agree with Long, I think it’s something they should change, even if it is by design as they claim.
• On Tuesday, Liz at Three Bright Stars gave me a “Lemonade Award” for my post about Free WiFi. Thanks Liz, much appreciated!
• I’ve run into rate-limiting issues with Twitter’s API this weekend. I requested whitelisting on Tuesday, but still haven’t heard back. Kind of annoying.

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• Happy Chinese New Year! I had a great dinner tonight with Sharon’s family.
• Nicholas Carr wrote an interesting post this week about what he calls “the information triumvirate” – the web as the medium, Google as the navigation of that medium, and Wikipedia as the destination.
• According to new traffic data from Hitwise, Twitter surpassed Digg for the first time this week. Maybe that’s why they have been able to raise more money at a $250 million valuation.
• One of my favorite commercials is The Discovery Channel’s “I love the whole world”. I guess Microsoft Learning thought it would be fun to spoof! The Halo one is pretty good, actually.
• Wizzard Media announced on Thursday that it recorded 1.2 billion podcast download requests in 2008. Fairly impressive numbers!
• Here’s some more statistics: the Internet 2008 in numbers from Pingdom.
• And even more: comScore estimates that the worldwide Internet population is 1.5 billion. Amazingly, they estimate that 21.8 million Canadians are online.

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• Finally got a new phone today! I gave in and got a BlackBerry. I was looking at the Pearl, but in the end went with the Curve (8330 on Telus). One of the first things I did when I got home was download TwitterBerry!
• I’ve been playing with a new C# library for Twitter this week called tweet# or tweetsharp. It was written by Daniel Crenna and features a fluent interface. Very cool.
• Also on the topic of libraries for developers, jQuery released version 1.3 this week!
• I’ve seen dozens of Windows 7 reviews this week, but none as interesting or useful as Tim Sneath’s Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets. Don’t miss it.
• A number of blogs discussed the state of Enterprise RSS this week. Greg Reinacker from NewsGator wrote a fantastic reply on Thursday. He says Enterprise RSS is there as an enabler, and is “in more places than you probably think.”
• Interesting article at The Daily Beast on The Gig Economy. Tina Brown posits that no one has a job anymore, instead they have gigs.
• Ready for Tuesday? I’m looking forward to Barack Obama’s inauguration!

The first full week of January went pretty much as expected – very quickly! It was a busy week. Nice to be back to a normal schedule though.

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• It’s possible that the New York Times company could default on $400 million worth of debt in May, and that has many people speculating about the company’s future. What would happen if the New York Times stopped printing? How would the world react if America’s newspaper of record was no longer available in physical form? Michael Hirschorn argues in The Atlantic that the blow would be largely sentimental. I think he’s right.
• Some related stories from the week: On Monday, the New York Times started selling display advertising on its front page. Jack Shafer wrote in Slate about how newspapers tried to invent the web, but failed. And TechCrunch wrote that to see where media is going, simply follow the money.
• Microsoft announced on Monday that the Xbox 360 recorded its best year in history – life-to-date sales of the console reached 28 million worldwide.
• Mininova saw the number of torrent downloads double from 3.5 billion in 2007 to 7 billion in 2008, and the rate continues to increase.
• This looks like a simple but useful tool included in Windows 7 – the Problem Steps Recorder. Run into an issue? Use the tool to record a short video that you can then send to tech support. Nice.
• From Chris Anderson: the best selling MP3 album of the year at Amazon was also released for free under a Creative Commons license. So much for “piracy” destroying the music industry!
• Using Google Insights for Search, the Royal Pingdom blog has identified the current trends for web terminology and buzzwords. Kind of interesting!
• Have you heard about Microsoft Songsmith? It’s a new product out of Microsoft Research that can automatically provide musical melodies to accompany any vocal singing you provide. Very cool!