Bookmarks for 17 Feb 2009
- 'French Spiderman' Alain Robert scales Hong Kong skyscraper | World news | guardian.co.uk
A photo of Alain Robert ("aka 'the French Spiderman'") from a Guardian gallery. Breathtaking. (photograph climbing ) - HOW TO: Create Groups for Twitter
"One of the most demanded features for Twitter has been the ability to create groups, allowing members to focus on different sets of people they’re following. [...] Because Twitter still does not provide any group feature, it has opened the floodgates for countless third party solutions." (tools twitter social_media ) - Reflections of a Newsosaur: What would Jeff Jarvis do?
"Free is a business model. I know this, because Jeff Jarvis says so. Actually, I think Chris Anderson, the author of “The Long Tail” may have said it first. Be that as it may, here’s the question:Given Jeff’s deeply held belief that content should be free, why is he charging a retail price of $26.99 for his new book?" (business_models google jeff_jarvis )
- Industry Moves: Telegraph Takes Android Evangelist To Lead Mobile Engineering | mocoNews.net
"The UK’s Telegraph Media Group is hiring Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android developer advocate Mike Jennings away to lead its mobile engineering team – one of two appointments as the news publisher beefs up its wireless commitment." (google telegraph mobile hires ) - First chapter of Palm webOS development book
The first chapter of "Palm webOS: Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm Mojo Framework" from O'Reilly. (palm_pre development frameworks sdk platform )
