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Jimmie Johnson is not the bad guy

I have to say, I am really, really glad to see Tony Stewart's take on this. I haven't been a huge fan of his in recent years, but maybe the new team and car have been helping his attitude. Because this is what I keep saying.

Amplify’d from www.thenewsstar.com

"The thing is now we have to talk about the potential of six," 2002 and 2005 champion Tony Stewart told reporters. "But I think there's been too much emphasis on it not being good for the sport, people thinking that it's bad.

"I think it's pretty exciting that an organization has been able to be that good for that long. That's a compliment to what they've done. I think too much effort has been spent looking at the negative side of it, which there really isn't, when all the guy has done is gone out there and done what he's supposed to do. He's gone out and done what we're all trying to do.

"I think what he's done has been under-appreciated, in my opinion."

When asked to make a case for Johnson winning No. 6, Stewart reacted with mild incredulity.

"How do you bet against him right now?" Stewart asked. "When a guy has done it five times, what basis would you have to bet against him? That's the argument."

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Google vs. Apple

A coworker of mine wrote this. It's a really good read. And I'm positive it will get some debate going over here. Since it relates to my job, I'm going to refrain, for now anyway, other than to remind people that I am a happy owner of a Droid 2 :)

Amplify’d from www.tmforum.org

The Google-Apple Competition
Despite strong marketing efforts and buzz employed by Apple, Android stepped up, and there has been an increase in demand for smartphones that run on Google's OS. According to ComScore, 61.5 million Americans ages 13 and older owned a smartphone, and 26 percent had an Android-based phone. Third-place Apple followed with a 25 percent share and Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, led the pack with a 33.5 percent share.

ComScore found that 234 million American ages 13 and older had a mobile phone, with Samsung the leading manufacturer with a 24.5 percent share. LG was second with 20.9 percent, followed by Motorola, 17 percent; RIM 8.8 percent and Nokia, 7.2 percent.

Why is this happening? Google has been taking some smart steps, and there's more good stuff on the horizon.

Read more at www.tmforum.org
 

Licorize - Todos & Bookmarks in motion

Now here's one I could see replacing Delicious with...in addition to tags, you can give your bookmarks types, such as Read, Remind me Later, To-Do, Goal. It also integrates with many sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Gmail, EverNote and Skype. URL:  licorize.com

Jumpscan - All in one QR code

Create your own QR code for your online identities, etc. Most intriguing....but we don't all have these phones yet. Are buesiness cards going to be barcodes someday? URL:  jumpscan.com

BookFabrik – Capture your digital life

Turn your blog into a book.

For some people, unless you could just date ranges, this would be one HUGE tome. URL:  www.feedfabrik.com

Dscoverme

Automagically share....hmmmm.... It's like it wants to be FriendFeed but better. URL:  dscover.me

In my ongoing bookmarking search, today I decided to try out zootool. I imported all of my delicious things easily enough, but find the limit of 20 packs to be not enough for my librarian brain. It's too limiting. If I'm going to group things, I want subgroups. And as many groups as I need. If Pearl Trees weren't such a nightmare to navigate when you have 5K bookmarks, I'd just use it. But apparently my search will continue....

Official: Delicious is NOT Shutting Down

ReAmplify'd post by Jaemi K

Good. Maybe there's one brain cell left over there.

Amplify’d from thenextweb.com
In a blog post today, Delicious says “No, we are not shutting down.” But they aren’t staying at Yahoo either.
Yesterday, it was all but confirmed that Yahoo! was sunsetting Delicious, one of the most popular social bookmarking services. They do admit that they are not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, and are looking for a home outside of the company.

From the blog, “We’re actively thinking about the future of Delicious and we believe there is a home outside the company that would make more sense for the service and our users. We’re in the process of exploring a variety of options and talking to companies right now. And we’ll share our plans with you as soon as we can.”

In the words of the Hitchhiker’s Guide, “Don’t Panic.” Delicious says they are maintaining the site and encourage users to stay active.

Yesterday, Yahoo made an official statement:

Part of our organizational streamlining involves cutting our investment in underperforming or off-strategy products to put better focus on our core strengths and fund new innovation in the next year and beyond. We continuously evaluate and prioritize our portfolio of products and services, and do plan to shut down some products in the coming months such as Yahoo! Buzz, our Traffic APIs, and others. We will communicate specific plans when appropriate.

Why would Yahoo want to sunset (a.k.a. kill) Delicious? The domain name itself may be worth $1million, although serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis disagrees. While Yahoo might not want it, the Internet support for Delicious has been phenomenal. In fact, yesterday supporters created the Twitter account, “Save Delicious,” which already has over 400 followers.

What do you see in the future for Delicious?

Read more at thenextweb.com
 

Hmm...must go home and alter the IE code on my website and -then- look at it in IE9

Teaching Backwards

I'm currently enrolled in an on-line Intro to JavaScript course, and I have to say that at the moment it's a bit of an infuriating experience. I have a major issue with my instructor's choice of books.

The first is so dumbed down it borders on insulting....and while there's no way I could possibly misunderstand the code, I am not 5. The second was written in 2004. It is unacceptable to use outdated material to teach in a field as fast-changing as the web. If you're talking to me about IE5.5 and 6 you're not doing me much good. Yes, this one was optional, but that's almost worse. Do you know how many excellent books are out there on this topic? And how much more useful they'd likely be?

I always hate it when I run into materials that seem like they could as easily confuse someone who didn't know better as help them. That's not the way to teach. It's a lousy way to learn.
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