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Wow. Mashable is more influential than CNN.
http://thenextweb.com/2009/09/03/wow-mashable-influential-cnn/
You know the world’s turning upside down when a four year-old blog run from Scotland is more influential than one of America’s oldest and most trusted news networks. That’s apparently the case though, on Twitter at least.
Conversation of the Day: Facebook is the New Address Book
When it comes to personal information like email, calendars, to- do's and notes, I have super systems that keep all the data up-to-date by leveraging the cloud and keeping local copies on my computers and my iPhone. Evernote, for example, is one great tool that I use to stay in sync.
Contact information, on the other hand, has always been a pain.
The basic tools like the address book that comes with your computer are outdated. People move around too much these days. Enter social networking. The problem is keeping your information in sync everywhere.
The new version of Facebook for the iPhone, however, at least for me is finally a workable solution because it has an integrated dialer. Part of the reason it works is because I limit my Facebook friends only to those whom I have met or corresponded.
Like Robert Scoble, I wish that people would add their phone numbers to their Facebook accounts so that this becomes the ultimate solution. It sounds like soon Facebook will keep your contact information in sync, which will make this all easier. However, all of this depends on if people keep their contact info current - which isn't a given because of privacy concerns.
For more, see Robert Scoble's thread on Friendfeed, which I have added below. What's your view?
The guys can really play!
via youtube.com
Wow, these players are amazing!!
GDrive's Comin' (better hide your heart girl).
http://mashable.com/2009/01/30/gdrive-rumor/
Eli's comin', hide your heart, girl
Eli's comin', hide your heart, girl
Girl, Eli's a-comin', you better hide
Girl, Eli's a-comin', you better hide
Girl, Eli's a-comin', you better hide
Girl, Eli's comin', hide your heart, girl (hide it)
On the serious side, Om Malik writes in GigaOm that Google needs the GDrive to compete with Microsoft. Note sure I agree that a virtual storage drive is necessarily part of "a virtual computing environment" in the cloud.
"The Moment" in 3D is cool (but it requires Silverlight from MSFT).
You can also see the satellite view of yesterday's massive crowd on the National Mall.
