Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01 http://ff.im/-aQMtf # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01 http://ff.im/-aQMtg # Liked "WIN! Finally able to suprise Rach at a resturant. She is always wise to my plans… But this time,…" [pic] http://ff.im/-aRq4q # Liked "NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepository….o_0" http://ff.im/-aQTKi # Liked "Center thyself. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Center. Thy. Self. #ommmm&q... Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia Causes is a social networking donation platform that uses MySpace so that people can raise money for causes or issues that they believe in. Generally these kinds of activities help provide a community around issues like Breast Cancer, or stop smoking, or other issues that are part of our daily life. Causes is an excellent application that makes the process of raising and donating money for a specific cause very easy and embeddable into someone’s MySpace page. Last ... Read Full Story

Image by david⢰ via Flickr Most of us at least look at our spam queues on our systems on a semi-regular basis, what is always interesting is to see the variances in tactics that spammers are using to try to get their stuff into your system. This time it is all about jokes, ones my kids would like. There is nothing wrong with a good joke – and spammers seem to have caught onto the idea that burying their ads under jokes might just work – odds are also highly likely that it ... Read Full Story

Torrent freak is reporting that Demonoid, a bittorrent tracker that was shut down over two months ago due to hardware failure is back on line. Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia With apologies to Intel for usurping and corrupting their commercial tag line, in a classic “our rock stars are not like your rock stars” move, Stack Overflow (one of the best programming information web sites out there lately) has opened up a job board with a twist, employers will browse and beg you to work for them rather than the usual hiring is broken process of a top programmer looking for a job from indifferent programmers. Here is the twist though; the prog... Read Full Story

Image via CrunchBase The good news in looking through my Google Dashboard is that overall is a dull testament to my lack of Google use and that it is not like looking at my FBI file, if anything my FBI file is really cool – it is amazing what people will say about you for a federal background investigation. If my Google dashboard was my FBI file – I would be as dull as ditch water, and not have to worry about anything. One of the reasons I am dull is that I am also aware of what I am ... Read Full Story

Reports are all in that the initial launch of Windows 7 has been a huge success for Microsoft – which is good, because the general reviews of Windows 7, and my own beta testing of the product showed that it was much better than Vista. Read Full Story

Image via CrunchBase I am a diehard Microsoft Fan boy – even though I own an Apple and Linux boxes and use AWS for most of my infrastructure needs at work and at play, Microsoft still is an important part of my normal work day. But with the release of Don Dodge (who I have met at a couple of conferences, and listened to him speak) was the face of the current Microsoft. Much like Robert Scoble was the face of Microsoft while he was there, Don was more low key, more easy going, and less ... Read Full Story

While I am on the subject of measuring and metering social networking over on Toolbox, what I was thinking of was a simple approach that many people could take to monitor Twitter and Facebook in one fell swoop for occurrences of keywords, like your company name. Fortunately both TweetDeck and Seesmic can allow you to monitor when your tag, alias, or keyword shows up in a search and you can see what people are saying. Below is TweetDeck that will allow you to search twitter and facebo... Read Full Story

When we look at corporate frameworks and how we use collaboration and innovation across corporate boundaries, including collaborating with other companies to get a product out to market we are looking at social networking. Read Full Story