Social networks and my big a-ha

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How Many Social Networks Is Too Many?

How Many Social Networks Is Too Many? 11/14/2003 02:29 AM
I keep reading about all these "social networking software" plays, and the amazing thing to me is that, unlike during the last bubble, everyone except people working for these companies or venture capitalists seem to know it's a bubble. Yet, they keep on coming. The latest is that Evite has launched their own version of Friendster tied to their event organizing system, and eMode (known for their fun tests and dating system) has changed their name to Tickle, which is what their Friendster wannabe is called. They also bought another social networking service, to take one of about 100 off the market. Who the hell signs up for all of these systems? Paten ts aside, there is nothing complicated in creating such a site (there's even one Friendster rip off called Yet Another Friendster Rip Off). The complication comes in actually making money from such a site. The odd thing, though, is the rampant skepticism about these sites. In the 90s bubble years, it was never like this. Sure, there was some skepticism, but not the near universal skepticism that is focused on social software space right now. What's funny is that you would think so much skepticism would make the VCs stay away, but the reverse is happening.

Social Networks Visualiser 0.3

Social Networks Visualiser 0.3 04/29/2004 08:22 PM
A social networks visualizer.

Alumni social networks

Alumni social networks 06/01/2004 11:40 PM
Th efacebook, Bruinwalk, and Online Networking.

Thefacebook.com recently included UCLA in its collection of universities—generating 3,500 new UCLA users in just one month. It appears that UCLA’s bruinwalk.com will also be adding social networking functionality to its menu of services, according to Phillip Lin for the Daily Bruin.

Bruinwalk.com plans to offer services both ‘comparable’ and additive to Thefacebook.com.

What social networking services are currently lacking on Thefacebook.com? Do any readers utilize this university service?

[The Social Software Weblog]

Can't say anything about UCLA - but I know that Affinity Engines has a system for USC, as well as Stanford and an upcoming one for U. of Mich.

Photos and Social Networks

Photos and Social Networks 03/14/2005 06:11 PM

Very cool visualizations of relationships among photo-sharing users at FlickrLand.

Social Networks Visualiser 0.33

Social Networks Visualiser 0.33 05/23/2004 10:28 PM
A social networks visualizer for Linux.

Looking for gold in social networks

Looking for gold in social networks 02/10/2004 02:36 AM
But those plans could be short-circuited by Internet giants like Yahoo and Google, as well as by established players in the online jobs and dating categories ...

Social Networks Visualiser 0.32

Social Networks Visualiser 0.32 05/12/2004 05:34 AM
A social networks visualizer.

IFTF on Social Networks

IFTF on Social Networks 04/09/2004 04:02 PM
Next week I'm attending an Institute for the Future event on their technology forecast. Came across a sample report on Social Networks in the World of Abundant Connectivity (.pdf) that had this great comment on technology product design: Social networks...

Social Networks Against Spam

Social Networks Against Spam 02/18/2004 02:56 PM
While the various social networking services continue to push forward, some researchers are using the same basic concept of linking people to their friends to see if social networks can help fight spam. The idea is that most people get their email from a limited social network of people, and that network can be worked out by looking at the "to:" "from:" and "cc:" portions of your email. The theory being that if I know two people, they're much more likely to know each other as well, and the system can link them, and assume that if they email each other it's unlikely to be spam. Spam messages, however, have no such linkage, and are more easily picked out from the crowd. Of course, it doesn't sound like this works all that well. You don't get any false positives, but it seems to only recognize a little over 50% of all spam. The folks behind this research say it's still useful, if used in combination with other spam filtering techniques.

Social Networks: Will Users Pay to Get
Friends?

Social Networks: Will Users Pay to Get
Friends? 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
Despite impressive recent growth, social networking Web sites like Friendster face a challenge: how to make money.

Missing the Point of Social Networks

Missing the Point of Social Networks 01/03/2004 11:02 PM
I thought I was done talking about this stuff, but I guess not. In response to my FriendRank post, I noticed something on StartupSkills.com that I've been hearing lots of recently: Like so many people, I've used Friendster and found it an intriguing idea from both a technical and business standpoint. It is a revolutionary concept, although by no means is it original. Social networking is a subject taught in business schools around the globe. The 'entrepreneurial model' of social...

Social networks by referrer, through
bl0grolls

Social networks by referrer, through
bl0grolls 06/12/2002 06:22 AM
Mark Pilgrim compiles blogrolls from his referrer stats, then from the blogrolls of the people he links to in his blogroll, then one level further.Update: Mark does it with the Google "related links" feature too, and says it would make a nice web service. It's my opinion such web services will most probably exist by next year, if not sooner.

MSNBC: Social Networks Go to Work

MSNBC: Social Networks Go to Work 07/29/2004 05:06 PM
I just filed this story for MSNBC about the business value of social networking services. Truth or hype: can some SNSes become helpful professional tools for businesses -- in particular, independent entrepreneurs and smaller companies, for whom each new personal connection is a significant business building block? Includes interviews with unrepentant compulsive digital networkers danah boyd, Frank Keeney of SOCALWUG, Noah Glass of audblog, Scott Beale of Laughing Squid, Scott Rafer of Feedster, Travis Kalanick of RedSwoosh (and, once upon a time, Scour.net), and human router Joi Ito -- who said this:

Their usefulness depends on your needs and networking style. LinkedIn, for example allows you to search histories and CVs in your network -- it's great for finding people who work in a particular company, or who have worked with someone you know. It's also an interesting way to find references for people or companies you're getting to know.

I think email is broken in a serious way, and SNS is trying to address some of the issues associated with that breakdown. These networks may get it right and really change the way we do business, but we're still at the beginning of the development and evolution curve.

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The Heisenberg uncertainty of social
networks

The Heisenberg uncertainty of social
networks 01/04/2004 05:54 PM
One of my New Year's resolutions is to open up this weblog to a wider audience. So on first mention of something obscurely technical, I'll try to define it. Today's obscurely technical topic: FOAF. ...

Competition in Social Networks of Agents

Competition in Social Networks of Agents 09/25/2004 07:43 PM
A new TRN article discusses a new quantitative model of agent competition. The new model has potential uses in many fields including the optimization of communication and control within robot collectives. Traditional game theory has limitations in describing complex interaction in collectives of intelligent agents. The new theory allows the agents to make choices based on incomplete information. Even though mistakes are made, each agent has access to the knowledge and experiences of its neighbors allowing the collective to evolve complex dynamics quickly. One of the more interesting results is that the a scalable leadership system of "hubs" within the collective evolves spontaneously. For a more in-depth look at the theory and research see the original research paper: Competition in Social Networks: Emergence of a Scale-free Leadership Structure and Collective Efficiency (PDF format). The research was done by M. Anghel, Zoltan Toroczkai, Kevin E. Bassler, and Gyorgy Korniss. It was funded by grants from the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation.

Identity Theft and Social Networks

Identity Theft and Social Networks 01/02/2004 06:09 PM
scubacuda writes "This Security Focus article looks at the lack of security social network sites have, particularly their lack of SSL logins, which means a ...

The problems of visualising social
networks...

The problems of visualising social
networks... 03/06/2004 01:55 AM

From a pithy and somehow true post by Stewart Butterfield on the problems of creating visualisations of social networks:

Artist/curator friend Mark Soo did a piece for one of the Infest openings where he visualized the curators' social network using balloons with people's names printed on them as the nodes and ribbons tying them together as the edges (the data comes from "invites" he got the curators to send to one another). This was a great, inviting, tactile "graph manipulaton interface". But the reason I liked it so much was that it really brought out the problems of social networks visualizations as a way of learning about the networks being visualized: too confusing!

He also cites a few examples of some of the attempts to visualise them - the problems should become self-evident:

• GameNeverEnding Social Network Graph
• Fi rstMonday Social Network Graph
• Frie ndster Social Network Graph

Two things immediately occur to me - firstly how do we as humans make sense of this data in our everyday lives (because we're incorporating at least some of it into our mental models, surely, and understanding that would make it easier for us to enhance those models rather than creating new ones that create nothing but cognitive overload), and secondly What would Tufte do?.

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Inferring and Visualizing Social
Networks on IRC

Inferring and Visualizing Social
Networks on IRC 01/22/2004 06:16 PM
By using an IRC bot to monitor the activity in an IRC channel, it is possible to infer a social network that connects the users in the channel. Visualizing these social networks is not only interesting, but has a variety of potential applications.

Esther Dyson on Social Networks

Esther Dyson on Social Networks 12/02/2003 10:23 PM

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Adding Fees To Social Networks

Adding Fees To Social Networks 01/27/2004 02:24 AM
Okay, take an idea that's being done to death all over the internet for free - with new (sometimes deep pocketed) players showing up every day. Then, wait until the market is so saturated that most people are already getting sick of the idea... and then try to charge for it. That appears to be the plan of Tickle (formerly eMode) that is now going to try to start charging for some aspects of their "social network" Friendster-clone. Since they know they're the first, and they must know they're going to face backlash, they're only charging if you want to contact someone who is separated by more than four degrees from you - at which point, I wonder what the point of social networking is? If the idea is to meet friends of friends because they might have similar interests, what's the value in using such a system to meet a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend? Isn't that just a stranger? There are lots of ways to meet strangers online that don't cost money.

"Social networks: will users pay to get
friends?"

"Social networks: will users pay to get
friends?" 02/10/2004 09:18 AM

MSNBC - Online social networks go to
work

MSNBC - Online social networks go to
work 07/30/2004 05:07 AM
Online social networks go to work - Where personal connections lead to professional allies .. it's now online on MSNBC

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boyd's social networks talk from ETCON

boyd's social networks talk from ETCON 02/11/2004 06:56 PM
danah boyd has posted the text of her ETCON talk, Re venge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles.

Asking favors is fundamentally different than offering them. People gain by being bridges. Thus, to be able to tell you about a job gives me whuffie in our relationship. Feeling pressured to connect you to an open job makes me uncomfortable. In all of the networks described above, the bridge got to control the information flow. In Milgram's "Small Worlds," if you didn't know that i knew the target person, you may not have tried to pass it on to me. If you don't know that i am dating someone who has something that you want, you won't try to pressure me into giving you access to it. Thus, i can choose when to reveal my connections in a situation where i can come across as being helpful, rather than being put in a position to feel cornered. Revealing the network shifts the power.

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New Search Engine Taps Into Social
Networks

New Search Engine Taps Into Social
Networks 01/22/2004 07:26 PM
Google, the most popular Internet search engine, ranks results by polling all of cyberspace to find the most relevant information. ...

Detecting Patterns in Complex Social
Networks

Detecting Patterns in Complex Social
Networks 02/16/2004 01:14 PM
BoingBoing reader Roland Piquepaille says:

So-called social networking is very popular these days, as show the proliferation of services like Friendster, Orkut and dozens of others. But do the companies behind these services have any idea of what is hidden inside their complicated networks? When these networks reach a size of millions of users, it's not an easy task. A researcher at the University of Michigan is trying to help, with a new method for uncovering patterns in complicated networks, from football conferences to food webs. This overview contains more details and references about this non-traditional method. It also includes a spectacular representation of the Internet and another image showing a food web at Little Rock Lake.

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Missing the Point of Social
Networks...and other things

Missing the Point of Social
Networks...and other things 01/04/2004 12:18 AM
Jeremy Zawodny: "If you really think that Friendster, Tribe, LinkedIn, or any of those other sites are going to survive doing what they're doing today, you're really smoking something. However, if you think that also means the technology isn't worthwhile--that the notion of modeling social networks in software is a pointless exercise, well then you're really smoking something good. You couldn't be more wrong."

True. This reminds me of a tendency I notice constantly and have been meaning to articulate: The inability to see others evolving (companies, products, people), even though one's own vision is all about oneself (or company, or product) evolving.

Come to think of it, this is a corollary to one of my favoriate truisms: We judge ourselves by our intensions and others by their actions.

Namespaces and Social Networks in a
Tagged World

Namespaces and Social Networks in a
Tagged World 02/05/2005 09:12 PM

David Weinberger has a brilliant quick statement about how BOTH namespaces and social networks will be used to disambiguate tags'.

I sure as hell hope so. I'd hate it if there was nothing to disambiguate tags.

Namespaces and Social Networks in a Tagged World
As the interest in tagging and folksonomies grows, we are going to be faced with a choice: Namespaces or social networks.

The problem is that tags are too simple and ambiguous. (That's also their strength, but we'll let that go for the moment.) As tens of millions of people start tagging Web resources, many tags will include too many disparate items: When you're searching for pages about London, do you really want to get pages about Jack London? And, no one really wants information about London; we always want information about some aspect of a topic. So, the "London"-tagged pages about London's club scene are noise to someone looking for information about London's form of government.

Namespaces, or domains of discourse if you prefer, are one way around this. For example, the Global Voices group that encourages inter-national blogging, suggests tagging relevant pages with the prefix "gv" as in "gv:ghana" or "gv:thailand." We will undoubtedly see a proliferation of such prefixes, and if tagging really takes off, we may end up with an unregulated version of the domain system in which multiple organizations squabble over who gets to use a particular prefix.

Social networks provide an alternative. If I knew who the people associated with Global Voices were, and if I knew who was the author of particular tags, I could search for the "ghana" tag and find only the ones created by GV members. That wouldn't be perfect because it would get pages tagged by GV members for personal use, but it might be good enough, especially with further refinement.

This is not an either/or. I'm confident we're going to see both namespaces and social networks used to disambiguate tags. And there are undoubtedly brilliant ideas waiting to be had. But it seems highly likely to me that social networks are going to become more important than ever in a world gone made with tagging.

[Operating Manual for Social Tools]

I love this piece.

It's especially heartening for me to listen to David talk about social networks - as I know he's against the 'Friendster/Tribe' school of thought - but seems to have accepted a more generalized notion of what social networks are - and will be.

Anyway - I never said I liked those explicit social networks - it's just that it was so much dam fun gaming them (apparently Joi had fun -too!) But it's up to folks like David - who keep us honest - especially when it comes to the difference between something explcit liek calling someone "your friend" - versus truth and honesty.

New post to Global Guerrillas:
Terrorist Social Networks

New post to Global Guerrillas:
Terrorist Social Networks 04/09/2004 03:57 PM
Terrorist Social Networks.  A common misconception of terrorist networks is that they are solely violent in nature.

My 2004 Crystal Ball: Search, Social
Networks, Reputation, RSS

My 2004 Crystal Ball: Search, Social
Networks, Reputation, RSS 12/08/2003 11:43 AM
Given the upcoming new year, I figure it's a good time to share what my crystal ball is telling me. The year 2004 will be exciting for technologists. Pressure has been building in several areas that are poised to really cook next year. Here's my brief take on each of them. Search: Personalization and Relevance Let's face it, PageRank is Dead. Really. I've said it once and I'll say it again. Google knows this. Microsoft knows this. Anyone seriously into...

"Jeremy Zawodny's bl0g: Missing the
Point of Social Networks"

"Jeremy Zawodny's bl0g: Missing the
Point of Social Networks" 01/06/2004 03:19 AM

Social Influence In Distributed Power
Networks Of The Early 21st Century
Internet

Social Influence In Distributed Power
Networks Of The Early 21st Century
Internet 09/14/2004 07:34 AM
Plastic.com - Tue Sep 14, 09:51 am GMT

V2N18 May 3, 2004 Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet: Online
Social Networks

V2N18 May 3, 2004 Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet: Online
Social Networks 05/03/2004 06:56 AM
This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. (May 3, 2004 V2N18) is dedicated to the latest happenings in Online Social Networks. Click on the audblog link at the bottom of this posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman discussing these new and exciting networks. The below listed sites are some of the latest and greatest online social networks:

Friendster (beta)
http://www.friendster.com/
Friendster is an online community that connects people through networks of friends for dating or making new friends.

Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy (ISNAE)
http://www.isnae.org/index.html
The purpose of ISNAE is to study social networks and use the resulting knowledge to promote economic growth and social well-being.

LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/
Find the people you need through the people you trust - Your trusted friends and colleagues can help put you in touch with many more people than you expect; and those people can refer you to thousands of contacts.

Orkut
http://www.orkut.com/
Orkut is an online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends. They are committed to providing an online meeting place where people can socialize, make new acquaintances and find others who share their interests.

PeopleAggregator
http://www.PeopleAggregator.co m/
An Open Source Social Network

Spoke - Extending Business Relationships
http://www.spoke.com/
Delivering insight, influence and access through relationships for greater business advantage.

Tribe
http://www.Tribe.net
This site is devoted to tapping the power of social networks. Their goal is to provide tools that help make your network most useful.

Visible Path
http://www.visiblepath.com/
Visible Path delivers unprecedented reach into companies and access to decision-makers by allowing sales teams to discreetly leverage the relationship capital of the enterprise throughout the sales cycle.

Zaibatsu
http://community.alwayso n-network.com/
Listing for this social networked received from a Slashdot posting ....

Zero Degrees™ - The People Network Company
http://www.zerodegrees.com/
ZeroDegrees (ZDI) automates Milgram's process. ZDI replicates the social process we use when we ask colleagues with an introduction. If no one knows the person directly, they ask others on our behalf. If all parties along the way, agree-an introduction is made and discreet contact information shared.

The Slashdot article that discusses PeopleAgreggator an Open Source Social Network is available by clicking here. Social Networks are gaining great popularity and we will be hearing and seeing many new and niched networks in the near future. Please send me listings of social networks that I have not listed and I will continue to keep this posting up to date.

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Jeremy Zawodny's bl0g: My 2004 Crystal
Ball: Search, Social Networks,
Reputation, RSS

Jeremy Zawodny's bl0g: My 2004 Crystal
Ball: Search, Social Networks,
Reputation, RSS 12/09/2003 09:42 AM
Zawodny

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"Jeremy Zawodny's bl0g: My 2004 Crystal
Ball: Search, Social Networks,
Reputation, RSS"

"Jeremy Zawodny's bl0g: My 2004 Crystal
Ball: Search, Social Networks,
Reputation, RSS" 12/10/2003 10:15 PM

Explicitly constructed social networks
not only lack the differentiation that
makes relationships real, they are
falsehoods built to reinforce spectral
relationships and to avoid ending shaky
ones

Explicitly constructed social networks
not only lack the differentiation that
makes relationships real, they are
falsehoods built to reinforce spectral
relationships and to avoid ending shaky
ones 01/05/2004 04:58 AM
Yay to David Weinberger .. Corante Many2Many

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Social Issues Surround Social Software
(Ziff Davis)

Social Issues Surround Social Software
(Ziff Davis) 06/25/2004 10:06 AM
Ziff Davis - Participants in the Supernova conference give insight into the social dynamics around the use of online social networking services, Weblogs and wikis.

eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features

eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features 08/13/2004 12:47 PM
eTwine.com integrates new interactive blogging tool with its existing social networking, online dating, and event planning features. Members can share their blogs entries with friends and other members, as well as rate other blogs, add comments to any entry, and sort entries by most popular and highest rated in this unique feature. [PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]

Social Issues Surround Social Software

Social Issues Surround Social Software 06/25/2004 09:01 AM
Participants in the Supernova conference give insight into the social dynamics around the use of online social networking services, Weblogs and wikis.

WiFi, Cellular, and Wired Networks
Merging To Form Pervasive Networks in
Homes and Offices, Says INSIGHT Research

WiFi, Cellular, and Wired Networks
Merging To Form Pervasive Networks in
Homes and Offices, Says INSIGHT Research 12/22/2004 01:46 AM
Pervasive networks—a ubiquitous “fabric” of computing, information, entertainment, and telemetry capability tied together by high-speed wired and wireless networks—are emerging from a flurry of new communication technologies now being used in home and office networks. Though communications carriers do not offer this type of continuous communication as a service today, the piece parts are already in place. [PRWEB Dec 20, 2004]
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The Spoke

The Spoke 12/03/2003 02:30 PM
The Spoke
http://new sletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=4C7240:1F61EF2
http://www.thespoke.net

Microsoft Corp. has quietly launched a Web logging, or blogging, service targeted at tech-savvy people in their teens and 20s, but the service is apparently open to anybody. The service is called TheSpoke and is part of Microsoft's Academic Developer initiative, a Microsoft spokesman said Tuesday. The site was created by Singapore-based marketing services company Earth9 Pte. Ltd. and went live last week, said a spokesman for Smooth Fusion Inc., the Lubbock, Texas, company that hosts TheSpoke.net for Microsoft. Microsoft's academic developer initiative is focused on building a community of students interested in software development, the Microsoft spokesman said. TheSpoke is in a test phase and more features will be added, he said, adding that the site is not intended to be competition for blogging services such as Google Inc.'s Blogger.

TheSpoke looks to be more of a mass-market effort. The first members, dubbed Hubbers, for the site were recruited with postings on Web sites for gamers. In one such recruitment posting, apparently from the team setting up TheSpoke, the call to join goes out to any opinionated young person wanting to blog about technology and gaming. "TheSpoke is an online community for young leaders that are tech savvy and opinionated. TheSpoke provides tools to collaborate, discuss and debate the future of technology," said the recruitment posting, published Nov. 8 on an Xbox enthusiast Web site. Joe Wilcox, a Washington, D.C.-based Jupiter Research senior analyst, doesn't see TheSpoke as a threat to other blog services, but rather as a tool for Microsoft to win support from young software developers who might otherwise choose to work on projects that compete with Microsoft.

"Check Out The Spoke Here "

"Check Out The Spoke Here " 12/05/2003 03:19 AM

Scott spoke to USA officials

Scott spoke to USA officials 08/11/2004 10:28 PM
for nj.com here

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i have spoke with the tongue of angels

i have spoke with the tongue of angels 02/01/2005 09:53 PM

They say that when you have an audition, you have to walk in there like you don't give a shit. You walk in there like you don't give a shit, and you walk out with the part, because if you don't give a shit, that's when they want you.

But you've read the script, and it is good. So good, in fact, you fall in love with it. You fall madly, passionately, crazy in love with the script, and you'll do anything to be one of the people chosen to bring the script to life.

You think about it all the time. You wake up in the middle of the night, imagining what it would be like to spend ten weeks on location or four seasons on the set. You get lost on your way to the post office, because you're wondering who your competition is. You can't eat, you can't sleep, you can't focus on anything else . . . you are in love, after all.

In the days before your audition, you do everything you can to be ready. First, you get to know your character. If you're lucky, he's a guy you know. Maybe he's even you. Not the current you, usually, but still You. A younger you, a more passionate you, a more idealistic you; the You who you were before you fell in love with too many scripts and had your heart broken too many times to count . . . the you who was incapable of walking in there like you didn't give a shit, because it felt so good to be in love. Then you learn your lines. You spend hours in your house or your apartment reading them out loud, scaring your dogs, worrying your neighbors, annoying your roommates who are sick to death of hearing about The Script. They've heard it all before, and you've made an unspoken pact among you: you don't tell them how crushed you are when you don't get the job, and they pretend not to notice how you wear the same clothes and drink heavily for five days after you get The Call.

The day of the audition finally comes. Your first date. Your big date. Your only date. You spend too much time putting yourself together. You carefully choose your clothes and style your hair a minimum of three different times. Maybe you spray on some cologne, because it makes you feel attractive. Maybe.

You drive to the studio, and hope your voice doesn't break when you tell the guard that you're going to Bungalow 15. You park, walk across the lot, and your palms sweat when you sign in. You wait for what seems like an eternity, surrounded by actors who are younger, taller, better looking than you. Actors who clearly don't give a shit because they don't have to. You know that they don't love The Script like you do, haven't put in the time that you have . . . but it doesn't matter. You've been here before and you'll be here again, long after they've left for location.

Your heart throbs in your chest when they call your name. You smile, take a deep breath, and stand up.

And then you walk into the room, and you're supposed to act like you don't give a shit.

Yeah. Right.

LED Bike Spoke Messages

LED Bike Spoke Messages 03/31/2005 07:08 PM

This is nearly too geeky, even for us: Hokey Spokes make up a set of LED blades that attach to your bicycle's spokes and spell out words and poor images while you ride about town, keenly aware of precicely how idiotic they make you look. The perfect compliment for your favorite pair of bicycle shorts, the blades communicate with each other using infrared and are actually programmed with your Palm, so you can make changes while on the run. I wouldn't be surprised if an entrepreneuring bike courier in New York started selling his spoke space for ads, really. Actually, for only $30-$40, the images they can create look pretty damn cool. On a computer screen. And not in "real life".

Product Page (Available now.) [hokeyspokes via I4U

Demoted Sony guru spoke his mind

Demoted Sony guru spoke his mind 04/05/2005 02:02 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 5 2005 5:08PM GMT

Senator Spoke to Soon on Iraq Intel
Probe

Senator Spoke to Soon on Iraq Intel
Probe 11/04/2003 09:23 PM
AP via Sunspot Nov 4 2003 8:38PM ET

Moore Spoke With Berg Months Before
Death (AP)

Moore Spoke With Berg Months Before
Death (AP) 05/29/2004 03:23 PM
AP - In an unused interview shot for Michael Moore's latest film, the American who was beheaded in Iraq said he was concerned about security there as he prepared to seek work as an independent businessman, his family said Saturday.

The Spoke -- A Microsoft Blog Community
Coming?

The Spoke -- A Microsoft Blog Community
Coming? 12/02/2003 03:11 AM

I was just over at Microsoft-Watch and learned that Hotmail was recently upgraded. Yeah, I noticed. So far I like it. How about you?

Speaking of Mary Jo Folely (she's the one who writes Microsoft Watch). She has a for-pay newsletter and someone sent it to me. Seems she learned about a Microsoft blogging effort named "the Spoke." I hadn't even heard about this. Looks interesting! Anyone know anything about this? Please contact me.

"spoke Wednesday at the Associated Press
annual luncheon in Washington"

"spoke Wednesday at the Associated Press
annual luncheon in Washington" 04/27/2004 03:32 AM

USATODAY.com - FBI: al-Qaeda detainee
spoke of fire plot

USATODAY.com - FBI: al-Qaeda detainee
spoke of fire plot 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
FLASHBACK: FBI: al-Qaeda detainee spoke of fire plot .. one .. :

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"when spokeshomonculus Scott McLellan
spoke for the President and his
administration"

"when spokeshomonculus Scott McLellan
spoke for the President and his
administration" 06/19/2004 04:26 PM

Visible Path Raises $2 Million, Readies
Release

Visible Path Raises $2 Million, Readies
Release 06/19/2004 03:02 AM
The enterprise social networking startup increases its funding as it gets ready to launch its software publicly in July.

Tribes: Vengeance GoldGet ready to cash
in your sick days; Tribes: Vengeance has
gone gold for the PC

Tribes: Vengeance GoldGet ready to cash
in your sick days; Tribes: Vengeance has
gone gold for the PC 09/22/2004 06:36 AM
Gigex Sep 22 2004 10:33AM GMT

Grocery Union: L.A. Talks Unsuccessful

Grocery Union: L.A. Talks Unsuccessful 01/11/2004 08:15 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 11 2004 6:34PM ET

the filmmaker's unsuccessful attempts to
interview Moore

the filmmaker's unsuccessful attempts to
interview Moore 06/05/2004 06:15 PM
Michael Moore is being Michael Moored

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Treo Bluetooth Bounty Efforts
Unsuccessful

Treo Bluetooth Bounty Efforts
Unsuccessful 09/12/2004 04:41 PM

[waraxe-2004-SA#034 - XSS and path full
path disclosure in PhpBB 2.0.8]

[waraxe-2004-SA#034 - XSS and path full
path disclosure in PhpBB 2.0.8] 07/16/2004 12:02 PM
Janek Vind (Jul 16 2004)

Beating a Path to Path Finder 3.2
(03-May-2004; 1.6K)

Beating a Path to Path Finder 3.2
(03-May-2004; 1.6K) 05/03/2004 09:01 PM

SEM Marketing Leverage

SEM Marketing Leverage 09/03/2004 02:49 PM
Source: ClickZ - Your site, product mix, and prices affect user experience. Your search budget is only as good as your site lets it be. The money is already working hard. To make it work harder still, consider improvements you...

the most impressive lazyweb leverage
ever

the most impressive lazyweb leverage
ever 06/02/2004 02:40 AM
4 days, three outliner implementations in three different languages

U.S. Has Leverage, but Wants to Show
Iraqis Are in Charge

U.S. Has Leverage, but Wants to Show
Iraqis Are in Charge 06/29/2004 12:47 AM
Iraq will have the formal powers of a sovereign state, but it is not clear what will happen if the U.S. disagrees with decisions.

Leverage Dual CPU's with GNU Make

Leverage Dual CPU's with GNU Make 05/03/2004 10:44 AM
Users who build open source software from source (aka the configure; make; make install method) on dual CPU Macs can take advantage of the the second CPU by adding -j 2 as an argument to the make command. The -j 2 argument te...

Apple Wants To Leverage Online Music

Apple Wants To Leverage Online Music 05/13/2004 06:32 PM
By Frank Bamako, CBS MarketWatch (via MyAppleMenu)

Google deal is leverage with Webl0gs

Google deal is leverage with Webl0gs 02/24/2003 05:02 AM
Linking to publications that charge for content throws a monkey wrench into the blog value proposition, so you find few Wall Street Journal stories linked on ...

VCs Hope To Leverage Linux Community,
Technology

VCs Hope To Leverage Linux Community,
Technology 01/03/2005 10:21 AM

Leading IT Vendors Leverage Brand in the
Genomics Market

Leading IT Vendors Leverage Brand in the
Genomics Market 03/14/2005 05:07 PM
According to a recent survey of more than 600 genomics researchers, leading information technology (IT) vendors Apple, Cisco Systems, Dell, IBM and Microsoft are widely perceived to be the best qualified to implement new technologies that will advance genomics research—specifically high performance computing, collaborative software and storage area networks. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]

3Com Gears Up To Leverage TippingPoint
Security Appliances

3Com Gears Up To Leverage TippingPoint
Security Appliances 12/31/2004 12:32 PM
Computer Reseller News Dec 31 2004 4:52PM GMT

Visible Breath

Visible Breath 04/26/2004 06:53 PM
This week's question: Under what conditions can you see your breath?

The Visible SAN From Apple

The Visible SAN From Apple 05/22/2004 11:23 AM
Xsan's $999 per server SAN file system looks good on paper. By Tom Yager, InfoWorld (via MyAppleMenu)

Social networks and my big a-ha

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