Hmmm, Coolspotters. Like the name, like the idea. Wish I had joined that startup. Oh, wait….

Well written overview of the advantages of Git for development. I’m keeping an eye on this for now, but there’s one random thought that comes to mind: Linus Torvalds is a really, really smart guy. First, he has shepherded Linux, and now another of his “itches” has turned into a widely used and enthusiastically supported project. No, Git isn’t as successful as Linux yet. But imagine if it is? How many people do this twice?

Interesting… I hope that these specs are right.

Not really about the primary, per se, and an interesting perspective into the use of technology by the different campaigns. I think they’re a bit unfair to John Edwards. After all, I don’t think people really believe Edwards is sitting there with his blackberry or whatever and using Twitter. He’s got a staff, and when the campaign ends, the staff goes on to other things. It’s not surprising that the page hasn’t updated.

This is an unusual story. Wonder how we would react if we suspected agents of the Chinese government set off a small bomb at a U.S. factory? A DDOS attack isn’t quite the same, but whoever is behind this attack is interfering with a U.S. business. That seems significant to me.

Neat stuff.

This is a big deal and the future. Surprised more companies haven’t joined Amazon on this bandwagon (big companies, I mean, not smaller ones… lots of grid providers out there).

The heat maps on this site are really interesting. I played around with the West Hartford/Hartford area. Things aren’t as bad as they are in some other cities. Check out California… holy crap.

Excellent news. This is a project I’ve been watching for a long time, as it was the approach I chose when I was experimenting with a FatMixx IM bot. The release of 1.0 is a big step for the project. Congrats to the POE guys on reaching this milestone.

You can find out more about POE at the project’s web site.

I just received my OLPC laptop and I have to say, I’m impressed. It’s a great little device, if slow compared to our modern computers. The networking components do a great job and the map of where access points are in relation to the laptop is a neat feature. Love it.

That’s a really interesting idea.

No one wants to admit it, but those ads *sucked* on top of all of the brand dilution crap. I mean, seriously, ticket arbitrage sites and various supplements were the most common ads and they were never relevant. I say this of all of the ad networks ESPN has used since I started working there until today.

The other part of this, though, is having mature, state-of-the-art systems to manage internal ad runs. This is something that ESPN, through the Walt Disney Internet Group, did well. Medium-sized publishers often end up with ad nets and sponsored link units because they don’t have the kind of smart inventory management that larger companies have.

I have high hopes for self-service tools like Google Ad Manager as a potential way of bridging the branded advertising/genero network idea.

I found this Calacanis’s blog, and he has other advice for online companies. Worth reading, as well as the linked post.

Update: clarified the second paragraph. I lumped in startups because they/we use networks like Adsense, but for different reasons (no ad sales person). The point about infrastructure was about sites that haven’t crossed into the very large group.