Michael Bergman, CEO of Zitgist LLC

Frédérick Giasson, CIO of Zitgist LLC

Kingsley Idehen, CEO of OpenLink Software, Inc.

Nova Spivak, CEO of Radar Networks, Inc.

Alex Iskold, CEO of AdaptiveBlue, Inc.

Benjamin Nowack, Founder of semsol

my list will be updated

betaworks:

Fascinating list of the many many brands using Twitter

NowPublic - “Crowd Powered Media” - revealed its list of 50 influential individuals in Silicon Valley/San Francisco.

1. Robert Scoble
   
2. Michael Arrington
   
3. Jack Dorsey
   
4. Biz Stone
   
5. Matt Cutts
   
6. Pete Cashmore
   
7. Dave Winer
   
8. Guy Kawasaki
   
9. Loïc Le Meur
   
10. Kevin Rose
    
11. Merlin Mann
    
12. Stowe Boyd
    
13. Jeff Atwood
    
14. Jeremiah Owyang
    
15. Veronica Belmont
    
16. Kara Swisher
    
17. Scott Beale
    
18. Marc Andreessen
    
19. Ryan Block
    
20. David Sifry
    
21. Emily Chang
    
22. Om Malik
    
23. Timothy Ferriss
    
24. Nick Douglas
    
25. John Battelle
    
26. David Cohn
    
27. Louis Gray
    
28. Tom Foremski
    
29. Tim O’Reilly
    
30. Ariel Waldman
    
31. Matt Mullenweg
    
32. Dean Takahashi
    
33. Philip Kaplan
    
34. JD Lasica
    
35. Sarah Lacy
    
36. Brian Solis
    
37. Charlene Li
    
38. Rafe Needleman
    
39. Dan Farber
    
40. Howard Rheingold
    
41. David McClure
    
42. Margaret Mason
    
43. Jason Goldman
    
44. Leah Culver
    
45. Chris Shipley
    
46. Jackson West
    
47. Liz Gannes
    
48. Owen Thomas
    
49. Adeo Ressi
    
50. Max Levchin
    

Man immer so ein Stress. Wollte gerade einen Zeitungsartikel lesen, da höre ich via Livestation auf Bloomberg etwas von Erdbeben, sehe etwas auf Twitter über Erdbeben und nun wurde ich live Zeuge, wie gut Summize bzw. Twitter Search funktioniert.

Earthquake rocks Los Angeles

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/29/earthquake.ca/

Innerhalb von Sekunden verwandelte sich die “trending topics” zu allen relevanten Begriffen zum Erdbeben wie:

Earthquake, Chino Hills, SoCal, Quakes, Los Angeles, California, USGS, San Diego

Zudem schlagen alle paar Sekunden neue Tweets auf Twitter ein, die das Erbeben melden - Screenshot - nach 9427 neuen Tweets hörte der Counter auf zu zählen.

Der erste Tweet stammt offenbar von der Twitter Benutzerin “thevixy” und diesen Usern:

Bei Google ist nach einer Stunde das Erbeben auch bereits Thema des Tages geworden:

1. los angeles earthquake 2. california earthquake 3. san diego earthquake 4. earthquakes today 5. cal tech 6. la earthquake 7. chino hills 8. usgs 9. ca earthquake 10. richter scale 11. kfwb 12. usgs earthquake 13. earthquake center 14. earthquake news 15. northridge earthquak… 16. la news 17. recent earthquakes 18.us geological survey

Die besten Virenscanner kommen aus Deutschland. Es sind Avira AntiVir und G DATA AntiVirusKit.

Test Quellen

• AV-Comparatives
• (Avira: Platz 2), (G DATA: Platz 3)
• AV-Test
• (G DATA: Platz 2), (Avira: Platz 3)

Test: 28 Antiviren-Programme auf dem Prüfstand (PC Welt)

Das Magdeburger Testlabor AV-Test hat 28 Antivirus-Programme unter die Lupe genommen und dabei auch deren proaktive Erkennungsleistung untersucht, die auf Verhaltensanalyse und Heuristik basiert. Wir präsentieren Ihnen die Ergebnisse der ausführlichen Tests.

Test: Welcher Virenscanner ist der Beste? (Computerbase)

Andreas Clementi von AV-Comparatives hat sich, wie in den vergangenen Jahren, aktuelle Programm ausgesucht und diese auf Herz und Nieren geprüft. Im Test vertreten waren 16 Scanner.

Independent antivirus test labs join forces

RDFa is the Semantic Web Technology of the Future (not Microformats).

LocalLab

HTML will continue to dominate the market of web publishing. People will continue to publish information in HTML because it’s the best markup language for displaying human-readable information in browsers. It’s the lowest common denominator for cross-platform information display.

If HTML is here to stay, then from the Semantic Web development point of view, we must figure out how to publish semantic data along side with HTML. In general, there are two approaches: (1) publish the semantic data of each and every HTML pages in separate documents, (2) embed the semantic description in the same HTML pages with RDFa.

If you ask which approach will likely attract web developers to share data, my answer is the latter approach (RDFa).

First, they would require less overhead in Web development. Adding few extra HTML attributes in the existing template pages is relatively easy. But, creating separate full-blown RDF documents would require completely different set of business logic and template pages. (…) Embedding semantic data in HTML gives web developers a sense of familiarity. People like to work with what they are familiar with, and many of them are reluctant to change.

In an early stage of the Semantic Web movement, some web developers may show signs of resistance to RDF document publishing. But, convincing them to use RDFa should be easy.

Michael Mace, ex Palm employee, brilliant blogger who doesn’t write often, but when he does drops bombs, is of the opinion that the mobile application sector is dead.

His answer for the next generation: Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for mobile phones.

RIA - Adobe Flash, Adobe Flash Lite; Microsoft Silverlight; Apple iPhone; Google Android; Sun JavaFX Mobile; Trolltech QT

Michael Mace

Summary: The business of making native apps for mobile devices is dying, crushed by a fragmented market and restrictive business practices. The problems are so bad that the mobile web is now a better way to deliver new functionality to mobiles. I think this will drive a rapid rise in mobile web development, largely replacing the mobile app business. This has huge implications for mobile operators, handset companies, developers, and users.

Guy Aharonovsky

I refer to RIA, not just as rich applications that runs inside the mobile Internet browser, but, also as reach applications that are easier and consistent to develop, that runs across platforms and more important across devices. The resources needed to port a mobile application to run on multiple devices is enormous. There got to be a better way to develop applications and games for the mobile phones, something as approachable as web development.

Conclusion: For now, we can still use excuses like incompatibility and lake of an appropriate platform to continue and create dull mobile application but it’s going to change very soon.