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del.icio.us/flickr - now yahoo has two services that I use often

del.ici.ous - bought by Yahoo, Flickr bought by Yahoo. So now even though I rarely use my Yahoo id I now log in almost daily to their services. I think the reason that MyWeb2.0 or Yahoo 360 didn't get traction is that they seemed like extra steps. So this new approach of bringing together great apps that they can then tie into a main start page seems more likely to succeed if that is in fact a goal.  This is me; my photos, my bookmarks, my feeds, my recent blog post, my network, etc. but based off extending apps I use,not just a free-standing extra app. and hopefully open to other non-yahoo based services.

25 Years ago today I heard the shots that killed John Lennon

I was just reminded by the radio that it was twenty-five years ago today that John Lennon was killed. A few years ago I wrote about that night for Mr.Beller's neighborhood,a friend's site.  While I would change several things about the essay, in many ways the feeling of loss is the same.

Squidoo launches

Looks like Squidoo.com just soft launched. Here is a link to Stowe Boyd's lens,  Denise Caruso's, and the Squidmaster himself, Seth Godin. Looks cleaner than the beta with less obvious commerce elements though that might just on the ones I've looked at. There is a lens on fondue that shows the links to Amazon for needed fondue supplies.

Corante redesigns and launches a web hub

Working with Emily Chang, Corante has  redesigned and luanched something they are calling a web hub.  Aggregation of smart people, tags, nice bio pages, nice AJAX on the nav, and more meta-data part. 

Sir Thomas Moore's head is still around

There is a really interesting post on 3quarks daily (a fantastic blog that Kottke.org led me to) about spices and the levels of cancer in the United States versus India. It makes a good case for eating a lot of curry. But one thing that I was really intrgued by was the following:

Sir Thomas Moore was beheaded by the order of King Henry VIII and his head was cooked in water before being impaled on a spike and displayed on London Bridge where it stayed for a month, taken down only as more heads began to arrive, eventually being returned to his daughter. Margaret Moore kept the head with the greatest reverence as long as she lived, carefully preserving it by means of spices. To this day, it stays in the custody of one of his relatives. Since 1500s, the vault containing the head was last opened in 1837, and it was still in reasonably good shape.

Good shape?

Sudoko Hints

B is obsessed with Sudoko so I've been trying to ramp up. Here are links to two Sudoko hint/method pages

From the Daily Mail. They also have a daily download you can print out and a link to the history of the game or their involvement in it.

More from their resident expert. who also recommends a "propelling pencil" which is some Britishism I don't understand.

The Wikipedia on Sudoko.

Some great gardening blogs

I've been looking at a lot of gardening blogs lately and thought I'd post some of my favorites:

Horticultural by Jane Perrone who also edits the Guardian's newsblog.
The Human Flower Project
DirtbyAmyStewart she also has a nice blog about chickens.

Mary Meeker presentation on emerging global Internet themes

Morgan Stanley has made available a .pdf of the power point  that accompanied a talk Mary Meeker's gave at Stanford. Worth downloading and auto-scrolling through. (via paidcontent.org)

Coolhunting holiday gift guide

Coolhunting has an excellent holiday gift guide. Nicely designed with great choices by the very stylish authors and their friends.

Magazines and Google - notes from the digital magazine forum

PaidContent has several excellent posts from the Digital Magazine Forum. At the keynote Michael Loeb, the CEO of Synapse, apparently , "recommended in a Q&A session of his keynote address that the magazine industry come up "with a competitive response" to Google and keep them from "getting the information for free."He said in the address that magazines should own the online space, because they predated the Web in doing what the Web is best at: Creating community around an identified niche, and that they have tremendous expertise in their niche areas." The post is worth a read by anyone interested in the intersection of magazines and the Internet. I agree that magazines and identified niches are special things. But I also agree with the author of the post that " trying at this point to compete with Google by trying to get the magazine industry to compete with it or block it is a losing strategy. Trying to make it a win-win, where Google drives traffic and is able to realize some revenue as does the one who gets the traffic, is a winning strategy, at least today." Much like the book publishing industry who is fighting the Google book search program they could follow Lessig's point and try to make it work for them.