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There is that strange feeling when you get in the middle of a @conversation on Twitter. Often you get to only see one side of a conversation that is a huge time waster:

@bob Ok
@harry I totally agree with what you said!

If you are frustrated you may click on @harry just to see what the bloke said, but you will normally regret it. On the other hand, in rare circumstances you will find someone you really want to follow. Riiiiight.

It is interesting to hear the word on the Social Foo. I wish I had been in town to go, whatever happened… there were a lot of smart people in the same room.

I am personally hoping to hear some solid things that come out of it. Things like “Twitter and Jaiku now federate” or “MySpace and Facebook share their graphs” (heh :).

One friend told me that it was fairly high level, and more like product managers getting together to chat than engineers. Time will tell!

Everyone and their mother has said something about the Microsoft Yahoo! deal. I actually don’t have much of an opinion, and whatever I do say certainly has nothing to do with my employer.

As a developer, I am curious how the infrastructure merging would occur. I have been a definite fan of Yahoo! and although some people try to make out a Y! vs. G thing, I think that is stupid. There are micro competitions of course, but at a macro level, Yahoo! is an Open Web, Open Source company. I really want them to succeed, and I believe that if they do well, it will be good for the Web and good for Google.

Whatever happens, it was good to see the stocks go up a little on the news :)

I don’t know about you, but I did this. I went through my site and added a bunch of XFN. I had run rel‘ing away. It didn’t really do much for me though, it was always a promise of an open format. I played with a few tools, but I largely forgot about it. When I add a friend in Facebook, or Twitter, or …. I see immediate effect.

I am really hopeful that the Google Social Graph API and other efforts change the equation though. This is only the beginning, so who knows where it will go!

Richard Monson-Haefel has left Burton Group and joined Curl as VP of Developer Relations. He is now out of analyst land and back in the real world that doesn’t have charts with quadrants.

He also created a new blog without redirecting the old one :)

I was chatting with someone about how, in 2008, you could build an application with GWT on the client side, and Rhino on Rails on the server side, and how that would mean flipping the roles of Java and JavaScript. Of course, this would be a flip BACK to the past:

Netscape LiveWire enables developers to create, modify, and maintain online sites and applications through a simple drag-and-drop, point-and-click environment. The environment uses the Java programming language and a Java-based scripting language to enable developers to create and execute Live Objects, or interactive multimedia content, within their applications.

Diggnation, and other Revision3 content will be shown on select Virgin American flights.

I think this is great. I remember watching a show on technology awhile back. It was called “Something World” where Something was the guys last name. Apparently he made a mint from that show.

I am really glad to see Revision3 continue to grow. I got to see their studios and they are top notch. It was fun to see how they do their thing and use bleeding edge equipment. I have no doubt that they will continue to grow.

The cartoon itself was just a bit of fun, picturing your grandma turning on Diggnation :)

I sometimes catch myself on the slippery slope of @foo and d foo. I also wish that it someone @dalmaer’s me, it showed me in a better way.

Have any of you gone through some time “cleaning up your code” only to realize that it was actually easier to understand before hand?