Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-10

• RT @parislemon: Facebook Confirms Its Location Product http://tcrn.ch/bHdMka #
• Twitter=Amazing. Just drove by 8th/Brannan & saw police blockade – instant explanation upon coming back (gas leak! via @brynn, @NBCBayArea) #
• Of the many @LadyGaga fan videos I've watched, this is one of the best (flashmob in Madrid) http://bit.ly/bs0aDL /via @xamat, @daniel_julia #
• "Prince doesn't pick up ice cream at the 7-11 looking like Chris Rock! You're an artist now – you can't turn this on and off!" #
• "You there? I have a question about *FORESHADOWING* that I think you might be able to answer." #
• RT @chrismessina: I'll be speaking at PARC Forum Thursday (May 13) on "The future of the social web, and how to stop it": http://j.mp/a3v124 #
• Another important perspective on the Singularity, via SMBC Comics: http://bit.ly/9boouH #
• Brain-dump of facts and info from Wikimedia Foundation PARC Forum talk on my blog: http://bit.ly/9QsIQO #
• Either California started drugging the water, or it really is that amazing out today. EIther way, this is how I feel: http://bit.ly/d0OeDm #
• @msbernst To be fair, you're at MIT, so I'm not sure a young student would know what to do with his or her fancy otherwise. #
• @PARCinc Re: Commercials » It was a joke about the "World University and School" guy. #
• I like the new #PARCForum Q and A format, except for the commercials. #
• Trevor Parscal: "What amazes me is how productive our volunteers are given the crude tools we give them" #PARCForum #
• Wikipedia Mobile App was developed by community as well – code is hosted on github. Translated into over 25+ languages, too. #PARCForum #
• For nonprofit groups, Wikipedia posted data on different fundraising efforts on their blog http://blog.wikimedia.org/ #PARCForum #
• Re: last tweet on Wikipedia logging queries – answer was a bit unclear, oh well. #PARCForum #
• Good audience question about analytics: "Are you logging user search queries?" / Answer forthcoming… #PARCForum #
• Trevor Parscal: English Wikipedia swtiching to the new skin in the next week. » Wow! #PARCForum #
• Help lower the barriers for new users in using Wikipedia by contributing to Wikimedia Usability Initiative: http://bit.ly/biJUlU #PARCForum #
• For English Wikipedia, there are 45K "active contributors" (5 or more edits/month) #PARCForum #
• Eugene Kim: Wikimedia in total (Wikipedia + the other 9 projects) form the 5th-most accessed web property in the world. #PARCForum #
• #PARCForum is starting (sorry about the slightly more frequent tweeting if you're not interested in the Wikimedia Foundation) #
• Woo – got the Eyetracker up and running with @billsuh. Now lab members cycling through to ooh and ahh. #
• Reading about today's Dow Jones Freefall – curious about implications of computer error: http://bit.ly/ce7YQT #
• Considering setting a weekly reminder to update my Facebook privacy settings as they make changes. #
• @vlad43210 For me, /via, /cc, and RT are all different – if interested, check out http://microsyntax.org (haven't contributed recently =/ ) #
• @yardi Hah, sorry if that last tweet measured highly on "interruption severity". /cc @andrewmiller #
• @yardi May I point you to http://www.twitterisntemail.com/ ? in reply to yardi #
• William Shatner was originally paid with stock to pitch Priceline: Toronto sun claims stock worth over $600M now http://bit.ly/crVH4u #
• Appreciating the excitement of just having submitted MTurk HITs for a study and anticipation of data to come. #
• Google search roling out design changes – hopefully de-uglifying: http://bit.ly/bJUzYH (link /via @brynn) #
• Agh, I just spent 45 minutes crafting an MTurk HIT template and then accidentally hit Delete – I think it's time to go home now. #
• Gaga originally wrote Telephone 4 Britney (turned it down, but not b4 recording: http://bit.ly/bD9OVc) » Bet her managers are regretful now. #
• RT @XeroxCorp, @PARCinc: Video (credit @msbernst @skairam @koozda @billsuh @edchi) tool for managing social streams: http://bit.ly/aqjy2f #
• RT @adrianholovaty Next time u want 2 feel stupid, visit http://mathoverflow.net/ & see whether u can comprehend even a single 1 of the q's. #
• If you have experience w/ FFX plug-ins, are up-to-date on FFX 3.6 changes, & interested in small freelance project, let me know! #

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