Assorted nonsense and marginally relevant shenanigans via my personal delicious.com bookmarks. – The Value of Social Media Ad Impressions: Straight from the "Duh" Department, this blog post from NielsenWire on the value and efficacy of different types of Facebook ad units isn't going to cause the ground to tremble and shake. However, it does provide [...]

Assorted nonsense and marginally relevant shenanigans via my personal delicious.com bookmarks. – Approved! Plucky Underdog Opera Now on iPhone: Via wired.com comes this quick hit of a review of the new Opera app for iPhone. While it's "got it where it counts" (page load time), there are enough drawbacks (funky zoom) to make me think [...]

Assorted nonsense and marginally relevant shenanigans via my personal delicious.com bookmarks. – Debate swirls around ICANN plan to fast-track new top-level domains: I understand the debate, but I’m more interested in eventual adoption. It seems that .com, .org and .edu automatically communicate a certain level of trust while .net signals that you’re leaving the main [...]

Assorted nonsense and marginally relevant shenanigans via my personal delicious.com bookmarks. – Big Pharma and Google Sidewiki: A Sink or Swim Situation?: Another good point of view on Sidewiki. Again, the main feel is that this isn't one of Google's more magnanimous moves. – Google Sidewiki interesting, but real utility unclear: Sure…an interesting idea is [...]

Assorted nonsense and marginally relevant shenanigans via my personal delicious.com bookmarks. – Why are Facebook, Digg, and Twitter so hard to scale?: Getting my geek on with the details of the architecture that drives some of the the world’s biggest social computing applications. – Facebook Now Has 30,000 Servers: Wow. Among all the pokes, super-pokes, polls, [...]