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I am writing (or helping to write) a book about Twitter and I need all your help. 

The book will feature short (bit more though then just 140 characters) stories about wonderful, fun, scary, emotional, angry and priceless Tweets or any other ‘Twitter moment’ . 

I want to show that emotion can be contained within single words- or sentences of 140 characters or less. 

So I am looking for your input. Care to share your fantastic Twitter moment? Or seen an incredibly inspirational Tweet? Let me know about it. Here or at marco@incredicorp.com 

Please include the URL to the Tweet and a short description about why you chose this Tweet. I will add your story, plus reference if you’d like to the book. 

In case anyone missed it…and it would probably be likely the case, my first article ever- published on IBM Developerworks.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-friendfeed/index.html

So far response has been very good. Second place top story in the linux section, and even a front page Digg yesterday. Now where are all those reddit people?

I wrote an article on Struct3 about cloud computing as we know it and it’s imminent failure.

It is a bold statement I agree…Read it and let me know what you think.

I am referring to the slew of outages the last day’s and weeks of some high profile infrastructures like Amazon S3 and Google. I always thought Googles infrastructure was untouchable. But it seemed that I had woken up to a different world last week. When I saw tweets and messages going around with ‘Gmail is down’

Read it here.

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• Do You Trust the Cloud? [Ask The Readers]

(This is from my Hubpages article by the same name)

I have never considered myself an early riser. I was more of a person to stay in late- later then was necessary. The idea that you get up before the crack of dawn never appealed to me, I also never thought I would be able to…

I mean, why? Well because of the enormous mental energy boost for one, and simple math.If you would normally get up at 7 or 8 for 7 day’s a week and now you would get up at 5, you win 2-3 hours every day. Now that doesn’t seem like much, but it adds up.

• 3 hours * 7 days = 21 hours…
• 21 hours * 4 = 84 hours
• 84 * 12 = 1008 hours a year

Realise that 1008 hours a year is more then 40 full days that you are sleeping away.

The other reason and maybe not as boring as the math reason is that early morning (real early) is a magical time, before most people are up- the air is fresh, the day has not started yet the world outside your window (if your not living in a busy city that is) laid dorment for the night. Birds are singing their first songs and you are probably at your most creative. It’s also perfect to get rid of distractions. No one is their right minds will get up that early to bother you right?

But how to do it? Just do it. It is as simple as that, there is no rocketscience into getting up early- as long as you get out of bed right away, right after that 5 o’ clock buzz…get up..stretch and walk away…do not ever let yourself get into a discussion with the inner you that wants to lay down. Don’t think of reasons to add just another 5 minutes…because the other self will win then. Just wake up- and get up…

Also make sure you have something to wake up to- motivate yourself the day before to get up early. Write down things you want to do and get to them. You will probably find out you will have done all of your work, before breakfast.

Also exercise this early is fantastic for your heart and matabolism if you want to lose weight. You will be energized all day. Don’t drink too much coffee early on…Cuz you’ll crash harder. Drink smaller cups during the whole day…not big shots every now and then. You will probably find out that your body needs to adjust to the weird new schedule…I mean, when it’s 8- your body will think it’s lunchtime…Don’t skip breakfast though..you will need it…Eat smaller bites during the whole day- like coffee…and enjoy that extra month a year.

Image via WikipediaWell it’s not my first- DJTRX is my first. However I have been toying around with the idea of having a social news site- for music and music discovery. And now I have, created in like 5 minutes- with slinkset (is ’set’ the new ‘…r’ or ‘…ster’ ?)

Now what I had in mind is much more elaborate then this. I wanted to give artists who sign up and upload their music a change to at the same time sell their music though the same site. But I guess this is a good start.

Let me know what you think.

and submit some more damnit.

Image via WikipediaWould it be great if somehow my attention profile would provide me with inspirational pieces or feedback?. Like it would know what I most likely would find interesting even before I would? That would be totally possible.

I started using Zemanta and I can see the possibilities with this type of system.  A large part of writing blog posts is about collecting assets to go with it. Those assets in turn could provide inspiration as well.

Because I am working in a team that is researching semantic web consumer products I have found Zemanta to be quite interesting.  It does work as advertised  but still needs alot of information to ‘get going’ which is only to be expected…Look at the image on the right, Zemanta suggested this one. Zemanta also suggested Betty Boop…

But in all it’s a fantastic product that I will be using all the time from now on. And to get me to use something for over a week is actually doing something right.

ReadWriteWeb has an interesting article regarding noise and in this particulaire case- the one that FriendFeed generates. By aggregating your social network chatter, and everyone elses it can provide a good overview over all the discussions going on- but it is also littered with noise, noise about cats-dogs-rain-going to bed ,presidential campaign- gadgets I don’t care about, news I don’t care about etc etc etc. I call this Self Inflicted Social Spam or SISS. SISS is the byproduct of livestreams. I used to have that same problem on twitter when I was just following everyone- now I just follow the people I find interesting- however, i don’t limit myself to Twitter, I also use Pownce and Jaiku, and Facebook, Linkedin , Google Reader and Flickr. And I don’t remember how many more. And although the information is incredibly valuable to me, there is no way I can keep up anymore- and the noise is drowning out the signals.

What to do about this? I don’t know, but I am going to start working on something that will address this issue this year. Bold statement? Maybe- I consider this my personal mission for 2008. I have a feeling that Semantic web technology can play a large part in solving this problem , thinking about APML and SIOC right now.

Anyone interested in tagging (no pun) along?

Amazing never released footage of a Well party dating back to 1989 (gasp) , so way before the web- social media- twitter etc.

So I can finally start coding for realz now. I can’t wait to see the performance- or lack of of App Engine. In case you don’t know what App Engine is.

Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it’s ready to serve your users.

So stay tuned for App Engine apps coming your way.

I have got some iGoogle Gadgets up for grabs

Check IP ,Random Feelings across the web. And a Pownce Public Feed Gadget