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I have no issue with social services having access to my address book, that said, I believe that Textie is doing the right thing in this regard. Every other social network should at least consider this method for themselves.^[1]

I have used Wolfram Alpha before, however, it wasn't with much conviction about its utility for me. It's obvious that I may have to reinvestigate this service given these new features.

(via Shawn Blanc)

These little bookmarklets help immensely in my own writing/blogging/whatever. I'm upset that I hadn't posted to these earlier! I am only doing so now because I'm in the midst of performing some Instapaper house-cleaning.

(via Patrick Rhone)

Matt Burns:

The difference between a Honeywell thermostat and the Nest is striking. One is a cheap, clearly mass-produced hunk of plastic and the other is something you would be proud to own. This feeling is exactly why this lawsuit reeks of greed. Honeywell is embarrassed, perhaps even slightly frightened, by an upstart that is managing to get people excited about thermostats.

(via Peter Cohen)

Nishant Batsha:

Although these zeroes and ones constitute computational wonders, they do little to answer my question. In my searches, I found anything but a concrete image. In its place was the fragment: illusory, transient, incomplete. Technology has allowed me to amass these fragments in incredible sums: a conversation here, a record of purchases there, text messages in-between. As disparate parts, they languish amongst seemingly random data, ostensibly about me. One could say that the sheer amount of data about us represents the death of memory. Why should I care to remember what I did a year ago today if I know that all this information is being meticulously recorded?

Jack Donovan writes for the Wired How To Wiki:

Pro tip: Don't worry about involving yourself in the difference between hertz and bits; even complex technical terms adhere to the logical tendency that more is better. If anything, imagine bits and bytes as storage space, whereas hertz is speed. Anything more than that you don't need to know until you start building your own computers.

Frank Chimero:

[W]e can only handle so much information. The networks, however, are gaping mouths and bottomless stomachs for data. There is no limit to their appetite.

I love the quote above, it's a serious problem that we all deal with, something that I am actively dealing with. Moreover, I love the idea of a weekly reflection, not a summary of events but a small collection of ideas, concerns, opinions, etc. based on experience. Perhaps I will begin to exercise my own thought in a similar discourse. Meta-blogging anyone?

This quote from Jacqui Cheng says it all:

Long story short, [Frederic] Wolens claims that Facebook is on the verge of fixing up its content systems so that "deleted" photos are really, truly deleted from the CDN within 45 days. But with the process not expected to be finished until a couple months from now—and unfortunately, with a company history of stretching the truth when asked about this topic—we'll have to see it before we believe it.