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• Happy Birthday USA! #

• How gun control lost http://tinyurl.com/6s5xh4 #
• Thomas Jefferson once wrote, pessimistically, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” #
• But as Jefferson knew, America was founded to reverse that process. #

• I’m preparing to deliver a Partner Preview briefing on a major initiative we’re announcing soon…very exciting, more asap! #
• O’Reilly news on the ebook front http://tinyurl.com/672p8s #

• Google Docs slideware team needs to be taken out back behind the woodshed and forced to enjoy its terrible instabilities… #

• US Supreme Court reaffirms 2nd Amendment http://tinyurl.com/6hovfv #
• Analysis of the Supreme Court Heller case 2nd Amendment ruling http://tinyurl.com/5ghzoc #
• Heller 2nd Amendment majority decision quotes http://tinyurl.com/67qlma #
• Kevin Kelly’s “One Machine”, especially its implications, would be a fab-o ETech 2009 topic IMO #
• Pining for the day Google buys Xobni and does GMail right http://www.xobni.com/ #
• Must try this Nokia BT headset with touch controls http://tinyurl.com/5zj6zq #
• Text Analytics Summit 2008 perspective from Seth Grimes http://tinyurl.com/4nsfeo #

• Handicapping Apple’s back bench http://tinyurl.com/67lae2 #
• Coverage of GigaOm’s cloud computing confab, Structure08 http://tinyurl.com/4a4hyo #

• Excellent post by Om Malik on “Symbian, iPhone & the New Mobile Reality” http://tinyurl.com/622kr3 #
• ZDNet coverage of the announcement of Symbian Foundation http://tinyurl.com/6y4d7t #
• CloudStatus dashboard launch http://tinyurl.com/5pv9w6 #
• Wired reports on how the Petabyte Age is different http://tinyurl.com/5sduxw #
• Googlicious spin on “All models are wrong, but some are useful” http://tinyurl.com/3tg7c9 #
• Peter Mancini’s new blog “Machine Uplift” on machine learning, text analytics and robotics http://machineuplift.blogspot.com/ #

Peter Mancini has posted his second blog entry on quality of analytics. (Click here to read his first post, “The Problem of Quality Assessment of NLP Tools”.)

In this post, he details how we define Associative Network (AN) and previews how he is solving our problem of measuring and improving upon the quality of our AN analytics. Expect more excellent posts like these from Pete!

• Service Monitoring Dashboards mandatory http://tinyurl.com/56tosg #

• Hacking TCP/IP to support location-aware services http://tinyurl.com/5h7km5 #
• Fast Company special report on China’s power in Africa http://tinyurl.com/4rxqgv #
• F.C. China-in-Africa report: “The sub-Sahara is now the scene of one of the most bare-knuckled resource grabs the world has ever seen” #

• The 2nd Amendment: What a difference a comma makes http://tinyurl.com/5rnank #
• Restoring the 2nd Amendment http://tinyurl.com/5uxfqw #
• Google Docs now supports PDF uploads, nice http://tinyurl.com/5ntrck #

Congrats to my colleague Matthew Russell on the publication of his new O’Reilly book, “Dojo: The Definitive Guide“.

Recommended!

• Daniel Steinberg explores the Jobsnote for Inside iPhone http://tinyurl.com/5trq5o #

My friend and colleague Peter Mancini has posted an excellent look at some of the issues in assessing the quality of natural language processing tools on our company blog.

Pete has some very interesting ideas for how to approach quality assessment of association networks. Watch for more from him on our blog.

• Cloud computing democratizes capitalism http://tinyurl.com/5pf5cm #

• Unexpected article from LA Times on open carry http://tinyurl.com/63a3xe #
• O’Reilly launched their new “Inside iPhone” blog just in time for this week’s WWDC http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/ #
• A beautiful post from Tim on our capacity for change http://tinyurl.com/583ory #
• Engadget liveblog of today’s Apple WWDC Jobsnote http://tinyurl.com/5skzhc #
• Expect many location apps as Apple App Store launches http://tinyurl.com/3flqvk #
• iPhone 3G stats and pics http://tinyurl.com/4bskz3 #

• When, oh when, will Twitter *finally* get IM services restored?!? You’re killing me! #

• Steps to embed Google Earth 3D maps in Web pages http://tinyurl.com/6pqr79 #
• Wired’s take on Amazon Web Services http://tinyurl.com/3urs44 #

• Google App Engine for all, including pricing http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080527/20080527006447.html #

• Wordpress turns 5 today, wow! http://tinyurl.com/5j57pr #
• Good recommendations on proper design for mobile users http://tinyurl.com/67fwsx #