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#“12 Key Social Media Strategies to Grow your Turntable.fm Fan Base” Why did you click on that link? Why? Why? But it's only a matter of time before those posts start for real. I shall then be engaging the services of a team of snipers to deal with the infestation.Turntable.fm - Quite seriously the first web-app to give me butterflies with excitement in a very long time. If they play this right, there is no limit to how big it can grow. »

#“And people thought I was kidding about the spaceship.” Apple to Build Spaceship Shaped Campus in Cupertino.Rumour has it that the main entrance will be known as Heaven's Gate. »

#“Some of the new touchpad gestures in OS X Lion” via youtube.com Of course you only need one button when you have gestures. »

#“17 Years of Cork Ancestral Project - Nothing Online” It is now seventeen years since the Cork Ancestral Project, funded by Fas, started their digitization work and none of it is on the internet. via mjordan.wordpress.com Read @margaretjordan's piece on this. She knows the area better than anyone. My fear about some of the current half-assed talking about Government OpenData is that we'll just have a repetition of this. »

#“Facebook Like + Facebook Credits = Workable Micro-Payments?” I was mulling this morning over the silly post I did yesterday on Stephen Colbert. In my ideal world, the TV show regional-licensing nonsense would go away and consumers in Europe would pay the US producers directly for each show (and vice versa for US consumers). If I want to watch Colbert right now, I want to flip 50c to the show's owners no matter where I am in the world. »

#“Stephen Colbert Apologizes to all of Ireland” I'd almost forgive them their ridiculous region-limiting of media based on this message. But not quite. Time to power-up the US VPN. »

#“Google App Inventor Just had a Rocket Strapped to its Back!” via appinventorblog.com You can now access Web APIs. HURRAH! Finally! OK, you won't be able to build Twitter OAuth Apps but now anything with an open API is accessible and consumable. RSS feeds for a flippin' start. Watch the number of really cool apps using App Inventor go through the roof. We're building one this evening. »

#“Migrating Google Rich Snippets to schema.org” If youve been using microformats or RDFa to mark up your Google Rich Snippets, sorry, you backed the wrong horse via diveintomark.org Shakes fist at one of his tech heroes but shouldn't be too hard to change TBH. One question: If Google is already showing your Rich-Snippet Reviews based on hreview with stars in the SERPs, will moving to microdata markup drop you off the SERPs again and force you to re-apply yet again on their ridiculous non-web-scale Google Docs Form? »

#“schema.org - About Bloody Time” This site provides a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Search engines including Bing, Google and Yahoo! rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages. via schema.org 5.5 years ago, I had the idea for a reviews aggregator site built on hreview. »

#“Anyone working on Creative Commons School Books?” The cost of schoolbooks remains an enormous problem for a lot of people. If you have more than one child, you can rarely do hand-me-downs, particularly in Secondary School. The publishers relentlessly issue new versions that are different enough to make it impossible to have multiple editions in one classroom.Given that Maths, History, English, Irish, Physics etc, don't actually change much except with curriculum changes, does it not make sense for community-minded Irish educators to work together and generate Creative Commons versions of books? »