Notes from the week of 2011-01-30

My PayPal X DevZone writing:

• My @PayPalX tech article "Developing and Deploying PayPal Apps" http://bit.ly/hBxzVz provides code level details to start #MoSoLo #
• New @PayPalX DevZone post: The Facebook APIs, part 2: Social plugins and the power of the Like button http://bit.ly/fJhOfM #MoSoLo #

Wireless and mobility:

• Canadian perspective on the mobile wallet http://bit.ly/glPrf6 which we've written so much about on @PayPalX DevZone http://bit.ly/feU6DJ #
• More on the mobile wallet: Is the end of credit cards near? http://bit.ly/gbZiix from @CNNMoney (answer: http://bit.ly/hNv74S) #
• The @TechCrunch take http://tcrn.ch/ePStz2 on Bloomberg's Apple NFC piece http://bloom.bg/fPKYY1 is TC usual: Cunning but snippy @PayPalX #
• Developers confirm it's the year of the tablet http://bit.ly/dQpd66 via @gigaom (source Appcelerator IDC survey http://bit.ly/h0xbTi) #
• Appcelerator also reports "a dramatic increase in the integration of geo-location, social, and cloud-connectivity services" #MoSoLo #
• Appcelerator survey also found mobile developers prefer @PayPalX over Apple and Google payment options http://bit.ly/evl2wg #MoSoLo #
• Facebook has officially drunk the mobile+social+local Koolaid http://tcrn.ch/dXNFq9 (they've even using @PayPal's words) #MoSoLo #
• "Taylor emphasized that the convergence of mobile, local and social is the most interesting locus of growth" http://tcrn.ch/dXNFq9 #MoSoLo #
• Will mobile undo Facebook's dominance as OS & the Net undid Microsoft and social is undoing Google? http://read.bi/gmZXTO #MoSoLo #
• Facebook's latest acquisition (Rel8tion) has location-based mobile ads written all over it http://rww.to/ecQE6h #MoSoLo #

Big data:

• "Finding trending topics using Google Books n-grams data and Apache Hive on Elastic MapReduce" http://bit.ly/fgqcD3 from @awscloud #
• Amazon has further ratcheted up the value of their @AWSCloud services with EC2 Spot Instances http://bit.ly/gBYfwT (very nice) #
• Twitter lists to follow about Cloud Computing http://rww.to/gg7SGk #

Web development and site stuff:

• It is refreshing to see such a straightforward intro as "The Art Of Scripting HTTP Requests Using Curl" http://bit.ly/g6bM4h #
• The HREF replacement using %c and %| is worth the price of Texter by itself (free!) http://lifehac.kr/f1cPx3 #
• Handy tip: How to generate a PDF with PHP http://oreil.ly/hBRIdM from @OReillyMedia #
• LinkedIn Companies Strategic Toolkit http://bit.ly/eWBaJp from Traction http://bit.ly/g2fZk0 via CEO @adamkleinberg #
• Is innovative Java dead? http://rww.to/e6YtRg (Oracle worries me) #

Personal things:

• Recent @GeekMomBlog posts from my wife: Alfred the Hedgehog http://bit.ly/fSwbj8 and a call for bakers http://bit.ly/ieUyqa #
• More @GeekMomBlog Star Wars projects: Modeling chocolate Chewie cake http://bit.ly/hBFBwL and build your own R2-D2 http://bit.ly/fmJM4p #
• Interesting way to parse the State of the Union address http://bit.ly/hHaUkj (charts linked to the pertinent parts of the speech video) #
• I don't understand how the Egyptian government thought shutting off the pipe would work http://bit.ly/gcRf1g (all it did was expose reality) #

Running:

• Ran 11.01 miles in 1 hour and 58 mins and felt good. Windchill in the teens. Slowed down in mile 3 to watch five whi… http://bit.ly/fKXUoF #
• Two of my passions, running and #MoSoLo meet in this @radar interview http://oreil.ly/fU55yo with the CEO of RunKeeper @jjacobs22 #
• Great news, runners: @RunKeeper will remain free http://bit.ly/gcjagI #