Notes from the week of 2011-07-03

PayPal X Platform

• Part 3 of my current @PayPalX series http://bit.ly/jz8cOK susses out Google Checkout, In-App Payments, and Wallet http://bit.ly/mDpyhN #
• Part 4 of my alternative payments series http://bit.ly/jz8cOK compares Dwolla to @PayPalX http://bit.ly/kydrnN #
• My latest @PayPalX post: Massive @PayPal user and mobile payments growth http://bit.ly/mmhSym #
• Wired mag interview with @Square founder Jack Dorsey http://bit.ly/mBIa99 #
• "Going, going, gone: Who killed the Internet auction?" http://bit.ly/lO3vWz is premature in reporting its death, but worth reading anyway #
• Would you like to read about @Magento, @AppInv for Android development, @PayPalX in local apps, or something else? http://bit.ly/ina47e #

Big data

• From evaluation to your first production #Hadoop cluster http://oreil.ly/m5LdQs via @radar #

Wireless and mobility

• Firefox Home is very handy; get the #iPhone #app here http://bit.ly/iGbw1O or for #Android here http://bit.ly/mSYlDD #
• How the iPhone effect changed everything http://bit.ly/iePGoX especially smartphones, handset vendor fortunes, and mobile data usage #

APIs and development

• The PDF Toolkit (pdftk) http://bit.ly/j19NmB is pretty dang cool stuff if you have to munge and muck around with PDF files. Recommended! #
• "PDF Hacks" is a terribly useful book from the maker of pdftk; check it out in @safaribooks online at: http://bit.ly/lVBVb9 #

Personal things

• Thank you, Clive Thompson, for providing a name for that thing I do before I actually bang out words for a project! http://bit.ly/mJDEsQ (“prewriting”) #
• Writing nakeder than Orwell http://bit.ly/lsL42i by @thisissethsblog (excellent!) #
• Another @thisissethsblog gem: "How do you know when it's done?" http://bit.ly/lExlGW (I fight this too often) #
• I'm enjoying the Financing Options for Startups series http://bit.ly/jB6lp6 by @fredwilson (loved the customers post http://bit.ly/mUQthj ) #
• How to use Google Plus http://rww.to/lGw4Ci via @rww #
• How one newspaper rebooted its workflow with @GoogleDocs and @WordPress http://oreil.ly/jqZgyK via @radar #
• To do: Check out Hunting GPS Maps http://bit.ly/mizhnp before next western trip #
• I do *not* like the new @gmail http://bit.ly/jQuIVP especially the big, ugly, red Compose Mail button screaming at me from the upper left! #

Running

• Ran 3.19 miles in 33 mins and felt alright. Hot! http://bit.ly/lRGfyk #
• Ran 3.31 miles in 34 mins and felt great. Beautiful, cool morning before the rain arrived. http://bit.ly/mF2kfG #
• Ran 4.02 miles in 45 mins and felt great. Mile paces 8:02, 8:23, 8:42, 8:49, 8:15, 8:47, 7:40, 7:49, and 7:54. http://bit.ly/jlLsSq #