These are my links for August 31st from 14:35 to 17:26:

Diaspora, the ‘anti-Facebook’, is doomed – Telegraph – It's too late to start a Facebook rival, argues Milo Yiannopoulos
Foursquare and MTV Team up for First-Ever Cause-Related Badge: STD Testing – “STD testing center” seems like number three on a list of “Embarrassing Places to Check in on Foursquare,” but this September, MTV and the geo-location service are aiming to quash that stigma by offering a badge to all those who get tested as part of MTV’s GYT: Get Yourself Tested …

These are my links for August 31st from 09:08 to 12:50:

Ask a Curator Day on Twitter on Spoonfed – Things to do in London – Wednesday 1st September is international Ask a Curator Day, and it's all taking place on good old Twitter. Loads of museums and galleries across the world are taking part to give you the opportunity to ask their experienced and respected curators those long-burning questions.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange questioned by police | Media | guardian.co.uk – Police question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on suspicion of molestation …

These are my links for August 30th from 22:49 to 23:42:

Facebook Goes Back to School with New Universities Page – As millions of students are trudging back to the classrooms this August, Facebook is returning to its roots: colleges and universities.
10 ways data is changing how we live – Telegraph – The availability of new sets of data has changed the way we live our lives: here are 10 examples of data which have changed everything from how we assess wars to how companies deliver milk.
Google Translate gets better definition …

These are my links for August 30th from 20:00 to 21:45:

3 Ways Google Will Invade Your Enterprise – The end of Google Wave and rumors that the company is building a Facebook competitor has a lot of people talking about Google's need to get better at social. Fortune's article on Google's future growth last month, apart from highlighting absurdity a company becoming "too successful," speculates as to what Google will need to do in order to continue growing in the future.
How CEOs Will Use Social Media in the Future – …

These are my links for August 30th from 04:00 to 16:52:

Google Realtime search a powerful business tool – Companies can use information gleaned from Google Realtime to "read the minds" of consumers. Conducting searches related to current or planned products or services can help identify what customers want and what concerns they might have.
Foursquare Now Has 3 Million Users | Geeky Gadgets – Foursquare is continuing to grow at impressive pace with now more than 3 million reported users. It took Foursquare a year to reach one million users, two …

Just wanted to share this gem of a story with you all by the genius that was Douglas Adams (author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy):
This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person was me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I’d gotten the time of the train wrong.
I went to get myself a newspaper to do the crossword, and a cup of coffee and a packet of cookies. …

Ethan Zuckerman studies how the world (the whole world) uses new media to share information and moods across cultures, languages and platforms. His TED talk earlier this summer focuses on how our growing reliance on the localised web as a news source means that we are becoming more and more isolated from the plight of our fellow net-zens in other global regions:
Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the …

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These are my links for August 29th from 12:08 to 13:12:

Foursquare building self-serve tool for brand profiles – Foursquare gets requests from hundreds of brands per week looking to offer tips on their own branded profiles. In an interview with Advertising Age, CEO Dennis Crowley said the company is building a self-service tool where brands will be able to create their own profiles.
Technology allows digital nomads to work anywhere – Online digital storage devices and innovative internet connections mean working from anywhere in the world while travelling has never been …

I was forced kicking and screaming to go and watch The Expendables last night by the missus (instead of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – which is what I wanted to see) and the best thing about the whole sorry experience was the following ad from Estrella Damm Beer which was much better than anything Stallone could pen and direct:

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Yes, it’s long, but isn’t it fab? Kinda got an Y Tu Mamá También vibe about it (except with two women and one …