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  1. Sorry everyone for spam (now deleted). Account was hijacked. Ashamedly a victim of Twitter-crime due to over integration with other services
  2. Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize. So basically he gets an award for not being George Bush? Prize should be for achievement not intention!
  3. FriendFeed/FaceBook's web-server now opensource http://bit.ly/eop7c at http://www.tornadoweb.org (code http://bit.ly/4E1mIc)
  4. "The bar for success in our industry is too low" http://bit.ly/sP2Es. [Profits take time, invstmnt = grow faster leverage scalabilty]
  5. "How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of" http://bit.ly/3Up5Gs. [Scalable approach at Google http://bit.ly/E4wXB]
  6. "Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage" http://bit.ly/s0Emg. Looks awesome (apart from lack of redundancy/ecc etc).
  7. "Python debugging techniques" http://bit.ly/Ugrqn. [Alt tools incl IPython http://ipython.scipy.org/ & Spyder http://bit.ly/N6Vcq]
  8. "You're a little company, now act like one" http://bit.ly/10QevI. [talk less "we/us/I" & more "you/your" (i.e. addr customer NEEDS)]
  9. "Top 10 tips to a new django developer" http://bit.ly/w9mVh. Checking http://stackoverflow.com for django tips is also a great idea.
  10. RT @loopj: Heyzap Payments contest just launched, $4k in prizes up for grabs http://www.heyzap.com/contest/
  11. "Six Tips For Improving High Bounce / Low Conversion Web Pages" http://bit.ly/Sg2Vs states the obvious but is still worth a read.
  12. Augmented reality is truly amazing. In the mobile internet, tools like http://layar.com & http://acrossair.com are going to rule.
  13. "A Django website that took (a lot) more than 20 minutes" http://bit.ly/17ucaC. I like real-world, honest, articles with code available.
  14. "Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias" http://bit.ly/peXsL. [data availability bias. better data = easier to study = more attention]
  15. @sharpshoot @jamiequint et al at @snaptalent (http://snaptalent.com). Sorry to hear guys are shutting down. Good luck on the next venture.
  16. http://www.startupschool.org 2009 annouced. Looking forward to hearing the speakers.
  17. #Springboard http://bit.ly/spgbd, a YC-style incubator in Cambridge UK, already looks a AWESOME way to startup! (Thx @amirmc)
  18. "Tips and Ideas For Pricing Enterprise Software" http://bit.ly/10n6Uc.Good insight applicable to most software selling.
  19. Was FriendFeed talent aquisition by FaceBook http://bit.ly/16DAFp ($15M cash + $35M FF stock) predicted by IT Crowd http://bit.ly/IEfDL? :P
  20. "Signs that you're a bad programmer" http://bit.ly/YfnSH. Excellent article with good actionable points.