• A VC: Web Discussions: Leaving The Instigator Out
  Kevin: Fred Wilson has started an interesting conversation about distributed conversation. I picked it up in FriendFeed. The comments are worth reading.
  (tags: aggregation conversation disqus distribution)
• Social Peek
  Kevin: A site that shows conversations around a keyword on several social services such as Twitter and Last.fm. Creative Commons licence and API.
  (tags: aggregation conversation visualisation)
• Twitter, or Architecture Will Not Save You – Laughing Meme
  Kevin: A thoughtful look at scaling issues in general and specifically some of the issues at Twitter. Scaling isn’t sexy, but it’s necessary to consider. Shiny will only get you so far.
  (tags: downtime growth scaling traffic)
• Mac OS X Leopard: Enable Google Contact Sync Without an iPhone or iPod Touch
  Kevin: Three cheers for Lifehacker. Enable Google contact sync even if you don’t have an iPhone or iPod touch.
  (tags: Google Lifehacker Mac contact sync)
• Platform thinking | yelvington.com
  Kevin: Steve Yelvington explains why the New York Times API development is significant. Great explanation of application programming interface.
  (tags: API NYTimes)
• Via releases laptop design as open source
  Kevin: Open source and Creative Commons come to laptop design with the release of Via’s OpenBook.
  (tags: laptop design opensource creativecommons)