Maslow's hierarchy for the internet

Love it ... although I don't know if productivity needs to be such a big section.

Amplify’d from thenextweb.com

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See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/7w0l

So far it looks like Amplify is working as promised. I just need to keep an eye out for duplicate posts. http://amplify.com/u/7urc

The sharing site I've been looking for?

Looks like this might be worth checking out. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get Buzz (my preferred sharing platform) to consistently push updates to Facebook (where most of my friends interact). I hope the team at Amplify is working to implement protocols like Salmon etc. so that interaction from other sites will be aggregated in one place.

Amplify’d from thenextweb.com

You haven’t heard about Amplify yet, have you? By Ralf Follow Ralf on twitter on July 19th, 2010 Amplify might very well become my new number one service for driving conversations. Back in August 2009, when Facebook acquired FriendFeed, the blogosphere was abuzz. Many technology geeks had been using FriendFeed as a tool to aggregate their social media sources and share with their entourage. As far as we know, Amplify has not been covered elsewhere, yet. The primary reason for this: The great team grouped around Amplify’s CEO Eric Goldstein has deliberately chosen to stay beyond the radar for a while and solely focus on product quality. No start-up rallies, no coolest-geek-in-silicon-valley shows. We think the New York guys made the right decision. Here we are, roughly a year after they started working on the service and what we’ve got is pretty intriguing: In short, Amplify let’s you clip content from anywhere on the web and start a conversation with a community interested in the topic. While many services already exist, that aggregate whatever you shared elsewhere, Amplify is not an aggregator. In fact it’s the other way around: You start a conversation on Amplify. And the conversation is really what’s at the heart of the service. Starting an Amp is a straight-forward experience: Ready-made bookmarklets for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer, Android Smartphones, iPhone and the iPad let you clip, share and add your take on specific parts of articles and blogs you read – as opposed to just creating non-speaking short URLs. The service doesn’t mix in photo albums or social gaming, just because it’s currently en vogue to do so. It doesn’t limit its users to 140 characters, because an engaging dialog might require more than a few words. I particularly like, that it doesn’t blindly grab everything I post from my Twitter or Facebook account because frankly, the majority of my tweets were never meant to spark a dialog (that’s maybe, why they’ve once been called status updates). Amplify literally puts me back into control. Once you’ve created content inside Amplify, the service does a perfect job of distributing it out into many services, should you so wish. Amplify currently integrates with Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Ping.fm, Tumblr, Posterous, Plurk, Diigo, Friendfeed, Delicious, Clipmarks.com and just today announced additional support for WordPress and Blogger. Your personal Newsfeed consolidates all conversations going on within your community. And yes, Amplify supports public and private groups, too. A feature, which makes it a perfect tool for collaborating with your team mates or business peers. If you really haven’t heard about Amplify before, go check it out now! You needn’t go through complex signup, simply use your existing Twitter or Facebook account to start amplifying your ideas. Don’t forget to follow me at http://ralf.amplify.com! Interested in more social media news and discussion? Join TNW Social Media on Facebook and Twitter, or grab our RSS feed here. Read more at thenextweb.com

 

See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/7ulv

SPQR

Julius H. nommed at “SPQR” in San Francisco, CA @ 7:33pm on 04/29/10

great! - SPQR is one of my favorite neighborhood restaurants. Featuring an Italian menu, the food is consistently excellent and the wait-staff are attentive but not oppressive. We sat at the chef’s counter this visit which was both entertaining and warm.

• Grilled Wild Salmon Belly, Golden Raisin ‘saor’ & Pepper Jam - great! - The salmon was beautifully cooked. The richness of the belly meat was balenced well with the acidity of the raisin ‘saor’.

• Bone Marrow Sformatino, Smoked Bacon & Spring Onions - AMAZING! - The bone marrow panna cotta was silky smooth on the pallet. The sweetness of the onion and salty crispness of the bacon balanced the richness of the bone marrow nicely.

• Pork Belly ‘croccante’, Sundried Tomato, Olives & Germolata - great! - The pork belly was cut in 2 bite pieces and crisped on all sides. Although the center was tender, I think that the crisping was perhaps a bit overdone. The celery, olive, sundried tomato was very fresh and helped to lighten the dish.

• Ramp Tagliatelle, Sea Urchin, Spicy Tomato & Dungeness Crab - great! - I really wanted this dish to be amazing, but there was not enough sea urchin for it to fully flavor the dish. The pasta was cooked al dente and had a nice bit of spice to it. The two bites with crab and sea urchin were truly wonderful.

• Stinging Nettle Torchio, Garlic Crema, Pancetta & Parmesan - great! - The torchio was a pasta with lots of crevasses to hold onto the cream sauce and had a wonderful mouth feel. The pancetta was finally copped and crispy adding a nice textural element to the dish but, perhaps, contributed to it being slightly salty.

• Ricotta Bavarese, Sour Cherry & Napa Valley Verjus - great! - This ricotta cheesecake was less sweet and lighter then its counterparts at places like cheesecake factory. The topping provided a crispy counterpoint to the smooth ricotta. The cherries were plump and added a touch of sweetness without being cloying.

• Cappuccino - great! - The coffee was strong without being bitter. A great accompaniment to dessert.

The Ring Lord

A great company with a truly amazing selection of items. A must visit site for any hobbiest or artist working with metal.

in reference to: http://theringlord.com/companyinfo.shtml?websess=96480536608587 (view on Google Sidewiki)

Testing 1-2-3

I'm not yet sure if I'm going to start a blog, but google hasn't steared me wrong in the past. Hopefully it will be easy to update as I travel ect.