7 Valuable Lessons Twitter Has Taught Me About Life | Mobile and Social Media – StumbleUpon. Interesting ideas. Worth reading if you want to make the most out of Twitter.

7 Signs of a Facebook Scam – StumbleUpon. This is a good general warning sign of any scam. It is nice to see people are becoming more conscious about this.

Research shows being thankful is good for your health | MNN – Mother Nature… – StumbleUpon. So it seems that being a good person has its own rewards.

The freedom to tweet: Not applicable in Thailand or in Kansas | Cringely -… – StumbleUpon. It is strange how this played out. What kind of values do we have when stuff like this happens?

Why their status makes you uneasy | Life. Then strategy – StumbleUpon. This analysis makes sense. I wonder if we should share more of the troubling, confusing or difficult times in social media.

What got you interested in technology? IT’s rich and famous share their… – StumbleUpon. These are some interesting stories. Sometimes it is funny how small things can change the course of our lives even more than things we consider major.

More get jobs using Facebook than LinkedIn, Twitter – Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal. This is interesting. I have gotten many opportunities from LinkedIn. Looks like I might have gotten more if I had used Facebook. I used Facebook for awhile, but too many people I didn’t want in my life contacted me.

Elk Cloner – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – StumbleUpon. If you had an Apple II you would already know about this. I never suffered with this because I never had an Apple II.

Apple – Siri – Frequently Asked Questions – StumbleUpon. This is a good summary of what you can expect from Siri. Nice to know what is possible.

fleet street fox: More iMoney than iSense. – StumbleUpon. Yes it does seem wrong to offer something for purchase that costs an entire persons salary and does such a simple thing. Perhaps Apple could modify their pricing relative to individual average earnings. They really don’t have any economic reason to do so.

via Apple\’s Ping is a bald-faced marketing ploy doomed for failure | DVICE.

Maybe it’s just me, but I Stumble often and I have seen in the last year an increasing number of posts/pictures/movies whatever that are viral. That is, they pop up on so many sites that it is really a huge waste of time for moderate web surfers.

In the StumbleUpon world I am a small fry. There are people who have tens of thousands of recommendations. I wonder how they are able to do this. It is hard imagining that time it would take to accomplish this. Is this their primary net activity? Do they have mobile devices and do it in the car? Are they stumbling at work, because they have little to do? Where do people find that much time? Nevertheless, I see a ton of recycled content. How can a moderate web surfer like myself, see so much randomly and how can it be filtered to make more effective use of Internet stumbling?

StumbleUpon isn’t alone in this. I also notice it in my RSS feed. I have given the contents of my RSS feed in a previous post, and for the most part it is still the same. My first two ways to keep up on the internet are going through the RSS feed which numbers about 600 items on average a day, and then stumbling. I tend to find more interesting and useful information when I stumble, since by the time it appears on the RSS it has already been syndicated at least 2 other times. My thought has always been to showcase stories that I don’t read anywhere else.

It is easy enough to find the stories that people who have an agenda want you to know about. I don’t have an agenda. I share stories that I find interesting, and they often don’t conform to my current opinions. I have seen I have been wrong, and so freely admit that what I currently believe may not be reality. So I try to find information that challenges what I believe. As much as possible, I am open to helpful and life enhancing things in life.

So why am I sharing all this? To show you that often I have to discard 99% of what I see on the Internet. Sometimes I will find something interesting and give it a thumbs up on SU, but decide it isn’t really appropriate for my audience here. So if you like what I have here, you might want to check out the SU feed which you can access by clicking on About Me and choosing the StumbleUpon profile. I guess you could call it the B-side to chimac.net.

So I think that the Internet is just a reflection of society. Lots of garbage, and a few nuggets of wisdom and humor in the mix. Good luck everyone in trying to find those!

I had someone email me today on StumbleUpon and say that they frequently vote on sites and ask me to follow them. Normally I would ignore that but I went to the profile and saw things that she liked that interested me. So I added her. Then 5 minutes later I get an email that said she couldn’t add me to follow for some technical reason. I delisted her.

Why bother to send people a message if you aren’t serious about following them as well? Why play games? Or better yet, figure out why you can’t add people and then contact the new guy.

I am thinking of inviting 5 people and then getting your perspective if this is a helpful thing or not. First 5 people to comment below get an invite.

Good luck!

Third-Party Twitter Apps Can Access Your Private Messages Without Authorization. How disappointing. This is like the Facebook leak where they said they “accidentally” allowed advertisers to see information that they promised the privacy settings didn’t allow. It is things like this that ruin and don’t allow people to build trust in the integrity of the cloud.

How to configure your Xbox 360 Controller for Windows on a Windows XP- or… – StumbleUpon. So what games have you played that this configuration works well with? Is this working for you?

A Classroom Divided – StumbleUpon. This is a touching documentary about someone who did something daring and would probably get sued for now. I wouldn’t have done this but it seemed to turn out best in the end.

Microsoft Sides With Apple on H.264 Video, Leaving Google in the Cold | Fast… – StumbleUpon. Interesting choice isn’t it? So does that mean we should avoid Chrome if we want to support H.264 video?

How Obama Raised $60 Million by Running a Simple Experiment – The Optimizely… – StumbleUpon. This explains what A/B testing is and why you might want to use it. It is interesting that giving a well-known example is used in this article.

intoDNS: checks DNS and mail servers health – StumbleUpon. I used this on my own domain and it said the DNS was fine. Since this is so crucial and it is free, if you have moved your own domain this might be a useful test.

SmellyBean – StumbleUpon. Apparently this costs tens of thousands of British Pounds. The nice things rich people enjoy!

Financial Trading Algorithms Aren\’t Just Making Deals, They\’re… – StumbleUpon. Interesting that these programs are just doing what formerly used to be done manually. Still it seems a dangerous way to manipulate the world.

as real as it gets… | Flickr – Photo Sharing! – StumbleUpon. Cute idea isn’t it? Must have taken time to design this. Sorry click on link above. Can’t embed this.

Users\’ online friends twice as many as real ones–study | TheMedGuru – StumbleUpon. Interesting research. Does that mean that those people are better or worse for us? I think both types are helpful but real life ones I think are more fun.

Apple\’s secrets revealed — for a price | Cringely – InfoWorld – StumbleUpon. Interesting things about how Apple works and the debate on how to monetize information. Not worth $5 to me to buy the iPad app for a single issue.

Earth is worth $4,800 trillion | wordlessTech – StumbleUpon. I don’t understand this and wrote this in a comment:

How can we put a value on the Earth? We don’t even know one planet that is an equivalent. If someone only has one example, the value is priceless.

More importantly, why are we looking at things inherent value to determine if they are worth studying? We don’t know what something is worth until we study it. This seems like putting the cart before the horse.

clean sweep assessment – StumbleUpon. This is an interesting way to view your life and what may make you happier. You don’t have to agree with all the steps, but you might value the process of discovery.

12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive: Scientific American – StumbleUpon. These are good examples of major things that can change significant changes, but feel a little unreal. Like extraterrestrial intelligence. How long have we been waiting for that? To me, several other things far more likely to cause major changes.

For example: DNA re-sequencing to cure diseases, ubiquitous wireless internet connectivity, automated food production (hydroponics), universal worldwide healthcare, and lifetime employment. I think those are far more likely.

Koalas Have Human-like Fingerprints | Marsupial Fingerprints Evolved Separat… – StumbleUpon. Well this is good to know if Koalas ever decide to commit crimes. Does this mean we evolved from a mixture of Koala, Dolphin and Monkey?

The 12 Primary Social Media Interactions – StumbleUpon. I suggested two as well. I wonder if my comment will show up? This is a handy list if you are showing a client and want to solicit their feedback on what kind of interaction they prefer.

Belief In Conspiracies Linked to Machiavellian Mindset | Miller-McCune |… – StumbleUpon. Can we only see in others that which we have in ourself? Hmm.

Apple could adopt ARM for laptops, but why would it? – StumbleUpon. This is a nice discussion of the pros/cons. I don’t think it will happen. The audience likes performance more than battery life.

Facebook pays users to view ads – StumbleUpon. At 10 cents per ad how many takers do you think they will get? I don’t think people will watch ads until they come out to more than a $1 per ad. We are tired of ads people!! Be creative about them.

How Not To Suck At Socializing – Do\’s. This has some very of the same ideas as an article I wrote about 10 things to do when meeting someone. I guess great minds think alike!