I have talked about human filters and my plan for digital curation. These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my Google Reader shares.

• Google Acquires Zagat To Flesh Out Local Reviews
• Google just got ZAGAT Rated!
• Backupify nabs new $5M round to back up social media data
• DreamIt Ventures Launches Its Fall 2011 Philadelphia Class
• 6B mobile connections by the end of 2011. Wow!
• Andreessen Horowitz Leads $5.7M Round In Analytics Platform For Hadoop Data Platfora
• Fusion Tables, a New Google Docs App
• Disqus Research: How Comments Drive Traffic
• Taptu Receives $3.5 Million in Series B, Will Launch White Label Social News Aggregator Tapform
• What Bad Economy? Three Big Silicon Valley VCs Poised to Haul in $2B in New Fund Raising.
• Watch Out Amazon: GetJar Launches A Full Catalog Of Premium Android Apps For Free
• Cellphone progress!
• TechStars Graduate FullContact Lands $1.5 Million, Helps Keep Contact Records Updated
• Solr’s Realtime Get: Increasing its NoSQL Capabilities
• French Software Company Qosmos Raises €20 Million
• Echoecho gets Google investment to make location sharing simple
• Whither TechCrunch?
• How To Become Better at Predictions and Finding Black Swans
• Seedcamp Expands; Adds €2 Million To Its Coffers, Partners With 500 Startups, AngelList
• 21 Concrete Practices for Agile Managers (Part 2)
• Google+ API Not Close …Unless You’re “Trusted”, Then It’s Ready
• AOL reportedly drops TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington for real this time, techies chime in
• W3C Launches New Web Application Security Working Group
• BigDoor acquires OneTrueFan for gamification expansion (exclusive)
• Ozon.ru raises $100M to become Russia’s Amazon.com — and postal service
• Personalization API Rapleaf Ponies Up $1 Million to Support Developers
• The Bombshell That Wasn’t: FOSS Patents’ Android Scoop Misses The Mark
• How to Predict (And Improve!) Your Future Traffic
• Sorting Petabytes with MapReduce – The Next Episode
• Unlocking Big Data with R
• Google to Android Developers: ‘Do Not Develop in the Open’
• What’s better: Pricier Google App Engine, or nothing?
• Verbling is like a Chatroulette for learning languages
• Get Rid of Toxicity
• Mobile payments for dummies (infographic)
• Learning Regular Expressions: Non capturing match
• Facebook Adds Microformats To “Download Your Info” Feature
• The 5 best blogging platforms you haven’t heard of
• Citrix Brings GoToMeeting App to Android
• New Google Analytics SDK for iOS Version 1.3
• What story are you trying to tell to potential investors?
• Integrating Scalate and Jade with Play 1.2.3
• How Android’s fragmentation issue is slowly receding
• Design Student Starts Blog, Grows it, Sells it: Inhabitat Gets Acquired by Internet Brands
• Build an Android App and Submit it to the Amazon Appstore for Android; Get $50 AWS Credit
• Visualize Your Data: Charts in Google Apps Script!
• Mixpanel Now Funnels Into The Past
• Agility, Powered By Mindfulness

I hope you enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on those sites.

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