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.

• Amazon’s Video On Demand Now Has 100,000 Titles Available
• Andreessen Horowitz Leads $15M Round In Cloud Business Intelligence Platform GoodData
• Food For Thought: No One Goes To Your Facebook Page
• Motorola Mobility blocked from asking for rivals to Google’s takeover bid
• Everyone Fails
• Kleiner Perkins And Warburg Pincus Put $100M Into Chinese Luxury Shopping Site Xiu.com
• Verizon’s got half the country covered with LTE
• NoSQL Job Trends – August 2011
• 5 things you should know before starting a company
• The Meat to Math ratio
• Your test cases should sometimes fail!
• Contrasting Performance : Languages, styles and VMs – Java, Scala, Python, Erlang, Clojure, Ruby, Groovy, Javascript
• Thursday, August 18, 2011
• Comic for August 18, 2011
• How one tweet can get you a free steak dinner
• Australian Android sales eclipse iPhone for the first time: Report
• IBM produces first working chips modeled on the human brain
• Ask.com gets smarter with help from Lonely Planet, others
• Run Oracle Applications on Amazon EC2 Now
• Evan Weaver, the man who helped save Twitter from its Fail Whale, has resigned.
• Can we believe our eyes? Misleading people with Unicode.
• The Real Challenge for RDF is Yet to Come
• Patent reform is coming: Who should care
• Google just launched a new music discovery site called Magnifier
• Magnifier: Taking a closer look at great music
• The increasing, and important, need for dual identities on the web – real and anonymous
• Final Specs for Browser-Neutral Web Performance Could Be Weeks Away
• Geekli.st helps you find the badass needle in the haystack
• The Series A Squeeze
• The Federal Government Wants You! (And Your App Ideas)
• What Skills Every New Internet Entrepreneur Needs
• Windows Phone Mango Silverlight developer toolkit released
• Meet Tandem: The boutique incubator that only does mobile
• Cloud Foundry PaaS to Get Automated Installation, Deployment Tools
• Zynga gets slapped with patent lawsuit over credits-based gaming
• Pearson Provides Its Travel, Financial and Dictionary Content as APIs
• Windows Phone 7 OS fragmentation explained
• TV Networks Begin to Rethink Free, Immediate Web Access to Shows
• Happy birthday, Hipmunk: 1 million monthly searches served and still growing
• doubleTwist Now Has 1 Million Active Users — Every Day
• Google testing infinite scrolling in search results
• App Engine 1.5.3 SDK Released
• Is Google+ starting to get on Facebook’s nerves?
• Apple, Nokia want InterDigital’s 8,800 patents, but don’t count Google out yet
• Skype Launches New Wi-Fi Finder for iOS
• Building a healthier, greener Google
• Exclusive: Apple’s Mobile Ad Head Andy Miller Departs for Highland Capital
• CouchDB and DDD

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

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