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 feeds. These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques.

• EdSurge Nabs $400K From Washington Post, NewSchools To Be A Resource For All Things EdTech (TechCrunch)
• Huffington Post Now Has Its Own “Labs” Site For Online News Experiments (TechCrunch)
• Google+ in the workplace: Google previews enterprise Hangouts for Calendar and restricted posts (The Next Web)
• VeriFone opens Sail payment platform to developers (GigaOM)
• WePay’s new payment buttons let anyone become an online merchant (VentureBeat)
• Dew Drop – August 29, 2012 (#1,391) (Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew)
• Double Shot #946 (A Fresh Cup)
• The Future: Polyglot Programmers (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• MySQL as a KVS vs. MongoDB: MySQL Beats Mongo by 62K Rows/Sec. (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• Apache Projects are the Justice League of Scalability (Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices)
• AppFog buys Nodester to bolster Node.js support (VentureBeat)
• New CEO Melissa Mayer starts cracking the whip at Yahoo (BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech)
• Grim And Gritty Startup Reboot: NoSQL Company Citrusleaf Changes Name And Acquires AlchemyDB (TechCrunch)
• No More Project Octopus — A Corporate Dropbox Gets A Corporate Name (TechCrunch)
• Dear news orgs, re Twitter (Dave Winer)
• The Curse Of Knowledge (Mark Needham)
• Some new geeky Facebook lists and advice for startups launching (Scobleizer)
• Firefox 15 edges closer to Chrome with silent updating, memory fixes, & more (VentureBeat)
• Is Freemium Compatible with Enterprise Software? (Venture Chronicles)
• Making Hadoop Run Faster (High Scalability)
• Security companies are recommending you disable Java, or just uninstall it (The Next Web)

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

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