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Explained for poker players and Star Wars nerds.  Marvellous.

Interesting thoughts on features Facebook needs to address the growing spam threat.

(and yes, I’ve joined facebook)

Interesting (if short) write up in the New York Times about (in my mind, at least) the purest of the web2.0 sites out there, Threadless.

I really like the idea of this service; auto expiring anonymous phone numbers

We‘re growing. Rapidly. Finding good people is hard, particularly in our neck of the woods. We’ve been fine tuning our recruitment processes over the last 6 months as we’ve gone from first employee to 14th, but it’s always interesting to see what other people have to say, and who better than Marc Andreessen?

How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with

(As an aside, Marc Andreessen is still my winning card in Business Card Top Trumps. I was lucky enough to meet him one on one during the launch of Loudcloud; I couldn’t afford his software and he knew it, so the meeting didn’t last long, but it was still a high point )

Slot machines get social networking.

So now you can grunt aimlessly at each other while staring glassy eyed at the machine in new and interesting ways, no doubt.

I’ve mused before about the accidental exposure of our private lives online.  With the advent of Twitter, Plazes and the like this is only getting worse.  And what about Google Street View?  Mashable takes a look.

You learn something new every day…  Today’s learning?

Mystery Meat Navigation (MMN)

Nice.

I’m sure you’ve already seen it, but just in case… Go have a look at Flickr Vision. If you have the screen real estate (and hey, who hasn’t got 3 monitors?) just leave it running. It’s awesome.

iden.tify.us – name that tune in a web2.0 stylee.

Found at Paul Lamere‘s blog