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I never loved Pearltrees until the iPad app was born! Oct 16

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The Women Who Made Google Plus: 22 Developers Behind the World's Fastest Growing Social Network

http://readwrite.com/2011/10/07/these_women_built_the_worlds_fastest_growing_socia Today is Ada Lovelace Day , a day dedicated to celebrating the world's first computer programmer and to share inspiring stories about women working in science, technology and math. Surely some of the most significant technical work done by women since this day last year includes the creation of what is said to be the fastest-growing social network in history, Google Plus . Launched on June 28th and just opened to the public at large late last month, Google Plus is a feature-rich social network with variable privacy and sharing settings at the core of its experience.

Fancy Hands: Virtual Assistants, Aardvark Style

I still use Fancyhands, though I feel like I should ask the service to take the time to think up uses of itself for me. I talk it up a lot as it's really saved my bacon. Ted Roden has become a person I talk to several times a year and I really enjoy his company. I interview him whenever I can about real time technology, crowd sourced labor and research hacks. by marshallk Oct 16

Techmeme's New Editor: An Interview with Megan McCarthy

Megan McCarthy did a great job running Techmeme, then media watchdog site Mediagazer. Now she's at the New York Observer, but her work curating breaking news will forever be a happy memory of mine. I love Mediagazer so much. by marshallk Oct 16

http://readwrite.com/2011/08/02/facebooks_mysterious_hire_the_guy_who_designed_muc

Facebook's Mysterious Hire: The Guy Who Designed Much of the iPhone

Facebook announced today that it has acquired a startup called Push Pop Press and most of the media coverage of the news has focused on Push Pop's dazzling e-book technology for clients including Al Gore.

MrBabyMan: Digg Users Revolt, Against the One Pure Man at the Top

http://readwrite.com/2008/05/17/digg_users_revolt_against_mrbabyman Andrew Sorcini lives in Los Angeles, works as an animator for Disney and is the most powerful user that social news site Digg.com has ever seen. Known at Digg and elsewhere as MrBabyMan , Sorcini has submitted a site-leading 2,400+ stories that have hit the site's coveted front page.

Thoughts From the Man Who Would Sell The World, Nicely

"My background is in Artificial Intelligence and my last business was building predictive data. http://readwrite.com/2010/04/19/bulk_social_data_80legs
http://readwrite.com/2010/02/08/facebook_user_data_analysis

The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul

Youth social networking researcher danah boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them.