Chris Messina makes an interesting proposal to improve microsyntaxis in Twitter, in particular the way we do retweets, include other people in a conversation and cite other people:

Change the RT: or the (via @user) to: /via @user — is more descriptive and you save one character in the second case.
Start using /cc @usuario to include somebody else t [...]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with creating the World Wide Web in 1989, doesn’t seem like a man who has many regrets. But he admitted earlier this month at a symposium in Washington that his decision to include those annoying forward slashes in http addresses was made on a whim. If he could change one thing about the Internet now, he says, he would slash the slashes, which are completely unnecessary.

Cool video showing a group of 36 skaters using neon lights and creating the most geek and cool human Tetris ever seen.

Just yesterday I post about Google launching Frame, a plug-in for Internet Explorer so that Microsoft’s browser can use Wave.
Finally the plug-in was presented and the first results from speed  tests are quite something. According to ComputerWorld, who used the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark, Internet Explorer 8 works 9.6 times faster using Google extension that without it [...]

Google made an interesting move in the fight with non compliant standards and lack of support of Internet Explorer by presenting Chrome Frame, a plugin that, according to Google:

“is an early-stage open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer”

From Between The Lines, ZDNet blog, Larry Dignan brings this top 10 list which I found interesting (regardless you agree on all or not): The 10 biggest moments in IT history.

1. The development of COBOL (1959)
2. The development of the ARPANET (1969)
3. The creation of UNIX (1970)
4. The first “clamshell” laptop (1979)
5. The beginning of Linus Torvalds’ work on Linux (1991)

What happens when Steve Jobs - famous for his bad-ass presentations - has to present a product that was not manufactured by his company and that also sucks big time?

Don’t miss this video from Apple’s CEO making a demo of the Motorola ROKR and the faces he makes when the gadget doesn’t work as supposed.