Ryan Joy (atxryan)

atxryan: Senior Goldman execs loading up on firearms to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank? Maybe. http://is.gd/59Ci0

Henry Paulson, U.S. Treasury secretary during the bailout and a former Goldman Sachs CEO, let it slip during testimony to Congress last summer when he explained why it was so critical to bail out Goldman Sachs, and — oh yes — the other banks. People “were unhappy with the big discrepancies in wealth, but they at least believed in the system and in some form of market-driven capitalism. But if we had a complete meltdown, it could lead to people questioning the basis of the system.”

There you have it. The bailout was meant to keep the curtain drawn on the way the rich make money, not from the free market, but from the lack of one.

atxryan: Folks, the new TweetDeck makes Twitter Lists management SO MUCH better. In fact, Lists are actually useful now. http://is.gd/59kxA

We waited for the ability to group people on Twitter since it’s inception, but when they finally announced Twitter Lists there was something lacking. It’s incredibly frustrating to create and manage a list using the Twitter.com UI. Something as simple as the ability to add people to a list when viewing just that list was [...]

atxryan: “The best thing a user can do to advance the Web is to help move people off IE 6″, says Microsoft. http://is.gd/59gbi

This looks promising: Square.

When we first came across Faviki back in 2008, we were intrigued by the concept of a social bookmarking service built using semantic tagging capabilities. Instead of organizing bookmarks based on user-created tags, Faviki tags come from structured info…

When we first came across Faviki back in 2008, we were intrigued by the concept of a social bookmarking service built using semantic tagging capabilities. Instead of organizing bookmarks based on user-created tags, Faviki tags come from structured info…

atxryan: Google dropping support for their Gears API in favor of HTML5. Seems too soon, but hopefully this’ll push HTML5 adoption. http://is.gd/595M7