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Link: Where does the NZ Government get money?

Some analysis by Lance Wiggs. I wonder if GST should be added to Income tax to show the amount of ‘personal tax’ that individuals pay?

Link: Turn off Gmail’s conversation view

I don’t know why you would want to turn off Gmail’s conversation threading, but apparently a vocal minority hates it.

Go to the main Settings page, look for the “Conversation View” section, select the option to turn it off, and save changes. If you change your mind, you can always go back.

Link: WordPress.com and Windows Live partnering together and providing an upgrade for 30 million Windows Live Spaces customers

Kudos to the Windows Live team:

There are 30 million people who are actively using Windows Live Spaces and have been eagerly awaiting the next set of new blogging features. For these customers, Windows Live and WordPress.com have worked together to build a simple way to move your blog posts, comments, and integrated photos right over to WordPress.com and start taking advantage of all their new features. And we’ll also redirect all your old Spaces URLs to your new blog, so you don’t lose any visitors along the way.

Link: ThinkUp Social Media Insights Engine

From Gina Trapani:

ThinkUp captures your posts, replies, retweets, friends, followers, and links on social networks like (but not limited to) Twitter and Facebook. ThinkUp stores this social data in a database you control, and makes it available to search, sort, filter, export, and visualize in useful ways.

Link: How to pitch your company at Techcrunch or get investors to write checks

Good general advice for anyone starting a new business.

Link: How to avoid upgrading MYOB to cope with GST change

MYOB: making it easy for businesses to switch to Xero.

Link: Oktoberfest 2010 – The Big Picture – Boston.com

Fond, but vague, memories!

Link: Marco.org – Most common words unique to 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews

Marco Ament:

I wrote a script to crawl U.S. App Store customer reviews for the top 100 apps from every category (minus duplicates) and compute the most common words in 1-star and 5-star reviews, excluding words that were also common in 3-star reviews.

Link: The Things He Carried

Fascinating article by Jeffery Goldberg of The Atlantic. He teamed up with security expert Bruce Schneier to highlight how inadequate the TSA’s $7billion security theatre really is.

Link: TV3 anchor lets rip online at coverage

Typical sensationalist reporting by the NZ Herald. Mike McRoberts made a single comment via Twitter which read:

actually what it reflects is a poor decision by 3 not to go with continuous coverage throughout the day. No lead in.

He hardly “let rip” as the Herald reported.