I’ve always been interested in reading all kinds of inspirational articles, blog posts and just fun things on the Internet, and most of the time I just tweet about it. But now, both for my sake and yours, I will write a weekly blog post listing the links for the latest week.

With especially Twitter, if you are lucky you can get a fleeting glimpse of a link and then it’s gone; also, the options of finding a link somewhere there is very small. Therefore I wanted to post it here to have as a reference, indexable by Google and also backed up in my database and on Amazon S3 so there’s likely risk of me losing it/not finding it again.

It also means that whenever you are interested in checking out just my links, you can go to the Robert’s read category and find what you want instantaneously.

So, without further ado, here’s Robert’s read for August 17th 2011:

• Mozilla Labs Initiatives For Identity and Open Web Apps
• iOS devs pay $50,000 for collecting children’s info in apps
• Firefox Dev Tools: Introducing Scratchpad
• Video from Mozilla WSOH – World Series of Hack – July 2011
• Understanding Hardware Acceleration on Mobile Browsers
• Google Buys Motorola Mobility For $12.5B, Says “Android Will Stay Open”
• We may want Mario on the iPhone, but Nintendo won’t slit own throat
• Facebook Quietly Updates Platform Policies – Developers, No Linking To Its Competitors!
• How browsers make money, or why Google needs Firefox
• Facebook announces Messenger app for on-the-go contact
• Boxee now available for iPad
• The HTML5 details and summary elements
• Google, Mozilla Team Up to Create a Smarter, Action-Based Web | Webmonkey | Wired.com
• 10-year old Girl Scout owns slow game – Boing Boing
• Configure your Google account to use multiple sessions in the same browser
• Google+ iOS app now compatible with iPad | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog
• Skype 5.3 adds Lion support, HD video calls | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog
• (Re)discovering the benefits of App Tabs in Firefox
• Excellent HTML5 canvas performance tips
• “Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.“ – Carl Sagan
• The “App Model” and the Web
• Firefox 6 is here
• New Tools in Mozilla Firefox Help Developers Drive the Web Forward
• Firefox for Android Has a New Look and Tools that Empower Developers to Build Rich Mobile Web Experiences
• Quotes from Rohan partners – Facts about Gondor’s acquisition of Edoras
• Use the Ace editor from Cloud9 IDE to edit files on GitHub
• How to open a clean terminal in Mac OS X Lion, i.e. no resume history

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