I have talked about human filters and my plan for digital curation. These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my Google Reader feeds. These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques.

• Lean Tools: Conceptual Integrity (Agile Zone – Software Methodologies for Development Managers)
• Meteor raises $11.2m round led by Andreessen Horowitz, launches open source app dev platform (The Next Web)
• Looking For Leaders In All The Wrong Places (Java Code Geeks)
• Wello puts an end to excuses with 24-hour online access to fitness training (VentureBeat)
• Speech-impaired kids get a voice with Proloquo2go iOS app (GigaOM)
• Dew Drop – July 25, 2012 (#1,371) (Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew)
• Double Shot #922 (A Fresh Cup)
• GoodData brings in $25M to supply Big Data analytics (VentureBeat)
• Entrepreneurs Have Control When Things Work, VCs Have Control When They Don’t (A VC)
• The circles of marketing (Seth's Blog)
• Silverlight streaming – the race condition is already included (Ayende @ Rahien)
• New IDC White Paper – Business Value of Amazon Web Services Accelerates Over Time (Amazon Web Services Blog)
• Bytes Matter (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• Hadoop Hive Web Interface (Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices)
• Getting out of Technical Debt (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• Foursquare goes into monetization mode with promoted updates (GigaOM)
• Eyelash Wish Log (xkcd.com)
• Square seeks $200M at a whopping $3.25B valuation (VentureBeat)
• A Quick Test of Firefox OS, a.k.a. Boot to Gecko (The AppsLab)
• Behold Google index secrets, revealed! (Google Webmaster Central Blog)
• AWS Management Console Improvements (EC2 Tab) (Amazon Web Services Blog)
• We’re entering a golden age of news geekery (Marshall Kirkpatrick's Blog)
• Linked Data to Take Programmable Web to a Higher Level (ProgrammableWeb)
• When to use Apache Camel? (Java Code Geeks)
• How one startup wants to inject Hadoop into your SQL (GigaOM)
• Koding (Gradually) Opens Its Social, In-Browser Development Tools To Everyone (TechCrunch)
• With new 100-watt standard, your USB cable could soon charge your laptop (VentureBeat)
• Thoughts on ECMAScript 6 and new syntax (NCZOnline)
• Helping developers build more applications on Google BigQuery (Google Developers Blog)
• Community blogging update: war stories, tutorials, & ruminations (MarkLogic Community Blog)
• Twitter has a garden, now it’s working on the walls (GigaOM)
• Hot Dogs & Caviar (Dalton Caldwell)
• Does the NSA have a file on you? Probably (GigaOM)
• Understanding And Using Page Value (Google Analytics Blog)

I hope you enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on those sites.