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A system and method for automatically populating a contact file with contact content and expression content are provided. An identifier is received on a device that is used to query a server in communication with a web-based social network database.

TechCrunch post features another infographic showing LinkedIn usage and membership at the 100M mark.

In celebration of 100M members, Vincos publishes an infographic.

All you ever wanted to know about ATM skimmers

first in two part series

Music making can be fun! Make a virtual world and drive a car around to make music.

The memristor — short for memory resistor - could make it possible to develop far more energy-efficient computing systems with memories that retain information even after the power is off, so there's no wait for the system to boot up after turning the computer on. It may even be possible to create systems with some of the pattern-matching abilities of the human brain.

Refurbished classic mobile phones (StarTac, Nokia 3210) with updated colors to show your hipster allegiance to retro technology

post-mortem by Mark Wilcox, ex-Nokia, Symbian foundation

Bite-sized video tutorials and practice exercises.

Counter-point to Clay Shirky's Filter Failure argument.

D3.js is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.

1200% increase in QR code scanning from July to December 2010

Crowdsourcing tool for ideas within a company or group.

Finnish VC firm

UI placeholders for UI mockups, uses kittens!

Social reputation service. Uses Facebook and Twitter for inputs. Keeps historical graph showing change in score over time.

Social reputation analysis looks at your twitter, facebook, linkedin, and quora accounts to rank your social capital.

How to make a good pitch deck.

All the tools and techniques you need to master High Definition Range photography.

Crowdsourced and distributed 2-minute tasks

Scobelizer post on QR business card services.

QR Codes for Business Cards and LinkedIn. Adds tracking so you can see where people are scanning your QR Code.

Curated List of App Ideas. Good fodder for hackdays.

Software used by Girl Talk during live performances.

just fill in the blanks! it's that easy!

Adam Greenfield on Nokia failure, "the company utterly failed to anticipate, understand or organize itself to deal with the critical thing that happened at the cusp of the Ollila-Kalasvuo transition. This was that you could no longer think of mobile phones as communication devices. You had to conceive of them as interface objects through which users would experience content and command functionality that ultimately lived on the network."

Facebook is not particularly regarded for its ability to give its members value back on their own data. While it’s very easy to get data into Facebook, it’s very difficult to get data out and in a meaningful way. Simply charting your friends’ geographical spread is difficult (join the Facebook Data Team page to stay appraised of the latest). Beyond suggesting new friends, Facebook does little to share back with the community the incredible insights it gathers about its users.

Links to Torrents from 2005 - 2010