Customer Development: The Definitive Resource | JonBischke.com
Great resource for customer-driven development
AOL, Yahoo Will Add Life Streams to Their Popular Web Services
Whatever form AOL and Yahoo’s life-streaming efforts take, there’s no denying that the post-broadband era needs a different kind of media consumption paradigm.
Live Ships Map - AIS - Vessel Traffic and Positions
Realtime marine traffic
Sharing social activity streams across the Web: How Gnip fits in
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life on Gnip
iPhone Makes Up 50 Percent of Smartphone Web Traffic In U.S., Android Already 5 Percent
Market Research from AdMob mobile ad network
Binary Data is XMPP’s Achilles Heel « metajack
data needs to be chunked into smaller sets to keep from gumming up the queue
Redeye VC: Nothing to Lose (or Risk Tolerance is a Competitive Weapon)
Notes on why PayPal succeeded and eBay's Billpoint failed.
The Potential for Facebook Search Kicks Twitter’s Butt
Summary of Lexicon and other keyword mining features on Facebook
Twim
Mobile twitter client, written in Java, runs on Nokia e71.
Mobidentica
Mobile Identi.ca client, written in Java. Runs on Nokia e71
Twisten.FM :: Listen to Twitter
crawls twitter for links to music files so you can play them
COVERITLIVE.COM
Hosted tool to make it easier to live-blog
Hey Marketers, Stop Being Control Freaks
Some buy display or text ads around the outside fringes of social interactions. . .others choose to participate directly in the activities these sites are designed to foster. . .the latter is more powerful because it harnesses the direct connection. However, by entering into conversation, you give up a measure of control.
Pacific Institute: Sea-Level Rise
Interactive maps showing impact of 1.4 rise in sea level
Google Noticeboard
Post and share recorded audio messages
Poken: Tiny RFID thingies that share all your personal data with others
Crunchgear picks up on the Poken - geek crowd ponders how to enable it in cellphone in comments.
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.
contxts - mobile sms business cards
Interesting concept but I can't get it to work on the AT&T network
Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com
Project information about objects onto the physical objects themselves.
Review of Great New Premium Wordpress Theme Designed for Lifestreamers | Lifestream Blog
RAT TRADERS (artmarcovici)
Each time after listening to a sound, the rat had to choose between pressing either a green or a red button, green for "long" (if the prices were expected to move up), red for "short" (if they predicted a decline in prices). When they were right they recieved a small amount of food (the good rats became fat very fast) when they had taken the wrong button, they received a minor electric shock.
Finding The Sweet Spot - How to Find Parking in San Francisco - Tips, Tricks, plus Free and Secret Spots
Parking tips in San Francisco
Foursquare, Hot New Phone App, Is Dodgeball on Steroids | The New York Observer
via Dav - Foursquare is nightclubbing as a competitive sport
Behind the Incredibly Shrinking Media - BusinessWeek
The audience's attention capacity has not shrunk, but the demands on it did—exponentially. Without broad strokes or simplification, we humans are, for the most part, simple creatures that like to feel, well, good. That means being included, being liked, respected, taken care of, admired, satisfied. This "new world" brought us massive amounts of information but no new time to digest it, so we cognitively economize and focus on what's required. This isn't me saying humanity is destined to become a group of wandering watercooler idiots, but I think we can all agree we need to tame our info lust and refocus.
Cliqset Could Be The Web's First Read-Write Identity Provider - ReadWriteWeb
Uses OAuth to connect distributed social network profiles, similar to DandyID.
"Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"
Danah Boyd's talk at Microsoft
Guardian API Maps - Home
Crowdsourcing geo-tagging of Guardian news. A Stamen Design project.
A few notes on the Guardian Open Platform
details on their content and data apis
Maintained Relationships on Facebook | overstated
Cameron Marlow on size of social networks on facebook.
7-Zip
Free file compression utilities. Alternative to winzip, pkzip