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Blluetooth-enabled social networking
Economies of Scale 2.0
Where things become strange is that a lot of sites are basing their economy off of Google. They're doing exactly what those small nations did when things moved to a credit based economy.
Logobama
Add your face to a customized Obama logo
OpenSpime
Inspired by Bruce Sterling, Pervasive RFID communications and GPS navigation can track an object's history as it interacts with the real world.
Geek Squad on Marketing is a Tax You Pay for Being Unremarkable
Ross Mayfield does a great job capturing the brilliance of Robert Stephens' talk about his company, Geek Squad
Microsoft's Greatest Hits: Top 5 internal e-mails
A federal judge overseeing a class-action lawsuit against the company unsealed a trove of internal Microsoft e-mails.
Quadradius
Cool flash game
Yahoo's LIVE Deaf Chat Room
Putting faces to names. Very cool unexpected use case for Yahoo's live-streaming project
Commuterfeed
Traffic updates via the twitterati
Last.fm normalised rankings
Billboard Magazine style ranking uses your last.fm account to rank your favorite artists and albums based on normalized list of how long you've listened to each artist.
The most important thing to understand about new products and startups
The market makes a product. Find the gradient, then follow it.
Louis Gray - FriendFeed
Debate over FriendFeed's "blanket of implicit privacy"
Plan B for Microsoft: Split up the Advertising Atom - ReadWriteWeb
Opening up the ad market into a third party services cloud.
Retro Valentine's Day cards
valart2008 flickr archive of scanned images
High-Definition Time Lapse Video of San Francisco fog
Yep, it gets pretty foggy around here.
NewsGlobe: See where on earth big news is breaking
Luke's animated globe overlay with the day's headlines
The Coming Ad Revolution - WSJ.com
Esther Dyson on the WSJ Op-Ed page writes about behavioral targeting and social networks
TweetStats
Get a graph of your twitter behavior.
The Social Graph API and Surprises
David Recordon posts about The Principle of Least Surprise
MySpace Developer Platform
Supports Google's Open Social widget platform.
just because we can, doesn't mean we should
Ad-hoc exposure is not the same as a vaccine. Sure, a vaccine is a type of exposure, but a very systematically controlled one. No one in their right mind would decide to expose all of society to a virus just to see who would survive.
Yes, We Can
So this year i wanted to get involved and do all i could early...
Social Graph visibility akin to pain reflex
It's a lot like the evolutionary value of pain. Search creates feedback loops that allow us to learn from and modify our behavior.
A Selection of Perfect Ads
Non-US ads tend to be more edgy.
My Next Digital Camera
Exilim Pro Ex-F1
25 Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Time
Some good fodder for "fail" captions
Movable Type's Action Streams
Plug-in for MT allows you to pull in vitality events from across the web.
MySpace Opens Up; Will Launch Platform on Feb 5
Folks I know called this one many moons ago
The Political Scene: The Choice: Reporting & Essays
The New Yorker compares Clinton and Obama
Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games
Profile of 42 Entertainment and Nine Inch Nails ARG