Tuesday, September 29, 2009

What if Twitter Had an App Store? Now It Does.


Like Summize before it was acquired and relaunched as Twitter Search, OneForty is Twitter’s missing piece. Similar to the App Store for Apple’s iPhone, OneForty is a marketplace for the Twitter community to discover and share tools and services that make Twitter valuable. It also offers a business platform for the over 20,000 Twitter developers to market their innovations. It brings order to the chapos with organized categories, tags and “essentials” to introduce new users to apps.
What if Twitter Had an App Store? Now It Does. | Brian Solis - PR 2.0
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Monday, September 28, 2009

Celebrate Banned Books Week


Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

Intellectual freedom—the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular—provides the foundation for Banned Books Week. BBW stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them.
ALA | Banned Books Week
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

MP3tunes Music Locker - Releases iPhone app!

MP3tunes Music Locker: Your Music Everywhere:

NEW for your iPhone or iPod touch!

Airband

and your MP3tunes Locker

  • Enjoy your Locker wherever you go with the FREE Airband app!

  • Never be limited by the disk space of your iPhone or iPod touch again!

  • Browse your albums and artists or just click to listen to a mix of your favorites!
Finally! I've Been waiting for this to come out!

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Google Maps locates Hell.

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According to Google Maps, Hell is located at the corner of Patterson Lake Rd and Silver Hill in Pinckney, MI.

So you may want to adjust your travel route if you're in that area.

Google Chrome Frame - have IE 6 run Chrome


Google Chrome Frame is an early-stage open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome's open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer. With Google Chrome Frame, you can:

* Start using open web technologies - like the HTML5 canvas tag - right away, even technologies that aren't yet supported in Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8.

* Take advantage of JavaScript performance improvements to make your apps faster and more responsive.
Google Chrome Frame - Google Code
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Video Artist Invades Best Buy

Video Artist Invades Best Buy:

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Borna Sammak, a member of the Free Art and Technology Lab, is planning an illicit exhibition for a New York Best Buy store on October 8. If all goes according to plan, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. all of the display monitors in the store will simultaneously switch to his incredible video art, which is specially built for hi-def screens and looks like the year 1992 exploding in slow motion (example here). It's unclear how he’s pulling this off, especially with the word out about it, but it’ll be the coolest thing to happen to a Best Buy in years.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Kids can play with anything, if it's Play-Doh

Kids can play with anything, if it's Play-Doh:

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"Kids shouldn't play with razor blades, matches, chainsaws, cleavers or pills. Unless, of course, they're made of Play-Doh. The eye-catching ads are from Singapore, which needs better broadband access if Play-Doh's still a viable time-waster there. Compare and contrast these ads with the German campaign for Becks modeling clay, which, as we all know, played the social-issues card and made the world a better place. The Play-Doh tagline: 'Safe no matter what you make.' The stuff's even non-toxic, though if kids do eat it, what they'll eventually make won't be appealing. Via Ugly Doggy. "

See also:
Modeling clay soothes the old antagonisms

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Online Audio Editor - Aviary.com's Myna

Online Audio Editor - Aviary.com's Myna:

"Use Myna to remix music tracks and audio clips. Apply sound effects and record your own voice or instruments!"


And it comes loaded with ready to use music loops and samples. Very cool. Looks like a great podcasting tool.

Bad Boys II White Guys on Vimeo

Bad Boys II White Guys on Vimeo:

Bad Boys II White Guys from Travis Blackwell on Vimeo.

Took me a second to figure out what was going on here. These two guys spliced themselves into the movie Bad Boys II. I was wondering how they could afford to do all those car crashes.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

League of Librarians Trading Cards

League of Librarians Trading Cards - a set on Flickr:

 by Carlson Library

"from Carleton College who created the'original* librarian trading cards"

Friday, September 11, 2009

Google Voice and Gmail are sort of merging

Google Voice and Gmail are sort of merging | Rafe's Radar - CNET News: "

Two new little Google Voice features just made their way into Gmail. A new option lets text messages sent to Google Voice show up as e-mail messages in Gmail. You can reply to messages from Gmail, too, which makes it a nice platform for carrying on a text message conversation.

Google Voice text messages can now be read and replied to from within Gmail.

(Credit: Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET)

Also, there's a new Labs feature in Gmail that lets you play your Google Voice voicemail messages from inside the Gmail viewer. Previously, Gmail would send you the text transcript of your message, but if you wanted to play the audio file, it would open a new browser window to do so.

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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Control your Mac or PC using Twitter

Control your Mac or PC using Twitter: "The services TweetMyMac and TweetMyPC allow you to do exactly that - send specific commands to your remote computer to have it perform specific tasks. Here's a sampling of the sorts of commands it can understand: shutdown, restart, logout, sleep, ip, screenshot, screensaver, open (apps), quit (apps), lock, etc."

Scanwiches

Scanwiches:

Urban Rustic: Tahawus, Chicken Salad, Slab Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, Hot Peppers, White Cheddar, on Multi-grain
Scans of sandwiches for education and delight.

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

9/11 was nothing, according to new WWF ad

9/11 was nothing, according to new WWF ad: "

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Just in time for the anniversary of 9/11 comes this tasteless, nightmarish print ad for the World Wildlife Fund, showing dozens of planes headed for lower Manhattan. See a larger version here. The copy reads: 'The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it.' Unfortunately, respect is the main thing lacking here."

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