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30 posts from January 2010

January 27, 2010

@6:07 (1/26)

this is a collection of things that i look at online. i'm building a service that will let everyone do the same. check it out and sign up.

so why don't you just let me be a concubine. duh.

five ways social media sabotages relationships

a potential developer i'm trying to meet with.

augmented reality adidas shoes. still... i'm left asking, to what end?

a good interview with fred wilson

you'd be "spaghettified" if you were to fall into a black hole. sounds great.

this is exactly the type of thing i'm building voyurl to combat.

getting past viral.

some weird twitter visualizer. not that useful, but fun to play with.

how ddb handled avis. and damn is that spot on advice.

another team of developers i'm considering for voyurl.

can anyone explain what's going on with this fever ray stunt?

a piece from faris yakob about viral marketing.

this service will search a whole bunch of social media networks for what you're looking for.

how can you not love this puppy?

the maturation of social media ROI.

@6:26 (1/25)

this is a collection of things that i look at online. i'm building a service that will let everyone do the same. check it out and sign up.

guess what? you're brain is going to explode from all those facebook friends you keep.

noooooooooooooooo dot com.

why didn't someone make this sooner? timed social media updates. they go out when you schedule them.

everything is not going to be okay. read this and live knowing it.

oh blippy.. do i have something you're going to like.

another good partnership with foursquare. i'm enjoying seeing these pop up and what is done with them.

a good song.

really nate berkus? twitter backgrounds? no wonder twitter activity is plateauing.

the death of tv as we know it is one step closer. the harbinger? live cricket via youtube. yes, cricket.

man seeking woman. must be super villain.

January 25, 2010

@5:45 (1/22)

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fat kid + sword + sweatpants + ponytail = internet awesometown.

welcome to controlled serendipity. welcome to why i've started voyurl.

passive aggressive wifi hotspot names.

which let me to this site dedicated to passive aggressive notes.

and also led me to this tumblr about wifi hotspot names.

the new film from james cameron: avatard.

the internet IS reality tv.

interesting digital tactic from band of skulls... you tweet about them, they give you a free mp3.

i will live here one day.

an augmented reality t-shirt that plays a game with you.

i like this subway map of the milky way.

a search site for all your social networks. i'm still on the fence on this one.

a great twitter data vis about the spread of a hashtag through the network.

a cool project by a guy to visualize his on-screen mouse activity over the course of the day. and the opensourced spread of that engineering.

who's the genius behind this PR failure?

siblings or dating dot com.

a graph of reader paths on the kindle.

what serena williams' ass tells us about the credit swap crisis.

January 21, 2010

@5:47 (1/21)

this is a collection of things that i look at online. i'm building a service that will let everyone do the same. check it out and sign up.

a new version of the adidas + star wars collab. looks like daft punk is making the music.

another way to post to twitter. meh.

what government and data systems SHOULD BE DOING.

social capital: it's a concept we also independently thought up for work too. funny running into it elsewhere... and six years ago!

love. this.

tokyo sky drive. nice vid.

hmmm on the fence on these speakers + light bulbs from klipsch. they screw right into the socket. no wires.

lovely photography. nice to look at to give your eyes a break.

banksy's new film. nice.

i want these jeans/pants. i will not have them.

conan o'brien is the smartest man on television. hands down. and yes, it's real. try to watch this bit on hulu. you can't.. you know why? because they didn't buy the rights for internet distribution. conan. for the win.

amazing live performance by tribe called quest last night in brooklyn. sorry i missed it.

cute things falling asleep.

@6:09 (1/20)

this is a collection of things that i look at online. i'm building a service that will let everyone do the same. check it out and sign up.

in case you didn't get the memo, the internet isn't just for computers anymore.

why you should start a company in nyc. holler.

a portfolio site.

i hope that one day voyurl will get to put their offices in dogpatch labs.

hilarious bit from aziz ansari's standup show about hanging with kanye west.

photoshopped models. this time kinda good.

you can buy me a few of these on whim.

great site to check api status across sooo many services.

a whole tumblr dedicated to the ampersand. nice.

hmmm can't decide about this ux tweak for mac.

so you've sorted the ux. what about the ex?

be like microsoft. and win. until you trip over yourself.

great little tech law regarding twitter. and probably true.

January 19, 2010

@8:00 (1/19)

this is a collection of things that i look at online. i'm building a service that will let everyone do the same. check it out and sign up.

i'm on the fence on this. not sure if it's good or, well, a bit of a let down.

a nice site with good advice in an easy-to-consume format.

these dust jackets + bookmarks are pretty fun

another fun one from swiss miss. this time with plates, chopsticks, and office references.

something complicated from forrester that i bet could be made simpler. useful nonetheless.

this is the evolution of guitar hero and it is awesome.

a really cool piece of art ...breaking down objects and reconstructing them. 

a great distinction between the twitterverse and the twitter ecosystem. dorky words, i know, but it's a good example of where splitting hairs makes a big difference.

why tumblr is kicking posterous' butt.

ninjas unboxing a nexus one.

a great idea to simplify the mess and number-crunching needed to perform geo-location en masse.

copyright criminals: a MUST SEE documentary on copyright laws and their effect on music making. just aired on pbs.

a strong finish... notorious b.i.g. slaying at age 17.

@6:34 (1/15)

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and BOOM goes the dynamite.

yeah, so this guy made a replica star trek phaser from the original series. oh yeah, AND IT WORKS!

this is a story about the people who live underneath las vegas. and there are a lot of them.

i bought a new url the other day, www.czechyourself.com. my friend xtine sent me this vid of her czech friend pavla telling her how to say things in czech.

power rankings of tv shows.

one of the better soundboards i've found on the internet. i hope you know what started this. 

another great project to help raise money for haitian relief.

i've had my doubts about LA, but this masters of the universe exhibit is a move towards the positive.

so, um, now we can shoot supplies into space using a sea-cannon. seriously.

just a gift from a friend of mine who has a knack for finding crazy things on the internet.

wood and paint dot com. it's nice art.

January 15, 2010

@6:18 (1/14)

this is a collection of things that i look at online. i'm building a service that will let everyone do the same.

check it out and sign up.


"the lords of the cloud—huge entities such as Google and Facebook—constrict their users, creating online environments in which true individuality is curtailed in favor of the extraction of marketing data and other intelligence. The practice is not only unfair and confining, he says, but perhaps even dangerous."

-- this is exactly what i'm trying to combat with voyurl

some facebook connect sorta stuff.

and some mozilla developer stuff.

feel like tweeting what you buy with your credit card? every time you buy something?

a cookbook search engine. hmmmm.

a great stop-motion acceptance speech from wes anderson.

i love lamps. and i like this one a lot.

January 14, 2010

@8:52 (1/13)

this is a collection of things that i look at online. i'm building a service that will let everyone do the same.

check it out and sign up.


some good art from a guy that i work with.

good remix of some drake track on URB.

the new polaroid camera be lookin' good.

a curated collection of the best apps out there.

Agile versus agile. trust me there's a difference. and it's important.

of all the brands, i didn't think Tasti-D-Lite would be the first to start using foursquare in a decent manner.

how to make a michael cera movie.

gore's choice... how al gore changed a typeface.

ten years of magazines in 2 minutes.

paid social bookmarking. hmmm.

the coca-cola happiness machine. a decent piece of work and a fun experiment.

rammstein vs cookie monster. AMAZING!!



@9:21 (1/12)

this is a collection of things that i look at online. i'm building a service that will let everyone do the same.

check it out and sign up.

these dudes are making some clothes for active dudes. it ain't not business activewear though.

my friend john fischer has taken a sharp right turn. holler.

leave to the smaht kidz to start figuring what things like foursquare are good for. 

great data vis retrospective from none other than infosthetics.