Interactivity

Marc Canter blogs about the new site Netvibes. It is an example of a Digital Lifestyle Aggregator (similar to what Marc is planning on doing with GoingOn). Check it out here: http://www.netvibes.com/ This is easily the coolest thing I have seen in a while. Its built in Ajax (like Google’s personalized homepage and Microsoft’s Start.com). [...]

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From Don Park’s Daily Habit an excellent description of a current event with historical context and he ends it with this: I guess what I am trying to say is: * Webpage is not truth * Pagerank is not trust The Web is appropriately named, for it can catch you as well as inform you. [...]

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Wall Street Journal today has an article about how Amazon.com is joining forces with Coinstar: The coin program may attract new users to Amazon and Coinstar. Some consumers have resisted Coinstar’s machines — familiar fixtures in many grocery stores — because Coinstar charges an 8.9% commission in the U.S. to convert coins into bills. And [...]

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My favorite-conference-for-life is Gnomedex. Hands down, it is the best. Best speakers, best crowd (Lunatic Fringe), best topics, and I got to do some sightseeing in Seattle. This week Chris and Ponzi opened up the idea of Gnomedex 2006, and floated the idea that there be 2 Gnomedexes. The response was, well, very gnomdexy. Everyone [...]

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In-game machinima talk-show with random Halo players shooting guests. Awesome post from Boing-Boing about “This Spartan Life” an in-game talk show for X Box Live HALO. The best part? Of course, there are lots of Halo players who aren’t in on the gag, crashing through the “set” and opening fire on the apparently slow-moving and [...]

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http://mediameld.typepad.com/mediameld/2005/07/sony_cingular_f.html Thanks to the guys at Media Meld for pointing to this new campaign from Sony, Cingular and Ford. Basically, people who subscribe to this site get forewarned about 10 surprise (“Flash”) concerts throughout the year via the web or their cell phone. But here is where the cultural connection happens. The promotion contains all [...]

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http://www.psfk.com/2005/08/four_docs.html Thanks to PSFK for the following: Four Docs is launched today as a new opportunity and avenue for anyone to make and upload a four minute documentary. Hosted and run by Channel 4 (in the UK) the website also offers many guides for people planning on making their documentary. FourDocs represents the democratisation of [...]

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So for the threehundreth time I need to identify a CMS for a project. Because iNDELIBLE doesn’t have a ‘house CMS’, we take the client’s requirements and then compare it to the best possible solution. Well the kind souls at CMS Matrix have put together a comparison tool for understanding the major features of dozens [...]

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PBS | I, Cringely . July 14, 2005 – More Shoes As usual, Cringely lays out a completely plausible and clear theory on Steve Jobs moves with Apple, RE: Intel and Clickstar. See, we’re back to Apple. As I have written in previous columns, Apple is working on its own movie download service (HD movies [...]

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