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February 09 2010
How Google Buzz is Disruptive: Open Data Standards
Google rolled out a social stream service today called Buzz. It looks on the surface like Facebook, FriendFeed and other stream reading and writing services. It will compete with Facebook and Twitter. Under the covers, though, this major product was built by a team of people taking a radical new approach to online publishing: Buzz is all about open, standardized user data.
Google Buzz data...
Foursquare Partners with Zagat, New York Times
Foursquare has come out strong in recent weeks with partnership deals that look to put it at the top of the location-based app game. Last week, it announced a partnership with Bravo, the style and fashion-centric television network, and today it has come out with a partnership with Zagat, the restaurant guide, and the New York Times.
As we wrote last week, Foursquare is competing in an...
Niall O’Briens Punk-Fotografie
Niall O’Brien dokumentiert mit seiner Kamera seit ein paar Jahren das Leben einer Bande Punks aus dem Südwesten Londons, jetzt hat er eine Ausstellung namens „Good Rats“ in der Galerie Art Work Space (falls jemand in London weilt: Die Ausstellung läuft bis 11. März, hier die Adresse: Lower Ground Floor, The Hempel Hotel, 31-35 Craven Hill Gardens, London, W2 3EA).
Rüde, verroht, abgefuckt...
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Readers: Get your Buzz on
We know that many people like Reader because it makes it so easy to share interesting stuff with a wide group of friends. That's why, over the past year, we've added a number of features to help you share the content you find most interesting: comments, following, people search, liking, and "send to."
However, even with all these great features, sharing has been mostly limited to the subset of...
Event: Abandoned Images - 17 Feb 19:00
While most talk about the future of film centers on technology, copyright and piracy, Berlin-based author Stephen Barber looks back at the tradition of the cinematic experience for the moviegoer as a means of previewing future film habits.
For his latest book Abandoned Images (2010), Barber photographed a series of rundown (and many disused) film theaters in Los Angeles, each originally built i...
How to split up the US
As I've been digging deeper into the data I've gathered on 210 million public Facebook profiles, I've been fascinated by some of the patterns that have emerged. My latest visualization shows the information by location, with connections drawn between places that share friends. For example, a lot of people in LA have friends in San Francisco, so there's a line between them.
Looking at the...
What’s in a name?
Doh...
Mike Ratcliffe is globetrotting and kindly sent us his favourite sign, which he spotted in the Washington DC area.
Probably the absolute worst name they could have granted this place. [thanks Mike]
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The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul — Youth social networking researcher danah boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them. “I interviewed gay men who thought Friendster was a gay dating site because all they saw were other gay men,” she says.
Tuesday’s Video Pick| Dara Birnbaum
For this week’s pick we bring you Dara Birnbaum’s Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978-79. Birnbaum will be screening and speaking about her work at the Gene Siskel’s Conversations at the Edge on February 11th.
via Art Torents:
“In her video Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, Dara Birnbaum created one of the first examples of appropriation imagery from mainstream television...
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