Magnetbox

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SF0

Collaborative production game where goals of play include meeting new people, exploring the city, and participating in non-consumer leisure activities.

(tags: art community culture sanfrancisco game)
Official Google Maps API Blog: Introducing the Google Maps API for Flash

(tags: google map api flash)
TripKick.com

Find the best room in a hotel.

(tags: travel housing review)
Things my new commute has taught me #1: not all seats are equal

Find the best seat on the tube.

(tags: work travel review)
SeatGuru

Find the best seat on an airplane.

(tags: airplane travel review)

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NNDB Mapper: Tracking the entire world

Sort of like theyrule beyond the members of the board.

(tags: social people business map visualization)
gwap.com

Luis von Ahn, creator of the ESP Game and reCAPTCHA, launches Games With A Purpose.

(tags: web game)
Why Things Cost $19.95

What are the psychological “rules” of bartering?

(tags: money science)

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much ado about everyblock | serial consign

So maybe we shouldn’t be referring to the “informatized” city as being composed of bits, or as a data town, perhaps City of Nodes is the most appropriate description.

(tags: everyblock data)
Last.fm’s Playground

Here you can try out some of the projects we are working on and let us know what you think.

(tags: lastfm music)
Something Store

We will send you something, an item selected randomly among many things from our inventory, for $10 (free shipping) and you will find out what your something is when you receive it.

(tags: shopping store)
WalletCards on my iPhone

Clever idea to store membership cards on your iPhone.

(tags: iphone paper idea future)
Reuters Spotlight

A non-commercial community platform to allow users to innovate and develop their ideas by harnessing the content Reuters publishes, which includes news, video, pictures and multimedia articles.

(tags: web news api)
History Of The Color Wheel

(tags: color history)

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Wear Palettes

Color palettes from photos posted to the Sartorialist (a fashion photography blog).

(tags: color clothing weblog)
brand tags

(tags: advertising brand tag)
celeb tags

(tags: celebrity brand tag)
Bio-debatable: Food vs. fuel

Very interesting comparison chart. Seems like anything but corn or soybeans is the way to go.

(tags: food environment gas)
MPR: Budget Hero

The next in the lineage of budget balancers. Nicely done.

(tags: money game work)
Newsstream

Newsstream is an attempt to convey visually the changeable attentions of the news media.

(tags: web google news data visualization)
A Venezuelan Moment: The Gillmor Gang considers nationalizing Twitter

The idea of building competitors to Twitter on the same platform, or redistributing Twitter to multiple players reminds me of the idea that New York City should be rebuilt in Ohio because it would be cheaper.

(tags: twitter social web)

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Eric’s Archived Thoughts: The Really Perfect Ringtone

(tags: phone music comedy)
Helder Luis: The perfect iPhone Ringtone

(tags: phone music)
Indiana Jones Experiences

Now you can recreate the Indiana Jones “red line flying to red dots” travel experience in real life.

(tags: travel)
Annals of Innovation: In the Air

Who says big ideas are rare? The history of science is full of ideas that several people had at the same time.

(tags: idea invention)
Stigler’s law of eponymy

No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

(tags: science invention name)
Marginal Revolution: When should you take photographs?

It’s all about organizing your memories in the form of narratives and that is what cameras help us do, if only by differentiating the flow of events into chunkier blocks of greater discreteness.

(tags: photo culture memory)

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Soundamus

Finds new and upcoming music releases from the artists you listen to based on your last.fm profile.

(tags: music lastfm)

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Olinda (Schulze & Webb)

(tags: bbc social radio music design)
Acrylic | Times

Mac RSS feed reader with a nice, clean newspaper metaphor and reading experience.

(tags: rss web design newspaper news)