c o n d e n s e d fact b l o g: July 2007 - Chris Schaumann's Digital Lifestyle Blog

50 Best Websites 2007 - TIME

25 Sites We Can't Live Without
5 Worst Websites

A global community (since March 2006) of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?
It's Twitter, which essentially turns the one-to-one channels of instant messaging and phone-based SMS text messaging into broadcast media.
The 140 characters messages lean toward pithy, haiku-like utterances, at the same time creating a Social Sixth Sense.

To cope, we've developed a defense mechanism - what Linda Stone calls Continuous Partial Attention.

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State of the Blogosphere

Sifry's Alerts:

Bono's World

Logic Emotion

Mapping the Blogsphere

Data Mining:

Hotmap of Mother Earth

Microsoft Research

Summarized product reviews

Summize:

Logic + Emotion: Visual Library

SlideShare - David Darmano

It's the Conversation Economy, Stupid

BusinessWeek - Insights:

"As consumer markets fragment, marketers and designers must understand how platforms evolve and influence human behavior."

Nasal spray that can cure shyness

The Times of India:

"University of Zurich researchers have created a spray that can relieve people of shyness, and help them socialise with others. The spray is very easy to use, and an individual can boost self-confidence just by squirting it up the nose."

The Lost Remote Control

The Age.AU

Japanese Tetris

glumbert.com

Live Earth - SOS - 07-07-07

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