I’m still not convinced at the effectiveness of this service. Almost a year ago, Reuters in collaboration with Yahoo announced the Youwitness News platform. If you see a newsworthy event, you are asked to send the picture to YouWitness, either by emailing it to pics@reuters.com or visiting the YouWitness site. Reuters editors review the pictures [...]

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The design of the iPhone is such that all other mobile phones, including those released after the iPhone, look not only old but antiquated and even defective. IMO.
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By Brady Forrest

OpenAerialMap is a site for collecting, hosting, and mapping freely available aerial imagery. The project comes at a good time. There is increasing interest in DIY aerial imagery. DIY Drones is a community started by Chris Anderson for aerial imagery enthusiasts. Commercial venture Pict’Earth offer aerial imagery systems that includes [...]

I found this one on str8hiphop.com. These 50K diamond encrusted AF1s were presented to Outkast’s Antwan “Big Boi” Patton by Laced Up owner Ernel Dawkins and P&C Couture boutique owner Rita Patel. The sneaker was dipped covered in 11 carats of chocolate champagne diamonds from India. Ernel Dawkins was quoted as saying “When [...]

Neighbornode was a project I created for a class at ITP in early 2004. I spent just twelve weeks coming up with the idea, building it and launching it in New York’s East Village. When I put up the first router at my friend Mo’s apartment, I figured it would go up, I’d [...]

Nicholas Negroponte’s plan to get $100 laptop computers into the hands of the world’s poorest children has been derailed. For-profit companies threatened by the projected $100 price tag have forced the hand of brands such as Intel to provide other discounted laptops such as Intel’s Classmate laptop which currently goes for between $230 and $300. [...]

Google’s new beta version of its Google Maps for Mobile now includes location-based information that utilizes cell triangulation. Although, not as accurate as using GPS for location positioning, Google predicts that the new application can locate you within 500 or 5,000 meters. The application works with BlackBerry devices, some newer Motorola and Sony Ericsson devices [...]

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Recently launched in Japan, a new virtual world called Chipuya Town allows users to take their gaming on-the-go through the use of any Flash-enabled cell phone. Although it’s somewhat similar to popular virtual fictional world Second Life, it differs in that users create avatars which they use to walk around and interact with a [...]

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more christmas present ideas…some cool products on sale on moss.com this week: a ring, a radio, and…an ice-stopper glass!check them out >

need a Christmas present idea?This cute photo hanger designed by +d’s Juuta Kan is really versatile. Use more than one to hang large prints!check out the site: http://www.plus-d.com/photo_hanger/from Core77 via mocoloco

When my Dell laptop finally gave up the ghost, I took the opportunity to switch back to the Mac. I had last used the Mac regularly back in 1993, in grad school at NYU, when it was a vertical box with a grey-toned monochrome monitor and a little smiley computer icon that greeted the user at start-up. I had never lost my affection for the Mac, but we drifted apart from each other as Windows captured the business user market and I, unfortunately, was a business user. We lost touch, the Mac and I, but I never forgot her. Recently…

ShiftSpace Commissions 10 grants of up to $2000, deadline: Feb 25th
[ — Please circulate widely between your friends, peers, students, blogs and lists — ]
November 5, 2007
Turbulence Commission: “The ShiftSpace Commissions Program” by Dan Phiffer and Mushon Zer-Aviv
http://turbulence.org/works/shiftspace
Turbulence has commissioned ShiftSpace and now ShiftSpace commissions you.
Ten development grants of up to $2,000 will be [...]

Button typography. Very bespoke. Similar to minimal type faces made from 5X7 grid or LCD calculator numerals, I had never seen, or thought possible for that matter, that all the letterforms would be possible. You can download the font as well.
via Michael Surtees’ very excellent DesignNotes

It may have been the cold. Or it may have been the passing of that last Holiday. Even the fading bitter-sweet fanfare of it’s passing. In rapt anticipation I was held all month, through countless distractions and wanderings. Head in the clouds is a dra…

Yes, we finally have. I can say it officially. Sure, there’s still a TV and an ironing board in our old place, not to mention all the holes we still have to putty, but we won’t get to that stuff until we actually have to give the keys back.

We’ve been moving for the [...]

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Join a live conversation with two of the most fascinating people in social media today, Jim Long and Loic Le Meur, this Wednesday, Nov 28, at 9PM EST right here at jonnygoldstein.com.

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In this audio piece, I talk about Jeff Pulver’s talk show, stepping up my game, and how Operator11 is making a big mistake by not letting their users know what is going on with their website problems. Their site (which I use to stream my live video talk shows, and in general, I love) has [...]

“The 1492nd dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 at Location One in SoHo.” And I’ll be showing my stuff! Experimental Devices for Performance comes out out of it’s fall hiatus and rears it’s experimental head to the SoHo masses. I’ll be featured with the other [...]