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Photo of the Week: I found this unique view of the Washington Monument in Washington, DC this weekend.
Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 09.02.2007
Sexual Relationship Database
A
project of World Health Organization Management (W.H.O.M) offers
information regarding the sexual histories of individuals, across the
world and throughout time. W.H.O.M. aims to help us all better
understand the interconnectivity of people and the risk of sleeping
with that neighbor down the street.
Google Phone An Attempt To Take On $100 PC?
The
Google (applications) Suite is going to play a huge role in the
usability of the GPhone, and the thought process behind it’s
functionality is less about beating the iPhone and more about beating
the $100 Laptop.
Clown Co. Gets Website and New Name: Hulu
NBC
Universal and News Corporation’s joint video venture, hitherto dubbed
“Clown Co.”, is now to be known as Hulu. Hulu is set to launch in the
Fall around October and will focus on professional content and not take
on YouTube directly as a viral video site.
Is Failure the Norm in Business?
Eric Olson examines failure in business.
Prioritizing your reading list and doing rapid niche research using AideRSS
Marshall Kirkpatrick explains how he uses AideRSS. AideRSS
scores each post in a feed by the number of comments it received, number of times
it's been tagged in del.icio.us, inbound links from a number of blog
search engines, etc.
Dapper Facebook app maker
dapper.net
the radical content masher widget maker that allows people to become
developers…at least for a day, is in the process of creating a
‘Facebook App-Maker’.
Plaxo news: microformats based online identity consolidator
Plaxo,
sometime in the next few hours will ship an online identity
consolidator (that’s what they call it) based on micro formats. What
does that do? Lets you keep track of your identity from a group of
online social networks.
Personalization, User Data & Search
The
latest Search Engine Strategies San Jose conference recently took place
and Online Marketing Blog covered the personalization session.
The Promise & Reality Of Mixing The Social Graph With Search Engines
Danny Sullivan does a mind dump on mixing search engines with the social graph.
Fotolog Acquired by Hi Media, French Ad Network
New
York-based Fotolog has been acquired by Hi Media, a Paris-based
interactive media company for roughly $90 million — a combination of
cash and stock, according to well-placed sources.
New Digg Home Page Live
Digg gets a design makeover.
Maya’s Mom Goes To BabyCenter
Johnson & Johnson-owned BabyCenter acquired Palo Alto-based niche social network, Maya’s Mom.
Content Aware Image Resizing
A software application that resizes images in such a way that the content of the image is preserved intelligently.
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