So forget the ants from Pi. You know, the ones that produced the stock-market-predicting, answer-to-life-having goo? Ya those. They’re so a decade ago. All you need now to predict the stock market is Charlie Sheen’s #winning and what Justin Bieber is eating for lunch. Really.
Meta Mirror Last night was a lot of fun. Liz says it was like back-in-the-day when you used to watch TV while on the phone with your friend. Only now you were on a conference call with 2 million friends. Having a twitter stream going while watching TV isn’t new. But up until last night [...]
Big Bang is a new trend map from iA – the same folks that brought us the Web Trend Map poster series. This sucker takes a look at a level abstracted from actual domains – social networks. I particularly enjoyed this quote: Since twitter is becoming an alternative web protocol that—together with facebook—gets close and [...]
Twiter Friends Browser is a fun, simple and light application (5k according to the author) that allows you to browse through all your twitter friends. You can start by typing a particular twitter username to immediately see all their connections and latest updates. You can then continue clicking and dragging in an endless friend-of-a-friend network.
(via Steven Berlin Johnson) But most of the time the crowd is quiet and unknowable. The room tone is silent. The one advantage you have as a speaker is that this unknowability extends into the crowd itself. Each individual might be sitting there quietly steaming at the absurdity of your comments, but unless they start [...]