Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Joy Shirt - Your Face on Someone Else's Shirt
I came across this site/service recently.
In their words, it works like this:
1. Select a portrait of someone you don't know. Click on their thumbnail to read about them & to start building your shirt.2. Customize your own T-shirt. All shirts are Sweatshop free and made from certified organic cotton or bamboo.3. Wait for your marvelous Joy T-shirt to arrive in the mail. We ship our shirts all over the world.4. Take a stand for Global Awareness: Wear your shirt and think about the person printed over your heart.
5. Upload your photo via the Participate link to have your photo drawn by hand and worn on the hearts of others!
Cool idea!
Friday, March 27, 2009
Universe = Creativity
I like the sentiment of this post.
But the comparing the universe to a database is quite ignorant, and frankly missing the point. The universe is closer to "creativity", rather then a store of data IMHO. The essence of art-perception, rather then some repository of data for us to look up with query strings and T-SQL commands...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Fwd: Just Thank You
An interesting insight into what a Facebook app can do for traffic. I'm not super engaged in this site, nor have I seen the app, but the numbers were interesting.
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We launched Facebook Connect on socialmedian last Monday. It enables people to login to socialmedian using their Facebook accounts and then easily share news from socialmedian onto Facebook. It really emphasizes the notion of "the news filtered by your network" that we've been going for here at socialmedian.One week later:Thanks.
- We had a 5% increase in total new socialmedian subscribers last week.
- We saw a 30% increase in total pageviews last week over any of the past 12 weeks. That's incredible.
- 25% of the visitors to socialmedian in the past week visited more than 5 times. Also incredible.
BIG thanks! ... and please, keep pushing us to do better.
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Linked Data Talk at TED
Hey Guys,
I just watched this very interesting talk on "Linked Data" at TED.
Beyond being interesting, it is also somewhat pertinent to GDR and the
DB's we hold there.
http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
This kind of runs back on some of the semantic web stuff I was on
about a couple of years back. I'm not sure that I have an immediate
application in mind, but it is still very interesting to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data
Also don't see a business story... yet.
Enjoy!
George
PS I couldn't hit the DB Pedia application link he was talking about
as the site seemed to be down, but that application also looks very
interesting. And not unlike some of the stuff I am (slowly) trying to
do with the GDR buzz functionality.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
A Couple of Words on Plastic Bags
I've been thinking about plastic bags. And many people are hard at work campaigning for their elimination. Notwithstanding the facts of the environmental debate (they dissolve, they don't dissolve, they kill ducks, etc.) to which I am largely ignorant, let me add my two cents, and then follow it up with a couple more cents.
Plastic bags are great for consumers.
Bottom line, its hard to imagine anything more convenient then an instant bag to group all those items that you just hurriedly picked up from the isles of the shop. I try with the best of them to remember those reusable green grocery bags, but inevitably, I forget or don't have enough, or just plain don't have one on hand. I will continue to try and remember reusable, or bring my old plastic bags when I go to the shops. But I'm human - I know that to be human is to forget sometimes, and be able to recover.
Now - the ideal solution would be if shops just gave out reusable bags, rather then plastic ones. But my instincts tell me that this solution would not be cost effective. That if it was, shops would already be doing this. So... here what I propose.
Let's plan to reuse plastic bags in your garbage bin at home. Inevitably, we try this at home, and the bag doesn't quite fit. Which results in the left over spaghetti all over the bottom of the can, which sucks. So - I would propose that we embrace reuse of plastic bags in home garbage bins, and somebody out there design a kitchen bin to accept all forms and formats of plastic bags from shops. Rather then try to build a bin that only fits their brand of bag, let's get one that embraces and supports the reuse of old bags in bins. This solution is much more practical solution, and uplifting, then brow beating people about "eliminating plastic" or "saying no to plastic". I'm all for that stuff - but this is not a "speed of life" solution.
The Economy and Robots
Here's a video I edited recently from TED, using some PE in the background, and to try out iVideo '09. All three were great! Enjoy!
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