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Big cranes lifting big things in pretty settings

Realtime conversation app, talk to others based on reading the same web page. Reminds me of earlier work we did at the BBC, but better connected to the rest of the internet, eg message followers on twitter to encourage chat.

collection of network analysis tools

Wondering where the iCal actions from srcleaves have gone, his domain is unrenewed.

The potential for farms in highrise buildings, interesting idea, as cities get denser.

seemingly mostly complete texts from William Gibson and others, plus other articles

Evidence for XMPP pubsub as the background for MobileMe, as I'd hoped / suggested

Report on the history and direction of AppleScript, a 40 page PDF, full of interesting detail

The dogs might live on as an active racetrack

James Jerome Gibson's work on ecological psychology on questia, the entire book from 1979, still quite relevant

if the predictions in this article are true, the iPhone app development is very profitable.

lovely music, she is a cellist and electonic musician, playing looped sequences and live music together to produce amazing music.

Site convering firmware modification for Canon Powershot cameras

Beautiful pictures of la Tour de France

Loopt, a location based social network with an iPhone client, digging themselves out of a hole. They created an autoinvite service based on your address book, but without a confirmation page, which meant many people had messages sent to unintended people

Amazing sales figures, despite the queues and the activation problems. A million new phones in three days, plus 10 million app downloads is a lot of people.

the other side of the loopt experience, unintended invites including personal phone number (new in this case) sent to people from her address book, software companies should be less cavalier with the data their new customers give them.

Very nice looking app for managing rss reader, which pairs with Google Reader, quite tempted by this even though NetNewsWire is free

On the difficilties of writing a bio from Giles Turnbull, via blackbeltjones

"The iPhone is a dramatically important computing platform and one you should not ignore. Trust me, once you've used an iPhone, that Blackberry or Windows Mobile device you're settling on now will seem like ancient Soviet-era technology by comparison."

Labyrinth or Olympia, a game I saw being played at foocamp (on video) with danah boyd running it, Jane McGonigal is running a whole ARG around the Olympics this year

Very useful app for the iPhone which allows you to upload files to the iPhone. A companion app on the iPhone then handles display of the content.

Flash based audio editor which will convert Nokia AWB files to iPhone ringtones and sync with iTunes, works well.

Good Vegetarian place in New York, on 6th Ave, near 17th St

Lovely kids and babies shop in SoHo in New York.

iPhone map of the London Tube / underground system

interesting looking approach to content embedding, offering contextually richer linking

A treemap viewer for macosx of your disk space usage

Notes on how to use garage band to clip an MP3 from iTunes to make a ring tone for the iPhone

Mine will join them soon...

Seven years to an artificial brain that may be able to talk

Delightful rant about the reality of the mobile experience in the UK and the paucity of opportunities for changing it, a tad strong maybe, but it makes the point.

Taken to bits and laid out

Handy wifi scanner which works well on 10.5 intel, a good replacement for *stumbler apps

This looks lovely, sort of a Google flavoured quicksilver for the iPhone, sadly USA only for now.