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Social data at its finest

Today, Facebook launched a few new features including chat and something called Feedcrawler. But the most interesting release today is called Lexicon. Think of it as Google Trends but for social data.

One of the Facebook engineers working on the projects sent me the above query, but the possibilities are endless. This tool will be [...]

iPhone ads: TV versus reality

From the CNETTV Blog, by Rich DeMuro
When I saw that first iPhone ad pop up on TV a few weeks ago, I stopped in my tracks. While I had seen lots of pictures and read lots of write-ups about the phone and its features, this was the first time I had seen fingers on [...]

Happy Graduation Class of 2007

This is the day that you put in the back of your mind, and hope that you arrive to it in one piece. It’s a day where everything comes together. The realization that you never have to sit in a classroom again. Just when you thought that your scholastic adventures were over, they were just [...]

Take the AListApart Survey

If you consider yourself a webaholic, and you love to manipulate hypertext, you should take this survey:

What is Lifecasting? Ask Justin Kan

To me, it’s a solution to a bad memory. If I could wear a camera on my head 24 hours a day, I would never worry about forgetting anything.
The term “lifecasting” was coined by Justin Kan and his three amigos living in the North Beach district of San Francisco.
“This is a new type of live [...]

Happy Birthday Hypertext Girl

Have you kept your New Years Resolution?
It’s mid March already, and most of us have ignored the fact that our taxes are due in less than a month, let alone keeping a resolution that we fail to keep every other year.
I recently met someone who has kept that promise to herself, and is sharing [...]