Bookmark Club: Chapter 2

noreply@blogger.com (Diginative) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:58:00 +0000

NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS, a physician and sociologist, is a Professor at Harvard University with joint appointments in the Departments of Health Care Policy, Sociology, and Medicine. For the last ten years, he has been studying social networks.

Another fortnight, another top 20. There's some serious - and seriously interesting - articles about new business and advertising models. There's plentiful social-science and technology learnings courtesy of Edge, MIT and the National Academy of Engineering. But mixing it up are a bunch of bonkers, brand-related bookmarks - some from the usual suspects (Red Bull, Nokia), some from perennial squares (Ebay, Kraft). Enjoy!

1. Edge: SOCIAL NETWORKS ARE LIKE THE EYE: A Talk with Nicholas A. Christaki
It turns out that all kinds of things, many of them quite unexpected, can flow through social networks, and this process obeys certain rules we are seeking to discover.

2. Diamond Shreddies
Spoof product launch, spoof focus groups, spoof website - the joker's guide to marketing

3. Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT is committed to advancing education and discovery through knowledge open to everyone

4. eBay: Hooves/Force 1 | Creativity Online
A miniature horse and a mission drive Randy Krallman's short film for eBay, which screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

5. Engineering Challenges
With input from people around the world -- much of it on this website -- an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century. Now their conclusions are revealed

6. Norrlands Guld, Guldsits
Lovely football chant generator from a Dutch beer brand Norlads Guld

7. Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
Thanks to Gillette, the idea that you can make money by giving something away is no longer radical. Chris Anderson article in Wire magazine.

8. Flickr: CD Cover Meme
Always wanted to be in a rock band? Well, here's your chance...sort of. Make your own CD Cover with the following steps and rocket yourself to mulit-platinum status and start fending off the groupies.

9. Swedish Armed Forces - Recruitment Campaign
A series of abstract perceptual tests designed to challenge the mental fitness of prospective soldiers

10. Dawn of the digital natives - is reading declining? | Technology | The Guardian
If you believe a scary

report, reading is on the decline. But, says Steven Johnson, it completely fails to consider the amount that we do every day on our computers

11. Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab Online Game
Design, build, fly and share your own flying machine

12. VIDEOEGG UNVEILS BRAND RESPONSE ADVERTISING MODEL | Videoegg
Microsoft First to Deploy Pioneering Ad Model Priced by Audience Engagement

13. Amplive - Rainydayz Remixes
Download Amplive's Rainydayz Remixes, an 8-track collection featuring remixes of Radiohead's historic seventh album, In Rainbows.

14. "Intellectual property" is a silly euphemism | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"Intellectual property" is one of those ideologically loaded terms that can cause an argument just by being uttered.

15. BBC - Homepage
Beta version of the new BBC homepage. Very nice. Very 2.0

16. My Cortex Made Me Buy It - New York Times
There is research suggesting that the bias toward higher-priced goods may have something to do with the way the brain links price with pleasure — and thus leads people to make assumptions about quality.

17. The world is my canvas
Nokia promotes geo-tagging with Stavros, a Position Artist

18. The electronic bureaucrat | Economist.com
Putting their services online should allow governments to serve their citizens much more effectively. But despite heavy spending, progress has been patchy, says Edward Lucas.

19. Wellcome Collection: The Heart
Vast array of inspiring, educational content presented via a dynamic, multi-layered interface with neatly nested navigation. So much more than you'd expect from an exhbition microsite.

20. Aleks Krotoski: What web designers can learn from games | Technology | The Guardian
I recently ran into a web designer friend who's developing the user experience for a new site. She's never worked in the games industry, nor is she a particularly keen gamer, but she told me that games are a key inspiration for her work.

Bookmark Club: Chapter 1

noreply@blogger.com (Diginative) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:34:00 +0000

To kick things off, here's a bumper top twenty covering bookmarks from the past fortnight or so. Unsurprisingly, US election fever generated a host of political bookmarks, whilst the unending glut of great movies released since the new year guaranteed a filmic flavour. First place goes to mydeco.com - a fine example of next generation web (community-based, utility-loaded, 3D-packing, affiliate-funded) from the founders of Lastminute.com

1. mydeco.com
Revolutionise the way you shop for your home

2. Domino's BFD (Big Fantastic Deal)
Build, name, publish and order your perfect pizza

3. googlegen.pdf (application/pdf Object)
If you only read one research paper this year...

4. Web tool predicts election results and stock prices - tech - 07 February 2008 - New Scientist Tech
Activity on the web can provide more than a snapshot of what people are interested in on a given day. It is also being used, with some success, to predict future stock prices and election results.

5. Richard Sennett on the craftsman in us all | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
It takes 10,000 hours of practice to become a skilled carpenter or musician - but what makes a true master? Richard Sennett on the craftsman in us all

6. SN 5694 -Electronic Edition of Domesday Book: Translation, Databases and Scholarly Commentary, 1086
This electronic edition aims to make Domesday Book both more accessible and more intelligible by presenting its contents in a variety of forms: a translation, databases of names, places and statistics, and a detailed scholarly commentary

7. On the Origin of Species | Science | guardian.co.uk
150 years ago, Charles Darwin unveiled his theory of natural selection. To mark this anniversary we bring you the definitive guide to the naturalist's great book, with extracts from key chapters and essays from leading scientists and thinkers

8. FUCK DEATH
Bizarre transhumanist campaigning site

9. Stuart Jeffries and Stephen Moss on who would gain from a recession | Business | The Guardian
Budget-airline boss Michael O'Leary says he does - but would it help anyone else? From politicians to artists, and debt collectors to environmentalists, Stuart Jeffries and Stephen Moss look at who stands to gain

10. YouTube - Super Tuesday
Interactive video / maps mashup revealing the Super Tuesday drama as it happens

11. Guardian :: VW Film Search
VW continues to build its film platform and extend its Guardian partnership with an interactive connection-mapping tool

12. Are political leanings all in the genes? - being-human - 02 February 2008 - New Scientist According to an emerging idea, political positions are substantially determined by biology and can be stubbornly resistant to reason.

13. Google Holiday Logos
8 years of whimsy from the world's favourite search engine

14. Naomi Klein: Class is back in the US as the ownership society crumbles | Guardian daily comment | Guardian Unlimited
Bush hoped to be proud father of the rightwing economic revolution's grand project. Instead, he is its undertaker

15. From computers to ubiquitous computing, by 2020
Free two day conference hosted by the Royal Society

16. Burton.com
A brand calling for public acts of subversiveness? Jake Burton = legend

17. Black Mirror / rorriM kcalB
Live-mix Arcade Fire's latest single

18. A new golden age in cinema | News | Guardian Unlimited Film
A revolution in ambition and intelligence has brought us films to rival those of the 40s and 70s

19. DEWmocracy Home
Join DEWmocracy and your journey will help you shape the flavor, color, name, logo, and design of the next Mountain Dew.

20. Listing all ideas - Ideablob: where ideas grow
ideablob.com is where entrepreneurs and small business owners can share and grow their business ideas – and have a chance to win $10,000 towards fulfilling them.