2005

MoSoSos: Mobile Social Software services.

I checked in to dodgeball, she said, and “I got an alert that ‘so-and-so has a crush on you, and he is at X bar, go and say hi.'” she said.

So McGunigle went to the bar, and by coincidence, it was the same guy she’d just seen on the subway. Like her, he’d been too shy to make an approach, but not to send a text message.

What happens to your online self when you die?

An information civil rights organization has data mined an NSA mailing list. The first chapter is online. The graphs are interesting.

Fictionbook.lib is a nice source of fiction (full-text). Mostly Russian. But if you check out your favourite author, maybe they have a few books.

I had disabled commenting for a while. It’s back on.

On Google going public.

Fisheye photo of a stadium.

Findory. Their site says:

1. Just click on the articles which interest you. No signup required.
2. The more you click, the more personalized your Findory homepage will be.
3. Enjoy a great Personalized newspaper!

Of robots that learn to walk and robots that learn to talk (well, translate, at least).