early-web 19

The Internet is shit.

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. ...

iamlearn and rrobot are self-writing blogs. Written by programs, that is. They’re quite readable, though somewhat meaningless. (Why not write a useful self-writing blog… like Google News?)

Google games

A Nike ID story. An e-mail correspondence between Jonah and Nike about creating a personalised ID called “sweatshop”.

Google games on Metafilter.

Photos from the Mumbai Bloggers’ Meet.

Google toolbar: experimental features.

Garth is working on audio-blogging tools. Given the amount of poetry I see among bloggers, this might unleash a host of blog-singers.

I’m famous. Thanks, Anita!

An SMS Weblog. That’s a cool idea.

Several ways of receiving mail on a mobile phone.

How good can a 256 byte webpage be? See the 256b.htm competition. I was particularly impressed by Bonz-Mandelbrot, Poi-Metaballs and Mados-Divo. 256b.com has more 256-byte stuff.

Tron killer app: what is it? (a trailer!)

Surrealism.

SOME people have updated their website, and done a jolly decent job of it too. ONE may appreciate that.

The Webby nominees in broadband include Heavy and Yahoo Financevision.

Agentland is a portal for online agents – somewhat like Apps.com

Krislyn’s Strictly Business sites is a portal for business sites. It’s appeal is in its flat structure and small list of good sites.