internet cool?!

I recommend anyone who uses delicious to try this. Kinda an eye opening experience to peer at a cloud of your web-wake from your internet travels.

It is like sifting through your own garbage or um…reviewing what you’ve eaten in a weeks time. Story-telling.

Go to Wordle.net to make yer own. See my full Wordle here.

Hmm. Here’s another Twitter app. IMHO, (sorry Foamee, which i kinda dig) this is a much better use of what Twitter has to offer. And frankly (did I just say “frankly?”) it really speaks to me seeing as I spend somewhere between 8 and 20 hours week held hostage by some sort of train or car.

Hokay soh, you’ve heard of navigation systems now with updated traffic info, yeah? Cool.

but what if they crowd-sourced that data?

Enter Commuter Feed is a free service that lets you post reports on traffic and transit delays in your local area using Twitter.

For those of you in NYC - heres the feed for our area. Nothing much up there yet - but as it goes with crowd-sourced data the machine relys on user input. Let’s see how this one goes…

Meet BookTagger.

Each BookTagger profile is a graphical representation of your physical bookshelf on the internet. The bookshelf can then be shared with friends, family and others searching for the next good read. People congregate into book clubs and share reading experiences and catalogue all your books and track to whom they’ve been lent - kinda like personal library.

Could be an amazing idea for a company like Hyperion or Penquin…

Hey peeps. You owe me a friggin’ beer. Pay up.

So I found this pretty neat little web toy called Foamee a while back. It is a free service that helps track who you owe beers to (and vice-versa) using Twitter.  And Yay! Foamee now has support for coffee! Just follow @ioucoffee or @ioubeer on Twitter (you are Twittering by now, right?) and follow these steps:

 Send someone an I.O.U. for coffee or a beer likey here:

@ioucoffee @meat99 for being like, totally awesome.

Then keep track of those I.O.U.s (for beer and coffee!) on your people page (here’s mine). Kinda a fun Twitterati way to send a thanks and a smile while using twitter the way you always do. Interneato!

cool geek note:

You automatically get a profile on Foamee once you actually “Tweet” a beef, coffee, etc. What’s more, it has a little script that instructs Foamee to follow you once you decide to follow it.<p>

I love this thing: Its the new Asus Eee PC 4G. Small, capable, very cheaply made and get this:

* Weighs about 2 pounds
* Has WiFi
* Runs Xandros Linux - no frills and totally hackable
* Has an integrated webcam, microphone and speaker jacks
* Gets the job done

UM. Yeah - it costs $399. (Your iPhone was 400.00).

My favorite part (and why this is relevant)? This thing is small, light, and cheap. The perfect hackable toy for use in interactive installations in or out of the home or office. I predidct this little guy is going to change everything.

Oh and one more thing. Seeing a trend people? More value, less money. We’re all in love with the latest gadget - true, but not everyone is prepared to spend 800.00 hundred dollars to own a new Kindle, when for the same money, you could have a computer that does it all.

Non profit agencies have been fighting for the low cost computing market for years. The truth is, it all should be low cost and with a price tage (and functionality) like this, this thing will get hacked, designed, re-designed, mounted to someone’s refridgerator, slapped on a remote control car, mounted to the back of an SUV on Pimp my Ride and could quite possibly run be the engine that put digital pants on your ass and this table in your living room.

2008 will bring more product designers to the realization that hacking and adapting technology is an important component in development of new ideas.