A bi-weekly collection of linky goodness.

Apple - Movie Trailers - Up

Looks to be a pretty colorful Pixar movie!

Tags: movie, pixar, up, via:mento.info

Help, We’re Being Digitally Bombarded | Mark Evans

This is a good encapsulation/description of the "information abundance" problem/opportunity!

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Announcing GeoSocial

"GeoSocial Is a group for people interested in exploring the uses of geodata to enhance the relevancy of information on the web and create new means of social interaction."

Tags: geo, geosocial, geolocation, via:mento.info

The Shape of Alpha (Flickr Developer Blog)

This is an incredible way to map things... or to discover the borders of areas!

Tags: flickr, maps, geotagging, mapping, geocoding, visualization, via:mento.info

2nd Annual Open Web Awards: NOMINATIONS OPEN!

Vote for your favorites!

Tags: awards, web2.0, mashable, nominations, openwebawards, via:mento.info

Marketplace: Un-conferencing: Leveraging face time

"Silicon Valley is known for innovation and its sometimes unorthodox working environments. But a new trend has baffled correspondent Cash Peters: When is a conference not a conference? Apparently, when no one's in charge..."

Tags: barcamp, unconference, news, marketplace, npr., via:mento.info

iCalShare - Share Your iCalendars!

Tags: calendar, ical, calendars, events, via:mento.info

Unconferences? - (37signals)

Nice to see 37 Signals "discover" unconferences.

Tags: barcamp, unconferences, via:mento.info

TimeView : Built with Processing

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It's Time to Reboot America. | Rebooting America

"The Personal Democracy Forum presents an anthology of forty-four essays brimming with the hopes of reenergizing, reorganizing, and reorienting our government for the Internet Age. How would completely reorganizing our system of representation work? Is it

Tags: politics, democracy, socialnetworking, pdf, government, ebook, via:mento.info

jpoco - Google Code

"PortableContacts Java library"

Tags: poco, java, opensource, library, via:mento.info

Study shows how spammers cash in (BBC)

"Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study."

Tags: spam, technology, botnet, via:mento.info

BlueTrip CSS Framework

"A full featured and beautiful CSS framework spawned from Blueprint and Tripoli, now with a life of its own"

Tags: css, css, blueprint, framework, webdesign, typography, bluetrip, via:mento.info

CSS Advanced Layout Module

A proposal for handling web page layout in CSS3.

Tags: css, webdesign, layout, css3, via:mento.info

Fire Eagle: Best Practices for OAuth with Fire Eagle

"Fire Eagle supports multiple methods of OAuth authentication that we tentatively name ‘web’, ‘desktop’, ‘mobile’ and ‘plugin’. However, the power of modern development tools rather blurs those definitions. Techniques that naturally apply to ‘desktop’ env

Tags: oauth, bestpractice, security, documentation, fireeagle, programming, via:mento.info

Election Night 11-04-08 - a set on Flickr

Backstage photos from Obama on election night.

Tags: obama, pictures, election, via:mento.info

Contact Browsing in a Distributed Social Network

Interesting post about how distributed social networking could go...!

Tags: diso, portablecontacts, via:mento.info

FRONTLINE: the war briefing | PBS

Afghanistan is now a deadlier battleground than Iraq. Can the war there be won? What are the next president's options?

Tags: afghanistan, frontline, tv, pakistan, politics, via:mento.info

Obama Asks Bush to Provide Help for Automakers - NYTimes.com

Hard to say how I feel about an automaker bailout. Tie it to renewable energy or electric cars and then I'm more interested.

Tags: politics, georgew.bush, barackobama, automakers, finance, bailout, via:mento.info

Fusion Ads

"Fusion aims to provide advertisers with a targeted and effective platform to distribute their messages to an influential audience at an affordable price. We invite advertisers to make well-designed ads that are attractive to our readers."

Tags: advertising, business, ads, via:mento.info

Tweetie

fast, full-featured twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch

Tags: twitter, twitter, iphone, via:mento.info

Customer Feedback for Change For Us

UserVoice site for Barack Obama (I'm guessing it's unofficial).

Tags: obama, politics, via:mento.info

Official Gmail Blog: Say hello to Gmail voice and video chat

"That's why today we're launching voice and video chat -- right inside Gmail. We've tried to make this an easy-to-use, seamless experience, with high-quality audio and video -- all for free. All you have to do is download and install the voice and video p

Tags: gmail, google, xmpp, gchat, video, gtalk, via:mento.info

BLDGBLOG: Resampled Space

"Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin makes images of unexpected buildings – that is, he "combines photographs of parts of buildings into new, fictional, architectonic structures," Mark Magazine explains."

Tags: architecture, design, urbanism, inspiration, via:mento.info

Wheatgrass Juice Icons

"Simple collection of 8 carefully crafted Mac OS X icons related to wheatgrass juice. Make the most of Leopard and Cover Flow, the wheatgrass juice icons scale up to 512 pixels without any loss of quality."

Tags: icons, design, macosx, via:mento.info

Scrumy

Why does Scrumy exist? We were attempting to use Scrum to manage our projects, but the generic post-its we bought kept falling off the wall. We looked for online solutions to scrum, but all of them were too complicated and expensive. All we really wanted

Tags: scrum, projectmanagement, project, agile, tools, via:mento.info

Politics: Obama's Twitter goes silent

Where y'at, @barackobama?

Tags: twitter, twitter, barackobama, via:mento.info

Pixelmator Team Releases Pixelmator 1.3 Tempo

"Version 1.3 Tempo Features Major Performance Improvements, Click-and-Drag Tools, Improved Adjustment Tools, Smart Palette Hide Feature, and More."

Tags: pixelmator, macosx, via:mento.info

Cust-o-mized!

"Customize Field Notes for your event, company, website, youth soccer team, birdwatching club–you name it, we’ll custom-print it. We’ll accept custom orders anytime, but since we’re going on press soon to print more AEA books, the economies of scale come

Tags: fieldnotes, customization, notebooks, via:mento.info

THE KIT: available now!

"FIELD NOTES BRAND stays up late worrying about such things, and we’ve created the perfect solution: The FIELD NOTES KIT."

Tags: fieldnotes, deal, notebooks, via:mento.info

Obsessable: Your personal technology guide.

"Obsessable covers the latest in the world of technology, including cell phones, digital cameras, and HDTVs — obsessively, of course."

Tags: technology, reviews, gadgets, tech, guide, via:mento.info

What's Hot on the Web Right Now? OneRiot Aims to Tell You - ReadWriteWeb

Me.dium renames itself to OneRiot, becomes "social search" engine.

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Pure Digital Introduces Flip MinoHD™ – The World’s Smallest HD Camcorder

Flip announces MinoHD along with personalized designs which can be shared on theFlip.com to earn commissions.

Tags: video, flip, hd, via:mento.info

Review: Things for iPhone | iPhone Central | Macworld

Four mice for Things for iPhone. I highly recommend this app, and its counterpart on the desktop.

Tags: iphone, things.app, gtd, iphoneapp, via:mento.info

watchdog.net: the good government site with teeth

Fascinating site to get government information about earmarks, etc.

Tags: politics, government, activism, transparency, watchdog, via:mento.info

Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com

"Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software"

Tags: opensource, software, via:mento.info

Air Lines

"Air Lines is an art project showing worldwide airliner routes. Every single scheduled flight on any given day is reresented by a fine line from it's point of origin to it's port of destination. Thereby forming a net of thousands of lines. Hubs like JFK,

Tags: visualization, poster, design, flights, routes, airlines, via:mento.info

37signals Developer Site: APIs and more

"37signals Developerland is where we publish our APIs and other bits of interest to developers. Our APIs are implemented as vanilla XML over HTTP. We currently publish the Highrise API, the Basecamp API, the Backpack API, and the Backpack Calendar API. Yo

Tags: 37signals, api, reference, developernetwork, via:mento.info

flot - Google Code

"Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side."

Tags: javascript, jquery, javascript, graph, chart, library, charts, ajax, visualization, via:mento.info

They Planned Prop 8 For Eleven Years (The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan)

"The LDS leadership is busted for targeting gay couples as far back as 1997. There's a new memo that has come to light from late Mormon president Gordon Hinckley, carefully planning the assault on gay families, hoping to use the Catholic hierarchy as a PR

Tags: noonprop8, prop8, politics, gaymarriage, via:mento.info

OpenSocial Dev App

"This OpenSocial application provides the ability to write and save JavaScript code samples to execute against OpenSocial containers. This helps rapidly test sample OpenSocial code. Code samples can be saved and loaded. You can give other developers link

Tags: opensocial, development, webdev, tools, programming, via:mento.info

Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

"Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG)"

Tags: design, yahoo, templates, wireframe, ui, patterns, wireframes, via:mento.info

I Believe in Open — Home

"I Believe In Open is a national movement challenging politicians to commit to five key improvements in government transparency."

Tags: government, canada, transparency, open, via:mento.info

draft: OpenID OAuth Extension

"This draft describe a mechanism to combine an OpenID authentication request with the approval of an OAuth request token."

Tags: oauth, openid, specification, via:mento.info

Zuckerberg’s Law of Information Sharing (NYTimes.com)

"“I would expect that next year, people will share twice as much information as they share this year, and next year, they will be sharing twice as much as they did the year before,” he said. “That means that people are using Facebook, and the applications

Tags: facebook, socialnetworking, sharing, web2.0, socialnetworks, markzuckerberg, via:mento.info

Crunchberry Project

"A team of journalism students looking for new ways to engage communities of geography online through technology and local news."

Tags: journalism, education, collaborationfacebookconnect, via:mento.info

Fresh Apps - iPhone Apps

"Fresh Apps is all about finding the best App's for your iPhone."

Tags: iphone, software, apps, via:mento.info

Some areas of S.F. voted to ban same-sex marriage (SF Gate)

Wow. Now we know where the REAL San Francisco exists. (hint: NOT south)

Tags: sanfrancisco, gaymarriage, prop8, noonprop8, via:mento.info

Open Source Geo Stack (Mikel Maron)

"The OpenGeo Stack is the epitome of clarity, breaking down their tool set in a nice executive summary. But the OpenGeo stack only covers their tools, not all the available options. So I’m going to make a quick first pass of a high level overview. It’s us

Tags: opensource, mapping, geo, list, geolocation, via:mento.info

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