FOSS for archiving/indexing social activity

Capital Bike share crowdsource map for Arlingon VA

But his lack of digital presence unsettled her, so much so that she considered canceling her date with him.

"As another example, I worked with a woman who, if you entered her name online, the only thing that was known about her was that her father was selling his company for $45 million. That was a big threat. We took her name and took similar slices of information about her and built all these characters, fake individuals around her. Thats becoming something more in demand with clients."

"The Institute for Wishful Thinking believes that the community of artists and designers possesses untapped creative and conceptual resources that could be applied to solving social problems. We invite proposals from artists, architects and designers for residencies at government organizations and agencies at all levels."

When delicious dies, my bookmarking will be resurrected and live on here.

Biological statistical models work for the built urban environment, but not urban social-economic systems. [Their Jacobs metaphor is broken, tho]

Using Facebook profiles to track connections between cities and propose breaklines for a geographic decomposition of the US.

learning to live on the internet/learning to live in a city

"To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely communication, wide area team-building and urgent mobilization required to solve broad scope, time-critical problems.

The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of ten moored, 8 foot, red weather balloons located at ten fixed locations in the continental United States. Balloons will be in readily accessible locations and visible from nearby roadways."

Bikes lay down faint chalk lines, which become a kind of community-powered bike lane. Great idea, but what is the device? The sleek fixies in the rendering seem to be magically making chalk.

blog post illustrated with _Connected Places_

"assembling ... the world's best repository for raw data -- a sort of giant free allmanac, with tables on everything you can put in a table. Built by data nerds, used by data nerds" see also swivel

Data sharing and graph-making site. Lots of potential here.

People stick to their routines. Also, you have no privacy.

ppen data structure [that organizes] metrics of user participation in social web services. Aim is to construct criteria/context for determining the value of user labor." from the good folks over at meta-markets.

UN Human Rights group puts refugees on google earth

art after aesthetic distance. conf in Regina Oct 07

"New service would let advertisers [target] a much wider array of characteristics ... not only age, gender & location, but also details such as favorite activities and preferred music

license plate as uid for phone based social networking.

social image bookmarking service w/ recommendation engine

commidify your social network

web2.0 & the Chicago School (of economics)

Social art project to find lat/lon minute intersections in Vienna. Like Mile x Mile crossed with Confluence.

CUP-sponsored project from cassie & high school kids.

click on this if you're looking at it via the del.icio.us app in facebook

useful project, terrible map using 6 shades of blue. (it's the house colors of the sites, wrong decision)

multiplayer crosswords

"dawdlr is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: what are you doing, you know, more generally? answers on a postcard please to: [address in london]" updates every 6 months

Browser mod that enables a layer of public space for notes-making and alteration. Very cool, maybe it will even catch on.

graph of social network of 9/11 hijackers. Used newspaper reports, so connections are surely missing. via nytsunmag