brillant expose of the behavioural differences in china. the instant messaging paradigm is key and very well explained, mirroring my research findings in china this summer.

Not sure tribes is a good metaphor to describe social behaviours and groups. Seems far more fickle and ephermeral than that. anyway. good talk.

another neat agency - graphics and creative

interesting agency...

your first eleven characters of a link matter...

“There’s great opportunity here to create an ecology of services embodied as robust, valuable, exciting new tools with focused, limited functionality, tied together with item-level identification and wireless networks. Whole classes of things that can enrich our lives and bank accounts are now possible thanks to the way ubiquitous computing interweaves services and devices at an intimate, everyday level….

via jem - quite. amidst all the bruhaha of the cool web apps there's a whole world of useful, solid and good stuff out there.

location, location, location and yet oddly little new here.

Using Open Calais to extract terms from Reuters news articles, this breaks news down into people, places, organisations etc, and then aggregates stories at these levels, bringing the most popular stories to the top. Great prototype, lots of scope here...

nice to see some of our design / research work in the flesh.

surprises: bebo isn't really a surprise but I thought facebook would have pipped it. pixmania for photography is a surprise as is the tate being a success [tho this has to be despite its awful design rather than because of it.]

I'd like to say I'd read all this but frankly it would take a week. something to digest over the weeks ahead as on first pass it's a rare view into 'cutting edge' business - web strategy made real.

"Google is not prepared for the live web. Google values pages that grow links and clicks over time. It understands the permanent web. Of course, that is a protean thing, a growing brain. But it’s not live." There are different representations of Live, t

From Russell, this is the twitter page of the Tower Bridge in London. Wouldn't it be great if every object twittered?