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Sites that I found interesting for July 7th 2009 through July 8th 2009:

• A Twitter Augmented Reality App for iPhone – There's a fascinating new Twitter app in development called TwittARound, an augmented reality Twitter viewer for the iPhone 3GS. With the app, you can see live tweets around your location and you can even see how far away they are. To accomplish this, TwittARound uses a combination of the iPhone's compass and its accelerator-enabled GPS to determine the location of tweets and then layers those on top of a live video feed. Cooool!
• Interplanetary internet gets permanent home in space – While the Earth-bound internet uses a protocol called TCP/IP to allow distant machines to communicate over cables, the ISS payload uses delay-tolerant networking (DTN), which is being developed to cope with the patchy coverage in space that arises when spacecraft pass behind planets or suffer power outages.
• Scientists Develop Echolocation In Humans To Aid The Blind – A team of researchers from the University of Alcalá de Henares (UAH) has shown scientifically that human beings can develop echolocation, the system of acoustic signals used by dolphins and bats to explore their surroundings. Producing certain kinds of tongue clicks helps people to identify objects around them without needing to see them, something which would be especially useful for the blind.

Sites that I found interesting for June 30th 2009 through July 2nd 2009:

• Leaping from Windows XP to 7? Some important stuff to consider – There are a number of important issues to consider before making the jump to Windows 7 on an existing Windows XP machine. via @edbott on Twitter.
• Benchmarking Firefox 3.5 – Firefox 3.5 is fast, all right, but not fast enough to beat Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari.
• BackTweets – track your urls on twitter – This is a brilliant way to see who is linking to your site from Twitter. This is now part of my Information Monitor because it outputs in RSS. Via @steverubel on Twitter.

Sites that I found interesting for June 8th 2009 through June 10th 2009:

• Bone find suggests humans on Treasure Coast 13,000 years ago – VERO BEACH – Treasure Coast amateur fossil collector James Kennedy appears to have made an unprecedented archaeological discovery that might help confirm a human presence here up to 13,000 years ago.
• Upgrade to Windows 7 for $49.99 – Engadget obtained a leaked Best Buy memo detailing that Vista was a failure and that Windows 7 is the “next best thing”, the memo also includes details on pricing for a pre-sale on bestbuy.com starting June 26th. Via @digimediazone on twitter.
• CardStar Creates Scanner-Friendly Bonus Cards on iPhones – iPhone/iPod touch: The (currently) free CardStar app replaces keychain tags and wallet-cluttering bonus/discount/rewards/"shopper's club" cards with scanner-friendly barcodes.

Sites that I found interesting for April 2nd 2009 through April 5th 2009:

• Late Roman village found near Salzburg – Workers found the remains of the village which is thought to date back to the 5th to 7th centuries at a 6,000-square-metre site for construction of a home for pensioners at Anif-Niederalm in the Flachgau region.
• Troys Twitter Script for Greasemonkey – Nested Replies, Custom Search Tabs, Autocomplete, Pagination, RT button, Media Embed, URL Expansion, Hash Tag Search Links, Social Links
• Behind the scenes at Netflix – Pictures of a Netflix warehouse operation

Sites that I found interesting for March 26th 2009 through March 30th 2009:

• Google Redesigns YouTube, Copies Hulu – Google is redesigning YouTube to make the site more attractive to the content creators who make the kind of stuff Google could actually sell ads against
• PicoCool – LEGO Twitter Fail Whale –
• Skype for iPhone to Be Released as Early as Next Week –

Sites that I found interesting for March 10th 2009 through March 13th 2009:

• Footage from 2/3" 3k Scarlet with 100mm Red prime – So cool!
• Selective Twitter Status on Facebook – A simple hashtag added to your twitter status will send your status over to Facebook. Cool for sending other things over to Facebook like TwitPics and other 3rd party Twitter tools that might not have FB integration.
• 4 Annoying Twitter Myths –

Sites that I found interesting for March 8th 2009 through March 10th 2009:

• A Hidden Message inside Lincoln's Pocket watch – Watchmaker Jonathan Dillon inscribed a message inside Lincoln's Pocketwatch. Just a Dillon family legend until today. Cool!
• Verizon Customers – Just Say No! – Weinberger, unlike the majority of us who rarely read the associated paraphernalia that arrives with bills and the like, noticed that Verizon's modus operandi was to share Customer Proprietary Network Information – the data created as a result of your relationship with Verizon Wireless – unless you ask them to stop.
• French town of Eu to change name because of Google searches – The French town of Eu is planning to change its name after failing to attract potential tourists on the internet.

Right now, the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference is going on in Long Beach, California. As is the case with many conferences these days attendees are Tweeting (posting to Twitter) the event. Twitter has become the unofficial back-channel. Sometimes they link to things a speaker is talking about or other useful links.

There is a LOT of TED traffic on Twitter and I like to catch the links that float by. There is also redundancy because people ‘retweet’ things. So, I built a twitter search that filters as much of that as I could then pushed it through a Yahoo! Pipe to get a nice RSS feed of all the links posted. If you want to subscribe, you can copy and past this link into your RSS reader of choice:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=28bcbdbd6f7de85e7e4b8e3b6fa72c9d&_render=rss

Or use this button to add to Google Reader

UPDATE 11:41 AM 2/7/2009:

I have also built a BIL Link Monitor if you want to follow that conference as well.

Sites that I found interesting for January 14th 2009 through January 15th 2009:

• Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Send & Archive – Turn on "Send & Archive" from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see a new button in the compose form labeled just that. The button does what it says: it sends your reply and then archives the thread with one click.
• iTunes Plus: Everything you need to know – Be warned: your account information is stored in every file
• Learnit lists – What is Learnit? A tool for learners which helps your brain store new words quickly.

Sites that I found interesting for January 10th 2009

• Slacker Personal Radio – Slacker Radio on Blackberry Mobile Devices – Listen to all of your favorite personalized Slacker stations on your BlackBerry for free! You can listen to over 100 stations programmed by music experts or create your own custom stations right from your Blackberry.
• Chrome 2.0 Preview Means Mac, Linux Versions Coming Soon – Google has rolled out an alpha preview of the next major revision for its Chrome web browser. Those undaunted by the current alpha status of 2.0 can get an early taste of what's to come in Chrome.
• Podiobooks – Serialized audiobooks – Serialized audiobooks which are distributed via RSS, much like a podcast. Listeners to Podiobooks.com can choose to receive the episodes of their books via an RSS feed or by listening to episodes by directly downloading episodes from this site.