Interesting app especially now. Everyone’s weirded out about “them” knowing where we are and what we’re up to. Sure! Use Plazes! Tell the world!
“You have no privacy. Get over it.” as Scott McNealy famously said a few years back.
Check out the TechCrunch article from earlier this month — Plazes CEO Busted By His Own Product — for a sample of what’s in store.
I mentioned I think — or maybe it was in a different space — that I moved all my bookmarks into del.icio.us last week and I’m working my way through, updating, changing, deleting, deciding whether a given bookmark should be “public” or not …
I click on old bookmarks. Sometimes they are dead as a doornail. Sometimes they shift you over to a new URL. Sometimes …
Came across this one just now that had really morphed.
A while ago I was trying to decide whether to give up some magazine subscriptions and (truth tell) piles of old magazines — archives of periodicals that I might look at once every three years and, instead, sign on AND PAY $4.95/mo to KeepMedia, which offered 150+ titles online.
We sympathize with the postal carrier who, not just for us but also for others, walks down 40+ stairs from the nearest street to reach the cross path that connects with our walking path. He walks down the path to our stoop and up 18+ steps to our door to deliver our mail and magazines. And back down again and up and down again and up … as he walks down our walking path, delivering mail.
He walks another almost 100 steps down the steps to the next walking path to deliver another batch of mail.
Maybe, I thought, we could lighten his load.
I thought about it, do I want to give up my physical magazines, um. I thought about it, set it aside, thought about it. …
Turns out good thing I didn’t tie my wagon to that horse.
KeepMedia is now MyWire.com and a fine app MyWire.com may be, but it’s not what KeepMedia promised.
Word to the wise. Those packrats amongst us worry about stuff like this … give up your physical archives? Trust the Web? Trust the vendor not to change his business model?
Ayeeeee!
New tumbleblog for stashing interrrrresting stuff. Between del.icio.us (still processing thousands of bookmarked URLs) and tumblr and stumbleupon and twitter … I’m getting all Web2.0′d out.
I’ve been playing around with a fake picture for twitter using the Face Transformer at St Andrews that I found over at Grapes2.0 the other day.
Decisions. Decisions. Should I use
Modigliani
or
Botticelli
or
Manga?
Manga. For now. …
[I really wanted the El Greco morph (View of Toledo has been a fave since I was about nine.) But the El Greco morph is only available for males and if I change my “sex” to male, the El Greco morph gives me an El Greco morph complete with nice Spanish facial hair.
Not really me. Alas.]
Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our database of real readers’
favourite books (over 32,000 and growing) to suggest what you could read next.
e.g.
Enter title and/or author
Enter title: The End of Mr. Y
[click] What Should I Read Next?
App comes back
Did you mean:
The End of Mr. Y – Scarlett Thomas
Click the title above if correct, or amend the details below
[click] title above
results:
The Carpathians – Janet Frame See Amazon UK | US
My Life as Emperor – Su Tong See Amazon UK | US
Charades – Janette Turner Hospital See Amazon UK | US
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon – Jeffrey Masson See Amazon UK | US
The Gourmet Club: A Sextet – Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, Anthony Chambers, Paul McCarthy See Amazon UK | US
The Secret World of Og – Pierre Berton See Amazon UK | US
Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust – Charles Patterson See Amazon UK | US
Quicksand – Jun’ichiro Tanizaki See Amazon UK | US
Tales of Hoffmann – E. T. A Hoffmann See Amazon UK | US
The Collected Stories of Frank O’Connor – Frank O’Connor See Amazon UK | US
more results …
Interesting app. And, yes, Scarlett Thomas’ other books do not pop up in that first list of suggestions.
Register if you’d like to be part of this Web2.0 app. Site money stream seems to come from those Amazon click-throughs.
[caution: The response time can be a bit slow.]
[mentioned in a post from the Project Wombat list.]
[I'd pop up the graphic here, but decided (copyright infringement-wise) to send folks over to Google to take a look there ... One gripe with iGoogle is that I don't get my Google graphics fix.]
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