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Welcome to MotherApp – Create mobile apps on all major mobile platforms

The Poster Cause Project – “Each month we will release a very limited print by a different artist with 50% of profits going to a specific charity or organization chosen by us or the artist.”

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YouTube – TAT augmented ID – With a mobile device and face recognition software from Polar Rose, Augmented ID enables you to discover selected information about people around you

Podcast | dConstruct 2009 – “All the sessions at dConstruct 2009 have been recorded and are being delivered via the magic of podcasting”

Mockingbird – “an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application”

Story – the conference – This sounds like a good idea

Frankenlab – “This is the home of Dr. Victor Emelius Frankenstory, eponymous inventor of the world famous writing game, and a place where he will be regularly displaying and dissecting his favourite stories”

CultureLabel: an aggregator for the arts – “Essentially, CultureLabel enables the online purchase of products that were previously only available from each institution’s in-gallery store on the way out”

The App Garden on Flickr – “Here you’ll find home grown applications created by Flickr members (like you!) using the Flickr API. The garden continues to flourish so go forth and frolic amongst the apps!”

Digital Theatre – ‘working in partnership with Britain’s leading theatre companies… to capture live performance authentically onscreen’. Interesting this. Presumably there’s much more to come – it’s launched with just one production available (despite apparenty having several partners) and the website itself is currently missing a whole host of tricks

Michael Bierut: 5 Secrets from 86 Notebooks – “Digging into the 86 notebooks he’s kept over the course of his career, Bierut walks us through 5 projects – from original conception to final execution – extracting a handful of simple lessons (e.g. the problem contains the solution; don’t avoid the obvious) at the foundation of brilliant design solutions”. I haven’t watched this yet, but I fully intend to

Inside the App Economy – BusinessWeek

FIFA Earth – I am impressed by this

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – “You can write iPhone apps quickly and efficiently using your existing skills with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This book shows you how with lots of detailed examples, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on exercises”

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Society6 – Society6 is a platform for the world’s artists and creatives to promote their work and connect with unique opportunities

IKEA Heights – “Ikea Heights is a melodrama shot entirely in the Burbank California Ikea Store without the store knowing”. That’s… incredible

aM laboratory – “Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer”. I love this

4iP Birmingham Nick Booth Presentation – Nick Booth talking about Big City Talk, Social Media Surgeries and Help Me Investigate at the Recasting Power event. This made me proud to be working in Birmingham

Designing Social Interfaces – The patterns in this collection are social design patterns (a.k.a. social user experience design patterns). They are interaction pattern for people designing social interfaces

Intelligent Naivety – First Art Game For the iPhone – “The soft watches have disappeared from the painting and are hidden in other Dalí works. Players need to find them by exploring enlarged pictures of those other art pieces”

What’s the best art you’ve ever experienced? | Hello Art – The first stage of the Arts Council’s public engagement project running 2010-12 is a simple question and answer thing. Am wondering if this is as much an email capture system as anything

Universe Creation 101 » Techniques for Segmenting Content Across Media – “While the notion of episodics is fairly understood, what isn’t is the variety of episodic techniques available and how these can be utilized in a cross-platform project. So, in this post I’ll outline ways a production can be designed for multi-platform segmentation”

When The Audience Takes Control – “Lance Weiler breaks down the new models independent filmmakers are using to create a fan base”

ARG Stats – “information about the uptake, impact and awards garnered from ‘alternate reality games’ (ARGs)”

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Derek Powazek – How to Publish a Magazine in a Day and a Half – “But, really, I can’t believe how easy it was. Making print media used to be so difficult. I remember cutting and gluing long columns of text together, shooting flats, and generally sweating for days to create my college newspaper. Now the the most time-consuming part is simply asking for permission from the content creators”

Welcome | MagCloud – “Welcome to MagCloud, where you can publish your own printed magazine”

Trust Art – Home – “Trust Art is a social platform that is commissioning ten public artworks over the next year. People are invited to become shareholders with $1, share with interested friends, and renew culture”

24hrBook Project : CompletelyNovel – “a groundbreaking project to challenge a group of writers to write a new story about London in just 24 hours. The book will be written by a group of experienced writers working together using all kinds of online collaborative tools around the clock”

HBO Imagine – “This isn’t sitting back to watch a show… we’ve created this entirely new way of experiencing a story. Each piece of content provides unique information, and offers a unique perspective on the characters, plots and motives at play, allowing viewers to discover for themselves what is really going on”

November In Manchester – November in Manchester is a social media tale of fiction. Taking place over the month of November, this project will share the story of two very different characters – via the medium of social media – as their lives intertwine and eventually collide

Flink Labs | Data Visualisation Beyond the Bar Chart | Concept Lens – Concept Lens is an innovative application that enables you to visually track the conversations occurring on Twitter and photos being posted on Flickr, for an event or topic of interest

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Shop Culture from Leading Global Museums – CultureLabel – “CultureLabel.com is the first online platform to curate and showcase the best artist-designed and limited-edition products from over 60 leading galleries, museums, artists and culture institutions”

Babelgum – “Babelgum is global web video curated by our team of publishers. Individually they are experts, together they are Babelgum”

What is NaNoWriMo? | National Novel Writing Month – 50,000 words, 1-30 November. “Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that’s a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down”

Most Common Passwords – The lists are interesting/useful enough, but it’s the explanations afterwards that are eye-opening

Kebablog – Domain Renewal Group – Well I was expecting it – I wonder how successful the Domain Renewal Group are. I’m hoping the answer’s ‘not very’

List of British words not widely used in the United States – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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just in teractive: GameLayers from PMOG to Dictator Wars – Lessons learned from PMOG’s rise and fall

Social by Social – “A practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact”. Buy the book for a tenner and/or download the PDF for free

BBC – The Knowledge Exchange Blog: ugc@thebbc – “a year-long project which produced a huge amount of data, and proved to be the first significant study of UGC at a broadcast organisation”

2009 MTV VMA Tweet Tracker | MTV.com – VMA Tweet Tracker [mtv.com] is a real-time graph of Twitter activity that highlights the social news surrounding the Video Music awards by aggregating the most popular terms being tweeted around this event. Developed by Stamen Design and social media monitoring company Radian6,

TiddlyWiki – a reusable non-linear personal web notebook – TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki. Has some interesting uses too

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The Real Deal : alex hillman writes here – In Philadelphia there’s a tension between the actions of the (necessarily bootstrapped) grassroots community and what Alex calls “an under-used and over-produced attempt at being a regional resource for a good cause”. A story which I imagine is repeated the world over

Introducing astrotags – “Astrotags are a new way to label your astronomy photos with their celestial subject and its location”. Neat idea and a lovely video to present it. Great stuff from the Royal Observatory Greenwich

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Blogging for Artists – An informal talk given to Shropshire Arts Network on September 8th 2009 by Pete Ashton

Culture Wars | About Culture Wars – Culture Wars is the online review of the Institute of Ideas in London. We cover books, films, theatre, art and talk events, with a view to understanding how political and other ideas filter through the culture, and how the arts in turn influence politics and society more generally

Welcome to verifiable.com – “Our goal is to develop a tool to help you communicate data more clearly, efficiently, and honestly. We want to make it easy and fun to produce gorgeous, verifiable visualizations and allow viewers to dig into your data and even build on your work to bring out richer, clearer, or just plain different conclusions”

Monopoly City Streets – Live worldwide game of Monopoly using Google Maps as the game board. The goal is simple. Play to beat your friends and the world to become the richest property magnate in existence” Launching 9 Sept

RSS in the Clouds « Blog « WordPress.com – “Today we turned on support for all 7.5 million blogs on WordPress.com something called RSS Cloud, which is basically a way for people to get push notification that your feed has updated”. Oh, now that is interesting

Embeddable Google Document Viewer – A little known Google Docs feature will let you embed a PDF or .ppt on a website. One day we won’t have to faff around with arcane things like this

Ning Apps – “Today you can choose from more than 90 Ning Apps, and that’s just the beginning. This number will continue to grow as developers here at Ning and around the world build additional Ning Apps tailored around your interests and passions”

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Smokescreen § Homepage – “How do we get teens to think about online privacy, trust, and identity? TV, films and books haven’t worked – but a game that simulates the internet, with a gripping drama and fast-paced missions definitely could”. “Smokescreen is a cutting-edge game about life online, on a new social network called White Smoke”. Newness from C4 and Six to Start that looks dead interesting

Soundwalk – “Cutting-edge audio guides in which the listener is able to step into the life of a narrator as they guide you through their neighborhood streets and local hang-outs. SoundTOURS mix fiction and reality in a cinematic experience giving the listener the impression of actually being in a film”

DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet – Douglas Adams on why being worried about the Internet is like being worried about cups of tea, our emergence from an interactivity drought and lots more besides in a surprisingly short article. All this from 1999, too

Dinner at El Bulli: The Greatest Restaurant in the World – The Amateur Gourmet – The best restaurant review I’ve ever read. It’s as if he’s taken his cue from the unexpected presentation of the dishes

Ars Electronica ’09: Quick Look on Visualization Projects – information aesthetics – “This post mainly focuses on the projects related to the fields of infographics and data visualization”

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journalisted.com – “Journalisted is an independent, non-profit site run by the Media Standards Trust to help the public navigate the news”. So if you want to see all the articles printed by any particular journalist then you can

Elatable : Bradley Horowitz: Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers – Content production pyramid – a breakdown of 1%, 10% and 100% across levels of interaction, taken from looking at data on Yahoo Groups

Crowdfunding for creative endeavours – Springwise – Kickstarter – “a new site where artists, journalists, entrepreneurs, explorers and others can raise the funds for their next big idea”

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