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Flowtown has wisely and cleverly updated XKCD’s 2007 “Map of Online Communities”. I love how they organized the map. My favorite parts on the map: “Bay of Tags” surrounded by Flickr, WordPress, LJ, BlogSpot, etc.; “AIM Tundra” (if you haven’t noticed, many people don’t use IM anymore); “Former Kingdom of MySpace” complete with the “Lake [...]
Despite efforts like the reCAPTCHA project, we still hate CAPTCHAs. Famed web form guru Luke Wroblewski posted on his blog about an alternative from They Make Apps. All you do is slide to submit a form. I can’t believe this would actually work. It’s pretty simple, but Luke notes that we still need an accessible alternative [...]
Ben Folds is playing with the NC Symphony this week, and I just ran into a fun video from March 20th of Ben having fun with Chatroulette in Charlotte (I love the irony): Chatroulette is a very simple site that sets you up in a webcam chat with a random stranger. The site was created [...]
Jared Spool (UIE) is always fun to listen to, and his latest work of art, “Revealing Design Treasures from the Amazon” is now on Slideshare. In the presentation, Spool introduces Amazon.com as a unique place on the Internet, where strange things happen, like the reviews for Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz. Some [...]
First Round Capital has put together an awesome holiday video in the Where the Hell is Matt? style. They feature 70 companies in their portfolio, many of which are Web 2.0 companies. A few of my favorite organizations in this video are Mint.com, Stumbleupon, and Ambient Devices (I love my Baseball ScoreCast). [via Laughing Squid]
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