Yahoo is where the cool things happen. Google is more structured and better in getting attention for new (beta) productlaunches, but Yahoo is knitting all their applications together into this incredible grid of everything.

For example take Yahoo suggestions a service where they talk to the user. They have a site explorer for tracking incoming links to your website. They know your favourite television programs. They even program your Tivo. They cluster pages with information from Flickr, etc. and they intend to do this at least a hundred times more. Yahoo has almost everything except order out of chaos.

Bruce Mau Design is working on the project Massive Change and is searching for a superior thinker, stategist or designer and asks them to answer three challenging questions.

1. In the future, how will we communicate?
2. Will we shift from the service of war to the service of life?
3. How will we eradicate poverty?

I think for a company or organization a candidate answers to (these) questions are much more valuable than exchanging resumés. Could this be the new de facto for job applications? Art schools already ask you to do certain tasks or answer questions when applying.

Youngsters know their way around in the online social umfeld. Usability News reports 55% of the US teenagers have a social profile.

The BBC reports blogs will peak at a maximum of 100 million next year. 200 Million blogs died already. I think social network websites could largely replace private blogs. Most networking websites already offer blogging-like funtionalities.

Is MySpace a social network or a very well connected collection of blogs?

Here in the Netherlands the discussion about bluespamming is living up. Is it allowed for unknown broadcasting equipment to intrude your personal life (mobile phone)?

Over at Mobhappy there are some interesting thoughts. The focus of this debate is moving to rapidly to regulation. This would be a shame, there are lots of cool things you can do with transmitting bluetooth.

Maybe someone should create an anti-spam directory/library where a transmitter needs to get authorization (by public votes) before intruding. In this way we can keep the art and get rid of the spam.

On Bruce Sterling his blog there is an essay by Tom Sherman about vernacular video. Video-art is moving backwards from avant garde to protectionism. When video is everywhere. Vernacular video, read the essay.

Link to the *.swf: http://www.wilbertbaan.nl/files/whatisart.swf

IP-based icons to prevent comment spam, smart thinking.

They do. Social media and power to the people is a blessing (and business). As long you know and can influence what they say about you.

Hypernarrative.com had a few small updates in the last week. Most of the updates are wonderfull extensions to the Wordpress engine.

- Feed handling by Feedburner. The way Feedburner presents the feed in a browser beats raw xml, and you can subcribe to postings in your e-mail. (Those of you who read this via RSS are already getting this via the Feedburner feed, thanks for subscribing)
- 5 “You read this, you might like” hyperlinks in each posting.
- 5 “Most recent posts” hyperlinks in each posting.
- Most popular tags in each posting.