“Groovy Motherfucker”

The most fun you can have with PVC tubing and marshmallows. Esther “Deadeye” Dyson terrorised Makefest with this.

Best slide of ETech — From Clay Shirky’s talk on internet community behaviours.

MS unveil their new UI for Office. Curious to see how this works in real life, but the photos look like usability could go either way.

Ning are sharing out all the user-generated data as Atom feeds, and will soon be supporting Atom Publishing to modify data. Hooray for non-roach-motels.

Yoz’s talk has convinced me! Ning looks like it could be a really fun shared platform for swift hosted development.

“Query by Example” dataminingy plugin for PostgreSQL. The ETech demo wasn’t that compelling, but it looks like it could have potential for “agile” data-prodding.

Marc Hedlund’s “Proverbs” for engineers who want to be entrepeneurs. Great stuff.

Some ETech links. This was my favourite talk yesterday (and one I stumbled into by accident when another room was full). Using the fun things we see in games to make your (social) software more engaging.