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Entries for week beginning July 8, 2007

July 14, 2007

Pickleview on iPhone

Live baseball game tracker for iPhone. Uses Twitter as a chat channel.

“Live Poultry Fresh Killed”

“Live Poultry Fresh Killed”

The sign outside Mayflower Poultry Co. in Cambridge. I finally got around to buying one of their t-shirts today, which I look forward to wearing around my vegetarian chums.

July 13, 2007

I Heart Irony - Adult Shirts - Glarkware

I saw someone wearing this shirt last night, My reaction was “I’ve no idea what it actually means, but I *know* I need to own one.”

July 12, 2007

How-To: Dirt Cheap Wall-Sized Whiteboards

[AnagramOfPanties] used to have entire rooms walled in showerboard, as well as a policy that if you ever found a red Expo marker, you had to throw it in the trash immediately, because it was a bugger to clean off the boards.

Your bank has a REST API now (shhh! -- don't tell them)

Wesabe have created an open API to allow folks to hack on their bank account data. I foresee some stonking visualization work coming out of this that will put Quicken, Microsoft Money, etc to shame.

8apps - For Productive People

New social networking site, aimed at a audience similar to the users of 37 Signals collaboration tools. I have a shitload of invites if anyone wants to play.

July 11, 2007

“Buy me a beer…”

“Buy me a beer…”

"...and I'll tell you why your startup idea _sucks_"

My name badge at this week's Web Innovators Group meetup. Written before I discovered it was an open bar!

(Photo taken by David Laubner)

Facebook | Scrabulous

Play Scrabble against your Facebook chums. Nice!

Apple - Trailers - 01-18-08

Quite possibly the best movie “teaser” ever. No title, no cast list, no clue as to WTF is going on… But dagnammit, I want to see the film!

Will It Blend? | iPhone

Best viral marketing for a kitchen appliance EVAR!

Simpson Family Values

Interviews with almost everyone involved in the creation of The Simpsons (including Rupert Murdoch!)

Fake bomb eludes airport test -- Times Union - Albany NY

Hooray for the TSA and their water-divining machinery.

July 10, 2007

beejive :: JiveTalk mobile messaging

AJAX-based instant messaging app for the iPhone. A bit slow, but it works!

July 9, 2007

PocketTweets: Twitter For Your iPhone

Attractively-done Twitter front-end for iPhone. Really wish Twitter had a proper authentication API, so I didn’t have to keep giving my username and password to third parties.

Invite Share - Everyone is invited!

The BugMeNot.com for Web 2.0 - a site to trade invites for invite-only sites. Slightly disappointed they didn’t launch it as an invite-only site for ultimate irony points.

July 8, 2007

YouTube - Spinal Tap + Army of Bass Players - Live Earth

“Big Bottom” as it was meant to be played — by every bass player they could find. “On bass drums: Skippy Scuffleton - pray for him!”

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