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Monetizing Twitter in Japan

Look out:

"Japanese media are reporting that Twitter is going to introduce a tiered payment model and aims to charge people to view tweets from certain premium Twitter accounts."

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/27/twitter-japan-paid-premium-accounts/

Site visualising real-time Spotify searches

Mesmerising.

http://hunch.se/tmp/091126-sptv1demo/

"It's like Twitter. Except we charge people to use it."

http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html

Genius!

Very lovely flash game from Vector Park

http://windosill.com/

You have to buy the second half though.

Digital design

Worth dropping into...

http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/future_exhibs/Decode/index.html

Opens on the 8th Dec for a few months.

Tracing the Journey of a Single Bit

The web is sort of magical but there’s a lot of tangible stuff that makes it fly around.

I thought this was interesting if a little US focused:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/ff_internetplaces/

3D models easily with your webcam

http://amnesiablog.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/3d-models-easily-with-your-webcam

Top 50 Worst Videogame Voice Acting

Excellent nostalgia trip, perhaps:

http://www.funnyordie.co.uk/videos/f15cf22c87/top-50-worst-videogame-voice-acting

NB. Doesn't get any funnier after the first 30 seconds.

 

 

Pathways

I thought this was really interesting. And I’ve been trying to work out why.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/23/pathways-of-desire-d.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

Not from the unsurprising perspective that people try and take the path of least resistance, but from the perspective that someone has to cut across the snow and make the first path...and once that’s done others will tend to follow...before it’s well and truly trodden.

And only once the snow fades do we realise what effect order has on us. And how what we want to do differs from what we’re supposed to do. 

It feels like a deep and cringey analogy about what we do, but it’s not supposed to be. Honest guv. Next one will be about tits and arse. Promise.

Employee grievance, Apple-style