Web innovations

The cutting edge, a bow

• Unofficial Google Blog is an unofficial blog that watches Google's latest attempts to move your operating system online.
  http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/
• Parkeharrison have an effficient way of letting you prechoose which picture to look at in their collection. It's swf - ahh, it has it's uses. Not just a pretty face.
  http://www.parkeharrison.com/
• Alex Tew's Million Dollar Home Page. Tew needed money for tuition, so he launched a gib black 1000x1000 pixel piece of real estate, to be sold at $1 per pixel. You could buy as many as you want and have on it what you want. People paid him $150,000 in two weeks, and in 4 months he had $1,037,000. Method of advertising: Word of Mouth.
• Tom Coates innovates. His thinking is innovative. Web commentator, watcher of web innovations.
  http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/
• Art is not a Crime: Solidarity with Steve Kurtz and critical art ensemble. This guy is being threatened with legal action for turning a picture of a guy with a Molotov cocktail made with a Pepsi bottle into an artwork. Here is my solidarity with them.
• Indybay.org has an interesting structure, comprehensivity, about San Francisco.
  http://www.indybay.org/
• The Contagious Media Project, launches funny or interesting memes and see how far they spread, spurring on the competition with the Contagious Media Award - first prize $2000. Currently, Panty Spyware - Forget Me Not Panties - that you buy your cheating wife, to monitor her, is the winner with 615,562 unique visitors.
  http://showdown.contagiousmedia.org/
  http://www.contagiousmedia.org/
  http://www.forgetmenotpanties.com/
• Meetup.com - the more I look at it the more I see how cleverly it is set up for safety - go have a look - I am going to be making a list today of all the brilliant points about this site that matches interests to interests not people to people and creates groups - I love the programming synchronising seamlessly with the intent, it's poetry.
  http://www.meetup.com

{Tanya Pretorius' Bookmarks: Computers, Web innovations}