Month: January 2008

TripIt

TripIt is a personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans. TripIt is free and makes it easy to… Quickly organize your vacation and business travel – no matter where you book Automatically get itineraries with all your plans, weather, maps, restaurants and more Easily access your itineraries via email, personal calendar or mobile device Share your trips and see where you overlap with friends and colleagues

heh. inept websites from travel companies == business opportunity.

Robbie Williams pavers

EMI has announced that “unsold copies” of Rudebox, by British pop star Robbie Williams, “will soon be used to resurface Chinese roads.” 1m copies of the CD “will be crushed and sent to the country to be recycled, where they “will be used in street lighting and road surfacing projects.”

best contribution of that talentless hack to society yet

StyleFeeder Series A

While Amazon and eBay may dominate shopping in most of the Web universe, things are still up for grabs on planet Facebook. There, the leading shopping application is from a 2-year-old Cambridge, MA, startup called StyleFeeder. 500k people have made StyleFeeder’s shopping app part of their Facebook profiles—which is 50x as large as the Facebook user base claimed by the nearest competitor, eBay. The personal shopping engine at StyleFeeder’s own website boasts a similar number of users, raising $2m in Series A financing.

phil gets more funding

Shelf Mapping

To assert sovereignty over its submerged continental shelf, a nation has to map multiple off-shore points. Among them: the area where the ocean depth drops to 2500 meters, and the place where a country’s land mass drops off to become seafloor, a spot called the foot of the continental slope. Conservative estimates suggest that a new set of boundaries could cause the US to “grow” by 1m km2, and the oil, gas, and other resources contained in that area could be worth $1.3 trillion.

its all about the continental shelf

Canadian slur

Recent revelations that the term “Canadian” is being used to replace racist names for black people have got a Texas assistant district attorney into trouble and have left others wondering what exactly it means to be labelled a Canadian in the American south.

looks like the south needs another attitude adjustment

Street Use

This site features the ways in which people modify and re-create technology. Herein a collection of personal modifications, folk innovations, street customization, ad hoc alterations, wear-patterns, home-made versions and indigenous ingenuity. In short — stuff as it is actually used, and not how its creators planned on it being used. “The street finds its own uses for things.”