What’s so important about Carrotmob is the coordination, because it reduces an inefficiency in other, uncoordinated socially-conscious shopping: “mobbing” lets a business know exactly why the gods of good fortune have smiled upon it. Let a business know which proactive green steps to take, then reward their progressive actions with business–and lots of it.
Tag: collaborative
YouTube streams
chat with others while you watch. there goes the last somewhat compelling joost feature.
Drone Paparazzi
Paparazzi UAV is an open-source drone hardware and software project encompassing autopilot systems and ground station software for multicopters/multirotors, fixed-wing, helicopters and hybrid aircraft that was founded in 2003. Paparazzi UAV was designed with autonomous flight as the primary focus and manual flying as the secondary. From the beginning it was designed with portability in mind and the ability to control multiple aircraft within the same system. Paparazzi features a dynamic flight plan system that is defined by mission states and using way points as “variables”. This makes it easy to create very complex fully automated missions without the operators intervention.
wow
Attacking Noise in Chat
And then I had an idea — what if you were only allowed to say sentences that had never been said before, ever? A bot with access to the full channel logs could kick you out when you repeated something that had already been said. There would be no “all your base are belong to us”, no “lol”, no “asl”, no “there are no girls on the internet”. No “I know rite”, no “hi everyone”, no “morning sucks.” Just thoughtful, full sentences.
you can never utter the same line twice, ever. works beautifully in a constrained environment like IRC. but would be extremely useful for blogs / comments / mails
Yelp Elite Squad
The Yelp Elite Squad is a small group of “influencers” who use Yelp as their favorite way to talk about what’s great — and not so great — in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. In essence, they are the voices and faces of Yelp, both on and offline. In return for yelping about everything from their favorite restaurants and retail stores to the best doctors, yoga instructors, and hairstylists, we’ve created a nifty program that gives Yelp Elite Squad Members even more reason to go out and spread the Yelp Gospel.
yelp is a cult
Newsroom apps
we’re no longer exchanging Excel, Word files, and other binary blobs via email. Instead we’re sending invites to Google docs, links to data visualization sites like Swivel and links to Google MyMaps.
Freecycle
“It just has completely floored me, the generosity of people. Especially in West Virginia because West Virginia is considered one of the poorest states in the nation. But people are very generous. It’s amazing.” Freecycle is a global recycling phenomenon. Since it started in Arizona in May 2003, it has grown to more than 4m members in 4100 cities, from Istanbul to Inwood. It boasts of keeping 300m tons of trash out of landfills every day and has inspired imitators.
freecycle would be a lot better if they didn’t use paleotech like mailing list.
The advantages of publicness
It’s a good thing that our lives are becoming more public and permanent on the internet. It will keep us closer as people. It might make us more civil and more forgiving as a result.While we tend to focus on the dangers of losing privacy, for a Guardian column I’m working on, I’d like to examine the benefits of living in public, of publicness.
this is the deeper issue behind all the SN hype. once people stop the sheep throwing nonsense and publish ala del.icio.us, then we are really connecting to our past. and to be able to see what shaped someone’s world view.
Ajatus
Ajatus is a distributed, or peer-to-peer CRM system built on top of CouchDb.
What makes Ajatus so special is the approach we’re taking with it. Having with OpenPsa found the traditional, hierarchical CRM approach unworkable we wanted to solve the problem in a different way:
- Local, rich AJAX client everybody can run on their laptop or internet tablet
- Replication to allow sharing data with partners, customers and the employer
- Simple base data types (note, event, contact, …) that users can customize and extend
- Possibility to build integration tools and plug-ins in almost any language (with CouchDb’s restful JSON interface)
- Speed
using couchdb. for some reason, henri’s feed just updated today on reader.
Debate visualizer
With tools like this, citizens can begin to focus with laserlike precision not only on what candidates are saying, but also — and in some ways more crucially — on what they are not.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 