Yearly Archives: 2008

Obama Phone!

If you haven’t heard about this yet, the Obama campaign today released an iPhone app that, among other features, enables you to call your friends prioritized by their location in battleground states.
This is critical.
There’s nothing more important, or more influential, than friends encouraging friends to vote, and when it comes to getting informed on the [...]

Bookmarks for September 01 to September 15

A bi-weekly collection of linky goodness.
Bytes of Life - washingtonpost.com

“When San Francisco couple Brynn Evans and Chris Messina heard of a new Web site called BedPost, they registered an account before the site was even out of beta. BedPost was created to map users’ sex lives online — everything from partner to duration of the [...]

After 1984

iTunes 8 has added a new feature called “Genius” that harnesses the collective behavior of iTunes Music Store shoppers to generate “perfect” playlists.
Had an interesting email exchange with my mom earlier today about Monica Hesse’s story Bytes of Life. The crux of the story is that more and more people are self-monitoring and collecting data [...]