links for 2008-06-18
Written on June 18, 2008
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ZayPay’s new API is designed to enable business owners to receive payment from customers using mobile phones via SMS and other means, supporting a variety of Price Settings for controlling which countries and payment methods are supported
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The Quillr concept mashes up text, video, audio, and photos to create a new type of ebook that the three hope resonates with the YouTube generation
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“If confronted with online rumours, investigate first, report later.”
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This takes videos of speeches by the Parliament recorded by BBC and crowdsources matching them up with text retrieved from Hansard. Users watch the video, match the text and the reward for the crowd is to move up the ranks to compete for points and, oh, h
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Kuhl is soliciting ideas for bills until July 18th. Kuhl will then choose his favorite 5 submissions and users will vote for the best, and the winning idea will be introduced on the floor of the US House of Representatives.
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an interesting essay from RWW arguing that social media noise is actually useful as it increases serendipity
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an interesting 1998 paper on how we encounter new information — online and offline
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an interesting breakdown of readers into those have a strong desire to receive only signal (signalists) and those who are looking for stuff outside their own interests (discoverers)
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While Gen Y still participates in rallies, protests, and group meetings, for them it’s a lot easier to start a movement with a Facebook group and let the masses join in
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Swedish ethnologist Erik Ottoson of Uppsala University studies how people browse at flea markets, wander through malls, window shop, and even dumpster-dive, to understand the psychology of “searching.”
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A new paper by economists Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches finds that children with computers tend to spend less time doing homework and get lower grades than other students.
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some interesting thoughts; Dev 2.0 is gonna be “sustainable, collaborative, entrepreneural and not aid dependent”
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how mobile phones can revolutionize cancer treatment
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“the lesson from Romania’s voucher experiment is not that computers aren’t useful learning tools, but that their usefulness relies on parents being around to assure they don’t simply become a very tempting distraction from the unpleasantness of trigonomet
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