"Rent gets driven up, the crowds come, it becomes to crowded, and the hipsters have to move on. Just replace hipsters with alpha geeks and you get the same process." 2008/07/07

component or update brought by the SP1 makes programs accessing Internet hang after a random time (...) Typically, your program will stop downloading data withtout crashing (...) process will be impossible to kill and the only solution is to reboot.

Internet Memetics and Fads

a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system.

Hollywood OS

generates a 3D avatar (for widget use) from a photo of your face

subtitle youtube videos

"a new white person complaint every day of the week" :D

Sociologists must go through a lot of pants when they cruise the digital realm because subcultures are constantly spawning subcultures to the point there is a sort of electronic gravy made from all these people meeting online (...)

the whole internet has crashed, and ah, there's no backup !

"You're stuck and you need some answers.
So you get help from your answer machine.
On a table next to you, is a part of the machine - a typewriter keyboard.
When you push the correct keys, your questions will be answered on a screen on the wall."

"tree accesses the source code of a web domain through it's url and transforms the syntactic structure of the web site into a tree structure represented by an image. this image illustrates a tree with trunk, branches and ramifications."

"An image macro is a picture with text superimposed, typically through the use of graphics software"

Firefox extension that synchronize browsers of EVERYONE who installed the extension. Basically, it gets everyone on the same page. You can be passive (let other people browse for you) or active (change the collective current page).

"Monitors web pages for updates. Useful for websites that don't provide Atom or RSS feeds."

geographic area represents estimated size of membership

"On the map, white dots represent individual blogs, sized according to number of links."

/ How local geeks and nerds are hooking up right now ... or not

"In other words, things rise to the top not because they are better quality than the alternatives, but because people copy what their friends do: a tiny rise in popularity an early stage can mean massive popularity further down the line."

= youtube labs