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Wordle

Is the best fun you can have on the internet without closing the curtains. This tells a powerful story (hat tip Davezilla). First person to guess this (hint: song) wins today’s special prize.

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Posted by Jeremy on Monday, June 23rd, 2008

One Size Fits All

At least according to Facebook whose Chinese version looks strangely familiar. At least they bothered to translate the Hug Me app. Maybe Chinese advertisers will take more of a shine to the site than their US counterparts.

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Posted by Jeremy on Monday, June 23rd, 2008

The Mobile Web

For those of you bored to death with interminable stories of how much money Mark Zuckerberg’s worth even though his company can’t work out how to make any, relief is at hand.
Over the next few months a series of launches will occur in the mobile phone ’space’ that will likely herald an entirely new phase […]

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Posted by Jeremy on Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Realty Bites

One of the big themes (or memes as Mr Arthur calls them) of this site is how the inherent openness of the web shifts control away from the center (corporations, governments, monopolies) towards the periphery (individuals). At the heart of that shift is information. If information is scarce, it is usually expensive and individuals are […]

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Posted by Jeremy on Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Less Cognitive Surplus, Please

Need ideas to burn up cognitive surplus? Try something like this. Does anybody in this here agency have similar tales to tell or ideas to exchange?

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Posted by Jeremy on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008