TED Talks: While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
Big changes are coming to Facebook Platform. Today, Facebook is granting developers on Platform the ability to request (or require) users to hand over their e-mail ids..
Craiglook is a useful mash-up, which uses Yahoo Pipes to aggregate RSS Feeds from Craigslist and Google Maps to create a new-and-improved Craigslist search facility. Filtering products by location, category, cost and relevance is much easier compared to the original, not to mention the enhanced visual appeal. Check it out!