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• Aaron Koblin
  Aaron Koblin is an Artist / Designer / Researcher focused on creating and visualizing human systems. Currently working out of San Francisco, California, Aaron creates software and architectures to transform social and infrastructural data into artwork. Koblin's work has been shown internationally and is part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Internet key to Obama victories
  The internet has been moving to the mainstream of political life in the US for some years. But in this presidential cycle it has been particularly important for the Obama campaign, which was starting from scratch with few resources and little name recognition.
• BBC NEWS | UK | Online lessons for UK in Obama win
  The internet is widely accepted to have played a huge part in the election of Barack Obama. Now one of Obama's web team is setting up business in the UK.
• New York in Black and White - Wired New York Forum
  Photos - The development of New York City from the 1880's
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Boost for easier web login plans
  Google and Microsoft, join Yahoo and AOL in pushing OpenID. At last!!
• Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site
  Developing this site was very different from any other project; there seems to be a new set of frontend rules for developing high-end mobile sites. A lot of the current best practices get thrown out the window in the quest for minimum page weight and fastest load times over slow celluar connections. Here are a few of the lessons we learned (sometimes painfully) while developing this site.
• New York Times - Visualization Lab
  Welcome to Visualization Lab, where you can create visual representations of data and information using the "Many Eyes" technology from IBM Research.
• Where is Your Username registered
  Thinking of doing a social-media campaign. Chosen your identity / campaign name - got started, only to find it taken on some sites. Worry no more.
• Rubiks Cube + Pantone = Rubitone
  Concept by Ignacio Pilotto. Not intended to be a commercial product. There is no affiliation between Pantone, Inc. and the Rubitone.
• adidas Originals x Lifelounge - All Day I Dream About Sneakers - Lifelounge - Daily Goodness
  All Day I Dream About Sneakers is a new collaborative project from adidas Originals and Lifelounge, inspired by the brand’s avid creeds of ‘Impossible Is Nothing’ and ‘Celebrate Originality’
• New electric vehicle with an unusual form factor - Core77
  Canadian teenager Ben Gulak has invented a rather unusual vehicle: a unicycle with two wheels. Well, isn't that just a bicycle, you say? Not if the wheels are next to each other.
• Best Ad: Evolution of Logos
  The history of well known logo designs.
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Can robots 'think' like humans?
  The Turing Test - Judges having IM conversations must guess whether they are talking to a human or computer. If a computer is mistaken for a human more than 30% of the time it passes the test and can be assumed to have passed a significant milestone in artificial intelligence.
• Candidate Supporters' Use of Gadgets as Symbols Reveal Power of Brands | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
  A thread on Fark produced a series of images that compare the presidential candidates to one another through their perceived symbolic equals. A close look at the images reveal that they are more than a just meaningless, amusing outgrowth of this crazy election. They suggest that people who demonstrate their enthusiasm toward the candidates in this way mirror the enthusiasm of gadget lovers in their personality traits, obsessions, and political leanings.
• KGO
  Wicked Flash experiments