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friday digest no. 1

December 4th, 2009 • posts i've written

Welcome to the Friday Digest, a wrap-up of my favorites posts I’ve shared for the week.

To the shares!

Infographic of the Day: What Conversations are Heating Up, in Your Twitter Network? – Fast Company shares a new visualization tool, Mentionmap, which maps the topics of conversation heating up in your twitter social graph.
A Look Inside Save Khaki Broome Street – I want to go to there.
Seven Psychological Principles Con Artists Exploit – Perfect your grifter routine.
The Augmented Road Trip – Apparently road trips are boring and are in need of a little AR fun?
What is a knowledge game? – The difference between play and games is critical – I’ve always loved the idea of the ‘game space,’ a circle in which the regular rules of life are cast off and the game rules take over.
More Research To Back The Notion That Streaming Kills Piracy – More evidence to suggest piracy (to a large degree) results from a lack of availability, not a need for illegality.
The Geek Beat: Man of (Impossible) Steel – As a Superman fanboy, his absence is distressing.
Navigating Facebook’s New Contest Rules – A must read for anyone running promotions on Facebook.
Influencing Behaviour Online – A short list of quick ways to influence the behaviors of your visitors.

And now for a random fact from Wikipedia,

Early credit cards in the U.S., of which BankAmericard was the most prominent example, were mass produced and mass mailed to bank customers who were thought to be good credit risks; that is, they were unsolicited. These mass mailings were known as “drops” in banking terminology, and were outlawed in 1970 due to the financial chaos that they caused, but not before 100 million credit cards had been dropped into the U.S. population. After 1970, only credit card applications could be sent unsolicited in mass mailings.

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