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Just a list of links I picked up from people at FOWA London 07:

• ixda.org – Interaction Design Association
• vodafonebetavine.net – Vodafone R&D
• teqlo.com – mashup platform
• ning.com – create your own social websites
• pipes.yahoo.com – interactive feed aggregator and manipulator
• aniboom.com – cartoons and animation
• amiest.com – independent music downloads with innovative business model
• adobe apollo – cross-OS framwork, use your web development skills to build desktop apps
• netvibes.com – personal news aggregator
• couchsurfing.com – find a couch to stay on, or let someone use yours!
• threadless.com – get t-shirts
• barcamp.org – get together and learn (techie) stuff
• soocial.com – synchronise your contacts
• btcontact.com – personal communication hub
• picnik.com – edit your photos online (built using flex builder)
• labs.digg.com – experimental digg stuff
• iscrybe.com – online organiser
• mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ – the future of javascript
• blogs.msdn.com/cwilso/ – microsoft IE platform architect’s blog
• twingly.se – amazing graphical representation of the blogosphere
• extate.com – property search engine
• jobably.com – recruitement site, coming soon
• twitter.com – what are you doing?
• trac – web-based software project management
• eco.netvibes.com – netvibes apis
• kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/show.cgi – php profiling tool
• quotationsbook.com – search for quotes, stupid!

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I’ve been signed up to LinkedIn.com for a couple of weeks, and have built up a decent sized list of connections. I was pleasantly surprised by the mechanism, for making connections – namely, that there’s no way to “cold call” someone. You need to know their contact details in order to send them a connection request. Once you have made the connection, you are able to be introduced to that person’s contacts, with LinkedIn acting as a trusted intermediary. The whole thing is, in the fashion, self-moderated, and spammers and the like should be fairly easy to prohibit given the traceability of connections.

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Along with the dev team from UpMyStreet I recently attended the New Media Knowledge workshop entitled Beers and Innovation. The room above a Soho pub was fully booked, the beers were on the house and the speakers included Richard Sambrook, director of BBC global news division, and Paul Youlten, founder of Yellowikis.org.

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An interesting post today on the Official Google Blog, by senior policy counsel (is he a lawyer?) Andrew McLaughlin, addressing the ethical issues of censoring results via the local Chinese Google presence Google.cn.

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Google is now tracking the locations of taxis and shuttle buses, and you can view a live feed of their location on a highly detailed map.

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