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This is Molly, the latest addition to the Olly family. She turns your retweets into sweets.
You can fund her on Kickstarter.
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“Thousands of Twitter accounts apparently created in advance to blast automated messages are being used to drown out Tweets sent by bloggers and activists this week who are protesting the disputed parliamentary elections in Russia, security experts said.”
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FRSTEE by RIG is a 3D printed snowman - generated by your Twitter data.
You can make your own (and have it delivered to you) at frstee.com
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A visualisation of London’s Twitter activity as collected by Fabian Neuhaus (@urbantick)’s New City Landscapes project
“With the visualisation we are highlighting the way information disseminates through re-tweeting of messages. An RT message will show a thin yellow line between original sender and re-sender. The information travels at some speed, which is based on the time it takes between sending and resending.”
More on the UrbanTick blog.
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Nike Shout by Ogilvy Singapore linked networked perimeter displays with a Facebook page and twitter hashtag to allow Indonesian football fans to broadcast their messages during a match - live.
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Talking Tree is a project by EOS, a science and nature magazine from Belgium. A hundred year old tree in Brussels has been fitted with a complex system of cameras, sensors and solar panels that are monitoring its activities and translating them into words.
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This video from Paypal Labs shows how they’ve combined Paypal with Arduino, QR codes and Twitter to create a vending machine that takes Paypal payment “beyond the web”.
Interesting.
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A time-lapse video of the mood of the US throughout the day inferred from Twitter.
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I saw this on Oli’s Journal last night. It’s pretty cool but I find it more than a bit scary.
“Each cow wears a RFID tag that is used to coordinate her activities with a central computer. As a cow approaches the robotic milking pen, the computer reads the tag and determines whether or not the cow is scheduled to be milked, based on her stage of lactation and average daily output. If the cow is ready for milking, she is allowed into the pen. Once inside, a robotic arm washes her teats, latches on, and extracts the milk while the cow eats high-grade feed to make her happy. The milk output and feed input is recorded by the main computer and stored in a database, along with the total milking time, time/teat, and total time in pen. The farmer enters additional information into the database, such as a when a cow gives birth, becomes ill, or is sent for slaughter.”
Some clever people at Critical Media Lab have hooked this up to Twitter and the cows now broadcast things like “Got into the milking pen at Mon, May 10 ‘10 12:40 am and in 3:38 secs I pumped out a full 12.1 kg. Impressive!”.
I find this funny, incredibly interesting and terrifying at the same time.
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“At 140 words, in Chinese, you can really write a novel. You can discuss most profound ideas really to democracy, freedom, poetry.”
— Ai Weiwei on the reason Twitter is blocked in China. Maybe they should use Wordr.
