humanbeans‘ latest project is what’s cooking grandma, a social network for sharing your grandmother’s cooking through youtube videos. it serves as a recipe website, a social network and a nice way to herald oft-neglected domestic work.
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trashcam
nico van hoorn documents one piece of trash a day on his trashlog. the pieces of trash are carefully selected and shot, which makes them seem clean and pretty, and the website itself is compartmentalized and orderly, so nothing about it has the feel of trash. it would be nice if the items could accumulate […]
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virtual UN
the global vote is a web2.0 site dedicated to providing an alternate means of measuring global opinion with regard to UN resolutions. structured like a blog, each resolution is a timed post with room for comments and a vote. the votes are tallied by country and displayed as they will stand in the UN, as […]
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glocal blogs
ethan zuckerman and rebecca mackinnon founded globalvoices, a web site that aggregates and translates news from the parts of the world we never hear from. they tackle the immense task through old-fashioned manual labor: volunteer translators and regional editors filter and organize the content, which originates in local-language blogs. it seeks to call attention to […]
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race warcraft
at this year’s alt.chi conference, tyler pace will be presenting Can an Orc Catch a Cab in Stormwind? (doc download) an insight into the roles of race in the massive multiplayer on-line game World of Warcraft. he proposes that the character selection process itself imposes racial (and gender-based) constructs on the game inspired by the […]
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ivory bazaar
at the staid but prestigious CHI conference engineers psychologists and human factors specialists get to discuss the future of computer human interface through peer-reviewed pseudo-academic papers and panels. but a lot of contributions to the field are somewhat hard to place, and for this reason, since 2005 they have included an ‘alternative’ conference within the […]
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future shop
etsy is a revolutionary on-line store where individual makers can sell their goods. unlike existing shopping portals etsy relies on novel means of promoting individual sellers and motivating a social network. for example, there is a ‘buy local’ button that shows you only designers within your neighborhood, a ‘time machine’ that reveals what is being […]
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3D sharing
we have flickr for sharing pictures and youtube for sharing videos, but how can we share three-dimensional work on-line? aerospace pioneer dassault has released a beta website that combines a free 3D modeling software with a social platform to upload and download free 3d models and a browser plug-in that allows you to browse the […]
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