interesting 1.25.09
- Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics – by Danah Boyd
- YouTube begins experimenting with downloadable videos
- Watch the 2009 Presidential Inauguration without a TV
- Visualization of Obama Wikipedia page edits by Jamie Wilkinson using Wikiswarm
- Watch Obama Inauguration online with CNN.com Live and Facebook
- Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov – 1st blog post by Macon Phillips on behalf of Obama presidency
- Before & After: WhiteHouse.gov – side by side comparison screenshots
- Obama’s inaugural speech
- Inauguration Overload – news organizations experiment with innovative ways to address event
- The Yale Law Journal – Symposium Issue: Virtual Worlds
- Augmented Reality + Cloth Simulation, using FLARToolKit, Away3D, and WOW-Engine [video]
- FriendFeed launches friend importer for Twitter – find and subscribe to your Twitter friends on FriendFeed
- Sundance Film Festival 2009: Created Worlds – machinima panel
- 7 Phenomenal Wonders of the Natural World
- The Big Picture: Inauguration of President Barack Obama – photos from around the world
- Miguel Caballero: High Security Fashion – allegedly made Obama’s bullet-resistant Inauguration suit
- Out of Context: Artists and Web Inventories
- Lethal: iPhone/iPod Touch application – use auto-location to tell you about all the potential dangers around you
- Justwatchthesky: lyrics + typography + music
- YouTube officially enables High Quality in embedded videos
- Sound Grenade: “crap” iPhone app made in 20 min, earns +$200/hr in iTunes Store & ranked #3 top free app
- The Designers Republic Is Dead; Long Live The Designers Republic
- Tale of Tales, ultra-talented indie games development studio, on Twitter
- Architect Designs Sony PlayStation Home Virtual World
- LittleBigPlanet: Electronic Beat Sequencer – user created level by vinizu [video]
- Mind Flex: mind control game by Mattel – uses brain waves to float a ball through an obstacle course [video]