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  • It’s all about emotions, silly

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    Today, London saw its first snowfall of this winter season. As the white powder from the sky changed into sizable, more distinct flakes of snow, everyone in our office got excited and many (including me) moved to the windows for a few minutes to witness it. Now, on one level, it isn’t anything special, but on another much more wide-ranging level, there’s something about Nature’s magic that draws everyone to it – that makes people go ‘Ooh!’ and ‘Aah!’.

    I guess most successful social media projects have that special something that draw people to it again and again in the same way. It’s about what they can make people feel. Twitter makes me feel like I’m part of a huge community of people, many of whom share different interests of mine. Facebook makes me feel connected to my friends and family. Songkick makes me feel like I’m part of this music community, some of whom live on music even more than I do, and Dopplr makes me feel like I’m fulfilling my desire of going to new places.

    UK Snow has hundreds of people tweeting right now about how much snow they’re seeing in their part of the UK. It’s a fairly simple app that Ben Marsh created during February’s blizzard this year, and it’s probably a go-to site on days like this, when the snow makes everyone go ‘Ooh!’

    Because on those days, a site like that makes us feel like we’re part of a snow community of sorts.

    Sounds silly perhaps, but given the fact that as I type this, #UKSnow is a trending topic, perhaps not.

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    Anjali Ramachandran By Anjali Ramachandran

    16th December 09

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  • Stuff that’s been floating around the office – March 2009

    I know March isn’t quite over yet but if I waited any longer, this list would have grown too big. So here goes:

    1. Informapping: Interested in knowing which parts of the world have the most news stories on a map? Or maybe you want to look at new stories by geographical region? This is for you then.

    2. My Twitter Weighs A Ton: How much does your Twitter account weigh?

    3. Ron Winter – Drums: For all the drum-lovers out there – create a ruckus. (Warning: you’d better have your headphones on or your co-workers are going to give you the look!)

    4. Beautiful Moleskine Art: Because at Made By Many, we all love our moleskines. Plus, some of this art is really good. I wish I could draw like that. Here’s an example:

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    5. New York Times Data Visualizations: One Flickr user has experimented with the New York Times API – and he’s collected all of them on his Flickr page.

    6. TipJar: An employee at Google created this during his me-time. It’s a collection of money-saving tips ranked by the community.

    7. FootyTube 2.0: FootyTube has upgraded and is currently in private beta. The football fanatics may like to check it out.

    8. Breathing Earth: Experience the Earth as a breathing being – see the amount of CO2 emissions across the world. Also includes real-time updates of the number of births and deaths around the world.

    9. 1 Million Tweets: There’s something a bit wrong about this, I feel. Sending tweets on behalf of others, even if you are going to donate 10% to charity, sounds a bit dubious to me.

    10. Dropular: Along the lines of Ffffound, here’s Dropular – so that you can save media bits and bobs you like.

    11. Valebrity: is that the real Britney Spears, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher you’re following on Twitter? Check and make sure on this site.

    12. Twittersheep: So you have X number of followers. Curious about what industries they work in? Twittersheep analyses your follower’s bios and presents it to you in the form of a neat tag cloud.

    13. Aardvark: Currently in beta, this is sort of a mash-up of Mahalo and Twitter. Ask your friends questions via IM or e-mail and get answers back in real-time. Social search is what they call it.

    14. Mixcloud: Another one in private beta, Mixcloud is somewhat like Pandora for the non-US folks, plus radio and the ability for people who have their own shows to broadcast those as well, all thrown in for good measure.

    15. WeFollow: A ‘user-powered Twitter directory’. A bit cleaner than Twellow. Also a bit egoistic, but whatever. I suspect it has its uses for some.

    16. Keep Britain Working: The UK may be one of the two countries most-affected by the credit crunch, next to the US. What are your suggestions to keep the British economy going?

    17. Social Weather Mapping: Twitter-sourced data visualization of the weather across the world. Listen to who’s saying what about the weather on Twitter.

    18. Compfight: Really cool tool to search for images by Creative Commons licenses on Flickr. WAY better than Advanced Search on Flickr. I don’t get the name though. Fighting for CC images, perhaps?

    19. Extreme Sheep LED Art: When I saw this on Friday, it had 1 million views. It’s at 2 million now. So an extra million just over the weekend. See it for yourself and find out why!

    20. Red Riding Hood re-interpreted:


    Slagsmålsklubben – Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

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    Anjali Ramachandran By Anjali Ramachandran

    23rd March 09

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