KrazyDad - Mayor of the North Pole
How one dude used the foursquare API to create multiple users who checked in at multiple places - often weird ones and even more often "stealing" the mayorship of real users.
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Styrofoam Androids and Cowbells at Home Depot
January 6, 2010 12:00 amThese are my links for January 5th from 11:10 to 23:01:
- Kepler telescope spots ‘Styrofoam’ planet – A giant planet with the density of Styrofoam is one of a clutch of new exoplanets discovered by NASA's Kepler telescope.
- iPhone vs Android: It is Happening Again – Google's support of Apple's iPhone helped make a great and innovative Apple product more successful, and now Google is doing a Microsoft and driving its Android environment hard with new hardware and a more open approach that will create an entire ecosystem of incented hardware makers, software providers and carriers to make Android successful.
- Now you can play Foursquare anywhere – Attention, suburbanites: You, too, can be the mayor of your local Home Depot.
- YouTube – Boise State girl tearin’ it up on the cowbell! [720p] – Happy Cowbell girl is happy.
- Music Blog Zeitgeist of 2009 / The Hype Machine – Forget the magazine editors & big label marketing budgets. This is the best music from 2009 chosen by the most passionate music fans alive: music bloggers.
Geo!
November 20, 2009 10:16 amHooray Geolocation-Social Media-Day. Foursquare kann jetzt auch jede Menge deutscher Städte, unter anderem Köln1, hat eine API und bei Twitter wurde die Geolocation-API freigeschaltet.
- Warum nicht auch Düsseldorf? Mensch. [↩]
Bookmarks for March 19th through March 20th
March 20, 2009 9:00 pmThese are my links for March 19th through March 20th:
- Scott Adams Blog: Rule of Twelve – Oh, good to know.
- JeffCroft.com: A look at Foursquare and Gowalla – Two highly-anticipated, location-based, IRL-style “games” for iPhone were launched at South By Southwest Interactive this year, and I thought I’d take a few moments to report on my experiences with each one.
- EC2 for Poets (Scripting News) – I'll listen to it someday.
- Commentarii de bello Gallico – Wikisource – Hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se differunt.
- vowe dot net :: Obama’s Gift To British Prime Minister Rendered Useless By DRM – Prime Minister Gordon Brown, was recently given a gift of 25 DVDs of classic American movies by US President Barack Obama. When Brown sat down to watch one of them, he found he couldn't — because Obama had given him Region 1 DVDs, unplayable in Brown's Region 2 DVD player.
- Overly judgemental IE6 splash pages – Go play Fantasy Football
- My Facebook, My Self – Turns out, the very perception of what is public versus what is private is a fundamentally generational conceit. It is also, as it happens, a visual one.



