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The Hivemind Aesthetic, Instopix and Other Art

Links for this Post The Hivemind Aesthetic. Luke Stanley on Stumble Upon Luke Stanley's Blog Instapix I stumbled upon a young fellow from England a couple of years ago, who is working on a semantically sensitive software program that adds...

Getting Dug and Stumbled Upon

Links for this Post Stumbled Upon Why We Get High Why We Get High by Bruce Eisner on Bruce Eisner's Writings blog We We Get High on Digg Most of you know Digg and Stumbled Upon -- two social network...

Top 10 Video Search Engines

Link: Top 10 Video Search Engines on Read/WriteWeb A lot of people think that Google is the only way to search for video because it is so good at searching for websites. What people do not know is that Google...

Podtropolis - The iPod Tracker Is Back Up

Link for this Post: Podtropolis - The iPod Tracker. Podtropolis is a torrent tracking and search site dedicated to downloadable movies and other content for the iPod. according to Digg where I found the site, " The popular torrent site...

WordPress vs. Movable Type: Open Source Blogging Software Showdown on Publishing 2.0

Link:for this Post: WordPress vs. Movable Type: Open Source Blogging Software Showdown. I use Typepad so the launch of an open source version of Movable Type, the software that powers us Typepad blogs is exciting. Scott Karp says that with...

The 9rules Web Community Where Quality Loves Company

Links for this Post: 9rules - Quality Loves Company.. To Some, Growing Means Dying Wisedump Blog by 9Rules CEO "So what is the 9 Rules" you ask? Well for starters the description on the website's metatags reads: 9rules is the...

Pew Research: 'Web 2.0' Crowd A Small Minority

Links for this Post: Pew Research: 'Web 2.0' Crowd A Small Minority: by Greg Sterling, .Search Engine Land America: The Growing Digital Divide by Duncan Riley- TechCrunch A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users (the original report) by John...

Looking Through My Squidoo Lenses

Updated: The Bruce Eisner Vision Thing Group on Squidoo Links for this Psst: My Lenses on Squidoo Psychedelic Mind-Changers Everything About Ecstasy Squidoo (on Wikipedia) is a social website whose focus (no pun intended) is making lenses. Its taken some...

Spinning a New Island Web

Link for this Post: The New Island Web: A Work in Progress As regular readers know, I'm a writer by trade rather than a web design or coder. However since I have had several sites that have been on the...

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us -- YouTube Video

Links for this post: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us YouTube Video below InfoWorld: "Tech tops the pop charts" by By David L. Margulius I first heard about this video in the InfoWorld article "Tech tops the pop...

Get Paid for Posting on New Online Social Network Helium

Link for this Post: Get Paid for Posting on New Online Social Network Helium According to the folks at the newest social software network on the block Helium, they can best be described as "About, Yahoo Answers. Wikipedia all rolled...

Grab a Vision Thing Widget

If you have been wanting a Bruce Eisner Widget of your very own, I made one for you tonight. This by way of my hosts Typepad and the WidgetBox. Thanks to both! What the the widgets good for? You can...

Swami The Search Engine That Keeps on Giving

Links for this post: Swami - The what's new engine. TechCrunch: Web Swami Provides Online Guidance This post comes by way of TechCrunch who says this about A swami is a Hindu religious teacher. Swami is a customizable search engine...

Get the Latest Buzz at Buzzfeed

Link for this Post: Get the Latest Buzz at Buzzfeed Here is a site with potential. Its just starting out so a but spartan but promising. Here is some excerpts from how it works:

Search for torrents with G_________ Torrents

I'm sharing in LifeHacker's commercially acceptable hacker naughtiness with this link to a torrent search engine which used the above logo. After a day on Lifehacker, they had removed the logo however. As Lifehacker points out, the name for G______Torrents...

Digital Utopia: A New Breed Of Technologists Envisions A Democratic World Improved By The Internet -- SF Chronicle

Link for this Post: "DIGITAL UTOPIA A new breed of technologists envisions a democratic world improved by the Internet" by Dan Fost, SF Chronicle Here's a bit from the beginning of a cool web 2.0 essay by Dan Fost of...

Transmitting Web 2.0 -- OriginalSignal.Com

Link for this Post: Original Signal.Com Transmits Web 2.0 OriginalSignal.Com is a hot-feed aggregator along the same lines as Popurls.com which I posted about in March.. TechCrunch, Don Hinchcliffe, Bokardo, Mashable, Read/WriteWeb, Solution Watch, GigaOM, Micro Persuasion, BuzzShout and half-a-dozen...

Go2Web20.net - The Complete Web 2.0 Directory

Link for this Post: Go2Web20.net - The Complete Web 2.0 Directory I'm not sure how complete this guide compared to TechCrunch's extensive directory of Web 2.0 companies -- but the flash programming is impressive. Here is the entire directory as...

Dead 2.0 "Anti-Hypes" Web 2.0

Link for this Post: Dead 2.0 Anti-hyping Web 2.0 since 2006! I found this site as one of the fastest rising sites on the web by way of of Alexa Movers and Shakers (which change every so often so by...

Techcrunch Download Your TV - The Current Option

Link for this Post: Techcrunch Download Your TV - The Current Options TechCrunch has a nice summary of the ways that you can now download TV rather than having to watch it or TIVO it. Hers is an excerpt: Downloadable...

The Wiki for Finding Web Service & Mapping the Web 2.0 World

Links for this post: The Wiki for Finding Web Service and Open APIs Map of the Web 2.0 World On JSpot the Wiki creator, by chance i found a Wiki about seb 2.0.

Welcome to Hive7 -- The Web Goes 3D with Ajax

Welcome to Hive7 Hive 7, An Ajaxian Virtual World by Om Malik Thanks to Om Malik's column, I found my way to Hive7 tonight. I even brought back a picture. Here is a bit from Om's bit on Hive 7:...

Newsweek Cover Story:Putting the 'We' in Web"

Link for this post: Putting the Web In the Web Special Newsweek Issue Why is everyone so happy in Silicon Valley again? A new wave of start-ups are cashing in on the next stage of the Internet. And this time,...

The Rise of Big Google -- TechCrunch "Google Drive: What we know so far"

Link for this post: TechCrunch Google Drive: What we know so far. I've been following the Google story from time to time here on Vision Things. Previous posts have includes such memorable favorites such as When I Die, I Want...

Lost in a Babel Sea of Social Bookmarks: Get OnlyWire

Updated: Corrected name of a social bookmark site below. Link for this post: OnlyWire: The Only BookMarklet You'll Ever Need! I've joined a lot of community bookmarking sites over the past year. Recently I've felt like I was lost in...

Zaadz Good?

Link for this post: Zaadz Updated: Zaadz didn't send me an invite but perhaps that is for the best. Will anwered my meant-to-be-humerous question, "Zaadz good?" this morning. He wrote: "No Zaadz bad, as in (omitted the names to spare...

stocktickr -- Stock Trading Comes To Social Networks

Link for this post: stocktickr. Well there have been fantasy stock exchanges for blogs and fantasy trading websites but here is the real thing. With some resemblance to del.icio.us and the social bookmarks and some some to friendster-like communities, this...

Mashable* » The Rise of the Memetrackers

Link for this post Mashable* » The Rise of the Memetrackers. The blog "Mashable: Peter Cashmore on the Web" has a post about Memeorandum and three of its "competitors" which the author classifies with the evolicative title "memetrackers." The domain...

Web Content Creation: Ten Approaches For Small Online Publishers by Robin Good'

Link for this post: Web Content Creation: Ten Approaches For Small Online Publishers. I had not taken a look at Robin Good's excellent blogs for a bit. I just returned from a visit with a recommendation for one of his...

The Blog Power Elite -- New York Magazine

Link for this post: Blogs to Riches - The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom -- New York Magazine. I got into blogging about two and a half years ago. Despite a lot of energy poured into posting frequently,...

Webmagister Ludi and the Glass Bead Game

Links for this post: Webmagister Ludi and the Glass Bead Game. by: Willard Van De Bogart Huxley, Hesse and The Cybernetic Society by Timothy Leary Part 2 The Glass Bead Game : (Magister Ludi) A Novel: Book by Herman Hesse...

I'm On SuprGlu

Link for this post: I'm on SuprGlu. No, I have not started sniffing glue. Please read on ... If you are like me you have bits and pieces of you scattered all over the web. A flickr page here, a...

CNET News.com's Blog 100

Link for this post: CNET News.com's Blog 100. CNet is featuring a Blog 100. Hee is what they say about their new blog list: With more than 14 million blogs in existence and another 80,000 being created each day, how...

Solution Watch Keeps You Up to Date on Web 2.0

Link for this post: Solution Watch Solution Watch keeps a good listing of Web 2.0 services which have been sprouting up like flowers in the springtime. Here is what the site says about itself: Solution Watch is a blog that...

I Believe in Standpoint .... Or Do I?

Link for this post: Standpoint: a social software community about beliefs If you really want to get discover Standpoint, it is probably better that I not tell you everthing about it on this post. So you can visit Standpoint and...

Welcome to Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

Link for this post: Welcome to Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Wikipedia has a humous alter-ego called Uncyclopedia. Here is some of what Uncyclopedia offers up about itself: About: Unicyclopedia is the official encyclopedia of Unicycles. It...

Free Software: Slickr Screensaver Displays Your Flickr Photos

Link for this post: Slickr by Cellar Door Software I found this new free screensaver software that lets me show my flickr photos as a screensaver on my PC. It can display your flickr images or you can show all...

Gregory Bateson and Thinking About Things

Links for this Post: Gregory Bateson in Wikipedia Every Schoolboy Knows from Gregory Bateson's Mind and Nature a Necessary Unity I dropped out of college at California Statue University Northridge when I was 20 years old and returned to school...

Time Travel & Prosolarmechanics.Com

Link for this post: PDB. Typepad, the web application that drives Vision Thing has been going through some serious problems the past few days. So if you do not see some images in the posts below this one, they are...

Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005

Link for this post: Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005 Here is another reprise of Web 2.0 applicatons of 2005, this time done as a top ten list. Its worth a read as the author has identified some...

The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005

Link for this post: "The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005" by Dion Hinchcliffe Web 2.0 was the buzz idea of 2005 and Dion Hinchcliff's Web 2.0 Blog has made some intelligent choices about which new web sites and services...

The Firefox Hacks You Must Have

Link for this post: Wired The Firefox Hacks You Must Have by Quinn Norton I use both a Mac and a PC and so I've been getting into the Firefox browser more and more because it is the same on...

TechCrunch: People Dig Digg -- Can You Digg It?

Link: TechCrunch: Digg is (almost) as big as Slashdot. Updated! Well there's a new social software fad and this time it's name is Digg. When TechCrunch says that Digg is almost as popular as Slashdot, they took a big risk....