From Read/Write Web:
BuzzLogic has unveiled a solution today which helps marketers keep track of social influence. Based on your topic of interest, BuzzLogic software turns the chaotic world of blogs and web sites into a network of flows of influence. The software finds top influencers, measures the weight or importance of each source, and shows you incoming and outgoing influence flows.
This is quite interesting. I’ve done a considerable amount of thinking and had discussions with several people about an application like this. Various precursors exist, but this feels like it’s got all the pieces and parts stitched together in a way that mere mortals can make sense of.
I’ll have a lot more to say about BuzzLogic after I get a taste of it.
Poaching fish in the dishwasher is a virtually foolproof way to shock your friends, prepare a succulent meal and do the dishes — all at the same time. The writer has poached salmon in more than 100 dishwashers on three continents.
When I was a young boy, my mom worked for the Space Studies Institute at Princeton University. Her first office was in the basement next to the machine shop. Take your child to work days were always an exciting adventure. Around that time, Gerry O’Neil, my mom’s boss, was all about terraforming Mars and the mass driver, which would take rock mined on the moon and shoot it back to earth to be caught by a giant sort of galactic catcher’s mitt.
BoingBoing links to a guy who has made a cheap mass driver, cool videos.
Sometimes we had actual rocket scientists hanging around the house. They got me interested in 3D graphics and computers at an early age.
Over at the The Raw Feed, a Canadian RC airplane enthusiast shows us some sweet unanticipated convergence between a model RC airplane and virtual reality gear. It works like this. The airplane is a conventional one, controlled by a wireless remote control. On the airplane is a pan-and-tilt camera, controlled also wirelessly. Here’s the cool part. The video is viewable through virtual reality goggles, which have a gyroscope built in to sense the movement of the goggles. When the wearer moves his head, the camera moves.
The video is amazing, what a great DIY project.
Popgadget blogs about the Halfsuit from Businessbibs, an upper-body suit that slips over your PJ’s or boxers when working from home. I’ve been talking about setting up a green screen for videoconferencing, along with businessbib, all I need is a laser pointer and I’m all set to be the internet weather guy.
Pew Internet & American Life Project has published a survey of internet leaders, activists, and analysts shows that a majority agree with predictions that by 2020…
Alarm:clock opines on the impending Hitwise IPO:
Hitwise is the classic sell shovels during gold rush story. Founded in 1997, based in NYC but global thanks to an Ausi CEO, Hitwise sells Internet analytics. We have been hearing rumors that company is planning an IPO that would value the company at $300M. It doesn’t seem far-fetched.
Through relationships with ISPs, Hitwise claims it captures anonymous online usage, search, and conversion behavior of 25M Internet users. Hitwise’s increase in revenues of 3,436% from 2001 to 2005 resulted in a 7th place ranking in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 for New York. Hitwise is backed by Insight Venture Partners.
Judging by how Hitwise ranks sites, does this mean the valuation is really $200 million? 
Boston’s Blogtoberfest is October 19th at Match on Mass Ave. I will be representing. Excited to meet local bloggers, who I usually see on Flapper maps in 2D, not swilling booze and chatting IRL.
Seeking Alpha is a stock blog. They have a great post about Google stock, somewhat advanced for the casual investor but a great resource.
Bruce Sterling via Stowe Boyd’s “Social Architecture and the Future of Markets”:
We won’t be surfing with search engines any more. We’ll be trawling with engines of meaning.
