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Review

• Data, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Review, Thoughts

  Design In The Wild: Weather Underground and their personal touch

  03.28.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Weather Underground has been my go-to source for weather on the web for the past 5 years ever since my buddy Gabe introduced me to it. At first the site felt way too information heavy for me but after giving it a chance I’ve grown to love all that data, partly due to the care […]

• Data, Product, Review, Thoughts

  Personal DNA tests - scary or awesome?

  03.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The first… potentially. The second… heck yeah! Check out Mike Arrington’s “review” of 23 and Me’s consumer level (if said consumer has $1000 bucks to burn) DNA test.
  You get some fun stuff:
  Some of the information is just for fun - I have “wet earwax,” for example, and don’t have the “alcohol flush” gene that […]

• Review, Social, Thoughts

  Just got my Socialthing beta invite. So far: well-executed Friendstream

  02.15.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  A little while back I read about Socialthing and signed up for the beta as I’m intrigued to see what directions the various purveyors of lifestreams - Jaiku (very early to the game yet now MIA), FriendFeed - can take the idea. The email from Socialthing sets up the beta well and prepares the user […]