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Ten superpowers the Internet gave us | Human 2.0

Posted by on 28 Apr, 2010 in Articles | 0 comments

http://www.human20.com/ten-superpowers-the-internet-gave-us

Did you notice the Internet gave you superpowers? It’s all part of the coming era of digital humanity – Human 2.0.

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Window on the World

Posted by on 18 Apr, 2010 in My Stream | 0 comments

One of my favourite things on my Chumby internet device, is the ChumbySpy widget, which lets me view random webcams from around the world. It makes you feel somewhat omniscient.

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How the Internet works (in cartoon form)

Posted by on 16 Apr, 2010 in My Stream | 0 comments

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Amazing visualization – Who owns the most servers?

Posted by on 16 Apr, 2010 in My Stream | 0 comments

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Looks like Google really is taking over the Internet!

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Another moment of minor celebrity!

Posted by on 16 Apr, 2010 in Lifenotes | 1 comment

(Video temporarily disabled as it kept autoplaying – visit this link to see the video) via justin.tv

At Twitter’s first developer conference, Chirp, Brady Forrest ran a special version of Ignite – the conference we ran an instance of in MontrealIgnite Chirp.

As part of that event they had a special round of Powerpoint Karaoke – the geek sport where you present using slides you’ve never seen before.

Using decks first created by Pete Taylor and I for Bitnorth 09, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and SXSW Battledecks guru Anil Dash gave entertaining freestyle presentations. And I even got a shout out by name from Brady the organizer – woo-hoo! Shame he didn’t mention Pete, who did the bulk of the work. But still – awesome to have Internet celebrities using our decks!

You can download the full 16 decks here.

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