Links for 19-09-08

Iceweb 2008 - The coolest web conference on the planet
I was wondering about going, seeing as it's in one of my favourite countries, but would like to know the schedule first please. Held in the tallest building in Iceland.

Icebreaker Baacode
"Your unique Baacode will let you see the living conditions of the high country sheep that produced the merino fibre in your Icebreaker garment, meet the farmers who are custodians of this astonishing landscape, and follow every step of the supply chain. "

Stack Overflow
"Stack Overflow is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers". Brought to you by Joel on Software

Portable Contacts
"...providing users a secure way to access their address books and friends lists without having to take their credentials or scrape their data.". We need this.

Chocolate Shops in London
To visit.

The Echo Nest : The Musical Brain
More music API goodness from the Echo Nest - recommendations, audio analysis, artist buzz, charts and more. You could build a fantastic site on top of this lot.

Links for 05-09-08

trendwatching.com: "OFF=ON"
Trends for the online going real-world and vice-versa - "OFF=ON | More and more, the offline world (a.k.a. the real world, meatspace or atom-arena) is adjusting to and mirroring the increasingly dominant online world, from tone of voice to product development to business processes to customer relationships."

writing | ben fry » Handcrafted Data
On hand-drawn images and simplicity (and identifying birds) - "Besides seamlessly imposing a hierarchy of information, the handmade image is also free to present its subject from the most efficient viewpoint."

Algorithmic Architecture | Smashing Telly - A hand picked TV channel
Algorithm-generated architecture, including evolved designs - "Modern buildings are designed rather like crystals, they are a repetition of components (periodic). Natural things, however, including DNA and medieval towns are more like aperiodic crystals, with variable repetition. To create these structures, requires an algorithm rather than a single equation"

Whatever happened to Availabot?
Schulze and Webb move to the next level - they're bringing a product to market.

Kiva & 101 Cookbooks - 101 Cookbooks
Group micro-loans around the theme of " farmers, cooks, and individuals doing food production"

More at http://delicious.com/tristanf and in the sidebar

Radio Pop - social radio listening

Today my team launched Radio Pop - social radio listening from BBC Radio Labs. Sign up to Radio Pop and we will store your listening to BBC Radio. You can see graphs, charts and lists of your listening, get recommendations from your friends, share your tastes and browse around to see what other people are hearing right now. You can read more in my post on the BBC Radio Labs blog.

I've certainly had an interesting and diverse few days listening to Radio 4 programmes on the humble anchovy, the legend of Tristan, crime mapping and experiments in ethical reasoning so why not sign up and share your BBC radio listening?

This is our first fully live off-bbc.co.uk prototype, it's all built in Rails, it's quite exciting and a teeny bit stressful.