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Innovation in iPhone apps: Yahoo Sketch-a-Search

This is an excellent, cool idea. Sketch out an area on a map with your finger and results within that area are returned. It’s simple and intuitive.

via Mashable

Pepsi Refresh Project

Tonight, I finally got around to checking out the website for the Pepsi Refresh Project. The ideas people have come up with for grants are, for the most part, inspiring and surprisingly far-reaching in their breadth. It would be nice to see more LGBT ideas — I could only find two. Hopefully the experiment takes off and Pepsi keeps up the funding. It would be amazing to see another corporation join them in this viral/social philanthropy.

Branded: Wednesday, 24 Mar 2010

Visual interactivity via Twitter and txt

This is srsly is right up my alley. Check out the Hello Wall, a Hellicar & Lewis installation commissioned by Wasted Spaces.

Hellicar & Lewis are a London-based duo – Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis. They have embraced the open source revolution which creates art that is accessible and interactive.

Wasted Spaces commissioned the artists to develop the The Hello Wall. This installation uses Twitter to let the public interact with the huge wall projection on Wembley High Road [in London].

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Branded: Monday, 22 Mar 2010

“Branded” is where I will be posting vignettes that chronicle the brands/labels I wear in a given day.