Cool Dot-Com Flashback: The Deleted City Brings Back Geocities (video)

If you were around for the dot-com boom, you probably built a free personal homepage on Geocities, a pioneering and popular community site in the late 1990s that Yahoo bought for over $3.5B in January 1999. And you probably forgot about Geocities until just now.

But enterprising Dutch designer Richard Vijgen has now created The Deleted City, a data-visualization "map" of Geocities' neighborhoods from data the Archive Team rescued before Yahoo wiped out Geocities for good in 2009 despite pleas to save it. The Archive Team is a group of volunteers committed to "saving our digital heritage."

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Nifty Email-Counting T-Shirt Shows People You're Too Busy to Talk (video)

Is your inbox overflowing? You might want to make an email-counting t-shirt like the one Boston-based developer Chris Ball and his biophysicist wife Madeleine Price Ball put together.

The components: a t-shirt preprinted with numbers along the Y axis, an Arduino LilyPad micro-controller, LED lights, a power supply that requires one triple-A battery, conductive thread, a bluetooth dongle, and an Android phone with open-source software just for the email-counting shirt. Chris wrote the code, and Madeleine, who works on the Personal Genome Project at Harvard, did the sewing.

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Awesome iPhone/Android App for Occupy Wall Street Activists

GO -- an event-based video-sharing app that's perfect for activists trying to create buzz or flash mobs around protests and other events as they happen -- is about to launch its beta mobile app for iPhone and Android.

GO provides a geo-tagged broadcasting service so that outsiders can peek in on events as they happen and as GO users upload them. That makes it an interesting tool for #OccupyWallStreet protests still taking place in New York City and organized events in other cities. The GO app is not yet available in the App Store or Android Market.

Users upstreaming video content will remain anonymous, making GO even more attractive for sharing political demonstrations or possibly even criminal activities...

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BREAKING: YouTube Ads Now Incorporate Bikini Technology That Generates 25X More Clicks

It has long been known that cleavage and bikinis receive a 25x click-through rate on YouTube. Advertisers have finally realized this and put together a super-clever advertisement that you probably saw on YouTube today.

Called "HOT girl, TINY bikini!" or "Girl in tiny bikini," the video was prominently placed in the featured videos section...

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Don't Just Talk -- Edit Diagrams Together on Google+ Hangouts (But Only When API Fully Opens)

Google+ users will soon be able to create and edit diagrams in real time while video chatting on Google+ Hangouts, thanks to German developer Michael Goderbaur.

"It feels like all your friends are hanging out in the same conference room editing the diagram on a giant whiteboard without the need for being in the same physical location," Michael writes on Google+.
 
The tool lets you create events, such as products to ship, and add tasks to assign labels, choose a carrier and more.  Similar to Google Docs, the editor assigns a different color to each contributor.

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