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Brilliant demonstration of the readable fields of RFID readers.

And that right there is the difference between Facebook and Twitter. Twitter is open and accessible to all by default (unless you protect your tweets), meaning you can use the data in number of interesting ways. Facebook is closed unless you give people access. Meaning that only Facebook itself can do anything meaningful with the data. And even then it’s likely to inspire the sort of negative privacy-related reactions shown in this piece.

Saying that, I’m sure that I’ve searched updates before for ‘Thames’ á la twitter.com/thamesstories. I got some results out of it (albeit not very interesting ones), so maybe this is a bit of a non-story.

The ability to auto-render on a macro scale from micro images. A big reveal. This could be immensely powerful.

Really good interactive work for HBO from Barbarian with an intricate multilayered storyline behind it. A lack of a plot-line is where Voyeur, the last big HBO site, fell down.

Voyeur reminded me of Perec’s Life A User Manual, with its multiple, interconnected storylines across an open-faced apartment block. This is Robbe-Grillet’s Jealousy, with physical points of view dictating how you understand the story.

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