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"HistoryTag records the histories of specially tagged things, so you can see how they were made and how they live in the world." The Internet of Things is off and running. This is a great idea.

Joshua Schacter's latest project: tagging people's Twitter handles with skills they can perform. It's a way to see what people are known for among their peers. More tagging!

"TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets." Interesting analysis. What I don't like is that it was built by a "Social Media Scientist" who is probably using the results to find better ways to sell things.

Michal Migurski is doing some interesting tagging with delicious to tease out his friends' top subject areas.

Matt and Jessamyn discuss the week in Metaflter that was. They have a nice rapport, and I think it'll be a great way to find gems across MeFi that I might have missed. (It's like a living, breathing sidebar!)

Cringely speculates that the *real* purpose of the AppleTV is building a massive P2P network for iTunes video distribution. Clever!

Someday everything will be tagged whether we know it or not. I, for one, welcome our new powdery RFID overlords.

a quick, straightforward explanation of data portability and why companies like Google should support it. [via battelle]

Flickr applies for a patent on "interestingness" as a way of determining which media objects are getting the most attention from users. [via kottke]

interesting thoughts on structured data vs. conversations in a world with fantastic full-text search + tagging. Will conversations win?

open source data destruction. useful if you want to sell/donate a computer or hard drive.

some cities are starting to use Google Earth to model for planning. (via slashdot)

Big carbon credits: "Branson...said the money would come from 100 percent of the profits generated by his transportation sectors -- trains and airline companies." (via kottke)

nice flickr interface

Mobile photography software from Yahoo. The auto-tagging is clumsy, but the tag-suggestion based on location looks nice.

Types of players in old-school MUDs--translates well to web application users.

Project Gutenberg: "This volume is a narrative of Scott's Last Expedition from its departure from England in 1910 to its return to New Zealand in 1913."