These my micropostings and bookmarks – January 15th through January 22nd:

• TheBrain.com – About TheBrain – Hyperbolic Tree navigation and association returns! 9 years after seeing some nice examples move from PARC to production here’s another one.
• recycled composting instant desk mini bin : Inventoids – Wonderful! Another great idea from the fertile Inventoids mind. This one is a detailed ‘how to’ – the combination of a great inventive mind and too much time (or distraction activity?). Should be cross-filed under origami 😉
• Hydra 2.0 + Aperture Plug-In | Creaceed – Woo. High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography plugin for Aperture. HDR is essentially a ‘morph’ of several photos of the same scene, each at different exposure values, so that you get a combined, higher dynamic range – ie details in the shadows as well as details in the highlights. This will make HDR as easy as stitching panoramas.
• Twitter Fan Wiki / Hashtags – Hashtags – the # on Twitter and how to aggregate and follow these ‘channels’.
• Credit crunch support | Technical and Business Topics | ICAEW – ICAEW’s credit crunch portal. Good idea for a professional body to set up a ‘theme’ or ‘collection’ page.

These my micropostings and bookmarks – January 6th through January 12th:

• Bride’s advert for wedding guests – a new franchise idea?? (BBC NEWS | UK | England | London) – Why stop at this? Surely, there’s a business here? A sort of modern ‘rent-a-friend’.

  Service extensions could involve an in-depth advance interview with the bride (memorising key dates, anecdotes, family names, locations); the “Silver” level would include carrying pictures; “Gold” would involve repeating stories to emphasise key personality traits; while “Platinum” could involve learning jokes in the bride’s language and some national dances/folk songs.

  Of course, the Platinum is no more than a good Welsh or Scots wedding, so I think there’ll be a pool of trained people in the UK.

  Best of all, a full service would cover ages from 1 through 100 and therefore bring back into the workplace the old and the very young (aka “new apprentices”).

  I’m now just waiting for Gordon Brown to announce this as a new recession-busting initiative, and how Britain can be the Wedding Capital of the World.

  Indeedy.

• Carbon cost of Googling revealed (BBC NEWS | Technology) – Two googles = one cup of tea.

  New equivalences for a new age.

• How To Twittersquat The Top 100 Brands @ErikJHeels – How To Twittersquat The Top 100 Brands

  Link courtesy of @Peter_abrahams

• Usernamecheck.com: Where is Your Username registered – Useful service to check a username against dozens of social networks, microblogging and other services. Ideal for monitoring use of a brand name, or helping maintain a consistent user identity across so many services.

  Thanks to @peter_abraham for the pointer.

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Tech fair offers greener vision – ‘Green-ness’ is becoming a factor in purchasing:

  “In the near future, the “greenness” of a gadget will have a big influence on whether consumers will buy it, suggests research published as CES begins.”

• ProfCast – ProfCast Features –

These my micropostings and bookmarks – December 27th through January 6th:

• Internet Retailing – recruitment – One sales manager and two editors please.
• Mind bites – a set on Flickr – Neat collection of illustrated aporisms and research findings – all dying to be powerpointed, but check the copyright since most are fully reserved. Pity.
• Mini / Pocket Journals by BookFactory – Lovely site – combining manufacturing with stationery fetish.

  Want custom notebooks or lab/engineering/record books? With personal imprint?

  European number – London 0208 – raises my hopes for new stationery in 2009…

• The Green Microgym – Portland, Oregon, USA – Human and Solar Powered – Adam Boesel – Personal Training – This is a great conjunction of a thought experiment (“why don’t you power the lights while you pedal the exercise bike”) with newly-available working technology with a business model (rewarding gym members with a variant on a loyalty card – the “Burn and Earn” card – which offers credits in return for hours, wattage etc).

  This will become the standard for all gyms – especially once costs reduce. Indeed, the cyclical capital refresh costs in modern chains are so high that this could even be affordable now.

• “In Utero” Tweeting?? [Gift Guide for the Twitter addict – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] – Scroll to the pregnancy-belt picture and the “For Baby” title…

  In utero tweeting – Priceless