Born On The Web

• The Simple Dollar » I’m Twenty Years Old And Have No Debt – When Can I Retire And Live Off My Investments?
  Should try to look further in to this. Any of you have good suggestions for a good saving plan? I really have no experience in this. Probably put it on a bank savings account? but which ?
  (tags: economics finance howto money retirement investing)

I’ve always liked the way flickr build their URL’s. Now that they just launched geoRSS feeds, it will show you how the URL of a service has become a kind of command line for that service.

The URL is structured in the following way:

flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/ countrycode / province or state / place

It will get clear if I give you some examples:

• http://www.flickr.com/service/feeds/geo/ will give you all geotagged photos from all over the world.
• http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/BE/ will give you all geotagged photos from Belgium, (BE is the country code).
• http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/BE/vlaams-brabant/ will give you all the photos from the province “Vlaams-Brabant “in Belgium.
• http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/BE/vlaams-brabant/Meise will give you all the photos from a town called ”Meise” in the province of Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium

Cool huh! But that’s not all. Now surf to google maps and just copy past a flickr geoRSS(a click for the lazy people). It should display the images nicely on the map. This is what interoperability between to services is all about.

Great work !

• Attentio Blog » Blog Archive » Blog seeding – approaching the people behind the blog
  Blog seeding tips
  (tags: blog tracking seeding tips)

• Mogulus – Home
  Start your own internet TV channel… record, mix, remix videos from around the net. Cool collaboration features
  (tags: video tv media personal iptv technology television live internet)

• Microsoft Popfly
  Wow, a kind of yahoo pipes but it looks cooler. Check out the screencast.
  (tags: microsoft mashups internet mashup silverlight popfly)
• Some Community Tips for 2007 | fortuitous
  The founder of metafilter gives some handy moderation tips and tricks.
  (tags: community social tips socialnetworks howto moderation management advice blog)

• The Knife – Music at Last.fm
  The knife music video at last.fm which just launched it video feature.
  (tags: last.fm music videos socialweb musicvideo)

I don’t have 600+ feeds, I have about 175. But Robert Scoble’s way of feed reading is very similar to mine.

at the company I work for, i-merge.

What would it be?

• Emakina thinks we’re all moving to China.
• Some Minor issues has a nice roundup of the current “stoelendans”
• Tommunication is pretty curious of what is going to happen.
• Robin thinks he knows what’s going to happen.
• Marketing.Interactive thinks it’s a merger.
• Kris says we pulled an i-merge’ke (*)

Any other guesses?

Found via Bart

I really hope I’m admitted. It’s going to be a fun experience. Letting my inner-geek come out of its shell ;-)