• Amazon Offers Other Sites Use of Its Payment Service – NYTimes.com
  “81 million customers who have already given Amazon.com their payment details, like credit card numbers and shipping addresses, will be able to use that information, without re-entering it, to buy products on any site that uses the new service”
  (tags: amazon webservices paypal payments ebay fps work)

Van in the summer, originally uploaded by hatch.

Finally, uploaded some new photos to Flickr. For example, here’s one of my favorites of Van after playing in the sprinkler at Gandbob’s

• Twitter Tools
  Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
  (tags: blog blogging twitter wordpress plugin mashup blogs)

• Blow Up – A Bond Art + Science Fair Project
  “Blow Up presents that data at any size – allowing for fullscreen views of photos as well as embedding on personal sites. Of course, if you just want to view your flickr account without downloading a thing, you can always do that too.”
  (tags: photography photo flickr visualization api flash)
• BrandBrain: Vote for Me in November
  Vote for John Federico in November
  (tags: Video Humor Presidential Elections Funny)

• Moodstream by Getty Images
  Set your mood stream … sit back and enjoy
  (tags: inspiration photography design visualization)

• JORBA Photo Gallery – South Mtn/Picture is symbolic of a decades worth of misinformation
  “Picture is symbolic of a decades worth of misinformation. The cause of erosion is water and bad trail design, not a mountain bike. Sustainable trails support multi-use including mountain biking, equestrian and all foot traffic.”
  (tags: somo mountain_biking cycling trails environment bikes)
• Knol: a unit of knowledge
  “Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we’re making Knol available to everyone.”
  (tags: google community knowledge wiki reference research wikipedia search knol)
• EMusic lets the Net in | Technology | Los Angeles Times
  “eMusic, the largest online music store for independent artists, launched a months-long project of knocking down the walls between itself and the rest of the Internet.”
  (tags: music media online ecommerce itunes mp3)

• Apple Introduces Mysterious Transition 1.0 | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD
  No surprise: “We believe Apple is getting slightly more aggressive with its pricing; but overall, the company is not diverting from its strategy of premium pricing.”
  (tags: apple ipod mac)

• Mount a Camera on Your Bike [How To]
  This tutorial shows you how to mount a camera to a bike and shoot photos or video
  (tags: bike camera cycling diy bicycle howto photos photography video)
• 2008 Tour de France – The Big Picture – Boston.com
  Some awesome pictures from this year’s TdF
  (tags: 2008 cycling france photography photo bike bicycle tourdefrance photos sports pictures bikes)

• Bloomberg Backs Paterson on the Amazon Tax Question – July 18, 2008 – The New York Sun
  “Weighing in on the issue yesterday, the mayor said it was a matter of fairness for a Web site such as Amazon.com to pay the same tax rate as a local bookstore.”
  (tags: amazon tax ecommerce retail online books work)
• Sweetcron – The Automated Lifestream Blog Software
  “automatically updates your lifestream, is completely customizable, self-hosted and Sweetcron is 100% open source”
  (tags: aggregator lifestream opensource blog php blogging feed socialsoftware)
• Google Maps: Tour de France
  Google Maps Street View of the 2008 Tour de France
  (tags: 2008 cycling google googlemaps tourdefrance tdf bike maps france)

• NPR looks to developers for help distributing shows | News – Digital Media – CNET News.com
  “What NPR wants is for developers to help make it easier to share its content on Web sites and blogs, including those owned by the 860 NPR member stations.”
  (tags: npr media API webservices open audio video socialsoftware)

• Radiohead just released a new video for its song House of Cards from the album In Rainbows
  “No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity…”
  (tags: radiohead music video 3d visualization animation google art code entertainment)

• Gphone May Really Happen, And Ammunition Group May Be Designing It
  “The trio of Google execs also used the opportunity to talk about the inroads the company is making with its own branded mobile phone as a replacement for the iPhone.”
  (tags: google android mobile iphone gphone phone)

• Marketing and Media talk radio show | On Digital Media, Episode #70
  Live On Digital Media Podcast Episode
  (tags: podcasting blogs radio enterprise odm podcast)

• The Bicycle Tutor – Bike Repair Video Tutorials
  “The purpose of this site is to help people learn how to fix their own bikes. “
  (tags: bicycle bike cycling diy howto repair maintenance reference)

• Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom – ReadWriteWeb
  “Identi.ca is a new microblogging service that is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services”
  (tags: twitter microblogging socialmedia socialsoftware socialnetworking blogging opensource openid)
• Gnip
  “Making data portability suck less.”
  (tags: api dataportability development feeds jabber rss aggregator socialsoftware)
• SimplyNoise.com
  A flash-based white noise generator
  (tags: flash audio noise sound productivity)