Peer pressure is influence a peer group, observers, or an individual exerts that encourages others to change their attitudes, values, or behaviors to conform to those of the influencing group or individual. Social groups affected include both membership groups, in which individuals are "formally" members (such as political parties and trade unions), and cliques in which membership is not clearly defined. However, a person does not need to be a member or be seeking membership of a group to be affected by peer pressure. One may also recognize dissociative groups, with which one wishes to avoid associating, and thus behave counter to that group's norms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_pressure (more)

Guy Dickinson shows a recent 5-minute Ignite talk he did on the Future of Reading (EBook). He has started a blog on the topic. (more)

OReilly series of events with Presentation-s following a heavily constrained model: 20 slides that auto-advance every 15sec. (more)

*Larry Augustin is CEO of Sugar CRM[1] and is a former venture capitalist and the co-founder and former chairman of VaSoftware, now known as GeekNet. Augustin holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He founded VA Research, the predecessor to that company, in 1993 while a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at Stanford University. While at VA, he was one of the people behind the creation of SourceForge, a collaborative software development management system.[2][3] (more)

Jesse Schell [ponders](http://www.realtimetranscription.com/showcase/DICE2010/Jesse Schell/index.php) the coming pervasiveness of Real World Game-s and the implicit data trail (Panopticon). "Did you practice the piano?" "Yes." "What score did you get?" (He's started a blog to track new developments in the trend.) (more)

SourceForge is a web-based service that offers a source code repository, downloads mirrors, bug tracking and other features. It acts as a central location that software developers can use to control and manage free and open-source software development. (Software Forge) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge (more)

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VASoftware will be adding Wiki support to its SourceForge Enterprise Software Development Collaboration system. “We’re applying more structure to Wikis” to make it easier to find relevant information, said Colin Bodell, senior vice president of product development at VA Software. Users will be able to integrate Wiki pages with structured materials, he said. (Structured Wiki?)

Non-free Social Bookmarking service, which increased in popularity as Del.icio.us went down. (more)

FaceBook delivers horrible WebAd Click-Through Rate-s, it seems. The Reach Students blog notes that a campaign on Facebook drew a 0.04% click-through rate.

Unofficial/parallel thread of communication. (more)

by Roger Schank Coloring Outside The Lines ISBN:0060930772 about Educating Kids (more)

A dollar van (also known as Commuter Van or Jit Ney) is a privately owned transportation vehicle used to carry passengers. Dollar vans typically operate in neighborhoods within a city, such as New York City, that are under-served by public Mass Transit or Taxi-s. Some of the dollar vans in Queens are licensed and regulated, while others operate illegally without licenses. Passengers may board them at designated stops along their route or hail them as share taxis (although the latter practice may be technically illegal). The name comes from the fact that it would only cost about one dollar or so to ride with such transit. Dollar vans are primarily owned and used by inner-city African/Caribbean American, Latino, and Asian American populations. The vehicles used range from 15-seat Ford Econolines to 29-seat minibuses. (more)

Portion of viewers of a WebAd who Click Through for more info (and, ideally, a transaction). (more)

Yik Yak is an anonymous (Anonymity) Social Media app. It is available for iOS and Android and it allows people anonymously to create and view "Yaks" within a 10 mile radius (HyperLocal).[1] It differs from other anonymous sharing apps such as Post Secret and Whisper Text in that it is intended for sharing primarily with those in proximity to the user, potentially making it more intimate and relevant for people reading the posts.[2] All users have the ability to contribute to the stream by writing, responding, and "voting up" or "voting down" (liking or disliking) yaks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak (more)

Steven Johnson revisits David Gelernter's Mirror Worlds. Gelernter's simulated worlds were going to be mirrors. By comparison, the simulations we have now are fantasy islands... Information about how the hospital connects to the wider city—what Gelernter calls topsight—could be had by Zooming out... "My life, like your life, is a series of events in time, with a past, present, and future," Gelernter says... A fascinating new project called Game Neverending (www.gameneverending.com) may further blur the line between real spaces and game spaces... The idea is to create new ways for information to flow from real space into virtual space. "I could have lieutenants in my cult who are allowed to draft new members," says cocreator Stewart Butterfield. "And one level up, there are cult members who can kick people out. Now, managing that group can take a lot of time, but the social interactions that are involved in that management can take place outside the game."... Somewhere in this mix of tools and interactivity, a true mirror world is brewing. Combine the visual interfaces of SimCity, the up-to-the-minute data of My Neighborhood Statistics, the multiple inroads of Game Neverending, and you'd be able to create a true alternate universe, one that was mapped to real events.

more than Privacy (more)

Encrypted Voice Call app from Whisper Systems

Pocket moves into Twitter territory with a public feed of your recommended reading (more)

Like CoHousing but typically in a single building. (more)