Inspired by a post on Chris Anderson’s Long Tail, Bigpicture once asked, “Why no IMDb for music?” IMDb is, of course, the Internet Movie Database, it’s a vast repository of everything to do with cinema, TV and performance. Looking for…

Here are a few random screengrabs from my fellow Twitter users (if you’re on Twitter, follow me here as sciencebase). What do they have in common (no offense meant).

You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to notice that…

In the early days of the web, the phrase “No one knows you are a dog on the Internet” became popular, as members of virtual worlds hid behind virtual masks. Today, the advent of web 2.0 and the emergence of…

I was using RSS feeds to pull my blog headlines into twitter and to automatically add stuff to my FriendFeed and Facebook pages. However, a while back I also got an invite for ping.fm, which allows you to post to almost all…

Are you a narcissistic Twitter user like me? If so, you may have tested out Twitterank to see how well received are you’re tweets. If so, you may have been the victim of a phishing expedition. This from ZDNet:

Twitterrank has…