Dotspots

DotSpots looks interesting:

DotSpots is an annotation platform that allows users to add text or video comments to any piece of text on the web. Dotspots searches through millions of online news articles, indexing paragraphs of text and using an algorithm to determine when certain passages appear multiple times across different sites.

Here’s a video that explains more:

Let’s predict the lottery!

I rather enjoyed the Derren Brown stuff this week around predicting the lottery numbers. It was enjoyable and entertaining, and anyone expecting anything approaching seriousness was always going to be disappointed.

But what of averaging out the views of the many to predict randomness?

I’ve set up Let’s predict the lottery! to do just that. Enter your favourite lottery number picks, and on Saturday 19th September, I’ll buy a ticket using the average numbers of all those who contribute.

We won’t win, of course. It’s a load of nonsense. But if, if, we do, I’ll think of something fun and good to do with the lolly. Which won’t involve keeping it myself.

I promise.

Bookmarks for September 2nd through September 6th

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 2nd through September 6th:

  • How to Keep WordPress Secure – The official word on preventing your WP site getting hacked.
  • The Ugliest Website in the World – “Craigslist is willing to do the basic, boring stuff again and again and again. It thinks long-term. It puts people first. It trusts them. And millions of people trust it back and use it every day to find love and cars and stuff. Craigslist, the anti-brand, is one of the biggest brands of the 21st Century.”
  • Idea Management – Innovation Management – Crowdsourcing – Suggestion Box – Customer Feedback – “IdeaScale enables companies to build communities based on the simple model of crowdsourcing. It begins with an idea posted to your IdeaScale portal by a user. Each idea is then expanded by voting and comments from the community.”
  • A Fond Farewell to Nomad – “As of 06 November 2009, after six highly successful years Nomad will be ceasing its activity to promote mobile and flexible working in the public sector.”
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