Sam Kinsley

"Google SMS is a suite of mobile applications that allows you to find information on topics as diverse as sexual & reproductive health, and agriculture to sports scores and weather. It also includes a new marketplace application, Google Trader, that will help buyers and sellers find each other; use it to buy and sell electronics, crops, tools, cars, properties, or anything else that you need or have." From Google Uganda.

"Frengo is a community where people share buzz - a steady stream of opinions, updates, questions, predictions, games. Find Buzz by checking out our public Buzz directory. Or see what other people are doing on the homepage by watching the "What's Buzzing Now" board. Join or leave any Buzz through the web or your phone. Read messages online or on-the-go."

"As Twitter and social media get more and more important for brands, beware of some painful pitfalls"

"We are creating a flexible data collection campaigns for the modern, connected citizen scientist Citizen Science allows individual volunteers or groups to observe, measure, and contribute to scientific environmental studies. How have we made this experience even better? Networked Naturalist is a collection of tools that allows anybody to participate in the growing list of popular citizen scientist projects, all designed to harness the power of people who are not only concerned about their environments but also want to do something about it. On-the-go, flexible data collection schemes, tailored to your busy schedule, allow you to use your cell phone text, email, and picture messages for data collection, as well as sending us email or web forms from your computer. See your data, see how your data fits in with other people’s data, and see how involved scientists interpret those data — all in real-time."

"Installed on a 500-metre section of pavement last weekend, the lampposts double the strength of the light they cast when they detect human body heat. Ten seconds later they revert to normal."

"The New York Times has a piece (Future Vision Banished to the Past") about the likely destruction of Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower, a "rare built example of Japanese Metabolism, a movement whose fantastic urban visions became emblems of the country’s postwar cultural resurgence." It's a piece that raises some interesting questions for futurists as well as architects and preservationists."