US broadcaster CBS has created an iPhone app so that anyone can submit pictures automatically to its network and report on current news events in their area. The app also allows users to browse what others have been uploading.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports that Apple is on track for 1 billion iPhone app downloads by 2009. Not all those are paid for, but still – quite a figure.

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Bill Gates teams up with Jerry Seinfeld for a series of off-beat new ads. This is the second in the series.

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There’s a great post by Alison Gow detailing how much different the act of creating a news story is in a web 2.0 world (thanks to the Online Journalism Blog for the pointer). It’s a great checklist for journalists and their editors and shows just how much has been added by the recent slew of new online tools. As Alison says:

I had no idea when I started doing this how thin the ‘old’ opportunities for investigating stories would look compared to the tools at our disposal now; it’s quite stark really. It drives home just how important mastering these tools is for journalists as our industry continues to develop and change.

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I’ve spent the day at d.construct 08, the quirky web design conference in Brighton which I have been going to for the part few years. In previous years I’ve blogged the experience but I’ve tended to find that distracting and it has reduced the experience for me. This year I’m trying something different: recording the conference in URLs – all relevant in some way – to the speaker, or the speech. Treat it like an eclectic detective story!

http://2008.dconstruct.org/schedule

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ghost-Map-Street-Epidemic-Networks/dp/0141029366/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220641721&sr=8-1

http://outside.in/Boston_MA

http://www.yelp.com/

http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

http://pacmanhattan.com/

http://www.findsatoshi.com/

http://toastkid.com/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Designing-Social-Voices-That-Matter/dp/0321534921/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220641991&sr=1-1

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/914321/elevator_candid_must_see/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judgment-under-Uncertainty-Heuristics-Biases/dp/0521284147/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220642094&sr=8-2

http://www.freshbooks.com/

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=4516

http://www.slide.com/

http://www.geni.com/

http://www.silverorange.com/

http://digg.com/

http://www.last.fm/

http://pownce.com/

http://getsatisfaction.com/

http://bokardo.com/archives/diggs-design-dliemma-redux

http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?lang=en&page=1&q=burka+&type=listview

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106

http://microformats.org/wiki/social-network-portability

http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/

http://oauth.net/

http://tantek.com/presentations/2008/08/microformats/

http://www.dopplr.com/

http://recreating-movement.com/

http://plasticbag.org/files/native/

http://schulzeandwebb.com/2008/movement/

http://github.com/

http://www.dopplr.com/group/dconstruct/public

Hope you enjoy the journey…

BTW – the Flickr feed is here.

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Google will announce today the launch of its own browser called Chrome. The browser has been built from the ground up to be robust enough to run applications of all sorts, as the company intensifies its challenge to Microsoft’s desktop model. The browsers features are ingeniously described in this online comic from the development team.