Stefan Hayden

Andre Torrez builds an amazing way to add del.icio.us links to your blog with out all that messy automation. I’m hoping this solution works as well for me as I hope it does.

The idea of an entire movie told from one point of view (like a hand held camera) sounds like a cool idea if they can pull it off. I have no idea if CLOVERFIELD (video) can do it. But The Scramble Network have some pretty good incite in to what the movie might really be about and it sounds like yet another exciting possibility (spoiler if you believe what they say).

Feist is a band I've been trying to get into for a while. Sadly it's just never really cliqued for me. This song from their most recent album "The Reminder" is really great though. Feist - 1234 (mp3)

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Royksopp - Remind Me (via Dev)

It's always bothered me how websites enforce heteronormativity. Facebook made a huge leap ahead in relationship status with its "it's complicated" status. Pownce seems to be trying to make a similar jump forward with their gender selections. Most are just for fun but hopefully a Transgender option will be put to good use by the community. There are still a lot of subcategories of transgender and hopefully they will come about at some point.

One reason many sites avoid complicated gender options is some ads can be targeted to gender and sites do not want to let people choose options that they can not monetize. While this makes perfect sense to marketers it just sounds dumb to every one else. If I was an advertiser and a site was serving my targeted ads to men and transgendered individuals were seeing the ad I would be upset that I was paying for that. As an advertiser I would push websites to have real world options for real world people. Conversely without the option on most websites the transgendered community effectively becomes invisible.

So weather they intended it or not Pownce is doing a service to the web.