Once upon a time, Shervin was viewing one of his friend's home timeline, and he discovered a lot of interesting tweets/people that he'd never seen in his own Twitter. So he thought: why shouldn't we allow people to view each other's timeline? It's a great opportunity for extended information discovery and consumption! And a week after collaborating with Stephen, the creator of iTunes Instant, TwtRoulette is live. Add yourself to the directory and start peeking!
Bookmash is an Adobe AIR application mashup for video, music, photos and social news. It takes a different approach to many of the mashups you see and the more you get into this application the more detail you find. One of Bookmash main points is that it
A generation of young Americans has grown up with high-tech tools and toys - how will this "Net generation" shape the 21st century? Author and entrepreneur Don Tapscott investigates tech-savvy youth in Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World.
Adults are crafting them to show-off to people from the past and connect the dots between different audiences as a way of coping with the awkwardness of collapsed contexts.
Interesting idea as to why adults do the 25 things thing on Facebook. I'm not sure about the "show off" (at least not in the ones I've seen) but certainly the connect-the-dots things seems to be happening.
Too bad that most of the templates that they are given are much more corporate in nature.
"Politicians, journalists, and bands all want to share what they do. We have a system for distributing information, and we want to remove limits for people with a lot of constituents to share," added Facebook's Chris Cox.