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'The Physical Internet' as a buzz phrase has been thrown about a fair bit recently and only really recently have I seen things start to get interesting. I really like the idea of making the internet tangible and a flipside to this is taking a real world interaction and broadcasting this onto the net. A few things have made this much more attainable -> 1) Twitter and other systems have opened up to let other systems interact through them via an API to send/retrieve data. 2) Electronics such as arduino or ioBridge have made the geeky electronics bit much easier. 3) Programming interfaces such as Processing or Openframeworks have made the geeky programming bit much easier. Here is a little recap of some interesting/useful/useless/fun interfaces.

Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions.

Eddy is a media aggregation platform built for the public display of up-to-the-minute activity on realtime services like Twitter. It offers three primary features: rapid collection and curation of what people are saying about an event, moderation of acceptable material, and speedy, reliable republishing of these conversational streams. Setup of the application is fast and easy, and made specifically for use by interactive media designers.

Internet research Nancy Baym discusses the supposed death of blogs thanks to Twitter. Her justifications for using Twitter a good, particularly point 5.

Whoa, an interesting interaction between a reported and a publicist documented on Twitter. One of them comes out okay (c/o Twitterati).

At Combo our goal make you the center of the social web. We want to make your favorite sites communicate with each other. We want all your friends, everywhere, to be able to interact with you and each other. Our initial beta product is a dashboard for your social web experience. We're going to roll out awesome new features regularly on your Combo, so login and buckle up.

twibs: find, follow, and interact with businesses, apps, and services on twitter

cURL is a very versatile command line utility which is designed to script web pages interactions. As a little demo, this tutorial will show you how to use it to easily overcome the shortcomings of Twitter's API.

Top ways to Tweet!

"Because social-networking tools are forums for personalized, socially focused conversations, the communities that spring from these tools are person/people-centered. As Porter explained, this person/people-centeredness results in the value of participation being opaque for anyone who is not participating. To address this problem, we made sure that students who chose not to participate (because the value of participation is opaque for them) had access to our tweets by incorporating an RSS feed-like Twitter widget in our LMS. (See Figure 5.) Many widgets like these can be found online, although we should note that this particular widget has limitations. As seen in the example in Figure 5, the widget only displays Joni's posts, not the back-and-forth exchanges between her and members of her network. Students might incorrectly assume that the interaction is one-sided and less than dynamic. Besides keeping students apprised of the resources we shared via Twitter, however, this widget allowed them to vicariously discover Twitter's value. Some students later chose to join us in Twitter because they had a better understanding of what they were getting into because its value was less opaque. Ultimately, we found that Twitter helped us achieve our student-engagement objective, but we also quickly discovered that students' Twitter participation led to other notable instructional outcomes."

To promote sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.

iGoogle gadgets interact with the user and utilize the Google Gadgets API. Some gadgets developed for Google Desktop can also be used within iGoogle. The Google Gadgets API is public and allows anyone to develop a gadget for any need. iGoogle recently added a new gadget named " What's Popular". It seems to be similar to Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon. where you can vote the web pages and add content you find interesti

TweetPhoto lets you share photos on Twitter and interact with any user or photo.

Six conferences dedicated to Twitter. I hope they're short and interactive.

"Pensqr is a fun, organized & visualized space for people who share the same passion and interest about something. Pensqr is a topics based micro blogging service that aims to change the way you interact & connect to things of your interest. Open general topics, ask questions or discuss things you love in an easy, fun and visualized way."