Twitter Freaks

Sharing places on Twitter is fast and easy with TwitArea! Tweet the address, phone number and location of any place worth tweeting in seconds - right from your browser! No need to leave your browser page, go to another web site, cut and paste URLs.

Twitter for Education

Original report on twitter users. Lots of stats.

Get weather updates for you zip code by sending a dm to @forecast Nifty idea, and very useful

Find out the latest updates for your flight by dm to @flightinfo Terrific!!!

Athletes use twitter to grow fanbase and connect with fans as people rather than helmets and pads. NFL resistant to loss of control.

'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.