Khoi Vinh considering the fact that despite Yahoo’s design leadership it hasn’t helped them succeed since neither search nor advertising are effected by design. Although Google clearly values good design – targeted ads and fast response times.

The theory behind OpenSocial, in what he calls “the social cloud”, a variation of the Social Graph concept.

“People want trusted information from their friends. We make Web search more fun and meaningful by prioritizing results based on a user’s network, while enabling the user to discover others in their extended network who share common interests.”

BBC3 have just launched a new listing service using Flash and /programmes. They wrote a view to generate an XML serialisation (using ‘Perl on Rails’) of the schedule which is then used by the Flash movie. Linking through to the /programmes episode pages.

This is really interesting – it would be great to hear what other data you would like exposing. Also love the choice of url hug.hellomatty.com too :)

Another monster post from Dan looking at the data flows in and around a street of the near future. Well worth a read, just make sure you are sat comfortably before you start.