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• Colour Affects
  “Colour Affects combines scientific principles with artistic vision to bring the most effective use of colour to any application - based on the cosmetic effect of appearance and the profound psychological effect of colour on human response and behaviour.”
  (tags: colour psychology design behaviours)
• Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time
  How the hell is Bladerunner not Number 1?! Anyway, a great list.
  (tags: film future dystopia sciencefiction list)
• UpMyStreet - For Where You Live
  “find out everything you could want to know about an area - from actual property prices to the neighbourhood’s favourite newspaper - enter a location in the box alongside and start browsing.”
  (tags: data property information)
• uSwitch.com
  “uSwitch.com is here to take the confusion out of finding the best deal. We do your searching and switching and you save money: Gas & electricity, Mobile phones, Car insurance, Digital TV, Broadband, Credit cards, Current Acs, Water, Home phone, Loans”
  (tags: data information consumering shopping economics utilities servicedesign)
• livingbrands - Top blogging
  Cool idea. Could do this through del.icio.us to get real-time updates on best blog posts. But then again, I like the fact that here it has been curated.
  (tags: topblogging ***** blogging)
• Vidoop.com
  Oooo… business hack of the year. An ad-funded single sign-in service. You choose 3 from a grid of images and this logs you in via your openID.
  (tags: openid businessmodel advertising innovation password security tools productplacement mechanicalturk crowdsourcing image processing)
• Vidoop Blog - Artificial Artificial Intelligence
  So interesting: “It would be awesome if we could figure out a way to use the image grid to crowdsource some kind of project to improve the world like reCAPTCHA does with their human-proving.”
  (tags: mechanicalturk crowdsourcing collectiveintelligence publiccomputing vidoop openid)

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