Utility Utilities

PSFK posts today on Google’s Power Meter initiative.
It’s a fabulous idea, to be sure: Allow anyone with a smart meter to plug into the Google application and retrieve a visualization of their actual power usage, thus enabling users to make informed decisions about their power consumption, and ultimately cut down on both usage and costs [...]

Miro Two Point Whoa

Xiaochang Li over at The C3 posts today on something that I had been anticipating but had let slip from my mind – the latest release of the open-source Miro video player.
The genius of Miro 2.0, as the post points out, is the ability to aggregate within the player library video content in a range [...]

Access via Extraction?

Another in a series of good posts from Becca over at CultureSnack, this time on the news that the Brooklyn Museum has found a means by which to monetize Twitter:
…the Brooklyn Museum has figured out a way to monetize its social networking efforts without going the expected route of selling ad space. For $20, people [...]