The Breakup Notifier has received a lot of attention in the last days. Depending on your viewpoint, it's a really neat or really scary app that sends you notifications when the relationship status of your Facebook friends changes. I don't believe it provides a lot of actual value, but it makes for a good story to talk about the "codification" of social relationship on platforms such as Facebook. 

Nice infographic video from The Economist, trying to assess likelihood of a successful revolution in Arab countries. Even if the exaxt methodology of weighing the different factors remains unclear to me.

Hire Kobe Bryant, Roberto Rodriguez, Bruce Willis, Kanye West and some others. Have lots of explosions.

This recent tweet on the situation in Libya is spot on: Never before have we been able, thanks to tools like Twitter, been able to follow what is happening in a crisis situation so closely and precisely. But information does not necessarily translate into action.

via Sebastian Lindstrom