Of all the great news and views from this past week, by far our favorite is the announcement of Brendan Picha (from Squareoak) joining the Collective Thoughts team (welcome aboard Brendan)… Beyond that we have funnies, tri-dimensional conversations and hyper-connectivity to keep the head spinning and the belly aching. Also new this week is Tim’s idea that we each pass along some thoughts for the week… we hope they find you well.

Enjoy your weekend!!

Brian’s picks

• I liked this interesting new real time social browsing


• Still on the fence about the new facebook


• Top underground sneezers

Thought for the week; It’s always amusing to see the criticism of social media. Funny thing is, it usually comes from people that proudly display a few flashy badges that link to their social accounts. Upon further inspection, the critics are barely using social media.

Tim’s picks

• BBC Sematic Site experiment


• Funny Link request


• How to optimise for Cuil


• On the Danger of twitter

Thought for the week: Social Media is much like my leaky roofer, great when it’s sunny but totally useless