As part of the London Bloggers Meetup ‘bean themed’ meme that’s doing the rounds, here’s my attempt to win a luxury beanbag from Ambient Lounge.  Ambient Lounge’s designer bean bags are hopefully worth the effort that went into compiling this list of bloggers and their ‘bean’ equivalents. Random…
If London Bloggers were beans… what would they be?

TikiChris would be a Polynesian Green Bean
Because ‘Tiki’ refers to large wood and stone carvings of humanoid forms in Central Eastern Polynesian cultures of the Pacific Ocean. The term is also used as it relates to M?ori mythology where Tiki …

Have you discovered the depraved genius that is Chatroulette? Of course you have… 
Created by Andrey Ternovskiy, a 17 year-old high school student in Moscow the site works on a really simple premise:
Visit www.chatroulette.com and every click lands you in a face-to-face video conversation with a random stranger.
Activate your webcam and click “play.” Then, as people from all over the world pop up one at a time in a box on your screen, you decide whether or not to chat with them. If you don’t like the looks of things, click “next” …

A campaign has been launched to reduce the billions of press release emails being sent each year by the PR Industry to journalists, bloggers and publishers for whom they are irrelevant. The analysis is based on surveys carried out between 23rd November 2009 and 16th December 2009 by RealWire.
Key Findings:

1.7 billion irrelevant press release emails estimated to be received in total each year by UK and US Journalists alone
78% of press release emails are received by Recipients to whom they are irrelevant
55% of Recipients have taken action to block a …

This makes me feel so old…
(http://vimeo.com/7989835)

The decade according to 9-year-olds from allison louie-garcia on Vimeo.

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This year’s must have Christmas toy: The Dance’y Pants Rax. Hurry while stocks last..

[batteries not included]

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As well as the realtime translate (see above), Google’s also added a new feature to help English speakers pronounce and read non-roman languages like Chinese and Japanese.
Google’s also added text-to-speech support for English translations to Google Translate. Click the speaker icon and you’ll hear the translation. Watch the video below for Google’s explanation of the new features in Google Translate.

Have fun…
or as we say in Chinese…

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Here’s a great interview with Clay Shirky by GRITtv’s Laura Flanders:

Clay Shirky, professor in New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, is at the forefront of thought and discussion on the future of the Internet and communication technology. From the “Twitter revolution” in Iran and GitHub’s collaborative coding process to the death of newspapers and the rise of the Pirate Party in Europe, Shirky has traced the way new and social media have changed the way the world works.
His excellent book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations and …

I meet Murray Newlands at a tweetup. I am not sure what we were both doing there; I think we were both curious as to what a “tweetup” was. After that we just seem to run into each other and having established that he was not stalking me I agreed to interview for his affiliate blog. Other interesting stuff I have learned about Murray, he is an SEO wiz and a bit of a character, Google famous blogger and you will see what I mean, I wish him good luck …