Inside Krasnodar | 2008

Here’s my boarding pass which I will use in 30 minutes. I printed it out from the Southwest Airlines website and will use it to check in. Would certainly be much easier if I could download it to my cell phone as a mobile web badge. The barcode on the paper boarding pass could be […]

Crazy idea for you. Why not create a webservice that offers old magazines articles as audio files.
Each month there are hundreds of mainstream magazines that produce thousands and thousands of articles. Many of these articles are topical and have a short shelf-life. But some of these articles are still relevant and interesting for months, and […]

PLEASE NOTE: There should be a Word of Blog.net badge here but the site is “down.”
It seems to me, after a cursory look through, that by far the most popular type of web badge created and hosted at Word of Blog are political web badges. I did an informal counting of political badges under the […]

Don’t ask me how I ever missed the company called Word of Blog but I miss it I did! Thanks to Derek Anderson, via Fred Wilson, for bringing it to my attention.
Word of Blog is very simply the single most important company I have seen in the social shopping or web badges space. Apparently, Word […]

Here’s a very old post from John Batelle titled: Sell Side Advertsing: A New Model? which resonates even more loudly today than it did when he wrote it in August of 2004. What’s changed in the intervening two years is web2.0, in general, and web badges, in particular.
Read the following paragraph and tell me that […]

Badges of all types have always been an important part of military life. Now Milblogs, the largest network of military blogs, proudly offers its own web badges. As you can see from the four shown to the left, there are many different web badges for soldiers of all stripes. Check of out the full collection […]

Check-out the dozens of other FireFox badges available at Spread Firefox
Is it possible that a part of the success for Firefox’s incredible growth owes itself to web badges? I think it’s one of the factors.

Pinheads in Paradise:
The Other Olympic Medal

By Mark Starr
Newsweek

I think I made a semantic mistake in my previous blog post, Hand Rolled Badges, when I called the Seal Generator a “code generator.” Actually, the Seal Generator is an “graphics generator” not a code generator. The difference being that the graphics generator let’s users customize a graphic file but does not give the user […]

The GHIN (Golf Handicap & Information Network) card pictured above is a generic sample of the card every serious golfer has in his/her wallet. It is also an example of a hand-rolled web badge. Click the image and you will be directed to the front page of www.ghin.com.
I have recently been updating my Flying Seeds […]