Alex Reid

Cute video by the guys at Hot 103, following the ‘Shit people say’ trend.

On Tuesday night (Jan 24th, 2012), the City of Vancouver added a dataset of Street Trees to the City’s Open Data catalogue. The dataset includes a full address listing of all boulevard trees on the streets of Vancouver, along with species type and other characteristics.

The next afternoon, this food social group got on the case and created a map of public fruit trees on city boulevards in the city. The group next wants to find out where the public fruit trees in public parks are.

An interesting New York Times article published last week speaks to an eerie new trend: In the digital era, teenagers in love want to share their most intimate secrets, ideas and, of course, their Facebook accounts.

It’s about trust and according to a 2011 Pew Internet and American Life Project study, girls are more trusting than boys.

About 30% of all teen Internet users have shared a password with a friend or significant other. Of that percentage, 38% of girls shared a password with a friend or significant other versus only 23% of boys. Teens in the 14-17 age group were more likely to share passwords than those in the 12-13 age group.

SoundCloud announced today that it has reached 10 million registered users. Last January, the music platform web site only had 3 million users.

To celebrate, SoundCloud co-founders Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss launched a new feature today called “Story Wheel,” which “allows anyone to record their own narrative around a series of images to tell a personal story.”

Check out their story wheel.

Watch this talk from TED to understand the background and mechanisms of SOPA and PIPA.