Jangl.com (in beta) has gotten a lot of attention and even made it to the 2007 Connected Innovators. But I don’t get this service. I signed up, my sister in the UK signed up. I got a number for her and she got a number for me. We both set our preferences to go to Phone. However, everytime I call the number I got for her email address, it goes directly to voicemail. Same for her.

I have been trying to figure out what am I doing wrong, checked out their support pages and everything. The idea is for people to not have to disclose their phone numbers, but shouldn’t they at least connect as the website claims they can?

There’s much to be said about cooking with love. I have never baked in my life before. Did this with my little tiny beautiful handsome son and somehow everything seemed to be better. Love rules.

Recipe:

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1-1/3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/10 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

1. Beat butter until soft, about a minute.
2. Add sugar. Beat on medium-high until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
3. Add eggs one at a time, beat for 30 seconds between each.
4. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Add to mixer bowl. Add the milk and vanilla. Mix to combine.
5. Scoop into cupcake papers about half to two-thirds full (depending on whether you want flat or domed cupcakes).
6. Throw in a tiny raspberry or blackberry or blueberry or any fruit piece you want in there.
7. Bake for 22-25 minutes at 350 degrees until a cake tester comes out clean.

I just discovered Recruit.net through the Web 2.0 indeces somewhere. These guys are doing it right in my opinion. They are leveraging 3rd party data (job postings), allowing customization (profiles with resumes), really clean interface, well placed ads and a site that works.

I think they can work on their search function - I tried playing around with different terms and with a mix of operators and wasn’t highly impressed with my results and result sort options. They currently only feature Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan and Singapore; maybe more countries would be good.

There has been a lot of talk about Lifestreams in the recent months. There are a bunch of services out there that can handle this, like Jaiku and iStalkr even sites like Tumblr can handle all the various feeds from different sites and show them on your tumblr blog. People are doing things with Yahoo! Pipes and posting the single rss feed into their Facebook profiles and what not.

There is a lot of talk whether your facebook status, twitter updates, blog posts, comments, diggs, last.fm faves, flickr photos and everything else out there should be consolidated into one page.  Its not that we do not do these things online or leave our online crumbs for somebody to follow, already. It’s just putting all this together isn’t something that appeals to the paranoid. This is the same bunch of people who threw a fit when Google Mail or gmail (as we have come to love it now) launched and declared that they would be placing contextual ads by indexing our mails.

For the rest of us, who are with it - check out Lifestream Blog.

I got these lights at Radical Illumination 2006 in Toronto. This was a very interesting social experiment that I just ran into online and decided to check out. About two hundred people showed up (from ravers to photogs, passer bys to uni students) and were handed these small ‘Throwies’. Everybody was then led over to the middle of the intersection where they blocked off a streetcar and started throwing these on it. Right about when the ‘party’ was broken up by 4-5 cop cars. I wish I had captured the moment when 100s of these tiny lights were raining on the streetcar (need new and better equipment)

I couldn’t help myself but make different alphabets of these throwies. And which better word to spell than L-O-V-E. right?