Social Networking

I decided this post belonged in the social networking category instead of the health category.  Five people that needed a kidney found a relative willing to donate one but in all cases the relative’s kidney wasn’t compatible.  So the five got together and swapped relative’s kidneys!  All 5 got a kidney that worked for them. 

Sharing data allows lots of people to help discover and invent new things.  For example, this guy found Roman ruins by examining satellite photos of land near his home.  The photos were made available by Google Earth.  Enthusiast uses Google to reveal Roman ruins.

No email on Fridays at Veritas. The vice president of marketing declared no email on Fridays after he realized he was spending several hours a day on email. You can call or walk over, but no email. My first response was wow. My second was, wait, I’d get nothing done. My third is, I wonder

Now, not only are their services to lie for you, there are also services to tell the hard truth for you. You can hand out telephone numbers and email addresses that lead to prerecorded messages with the same theme, “the person who gave you this number does not want to talk to you.” Wired News:

In Leicestershire you can find out where a public bus is at all times. No more standing around waiting for the bus, wondering when the next one will come. “And in Leicestershire mobile phone users can send a text message containing a six-digit code unique to their bus stop to a local bus company. Within

We’ve seen online dating, online networking, and doggie networking, now we have a roommate finding service: Roomster.net

SmartMobs pointed me at this new service: dodgeball.com :: location-based social software for mobile devices. You can now use your cell phone to track the physical location of your social network.