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For a stodgy old chip manufacturer, Intel certainly has put together some jazzy ads over the years. From journeys into the depths of your computer sock puppets all the way down the line to bored aliens, Intel really, really wants to make silicon wafers cool again. Take a peek.

A world of information can be gleaned from a glance. What we look at and how long we choose to look can give meaning and context to all forms of communication. Researchers at Stanford University are using the information locked in a stare to augment and improve the way that people interact with computers.

So you want to use Social Bookmarking to drive traffic? First and foremost, consider whether grinding out your living on bookmarking sites is worth your time. For some content, it’s a spectacular way to generate new, active users. For others, it is a junk food solution that should be applied sparingly. If you think it’s right for you and you have tried submitting your material to Digg or Reddit and found that you aren’t getting anywhere, here are a few thoughts that just may help give you a leg up.

Keeping up with this week’s theme, I thought we should take a look at Intellivision, Mattel’s foray into the console market. More specifically, a commercial series with author George Plimpton that ran in the early 80s. Remember folks, Intellivision plays more like the real thing.

As a little bonus, here are a couple more.

In an age where information flows freely, language is still one of the biggest remaining barriers to global collaboration. For students and professionals around the world, fluency in a “world language” (English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish among others) can open up world’s of professional and intellectual opportunities, and lack of these skills can keep residents from being able to tap into the wealth of knowledge available on the web.

While researching an article, I happened upon an interesting fundraising effort put out by University of California Berkeley called Big Ideas. Along with the traditional methods that we expect out of academia, they are also tapping into the collective through ChipIn.

For those who don’t know, ChipIn is a fantastic fund raising tool that makes it easy to collect money for just about anything. Just enter the amount, the descriptions of the project and the date it is needed by and a few seconds later you’ll have a landing page and a widget to promote your campaign.

Discover a world beyond your wildest dreams, discover Atari! This is an Atari commercial from the early 80s, notice the advanced games and the personal finance software. Considering the year, this was a pretty advanced rig.

It used to be so hard to, you know, do things.

There was a time not so long ago when we were all bound tight by the twin chains of proximity and imagination.

You could travel just about as far as your American Express Platinum card could take you, and the fuel for your creativity was mostly mined from your family, friends and neighbors.

How times have changed ladies and gentlemen. The web has blown apart the old limitations and given us more knowledge than we could use in ten lifetimes and access to hundreds of millions of people to help us find ways to use it well.

No doubt we spend more time than we should huddled around the aquarium staring at our reflections, but at least some of the reason for this is that we’re not quite sure what all this potential really adds up to.

What should we be doing?

There is no cut and dry solution, but here are a few options.

Here are some resources for writers to read, write and collaborate together.

1. Pangaeaa — “Online community for artists, musicians and writers to share and sell their work.”

2. Edit Red — “Post your writing, get peer feedback and get published by real zines and journals.”

3. Novel Maker — “An interactive community for fiction writers, readers, critics, literary agents, editors, and publishers.”

4. 1000 Keywords — “An interactive community for fiction writers, readers, critics, literary agents, editors, and publishers.”

The votes are in, the ballots have been counted and the measurables have been measured. After taking into consideration the popular vote and the level of participation for the five startups in the reactor, the winner by a hair is Publicitr, Jason Lorimer’s of Recon Lab’s startup.