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Here are a few of the things we learned and experienced at Influx Curated, which was held yesterday.

More material to follow very soon.

The vision of GOOD, the connective power of YouTube, 250 people singing in harmony, mobs for good, the meaning of good, the power of yes, the power of no, California’s need for design solutions, designing for Sudan and getting it wrong, finding ideas from nothing, saying no to CSI for mammoths, creativity from masks, provoking conversation with postcards, crowds making things, crowds promoting things, supermoms, a new manifest destiny for energy change, the need to connect with MCs, trends as stories, objects and craftsmanship, the culture of a small coffee company, tasty tuna tails, dark motivation, hope from genocide, escaping artistic block and the fetish objects of a dominatrix...



Picture by Dominique Pacheco of William Hall's mask session

A huge thanks to all of our speakers and to who attended. We had a great time.

Also, a big thanks to Flamingo who hosted our after-party.

Posted by Ed Cotton We are pleased to announce the new Influx Button for Google Toolbar 5.

Once installed, here's what you can do with it:

• Click the button icon once to open the Influx Insights homepage.
• Click the small downward-pointing triangle next to the icon to open a dropdown menu with the Influx RSS feed. Hovering over an item will display a small preview of the posting (see the screenshot below).
• Use the Influx search engine on text you enter into the Google Toolbar search box.
• Select HTML text on any webpage and click the button icon once to run it against the Influx search engine.

If you'd like to install the Influx Button, it's an easy, single-click installation from our Widgets page. (If you don't have the Google Toolbar installed, you can download it here or you'll prompted when you install our button.)



Posted by Joseph Piro New Influxinsights Features! (37.86291135359264 , -122.49311685562134) We are pleased to announce 2 exciting new features — microformats and tag-based RSS feeds.

Microformats

Microformats.org states that "microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards." In more basic terms, they're an emerging standard for embedding semantic, meaningful data into webpages.

While most current browsers don't yet natively handle microformatted content, there are some add-ons that can interact with the microformatted contact info, addresses, locations, tagspaces and more we've added.

• Visitors using PC IE6 or IE7, PC or Mac Firefox or Mac Safari browsers can install the "Microformats Bookmarklet". Please refer to that webpage to read the microformats it currently supports.
  
  
• Visitors using the Mac or PC Firefox browser users can install Operator, an excellent and easy-to-use add-on for exposing and using microformatted content. The screenshot below shows Operator in toolbar mode (it can also be configured as a button or sidebar).

Tag-based RSS Feeds

We've expanded our RSS offering by adding dynamic single-tag-based RSS feeds. This will allow you to drill down to a finer level of RSS feed than was previously possible.

To get the feed for a single tag you can do one of the following (using 'facebook' as the example):

1. Click on the 'facebook' tag at the bottom of an article.
   
2. Click on the "RSS for tag 'facebook'" in the upper right of the results bar (see screenshot below).

Or, if you are looking for a tag you don't see (again using 'facebook' as the example):

1. Click on 'Advanced Search' in the left nav (it's directly under the search field)
   
2. Enter 'facebook' in the search field.
   
3. Check the 'Only search tags' check box and submit the search. 
   
4. Click on the "RSS for tag 'facebook'" in the upper right of the results bar (see screenshot below).

Posted by Josh Brewer influx insights for your iphone (37.968154770211655 , -122.49446868896484) Obviously, Influx has been tracking Apple's sales trends like everyone else, but with an estimated 700,000 iPhones sold in the first weekend, we felt we had to respond.

We know there's a big correlation between Influx Insights readership and iPhone ownership.



We've responded by making Influx Insights, iPhone ready. So those of you who splashed out on one of the decade's fanciest gadgets will be able to enjoy all the Influx goodness on your brand new toy.



No need for special urls, just type http://www.influxinsights.com into your iPhone and it will format automatically.

Don't ask me how it's done, but a huge thank you to our tech wizards, Joseph Piro and Josh Brewer for making it happen.

Posted by Ed Cotton