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Some more Venice, Italy Carnevale pictures

Taking a brief break from enjoying Venice to rest, relax, and upload some pictures. This morning we went to Murano island, home of the famous Murano glassblowing factories, and we got a tour. Here's a picture of one of the master glassblowers making a vase:

Carnevale is in full swing, with costumes, children, and confetti everywhere:

There's even Samurai out there!

More soon, or you can see the entire Carnevale set on flickr...

Carnivale 2008 in Venice, Italy

It's my first time in Venice, and today was our first day. Beautiful city, amazing crowds, carnivale is fantastic, it's a circus!

It rained the whole day, but I already find myself falling in love with the city. I'll be here most of the week, then heading to Udine for the Next Web conference, thanks to an invite from my old friend Paolo Valdemarin. I'll post pictures as I have time...

For those of you just dying for a picture, I'll be adding photos to my Flickr set throughout the week. For some instant gratification, here's some Carnivale revellers heading into San Marco square, one of the biggest squares in Venice:

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Webhotornot - Is your site hot or not?

Want a fun game to play with your friends when you've got a few minutes to waste? Try out Webhotornot - see how good your eye for sites compares with everyone else's. You might even stumble upon an interesting site that you didn't know about but others have rated highly, too!

How did it come to exist? When I was in Madrid visiting my friend and investor Martin Varsavsky late last year, we had a fun time brainstorming ideas to help find and rate interesting web sites, and we came up with the idea. Who knows, perhaps the ratings might even be useful if people start using the site - sort of a "prediction market" for web sites. Most of all, we just wanted to create a simple site that was fast-loading and fun to use. We both love Hotornot, so we figured we'd do an homage.

Who knows where it'll go, it is a quick hack that Martin's team pulled together quickly with our direction. Go check it out - and if you've got a hot site that you want to add, you can submit the site as well! Martin blogs about it as well.

http://webhotornot.com/

Technorati Tags: ditty, fun, hotornot, matrinvarsavsky, predictionmarket, webhotornot, varsavsky

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