Monopoly City Streets: great for meglomaniacs

Welcome. It's Friday. Thought you'd never make it? Ha! Look see, you did. Here is what's been going on this week...

On Wednesday a hoard of greedy real estate tycoons carved up the world for purchase and you did nothing to stop them. Okay, it was only in the virtual world of Monopoly City Streets, but the exchange of a board for Google maps is a nice touch. Expect a virtual flurry of tyrannical tycoons to steal your street from underneath you, very soon.

We were a bit gobsmacked after reading about two Australian teenagers who Facebooked their plea for rescue, after becoming trapped in a storm drain. We know updating your status via mobile can be addictive, but come on... dialling the emergency services is infinitely more sensible. Thanks to a friend who saw the update, the duo were saved by a very bemused fire brigade crew.

But onto more fruitful and inventive ways to use technology: IBM employee Andy Stanford-Clark has hooked his house up to send Tweets. Cue bizarre new term ‘tweetject’ and a whole host of Tweeting appliances. Thumbs up for this creative and quirky way of using Twitter.

We’ve fallen in love with Winston, a South African pigeon who valiantly flew 60 miles to deliver 4GB of data on a USB stick, and beat the broadband in the process. The Feed is definitely in favour of the reintroduction of animals into the work place and we expect to see memos being exchanged via goat very soon ;-)

To round off, if you’re at a loose end this weekend, the onedotzero adventures in motion festival is back in London. Head down to the BFI Southbank for the best in digital and motion arts. Interactive installations include Squidsoup's portable pixel playground, where you get to play god with a sandpit of virtual bugs.

Enjoy, whatever you get up to, have a goodun.

Special thanks to Sam, our Feed Intern, for her most excellent research and wordsmithery in this article.