Daily Dispatch: Colbert bashes Blippy; "Flit" between stores online

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...Tonight, the controversial social credit card data aggregator was featured on Comedy Central's Colbert Report. As you might imagine, host Stephen Colbert ripped into the service's ability to show everyday purchases at places such as Wendy's.

New Way to Flit From Store to Store (Wall Street Journal)

...This week, I shopped online with Flit.com, a free Web site owned by San Francisco-area company enterONCE LLC that encourages people to shop using the same method they use at the mall: Start inside familiar stores, not in a giant bucket of products. It's designed so people will enter a search item once and receive multiple suggestions of places where the item might be sold. As shoppers "flit" off to those stores, Flit.com serves as a home base, remembering the original search so shoppers can flit back, choose different stores and shop from there again and again.

‘Hair' Has New Way to Spread the Love (New York Times)

That most precious of Broadway marketing tools — favorable word of mouth among theatergoers — is being transformed for the Facebook generation. Starting Tuesday night a high-definition video camera, attached near the balcony rail at the Al Hirschfeld Theater, will capture the so-called dance parties at the end of the each performance of "Hair," when cast members of the musical revival coax audience members onstage to rock out with them as the band plays "Let the Sunshine In."

Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything (PHYSORG.com)

Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections. The coating is also flexible and breathable, which makes it suitable for use on an enormous array of products.

Oscar Meyer Brings Good Mood (Compete)

...Consumers are encouraged to go to their Good Mood Mission site to submit a "good mood" comment that starts with "it doesn't get better than". For each good mood submitted, the company will donate a pound of food to Feeding America, a hunger relief charity organization.

iPad Hardware Reveals Potential Slot for Camera (Mashable)

...Mission Repair, a company that fixes broken Apple products, apparently got their hands on some iPad parts. Their pictures showed off the internal frame, which curiously enough has a small hole on the top.

Lighter side: Cassette and Film Tape Portraits by Erika Iris Simmons (I New Idea Homepage)

...Simmons has tried to make portraits with other materials and finally come up with some impressive portraits made out of cassette and film tapes.