PeerIndex seems the latest in a series of ideas concerned with ranking and contextualising comment in the social media space. By Jemima Kiss

Twitter visualisations come in many forms, but IS Parade is arguably the most inventive yet. By Jemima Kiss

24ways.org is an advent calendar with a difference; it's for web geeks, so the treat each day is a tip or a lead for web design or development. By Jemima Kiss

I haven't yet managed to figure out exactly why Burning Man is a critical event for the tech industry calendar, other than the fact the half of Silicon Valley treks out to the desert for a long weekend. I just know it is.

There is, as ever, a trickle of interesting projects popping up on the BBC's soon-to-be-overhauled Backstage blog. The two latest prototypes caught my eye because they are both music tools.

Can Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader ever make the mainstream?

The content sharing and file storage service Nivio reaches its fourth birthday this month. Based in Geneva, the site has 55 staff across its offices with some management in London and the development teams in New Delhi, and is backed by private equity. Chief executive Sachin Duggal says the biggest challenge is explaining to consumers exactly how Nivio can help.

Are you hotter than Kevin Rose? More buzzy than Barack Obama? Any ideas who Julia Allison is? (Only kidding...)

We playing with new toys, and this one's good. Our very own Charles Arthur, with some small assistance from myself, has been dutifully plotting every twist and turn of the Yacrosoft story on this timeline.

I've used Kyte a few times now to stream video online, starting off with a profile of Kyte at SXSW themselves in March. You can use it for both live and precorded video, and film and watch it from a PC or a mobile. I used Kyte over Qik, I think, because when I went to the Qik site it didn't work on Macs or somesuch (it was ages ago now but I never got round to going back).

The BBC's annual reports came out yesterday, in case you missed them. We reviewed the whole lot:

Hubdub, a news forecast site we profiled back in February, has introduced a clever pundit watch site to rate prediction from some of the web's most noisy characters.

Tag Galaxy is an interesting visualisation of tagged photos, and how they relate to other tags. Navigate by clicking from planet to planet and the history of your search appears below.

The Favourite Website Awards has just expanded to include video. We last picked up on the site in January for an Elevator Pitch but if you're looking for inspiration from designers and advertisers, film trailers and animation, FWA Theatre is a good place to start.