After a busy day, I finally had a chance to check through my RSS feed and a few favorited tweets from the weekend and earlier today.

Here’s today’s list of observations:

1. New Apps for Your Smartphone, October Edition
A list of new apps for iPhone, Android (and one for Blackberry for good measure).
Topping off the list is Instagram, brilliant in it’s simplicity.

2. Gap Contest Winners
Iso50 started an unofficial logo competition for the Gap. The results are in..

3. Posterous iPhone App
If you don’t use Posterous yet, here might be a good reason.

4. Customizing web forms with CSS3 and WebKit
A nice step-by-step guide of how to customize web forms in CSS3. Not something you do every day, but still..

5. Fun with HTML5 Forms
If you’re of the rare breed that enjoyed the link above, here’s another one..

6. Prague Clock tower 600 years (mapping video)
I love these mapping projections..

7. And the winner is… Hyper Island!
Yeah! Hyper island just won the Swedish Knowledge Awards of 2010.

8. (C) copyright, (cc) creative commons, and now (i) inspired by…
Pretty smart way to just say Thanks!
This blog would have a long list of (i)’s…

9. 75+ Tools for Visualizing your Data, CSS, Flash, jQuery, PHP
Have data that you want us to easily get a grasp of?
Here’s an impressive toolbox.

10. Quote of the day:
The best strategy is a oneliner: ”We strive to incorporate online and social media channels into all [our] everyday operations”
by @jocke

11. Why Twitter Is Massively Undervalued Compared To Facebook
Interesting article in TechCrunch. Highly recommended reading!

12. Social objects: a string theory
I know that @tyckr is currently doing some serious research in this field.
This article describes a simple test and it’s outcome regarding social objects.

13. We thought the internet was killing print. But it isn’t
“There is no clear correlation between a rise in internet traffic and a fall in newspaper circulation. Some papers are growing in both formats, others are succeeding in neither, according to new research.”

14. Creativity lessons from John Cleese
10+ minutes of @JohnCleese on YouTube on the subject of creativity.

15. Moot.ly
Tweet by @tyckr:
“I <3 http://moot.ly. We have all tried to have a conversation with more than 2 people on Twitter, now we can.”