AboveAverageNetwork has created a parody video making fun of Kickstarter projects. The video is for a fake new social media app called iNotRacist.

The app lets users prove how “not-racist” they are by awarding them points every time they do something nice for someone of another race and then compare their points to their friends and family. Opening doors, dating and even voting for people of another race earns users points.

The video is the first in a series of Thingstarter videos produced by Broadway Video’s Above Average Network.

Looking for a Netflix streaming movie to watch this weekend? Online content-smith Mike Brunson has created a massive flowchart helping you explore Netflix streaming based on your mood.

We’ve embedded the complete infographic below–what’s your favorite? Answer a few simple questions and you can find a film to watch this holiday weekend:

I’ve done Google searches myself for “the best movies on Netflix” or “what to watch on Netflix” and nothing has ever actually helped. Instead I found myself looking through lists of the “top 100 movies” or “top 100 shows of all time”, picking ones to watch, then hoping they were available on Netflix. Since I can’t be alone in this struggle to choose something worth watching, I took those very same top 100 lists and made a flowchart with the titles actually available on Netflix … The availability of content on Netflix changes daily, and is dependant on your physical location. This flowchart was made based on the Netflix titles available in the US as of May 4th 2013.

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The Silk interactive app turns gestures into colorful drawings, and you don’t have to be an artist to make something beautiful. There are minimal but effective controls for color, symmetry, spiral mode, and mirror mode. You can change and combine the effects for various drawing results. Most of my drawings tend to look like neon, interstellar snowflakes.

Once you are done with your drawing, you can save or share it. The Silk app has an original music score created especially for Weave Silk, so put on your headphones and start creating!

Amazon has expanded the Amazon Appstore globally and it is now available in almost 200 countries including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain,China and Japan, and it will soon arrive in Brazil. As part of the promotion of its Appstore expansion, Amazon is making the popular apps Fruit Ninja by Halfbrick Studios available for free on May 23 and Cut the Rope: Experiments by ZeptoLab available for free on May 24.

Amazon has also expanded the availability of the Kindle Fire, and will make it available in more 170 new countries on June 13. The Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9” are now available for preorder in Ireland, Gibraltar, Austria, Monaco and Luxembourg.

“Kindle Fire HD is the No. 1 best-selling item in the world for Amazon since its launch, and we’re thrilled to make it available to even more customers around the globe today,” stated Dave Limp, VP, Amazon Kindle.

Twitter is a great place to share your thoughts and idea and for those of you that want to save your tweets page for posterity, there are a number of companies that will let you create print books out of your Twitter pages.

We’ve put together a list of five of these companies that will print out your favorite tweets, Twit pics and Twitter conversations, so that you can save them as a book. Below find our list of companies with descriptions about what their services do and a link back to their sites.

5 Tools That Will Turn Your Twitter Page Into A Book

1. Twournal: “Twournal allows you to create, buy and sell twitter books printed from your tweets. All Twournals have color covers, can include replies and photos from services such as Twitpic and Yfrog in color or black and white. You can choose a custom picture for your front cover. Select which tweets you want to start and end at. And you can add a dedication message to appear after your title.” Read more

Eesha Khare of Saratoga, CA was tired of waiting for her phone batteries continually dying so she invented a solution. That solution was a fast charging device capable of getting a full charge in as little as 20 seconds. The invention won Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award – a total of $50,000.

What’s even more remarkable about the nano-scale battery is its ability to last for 10,000 recharge cycles unlike traditional rechargeables that lasts for about 1,000 cycles. Khare mentions that the battery is also flexible – it can be rolled up like fabric. Intel’s website also mention that the invention has potential application in car batteries as well. Congratulations Eesha!

Simon & Schuster and Folger Shakespeare Library have teamed up with Luminary Digital Media to create interactive app adaptations of Shakespeare texts for use in schools. Coming this November, the joint effort will release app versions of Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They will continue to release plays thereafter until the entire collection is available.

The app versions will include audio recordings, videos and photos, which are designed to help teach the texts. This includes audio performances produced at the Folger Theatre, as well as expert commentary from Shakespeare scholars. The apps will also have social networking reading tools on a private network so that teachers and students can take digital notes and share them with each other within the networked text. Read more

Do you make books and you want to trade some for some free trade coffee your friend sells? Well there is a new app to help people make such transactions possible digitally. Bondsy lets friends share objects or services that they have to trade, be it books, tickets, homemade jewelry, guitar lessons or even a ride to work. Their friends can bid on these items and offer exchanges.

You can water my plants while I’m out of town, for instance, and I’ll feed your cat the next time you travel. The app offers a private social network so you can only allow access to people that you want to trade with. It’s like Craigslist for friends.

To list an item, you can take a photo and write a description. Maybe it’s a picture of your baby, because you are looking for a babysitter on Friday night. Your friends are able to “grab” the offer and they can then ask you for an exchange on their end. And like every social network, you can even like posts on Bondsy, even if you’re not taking advantage of the item up for offer.

Only two months after being acquired by Dropbox, Orchestra has released an iPad version of its Gmail organizing app Mailbox.

The app, which was first available in private beta, launched as an iPhone app a couple of months ago.  Now it has been optimized for the iPad.

The app is designed to make it easy to organize your emails into tasks, trash or to save it for later with a snooze button. The iPad version is designed to be used quickly, as you would just glancing through emails on the go, but it is also designed to use when you have more time, say perhaps if you have a keyboard attached to your iPad.

Mailbox has not indicated if they will release an Android version or if they will offer tools for inbox management that stem beyond Gmail.

Nextdoor, a private the private social network for neighborhoods, has launched an iPhone app.

The idea behind the network is to help neighbors communicate as neighbors do, only in the digital age. Want to borrow a cup of sugar, find a babysitter or organize a neighborhood watch meeting, that’s what Nextdoor does. The app is designed to make it easier to do this from the palm of your hand. The app lets users send an urgent alert about suspicious activity, share photos of a lost dog, report lost keys found on the sidewalk and so forth.

The app release is a gradual next step for the network, as 30 percent of all visits to the site come from mobile browsers and customers have been asking for an app version. The network is currently in use in more than 12,600 neighborhoods in the U.S.