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Not even scratching the Surface
It’s not often these days that you see a piece of technology that makes your draw drop, yet Microsoft have done that to me with Microsoft Surface. If there’s a better piece of gadget eye candy I’d like to see it (although Scoble saw it two years ago the showoff!). Microsoft Surface is a touchscreen … Continue reading
Universal challenges
Good post from Danny Sullivan breaking down what Google’s forthcoming Universal Search means in visual and descriptive terms. In short, Google will be incorporating into the default search engine rankings page results from across it’s various search engines, e.g. video, images, books… This presents all kinds of challenges in terms of user interface, information overload … Continue reading
Watching in Flickrvision
Hot on the heels of the impressively silly Twittervision comes the Flickrvision mashup. This combines the latest geo-tagged Flickr images with Google Maps to show images being uploaded in real-time on a world map. It’s a good visual way of getting a sense of the global community that powers Flickr. There’s also plenty of potential … Continue reading
TechnoCloud the widget
Now you can add TechnoCloud as a widget to your blog or space courtesy of Widgetbox’s Blidget. Widgetbox also comes with a built-in stats package which allows the publisher to see not only subscriber numbers, but also the number of views of a particular widget. The widget can also be customised in terms of size, … Continue reading
One map to rule them all
Every wonder what the world of social networking looks like as a map? No? Me neither. However, if ever you do, a comic book artist has drawn this map which reflects relative audience sizes. Unfortunately, you can’t quite make out the TechnoCloud pixel – the map equivalent of a desert island with single palm tree…
Fun with Flickr
If ever you get bored with uploading and categorising your photos on Flickr, have a play with these tools that make use of their API. Among the highlights: Make your own mosaic Warholise your images Create a magazine or movie cover Those source photos you uploaded are becoming for many just the raw materials for an increasingly customised … Continue reading
Gadget help us all
Google Personalized Homepage, now surprisingly renamed the unoriginal iGoogle, is opening up gadget production beyond developers with ‘make your own gadget‘. Now people without development or web design skills can use a wizard to create a series of personalised gadgets to embed into their iGoogle and share with others. Gadgets (or widgets depending on platform … Continue reading
