A race across the Internet
Chrome fastball a combination of task-based activities which the user has to complete as quickly as possible. It took me 02:59, 11366 out of 48073 players, which is “Chrome fast”.
Ubiquity
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Interesting talk featuring Aza Raskin (Molliza labs) at The Future of Web Apps – London. He talks about Ubiquity, a Firefox add-on that uses natural-language as an input method: You type what you want to do and Ubiquity guesses what you mean and suggests the best-matching commands. For example [...]
Google Wave
No invite yet just playing the waiting game. Here’s a lovely little animation explaining a small amount of it’s capabilities.
Another Wii hack
This time using google street view, Wii Barance Board, Wii Remote and adobe air. Caution, running on the Wii board may break it. Street View x Wii Barance Board x Wii Remote x Adobe AIR from uranodai on Vimeo.
I want to pop your bubble…
But I cant because I actually like it. Living in London and working in advertising I see a number of ads some good and some shit! Ji Lee is the founder of the widely publicised Bubble Project and believes “our communal spaces are being overrun with ads” (oops). He hopes these bubbles will turn defaced [...]
the not so visual …
search engine from search cube. An interactive 3D cube which looks horrid as the thumbnails are all squished and takes too long to load. I don’t really see the need for the 3Dness, this newsmap layout would look far better.
Go android
Welcome to Torrent Droid, an app for the G1 Google phone that allows you scan a DVD case barcode using your camera. This then looks up the title and remotely starts a download to your torrent client on your computer. So by the time you’ve got home made a cuppa and had a shit, your [...]