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Mobile Fishing Game: Catch a Virtual Fish, Get a Real Fish Delivered To Your Door
via Gizmodo Australia by (author unknown) on February 12, 2008
A new fishing game for mobile phone users based in western Japan is mixing the virtual with the actual, as competitors who hook a fish get the chance to have the same kind of fish delivered to their door by a local seafood wholesaler.
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Elastico: Bookshelf Meets Elastic Band, Has Useful Offspring
via Gizmodo Australia by (author unknown) on February 20, 2008
Designed by Arianna Vivenzio, the Elastico concept is basically an elastic band stretched around a stout pair of metal posts mounted on your wall. Tension in the band keeps your various books standing in place, and you could even insert box-shaped structures for trinkets and the like. Presumably, to avoid sagging it couldn't carry too many books, and lord knows what dramas would happen if...
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Facebook Gets More Orderly: Multi-Tab For Profiles
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on February 25, 2008
Facebook has always had much cleaner, less chaotic profile pages than “anything goes” competitor MySpace (MySpace continues to experiment with less chaotic default themes). Facebook just seems to like things to stay orderly and structured on their site. But as users add dozens of applications and other content to their profiles, it’s becoming harder for friends to quickly find basic...
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Make3D: Turn a 2D Picture Into a 3D Model
via TechCrunch by Duncan Riley on February 26, 2008
Stanford University service Make3D automatically converts a single picture into a 3D model.Make3D takes a two-dimensional image and creates a three-dimensional fly around model that includes depth and a range views. Photos can be uploaded directly or pulled into the site from Flickr.The service is based on an algorithm created by Stanford students Andrew Ng, Ashutosh Saxena and Min Sun that won...
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Copy and Paste Without Switching Windows [Lifehacker Book Contest Winner]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on March 25, 2008
... into), browse through some web sites, select text or pictures, and hit Win+C to capture the content—without leaving my browser. The script switches to the capture program, pastes the information, and returns me to my browser automatically. Check out the video for how it works. It's good for transferring bits of data between two programs too, e.g. compiling a list of email addresses. ...
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Haunting photos of a rotting wooden coaster
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on March 30, 2008
Doran sez, "Flickr user el_rebelde has created a small but wonderful set of images from the Big Dipper roller coaster at Chippewa Lake Park, Ohio. His notes say it was built in the 1920's and ended service in 1978." Haunting pix indeed.Link(Thanks, Doran!)
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OpenGoogle
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 30, 2008
After launching OpenSocial and creating the Open Handset Alliance, Google prepares to launch a platform that opens its most valuable service: the web search engine. The project, dubbed as OpenGoogle, will allow anyone to create a search engine that uses Google's index, but has a custom ranking algorithm and a personalized interface. You'll be able to select from a list of approximately...
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Look At Free Music, Look How It Drives Web Traffic To You….
via TechCrunch by Duncan Riley on May 01, 2008
Free music equals serious web traffic, at least that’s what Coldplay have found with the free release of “Violet Hill” on their website April 29.According to figures release by Hitwise, the Coldplay website shot to the top of the rankings in the Bands and Artists category, with 52% of visits to the site coming via an email sent to registered fans. Exclaim News reports the single was...
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One in three prefer speech recognition to a real person
via Computerworld Today by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Jack How Sad!A study by research firm Callcentres.net has found that both Australian customer satisfaction with speech recognition systems, and the technical capabilities of the systems, have increased significantly over the past several years.
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Aussies prefer web to TV
via AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
Shared by Jack How many times will this article be published! The same story has been rehashed about 5 times now..PEOPLE with broadband internet access spend more time on the net than they do watching television, a survey has found, but they're not ready to start paying for content.
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