Samstag, 11. Dezember 2004

Google Suggest:The Movie (No mobile version yet). Google just rolled out Google Suggest, which basically helps you find what you[base ']re searching for by suggesting words based on popularity. Over on Davenetics.com there was a list of A-Z, so we thought it would fun to go through the alphabet and record it so you can see the words suggested as of December 10th, 2004. We tried to use Google suggest on our Windows Mobile Smartphone (Orange[base ']s SPV C500) but it didn[base ']t work (image here). Not that we expected it to, but if it did, that would have been a great app for mobile searching. Click here to view (WindowsMedia). [Engadget] 8:46:47 PM    comment []

Salad bar hacking. Mark Frauenfelder: This is the best thing I've seen in a long while. Robyn Miller sez: "This is a photo from a Chinese PDF manual. The manual explains, via text and a lot of fun photos, how to cram as much food as possible on one of those tiny Pizza Hut bowls at the salad bar. They're only allowed one trip. My cousin lives in Beijing. When he goes to Pizza Hut, he says this is what most people are busy building." (Click image for enlargement) [Eyebeam reBlog] 10:38:35 AM    comment []

Design the Door of the Future. designboom and COCIF international design competition "'a door to paradise' we are looking for a timeless HOME INTERIOR door design, which takes into account formal and technological innovation, its ease of use, originality and practicality for manufacturing. a broad variety of materials might be used: wood, metal, glass, plastics,..." [Eyebeam reBlog] 10:37:26 AM    comment []

P2P television?. Guido Ciburski, a television software engineer, wants to launch Cybersky, a Web service that aims to do for TV what already applies to music and video, which can be downloaded free from the internet. At the end of January, his company, TC Unterhaltungselektronic, will unveil its Cybersky TV web service which will enable broadband users to distribute video programmes free, and exchange them with others. Viewers will need a television connected to a computer set up to upload a chosen television programme on to the internet, where other viewers will be able to download and broadcast it on their own sets almost instantaneously. As soon as one subscriber uploads a programme on site, it becomes immediately available to other participants. So, the more subscribers, the greater the choice of programmes. The concept has alarmed Germany's established TV companies, and is likely to concern other broadcasters around the world. Cybersky's response to charges that it will be illegally broadcasting copyrighted programmes without permission is that its peer-to-peer system does not technically amount to distribution. His company is used to going to court to defend its innovations. Six years ago, they developed a device called the TeleFairy which enabled viewers to skip TV advertising. Germany's broadcasters sued but a five-year legal battle ended in victory for the inventors last summer. Via The Independent. [we make money not art] 10:35:42 AM    comment []

i hear him talking during the comercials, alone, arguing.. [Eyebeam reBlog] 2:25:30 AM    comment []