July 2009
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Facebook Connect: Vying to become the universal...
Facebook Connect takes users, developers and publishers a click closer to a richer social experience on the web. This technology, a single button placed on a website, allows the user to sign up to the website with their Facebook login, thus giving the website access to the users Facebook information and in turn giving Facebook access to the users activities on the website. A great example of this...
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Augmented ID Mobile App: Say goodbye to being... →
With the imminent arrival of iPhone OS 3.1, this impressive augmented reality concept by TAT is one step closer to reality. With the aide of facial recognition, Augmented ID is a mobile app that visualises the digital identities of those people you come in contact with by simply pointing the camera in their direction. The implementation looks incredibly slick for a concept.
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Amazon's Mechanical Turk collects 2088 voices to... →
Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected from online workers via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk - a crowdsourcing web service. The Workers were prompted to listen to the tune ‘Daisy Bell’ then record themselves imitating what they heard. The project is a collaboration between Aaron Koblin & Daniel Massey.
Why Daisy Bell? It was the song HAL sang...
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Energy meters get tweeting
German utility company Yello Strom is keeping its customers informed by enabling meters to tweet about energy use.
Each “Yello Sparzähler” smart meter (designed by IDEO) is allocated its own Twitter account, which is automatically updated with energy consumption data. The owner can follow the account to receive regular updates, leading to greater awareness and hopefully lower energy...
Cufon Font Replacement →
I recently discovered this simple script, which converts HTML heading tags to whatever font you want. There are a few other alternatives out there but this seems to do the trick quite well. I’ve used sIFR before a number of times but found it cumbersome to style across multiple browsers. Plus the thought of using flash to modify and display HTML code doesn’t seem to make a lot of...
Eternal Moonwalk - Clever M.J tribute site →