Month: December 2009
Wifi Cafes – the good, the bad and 5 things you don't want to hear
Americans are getting (sort of) excited because US McDonalds have just introduced wifi to their restaurants. This made me realise that UK McDonalds have had wifi for years. I hadn't noticed till now, but I imagine using your laptop in McDonalds doesn't work very well. Apart from the fact that the salt, sugar and burgers…
Subscriptions for Youtube?
Could YouTube start charging for content? Looks like they might... ItPro reports, but only for full-length premium shows. The subscription model would be a way to encourage the big TV channels to stream their videos on Youtube. "We're making some interesting bets on long-form content; not all content is accessible to us with the advertising…
Real-time UK Snow Map uses Twitter to plot snowfall
A real-time snow map, based on the occurrence of the word "snow" on Twitter shows that little patches are dusting the outer the edges of Scotland and that there are significant bits in the middle of London. The UK snow map put together by Ben Marsh automatically updates every minute and shows a panel of…
A MacBook for £8.02: pay-to-bid site DesignerAuction launches
A new concept auction site takes online fashion sales to a different place: pay-to-bid site DesignerAuction.co.uk offers high-end fashion pieces at 10% discounts with the opportunity for 90% discounts on each item if won at auction. But there's already a big auction site: eBay. Why is this different? Well, Designer Auction differentiates itself from other…
Celebrity Twitter Directory, the Book :(
Yesterday we covered interesting books about Twitter. Today I've found what might be the opposite of an interesting book about Twitter. It's a review of Celebrity Twitter feeds in book form. If such a thing is to exist, it should be a Twitter list with relevant links. Something like this. Good Tweets may be worth…
Extreme beds: the dinosaur and the space ship
This is fun. The monster isn't under your bed... the monster is your bed. If you are a child who loves dinosaurs and doesn't get terrified by the thought of sleeping in the jaws of a tyrannosaurus rex, this would be the most amazing bed in the world. In a way, it's just a take…
The Robovie-II: at last, a robot that does the shopping
Why carry your shopping yourself when you can get a robot to do it? Okay, they still have trolleys rather than robots in the average British Tescos, but in Japan... they have bag-carrying robots. FTW Japan. The robotic shopping assistant from company ATR is designed to make shopping more convenient and entertaining for the elderly.…
Facebook now lets you update Twitter from your profile
Facebook's new age of Glasnost and Perestroika hit another milestone today when it announced that users will be able to post to Twitter from their Facebook profiles. The change should be in place by the end of the week. Over the past few months Facebook has been opening up to the web: encouraging users to…
Transformer Computer Mice from Brando, making mice into dinosaurs
I have a lot of love for this: Brando bring the magic of plastic dinosaurs to the humble computer mouse. Transformer mice work as normal mice but then magically unfold to become manipulable dinosaurs. Like Transformers machines right? Yes. Just like that. Get your colleagues transformer mice too then you can have office mouse fights.…
X-oom Media Grabber: software that finds, saves and converts net downloads
Want to find (legal) downloads more easily? You can buy software for that - X-OOM Media Grabber is a web download engine which aims to make finding free downloads much easier. Enter the name of your favourite band or artist and the program scours the net and downloads anything free, even the latest number one…
