bubbl.us

bubbl.us is a lightweight, flash-based brainstorming tool which has been getting some attention lately. while bubbl.us looks nice and implements some innovative models of user-interaction (f.e. the delete-timer, counting down from 3 before finally removing an item, accompanied by a cheesy combustion-animation ), it’s restricted to very simple diagrams and lacks collaborative features. [...]

how to dismantle a Googlebomb

so Google finally devoted some time on solving an algorithmic phenomenon causing astonishment among net-newbies as well as amusement in geek-circles since years: the Googlebomb finally has been disarmed. as things go with search/ranking algorithms, Google Blogoscoped can only guess on how the mathematical solution of the problem looks like – but it’s probably [...]

roundup for 2007-01-23 … / eMail / 3D

10 Minute Mail allows users to generate a temporary email-adress which is automatically destroyed after 10 minutes. great for avoiding spam of all kinds.
P-Mail – a paper-based eMail-template by Gary Kemble
interesting piece at Read/WriteWeb about the current state of 3D-interfaces on the Web. considering that VRML was first published more than 10 years [...]

5 things you don’t know about me…

thanks to Christian Spanring I’m now part of this game the blogosphere is playing since quite some time. so, without further ado, 5 things you probably didn’t know about me:

my very first home-computer was a Commodore 128D, my first TV-video-game the Philips Videopac G7200 (this cutie even had a BASIC-module!).
though I can’t prove it on [...]

roundup for 2007-01-22

“First Life is a 3D analog world where server-lag doesn’t exist” – join 6 billion users and register at getafirstlife.com! …according to the comments on creator Darren Barefoot’s blog, Linden Labs takes the joke with a wink and grants Darren all rights to proceed the parody…big up!
The Ad Generator produces fake advertising by [...]

roundup for 2007-01-19 … Myspace / Music 2.0

Myspace users experienced a suspicious anomaly yesterday, as adding new (flash-based) widgets to Myspace profile-pages didn’t work for a few hours (existing widget-integrations have not been affected). while TechCrunch reports that Myspace – unofficially – claims a developer-bug to be the reason for this behaviour, skeptics might take this as proove that the free-ride for [...]

Geni: Everyone’s Related

the brainchild of former PayPal executive David Sacks, Geni does for genealogy what Cogmap is doing for organizational hierarchies. the collaborative online-tool for building family-trees is Flash-based and persuades new users with a very low entry-barrier: start mapping your tree just by entering name & email…add your immediate family-members and they will automatically receive notification [...]

roundup for 2007-01-16 … WikiSeek / Scrybe / Joost

launched today, WikiSeek is a vertical search-engine indexing only pages within the Wikipedia-domain(s), plus sites which are linked from within Wikipedia-pages (an attempt to minimize spam-results and deliver better results than Wikipedia itself). Search Engine Land thinks it’s poorly implemented.
remember Scrybe, the pretty-much-hyped Flash-based online-calendar/PIM with offline-capabilities, which went into pretty-private beta a few months [...]

roundup for 2007-01-15

only a week after Linden Labs released the sources of their SecondLife client, hackers start releasing some inspiring modifications. like Matt Biddulph, who is manipulating virtual objects by feeding data from an external, analouge potentiometer into SL.
Wordpress receives another security-related upgrade – everybody upgrade to 2.0.7!

weekend-roundup for 2007-01-14

Google Blogoscoped has a detailed description of the latest Google security-exploit, which apparently now has beend fixed. the exploit was based on the possibility of hosting malicous content on a google.com subdomain, alllowing attackers to capture any visitors Google-cookie.
IBM-developers re-created a virtual representation of the Australian Open tennis-stadium within SecondLife. the build can replay tournament-games [...]