Lost and Found

Aug
27th

Wed

Here’s a video showcasing the amazing Ubiquity from Mozilla Labs which works alongside your browser (Firefox) to allow you to create mashups to do useful things like insert Google Maps into emails, translate sections of websites, Twitter quotes, etc.

It aims to work with natural language inputs so you don’t have to memorize obscure commands.

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Aug
26th

Tue

FriendFeed Blog: Preview the new FriendFeed design

The new Friendfeed beta design finally goes live!

Highlights include:

The ability to sort Friends into lists to help you filter content in your feed
The ability to post photos directly to Friendfeed. I guess they want you to use Friendfeed to create and share content, rather than a find and share service.
The ability to see other people’s Friendfeeds.

All in all, I think it’s a step in the right direction, though I’m not enjoying the new look - particularly the black bold text they’ve chosen for usernames next to each link. Ugly!

Another big negative at the moment is that commenting is broken on Internet Explorer, which I have to use at work.

Check out the Friendfeed Beta room for more discussion, including some really innovative ideas about what to add next and more fine-grained ways to sort through the information flow.

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Aug
24th

Sun

Olympic Handover

The Olympic handover at the closing ceremony earlier today was a joyous, extravagant mess.

From Boris Johnson clumsily waving an enormous flag to some kind of transformer London bus/carnival float with David Beckham on a lift, to an unlikely duet between Jimmy Page and Leona Lewis.

In case you don’t believe me:

BBC Sport | London takes over as Olympic host

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Aug
22nd

Fri

Abandonment and urban decay

I’ve been finding that there’s a strange beauty in photos of abandoned buildings, lonely places, slow deterioration and the gradual reclamation of the highest works of man by nature.

For me, it allows a vision of a post-apocalyptic planet without the pain and horror of the apocalypse. It’s always been the aftermath - not the disaster - that enthralls me.

To that end, why not dine on the following delights:

Detroit Wonderland

Detroit Wonderland | Julia Solis

Ars Subterranea

Ars Subterranea | Papciak and Sias

Opacity - Hellingly Asylum

Opacity | Hellingly Asylum

See also:

Flickr - Urban Abandonments

Infiltration.org - Whitby Psychiatric Hospital

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Web 2.0 Domain Name Generator “Need a name for your Web 2.0 company? Try this handy name generator.”

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WWTQ | Buzz “hypertext poem and web 2.0 buzzphrase generator.”

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Web2.0 Logo Creator by Alex P.

Use in conjunction with the Web 2.0 name generator and Web 2.0 bullshit generator for instant social media fame and fortune!

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Emptybottle.org - The Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator

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Aug
21st

Thu

Brand Tags “The basic idea of this site is that a brand exists entirely in people’s heads. Therefore, whatever it is they say a brand is, is what it is. 1.2 million + tags and counting.”

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Star Wars - Imperials Invade San Francisco (via OozyGorilla).

This video, originally posted by mhorn over on Current.com, shows everyday San Francisco invaded by the Death Star, AT-ATs, TIE Fighters etc. I’m sure you’ll agree it’s all kinds of awesome!

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