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Archive for February, 2008

Welcome to EfficienCity

“It’s clean, it’s efficient – and it’s possible. While the government dithers, people on the ground are bringing green energy solutions to towns across the UK.” Check out Greenpeace UK’s EfficienCity for some good stuff and a whiff of fresh air. The website‘s pretty well done, too.


What’s in the video?

Remember a situation when you were watching a cool movie, a music video or just a short clip on YouTube, and you saw someone in the video wearing the coolest pants, putting on the best song or using a really awesome product? Well, maybe you, as a consumer, don’t actually remember so many of those [...]


Draw your own maps

When I was 13, 14 years old, I sometimes sat down for hours to draw maps of imaginary cities. I was, and I am still, interested in urban planning, though it never became my profession, and I’m drawn to maps of all kind. Last week I told my wife I’d like to start drawing those [...]


Thank god it’s… Mini Friday?

Without any marketing campaigns, Sulake, the creator of the social networking community/chat world Habbo Hotel, put out a mobile community called Mini Friday at the end of 2006. Mini Friday is a small mobile version of Habbo Hotel: in the beginning the user creates his own character/avatar, and then (s)he can start moving the character [...]


NetFront goes 3.5

NetFront, possibly the most advanced microbrowser for cell phones and other small devices, is soon coming out in version 3.5, which takes great use of widgets. Sadly, my current cell phone plan here in Canada doesn’t allow to me really use anything more than standard texting, phoning and a bit of mobile web over EDGE, [...]


A couple betas

I’ve recently started using a couple new services that are now in beta testing: Floobs and Vailoma. Floobs offers tools for creating and distributing web TV channels. Sounds a bit like YouTube, and it is, but Floobs is more geared towards setting up independent “channels” for associations, sports teams, community groups, etc. rather than being [...]


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