Freebase.com will be a public service free database which anyone can contribute to. How do people use Freebase.com? Freebase.com allows anyone to contribute, structure, search, copy and use data, through either the Freebase.com web site or through application program interfaces (APIs). Freebase makes it easy to put data in and pull data out for any commercial or ...
The navigation at the popular site SearchEngineLand is very normal - a set of buttons to access the content categories. The last button is labelled "Don't Click Here". Human nature is as human nature does... in three weeks the page had 1,713 unique page views. If you're designing a product that has a potentially ...
As reported by Daryl Ohrt at BranFlakesForBreakfast ... The Skull-A-Day blog. The blog's author is going to be creating and posting a new skull image every day for a year! It's a project by Another Limited Rebellion who identify themselves as a socially conscious design and consulting firm. This is skull #38: "Quoth the Skull". ...
Adverblog points us to the launch of Diesel Denim's new interactive catalog. The theme is a racy play on classifed dating ads. From an experience perspective the navigation model is radically altered to make the user feel like they're scanning the ads. The implementation is so well done that the UI is ...
Decades ago Paul Simon had 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover... Now we have 50 Reasons Why People Buy . It's a simple but clever brainstorming web site created by Wowza , a viral marketing agency in Minneapolis. Type in a key word and 50RWPB will fetch 50 related images from Flickr. Navigate the ...
My native city of Ottawa, Canada has a "take no prisoners" approach to parking meters. They have electronic meters with LCD displays installed throughout the city. The BIG problem is when the meter malfunctions, there's no message - you drop your looney in (96 cents USD) and nothing happens... This month alone ...
Motorola is the latest to hop onto the Presence hype-wagon! They were just granted a patent for determining the presence state of a user: A method for determining a presence state of a presence entity comprising the steps of: receiving presence information associated with a presence entity; receiving a composition rule associated with the presence ...
A while back, we wrote about ColourLovers - a cool if somewhat odd social networking site that allows users to create and share colour palettes. It seems that Adobe thought it was a good idea too. So big cash-cow buys tiny web 2.0 startup?? Nope. According to ...
The price has gone up from the 5 cents that the Peanuts psychologist used to charge, but the convenience of web-based therapy is awesome! psyAdvice is a Boston-based startup that offers your very own doctor Phil to confirm that indeed - you ARE crazy! Start by selecting the therapist of your choice - there are now ...
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