Youtube has quietly started a movies section.
The initial selection is on the limited side, but there’s plenty of interesting content amongst the Bollywood movies. There are multiple Jackie Chan movies as well as George A. Romero’s original zombie-fest, Night of the Living Dead.
Paul Allen sues everybody. Except companies from Washington state.
The Facebook version of Scrabble has a pretty tight grip on the “bad UX of the year”. An unavoidable 30 second wait with a small and inappropriate advertisement is not really the way to encourage returning to the game often. Double annoyment demerits on account of the game status not being visible outside the application.
True transparency and no anonymity is the way forward – and there’s nothing we can do to prevent it.
The plans for future UI-candy for Firefox look pretty indeed.
Wordstream and ppcblog.
Both pointful, and pleasantly short.
sketch.processing.org – the Processing language available through Bespin.
When the need to grind is infinite: Progress Wars.
As the ever-expanding URL shortening business is concerned, the recently arrived shadyurl is a clear winner.
First of all it doesn’t even attempt to shorten the URL, and it additionally mangles it to a form that is very unattractive to surfers who actually bother checking the target of a link.
The innocent permalink to this very entry is transmuted to rather suspicion-arousing http://5z8.info/worm_k8s0m_myspace-of-sex.
Google’s Streetview has expanded to cover Finland. The image have been taken last summer, so the country is fortunately not seen in its full November glory.
The HQ is visible, without any suspicious activity outside. Quite unlike what happened when Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne’s house was photographed.
I lied, it’s all about geeky top lists of the decade here:
And as a bonus, a fearsomely geeky list on interesting products and projects of 2009.
Nicholas Feltron has not yet published his annual report for 2009.
However, for anybody with an interest in the subject and lesser chops in data management, Daytum is now out of beta.
And I think it’s high time to give it a spin. On some appropriately recurring topic: like lunch at work.
Stay tuned. I’m sure you can hardly contain your excitement.
Google has updated their City Tours lab product.
Will come in handy on the next long weekend in a new city.
Privacy theater, security theater‘s second cousin.
EDIT 29.12.2009: Yeah, miswrote the title, fixed now.
Firefox 3.6 (here, soon) is codenamed Namoroka, to raise awareness and funds for its namesake national park in Madagascar.
Google Chrome is now available for Mac OS X. In beta, but available nonetheless.
How a web design goes straight to hell.
Not that the rest of the product design is any easier. But at least the stakeholders are usually less invasive. Usually being the operative word.
For those moments the internet’s subconscious takes over.
According to Nomen est Omen, an award-winning data-mining product, my family name is 100% elite.
Mainly based on rarity of the name, I guess.
