Well this is interesting. Starting today you can make phone calls from Gmail. Through the rest of the year calls to anywhere in the US and Canada are free and they have “low rates” for calls to other countries.
[via TechCrunch]
Any fan of rap music knows how prevalent geographic references are in lyrics. Now, there’s a map for that.
[via Kottke]
Vimeo is unleashing what they call their “Universal Player” which translates into new embed code for publishers that put Vimeo videos on their own sites. The old embed code would link directly to a Flash version of the videos. The new version will detect what device is being used and serve up the best video player (Flash or HTML5).
In other news, Vimeo has also teamed up with Roku so you can watch Vimeo videos on your HDTV.
And finally, they’ve added a “Watch Later” button that will allow you to bookmark videos for future viewing.
It’s a brave new world.
[via Cameron Moll]
Dave Shea has created a “lightweight browser-based image processing library” that allows you to apply filters to images at the browser level. The idea is genius, and the demos are beautiful. So now that we have the answer to the question “can we”, now we must answer the question “should we.”
[via SimpleBits]
“Well friends, like all great things, this too must end..”
- Isaiah Mustafa
And that marked the close of the epic Old Spice response videos. But at least now we get to see out how they did it.
[via Cameron Moll]
Todd Dominey and SlideShowPro are preparing to unleash a mobile version of their world-class Flash slideshow application that will be accessible on mobile devices.
Update: And it’s already getting the praise it deserves.
WordPress 3.0, Thelonious, is here. Get some! Lots of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.
Update: The plugin HeadSpace2 was wreaking havoc on my Edit Post pages and it’s WordPress Plugin Page confirms that it’s “broken”. After I disabled it everything was all good. And All in One SEO Pack can get the job done just as well.
AT&T has been an unpopular mobile carrier for a while now. And their decision to implement a tiered pricing model for their data plans with a 2GB cap has made them even less popular (I didn’t think it was possible either). But as Christopher Schanck points out, instead of asking how best to gouge their current high-use customers, they should be asking why aren’t their low-use customers using more?
Rather than ask what is the lowest point they could cheaply cap data and still make money, they should have asked: Why are so many people using so little bandwidth? Or, put another way, you should be ashamed of yourself if you sell a device like the iPhone and then encourage people use it so lightly that they only consume a couple hundred megs of data a month.
Really, AT&T (and Apple, hello!) should be dying to get people to use 1-2 gigabytes of data a month at least. The more data people use the more entrenched the phone becomes in their lives.
AT&T’s new pricing model is surely a blow to the future of mobile video and TV, how big of a blow it will be to their customer base remains to be seen.
[via Hacker News]
A printer created with Lego pieces and a felt tip marker (and a Mac, of course). Unbelievable.
[Warning: This video contains awful techno beats]
Time magazine’s 2010 list of the 100 most influential people is an absolute joke. Lady Gaga? Anyone who’s qualifications include “diva” are automatically disqualified. Sandra Bullock? Snooki? Are these really the “women” we want to put on a pedestal for our youth to emulate? And so it doesn’t look like I’m just tearing down women on the list, you can’t be serious about Neil Patrick Harris? And Dan Coudreaut, really? The head chef of McDonald’s? You can’t be serious.
Since Time’s list is obviously a joke (I can’t really blame them since you need to sell copies by any means necessary in today’s print publishing world) I feel it would be a disservice to America and the world if a real list wasn’t put out. So below, compiled by me and me alone, is the real 2010 list of the 100 most influential people. They’re in no particular order, but are organized by category. Read the rest of this entry »
