Twitter, the biggest life-waster medium (media?) on the planet has a cool little deviation (twist’).
Twistori parses and filters twitter to find strings that begin by I love, I hate, I think, I believe, I feel, I wish.
The result is a pretty cool mood’o'meter of the internet (of ego-centric people with no life).
Tag Galaxy is a pretty cool little app using the flickr api.
I’m not 100% sure that it’s anything but cool.
Slide rocket is in private beta and I’m still waiting for my invite. It seems very promising from the look of it.
Anyone got an invite for me? 
I think we have a winner.
Spectra is a visual rss reader of msnbc.com made in Flash and using I believe Papervision 3D.
It’s visually very impressive, 3D, quite usable, but buggy as hell!
For starters it wouldn’t start in my Safari for some reason (buggy JS?), then clicking the carrousel elements kept getting items from the same feeds in Firefox 3, and so on.
However, it looks very promising…
Less flat than my Digg UFO, for sure!
It has been a while since I’ve seen a documentation that a company can be proud about.
The Facebook Developer Documentation is one that gives me hope. it seems that web2.0 means documentation2.0 too.
Spend some time in Adobe’s documentation, or any web framework and you might find yourself with a wig soon enough.
Facebook’s documentation is clear, to the point and well explained, with multiple options. Also good documentation examples go to Mozilla’s Gecko DOM reference and Proce55ing’s.
CushyCMS is a good execution of an old idea: have a CMS that integrates within the content of a site, rather than define how the content of the site should be handled.
Simply add the cushycms tag to your content divs and off you go.
The only problem I imagine is the fact that the pricing hasn’t been defined therefor making clients very uncomfortable with the idea of using such product. They like to know how much things are going to cost and plan the website around that. That simple fact renders it a toy rather than a tool.
That said the simplicity of it makes it a definite product to watch closely…
I’ve been looking for this for god knows long… Great, and free SQL Designer. Usability could be better but it does the job very well!
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Further to our review of the Hobnox’s Online TV application, Hobnox recently launched an online music tool. Based on a similar interface concept as Reason, users are able to use virtual drum machines, effects pads and a 12 channel mixer to sequence some music. Similar to Reason, the system is really easy to use. Instruments look and behave just like analogue equipment and you can chain the audio inputs and outputs. It’s good fun. Also, the instruments look very cool!
Adobe had to release along the lines of picnik. It makes sense. They own both technologies (Flex/Photoshop) and therefore had the tools to make something super-great.
The result? Not so bad, but I don’t think that it’s a direct competitor to Picnik for example, another online photo editor, previously seen here.
Photoshop Express is a quick way to adjust the crop, hue, saturation, tint and the like. And it does it really well.
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Nexus creates a graph of your social network and finds commonalities between your friends.
Built with Python 2.5, PyFacebook & Javascript.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents a 2008 online exhibition. The website is slick (although I tend to get lost with their next and previous…)
More information in this pdf.
Visit the MoMA 2008 exhibition.
Information Architects (iA) presents the 2008 Web Trend Map.
Almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites are represented on the greater Tokyo area train map.
A0 poster available.
The clickable ’start page’ is wicked for random clicking.
Hobnox is an online TV application, with concerts, interviews, series, reports, news, etc.
The execution is splendid.
Just brilliant.
