Today the cartoon blog XKCD posted it’s 1000 cartoon.
Here’s six favourites of the previous 999:
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Today I resurrected an account with flavours.me after a launch of Version 2 last week.
As a social portfolio it does very well. The only obvious account mising for me was de.licio.us but apart from that all the usual suspects were there along with the ability to add your own RSS feeds.
You get a selection of designs and layout options, colour scheme options, fonts and personal backgrounds.
If you pay £12.50 a year through paypal (or not considering recent events) you can use your own URL and other design features.
I am set up at iam.tomsteel.co.uk, try your own at flavours.me
A few weeks ago I saw this peice on The Register about an Apple employee who was fired as a result of privately making derogatory comments about Apple’s brand and products on his Facebook wall. His undoing was that not all his “friends” were friends, and one printed off the comments and showed them to his boss.
Story from The Register: Apple was OK to fire man for private Facebook comments
Then today I came across a very similar story but with quite a different ending. A Google engineer posted a rant about all the problems he saw with Google plus but instead of posting it privately he accidentally made it public. He wasn’t fired, he even says Google said it was his decision to delete it or not (he did, and posted this response, which some could question if it was written for him).
Story from Forbes: Whoops. Google Engineer Accidentally Makes His ‘Plus Sucks’ Rant Public.
Either way, I know which company I’d prefer to work for.
These opinion pieces are everywhere.
Why Google+ Pages Isn’t Good for Business
4 Reasons Google+ Brand Pages Will Be Better Than Facebook’s
Google Plus Finds Sweet Spot Between Facebook & Twitter
Google Engineer Calls Google Plus a ‘Complete Failure’; 5 Reasons We Agree
Why It is Wrong to Call Google Plus a Failure
Google Plus may be “not ready” for business, but it isn’t “not good for business”. It’s a beta product, the future is far from clear.
It would be foolish to right off the provider of the biggest search engine, video sharing and blogging platform. But equally daft to claim you must join in now or you’ll miss out.
Articles which launch with attention grabbing headlines like “Why Google+ Pages Isn’t Good for Business” are just as bad as the confusing rhetoric they criticise other of.
All any of these pieces needs to say is “Google Plus is interesting, but it’s not there yet, watch this space”
The last two articles linked to at the top of this peice are from the same website, so at least there’s some other balance out there.
Two industrial design students at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, have created a new bicycle saftey system that uses the bike’s movement to light the wheels. Ethan Frier and Jonathan Ota have a created a system which lights the wheels white while the bike is in motion, and red if it detects the bike is slowing down.
They have blogged their whole project on tumblr at surg2011.tumblr.com/ with photos and videos. A trailer of what there have created is below:
Thanks to the guys at etre for finding this: www.etre.com/blog/2011/06/project_aura/
Collated by Mike Phllips, mynewfavouritetumblr.tumblr.com lists his favorite tumblr accounts.
What would we do without the daily Mail? Without them we’d never know what a silhouette of Andrew Marr looks like.
“Silhouette: How Marr was seen in newspapers when reports of his injunction were published”
That’s one less thing to worry about. See the shocking truth yourself at www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1380546/Andrew-Marr-abandons-injunction-affair-fellow-journalist.html
Google Motion
More at mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html
Helvetica
Google Helvetica search: http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&q=helvetica
Playmobil
Playmobil Apple Store: http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8bb/
Richard Branson
Branson buys Pluto, reinstates as planet: www.virgin.com/travel/news/branson-buys-pluto-reinstates-as-planet/
NME – Blur and Oasis
Liam Gallagher is set to make an on-record reconciliation with Damon Albarn – with Beady Eye covering Blur for a new single. www.nme.com/news/various-artists/55836
Royal Wedding preparation
Guardian live blog every detail of the the preparation www.guardian.co.uk/uk/by-royal-appointment/2011/apr/01/royal-wedding-live-updates
Rob Brydon on Radio 2
Rob is presenting Ken Bruces’s show as Ken Bruce http://twitter.com/#!/RobBrydon/status/53743334795128832
Bronze Boris
Plans have been unveiled for a 12 metre-high bronze statue of London Mayor Boris Johnson overlooking the River Thames in London. www.dezeen.com/2011/04/01/bronze-boris-bike-statue-by-dowling-jones-stone/
Eau de Mutt
Sales of ‘wet dog’ perfume soar. Eau de Mutt, which replicates the scent of a dog’s coat when wet, has become an unlikely bestseller online. fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG8419827/Sales-of-wet-dog-perfume-soar.html
Youtube as 1911
Youtube adds a vintage feel to it’s videos http://youtubeukblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/looking-back.html
Google Autocompleter
As a Google Autocompleter, you’ll be expected to successfully guess a user’s intention as he or she starts typing instantly. In a fraction of a second, you’ll need to type in your prediction that will be added to the list of suggestions given by Google: www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view/autocompleter/index.html
Edible Metro
The newspaper, already the first into Space, is set to become the only national you can eat after reading.
Read more: www.metro.co.uk/news/859704-have-we-got-chews-for-you-the-edible-metro
Add others you find in the comments….
The Passive Aggressive Notes blog is a great collection of anger fuelled outbursts from the non-confrontational members of society.
The latest contribution has to be one of my favorites:
Thanks to www.passiveaggressivenotes.com and the anonymous submitter in Huntsville, Alabama.
