iTunes Ping
iTunes10 has a social network for music fans called Ping. Ping enables you to publicly announce the music that you like, share music with your friends and make Twitter-like comments on it in real-time. You can follow your mates and even artists on Ping fan pages that encourage conversations with fans.
Kinda like social Spotify, but with artists…
Here.
FaceInvaders
Pulls in you friends so you can blast ‘em.
Here.
Google Realtime
Google’s Realtime Search has a new home at http://google.com/realtime and new tools to make your real-time search experience faster and more comprehensive. Learn about Realtime’s geographic refinement and conversations feature and learn how to set up your own Google Alerts for Realtime results.
Here.
Real Life ‘Like’
The video is awful 0 the sound track and V/O being particularly minging. However, the thing it’s on about is a very nice idea. Basically enabling people to perform a “Like” action in the real world, which appears back on Facebook.
Sweet.
Additional inappropriate meeting cliché: ‘Digital is best when it’s not digital’.
MILF Finder
MILF: Missing Items Location Finder is a new mapping service for missing items from Gowalla collections.
Incase you didn’t know Gowalla is a little like Foursquare.
Here.
And yes, so on purpose.
3D On YouTube
This (awesome) video:
Has a 3D selector item at its base that looks like this:
Which gives you these options:
So all you need to do is select the relevant option, get some 3D glasses or stare at the screen bosseyed. I have to admit I tried the latter (cross-eyed as above) which actually vaguely worked. Not quite as good as a Bravia, but 3D nonetheless.
Brilliant.
8-bit YouTube
Like it says.
ViaHurtyBrain.
RapMap
Rap Map, Google mapping the rapping across the USofA (or mostly NYC).
Here.
Geosocial Universe
Nothing like a bit of geosocial universe visualisation to brighten up your Sunday.
Click to enlarge/save for your next deck.
ViaGigaOM.
Star Wars Uncut Finished
In case you missed it Star Wars Uncut is a project that enables 472 people the opportunity to recreate Star Wars: A New Hope. Basically the entire movie has been split up into 15 second clips which people across the internet have re-shot. Over a year since it’s inception the film is finally finished.
Watch it here.
Original post.
Expedition Titanic
If you’re anything like me you’ll be fascinated by the watery grave that is the Titanic (and no that doesn’t mean I liked the stupid film). This is a very slick (flash heavy), very immersive (see what I did there) site that takes you 2.5 miles below sea level to the site of the wreck.
Very nicely done – shame we can’t see it in HTML5.
Here.
Shuffler | Channel Surf The Music Web
Shuffler aggregates music from around the web by genre. The home page houses a list of channels which are a bit like radio channels (divided by genre). When you click on a channel we send you to a blog post and start playing one of the songs mentioned on that post. If you don’t like it you can skip ahead or pick another channel from the shuffler bar on the top of the page. When the song ends, Shuffler sends you to the next song on the next blog.
Sweet.
Here.
ViaStarrman.
Google Tracking Bug Alarm Firefox Add-On
The Google Alarm Firefox addon visually & audibly alerts you when your personal information is being sent to Google servers. Even outside Gmail and YouTube you are constantly sending information to Google through their vast network of tracking bugs: Google Analytics, Google AdSense, YouTube embeds, API calls.. all of this data could potentially be used to monitor & track your personal web browsing habits. Google Alarm shows notifications, plays sound effects and keeps running stats about the % of websites you visit they push data back to Google.
Here.
Burton | .com
Loving the simplicity and straightforwardness of this new Burton site.
Well easy to navigate and very effective.
Nice work.
Here.
WeePlaces | FourSquare Visualization
Geo startup, Movity, has built a well sweet little visualization device called Weeplaces. It’s a simple idea that enables Foursquare users to visualize their check-ins. The tech shows where you’ve been and the volume of your check-ins over a give period. Yellow lines connecting your current location to the previous, so you kinda get a track of your motion.
Here.