WolframAlpha Deal Means Bing Gets Its Geek On


Microsoft's Bing just keeps getting more interesting: The latest news is that Microsoft recently closed a deal with WolframAlpha's management to get some of Wolfram's impressive sciencey "fact calculation" goodness showing in Bing's results.

Interview with Yiying Lu, aka Fail Whale Creator

Interview with Yiying Lu, a bubbly Sydney based designer who is responsible for one of the most iconic images Fail Whale which appears on the micro-blogging/social network Twitter whenever their server slows down.

Can the Twitterati help sell your soda pop?

On a Monday night earlier this month, the projection screen hanging on the wall of a bowling alley in Brooklyn's bar-heavy Williamsburg neighborhood was displaying neither strikes nor scores, but columns of the Twitter client TweetDeck.

Strap-on mini helicopters the latest way to travel

Forget bungy jumping and black river rafting: New Zealand's tourists will soon be able to whiz around in a strap-on mini helicopter to get their thrills.

Sony Takes Aim At Amazon's Kindle

Watch out Amazon, Sony's got the Kindle in its sights.

Firefox 3.6 a1: new CSS features, faster JavaScript

Mozilla has released the first alpha of Firefox 3.6. Ars takes a look at the new features, such as CSS gradients.

Stimulus billions fund rural broadband Internet

For businesses in rural America, fast Internet connections remain a scarce luxury. A $7 billion stimulus program aims to narrow the digital gap.

War declared: Apple’s Cult Takes on Google’s Borg

The ignorant masses milling around the iPod display at the local Wal-Mart last week had no idea that they were at Ground Zero of the next titanic battle in all of technologydom.

Mashups pit search engines against each other



Can't decide which search engine to use? Use several.

Facebook launching Twitter-like 'Lite site?



From what it looks like, Facebook Lite is a simpler version of the site and pares down profiles to basic information and a stream of status updates.

dotSub

dotSUB is a browser based tool enabling subtitling of videos on the web into and from any language. There is nothing to buy and nothing to download

Flickroom

Flickroom is an Adobe AIR based application that provides the rich browsing experience Flickr users have long deserved.

Flavortunes

Create your own soundtrack for a party or event. Build a jukebox with your guests' song requests.

Qipit

Turn documents, notes and whiteboards into digital copies (PDFs). Copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish.

Globalization of Virtual Events

When looking at a virtual event platform to serve more than one country or culture’s needs what should one consider? Language, imagery, interaction, time zone, content, and more oh my!

Windows 7 jump lists come to Chrome

Google Chrome fans who live on the edge and use the developer's build now get access to one of the best features in Windows 7.

Facebook gets Twitter-like search

New users to Facebook (and probably some existing users, but not all of them yet) are getting a new search experience in Facebook starting Monday.

Facebook buys FriendFeed

The social-networking titan scoops up FriendFeed, a service that gathers people's scattered online activity. It's a deal focused on talent, not product.

GM says new Volt to get 230 mpg in city driving

General Motors Corp. said Tuesday its Chevrolet Volt rechargeable electric car should get 230 miles per gallon of gasoline in city driving, more than four times the mileage of the current champion, the Toyota Prius.

Thought of the day

Wear Fluid Interfaces

Pattie Maes from MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group showcases the latest work of her students, “a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they’re done.”

MIT Students: Wearable computer

100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration



Finding inspiration is not always as simple as it sounds, whether you’ve been designing for years or only weeks. Here's a collection of 100 great web resources to find inspiration and direction on your next project, whether it be online or in print.

Build your industry voice with social media

Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bone marrow

Why Do You Tweet?

eMarketer reports that, according to the "Consumer Internet Barometer," the majority of Twitter users (42%) use the service to communicate with their friends.

DEQQ

DEQQ is an always-on messaging and media distribution service that provides artists and broadcasters with a brandable desktop application that can deliver music, video, and games directly to your followers.

AltUse

A green wiki-style site that encourages alternative uses for any product you already own. Post your own suggestions for alternate uses, and vote for favorites.

Tweetblocker

Tweetblocker is a free resource for Twitter users and application developers.

BlackBerry Curve 8520 Lightning Review

It's cheap, it's ball-less, it's the BlackBerry Curve 8520. Oh, and it's the first BlackBerry carrying the trackpad that's probably gonna wind up on every BlackBerry eventually.

Social Media is a Culture, Not Just a Strategy



We all know the basic buzz words of social media, “Twitter Marketing, Facebook Strategy, Community Building”. The problem with these terms are they allude to an idea that once you build a strategy for these platforms, you’ll be able to fully leverage social media.

How to Monitor Your Brand on Twitter

More and more companies are starting to realize that Twitter is an excellent (and free!) way for them to monitor how people (or, to be more precise, a particular sub-section of people) feel and converse about their brand, company or product.

New FeedDemon only syncs with Google Reader



As FeedDemon closes in on finalizing the code for version 3, FeedDemon 3 RC 4 abandons its proprietary online synchronization at newsgator.com. The fourth release candidate syncs only with Google Reader, as FeedDemon's creator Nick Bradbury announced it would last week

Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user

A pro-Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.