Friedbeef’s Tech

Use Beautiful Images To Spell and Tell Time (Flickr)

17. May 2006

One thing I love about the Flickr photo sharing service it’s open API where developers can chip in to do all sorts of interesting things with the millions of images which are uploaded online. This one uses images of letters to spell whatever you want… …And Clockr is a real time clock which grabs images from Flickr [...]

Search As You Type With AlltheWeb Livesearch

15. May 2006

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More search innovation from the big guns in search coming your way. This time AllTheWeb (powered by Yahoo) chimes in with a blazing fast “search-as-you-type” search mechanism, where search results are displayed as you type in the query without even having to hit a “search” key. It also comes with instant search refinement suggestions. [...]

Nintendo Wii Videos from E3

14. May 2006

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Nintendo recently showcased playable versons of their new Wii console at E3, the largest video game expo in the world. If you’re unfamilliar with the new motion sensor Nintendo console with the strange name, check out this quick 30 second live demo video here taken from E3. 1586469645511176529 Technorati Tags: nintendo wii e3

Exploring Search Innovations With Microsoft Live Search

13. May 2006

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I was playing around with Microsoft’s new Live Search , and I have to say that coupled with some excellent new features, the look and feel of this new search engine is quite a breath of fresh air. Firstly, Windows Live Search comes with a never ending scrollbar. Let’s face it, while Google may pull [...]

Tracking Internet Buzz Over Time (Google Trends)

11. May 2006

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Google has just launched a free service which overlays Google News with it’s own search volume called Google Trends. This tool has useful marking implications when tracking buzz over time, as it provides quick context and possible answers like to questions like: Why has interest in my product spiked? Are more people trying to find information on my [...]