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The Google advert will call you

Published 2 years, 1 month ago in News, Experimental, Travel, Trend, Advertising, Web and Marketing. 0 Comments

Part of my family live near Leeds, while my close family live in France. I was looking to compare prices for flights from Paris to Leeds and a little green thing caught my eye next to the results on Google.
My mum’s flight from Leeds to France a few weeks ago was just after the foiled […]

Captcha Brain Power

Published 2 years, 1 month ago in Thoughts, Design, Experimental, Trend and Web. 0 Comments

I just came across a very interesting Google Video from Google. Luis von Ahn, a Carnegie Mellon professor, discusses the Captcha concept used to stop automatic systems from filling in forms and how currently Spam companies are trying to get around it.
Captcha is used to describe a system that allows a computer to automatically generate […]

AJAX Write and Sketch and Tunes

Published 2 years, 1 month ago in Experimental, Music, Writing and Web. 0 Comments

Well I just came across this AJAX based Word Processor system called ajaxWrite that can actually read and write MS Word documents and several other formats. It is AJAX based so it just works directly in your browser, it’s really cool !

But I then realised that this was just the tip of the iceberg. There […]

We Feel Fine

Published 2 years, 2 months ago in Design, Experimental and Web. 1 Comment

Just came across this web site called We Feel Fine. Don’t know how long it’s been about (3 or 4 months I think) but it is nicely designed and pretty intriguing. The concept reminds me a bit of the NewsMap aggregator in Flash, however this is not in Flash and the layout is simple and […]

Brainwaves replacing the mouse

Published 2 years, 2 months ago in Tech, Design, Experimental, Trend and Society. 0 Comments

In a futuristic article, Fortune discusses the way research in to reading and interpreting brainwave activity, has lead to conclusive initial experiences that allow the brain to replace the mouse for basic functions.
Science Fiction Novels have often given us images of a future with voice controlled and complex computer systems providing valuable services and functions. […]

Don’t click it, no really, don’t click it

Published 2 years, 2 months ago in Tech, Design, Experimental, Trend, Society and Web. 1 Comment

After having recently posted about the joke-site “don’t press the red button” I was amused to discover an extremely serious experience/study over at www.dontclick.it. Yes Don’t Click It, spelled the geeky way, in a domain name way.
The site is not only an experience for the creators, it’s a real and novel experience for the visitors. […]

Helping users in and out of your site

Published 2 years, 6 months ago in Tech, Design and Experimental. 0 Comments

With my recently launched voyages.net site, I spent a considerable amount of time working on the user experience both while users surf the site but also when they leave the site. I really dislike clicking on a link that turns out to a 404 error page and there is nothing to do about it. In […]

Cool Expirimenal Game of Evolution : Flow

Published 2 years, 6 months ago in Design and Experimental. 0 Comments

Take a look at this experimental game from Jenova Chen that was done for thesis work and is a very interesting piece of work (In My Humble Opinion) :
Flow In Games
Once you have read how to play click on Play “flOw”
Bravo on the design and the concept !