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Yahoo’s TV Internet Widgets

August 21, 2008 in Technology & Science

I just saw this over on ReadWriteWeb. Basically, what Yahoo are planning to do is give people the chance to have widgets display at the bottom of their TV, kind of like a news ticker on Sky/BBC News, only these will be pulling directly from the internet and will be fully customisable!

Yahoo are also opening this up for anyone to make a widget that people can select to view on their TV’s. Some examples proposed so far have been news tickers, weather updates etc. One interesting comment I read under the ReadWriteWeb article was a from somebody delighted at the thought of the twitter widget being at the bottom of his tv screen, so they could watch tv at the same time as their friends and have a kind of a group chat experience. E.g. “Peter says: ‘what a goal, that was amazing!” coming up at the bottom of your screen when you’re at home watching a football match! I think it’s really clever and could definitely create a new level of interactivity with what has always been a distinctly one-way medium.

I really can’t wait to see what widgets get made for this. What does anyone else hope to see? Or does anyone else plan on having a go at making a widget or two? (I may give it a bash myself!) I think some sort of RSS headline reader could be useful, or maybe an Alarm widget, that reminds you to do stuff, or what TV show’s are on, when you’re watching TV.

Hello world!

August 19, 2008 in Uncategorized

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Productivity at the Google office

August 17, 2008 in Uncategorized


After stumbling across this post on the Google Blog, I made me think what sort of reaction something like the pic about would elicit where I work! Basically, they moved floors within their building, and decided that would be a good excuse to redecorate the place by building a huge k’nex ferris wheel. I know in my place of work there would be instant jeers and jokes about them obviously having too much time on their hands and not an awful lot of real work to do, and to be honest I don’t know if I’m envious of them or if having that much free time in work would be the death of me!

Would you get away with something like this in work?

SouthPark.me

August 12, 2008 in Uncategorized

I got a little swept up by the hype of the launch of the new .me TLD and decided to take my first adventure into buying a domain name for the sake of it. Everything seemed to be snapped up pretty fast, but I managed to get one:

I’m not sure what I’ll do with it. I thought it might make a good site for those animation software type things where you can make your own south park avatar (for a facebook profile pic etc.) I’d be willing to sell it on too, but I’m not sure how one goes about something like that, not sure if it would fetch good money….