We Are Hunted is an Online Music Chart born out of a collaboration between the semantic news service Wotnews and Native Digital Media. The site is driven by the same semantic search and aggregation technology that powers wotnews.com.au, the popular Australian news search engine and its US and UK equivalents at wotnews.com and wotnews.co.uk. The ‘We [...]
Where the Wild Things Are – Trailer (Video)
Posted on March 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The official trailer for the Dave Eggers-penned and Spike Jonze-directed film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s ‘Where the Wild Things Are‘ has hit the net with Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” as the music behind the stunning-looking visuals. The film has been pushed back a lot (it’s slated for October 2009 release) but given the great images [...]
Leonard Cohen Concert in Perth
Posted on February 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A magnificent and ethereal triumph of music and majesty. The Canadian poet/singer/songwriter – Leonard Cohen is still the King of Cool. In the past five decades, I’ve been privileged to attend some fabulous concerts – from the sublime (Pavarotti) to the surreal – the Rolling Stones and Roy Orbison singing together with Gene Pitney playing [...]
Blogging Heaven
Posted on December 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Welcome to the One-Stop shop for all your literary needs! Acronyms, abbreviations, conversions, quotations, definitions and synonyms – Abbreviations.com has it all. Smart and uncluttered page design coupled with intuitive search functionality makes this series of collated sites a pleasure to use – and a vital resource for all bloggers, writers and renaissance beings Thanks to STANDS4 [...]
BrownBook Open Data Business Directory
Posted on December 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Having some great fun with BrownBook.net having stumbled on the twitter profiles of @DaveIngram and @Marc_Lyne the CEO and COO of BrownBook.net which started in May 2008. Fantastic overview and interview with Robert Scoble is the best way of really understanding the key principles behind BrownBook.net (hosted below) Brownbook.net is a free GLOBAL business directory that [...]
Searching Shakespeare
Posted on December 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Shakespeare Searched is a fantastic resource for reviewing Shakespeare’s texts. It is a search engine designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. Search results are clustered search by topic, work, and character to make it easy to find exactly what you’re looking for. The search engine [powered by Vivísimo Velocity] is easy [...]
Posting to posterous
Posted on December 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Simple way to start sharing your thoughts, inspirations and photos. If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world. If you attach one photo (of any size, even direct from your camera!), it is resized by the posterous team to a web-friendly size [...]
Sanitized search for Catholics
Posted on December 22, 2008 · 1 Comment
The best way for good Catholics to surf the web CatholicGoogle is a search engine built by eBizWebPages just for Catholics. They strive to provide an easy to use resource to anyone wanting to learn more about Catholicism. This site is powered by Google using “safe search” technology, it produces results from all over the [...]
Google Calender Popup for Firefox
Posted on December 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment
GCal Popup GCal Popup is an experimental Firefox 3 extension which opens Google Calendar in an overlay over any web page, giving you quick access to your agenda without leaving the page you’re already visiting. To access the calendar, simply click the Google Calendar icon in the corner of your status bar. Read more about [...]
FireStatus Firefox addon
Posted on December 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment
FireStatus is a Firefox 3 extension. It is a status update utility for multiple social networks including Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook and Delicious. FireStatus lets you send simultaneous updates to multiple social networks and also displays your friends’ updates through notification pop-ups for “live” communication with your friends (uses Growl in OS X). An additional feature of great benefit is the integration of [...]