techPresident: How the candidates are using the web, and how the web is using them
Using MySpace, users can “friend” their favorite candidate of choice, which then allows us to somewhat predict the presidential election results. Pretty neat! The following charts show each Democratic and Republican candidates’ number of MySpace friends, updated daily like a stock exchange! We’ll see if this makes for a reliable prediction tool. Keywords: myspace, social, networks, politics, web2.0
Virtual terrorism strikes Second Life
People controlling animated avatar members of a self-proclaimed Second Life Liberation Army (SLLA) have set off computer-code versions of atomic bombs at virtual world stores in the past six months — with their own manifesto. Keywords: terrorism, secondlife
WIRED Blogs: Are Games Getting Too Expensive to Make?
According to a report from media analysts Screen Digest, games are getting so expensive to make that it’s becoming increasingly difficult for publishers to cover production costs. The complexity of next-gen games, longer development times and larger deve Keywords: gaming, business, 3d
BBC News: Three hacker teams unlock the PSP
Thanks to these hackers, the Sony PSP has become more useful to us. BBC scored in interview with them and explains the whole story of how they’ve beaten Sony to the punch. Keywords: psp, hacking, news
YouTube: C&C 3 Demo video
Command & Conquer was the first real-time strategy game I’ve ever played, and loved. Look how it’s evolved into it’s third major release… now features a third alien faction. Keywords: gaming, video
On Productivity
Hack together a lost USB Drive that calls for help
Ever lost your USB flash drive? It happens to most of us, that’s why some of you might be interested in using some of the scripts here for your USB drive to call for help, literally. Thanks Anggra! Keywords: gadgets, hack
Wired: New Camino 1.1 beta tuned for speed
Camino is a stripped down Firefox and with the new 1.1 beta, it does so much using so little (memory that is). If you own a Mac, there’s little reason not to add this to your web browsing arsenal. Keywords: apple, browser, freeware
twittereeze – Google Code
If you’re hardcore into Twitter and serious wish to "write once, publish everywhere", Twittereeze will let you plug your Twitter status as your IM status globally, as well as provide hardcoded keyboard shortcuts for superfast Twitter postings. Keywords: im, sms, blogging, hacks
Dr. Kevin Lim recently graduated with his PhD in Communication at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). Dabbling for both pragmatic and play, he seeks an ideal interplay between online and offline life, through social networking, blogging and lifecasting. He openly wishes to become a "social cyborg", where the meshing of human and networking technology would allow one's presence to be augmented by the minds of many. Read more...
