Natal Body Controllers From Microsoft
Project Natal is controller-less game play using body movements to control the Xbox 360 console. In reality if it works out as good as the videos shows then Microsoft have scored a home run.
Digg Ads – Fully Blended
Digg is about to launch an ad system that allows sponsored stories within the Digg listings, spot the ad:
The question is will the Digg community become blind to the sponsored ads? Or will they turn out like a paid inclusion version of Digg? Read the full announcement on the Digg Blog.
Seth on Product Development Buffet Style
Interesting post by Seth using the analogy of a Dinner Buffet to explain how to expand a product range effectively.
Deeper would mean a bacon-focused buffet, a dozen bacon dishes, including chocolate-covered bacon. Deeper would mean a chocolate-obsessed dessert bar, ten cakes, fondue, everything.
Deeper gets you people willing to drive across town to visit you.
The other choice is wider. Instead of adding a handful of dishes that mildly please the people you already have, why not add brown rice and tofu and vegetarian chili?
In summary: Increasing your quality significantly (deeper) or making a new product line to expand (wider) your market size works; Slight improvements in quality keeps your existing clients happy but doesn’t win new ones.
Definitely read the full post at Seth’s blog.
Bing – Video Search
Microsoft recently launched Bing a search engine comparable to Google. The normal search is fine, but where this search really holds it own is video.
A video search results page is a great video wall in which a mouse-over on video gets it playing.
Lets check out what Seth has to say:
Or watch the new Natal body controller promotional videos:
Google Wave
This changes things:
Sign up for updates to Google Wave.
Whales Stealing Fish From Lines – Caught On Camera
At depths of 328 feet (100 meters), the massive mammals were shown plucking the fishing line at one end to free the tasty black cod at the other end—like shaking apples from a tree, scientists say.
Watch the whales:
Full scientific details at National Geographic.
Tweeting Bar
Interesting SEO/PR stunt, the bar that tweets when a beer is poured @tweetingbar
Source: http://blog.360i.com/360i-news/introducing-tweetingbar
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Hi, Congratulations to the site owner for this marvelous work you’ve done. It has lots of useful and interesting data.
Added: Bing image search is also impressive, you can continue to scroll and scroll (so no more clicking the next button). Unlike text search it is usual to check the first 100 results for the image you are looking for.
Tim,
you should check out make magazine:
http://blog.makezine.com
I came across MAKE while I was in the US. They do overseas subs and also have a cool website with loads of videos. Some of the ideas and articles are superb! It is published 4 times a year.