ThePixel.com – web-site of the week
The Pixel provides the most ingenious design and marketing solutions on the web. And with a track record of absolute excellence, you’re in good hands.
Latest blogging jobs (March 2010)
Here are the latest blogging jobs for this month:
- Laptop blogger – [details]
- Food blogger – [details]
- Finance blogger- [details]
- Travel blogger – [details]
- Diet and nutrition writer – [details]
For those of you who don’t know what is a blog, below is a short description of the therm according to Wikipedia.com.
A blog (a contraction of the term “web log“) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. – wikipedia
Kantar.com – flash site of the week
Kantar Operations is an internal provider of market research services to the Kantar group. Our role is to identify, create and deliver world class operational solutions for Kantar’s research businesses by harnessing the combined power of technology, people and know how. – kantaroperations.com
Spezify – a new way of searching the web
About a year ago, two young man Per Persson and Felix af Ekenstam started Spezify. The name of the project has an interesting story, first there was “Define” a name that would describe very good the service. They bought defi.ne domain but they couldn’t use it because they were forced to have a representation in Niger… After some time spent on dictionaries and checking available domains, they settled on “Specify” a synonym of “Define”. Specify.com was not available so they changed the c with a z and the name was ready.
But what is Spezify exactly ?
I thought it would be nice to see a search result more like a feeling of looking at a motherboard…The ambition was an instant overview of both images and other medias , like a slice of the whole Internet on a certain subject, and from other sources then just Google… We though it’s silly to have to search for text/images/videos etc separately. – Per Persson (Web Designer magazine- UK)
They basically took relevance out of the equation and replace it with surprise. They say that relevance isn’t always a guarantee that you will find what you are looking for.
The service is based on numerous APIs (Twitter, Amazon, Ebay, Wikipedia…) gathered in Flash. It worth to have a look at it and maybe it will become a very useful tool for your future project.
PS3 Motion Controller delayed
Here is a bad news for PS fans. Initially announced to be launched in Spring 2010, PS3 Motion Controller was delayed to Fall 2010. Sony wants to build a few games using the new technology and then release it.
We have decided to release the Motion Controller in fall 2010 when we will be able to offer an exciting and varied line-up of software titles that will deliver the new entertainment experience to PS3 users. – Kaz Hirai, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment.
The PlayStation Motion Controller is a motion-sensing game controller in development for the PlayStation 3 video game console by Sony Computer Entertainment. Consisting of a handheld wand, the controller uses the PlayStation Eye webcam to track the wand’s position, and inertial sensors to detect its motion. It was revealed at Sony’s E3 2009 press conference on June 2, 2009, with a live demonstration using an engineering prototype. – wikipedia