Urban Spoon has an iPhone application in the wings that looks to be a great way to add some spontaneity to your dining plans. The application (demo embedded below) uses the iPhone's location awareness and provides you with a slot machine style wheel of fortune for picking restaurants. Shake the iPhone and a recommendation is made. Don't like the pick, shake it again.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Tonight I read about a widget for blogs intended to make it simpler for readers to give feedback on what they would like to see on the site. The company that offers the services is called Skribit, and if you are interested in what they do, you can check out their widget at the bottom of my sidebar.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
As web applications become easier to write and less expensive to host, a variety of interesting and questionable music discovery options have cropped up. Because I represent startups with a variety of business models, I will avoid making any judgements on the propriety of these sites. All I know is that these types of applications aren't going to stop popping up from all corners of the world.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Last night Seattle artisan software developers Jackson Fish Market launched their latest web application, Carbon Grove. Sponsored by Microsoft as a demonstration of Silverlight, the web app allows you to sign up to receive periodic tips on how to become more carbon neutral, and every time you respond to the reminders, you cause your virtual trees to grow on the Carbon Grove site. The only downside is that it only runs on IE, so firefox users will need to launch Internet Explorer to give it a try.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
I am prone to believe this even though it is April 1st, if anything because it would be an incredibly lame joke. Document sharing site, Scribd, has apparently rolled out a program offering to convert your paper to its iPaper format for free. You mail your documents to them, they [...]
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
If you are looking to kill some time listening to music on the web, check out a personalized web radio service called Musicovery. They have a easy to navigate interface that lets you specify whether you are looking for music that is positive or dark, calm or energetic. You can opt in or out of various genres, and the resulting player shows a nice map of the music you are listing to an how it relates to similar artists/songs.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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