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Clever new Icelandic Tourism video pushes all the right buttons to attract visitors
With all the attention on Iceland due to the volcanic ash cloud, they’ve created a new tourism site to promote Iceland to the rest of the world. The video is genius really, and ticks all the boxes – young, attractive people, beautiful nature scenes, extreme sports, bustling nightlife and lots of people having fun. Hard not to want to visit! See the full site at inspiredbyiceland.com
In case you were in any doubt that the web is the platform of the future, I give you.. Quake II in HTML5!
This really is quite an incredible demonstration of what HTML 5, the new web standard that some browsers are already starting to support, can do. It looks just as smooth as playing it on your desktop.
Facebook, this abusive relationship must end! | Human 2.0
http://www.human20.com/facebook-is-an-abusive-relationship
This post explores how Facebook is like an abusive relationship, and is not easy to leave.
Read More80s retro gaming for the 2010s… Repton on the iPad with finger-swipe control…
I’m loving all the new things I can do with my iPad, but also the old things I can do, like play Repton, my favourite puzzle game from my Acorn Electron heyday! Ah, happy days, and it’s still every bit as playable today!
Read MoreAll Google Location History Dashboard does is remind me how restrictive the iPhone is
Google’s location tracking service is quite interesting to me. Firstly, because it is private and cannot be shared – unlike Foursquare and the ilk. And secondly, because it is done as a side-effect of using the useful Google Maps for Mobile app, rather than as a distinct goal in its own right. This makes it a great way to capture extra data for lifelogging.
They’ve recently added a new dashboard which lets you view your location history in more detail. What mine basically tells me, is that as soon as I got my iPhone, I stopped broadcasting my location. Because I’m not a fan of purposeful checking in, I’d only published my location each time I did a maps search (which, being a user of public transport, is often).
And because Apple own the Maps app for iPhone (using Google Maps under license), they have disallowed Latitude from being an app on the iPhone (and it can’t background track until the new iPhone OS 4.0 anyway).
This is all very frustrating because even if Apple allow a Latitude app in iPhone OS 4.0, chances are they won’t integrate it with their Maps app, so it will have to be purposefully launched. One more reason to consider jailbreaking my iPhone…?
