What planes are overhead?
What’s that in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Yup, it’s a plane, and it is currently 31,100 feet high and traveling to St. Louis from Chicago. Simply enter “planes overhead”, and Wolfram|Alpha will provide a list of flights overhead based on your current geoIP location.
You can also click on specific flights to learn more information, such as departure airport, estimated flight duration, and more:
Follow Finder: how to find people to follow on Twitter
Interesting Twitter gadget. [via]
Follow Finder analyzes public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow.
Senduit: a simple, private, file-sharing service
Upload a file and choose an expiration period from 30 mins to 1 week. No registration required.
Holodeck lets you create an artist web presence in no time, pulling your data from the services you already use, like Tumblr, SoundCloud, Last.fm and Songkick.
This looks so cool. Created by the awesome Winston Design folks.
Note: the app still has a few glitches so be sure to keep checking back.
Now we’re talking.
When two web services love each other very much…
Some great music blogs use Tumblr as their platform, and we aggregate those in The Hype Machine. But plenty of people have awesome insights on music, even if they post about everything else on their tumblelog, too. So now, you can submit your music posts to the Hype Tumblr. We’re also following some cool people and reblogging their stuff, so you can see all the videos/articles/photos/links that make up our music experience right now. And just like on our main site, you can stream all the music on this page. Follow us, visit us, submit your posts, and check out some Tumblrs you might not be following yet. Welcome to our newest experiment!
I love the experiment, but I don’t think they’ll see much action until the two are spliced more seamlessly. A checkbox on audio posts to “submit to Hype Machine” would be siiiick.
SoundCloud’s Alex talks about our beautiful new partnership.
Hype Machine now scoops up embedded SoundCloud tracks (not just linked MP3s) from blogs and serves them up using the SoundCloud streamer. This keeps all the stats in one place and moves that playback bandwidth over to SoundCloud. Read more.
The (App) World According To Verizon
This is what I refer to when people (read: random tech bloggers) stop using an iPhone because of their objections to the App Store. Yes, it’s closed and has a fundamentally faulty review system—which prevents timely acceptance of not just new apps but revisions and bug fixes as well)—but: this is what the world looked like before it arrived.
via Wikipedia:
Get it now, VCast, and VZNavigator
Overview
Get It Now is Verizon Wireless’ implementation of Qualcomm’s BREW technology, allowing a user to download and use applications on a Verizon Wireless Get It Now-enabled phone. It is a proprietary interface to download ringtones, music, games, applications, and use instant messaging on a phone. Users usually are unable to load content on the Verizon Wireless phones outside of Get It Now system; this is done for financial reasons. Verizon Wireless has exclusivity agreements with its Get It Now content providers (this is a walled garden system). […]
All applications through Get It Now/Media Center are BREW-based and the selection differs depending on what Verizon phone one is using.
Many first-time mobile phone users freely access the internet through internet-capable phones (“Mobile Web”), only to find that a sizable charge has been added to ther phone bill at month’s end. Verizon currently charges $1.99 USD per megabyte (in 2009) downloaded into the phone from the internet. This is called “Megabyte Usage” or “Data Usage”. Whenever anyone accesses the internet, the charge is incurred, because in order to access the web, web pages must be downloaded into the phone for viewing. New customers are often confused on what activities incur a charge and which activities do not. Visiting 50 web pages is a download of .3 MB. A visit to Media Center/Get It Now page incurs a charge, even if nothing is bought/downloaded. Music, games or ringtones downloads incurs the MB charge, but Picture/Video messaging (MMS) does not charge. Whenever data is being downloaded into the phone, a little phone icon with arrows going back and forth appears. Blocks can be set by account owner to block specific types of downloads. If a specific type of unlimited download is included in the customer’s plan, then the customer is charged a flat fee per month instead of per MB.
DVR Bookmarks
Wouldn’t it be handy to add bookmarks (or just, “marks”) to DVR recordings and other streaming video?
Example uses:
- Awesome touchdown you want to show someone when they get home
- Remember where one person stopped watching (fell asleep) when another person keeps watching
We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.
HP’s face-tracking software is racist
And here’s HP’s official response (they blame insufficient foreground lighting).
[via waxylinks]
