Bing

A co-worker pointed out this great article today on C|Net reviewing Microsoft’s new search engine. I’ll give it a try June 3^rd. Not sure if I like the name, though – I think I preferred their internal name: “Kumo.”

100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration

I haven’t had a chance to visit all of these, but it seems like a pretty good list.

http://mashable.com/2009/03/16/design-inspiration/

Bb 2.0

Check out Bb 2.0 – it’s a “collaborative music and spoken word project” comprised of several YouTube videos that somehow work together (perhaps because B flat is the common key?).

http://www.inbflat.net/

Wolfram|Alpha

If you haven’t already been, I recommend checking out the Wolfram|Alpha “computational knowledge engine.” It is, of course, making headlines as a “Google killer.” While I doubt that, it is pretty fun and elegant.

“Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.”

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

 

Tweepz.com

“Search, find and discover interesting people on twitter.” A useful utility?

http://www.tweepz.com/

10 Online Photography Magazines

Photojojo.com compiled a  nice list of some interesting online photography magazines.

Knowem

I was just looking at an interesting site: http://knowem.com/. “KnowEm checks the availability of your brand name, user name or vanity URL on 120 popular Social Media websites.”

Instant Sound FX Sites

A pretty amusing of “instant sound effect” sites assembled on downloadsquad.com. Naturally, my favorite is: http://www.khaaan.com/.

Amazing 3D immersion technology

I was just reading an article at IDEO Labs about EON Reality’s immersive 3D room. The video is impressive – although, I think I will need a virtual Dramamine.

http://vimeo.com/4177769

 

Sixth Sense Machine

I thought this was a very cool demo from the recent TED conference.

“It sounds like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel: a tiny computer, worn around your neck, that lets you surf the Web from any location and project it onto any surface. But MIT Media Lab’s Sixth Sense machine allows you to do just that.”

 

What browser wars? The enterprise still loves IE 6

MB found a very useful (and depressing) article about why we still bother with IE 6.

This news may come as a shocker to the tech-savvy folks in the house, but 60 percent of companies use Internet Explorer 6 as their default browser, according to Forrester Research. Meanwhile, your IT department spends a decent amount of time erecting barriers to prevent browser upgrades. Bottom line: companies need a browser policy, or they will risk productivity losses.

Welcome to the wonderful world of enterprise browser adoption. While the tech press spends a lot of time talking about Web 2.0 and even 3.0, Corporate America is on Web 0.5.

Read the full article here.