Google Map Captures the Mood of People from Around the World

Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-map-of-world-feelings/9013/

If you curious to know how are people feeling around the world, check out World of Emotions - it’s an interesting mashup that plots the global mood on a Google Map through smileys.

The idea is pretty simple. You log on to the World of Emotions website and select an emoticon that best represents your current mood - it can be positive (feeling happy), negative (feeling sad) or neutral (meaning you are feeling just fine).

When you click on the smiley icon, the application automatically detects your physical location using the IP address of your computer and then plots your mood on the Google map.

You can then check this log or view an aggregated map to see the emotions of people by country. Of course, this may not be a true indicator of global mood but if enough people start using the app, it can get a bit close. Hat tip Keir Clarke.

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Watch this YouTube Video without the Flash Player

Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/youtube-video-without-flash-player/9016/

The next major release of HTML, dubbed HTML 5, will include several new tags for embedding audio, video and other graphical content in web pages.

Currently, your browser needs a plugin to play embedded multimedia content. For instance, you need to install Adobe Flash Player for watching videos on YouTube while the QuickTime player is required for viewing movie trailers that are available on the Apple website.

That may however change because the HTML 5 group has recommended some new tags - <audio> and <video> - that will let you play video files in the browser without the Shockwave Flash plugin.

You can visit youtube.com/html5 to see the HTML 5 video tag in action.

This may look like a regular YouTube video player but the interesting part is that the YouTube video clip will play just fine even if you disable (or completely remove) the Flash Player from your browser.

You can either use Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome or Safari 4 to view this video but no Internet Explorer.

And here’s a single line of HTML 5 code that was used to embed this video clip on the YouTube page:

<video width="640" height="360" src="file.mp4" autobuffer>  <br>You must have an HTML5 capable browser. </video>

This YouTube page demonstrate some of the capabilities of HTML 5 but it’s nearly impossible predict at this stage if HTML 5 (or the Open Video format promoted by Mozilla) can make any impact on the ubiquitous Flash Player which, some estimates suggest, exists on more than 90% browsers.

The other problem is that none of the older browsers can understand content that’s wrapped inside the <video> tag  so you’ll still need to embed your video streams through Flash or an alternate technology like SilverLight.

That said, HTML 5 still looks very interesting and exciting.

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Google Looks to Lure Outlook Users With Sync Feature

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ommalik/~3/-XvZ4gFE2LQ/

Google announced today a new Google Apps feature that enables syncing with Microsoft Outlook mail, calendar and contacts data, giving Outlook users a way to use Google Apps without changing their behavior. It will launch worldwide this afternoon (but only available in English; Google said other languages will come later) for Google Apps Premiere Edition subscribers.

Luring loyal Outlook users into using Google Apps — in turn, putting pressure on Microsoft — is a smart move on Google’s part. The Outlook sync will only be available on Windows for now.

At the Google-hosted event this morning, Google Senior Product Manager Chris Vander Mey demonstrated the feature by showing how users can schedule a lunch meeting in Outlook and the appointment will simultaneously sync up in Google Apps. “We spent a long time making Outlook work really well,” he said. “That should tell you how committed we are.”

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GCut.to Feels Lucky When You Use It to Shorten Your URLs

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ommalik/~3/gSav7QNb1jI/

Bit.ly? SU.PR? Those are so yesterday. Today’s URL-shortening service is GCut.to. The service (launched anonymously) allows you to create a shortcut link that will go to the first result for a particular Google search — the same result that the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on Google takes you to. Gcut.to/taxes takes you to the IRS. Gcut.to/iphone takes you to Apple’s iPhone web site. The possibilities are endless. You don’t even have to go to GCut.to’s web site. You can create your own URLs on the fly.

OK, it’s true that GCut.to doesn’t really shorten URLs that well, because if you want a particular URL — like a permalink to a blog post — it’s probably going to take a long and exacting Google search to make it work. Which defeats the point of a URL-shortening service. But it’s free and it’s mildly amusing. Don’t try to use the GCut.to to find out more about GCut.to, though: http://gcut.to/gcut.to doesn’t work at all — at least not yet, anyway.

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iPhone 3G S processor specs: 600MHz CPU, 256MB of RAM

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/iphone-3g-s-processor-specs-600mhz-cpu-256mb-of-ram/

Apple's being pretty cagey with the hard specs of the iPhone 3G S, but apparently T-Mobile Netherlands didn't get the message -- it's just posted up a specs page listing 256MB of RAM and a 600MHz CPU. That's up from 128MB and 412MHz in the first-gen and the 3G, and it's basically exactly what was rumored. Of course, the 3G S also has that new PowerVR SGX graphics chip that supports OpenGL ES 2.0, so the total speed boost is probably more than just pure clock speed, but we'll find out for sure when we get our hands on one.

[Via iLounge]

Filed under: Cellphones

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