Archive for January 25th, 2008

Web Trend Map 2008

Friday, January 25th, 2008

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Information Architechts Japan present the 2008 Web Trend Map. This time they’ve taken almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites and pinned them down to the greater Tokyo-area train map. By popular demand, they enlarged the poster size from A3 to A0. They guarantee it will make a great addition to your home or office.

View the Big A3 PDF or view the clickable online version or you can order a poster for only $50.

Hulu.com

Friday, January 25th, 2008

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I’ve been beta testing this site and I am impressed with the overall user experience. It has some really cool features and the design is minimal and clean.

Hulu’s greatest weakness: Hulu is NOT a repository of user generated content like YouTube or a download service like iTunes Store. All of the video on Hulu is premium content and users don’t have access to any uploading capabilities. Hulu will keep distributing TV shows until five weeks of newer episodes have passed, at which point older shows will presumably just disappear from the site.

Sorry. Five weeks is not a lot of time …

tooble

Friday, January 25th, 2008

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Tooble: Browse, Search, and Download YouTube Video directly to your iPod! In one easy step, tooble automatically downloads, converts and imports any YouTube video to play on your video iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, or even on your computer with iTunes. Now all your favorite videos are with you and ready to play, no matter where you are.

I’ve been downloading all my favorite music videos to my iPod Touch. It’s fast and simple. The downside is the poor video quality …