Facebook traffic down a bit
US visitors to Facebook tailed off slightly in January, with 33.9 million unique visitors , down 2 percent from 34.7 million in December 2007. Looking at the graph it’s too early to tell if it’s a blip or a trend.
Thirsty people and blood donors to pay more to drive
“A new generation of road camera which can deduce how many people are in a car is to be tested for the first time.” “The new camera developed at Loughborough University can see how many people are in a car by detecting water and blood content.” BBC NEWS | UK | Car-sharing cameras to be …
Brain control headset for gamers
This story about a headset that will allow you to control computer games is fairly interesting, but I do hope that whoever’s writing the games has a better imagination than the spokesperson for the company: “If you laughed or felt happy after killing a character in a game then your virtual buddy could admonish you …
Avram Grant is Larry Grayson
I should have noticed it before:
Sleeveface
“one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion” Sleeveface
Breaking news: the back side of Mercury is just as boring as the front
I’m sure it’s “revolutionary” (or not, because otherwise they wouldn’t have had to fly past it…) that we now know what the back side of Mercury looks like, but it doesn’t seem to be too attractive or different from any other photo of a grayscale pancake that I’ve seen. I am, however, impressed by the …
Sun buying MySQL
I’ve no idea what this is going to mean for the future of MySQL. Sun to buy MySQL
Bebo platform opens to developers
Bebo today opened their platform to the general development community. It’s based on Facebook’s own FBML and API documentation which is supposed to make porting apps very easy… I’m expecting a land grab of app clones over the next few days, but it’s fun times at least! I think it’s time to hang around on …
Dog eats all the pies
A greedy dog was entered in an eating championship despite nearly ruining the contest by wolfing down 20 competition pies in one sitting. Charlie, a bichon frise, raided the fridge of 1995 champion Dave Williams while his owner was distracted by a pigeon flying up his chimney. BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Dog …
Facebook still in beta
The Facebook API may be great in many ways, but for stability there’s still a lot to be desired. There seems to be a slightly “gung ho” attitude to code deployment at Facebook which, although I feel some empathy with, isn’t particularly suited to a site with 50 million users. Take this recent developer update …