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Dial gdgt for gadgets

July 3rd, 2009 · Linkfilter

gagdetWho doesn’t call him or herself a gadgetlover? Everybody likes to look at and touch shiny new phones, laptop or gaming devices, right? We all like to open a package and smelling the plasticky Taiwanese smell before it dissolves (alright this is getting weird). Anyway, there is a new gadget site where you can go for all your gadget news and discussion. It’s not a new Gizmodo or Engadget, although their founder Peter Rojas is co-creator of gdgt, together with former editor-in-chief of Engadget Ryan Block.

The idea is not just a gadget blog where authors tell you what to think of something, but a more social experience. You can sign up for an account and add gadgets to your profile that you want or have. After this you can review them and of course read other reviews and discuss all the new shinies. I haven’t spent a lot of time there yet and as it has just launched the community has to grow. You can connect with my at my profile. But it is that community that has the potential to make this big. It looks like a great way to stay on top of the latest things and show off your new gadgets. If only they found a way to add that new plastic Taiwan smell.

         

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Please Say Something, a short film

June 18th, 2009 · Linkfilter

If you’ve got 10 minutes to spare please have a look at this award winning short film. Put on your headphones or loud speakers! Or even better, watch it in HD at vimeo.

Please Say Something – Full Length from David OReilly on Vimeo.
A troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future. Winner of the Golden [...] Continue Reading…

         

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Your very own democratic news site

June 11th, 2009 · Linkfilter, Opinion

It are difficult times for newspapers. First the internet has taken over the function of marketplace and joblist from them and people went online for their news and opinion pieces. And now advertisers loose interest because there are less readers and these companies have less advertising budget. It’s hard to say what the future will look like for newspapers. [...] Continue Reading…

         

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Tweeting Too Hard gives important tweets their deserved attention

May 23rd, 2009 · Linkfilter

The website Tweeting Too Hard shows a collection of tweets, on which every visitor can vote. The purpose is that eventually the most ridiculous and arrogant tweets will emerge.

This results in the following example gems:

it makes me sad, the more I have success the more people don’t like me…. – by @iamsammis
Went to the gym this morning. As I [...] Continue Reading…

         

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Internet Information Overload? Subscribe to websites using RSS.

April 22nd, 2009 · Howto

Do you visit blogs or news sites regularly to see if there’s anything new? Then you could make things a lot easier for yourself by using a so called RSS-reader. With an RSS-reader you can subscribe to a website, so every time there’s something new on a site you receive that in your reader. This means that you don’t [...] Continue Reading…

         

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Nieuwe oude media. Een lesje in TV-maken?

April 15th, 2009 · Opinion

[This post is currently only available in dutch, please use the button in the bar below to translate]

Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show is een talkshow waarin Kevin Pollak, een hollywoodster bekend van o.a. The Usual Suspects, allerlei bekende mensen interviewt over hun passies en projecten. Het betreft tot nu toe vooral collega acteurs en anderen uit de showbusiness, maar ook [...] Continue Reading…

         

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A newer Friendfeed (and faster en better en prettier)

April 6th, 2009 · Linkfilter, Opinion

Friendfeed is a one stop shop for all of your social network and news needs. It exists for about two years now and is steadily growing. When Facebook launched their redesign a couple of weeks ago they had copied a large part of the interface of Friendfeed. Now Friendfeed has got a redesign of its own, which has launched [...] Continue Reading…

         

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Ik zou voor last.fm betalen als…

March 25th, 2009 · Opinion

[This post is currently only available in dutch. Please use the button in the bar below to translate.]
Last.fm niet meer gratis
Gisteren deed Last.fm een mededeling, namelijk dat gebruikers buiten de USA, Groot-Brittannië en Duitsland 3,00 euro per maand moeten gaan betalen als ze van de streaming muziek service gebruik willen blijven maken. Dit betekent dat je dan van de [...] Continue Reading…

         

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Magnetic Joe is my favorite game for the iphone or ipod touch

March 24th, 2009 · Linkfilter

Difficult Joe
I would like to introduce Magnetic Joe. It’s my favorite game on my ipod touch and ofcouse the iphone. Joe is a purple ball who, despite what his name suggests, isn’t magnetic all the time, but only when you press your finger against the glass somewhere. Joe is pulled to the blue magnets that are spread out in [...] Continue Reading…

         

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Een nieuwe NRC.next site en een feed voor de columnisten

March 19th, 2009 · Linkfilter

[This post is currently only in Dutch, please use the translate button in the bar below.] NRC.next heeft vorige week een vernieuwde website gelanceerd. Ze zijn overgegaan van een beetje vreemde kopie van de papieren krant online naar een weblog met toegewijde bloggers. Hier hun eigen uitleg. Ik vind het best een geslaagde overgang. Ze hebben er blijkbaar voor [...] Continue Reading…

         

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