Stuff that’s been floating around the office – May/June 2009

Before another age goes by, here’s a round-up of the stuff we’ve been momentarily distracted by recently:

1. Twittersheep: See the key characteristics of your Twitter followers.

2. Business Guys on Business Trips: Solving global issues, such as page registration procedures

3. The Vendor-Client relationship in real world situations: Very entertaining – we all need to laugh at ourselves!

4. Twitter on Paper: Because none of us can get enough of Twitter. It closed shop on June 12th, having set up on May 26th, so I guess it’s too late to order your own tweet on paper now, but you know, I’m sure it was good while it lasted.

5. Boone Oakley: Because some of us are mildly jealous of their YouTube site. 

6. Siri: A virtual assistant for iPhone users. I’m assuming the name is a play on ‘Sir, I’ (‘need this’ or ‘want that’)? What do you think?

7. Twootles: Google and Twitter together? What’s not to love?

8. Fluid dynamics simulator in JavaScript: This one is very data-heavy, so be warned. But it is so SO cool.

9. BookSeer: Lovely little project that comes up with ideas for the next book for you to read. Sort of a combination of Amazon reviews with LibraryThing. Also worth reading this post by the creator that explains the concept behind it.

10. UK Hols: Where are you going this summer? Vodafone-backed project that plots the holiday destinations of people in the UK based on tweets with a specified hashtag:#ukhols. 

11. London Audio Guide: A location-aware app for the iPhone and iPod touch that takes you through key London spots. 

12. Collecta: Possibly the world’s first real-time search engine. No patch on Google…yet. 

13. Dunkin’ Run: You know when you have to run out and get coffees for multiple people in the team? Well, let’s assume you did. Then you’d find the Dunkin’ Run rather useful. 

14. Mig33: The ‘world’s first global mobile community’. Not quite sure if that’s an accurate description, but still interesting to know. 

15. Squares: And squares and more squares in different colours. Psychedelic. 

16. BBC Memoryshare: Plot your memories alongside a timeline of famous historical events. 

17. Happn.in: Find out what Twitter users in your city are discussing.

18. Mad Avenue Blues: Advertisingy spoof on American Pie.

19. JCDC vs. Lego: Lovely animated Lego fashion show. Lego = fun. Rocking music = cool. Fashion = sexy. All together? This is what it’s like!

JCDC Versus LEGO from Four H on Vimeo.

20. YouTube War: Jeff Crouse and Aaron Meyers have written a blog post about this augmented reality card game played in front of a live audience.