Jeff from Iambetterthanu.com posted a real interesting link to his pownce page today. It’s a link to a new search engine that gives previews of the sites in its search results (I know, not that unique, ask.com and snap.com among many others feature previews). The fact it provides previews of sites isn’t all that unique, it’s how they present the results.
The site is RedZee and here’s a picture of its nice and simple home page:
Yup, search results are posted in a scrollable wheel of site previews! It’s pretty cool though their search engine needs some fine-tuning.
Yup, the zebra is cute. It’s also animated, and yes you can lose a few minutes of your life staring at it do its’ zebra thing.
Anyway, the unique part about RedZee is how they show you their search results. The best way to explain this concept is to show you so let’s see what happens when we search for “U.S. presidential candidates”:
Search results are returned to you in a scrollable wheel of site previews! For U.S. Presidential Candidates, RedZee returned 87 hits with all but seven site previews hidden away off screen. It’s pretty cool and actually a great way to scan through search results, but the search engine itself could use a good chunk of fine-tuning. Also, there’s a considerable load-time (it varied but up to 15-20 seconds) waiting for the wheel of site previews to load. Still, the wheel is such a unique way of presenting search results it’s at least worth a quick look.
Just a quick note today about two new features on this site. Both of these new features are located in the sidebar on the right side of your screen. One is not really a new, but rather is in a new place, I’ve moved the show yourself widget from my about section to the sidebar. Also, I’ve added the main feed from my del.icio.us account, listing out my last ten bookmarks.
If anyone experiences any bugs or issues with either of these two widgets, give me a shout at my gmail (check the show yourself widget).
Awhile back I walked around my neighborhood with a digital camera snapping pictures. At the time, there was a huge redevelopment project that had finished up in Edward Everett Square, featuring a huge pear and a bunch of bricks with sayings inscribed into them. Here’s a few of the pictures I took that day of the new Edward Everett Square. Big props to the Edward Everett Square Redevelopment Project for sprucing up the neighborhood.
You can check out these pictures and others at my flickr page.
We haven’t discussed my buddy Ronald Jenkees in a while, so let’s check out what’s happening on his youtubes. From the Ronald Jenkees himself:
My friend accidentally figured out that Oklahoma’s Malcolm Kelly’s freestyle went perfectly with my beat “Remix to a Remix”. So he helped me cue the video up and it’s actually cool.
Hella cool dude. This mashup of Kelly’s rap and the Jenkees track go perfectly together. Give it a listen and view below.
Fold foil in half horizontally (foil is now 2″ x 1.5″).
Tape foil from the bottom right corner (on the back of the iPhone) up to the middle of the text iPhone using electrical tape.
Sounds silly but it works. I’ve gone three hours now with no interference from my iPhone, and I used to get interference every 15 minutes or so. I’ve had no drop in signal either and have received and made calls as usual. The iPhone looks a bit funny with tinfoil and electrical tape on the back of it but it’s OK.
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