Venus Flytraps: Jaws of Death

Project Palantir: Real Time Facebook Data Visualisation

This would make quite an impressive compliment to any analytics package. It displays a variety of interactions taking place between users including friend requests and messages. I guess the fact that Facebook has a huge number of data requests all the time makes the video look a lot cooler.

Project Palantir

Gmail Video Chat. The Best By Far?

Yesterday it was Google reader’s auto translation, which in itself was quite a clever idea, although admittedly quite uneffective when it comes to asian languages.

And when I got up this morning came Gmail video chat.

I’ve been through MSN video and Skype and not found one with a satisfactory video quality/performance balance. With MSN it was poor quality video but relatively consistent connections and with Skype the video quality was marginally better, but the connection kept dropping out.

This morning I gave Gmail video a go, I found that my Gmail chat kept getting disconnected. more →