If you’ve been as overwhelmed as myself with the amount of new, often indistinguishable social web applications that are going live every week, you might get a kick out of this hoax site: Useless Account Its only purpose is to allow you to create and edit an account (as you might in a social web app), nothing else. And heck, it’s officially “Slightly more useful than Twitter”, according to the fake TechCrunch quote (OK, they call it TechLunch) on the site....
Another very interesting new (beta) Google service: Google Desktop. This allows users to search through files as well as emails on their desktops, and sounds pretty promising.
Google added a new service called Google Print. Very similar to Amazon’s search within books feature, Google now includes search results from select books (try this sample query). It allows access to matching pages of the book, as well as the two pages before and after. Of course, it also includes links to online bookstores that carry the book, including Amazon. Nice addition!
Interesting article on the recent Wikipedia controversies. Have I mentioned how much I love Wikipedia? So far, I have always been able to find the information that I was looking for, including somewhat obscure topics and highly technical or computer-geeky information. Like most Wiki sites, Wikipedia has a very simple and clean design and is easy to navigate. Try visiting a random Wikipedia page today. :)
I came across a funny website: http://www.engrish.com. Since English isn’t my native language either, I feel that it should be OK for me to laugh about this. ;)