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Smileys for traffic

Imagine desperately wanting to tell the driver behind you, that you like the way he drives. Just send him a smiley. Car 2.0

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Don't You Forget About...

Sometimes I get kinda distracted and forget to jot down what to buy at the supermarket on my way home from work. Do you have the same problem? Then the site ohdontforget might be for you and me both.

The site helps us remember things like groceries, birthdays and other stuff that easily distracted people tend to forget.

All you do is enter a date, your phone number and the thing to remember on the site. Then you receive a text message with the info at the date and time in question.

The site is very simple and surely missing a lot of more complicated functionality. And it doesn't work in Europe yet. But you gotta love the concept.

Technorati: Web 2.0

Are you looking for a job?

My good colleagues at cybercity.dk are looking for a graphic web designer. You have to be located in Copenhagen, speak Danish and be one heck of a designer. 

I know the folks at Cybercity and highly recommend them.

Interested? See job details here (pdf)

Have exit surveys vanished?

Since Microsoft introduced Service Pack 2 it has become virtually impossible for web editors like me to find out what users think of our site - at the very moment they leave it.

Yes, I am talking about the good old popup exit survey.

I know that it is possible to conduct a survey via DHTML in a layered window during a user session. But what if I want specifically to do it at the end of a session? Any ideas?

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I Spy With My Little Eye...

Are you afraid of Big Brother? Do you dread the day, that someone decides to eavesdrop on your most private conversations? Now you can spot all tracking devices - even the ones the size of a paper clip (and make no mistake modern day eavesdroppers are serious about what they do. Their devices can transmit you singing in the shower to a parked car four blocks away).

All you have to do is get The Miniature Combination Detector (MCD). It is sensitive to surveillance equipment such as eavesdropping bugs, telephone taps, body transmitters, video cameras and GPS vehicle-tracking devices with frequencies of 1MHz to 6GHz.

MCD will indeed tell you if someone is listening in on your nightly snoring.

Now, is there a widespread need for this gadget? Probably not, unless you're sort of paranoid.

Nevertheless The Miniature Combination Detector is a definite must for all über-geeks. Price: $ 230.

Via News.com

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Rebooted

Thursday and Friday last week I spent at reboot 8. Two days with tons of input -- mainly about the social aspects of the web.

Overall I think this years Reboot was an interesting event though not quite as inspiring for me personally as Reboot last year, But that may just be due to the fact that my expectations were raised to an unbelievable level.

That said I fully enjoyed key notes by Doc Searls and J.P. Rangaswami. The latter had this socialist-like approach to where the web is right now:
"Sales are dead. Secret information has gone public. We don't have to pay for anything any more. Copyright and censorship should be killed!"

Also Hugh Mcleod and Rick Segal offered an interesting talk on Micro Brands and the tools for promoting them.

Finally I want to point to Maya Lotans demo of Urban Seeder an Israeli alternative to ordinary dating sites. The whole idea is just thoroughly interesting. I like the notion that meeting dates online should emulate flirting in the real world.

And then there was the socializing. I spent the two days talking a lot of shop with my colleague Maja and also met Line who's blog I read on a regular basis.

Good fun. Thanks reboot :-)

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