Google has launched this week a technology (I’ll call it technology, as I think “browser extension” doesn’t quite fit here) that allows you to use web applications offline. This is pretty cool stuff – imagine writing all your emails on the way to work, on a bus or train or whatever, using your webmail client, and sending them off...

Spock is, according to their own blog, a search application for people. When you visit their URL, you are greeted by a simple interface which looks like your standard search engine, but shows a few search suggestions under three categories: In the news, People and Searches. From this standpoint, Spock behaves pretty much like a regular search engine. However,...

Spock, a kind of search engine for finding people, has just reached private beta, and I have received an invitation. It looks a little rough around the edges, I’m getting lots of errors, but since this is the first batch of invites, I guess it’s part of the game. Spock lets you search for people based on any criteria, and users are encouraged to...

This one was too much fun to let it go: Slashdot tells us that the folks over at Freedom to Tinker have created a script which generates a random 128 bit integer number, and uses this number to encrypt a haiku for which they own the copyright.  They then give you all the rights to decrypt their haiku with the number generated for you (after all, it’s...

Yes, now Daily Iteration, your very own newest favorite blog, has its own jobs site!  Check out Daily Jobs, just launched!  This service was created with Job-a-matic, a great little web service from Simply Hired, so all the technical and commercial side of things is handled by them, a very reputed recruiting company.  All I do is give them an audience, and...

Yesterday I took a closer look at Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk. This is a service where developers can request tasks to be carried out by humans, and get the result in what looks like a common RPC, so one can plug it straight into your code. Sounds a little unclear, right? Let me quote from their FAQ: Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API...