Archive for May, 2008

Roku Netflix Player

May 26

Posted by Richard Ting in Interactive

The Roku Netflix Player makes it easy to instantly watch movies and TV episodes over the Internet on your living room TV, or anywhere you have a TV and an Internet connection. Movies and TV episodes in your Netflix Instant Queue appear right on your TV screen. Also, it doesn’t matter what kind of TV you have, the Netflix Player is guaranteed to work with it. Connect to the latest HDTV or one that you’ve had for years. With standard RCA jacks, S-video, component video, HDMI, and optical audio, the Player will work with virtually any TV, AV receiver, or home theater system. Lastly, the Netflix Player lets you access the world’s largest online movie rental service with over 10,000 instant movies and TV episodes available. Watch as many as you like, as often as you want—with no additional fees.

Check it out here.

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N.E.R.D. Everyone Nose Site

May 22

Posted by Richard Ting in Advertising, Interactive

Coming off of some major industry show buzz for their involvement in the Halo 3 campaign, the folks at T.A.G. bring the naughty party antics online for N.E.R.D with the help of Last Night’s Party. The site showcases a number of racy scenes from a live performance at a club. Visitors to the site have to browse the site quickly since the racy clips quickly disappear and visitors have to refresh their browser to get them back.

Check out the site.

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Android Developer Challenge

May 22

Posted by Richard Ting in Design, Interactive, Mobility, Music

The first phase of Android Developer Challenge I is now complete. 50 teams of developers each received a $25,000 award and the opportunity to compete in the second and final round of ADC I, for ten $275,000 prizes and ten $100,000 prizes. Over the next several months, the developer teams can take the opportunity to further refine their applications in preparation for the final judging.

Shown above is CallACab developed by Konrad Huebner and Henning Boeger. CallACab helps you call a cab in a foreign country when you don’t have the local cab number. The application is location-aware, so there is no need to know where you are and you never get a busy signal.

Click here to download a .pdf of the top 50 applications..

Read more about the Android Challenge here.

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Interview with Michael Tchao of Nike+

May 16

Posted by Richard Ting in Interactive

[via Social Worx]
Loic Le Meur has a great interview posted with the GM of Nike+, Michael Tchao. Nike continues to set the bar with their use of branded utilities and social media to support their customers. And with their latest launch of Nike Soccer, which focuses on delivering a ‘bootcamp’ training program for soccer players, they are providing another strong tool for facilitating community around the brand.

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Parallel Kingdom

May 16

Posted by Richard Ting in Gaming, Interactive, Mobility

Parallel Kingdom is one of the first Mobile Multiplayer Trans-Reality Game (MMTRG) for the cell phone. Parallel Kingdom brings new meaning to role playing games by using GPS to place the virtual world on top of the real world. By using any iPhone or Android based device, users can attack, dance, hug or team up with anyone around them. Set up trade routes, craft items or even create their own kingdom.

Check out Parallel Kingdom.

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Visualize your Facebook Friends with Nexus

May 12

Posted by Richard Ting in Interactive

Nexus creates a graph of your social network and finds commonalities between your Facebook friends. However, it’s more than just a flashy data visualization tool, in addition to viewing how your friends are connected, Nexus can help you discover what interests your friends share and which of your friends are the most similar to you.

Check out Nexus here.

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Twitter Local

May 11

Posted by Richard Ting in Interactive

TwitterLocal lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area. Just enter a city, state, postal code, choose the range of miles you want to include, and hit the button. You’ll instantly get URLs to add to your RSS reader.

Check out the site.

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Orb goes iPhone

May 11

Posted by Richard Ting in Interactive, Mobility

As recently reported on IntoMobile.com, Orb, the application/service that allows you to stream content from your PC to other devices, just announced support for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. However, only jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch devices can utilize this new feature. The assumption is that this new feature is only a temporary solution until the new firmware with third-party application support becomes available later this summer.

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RIM BlackBerry 9000

May 11

Posted by Richard Ting in Mobility

I scraped this video from CrackBerry.com which has an in-depth look at the BlackBerry 9000’s new user interface. The BlackBerry 9000 rocks the BlackBerry OS 4.6 and sports a new slick user interface. As you’ll notice in the video, the menu icons light up as you scroll over them, while the screen dimension is a hearty 480×320 resolution. An amped up processor in the 9000 model gives this latest BlackBerry a leg up in the speed department versus previous BlackBerry handsets.

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