Streaming video games has been the new hotness in the gaming world since OnLive revealed itself in March with the the ability to stream games onto a PC at HDTV resolution from distant servers with a web plugin or a small piece of hardware. Basically, cloud gaming. I was impressed when the news came out, [...]
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Whether or not it was a hit (it wasn’t), I thinking about making “A Trip to the Timesink” a weekly entry sharing some of the great things that the internet provides us.
The first item is a great website for wasting time that is especially enjoyable when with a group of friends. Sporcle is a [...]
Don’t lie to yourself. Unless your banking or marketing at someplace ridiculous (Kraft I hear is fun), chances are you have some downtime at work. I know I do. Here are two excellent ways to use your time.
Unnecessary Knowledge – A beautiful website that beckons you to keep refreshing for useless factoids.
Nitrome – Home [...]
Not sure if anyone I know uses del.icio.us anymore, but today del.icio.us, or delicious, brought the site out of stone age with its first update since 1920. The new delicious does not really affect my life, but the subject of bookmarking is something that I hold dear. Whereas some new services have left people wondering [...]
Youtube’s popularity was revolutionary. Since then, the site has failed to bring papa Google any happiness and has pretty much dropped the ball in terms of innovation. Youtube recently purchased Omnisio to try to spice things up, but the latest news regarding Youtube’s speech-to-text technology is what I find most promising interesting. Youtube is [...]
Cuil is a new search engine launched last night by a superstar team of ex-Google employees. The search engine is speculated to be a “Google-killer” with claims that it provides a larger index than Google and better search results with some related-words technology. The site also has an interesting interface and issues with uptime.
My opinion? [...]
Hulu is this amazing online TV/movie provider from NBC Universal and News Corp. I’ve been using it pretty religiously throughout it’s beta stage and am very happy to report that the site is now open to the public. Thanks to Hulu, I have been able to enjoy quality (HD) programming without having to resort to [...]
