Apple granted patent where carriers bid to provide service to iPhones

“The invention would allow Apple to run a MVNO system that could collect rate information from participating wireless networks within a region and automatically select or allow users to select the best option.”
“Apple’s system could set off a bidding war between providers, potentially driving prices down.”

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/09/apple_granted_patent_where_carriers_bid_for_iphone_service.html

Official Google Blog: Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results – and denies it

This is from the official Google blog!

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html#

Wirify lets you turn any web page into a wireframe

http://www.volkside.com/2010/12/introducing-wirify-the-web-as-wireframes/

Surfing The Web With Kinect

DepthJS on Vimeo on Vimeo

via DepthJS on Vimeo.

WordPress Wins CMS Award

I was just informed that WordPress, in head-to-head voting against Joomla and Drupal, has won this year’s Open Source CMS Hall of Fame award.

We have to be careful because if this trend continues people might think WordPress is a real CMS, useful for more than just a blog. This would ruin our stealth campaign and might bring dozens of new users to the WordPress community. If you could keep this on the DL we’d appreciate it.

We don’t want WordPress to develop a reputation.

via WordPress › WordPress Wins CMS Award.

Google Has A Fleet Of Automated Cars!

Apparently Google has automated cars already on the road driving around the US which have logged over 140,000 hours already! There has only been one accident, when someone rear-ended a Google car :)

Source: Official Google Blog: What we’re driving at.

2D to 3D Transitions

Brilliant and beautiful!

Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive

Microsoft just launched the Beta for IE9 today

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

Looks like it doesn’t work with Windows XP though?

YouTube – Google Goggles

YouTube – Google Goggles.

The New Video Ad Format

Hulu is going to be rolling out a new ad format for video which allows a user to select which ad they want to watch from a selection of related ads. Seems like a win-win for everyone, I think we can expect to see this format rolling out across other similar sites. I can’t think of any other platform which allows users to select between ads but this could potentially work elsewhere, it’s certainly an interesting concept:

Hulu Will Be First to Launch New Video Ad Format – Website Magazine -Website Magazine.