tcbutler.co.uk

Interested to see Rapleaf is now live.  It allows you to rate other people in a similar way to eBay, but you don’t have to have been in a transaction with them.  I’ll be very interested to see how meaningful the ratings are once a few people are using it… have a look at my reputation if you’re interested.

… excusing the pun; I was surprised to see just how many online multiplayer games there are (which you don’t have to pay for, too!)

Role Playing Games – Free Multiplayer Online Games

Curiouser and curiouser.

Updated 4th Feb 2007!

Today I received my shiny new silver PS2 eyeToy and Play3 software. Bit of a spur of the moment purchase from eBay (saved about a tenner from the high-street price).

While watching a company webcast, I wondered whether the eyeToy works as a USB webcam on the PC. Well, it does, and I found a driver to make it work fully on XP.

(more…)

I’m getting into reading a few other people’s blogs now, and discovered this article on how long it takes someone to take in the first page of a website. Quite amazing: Web users form first impressions of web pages in as little as 50 miliseconds (1/20th of a second), according to Canadian researchers.

I’m rather enjoying a site I was introduced to earlier this week, which automagically analyses your musical tastes and suggests music you might like.  You can say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to each song suggested until the system totally nails it and every tune is pure, solid, musical gold.  It’s called Pandora.

Great fun, and you can also challenge it by providing it with really stupid ’seed’ songs, like ‘Barbie Girl’ by Aqua vs ‘Babylon’ by David Grey.  And yes, it will find the common ground.  Strange but true!