Stalking Venus

Very interesting post over at Kevin Kelly’s blog. It basically sums up much of the thought surrounding the idea of a ‘global megasupercomputer’ that is theorised to be developing naturally as a result of all the computers and processors becoming attached to each other via the internet.
From the article:
“My hypothesis is this: The rapidly increasing [...]

The always excellent Utter Insanity blog has a link to this rather funky website ranking web application. Apparently StalkingVenus is worth $2971! God knows how they come up with the results, but it’s a bit of fun anyway.
Do you own a website? Go get yourself ranked!

In just a few hours, hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of balloons will begin floating across the internet. Don’t forget to go and give the Stalking Venus raccoon balloon an extra little push by clicking the orange balloon floating at the bottom right of the screen. Each time you push him, he gets to [...]

Despite all of the download day problems and poor organisation, it just goes to show what a huge following the Fox has… In 24 hours, over 8 million downloads. Guinness has yet to confirm the results, but it looks like the Mozilla uber-app is going to set and totally exceed the record.

Stalking Venus has joined the world’s first Internet balloon race! See the balloon raccoon bobbing about at the bottom right-hand side of the screen? Well, he’s going to be the Stalking Venus balloon racing champion.
All you have to do is wait until the balloon race starts in a few days time (see our sidebar on [...]

Now here’s a bunch of people with a great idea: A website that allows employees to post anonymous reviews of the company they work for, including the salary that they are being paid.

The website then compiles these reviews and cross references them with reviews from other companies. In this way, a visitor to the site can quickly see who’s earning what and where, as well as how happy the person is there.