GeoGuessr is a pretty fun online game where it shows you a random location from Google Street View and then you zoom in and click on a world map to guess where you are with points being assigned based on how close you are to the actual location. There are no “rules” per se but [...]
A good article about why Google has been so successful including: Google Cafes to encourage employee interaction, allowing anyone to directly e-mail senior managers Google Moderator which is custom software that allows staff to ask questions about any aspect of the company and then vote on other people’s ideas to ensure the most relevant ideas [...]
…and it’s actually kinda terrifying. (h/t JG)
(Well, the title of this post is 144 characters anyhow. The body of this thing will be *much* longer!) Twitter is celebrating the seventh anniversary of the first tweet ever which means today is as good of time as any to look back at what role social media played in the recent Sask NDP Leadership [...]
In a world where smart phones and other recording devices are ubiquitous (and increasingly undetectable), when will politicians (and political advisors) realise that everything they say (even in semi-private and private) can and will be recorded? Probably never…
I’m not sure whether to be proud or sad that I caught the vast majority of the references in this video… (If you prefer text links, this one has many of the same memes in the video. And here’s a summary of the year from a Canadian perspective.)
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1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Saw a photo of the brain of someone I know! Shea’s nephew has had a variety of health issues for the past five years including numerous seizures. This year, he was taken to Vancouver for some operations to address these, as yet, undiagnosed [...]
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The Centre of the Arts is running a “12 Tickets of Christmas” series on FB for free concert tickets each day. The other day they asked people to submit the location of the best Christmas lights they’d seen in Regina to enter that day’s draw. Later that day, I also came across this on Twitter – [...]
[Edit: This video is now poised to be the first YouTube clip to reach 1 billion views, amazingly in less than six months!] [Edit2: Some further analysis of the revenue Gangnam created.] “Gangnam Style”, a quirky Korean pop song with a very “uniquely” stylish video is the second most watched clip in the history of [...]
Google Street View (Ocean View?) now allows you to “swim” through various underwater locations including Hanauma Bay on Oahu where I fell in love with snorkeling as a kid and Molokini Crater which was one of many highlights during our Hawaii trip last January. View Larger Map View Larger Map
