del.icio.us links for May 06, 2007

del.icio.us links for May 06, 2007

1. TheStar.com – Athome – `Starter’ home will be a keeper

   WOW – “Disney World Marathon in 2005″. BUT – “Some time after that, she’ll tackle her dream project: mounting a flat screen TV over her fireplace on some type of yet-to-be-determined movable mechanical contraption.” Now thats a technical description

2. Social Networkers’ Media Habits

   It’s not such good news for video game advertisers. The social networking crowd is most likely a large portion of the gaming crowd. A 20% drop is significant and probably worrysome for in-game advertisers.

3. Website Magazine : Take Your WordPress Blog Mobile

   If you use WordPress as your website or a portion of your site, a new plug-in can get you started. It enables a WordPress blog to be automatically detected by mobile devices and immediately reconfigured to optimally display content to fit the its screen.

4. Bubble Guru Is an Easy Video Messaging Tool

   One of the many video messaging services currently available. The key differentiating factor with Bubble Guru is their execution of the visual message, which appears in a floating bubble that moves with you as you scroll down the page.

5. Harry Potter and the mystery of Hermione’s curves

   The makers of the Harry Potter films are at the centre of a row after a poster of teenage star Emma Watson was electronically enhanced. In a shot promoting the latest instalment her profile appeared to have been made curvier.

6. ColorJack: Sphere (Color Theory Visualizer)

   A great downloadable widget to help you work out the codes for all those web safe colors that you need in order to be able to customize your your websites or social network home pages

8 more articles after the jump

1. Let them sing it for you

   Great little text to audio site using the audio from famous songs to make up your user inputted text.

2. MyVoIPSpeed VoIP connection test, bandwidth test, test VoIP performance

   MyVoIPSpeed Server measures the quality and performance of Internet connections for Voice over IP (VoIP) usage by simulating real VoIP sessions between your server and customers.

3. Jangl – Freedom Rings

   Have you seem this SocailNetwork? – “Jangl lets you take your online community to your phone. When you give out your Jangl ID or post a Jangl Widget, your contacts get a special number to call you.” – What does this site offer that Jaiku doesn’t?

4. edu 2.0: the easiest way to teach and learn using the web

   Teachers – Sharing lesson materials, community Q&A, testing, and classroom management. Students – Self-paced study, community Q&A, and classroom participation. Parents – Reports, supplemental activities and networking.

5. Education Vouchers Work

   Caroline Hoxby, an economist at Harvard University, who has shown that when American public schools must compete for their students with schools that accept vouchers, their performance improves. Swedish researchers say the same.

6. Kids Guide to the Tokyp Subway

   I like the way this site scrolls sideways to get from one page to the next. After you click enter you have to put in a name, age and sex, I can’t read Japanese but the site is easy to work out, even if I can’t work out what it actually says, Worth a Look

7. Love – Key Points

   There are three phases to falling in love and different hormones are involved at each stage. Events occurring in the brain when we are in love have similarities with mental illness. Smell – We like the look and smell of people who are most like our parent

8. Sheep dash!

   Tiredness can affect your reaction times. See how alert you are with this game and test the impact of a cup of tea or coffee on your performance.