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Friday FunFriday Fun: IKEA Sound-Activated WebsiteWhat an awesome Internet application! IKEA created a site that responds to sound. When it "hears" sound, the characters move. When there's a rest in the song, they stop moving and revert backwards. Use their songs, or upload your own MP3. http://demo.fb.se/e/ikea/comeintothecloset2/site/default.html Friday Fun: How Far Can You Push Apple Store Geniuses?I know it's only Wednesday, but I need to share some humor. I haven't been impressed with our local Apple Store, but here's proof that while they may not be geniuses, they are definitely courteous sales people. Unfortunately I can't embed this video, but it's worth the click: The Geniuses at your local Apple Store are trained to be some of the most confident and unflappable retail employees in the biz, but how far can you push it? Can you order a pizza in an Apple Store? Can you take your wife on a date to one? Can you get your iPhone repaired dressed as Darth Vader? Can you bring your pet goat into the store? Comedian Mark Malkoff set to find out, and the answers are embedded in the video on this page...
Friday Fun: Need A Number?Especially good for your website statistics reporting, if you ever need a number comparison to add scale go to http://www.numberquotes.com/ "Our home page was viewed 2,469 times last month, the same number of Golden Gate Bridges laid end-to-end that would reach to the planet Mercury!" Hmm, sounds impressive, doesn't it? Friday Fun: Firefox PersonasJust as you can add a personalized cover to your Flip camcorder, or "skin" your media player, you can add a "Persona" to Firefox. Go to http://www.getpersonas.com/ and look through the gallery, or check out this one of one of my four-footed local neighbors: https://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/174914 . If you're browsing with Firefox (sorry, it doesn't work in Internet Explorer,) when you find one you like click "Wear It" or "Wear This Persona". Your picture now covers the entire toolbar. You can create your own as well, it's as simple as creating a couple of JPG or PNG files. Go here to get started: https://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/upload It does require the free Personas plug-in to use. Friday Fun: The Hamster Dance
Originally started as a challenge by her best friend to see who could get more visits to their sites, HamsterDance.com began in August 1998 by Deidre LeCarte. By January 1999, the hamsters achieved widespread fame on the Internet -who hasn't heard of the Hamster Dance? Well, who over the age of 30? They were eventually even featured on a tv commercial for Earthlink. So what do you do with a site like this? If you're like most capitalists, you make money off it! The original hamsters have been redesigned into 3D characters and now sell their own DVD and music tracks, including a Christmas album. Their site also promotes the hamsters through a variety of free interactive features such as a "Meet & Greet" page, games, a newsletter, message boards and more. To learn more about the furry foursome, visit http://www.hampsterdance.com. Friday Fun: Dinosaur Live!I'm the mother of two boys, budding paleontologists, so we do a lot of dinosaur things. If you've never seen the BBC Production of Walking With Dinosaurs, you really should. It's a very impressive arena show of life-size dinosaurs roaming the floor with a narrator giving us insights into their lives. The website for the show isn't nearly as impressive as meeting a life-size "live" T-Rex face to face, but it's still impressive. They've done a spectacular job carrying the theme from live show to site. In Meet the Dinosaurs you can hear each one roar, as you do during the show (and before: the dinosaurs demonstrate their impatience for the show to start). Of course they have a video section that shows not only the dinos in action but responses from the audience and interviews with the production team as well. There is an educational pack for teachers to use to prepare students before their arrival, from dino facts to what it takes to put together a production of this type. Aimed at the younger audience there are dinosaur games, such as assembling a pile of bones into a skeleton and excavating a fossil with shovels, chisels and brushes. They even have a "widget" to make it easy to share their site on your site (see left). For so many reasons, this site is a fun site to explore, and an effective website for promoting their show. Friday Fun: Add Bacon to Your Website
Friday Fun: How Oscar is BornDid you miss the Academy Awards last Sunday? You can catch lots of great video clips of the awards and behind the scenes at http://www.Oscar.com. My favorite: How Oscar is Born. Friday Fun: ID Ten T errorThis is the new "kidspeak," from one of those children that knows more about computers than adults do. The adult was having problems with her computer so she asked the neighbor kid to repair it. In a couple of keystrokes it was all fixed. When the adult asked what was wrong, the child replied it was an ID Ten T error. What is that? Write it out: I D 1 0 T What a brat! Recent blog posts
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What can be more fun than adding bacon to your website? To add bacon to my blog,