Twitter Watch 2

A new version of Twitter Watch is out. The main improvement on the original is that the live feed of tweets can now be translated into a selection of languages. There are a lot of Twitter users who don't write in English!

Tags: Twitter, mashup

South west London volleyball

Here's a clip of our (almost) weekly session in the park. Should've hit the final spike a bit harder...

Related: volleyball

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Four more countries added

We added a few more languages the other day and now here are four more, namely; Croatian, Czech, Polish and Romanian. Incidentally they're also competing in Euro 2008 at the moment. Czech Republic beat Germany today so congratulations to them!

Hello Scandinavia and India

Greek and Dutch were added a few weeks ago, now Nimisis.com is also available in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Hindi. That makes 18 languages all together so far!

Tags: language, swedish, norwegian, danish, hindi

The final frontier

Today's theme is Space. The European Space Agency has started accepting applications for wannabe astronauts. To apply you need to have a science related degree, preferrably be aged 27 to 37 and also have passed the kind of medical private pilots need (which costs about £150). Why not get out of the rat race and into the space race? Flights won't start until around 2015 though.

If you really want to go into space but don't get selected you could still become a space tourist. Tickets start at around £100K - I'd be annoyed if I didn't get a window seat. Here's more info about the industry in a TED talk by Burt Rutan.
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Related: space, exploration, TED talks, astronaut

Shorter than TinyURL

URL shorteners create short links that forward onto web addresses that are long and hard to remember. Omani.ac is the shortest URL shortener I've come across. Bookmark it and use it when you're emailing a long web address to a friend or posting a link on a site.

There's also an API that programmers might find useful. Twitter, for example, automatically substitutes links that are thirty or more characters long. Perhaps you'll be able to find a use for it!

Win a Nintendo Wii Fit

They've been pretty elusive, but there's a competition that's free to enter at PriceCutReview.com with the prize being a Nintendo Wii Fit. Open to UK residents only. Closes at noon on 1st July 2008. If you can't wait that long then there's also an in-stock notification service here.

Tags: Nintendo, Wii Fit, competition

Pagerank update April 2008

Google have just done a pagerank update. If you have the Google toolbar installed you should see that Nimisis.com is back to PR4. Same for PriceCutReview.com and Sport.omani.ac. About time too!

Related: pagerank, Google, webmaster, seo

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