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Today I came across Navigaya and I was totally amazed by what I saw. It took me a while to get the picture. The site opens with a full screen video playing while offering a search bar. All became clear when hovering at the top and bottom of the screen. More items became visible and I was even more surprised. This is not just a site. Navigaya has it all, I’d define it even more than a portal. This is a total surfing experience, futuristic surfing experience. What else to define it? Surf the way you want it.

Navigaya is a site on which you can watch video (with sound), create your own playlists, surf around, read magazines, read your mail, search via search engine you can set your self on and off. ! I have never seen anything like this before. Just wow.

Maybe they should make it a stand alone application instead of opening it in a browser window.

Samsung has launched a great campaign called ‘Follow your instict‘ to promote their new phone, Samsung Instinct. In this campaign Youtube’s new ‘annotation‘ feature is being used which makes it possible to add interactivity to your video such as commentary and links.

The story starts with you waking up after a wild night night. The rest is up to you … do what your are being told or follow your instinct.

Great campaign!

(thanks for the tip, Peter)

This site dates back from 2004 but I love it.

Today I stumbled upon this pretty fun website called Quest for the Rest from The Polyphonic Spree on which they present their album ‘Together we’re heavy’.

The goal is to find your way through the site and reach level 4. A little thinking is necessary to find out what you need to do to get the characters moving. If you pay attention to the smallest details it’s easy to get them going.

Well done if you ask me. Anyone an idea about who might have made this site?

Matthew Inman did a pretty neat job by illustration the State of the Web anno summer 2008. Reminds me of the Epic 2015 story made for the Museum of Media History.

Here is the 2007 version of the State of the Web.

(thanks to MurtenSaerbi en Sara)

NameThis, a Kluster.com initiative, is a service that let’s others suggest names for your service, product or company. Within a 48 hours time frame visitors of NamThis.com can suggest names based upon a description of your service, product or company to launch. Or how they call it: “collaborative product/company naming”. The fun part is that you might have a change to get paid whenever you picked the right name (based upon some mathematic calculations by their system).

At first I thought it was a joke but apparently it’s for real. There is a site, nameyourwang.com on which you can get a “Certificate of Authenticity” of ownership of your manhood. For about $17,00 you can have a name registered for your penis. This is crazy but for sure is a great birthday present.

I admit, I have been laughing out loud for a little while. But hey, why not. It’s a fun service and I am sure people will use it. I checked and Rocco is still available.

TypeRacer is a fun tool for everyone that wants to learn to type or likes a little bit of competition. You can practice, or race type complete strangers or your friends after you sent them an invite. A fun touch is the list of scores. You’ll be on top of the list when you do good. But scores are updates frequently so in order to stay on top you’ll need to practice a lot. Go TypeRace.

Marc Gonzales: “Conquering boredom”, “There is nothing much to do in life accept to do art and skate”. Is this passion? Guess so.

More of Marc, click here.

Here is a handy little tool which makes it easy to keep track of new posts on blogs you normally read with your rss reader. Snackr actually is an rss reader but in the form of a small ticker which can be placed on one of the 4 sides of your screen. Posts scroll by as they come in. You can set the scrolling speed but I suggest not to set it to fast.

How often do we hear people complain about their weight and wanting something do about it? Over and over again. Hence, even I complain since I am growing some lovely love handles. I started running a few weeks ago but results are poor up until today. But I am beating the distance. Each run I get further. At least that’s something to keep me going.

For all others that can’t get out of their lazy chair, turn off the TV, get another snack out of the fridge, … here’s a great service. We all need some encouragement or someone to push us a bit. If that someone is not around then you can fall back to this service. It’s called WeightNags. They nag and you lose (fat).

All you need to do is sign up and you get e-mails that make you feel guilty you couldn’t get out of your lazy chair. Another option is to sign up for a text messaging service. (which is not free but still only $4.95/month)

Here’s an example of an e-mail I got:

Hi Tubbo,

WeightNags Do. That’s who.

Image taken from sportzfun.com

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