Wednesday, 5 August 2009

What's Hot This Week #6

Bromance – the picture above was the best-selling shot on Getty Images last month. Following the recent MTV series of the same name, it looks like bromance is “in”.
9 to 5 Brow$er - a conceptual Firefox plugin that calculates how much company money you’re wasting while surfing the net at work. On a similar vain is the Meeting Ticker which aims to do away with pointless meetings by calculating how much money meetings cost.
What Do People Do All Day? – superb infographic from the NY Times which shows how Americans spent their time in 2008.
A Serious Man - if the trailer is anything to go by, be excited about the new Coen brothers film.
Timeline of Internet Memes – pretty much what the title says!
Citysounds.fm – a great website that streams the latest music from the most interesting cities around the world. The most active cities appear at the top of the list and the list is constantly changing as new music is being created.
PDF Newspaper - ok so this isn’t particularly “hot” but it is useful. This site lets you create PDFs from web content. Great for converting blogs to a more readable newspaper format to read on the tube home.
Nerd Boyfriend - really liking this fashion blog. It would be a smart idea for a clothing brand to jump on.... or for the Sartorialist to make even more money.
London Twirls Project - one man’s mission to map the availability of Cadbury Twirls in London.

2 comments:

MacSmith said...

Liking all of these. The bromance connection is classic but weird. I could see that photo in a hipster targeted T-mobile USA ad.

Tom Gibson said...

Thanks for your comment Mark. If you haven't already got it I'd recommend downloading the 27 Letters widget which gives you the most talked about and referenced visual content each month.
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