The below is a fantastic look at the Organizational structures of the big tech companies:
They’re all pretty accurate too!
Thanks to Bonkers World and @SamRoutledge
April Fools Day 2011
I do like a good April Fools prank and so am going to keep a little list of my favourites today. Here we go:
Royal Charging:
Control Google Mail with your Body!!!
How it works
Gmail Motion uses your computer’s built-in webcam and Google’s patented spatial tracking technology to detect your movements and translate them into meaningful characters and commands. Movements are designed to be simple and intuitive for people of all skill levels.
Google have helpfully made a list of common actions and phrases to help you get started with this GROUND BREAKING new method of communication:
Already they’ve got the next implementation of this lined up – Motion in Google Docs:
For more information and Health & Safety tips, visit:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html
Google AutoComplete:
Google’s innovation keeps on coming…now they’re making AutoComplete even better…
The role: Autocompleter
Are you passionate about helping people? Are you intuitive? Do you often feel like you know what your friends and family are thinking and can finish their thoughts before they can? Are you an incredibly fast Google searcher? Like, so fast that you can do 20 searches before your mom does 1?
If, like me, you’re thinking this job sounds pretty brilliant, your enthusiasm may be tempered by the required skills. I think only a few great people will be up to scratch for this:
Responsibilities:
- Watch anonymized search queries as they come in to Google.
- Predict and type completions based on your personal experience and intuition.
- Suggest spelling corrections when relevant.
- Keep updated with query trends and offer fresh suggestions.
Requirements:
- Excellent knowledge of English and at least one other language.
- Excellent knowledge of grammatical rules (e.g. parts of speech, parsing).
- Understanding of the search engine space.
- Proven web search experience.
- Good typing skills (at least 32,000 WPM).
- Willingness to travel (in order to provide local autocompletions) or relocate to obscure places like Nauru and Tuvalu to develop knowledge of local news and trends.
- Certificate in psychic reading strongly preferred: palm, tarot, hypnosis, astrology, numerology, runes and/or auras.
New Domino’s iPhone App:
NEW ‘SM-APP’ RELEASES PIZZA SCENT WHEN ORDERING
“The new ‘sm-app’ from Domino’s uses the latest in aroma technology to release a small amount of pizza scent from the iPhone when customers place an order. The ‘scratch and sniff’ page within the new sm-app, is displayed after the ordering section and simply by rubbing the iPhone screen, the mouth-watering smell of a Pepperoni Passion wafts straight out of the phone”
The new sm-app is compatible with all iPhone models. For more details on how to download it, visit Domino’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/DominosPizza
Check out the “People I Might Know” section on LinkedIn:
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard, one the world’s most successful gaming companies, are also pretty great at April fools…here are the FOUR they hit us with today!!!
Horadric Cube:
To learn how to make your Angry Birds become ninjas, and more, fly to:
http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/media/horadrapp/
Tomb of Immortal Darkness:
Bringing true realism to WarCraft and using “Deep Dark” technology, the world of “Omgsogoth” is almost completely pitch black…all the way through:
As the tagline says, In the dark, no-one can hear you scream!
To see more (pun intended) head over to:
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/game/dungeon/tomb-of-immortal-darkness
Crabby, the WarCraft Helper:
The World of Warcraft can be a cold, lonely, unforgiving place and wandering the lands alone can be a daunting prospect. So having someone to keep you company and help you in your quest would be good right? Blizzard certainly think so…say hello to Crabby:
See more at:
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/game/dungeon-helper/
Future of StarCraft…with Kinect Support!
Perfectly optimised for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect system, you can use gesture-based controls to direct your forces and out-move your enemies. Wave your arms in the air like you do, in fact, care.
To see the video of this in action, jump to:
Geek Pic
Just received this from a colleague. It made me laugh and I thought some of you would appreciate it too 
Angry Birds: Letter from the Front Lines
I have just seen this on Twitter and it’s quite brilliant. Letters from the Angry Birds, written to their loved ones back home detailing the horrors of war.
These are taken from the site:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2011/3/2riebschlager.html
and seen on Twitter via @nickbilton from the NY Times.
Windows 7 Slinky in Action
You’ve probably seen the photos of my Windows 7 Slinky and I’m sure you’ve thought…”I wonder what it looks like it action?”. Well wonder no more…here it is in glorious Technicolor 
Good innit?!
My aim is to follow this up with some other, more extravagant videos but who knows if that’ll happen?!
Microsoft Research & Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero is awesome (and Rockband-don’t worry!) and Microsoft Research are pretty great too. So what happens when you put the two together? I’ll tell you…playing Guitar Hero without a controller!
This would definitely reduce the amount of space that all the guitars take up, and make it easier to carry them around (should you wish). They also show the technology being used to control an MP3 player whilst out jogging…just move a finger to skip, pause, play etc…something that would definitely take off
Again, more great work from Microsoft Research
Bill Gates was in Frasier
Somehow I’ve only just discovered this, that Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates was in Frasier! There isn’t much more to say other than it starts at 02:20 into the clip, it’s about XP and is pretty funny…Bill has got a great sense of humour!
My Windows 7 posters
I like to make posters to promote software internally at work, in an effort to get the sales teams on board, interested & excited in the latest products. Perhaps not surprisingly, Windows 7 has been a big topic lately and I thought you might like to see the latest posters I made
Windows 7:
Jumplists:
Federated Search:
Problem Steps Recorder:
Whaddya think?!
04
Jul
Great spam comment
I get a fair number of spam comments on this blog and I’ve noticed that the vast majority are all quite realistic. They could easily be written by actual people, the grammar, syntax & context are all spot on…it’s only the dodgy email/site addresses that let them down.
However I’ve just seen one in the spam filter on my blog that is so awesome I feel it needs to be shared. To me this reads like a great poem of old…almost in the style of Homer or Dante:
.I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did
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