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Nouri.sh - RSS_2_Email

by Nicolas Noben

Nouri.sh is a web2.0 app that let’s you send rss feeds over email.

Nourish is a next generation newsletter service which allows you to take any RSS feed from content you publish (like a blog), and convert it into an automated email newsletter your readers can subscribe to.

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FeedJournal - The Next Generation of the Newspaper

by Nicolas Noben

FeedJournal generates a journal looking format from RSS feeds. The idea is not new but for once the execution is decent. In the long run, I expect it to fail though, as it’s only mimicking a soon to be extinct format. The only good thing about it is nostalgia! Ok I’m being a bit harsh here, but text is so much better in a blog format or RSS feed than a fake online paper with columns all over the shop!

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Pastebin - Collaboration and code sharing

by Nicolas Noben

Pastebin - Your online paste box. Great idea and execution.

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HelloTxt - Super mass-spreading useless information

by Nicolas Noben

A great app! J/k.

The irony about hellotxt is that it helps you save time that is wasted anyway.

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PicLens - Awesome fullscreen browsing

by Nicolas Noben

Check out PicLens. It’s a great new way of browsing photos from your sites. It takes them fullscreen and it’s neatly done.

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Send you love Microsite (by Sprint Nextel)

by Nicolas Noben

Ahhh, yoooou, mhmhmh ohh yeah.

Love the lyrics reader. The sms sexyfier is pretty funny too. (Thanks Ash).


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Nike XX3 - Flash Doom-ish product browsing

by Nicolas Noben

Nike’s newest site, XX3, immerses you into a dark room. Find your way around to their latest products. Great photography and wallpapers gives it a home-feel. That said, it’s a bit empty and repetitive…

Great use of 3D anyway.


Design: ★★★☆☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Another Experimental site - CUCI systematic thesaurus look-up

by Nicolas Noben

CUCI (cut-up / code-in) is primarily an experiment in language and programming. Individual word-units are at the meme mercy of systematic thesaurus look-ups in a fashion similar to the ‘human’ process. Whereas softmachines are prejudiced, the logic-board is not.


Design: ★★★☆☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Amazing 3D - Redbull’s Online game gives you wings

by Nicolas Noben

A great use of 3D in Flash - The Redbull Flugtag Flight Lab lets you design your own little plane and then fly it around. So get your creative ears on and start designing.


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Spamology - 3D Flash spam visualizer

by Nicolas Noben

Spamology is a part of ongoing research examining the nature of Spam as a digital-cultural phenomenon, which aims at visualizing
the links and interrelationships between the contents of spam, the user/individual and the society, by revealing patterns in spam
which may reflect cultural and social trends, behaviors and variations.

Spamology is an audiovisual representation of word frequencies in spam e-mail messages.
the visualization is based on analysis of a private archive of spam messages which were collected during 10 years (1998-2007),
containing up to 2,000,000 emails originated from various parts of the world.


Design: ★★★☆☆
Usability: ★★☆☆☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★☆☆

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Web2.0 App of the YEAR!

by Nicolas Noben

Check out the Automatic screen cleaner. Awesome app.


The Human Brain Cloud

by Nicolas Noben

Human Brain Cloud. Play, and View!

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Papervision 3D & Yahoo: NewsGlobe is live

by Nicolas Noben

Yahoo’s NewsGlobe is a rss reader that reads the latest news while positioning them on a globe. Papervision 3D is used to render the planet and it’s working great.

More information can be found here.

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Make montages with flash and google image

by Nicolas Noben

Cute little flash app by Grant Robinson. Use keywords to generate montages of thumbs from Google Image.

Check out Montage-a-google


Design: ★★☆☆☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★☆☆

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McDonald’s Polish site. Great Flash work and polished indeed.

by Nicolas Noben

Visit McDonald’s Poland.


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★★☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★★☆

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Another brilliant Ikea website - Flash at its best

by Nicolas Noben

They’ve done it again with The complete bedroom. Love the Ikea goodness. Simple, effective, and always entertaining.


Design: ★★★☆☆
Usability: ★★★★☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Spinvision.tv - Flex application hooked on YouTube

by Nicolas Noben

Spinvision is a small application that gets the latest video from YouTube while rendering the position of the submission on the planet.

It just spins around and displays random videos.


Design: ★☆☆☆☆
Usability: ★★☆☆☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★☆☆☆

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Check out Enzo Varriale’s interesting work

by Nicolas Noben

Enzo works on brainwave mapping and visualizations using a real time video synthesis software called VVVV.


Design: ★★★★★

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JukeFly Lauched.

by Nicolas Noben

jukefly.pngTurn your computer into a social streaming machine using JukeFly.

Instead of uploading your music like anywhere.fm, jukefly gives you a small server process to run on your computer that will stream your music to whoever. The concept is slightly different but might be more advantageous in the long run. Time will tell.


Design: ★★☆☆☆
Usability: ★★★★☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Break the drought - a RSVP viral

by Nicolas Noben

Interesting concept of using a company like RSVP and assigning it a cause such as the drought in Australia.

The execution is cool but rather tasteless. Probably because the point was to raise awareness about RSVP, not the drought (ok I might be a bit harsh here).

Check out Break the drought.


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★☆☆☆
Overall: ★★★☆☆

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