Go Green – Earth Friendly! This is the motto of the website Blackle. Powered by “Google Custom Search” Blackle aims to save energy by displaying google’s start page with a black background and using white font color for search results. According to particular studies computer monitors consume less energy by displaying much darker colors. On the Blackle’s website there is a field indicating how much energy has been already saved.

I came recently across this curious web site – 20q.net. In less than 20 questions this virtual monster can guess any thing you think of! I tried the word “ameba” and indeed, after the 8-th question “ameba” was displayed on the monitor! Try it out!

In the USA alibi-agencies exist already for a long time. In Europe they are quite new. Kleinezeitung reports about two online alibi agencies a french one alibila.com and a swiss one alibi-beton.com. Thus you can order a telephone call and if you pay a bit more you get even payment bills, flight or hotel reservations. (more…)

On the way to the work I heard today on radio a report about the first search engine enabling people search. This unic (at least it was stated so) service is called Spock. About 8 Mio. $ were invested in the development. The search critera can be a name of the person, his age or an e-mail. (more…)

KWICK! Community is one of the German social networks. The users are mostly teenagers from the south region of Germany. Compared to other social networks KWICK! has “only” 900 000 registered members and thus is in no way a concurrence to such large projects as studiVZ or lokalisten. My attention was attracted by a news posting at zweinull.cc that this is the first social network that decided to extend its service by using at mobile phones. (more…)

If I had to award a prize for the most cynical Mashup of the year, Los Angeles Time would be my favourite. On the Homicide Map these guys show the victims with their photos and the places in Los Angeles where the people were murdered. To make the thing more funny, they realized a filter (more…)

Had you a good or a bad day? Being a registered user of I Rate My Day you can rate your day. There are five different funny icons from Great! to Worst!. This Web 2.0 service offers a possibility to view own month rates on a graph and to view the rates of other users. There is a possibility to leave comments to the certain rates. Besides one can (more…)