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For starters, you can stay in touch all the time. Besides Twitter, which allows you to constantly update your doings online and broadcast them to your friends as text messages, now there's Cluztr. Cluztr lets you to share your "clickstream" with your friends so you can "stop wandering the web alone." Now you can find out which of your friends is on the same web page you are, find out what sites your friends are visiting and follow them around, and leave messages for friends on any website you visit. Personally, I don't know if all this togetherness is for me. A few days after Jason wrote about Twitter for the Online Gargoyle, I overheard a girl in the library describe it as "that stalking software." Even if you and the stalkers are friends, I have to admit that the comment resonated with me.
For the environmentally conscious, now there is Blackle, a Google custom search done in all black to save energy. How cool is that?
Thanks to the LibrarianinBlack for the tipping me off to Cluztr and Blackle.
For the environmentally conscious, now there is Blackle, a Google custom search done in all black to save energy. How cool is that?
Thanks to the LibrarianinBlack for the tipping me off to Cluztr and Blackle.
posted by franceylibrarian at 3:33 PM
3 Comments:
The premise behind Blackle is based on obsolete technology. Although CRT monitors do require more energy to display white than black, LCD monitors, which are predominant today, generate the same backlight all the time and simply block it in the LCD panel to produce a black image. So they require the same energy input regardless of what colors they're displaying, and in fact will run a little hotter to the touch (because the screen is absorbing energy from the backlight) when showing a black page. The site was obsolete before it was implemented.
- GDS
Yes, but an all-black interface! Energy-saving or not, it's just too cool. Or, as somebody famous must have said, don't bother me with the facts ;-) .
Blackle does look cool, but I always think of black based themes as cool. But to think of Cluztr, and to think that everybody is following me around the web, I don't like the idea. I want to know when they are online, but not for them to what am I doing.
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