The PSP will soon be launched in South Korea, and along comes a unique online service by the name of PSP NESPOT, available by the provider KT. It is said to be a content distribution service that offers some interesting features like video/music/movies on demand for the PSP. Even a Manga and Anime channel is said to be part of the service, which sounds reasonable, as Manga is extremely popular in Asia. More on that service at PSP 411.
Worldwind is a service run by NASA, that offers satellite images of many places around the world, similar to Google’s Keyhole. Interstingly, NASA makes use of the Bittorrent filesharing protocol to distribute updates to their software, thus maybe being the first government site using P2P applications.
[via Boing Boing]
I have built quite a number of websites over the years (you can check out some of them on Fruetel.net, most of them are in German though), and recently I am heading more and more towards using blog software as a backbone for the sites. With XyroX, it was a natural choice, as this site was intended to be magazine style, and software like WordPress works very well for that kind of sites. Then I have built hybrid sites, for example my German Insurance Site, which consists of a selfmade skeleton of pages and WordPress for the news section. (more…)
Google just added high-resolution satellite images to their maps service. Obviously, the image data is provided by Keyhole, a company that specializes in sattelite images that has been acquired by Google in October 2004. To see these, just do a search on Google Maps. If there is an image for the location, you can click Satellite in the upper right corner. The satellite image offers the same kind of scrolling that surprised the web crowd when Google first introduced the maps.
Soon after people discovered how to surf the web with their playstation portable, a new hack shows up: PSP IRC offers the opportunity to join the Internet Relay Chat using the handheld device. A virtual onscreen keyboard is to be used as input device here.
Next to Pac Man, the old Space Invaders is probably the best known video game classic. And along with Tetris it might be one of the games with the most remakes. Now Nintendo has announced there will be a Space Invaders for their new Nintendo DS. As it seems, they even got Tomohiro Nishikado, the developer of the original Space Invaders Arcade, to oversee the development of the new version.