Stuff that’s been floating around the office this month

We at Made By Many are a bunch of interesting people. Over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed quite a few cool links being sent between us. I thought it would be fun to put some of them down here:

1. Google Flu Trends: Someone at Google realised that certain search terms are a good indicator of flu activity. The output of that discovery: Google Flu Trends! (courtesy Matt)

2. Five Second Test: This one’s for the designers – a quick test to gauge how good your user interfaces are. (courtesy Elin)

3. Tim Brown on play and creativity: Tim Brown, CEO of Ideo, speaks about how creative thinking and play are tightly woven together. It’s one of those very insightful TED videos, though this talk was originally presented at the 2008 Serious Play conference. (courtesy Matt)

4. Hotel 626: Spooky Town, here we come! Hotel 626 is only open from 6pm to 6am, and was ostensibly created to give you a chill. You check it out and decide. (courtesy Elin)

5. BNP Near Me: For all you registered members of the British National Party, this one identifies you down to your postcode!! It’s very Big-Brotherish, but the site promises that no personal information is disclosed. (courtesy Matt)

6. Tweetbomb: Hopefully the intended victims of tweetbombing are not going to read this, or it would spoil the WTF element. If you’re on Twitter, start following Tweetbomb and follow his/her command to ‘bomb’ the heck out of one unsuspecting poor fool every day! (courtesy Tim)

7. Is it Christmas: Ask, and your question shall be answered. Pointless, but fun. (courtesy Yours Truly)

8. Remember The Milk: An online diary for your iPhone. (courtesy Yours Truly)