Why this widget makes me happy

So, it seems like a small meaningless thing. In so many ways it is unremarkable, a small piece in a big puzzle - one that you wouldn't think much of, or could mean much to someone.

The problem is the puzzle is my washing machine - and we have been waiting for that part for a month! That innocuous little grey piece of plastic has been keeping peace out of the question for 4 weeks at chez millar. So now I find myself so pleased it has arrived I can hardly be bothered to mention the half-arsed customer service team at MayTag who managed to keep us on tenterhooks for so many bad reasons.

I also still have the small matter of reconstructing the puzzle (at least a dozen pieces form the door of the washing machine alone) which will also give me some pleasure in being able to assist in the remedy.

I feel a bit like someone with Stockholm syndrome - I have been subjected to pain and misery, yet I am loyal to the architect of that misery simply because (in this case) the ordeal of having no machine has gone so far to prove how great it is when it is working!

Had someone come to fix the machine, charged be 200 quid for the privelige would I have appreciated my maytag so much? Who knows - I'm off to wash some socks!

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Take a look at this site from sprint - basically a collection of little flash widgets that collect data from across the internet on things that are happening now.. Watch the number of eggs produced grow, alongside the webcam from the boston aquarium. See how many houses are being built - with the top google searches of the day and the number of seconds to go until national Donut day... (if that's what interests you!)

You'll be ectatic to hear that the top word being used online now is 'the' but that number 107 is 'er'. There's some nicely designed little animations in here and an interesting look at how data drawn from the web needn't look like its just been generated in excel. Its a bot of fun...

People still love great quality video

Today I'm content simply to blow our own trumpet a little as I came across the following plaudit for Mydeo "This is best sharing site for quality that I have come across to date, much better than Blip.tv, google and the tube. Blip.tv offers a flash format and also a choice of WMV under its movie pane, still good, but the quality is not on par with Mydeo as of yet." found on Sport-Touring.Net.

Given that we haven't updated much on the consumer side for so long it is gratifying to know that people are still loving great quality video, which is what we are all about. Also today we are attending the MediaTech 100 where LibraryHouse are celebrating the hottest 100 private mediatech companies in Europe. Mydeo have been selected by rigorously assessing companies using Library House proprietary data filters, and an expert advisory panel, and its good to see friend of Mydeo such as WAYN and Rummble there too!

There's a monkey on my bus!

Who's using facebook?

Thanks to Matt for doing the legwork and extracting this useful presentation from the facebook ad targeting data. Face of Facebook September(application/pdf Object)