Useful and Interesting Sites Reviewed
Sleep is an important activity. If you don’t get enough of it you’ll have problems functioning.
Sleepyti.me is a single page site with one very simple objective – to help you choose the best time to go to sleep.
It works based on sleep cycles, so simply put in the time you need to get up and it will automatically suggest the best times for you to go to sleep.
Who needs expensive gadgets? 🙂
Someone sent me the link to Butch Bakery this morning and I simply had to give them a mention.
What is it?
They’re a bakery in New York
What makes them special?
Their product. Sure they’re just selling “cup cakes”, but they’ve managed to take a simple product and give it a new and interesting twist and that’s what caught my attention
The graphical style and other elements on the site all reenforce the concept they’re driving – making cupcakes more appealing to boys .. more macho basically
I love it!
Go play with their site
One of the problems that startups have is getting funds.
So a few people came up with the idea of “outvesting“, which they describe as:
“The act of committing money to a business while expecting to get nothing in return, other than the satisfaction of giving a leg up to Irish entrepreneurs.”
The idea is pretty simple – pledging €50 each towards startups. €50 isn’t much, but when you multiply it by 40, 50 or 100 it becomes a “nice chunk of cash”.
Further details on the site
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All too often English speakers forget that they are not the only people on the face of the planet. It’s all too easy to forget that there are other language groups out there and that they too have money to spend!
So when I came across Dublin en Español I was very impressed! This is the kind of service that we should see more of. Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and providing services to Spanish speakers in their native tongue makes sense.
The company offers a variety of tours of Dublin city in Spanish (thence the name!)
More details on their site
Image via Wikipedia
Successive Irish governments have talked about “initiatives” to encourage “egovernment”. Some of the work they’ve done has been pretty good, but a lot of it wasn’t exactly stellar.
So it’s great to see that a totally independent, citizen volunteer project like Kildare Street has not only managed to give us, the people, access to Dail (parliament) transcripts, but also allows to pass comments, get alerts and so much more.
Kildare Street is the brainchild of John Handelaar and is based on similar project in the UK.
John’s announcement explains it all:
Since 20th January 2004, the Dáil has been in session for 493 days (including today).
Up until this morning TDs made 249,489 speeches, and asked 160,503 questions which received written responses.
On average, TDs are producing 507 speeches and 326 written answers per sitting day.
And Handelaar’s site has now made all of that content accessible and searchable.
Now that is cool!
