While it’s very pleasing to the eye, it’s definitely not as useful as other popular search sites like Google or Yahoo. It runs slow and, well, the Live Search engine isn’t as good as its competitors are. But, as an experiment, the site does very well. It’s a nice example of what can be done with Silverlight, which aims to compete with Adobe Flash.

At the moment, Suprnova is in the public beta stage, which means that some minor problems or bugs may be discovered. The site seems to be working fine though, and has a nice new design inspired by the good old Suprnova.

Not surprisingly, the community is very excited about Supernova’s relaunch: the story on Digg has been dugg by almost 5,000 people, with several other related stories making the homepage. Interesting thing is that Kevin Rose is the one who submitted the original story, which officially makes him a pirate ;)

The point is to make the blogging community discuss the same issue on the same day. October 15th has been chosen to be the first “blog action day” with environment being picked up as the first topic.

I’m not very enthusiastic about the idea, but the fact is that many influential blogs, like GigaOm, Lifehacker or Web Worker Daily, as well as many others, will take part in the initiative.

For more information, read the Leo Babauta’s post submitted to The Action Blog.

Spock lets you find informations about a specific person by just typing his or her name, e-mail or location, and filter the results by age, gender or by availablity of a picture. Data is gathered automatically by an algorithm and may come from many services, like online encyclopedias or social networking websites.

The interesting thing is that you can also search people by tags - type in “digg” to get Digg employees and users, or “linux kernel hacker” to find scary guys with long beards ;-).

Even though I couldn’t find any data about myself (I guess I’d have to go by my real name more often), I think Spock is a very good attempt on developing a people search engine. Obviously it’s a handy tool, but it’s actually pretty fun to play with at the same time.

Will it become the Google of people search?

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure, and section. New inline elements include time, meter, and progress. New embedding elements include video and audio. New interactive elements include details, datagrid, and command.

Nothing much to add here, the article published on IBM’s website is a must-read for all of you web designers out there!

This is Kevin Mitnick’s business card. Honestly the most original business card I have ever seen. What do you think?

The diary, a parody of popular CEO blogs started in August 2006, soon gained huge readership and media attention. Even Bill Gates, and the real Steve Jobs admitted they read the blog.

The big part of the fun though has been the fact that the author remained unknown. Lyons hoped he could keep the secret until October, when his book “Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody.” will be published.

The blog will now be moved to the Forbes’ website. It’s hard to tell if it will draw the same attention as before. Probably not. The fun has been spoiled.

The widget lets you display latest Digg stories on your website. All you have to do is to pick a preffered theme, customize the widget, set the display options and finally paste the generated script code into your site’s HTML code.

There’s a plenty of configuration options. You can set the widget to display all popular stories, a top 10 list, stories dugg by a specified user, popular stories from your favorite site, stories dugg by your friends etc. You can also easily customize the widget’s appearance.

Basically this is a very easy way to make use of the Digg’s API. Without writing a single line of code you can show Digg’s content on your website in a way you need.

As listed on the page, the main goals of the project include:

• Rethinkng and reinventing online social networking
• Discovering the user needs related to social networking and exploring how a unified social network service can enhance their experience.
• Creating a system for users to seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks

Socialstream aspires to be a “unified social network” (USN), which means it would be rather an aggregator of social websites we already use, than a new network.

If you are interested in the whole development process and research they have done to make the product better, there’s a lot of information available on the project’s website.

The video below is a nice demonstration of how Socialstream could be used in the future. At the moment though, there’s no information when the project will be launched (if ever).

And here’s the speech in text.