I had a magic moment and thought I’d share it.
I use Flickr Fan by Dave Winer to get photo feeds from AP and Alliance France Media. It sends to my desktop and screensaver amazing pics from media photographers around the world within 15 minutes of them being uploaded. It’ amazing. You can see events unfolding as the day wears on.
A picture of Barrack Obama came up on my screen this morning and I noticed he had a cool watch. So I Google searched “what watch does Barack Obama wear?”. I got wiki answers, Yahoo answers and then the right answer.
It showed a pic of him wearing the watch I’d seen and learned that it is a watch provided by the Secret Service. So cool!
I love all the seemingly small value things that came together to bring me this “Sweet” moment.
1. RSS Feed from AP.
2. Feed tool from OPML.
3. Dynamic desktop.
4. Google search being fast.
5. Easy web publishing.
6. Image access.
I Love The Internet!
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Rai // Oct 19, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Cool! I liked this story. :D
But you left the biggest question unanswered - what special powers does the Secret Service watch have??
2 Andrew Goodall // Nov 5, 2008 at 1:35 am
Thanks for sharing this! I’m loving having the AP feed as my screen saver.
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