Experiments
Get in touch if you want to expand one of these or have cool ideas.
Donefeed
When someone posts links I want to check out onTwitter I mark them as favorite. in Google Reader I use the star button. For videos I use Delicious with the tag “towatch”. Instapaper gets my long articles. Donefeed makes one, combined reading list.
Roskilde Festival friendly geolocation sharing
Finding yourself on a map at Roskilde Festival shows you what the place really is: A field. But during the festival there are streets, stages – and toilets. This mashup overlays the Roskilde Festival map on Google Maps, and allows users to send their location to each other.
Take-away food menu search, powered by Evernote
In the process of making my flat searchable, I now made the take-away menu mark. Kenneth wrote the Evernote integration.
Marksaved.com
Annotate and highlight web pages. Claus wrote the backend.
Rapid wireframe sketching in Google Docs
A set of wireframing stencils for the cloud. I wrote a guest post about it on the offical Google Docs blog.
Licence plate availability checker
Checks Danish license plates. If not available, displays car make and model and searches Google Images for the corresponding photo.
Similar bands video player
Like playmymusicvideos.com, but based on an artist name instead of a last.fm user. (Thanks, Sander)
Quick Quick Add
I’m a big fan of the natural language interpreter in Google’s calendar. “Get milk tomorrow” being a valid statement, this allows for quickly adding to my calendar – with SMS reminders. Quick Quick Add can be integrated in Chrome and Firefox’ quick search features or used as a simple and mobile-friendly interface to adding events to Google Calendar.
Reviewfy
An overview of the latest album reviews from various sources. Links directly to Spotify and Grooveshark allow the user to listen instantly.
Bifn
I finally managed to go legal on the cinema listings site. Now also showing trailers where available.
Copenhagen café bluffer
Your chance to sound like you know everything about Copenhagen. Made for Carsten‘s Twitter robot that reacts to autogenerated Foursquare checkins.
Worn web
An idea from a blog post implemented as a Firefox plugin, coded by Kenneth Auchenberg.
The moon landing – Live from 1969
A re-enactment of the first moon landing, second by second. With Claus.
My Perfect Roskilde day
If you’re only going one day, this mashup will show you which one. With Claus. Last.FM + Roskilde schedule.
Pocket Roskilde
Get your printer-friendly PDF with a personalised pocket guide to Roskilde. With Claus. Last.FM + Roskilde schedule.
Where’s Morten?
Using Tyler’s Sosumi class to get the current location out of Mobile Me’s “Where’s my iPhone?” feature. At first I used a map, but considering the most typical scanario (“in which bar is he?”), I realised I could achieve the user goal even quicker and much more light-weight: A simple line of text describing which bar, cafe or restaurant I’m near. It makes sense for people who know me. The names are taken from the MitKBH API.
DR P3 on Last.FM
Denmark’s biggest pop music station has hundreds of thousands of listeners every day, so if a big part of the Danish population would have a common last.fm profile, this would be it. It also proved to be a way of listening to the station without the annoying hosts. I made accounts for some of the genre radios, too.
Nephewbot on Twitter
Tweets whenever the band Nephew is being played on national radio. I thought I would be disclosing a conspiracy, but it turned out to be rather normal (or they found out about the robot).
Where’s Morten?
Pinging me every 45 minutes to find me and display a simple location text. Originally made for Roskilde Festival, featuring a specialised Roskilde stage map on the festival area.
iPhone app: Nearest
Chat with whoever is nearest right now. From Siberia to your own backyard.
NE4R.com
A location-aware website that shows you what’s near. Google Gears + w3c geolocation api + wikipedia + MitKBH.
Forgotdomain.com
I like to see this as a domain-less link. You want to pass along a link to a friend, but forgot if it’s .com, .net, or maybe even .museum.
TwiTV
What is the world listening to right now? The Flash app listens to twitter for “listening to” and plays whatever comes next. Twitter + Youtube.
UI Patterns search engine
More and more user interface pattern collections are appearing on the web. This search engine searches in all of them in one go.
Concert Tube
Plays music videos by bands playing in Copenhagen during the coming weeks. Last.FM event calendar + Youtube.
Download track currently playing in Danish radio
Don’t know the song? Like it? Buy it in one click. P3 + iTunes.
Now playing for Last.FM
A realtime display of what you’re listening to right now.
Playmymusicvideos.com
Plays a personal music video stream nothing but bands you like. Last.FM + Youtube.
Now/next for DR Netradio (Flash version)
See who’s playing. Last.FM + Danmarks Radio.
Now/next for DR Netradio
Same as the one above, but with plain HTML.
Millisecond timer
Writing specs and timing for a RIA, this could come in handy.
Run/Read
For whenever you’re doing something boring and don’t have your hands free.
IP whiteboard
Most companies behind a firewall have the same IP. That IP is your access token to this instant intranet.
TV guide for Danish Zattoo
Surpassed by Mads Kristensen’s ifjernsyn.dk
Enanden.dk
A customer with computer problems calls the robot, the robot sends SMS to 100+ freelancers across the country. The first freelancer to reply the the SMS gets the job – and the customer’s phone number. Voice telephony + SMS.
Snyde-SMS
I closed this one as soon as it hit the front page of Denmark’s largest newspaper. Wasn’t really meant for a wider audience.
Cinema listings for mobile
Unless you’re hiding from someone, you find yourself in a cinema seat when you’ve either a) wanted to see a specific film, b) wanted to go to a specific cinema, or c) wanted to at a specific time. This experiment is private due to copyright issues.
Danish-English-Danish dictionary
Electronic dictionaries mimic their paper editions. One entry point per language. Picking the language is a waste of time. This dictionary searches in both at the same time.
Clockradiopriser
Compare prices on clock radios.
Updates On (on)
Find out what the net says about a given topic.
Musik bluffer
Natural language know-it-all sentences about bands you’ve never heard of. Also used by Carsten‘s Autotreo, a Twitter robot replying to auto-generated messages from blip.fm announcing song titles.
Nabolag (bars nearby)
This was the first prototype that ended up as ne4r.com, thanks to MitKBH. This one is using data from the Ministry of Foods to find the nearest bar or restaurant.
Date-maskinen
Most of the time, it’s not what you do on a date, it’s going on a date. The date machine takes care of your agenda, so you can take care of your date.
Readon.mobi
Fortunately surpassed by the likes of Instapaper.com
Imity
Using Bluetooth signals from almost any phone to create a social network. Who did I meet last night? Anyone I know here? The J2ME client is open source. We sold our souls and the server software to ZYB, later Vodafone.
Wind map of Copenhagen
WIth head wind, your bike ride to work can be several minutes longer. With this map you’ll know. Weather Channel + Google Maps.
Weather calendar
We use weather forecasts to help us plan better. So why isn’t the forecast in the calendar? Weather Channel + iCal format.
Welcome home, Bluetooth phone owner
When coming home, there are a series of things you always do. This experiment takes the idea of a home butler (or, digital girlfriend..) a little bit too far.
Styrelizeren
Transforming websites to Danish street language.
Relate-a-zon
Not currently running. It’s a game in which you find your way from one product, say Barbie, to another, say a Weber grill, using the “People who bought this, also bought…” lists. The shorter hops you do, the less money you spend.
