Here’s the perfect toy to freak out your kid this Christmas. Kota the Triceratops from Playskool/Hasbro is a life-size baby dinosaur that’s made to interact with your kids.
Kindle your child’s curiosity for prehistoric creatures and make-believe adventures with his very own life-sized baby dinosaur. You may have seen “talking” and “moving” toys before, but [...]

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No, that image isn’t from a redesign or another blog, it’s from Swurl.
Swurl is a site that’s similar in functionality to FriendFeed, but up’s the ante on dsiplaying the data. You can aggregate all your services into a blog-like page display. Check out my allaboutduncan.Swurl page to see what I mean.
I like the [...]

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Very cool! A new service using the Direct message feature of Twitter is now available. Use TrackThis to get updates via Twitter direct messages any time the status of your FedEx, UPS, USPS and DHL packages changes. Now you’ll know where ever you are when that package you were expecting arrives.
1. Follow trackthis
Since trackthis [...]

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This morning I had an email from Microsoft, announcing the Microsoft Office Live Workspace Beta. I’ve tried Google Docs and while it’s good, I do like a desktop application for word processing. The promised integration with Word, Excel and Power Point seemed promising, so I signed up.
There’s only one major issue.
It doesn’t work unless [...]

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This comes from Michael, but I had to post it as well. Simple, but blew my mind ever so slightly.

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Similar to how 2.3 overhauled the tagging, category and classification system, version 2.5 of WordPress will overhaul the admin area.
More than just a visual overhaul (which was needed), WordPress 2.5 will feature better admin functionality and an improved user interface thanks in part to Happy Cog.
There’s a nice article on WordPress.org detailing the work that [...]

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