The blog with no name

I don't advertise but I think someone might be interested. There is a new UK-based game site who offers a free full download of the game Rome: Total War. The website is called AWOMO and it is going to be an online game rental and subscription service. Currently is in beta and I think it's offering the free game to attract attention.

I had the Joost player once but it was awkward and did not use it much. Recently I read that it now has an interface a la Youtube but I never checked it out. About half an hour ago I read on the Guardian that Joost has added 12.000 indie videos and that was enough motivation to go and see.
It has changed a lot and it looks ago, can spend some time there, can even login through Facebook.
The only problem is that I cannot find the way to embed videos here.

Savage Chickens are comics on sticky notes. Short but not always sweet.

This morning I got an email saying that someone I don't know had recommended me this video. As I'm very curious I went to see and found these very cute little monkeys called Dusky Leaf Monkeys. I went and searched for them, found this website and apparently their status is nearly threatened: they are declining in number rapidly and are a cause for concern.

Conservation: Spectacled langurs are listed as Lower Risk/Least Concern by the IUCN. Langurs are threatened by deforestation and the trade in wild meat. The population of spectacled langurs was estimated to have declined from 305,000 to 155,000 from 1958 to 1975, and habitat loss due to human population growth has sharply intensified in the last decades.

Organisations such as the Dusky Langur Conservation and Community Centre are working to protect this species through ecotourism and voluntourism programmes (tourists who volunteer their services) focused on langur observation, rehabilitation and education. To read more about this fascinating work and other special projects in Thailand, please visit the following website: www.ecoexplorethailand.com.

Endangered: Dusky Leaf Monkey from Jan van der Meer on Vimeo.

A short animation called "Gagarin" created by a Second Frog Animation Group. I cannot find a lot of information online as you can see here besides that they are Russian. But the animator/director appears to be this guy,
Alexei Kharitidi.

The screen is split into two, on one side a short movie from Gaza, on the other a movie from Sderot. A case of split personality. This is an initiative by Arte.tv (A French-German cultural tv) that offers two new short movies a day for two months, each movie lasts two minutes. Watch them here.

The Universal Declarations of Human Rights is 60 today.

Every Human Has Rights from Every Human Has Rights on Vimeo.

Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo. To be honest I don't need proof to be concerned, the moment that we have the definitive proof that we cause climate change it will be too late to do anything about it. Some things are too important not to err on the side of caution.

It is still in beta but got an invite within a few hours, I've just set up my profile and so far so good, although I don't see the point yet as it is similar to Friendfeed without some of the features I like, such as rooms and the real time view. It has a list on the side where you can choose whether to look at photos, videos, blogs etc which is quite nice as some of the features (last.fm for instance lists everything you listen to, the small album cover is cute but it can create a lot of noise). It does not have that many services you can add yet but I keep it going for the time being, we will see.

Yes, I think that for someone like me who has dozens of accounts everywhere there is the need to connect everything together.
So far I have managed to integrate my updates successfully only with FriendFeed but it does not give me a way to have a single login to all these accounts and the cross-site integration is only one way. I like the new option of being able to send updates from FriendFeed directly to Twitter although I have disabled most of my accounts as I don't want to create too much noise everywhere. Ideally I would like the option of having the output of each room I create to go to the service or services I choose. For instance I might want anything related to music from "my music room" to go to Pownce or anything internet related to be published on Twitter. Or whatever. But as far as I know that is not possible yet.

I've tried Ping.fm, it lets you update your status in a variety of sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Identi.ca etc with a single message but let's be honest do I really need to tell the whole internet what I'm doing? I promise I will only use it when I have something extraordinary to tell which is very unlikely to happen. And ideally I want to use different sites for different subjects without creating duplicates. I have also tried Lifestream.fm which is FriendFeed with less options.

There is a new service that apparently launched yesterday called Power.com
(I cannot believe that a domain name like that was not already taken) that says provides a login for all social media although I can only see the 5 social networking sites and I don't have an account with four of them and YouTube appears to be in Portuguese. And Facebook wants to do the same thing anyway.
I am checking out this Tarpipe which I do not think it's what I need. I'm still waiting.