i g o o g l e g a d ge t

My iGoogle

For me, one of the ways to get the local information about Paris is
iGoogle gadget. There is some google gadget for Japanese People
in Paris. There, I could get info. about second hand sale, event,
appartment and so on.

iGoogle (France)
iGoogle(US)

M i d T o k y o M a p

Mid Tokyo Map [link]
It is the web site which cleary show the idea of Tokyo,
comparing with other big city in the world.
It is made of 2001, still it is cool!

>What is Mid-Tokyo Maps

>Mid-Tokyo Maps is a website devoted to exploring the remaking
>of Tokyo into an attractive metropolis that can hold its own in
>the global competition between cities.
>Mori Building Co., Ltd. sponsored Mid-Tokyo Maps as its
>pavilion in the Japanese government's 2001 Inpaku Internet
>Expo.

t o u t p r e s d e c h e z n o u s

La postal :toutpresdecheznous[links]

F o t o w o o s h

photowoosh[link]

>What if you could transform 2D into 3D?
>Fotowoosh, a new service from Maryland-based startup Freewebs,
>will turn any image (preferably an outdoor image) into a 3D model.
From Tech crunch[link]

p h o t o s y

Microsoft photosy [link]

>The Photosynth Technology Preview is a taste of the newest -
>and, we hope, most exciting - way to view photos on a computer.
>Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an
>object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the
>photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you
>how each one relates to the next.

s e c o n d l i f e N E W S

SL NEWS [link]
Internet TV which casts News in Second life (Japanese)

a n i m a l f o r e s t

DOBUTSU-NO-MORI: animal forest nintendo DS[links]
This is one kind of interactive game for nintendo DS(portable game).
In short, animal charactor(avatar) version of second life.
What is interesting about this game is its special interactive function.
First,put this game(DS with software, DOBUTSU-NO-MORI)
in your bag , selecting "surechigai mode(crossing mode)".
Go out somewhere(city, school, office, station).
Then, when you crossing by someone, who has the same game and
selects same mode, but maybe you do not know.
Without your noticing, your village(virtual), where your avatar lives,
connects to his one.
(However, this "crossing" only happens in Wi-Fi emvironment.)

>Animal Crossing est un jeu vidéo édité par Nintendo pour
>les consoles de jeux vidéo Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo
>64 (au Japon). Cette dénomination est issue d'un jeu de mot
>se référant aux panneaux routiers mettant en garde contre
>les soudaines apparitions d'animaux sur la chaussée.

>Il a connu une suite sur Nintendo DS : Animal Crossing: Wild World.

>Dans ce jeu, le joueur emménage dans un village de campagne
>habité par des animaux aux caractères bien distincts. Il introduit
>un nouveau type de jeu dérivé du collect them up : le but est de
>rendre tous les habitants heureux, de créer des vêtements et des
>décorations et de collectionner des objets (meubles, tapis,
>vêtements, fossiles...). Le jeu se déroule en temps réel, les minutes
>et les heures étant synchronisées avec la vie réelle (heure de la
>console), ainsi que les jours, les mois et les saisons. Il est également
>possible de fêter Noël et tous les autres événements (américains) avec
>les villageois.
From wiki pedia (Français) [link]