Realtime – Sprint’s Widget Fest
I think realtime reporting IS the future, and dashboards that show live, pushed information are going to be ever more ubiquitous. Hardly any exist right now, but Sprint as part of its “now” marketing campaign has put together a great live dashboard over at http://now.sprint.com/widget/
In addition to more common widgets from World Population to “top words being used online”, there are a bunch more, such as “911 calls being made” to “sticky notes being produced” to “transplants today”. Some of the more amusing ones are:
- A “push now” button, which (predictably) does nothing, but reports that 66,713 other people have clicked it
- “You, now”, which takes your webcam feed to show you, now
- A “habitable planets” counter
While you’re browsing all of that, a female voiceover provides more realtime data, such as ”The earth will travel 18 miles between right now… and now”
Genius, and here’s hoping more useful versions come along soon to gadgets near me.
