Keeping up with technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. Fusion Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Agency Fusion.
Mettl
Mettl is an online assessment platform. It allows companies to test and measure the skills of potential employees. It tests ability, aptitude, technical & functional skills, and behavioral & personality skills. Mettl also provides real time assessments allowing companies to get instant feedback.
Geekli.st
geeklist is a global developer community helping developers (geeks) to share their work and discover others’ work. It provides a way for developers to grow targeted communities based on their work and credibility.
Sleep Cycle
Sleep Cycle is a bio-alarm clock app for iOS devices. Sleep Cycle uses the accelerometer in the iPhone to monitor sleep movement. By analyzing the data from user movements and sleep patterns, it wakes users up when they are in their lightest sleep phase. By waking users up in the lightest sleep phase with soothing ambient noises, Sleep Cycle allows users to feel more rested and relaxed.
App.net
App.net is a pay-for-membership social platform. App.net charges users $4 a month for participation. Because the network gains its revenue from membership fees, the service does not support ads from outside companies. Will users think an ad-free social platform is worth paying for, or will they continue to use free services like Twitter and Facebook and ignore the ads?
The Internet Map
The Internet map is well…a map of the Internet. It is a bi-dimensional presentation of 350,000+ sites from 196 countries. Every site is a circle on the map, with sizes and colors defined by web traffic and country respectively. The map also effectively clusters sites based on semantics or content. Have fun exploring.
kippt
kippt is a service that allows users to find, read, store, search, and share information in the form of links. Similar to services like pocket, instapaper, and readability, kippt allows users to save and share links they’ve come across while browsing. kippt allows users the ability to sync with services like Twitter, Facebook, app.net, GitHub, tumblr, etc. and then have the ability to search them later. It is also cross-device compatible, so whether on mobile, tablet, or computer, users can access their information. If kippt does all it claims, our ability to learn just increased.
Foundation
Foundation is a responsive front-end framework. It allows users to define a grid system and quickly build HTML+CSS prototypes that respond to whatever device they are being viewed on. The best feature is the speed at which users can prototype because of the dozens of predefined styles and elements. Users can iterate quickly and easily change prototypes into production code once the layout has been perfected.
Maxthon
Maxthon is a web browser from China. The latest release supports both Trident and Webkit rendering engines, meaning well designed/developed sites look pretty. It is also reported to be incredibly fast, stable, and secure. The company is trying to break into the US market with a new office in California. So, while our crew is pretty set in our love for Chrome and Firefox, Maxthon may become a contender depending on its ability to deliver on its promises.
decrypt
decrypt is a program that makes the user look like a computer genius to coworkers, friends, family and random strangers. Running the program on a computer will cause the piped content (or input file) on a machine to slowly become visible and take over the screen. In short, it will make a user look like every TV show hacker they’ve ever admired.
Piecon
Piecon is a small JavaScript library used for dynamically generating progress pie charts in favicons, possibly useful for showing the loading progress of media heavy sites, downloads, etc. It is currently supported by the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. Sorry, IE users, progress will be shown as title updates instead of the Piecon.
ASCII Street View
ASCII Street View is a real-time ASCII art conversion of Google Street View. It uses WebGL, so users will have to use a browser that supports CORS WebGL textures: Chrome, Firefox 8+, or other. It combines the use of Google Street View Panorama library, and three.js.