DemoGirl

Earlier today I decided to give my brain a break and just sit back and let StumbleUpon guide me around the web. I also have to admit I was listening to Styx at the time, please don’t hate me. I have fond memories of my sister and I as kids dancing around the house groovin’ to Styx, or Stynx as some people like to call them.

So there I was, wasting time when I had the urge to record my stumbling and see if I couldn’t edit it to go with the current song that was playing, “Too much time on my hands”. I recorded myself for about 20 minutes and cut it down to about 4 minutes of pure StumbleUpon and Styx magic. And yes, I’m completely sober.

Molly Stumbling to Styx

Particls, formerly Touchstone, is an “alerts platform” which keeps you informed about news that’s important to you in a non-intrusive way. You need to download Particls and tell it what you’re interested in being alerted on by entering in keywords and ranking various results you receive. I know this sounds a bit like LeapTag, which I screencasted yesterday, but it’s not. Particls displays alerts like a news ticker and you simply grab what you like. You also have the option to receive alerts in a pop-up that follows your mouse, sms, email etc. I will say that the mouse alert would most likely make me go bonkers but that’s why they give you options.

Right now Particls is invite only beta but they do have a great screencast overview on their site which is accompanied by the wonderful music of Israel Kamakawiwo’ole.

Particls Demo