A collection of stories we’ve been reading over the last week. You can keep up-to-date with the stories we find by following us on twitter @highersites.
Hands on live demo of Siri
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2odHjevn8Q
We were sceptical of Siri at first, but this live demo at the Apple event does make it look pretty awesome; but we’ll wait to see how many people actually use it in the real world.
Domino’s online orders top £1m a day
http://www.nma.co.uk/dominos-online-orders-top-%C2%A31m-a-day/3030868.article
Whilst £1m of orders on a Saturday is mighty impressive (they took £1m a year in 2000) what we were most impressed with was that 13% of those orders came from a mobile device.
Typography kerning game
The designers in the office loved this game! The objective? Kern the letters so the space is distributed evenly. Harder that it sounds, although we managed to get 82 out of 100.
Facebook now as big as the whole Internet in 2004
http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/10/05/facebook-now-as-big-as-the-entire-internet-was-in-2004/
It was also announced that Facebook now has as many users as the entire Internet did in 2004 (With over 800 million active users) which coincidently was the year it was founded.
