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Playericious: Play Search Results from Delicious and Magnolia

Playericious is a very interesting web app that allows you to literally play webpages that are bookmarked on Delicious and Magnolia in a slideshow manner. It’s like StumbleUpon, only lazier.

Delicious and Magnolia have an unbelievable resource of information of human classified quality resources. It is a giant listing of sites that people have thought were worth saving, categoriezed by tag and updated with the freshest sites. Social Bookmarking is the future of search directories.

The app is easy enough to use. Just type in the keyword you want to search or the login for any of the two social bookmarking sites mentioned above. You can further filter the results by choosing the type of results you want to be played on your screen. After setting the frequency just hit go and watch all those tagged webpages play. Like in any player, there is of course the pause button. If you happen to find a page that you like and want to read further, just hit the pause button. You also get a preview title for next page on the slide which is extra neat.

Playericious is a fun and different way to search for keywords in delicious and magnolia. It would be great though If the author of the app could add a bookmarking option, one that allows users to bookmark (for example on Delicious) a page that is viewed using Playericious.

Tags: delicious, magnolia, play, playericious, search, slide

Cognitive Fun: Learn and Play with Your Brain

Cognitive Fun is an online place where you can find out about the capacity of your brain by taking tests and playing simple games. There are different types of tests/games that you can execute or play with to get to know your brain better. You can choose to take attentional, perceptual, executive, item span, memory or experimental test.

This site aims to be both an educational and practical resource for those trying to find out more about cognitive tests/games, or cognitive neuroscience in general.

Cognitive Fun will record statistics on how well you perform on each type of test. Those stats will be available to you in your profile page. That profile page can has an embed code that you can use to share your profile widget to friends and blog readers. Aside from sharing your cognitive achievement(s) with your readers, you can also share the games/tests found in the service. Most of the tests includes an embed code which will allow you to share them with everyone.

The service is like one of those Train Your Brain or Brain Age games that can be played on game consoles. It’s a great way to have a little fun and tweak those neurons at the same time. Check it out and have a little neuro-fun.

Check out and play the embedded game sample below

Tags: cognitive fun, Games, learn, play, tests, wigets