Xinu is a service that provides a comprehensive overview of page statistics and data that leaves cookie-cutter sites such as Popuri for dead.

Xinu isn’t the prettiest service you’ll use in this space, but it’s the data that counts. The usual statistics are included, such as Technorati links, Google and Yahoo details etc. however Xinu provides even more stats, from a range of social bookmarking sites (some sites I’d never heard of), a page analysis, page validations and more.

I don’t know a lot about the background of this site, or whether we’re likely to kill it by mentioning it (it doesn’t have it’s own domain for example) but if it stays up it’s well worth a look if you’re in to tracking site stats.

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The following video has been “leaked” onto YouTube. The next big game from Nintendo perhaps?

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Lumosity is a brain fitness program from Lumos Labs which is designed to improve cognitive function through a series of web-based games and exercises.

In developing Lumosity, Lumos Labs worked closely with leading neuroscientists from Stanford and UCSF to design and experimentally test the program. In a randomized, controlled study, the exercises were shown to have statistically significant effects in improving memory and attention.

Brain games are wildly popular in Japan and Europe, the Ninentendo DS Brain Age has sold millions of copies. The delivery of similar functionality online is the logical next step and although they might not be the most engaging games, that’s not the goal here.

Details of the research and methodology behind Lumosity can be viewd here.

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Your Broadcaster is a social networking site with a specific goal; to build and create five feature length films through collaborative user generated input.

The film projects fall into five categories: Bollywood, horror, thriller, drama and comedy. Members participate through the submission of scripts, auditions, characters, cartoons and stunts. Submissions are then voted upon by other members. Uploads from the most popular members will then be used as the basis for the final films.

Interestingly the project is not free for those who wish to submit content for consideration. Your Broadcaster charges $10 per film project or $35 for participation in all 5. Free memberships give voting rights as well as your typical social networking tools of user blogs, discussion groups etc but do not allow submission of material for the film projects.

The pitch for the paid version includes a copyrighting facility to protect project members’ work. Subscribers to this service have their work protected in a “Seal file” which encrypts data and secures the information.

Your Broadcaster hails from the Isle of Man, an Island best known for its provision of off-shore banking accounts. Maybe it’s something in the water as unfortunately Your Broadcaster’s remuneration scheme looks something like an Amway presentation. Yet as an idea there might be something to it. Citizen generated media has been eating away at the foundations of Hollywood for years. Short film has been conquered so why not aim at the next obvious target, feature films. There are no certainties that Your Broadcaster is going to succeed, however it’s likely they’ll end up the first of many startups aiming to tap into collaborative media as a basis to build content that is more than just short film.

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