A web round-up

Real life Mario Kart on streets of France

WATCH:French prankster Rémi Gaillard has become a YouTube star for his hidden camera videos which have included infiltrating the Lorient football team at the 2002 French Cup final.

Now Gaillard has taken on the persona of video game character Mario.

The latest instalment, which sees him chased by police and security guards as he zips around in his Mario Kart, has already attracted almost four million YouTube views.

youtu.be/KT1pWo0WZJE

New Tech Post

BOOKMARK: About a year ago John Breslin, a researcher at Deri at NUI Galway and co-founder of Boards.ie, got together with former television current affairs producer Tom Murphy, to blog about the tech world at socialmedia.net. The sideline has now morphed into a fully fledged web publication and recently rebranded as newtechpost.com, where you'll find daily articles on the future of the web written in a manner that's accessible by non-geeks.
newtechpost.com
How to add emotion to your e-mail

READ: Did you know there's a "negativity bias" to e-mail? If the content is neutral, the recipient assumes the tone is negative.

According to this post on the99percent.com, adding some emotional cues is not that hard. And the good news is the emoticons, or smilies, in your messages are actually to be encouraged. :-)

http://bit.ly/feWuNY

SearchReviews on iPhone or your Android smartphone

INSTALL: There are lots of websites that aggregate customer reviews on the web but, for those of us who are not that disciplined about our shopping, what do you do when faced with a bargain when out shopping?

SearchReviews would seem to have the solution with an iPhone and Android app which pulls up reviews based on pictures of barcodes you have snapped on the shelves. Now there's no excuse for buying that dud netbook that was just too cheap to pass by.

searchreviews.com