Web Week

405: you'd need all your acceleration and then some if you glanced in your driving-mirror on the motorway to find a DC-10 touching down behind you. That's the plot of 405, a 3-minute net movie which cost next to nothing, using only a digital camera and a pair of computers. Its creators, Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt, are now swamped with job-offers from movie moguls. Quite apart from its technical virtuosity, it's really funny.

Free-Stay: with international airfares dropping, the missing link in travel has always been affordable accommodation. Free-Stay aims to fill the gap by giving the old B&B concept a global reach. "International members make a room available to you and you make a room available to them. This is not time-share - you stay in your home when members visit you and vice-versa, getting the chance to share and learn local knowledge, customs and lifestyle - for free."

Point.click.ride: wired Wellington commuters can now log on the entire region's passenger transport system. Clicking 'to' and 'from' brings up all the timetable information for every bus and train service in the region. Coming: wireless application protocol (Wap)-enabled website to let people browse timetables with their mobile phone - or even spot the exact location of the next bus with Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies. Aucklanders can only say "Wow!".

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