Month: March 2006
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Yahoo Local News Beta
Yahoo News launched a new feature now in beta which uses your location data to pull in news from major sources in your region. The module is located on the news.yahoo.com page
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Realtime Flight Tracking
Hey it’s Friday so here’s a little gee whiz technology to play with over the weekend. Aeroseek has added a button to their realtime tracking service that downloads an overlay file that you can view on Google Earth if you have it installed. It updates every minute so you can watch grandma march across the…
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The Intention Economy – Pulling Demand from the Edge
I’m distilling my takeaways from this week’s eTech conference at, of all places, Disneyland. The vacation schedule of my son’s school afforded us a long weekend down here to the land of characters in big, overstuffed heads. In such a commerce-driven atmosphere, you really begin to appreciate all the different ways that a machine like…
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Tyler on Disneyland
We’re at Disneyland for a few days to escape the dust in the kitchen and take advantage of a Friday and Monday holiday that the Alameda School District has scheduled. The sky’s threatened rain all day (with a brief downpour while we were eating lunch and I was sampling a fine Patron tequilla) but each…
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eTech Day Three Roundup
I’m going to harness the community to sum up today’s sessions. Tim Bray sums up the various product pitches. Something has been bothering me about the format of the conference. Each session is so rushed that there is little room for Q&A following each presentation. As a result, you don’t often get a chance to…
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eTech Day Two quote of the day
Email is an attention chipper/shredder – think "Fargo" – very graphic image. – Linda Stone
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Yahoo Application Gallery
The Yahoo Developer Network just launched an Application Gallery. Similar to the Widgets Gallery, this site shows off the best applications built on top of the Yahoo APIs. There’s the opportunity to upload and submit your applications to the gallery and, once they are there, have them reviewed and showcased. This comes as frosting on…
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Checkmates – location-based Flickr friend finder
I’m sharing a room with Chad Dickerson here at eTech and he was up until the wee hours last night and up again at the crack of dawn putting the finishing touches on a prototype called Checkmates. The application, which runs on your cellphone, uses a combination of APIs to show your location superimposed on…
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Multi-touch Interface shown off at eTech
Totally cool – they had Jeff Han showing off his touch screen interface. I got a pointer to this a couple of weeks ago and was blown away – someone at Yahoo called it “web 5.0” Here’s a page with a video showing it in action – must be seen to be fully appreciated. UPDATE:…