everwas

a blog by Ian Kennedy

Month: April 2006

  • Micropayments

    I attended the HBSTech event on the Evolution and Future of Micropayments last evening in Mountain View.

    Presenting were:

    • Preston Roper, VP of Marketing, BitPass
    • James Hall, co-founder of FTVentures, a fund with deep experience in micropayments 
    • Peter Ashley, Director of Merchant Services, PayPal
    • KC George, Manager of Product Innovation & Coordination, Visa USA

    The session was not as interactive as I’ve become used to when attending other tech events in the Valley and was more of a "hold your questions until we’re done" affair but it still was very informative with lots of juicy snippets after the jump.

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  • Create your first head with GenHead

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    Check out this tutorial on how to create a 3D head from two 2D photos. I never knew playing God was so easy. The company, Genemation, is also working on a new version of their GenCrowd software to generate, “thousands of synthetic copyright free photo-realistic heads by age, gender and ethnicity.” Something to do on the 7th day.

  • We want Spring

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    With all the rain we’ve been getting, our thoughts really pine for a good Hanami. That’s not me above but it’s exactly how I feel. More on getting prepared for Hanami over at PingMag, a great new site covering the art scene in Tokyo that Mark Dytham mentioned to me when he was recently visiting.