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Month: May 2011

  • Douglas Adams on Location-Based Services

    Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, spoke to a room full of telecom executives in 2001. In the middle of pleading with them to improve the call quality along the 101 freeway near his home in Santa Barbara, he also included this prescient nugget describing a world that is just starting…

  • Julia on Violin

    She’s been wanting to play for years. and now she’s now learning to pluck the strings. Yesterday, Julia received certification from the Royal College of Music.

  • MyBlogLog Memorial Screenshot Gallery

    MyBlogLog Memorial Screenshot Gallery

    A couple of weeks ago I grabbed a bunch of screenshots off of MyBlogLog.com. MBL is one of the services on the infamous “sunset” slide and today there is a notice on the site saying that Yahoo will pull the plug on the service on May 24th. I worked on the service before coming to…

  • Steve Ballmer Developers Rap

    Mad props for getting Linus Torvalds into a rap song. This has to be a first. Smixx – Developers (feat. Steve Ballmer) by Smixx

  • Information as Entertainment

    OK, so word is out that Solid State Drives (SSD) are not as reliable as they were once thought to be. Essentially, we projected the decades of expertise that have gone into making hard disks reliable onto these new drives and expected more or less the same level of reliability. Of course, as people started…

  • NY Times – Project Cascade

    NY Times – Project Cascade

    The New York Times R & D group (nytlabs) has a sexy demo video up on their site showing off a new tool they are using to visualize how their content is amplifed and shared via the Social Web. In their words: This first-of-its-kind tool links browsing behavior on a site to sharing activity to construct…

  • The $8,000 dumb phone

    When you can afford a personal secretary to keep track of your every need, a mobile phone is basically a piece of jewelry, much like a wrist watch or pocket watch of by-gone days. These are single-purpose devices that are a fashion statement, more form than function. Taking this approach, focused on the voice aspects…

  • First Report of Raid on Bin Laden on Twitter

    The global nervous system that is Twitter caught wind that something was up at 1AM in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Within minutes, the world triangulated sources and concluded that what Sohaib Athar was hearing was a raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound.  This is how news breaks today. Twitter is having it’s CNN moment. Osama Bin Laden…