I guess because deep down I am still a paranoid Windows user, my OS X is configured to automatically reboot every Saturday at 7:00am, “just to clear out the cobwebs.” A very handy setting by the way, which I wish that Windows XP also had.
Am I imagining this?
Last week I turned off my Mac – turned off the power – because I was going to be away for a week. When I returned I found that it seems to have rebooted itself on Saturday as it does every Saturday. Can this be? It was off! I dunno, maybe I just imagined having powered it off a week ago…
I’ve discovered how hard it is to work on a laptop with a tiny screen, 1.2GHz and, esepcially, 256Mb of memory. Sloooooow! I’ve been keeping up with emails but not really getting into a blogging mindset. This is just a cheat post to make my blog not appear dead 🙂 Curacao? Those of you who know me, know. Those who do not, probably don’t know where Curacao is. Look it up on a map. A little island (and I mean little) in the Caribean, right off the coast of South America. It’s where I was born and grew up,so I get back here regularly. Nice.
All of this is very cool. At least that is what one side of my brain says. The other side is saying “How the hell is the average person going to understand any of this?” I even doubt if the average blogger is going to be able to follow all of this data flying around the Internet. (from “Cognitive dissonance at Mashup Camp“)
and also about business models in the new world of Mashups:
“At the end of his pitch we had a standard joke. “Do we pay them or do they pay us?” These conversations were going on ...
You probably already follow TechCrunch but if you don’t take a look at Flyspy, a very clever new idea for adding very useful information to booking flights online.
“The way it works is that I give it a departure city and a destination city and optionally a departure date and length of stay. The search result, which returns very quickly, will present me with a graph of flight prices over the next 30 days so that I can quickly look at which days are the cheapest to fly. To book a flight I just click on the point in the graph. Simple.” (from “Flyspy Brings The New Web To Airline Ticketing“)
Even as we speak, Mashup Camp is going on out on the West Coast. Looks like fun! It’s another in the sequence of ad-hoc, QAD meetings/conferences/events that are popping up all over. Very cool. Wish I was there:
The Freakonomics blog often has good stuff in it, even if you haven’t read the book, which also has good stuff in it.
“Mitai Sandy, a 29-year-old graphic artist and comic-book publisher in Tel Aviv, came up with the following solution: a new anti-Semitic cartoon contest, with the submissions drawn by Jews themselves.
“We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published!” Sandy said. “No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!” (from “Applying the Old Incentive Switcheroo to Anti-Semitism“)
This one was probably one of the most talked about sites. The principle is, Flickr is nice, but no one really wants to take the time to tag. So instead, with Riya, after you upload your images, you can search for them based on who is in them and where they were taken. But the trick is that it uses image recognition to help you locate the pictures. Pretty impressive! Check out Riya.
Check out this cool subject matter specific search site. Currently they have 3 subject matters, Health, Politics and Travel. Looks nicely done. Kosmix.
For those of you who came, thanks for joining us. For those of you who didn’t come, you missed out! I think we had about 30 people (but didn’t count) and I met many new people which was great. It seems like these Geek Dinners are popping up all over, and makes us East Coast geeks feel like we actually exist!
Thanks to my co-organizers Adam Green and Mark Doerschlag, RSS Labs, Bela Labovitch and Indigo Tabor for pitching in!
I got this in an email, not sure exactly where it came from but it’s pretty cool. The image looks like it’s moving, doesn’t it? But actually it’s not an animation at all. It’s your brain that getting its circuits scrambled. You know how you can tell? Just cover most of the image with your hands and look at a small part. It doesn’t move. Amusing!
What is this “geek dinner” thing again? Well we’re inviting all their geek friends to hang out and geek out for a few hours. Each of us have almost non-overlapping networks so this is a chance for us to make new connections around town, and for you to do the same.
“There’s a tendency to think of reading lists as topic-oriented and fairly static — refined and appended to, but keeping most of the same data over time. A slant on reading lists I’ve thought about are specialized lists that change their composition entirely on a periodic basis, a list in which none of the feeds you see today may be there next week.” (fromChurning urns of burning funk)
I just posted an intro to Reading Lists – publishing and subscribing – on the BlogBridge site. If you’ve wondered what the heck the fuss is about Reading Lists, check it out. There are eventwo short screencams so you can actually see and hear how it all works!
“A new era begins today for the RSS Advisory Board, an independent organization formed in 2003 that publishes the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) specification, helps developers create RSS applications and broadens public understanding of the format.” (from RSS Advisory Board)
RSS is a really great format and it’s been a little neglected recently with all the attention going to Atom. Only good things can come from this new development. **Let me know if I can help!
I write a lot of emails and IMs with smileys 🙂 and big smileys 😀 in them. It’s very effective. But there’s one that keeps coming up for which for some reason there’s no correct emoticon, at least as far as I know…
I need an emoticon to denote a funny question. Haven’t you had that need 🙂 ?
I need an emoticon to denote a funny question. Haven’t you had that need ? 🙂
See the problem? Is there one that exists or do we have to create a new one 😕
A company that was launched at the Demo conference (which i am going to this year) is deploying in North Dakota:
“A trial balloon will be launched in the next few weeks to test the idea, said Schafer, who left office in 2000 after eight years as governor.” (fromAssociated Press)
It just struck me as funny.
(People ask: how much time does it take you to do a post every day in your blog? This one took less than 100 seconds. Would have been less if not for this parenthesized meta-joke.)
