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This is really cool! Check out this post from Autoblog: > Filed under: Safety, TechTwo things plague GPS users: being forced to deal with dubious direction vocalizations and the amount of time spent looking ...
Read more →Check out this post from Autoblog: > Filed under: Concept Cars, Government/Legal, [Holden](http://www.au...
Read more →http://farm.sproutbuilder.com/2341/load/5QDs6GRmAGexSWMQ.swf 
Ok, you can tell I like this new gadget builder, SproutBuilder. I’ve never had a simple way to create small (or big for that matter) Flash animations. Yes, I know it makes me regress to stupid jokes form my youth, but what the heck. Of interest is that it took me about 5 minutes to make this flash animation while I was watching the Dems debate. Pretty cool.
Sites that have to support a huge amount of traffic tend to want to be static html. No matter how fast PHP or perl is, in the end, static pages win. So tools pop up to allow you to generate a templated site, but generate it into static html to kind of have your cake and eat it too. [Webgen](http://w...
Read more →Sadly we are to the last of the Demo 2008 events. I am writing at the 3/4 point and so far it has been an excellent experience. http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php?option=com_altcaster&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=4e17ea267c&height=550&width=470
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Yesterday was a busy day! I saw lots of excellent products and ideas. I don’t know how useful the Liveblog was for y’all, but it was a handy way to have me take notes and concentrate on what was happening. You wouldn’t think you need help concentrating, but sitting in a big dark room for hours on end can wear out your attention span. http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php?option=com_altcaster&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=00e21c51b6&height=550&width=470
I’m at the Demo 2008 Conference today. Ever heard of Live Blogging? It’s when some crazy person decides to type a narrative of an event in real time. For fun and profit. I read about this product called Cover It Live to do just that and I thought I’d try it…. http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php?option=com_altcaster&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=36d660e56f&height=550&width=470
I saw Chris Jordan speak at [Pop!Tech](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poptech.com%2F&ei=Ka...
Read more →You like Barnes and Noble? How about Border’s? Or do you prefer Amazon? Well, check out these amazing bookstores around the world!
Getting ready for the next segment, here’s my continued Liveblog of the event, using CoverItLive. http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php?option=com_altcaster&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=e59d0046db&height=550&width=470 ### Ok it’s now over. If you want me to liveblog demo again tomorrow, send me an email to tell me that you found it useful or fun or whatever!
It’s a little hard to explain and I didn’t manage to get it working myself yet, but still I am highly intrigued with Dapper. Dapper‘s tag line is: > “Get more traffic to your site. Easily provide new means for people to access your content (such as RSS). You can use Dapper to create feeds, widgets, and APIs with your content and links.” It’s a elegant and fancy screenscraping service, as far as I can tell. I think there may be a lot more to it and I intend to spend the time to learn all about it. Here’s a really excellent screencast showing how Dapper works.
People wring their hands about the possibility of having Bill Clinton back in the white house as the first ever First Spouse, working mano-a-mano with Hillary. I like Bill Clinton a lot – I did when he was president and I still do. Yet I can understand the misgivings. In [today’s New York times:](ht...
Read more →In the Portals and KM blog, a pair of great articles about “Enterprise 2.0”. Bill Ives has been following and covering Enterprise 2.0, which I’ve seen [defined as “the Application of Web 2.0 technologies to workers using network software within an organization or business.”](http://blogs.zdnet.com/H...
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This is what a discontinuity in a graph looks like 🙂 That’s the stock market from yesterday to today. The discontinuity is this morning before we heard of the Fed’s “Shock and Awe” move, lowering the prime rate by 3/4 percent.
I’ve been learning and thinking about Facebook applications, which everyone else is also writing and thinking about… I will be posting about some of the interesting facts and insights as they come up. This one is fairly obvious if you think about it, but it may be a useful reminder. *Facebook appli...
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Yes an online catalog can be funny. Click on the link to this Dutch site and just wait a few seconds. (Thanks Larry)
From the Wall Street Journal: > “[snip…] Sun Microsystems Inc. has agreed to buy open-source software maker MySQL AB for $1 billion, and said its fiscal second-quarter net income nearly doubled on boosted margins, accor...
Read more →It’s just the title of this post that caught my eye: “What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory, Part 1″: > “[snip…]The original document prints out at over 100 pages. We will be splitting it into about seven segments, each run 1-2 weeks after its predecessor. Once the entire series is out, Ulrich will be releasing the full text.[…snip…]” (from LWN.NET) I don’t know about you, but it may be just a little bit more than I want to know about memory 🙂
I just came across this announcement for the ‘Battle of the Tech Bands’ on January 22 in Central Square (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.) “Musicians from Boston’s tech and tech-investment companies play their geeky hearts out—you pick the winners!” Sounds like fun! Check out the Battle of the Tech Bands here!