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Microsoft Releases a Far Better Web Product?

It’s been a long time since I heard someone speculate what may come after html/javascript or flash in terms of content display of distributed internet-based communication.
I never expected the first speculation I heard would be for a Microsoft product. Silverlight apparently is to be taken quite seriously. Apparently it makes Adobe’s much ballyhooed Apollo tools [...]

More Proof Virtual is Real

Check out this dog going whole hog after a digitally generated ball.

The display system is made by Reactrix, and has enthralled me since I frist saw at the Metreon a couple years ago. The system works be a camera above determining you movement and speed and how the item would respond if it were in [...]

Commoditized

I‘ve been commoditized. Well, it’s not really that bad. In fact I’m honored to be branded an “Innovator,” but still, this will take some getting used to. What you’re seeing below is a house ad running in RedHerring.com
I have a feeling my image made the cut because of the artsy, ill-at-ease Arbus-esque photo they used [...]

Txty Globo-Cultural-Voyeurism

Twitter is a SMS-oriented messaging service that allows one to make a group of friends you can send a single message to all at once they can get on their phone or computer. It’s become quite popular with geeky folk, almost to an unweildy degree, but if you keep your circle of friends small, it’s [...]

Visual Map of Global Population

This image was shown at at SXSW panel on building websites for international usage. Click to see full size.

It was made by Bettina Speckmann and Marc van Kreveld of Utrecht University.

My Geek Dream Getting Closer

I have literally dreamed of being able to develop software using a wall-sized touch interface to my servers and code. My geuss is within five years (and some expensive monitors and some *nix I/O updates ) I could be spending a lot less time in my chair.

Jeff Han and Phil Davidson demonstrate how a multi-touch [...]

Testing Out Embeddable Dogster Videos

We’re just about to make it so any one can copy and paste a Dogster Video or Catster Video and put it anywhere. This may sound like a no-brainer, but they’re our members videos, not us, so we needed to do it carefully.
[If you are viewing in a RSS feedreader and you normally see videos, [...]

My Firefox Add-on, WhoIsThisPerson Downloaded Over 25,000 Times

A year ago I wrote my first and only Firefox Extension Add-on (they’re called “Add-ons” as of Firefox v2.0) and it has now been downloaded 27,363 times, recently averaging about 250 downloads a week.
Who Is This Person is a simple right-menu option that appears when you highlighted a name in a Firefox browser window. You [...]

Geek Entertainment TV Hits the Floor at CES (that giant electronics show in Vegas)

And they find the best crap. Irina and Eddie are really very funny people. Watch the video.

And! They met the guy who did the voice in Toy Story of the coin game aliens who revere they claw and when one is grabbed says my favorite line “I have been chosen, I go on to a [...]

For Anyone Tired of “Web 2.0″ Talk …

For anyone tired of Web 2.0 talk, I think respite is near.
As we all know in reality land Web2.0 is just Internet37, meaning it’s just one more advancement in a 40 year evolution of the internet’s server client data exchange environment.

What drives anyone crazy that works hard on the Web right now is all the [...]