May 2007
93 posts
WatchLiveScribe Demo - AllThingsD
WatchGeorge Lucas - AllThingsD
WatchSteve Jobs - AllThingsD
WatchLes Moonves - AllThingsD
“Livescribe provides easy web-based development and printing tools for all skill...”
– Customer Authoring Tools - Livescribe
Livescribe Video Demos →
Excellent use of Anoto functionality. Very exciting.
reacTIVision →
The open source computer vision framework behind reactable
iPhone to get third party apps - Engadget →
Duh. This was a given. We’ll see this in a software revision for enabling widgets (if we don’t see it at WWDC), and a very closed ecosystem for development of native applications, just like the iPod.
Steve Jobs & Bill Gates Transcript - AllThingsD →
WatchSteve Jobs & Bill Gates Highlight Reel - AllThingsD
All Things Digital: Steve Jobs & Bill Gates Joint...
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WatchD5 prologue video for Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Joint Interview - AllThingsD
“To our industry YouTube is a bright-shiny object.”
– Anonymous media executive, 2006 Digital Hollywood conference - AllThingsD
Audi TT, High Performance Art - Universal... →
Amazing Ad using custom 3D CGI physics. Includes a making-of video.
Wipe-Clean Ornamentalism, Video Installation -... →
Memories stored in artificial neuron culture -... →
Hanwang pen tablet for logogram-based language... →
Designed for the Chinese market, a pen-based input device such as this could provide an input alternative for other languages such as Japanese and Korean.
London Building Growth in Google Earth - Google... →
Animated 3D KML, similar in concept to Trulia Hindsight
WatchTrulia Hindsight - Wired Blogs
A Flash Map-up (coined here first as a descriptor for Map-centric Mash-ups) based on Trulia’s data that shows development over time for a given area. Way to use oft-hidden meta-data!
Kudos to Trulia for financing a project that, while not directly producing revenue, increases brand exposure by directly leveraging their product and its capabilities.
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“Wikipedia is the encyclopedia and Wikia is all the rest of the library”
– Jimmy Wales, founder of both Wikipedia and Wikia, on the differences betwen the two - Wired Blogs
Mobile Life Story - NTT DoCoMo →
Connecting People. With People. With Things. With Ideas.
Video dramatizations of the future of ‘mobile’ technology (which makes more predictions/assumptions about the future of computing than of anything that one would define today as ‘mobile’)
Take Note: Computing Takes Up Pen, Again - New... →
An interesting Anoto-based pen. Hopefully more useful than the Pen-It, which is currently collecting dust.
hAtom microformat →
Garmin Developer website unloads APIs, toolkits -... →
Google, Yahoo, Facebook Extensions Put Millions of... →
“I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state,...”
– Jeff Han - Fast Company
NASA World Wind →
Java engine for creating Google Earth-like visualizations
Can't Touch This - Fast Company →
on Jeff Han and Perceptive Pixel, creators of interactive tables and screens (née Surfaces)
Dapper.net keeps crashing Safari
“I presume the word […] is based on Greek apophaino ‘show forth,...”
– Apophenia - languagehat.com
“If your only testbed is monochrome grayscale video signals of traffic, your...”
– Bill Softky, Design patterns for a Black Box Brain? - The Register
Design patterns for a Black Box Brain? - The... →
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Software engineers – the ultimate brain... →
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How Google translates without understanding - The... →
Language Translation
More on Microsoft's Surface Computing initiatives... →
Why do robot experts build such lousy robots? -... →
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Chronology of Multi-Touch Technologies →
via Tog
“[T]he drastic compromises being made to wedge reduced-content web pages into...”
– Bruze Tognazzini, on the iPhone
Official Microsoft Surface Site →
Notes:
- Responsiveness seems a bit sluggish, hopefully they can improve that for production models
- This interaction paradigm is horrible for lots of text entry. Witness the ‘postcard’ video and existing Virtual Laser Keyboard for examples. Short bits of text would be fine with a Wii-like keyboard interface.
- All such technologies seem more apt for information consumption than...
Surface Computing by Microsoft →
Today Microsoft will unveil a new ‘Surface Computing’ initiative at the D: All Things Digital executive conference. It uses simple hardware and gestures to create a flat interactive surface, reminiscent of every impractically cool interface demo you’ve ever seen. Read More on Apophenic.com…
The iPhone User Experience: A First Look →
by Bruce Tognazzini
“In terms of short-term practical applications or things like contributions to...”
– Matt Rosoff, an analyst at Directions On Microsoft - USATODAY.com
“A big challenge will be to create applications that are not only fun but also...”
– Tamara Mendelsohn, Forrester Research senior retail analyst - USATODAY.com
“This thing is only cool if it works seamlessly[.] If it works well, it’s...”
– Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, on Microsoft’s Surface Computing initiative
Sensopac Research Group Aims to Create an... →
