“Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes”
A very entertaining & well executed summary of Web 2.0 and the semantic web. Maybe I’m just a hopeless geek, but I really think it’s an incredibly beautiful and effective piece of visual information design. Use it to educate your less geeky friends 🙂
Category Archives: Technology
Google Earth just keeps getting cooler
I’ve been in love with Google Earth since long before Google bought Keyhole, but they just keep making it better and better. In addition to lots of other neat upgrades that I’ll not mention, you can now explore SPACE and fly right into panoramic photos. Getting lost zipping around the solar system and exploring distant stars is frikkin sweet, ya should check it out.
Gettin there…
Last night I finally got WordPress on my own server, and started building my new template.
As you can see, there’s still much to be done, but we’s got some nice progress here, yo.
flickr badge thingie
Street level mapping
If you haven’t already seen it, check out the new “Street View” feature in Google Maps.
Totally cool: now you can take a virtual tour of Central Park, or actually scope out the particular building you are going to.
How do they get that street level imagery, you ask? Check out this van.
MS takes the interactive table (closer) to primetime
First Apple busts out consumer multitouch with the iPhone, then Microsoft shows up with Surface, a (almost) consumer multitouch table. Very cool. I love the table I made, but it definitely has it’s shortcomings: I’ll be nice to see what a real software/electronics company can come up with, and it looks like that’s exactly what we’ll see in the coming years.
MS Surface official site
Popular Mechanics article (featuring video & Jeff Han)
CNN article (with video)
CNET article (with video)
Forbes article
New York Times article
yeah, pretty much
Ok, I’m diggin on WordPress like a fat kid on cake.
Now it’s time to get my CSS going so I can make this thing puuurdy.
Stay tuned.
Sterling Ely = DogFromSPACE = me
Yahoo buys Flickr
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DILO – Yahoo buys Flickr!,
originally uploaded by DogFromSPACE.
Boy I hope Yahoo doesn’t mess this one up…
Bluetooth Beware
I love Bluetooth. I can sync my computer’s address book to my phone without so much as taking it out of my pocket, and control iTunes from across the room if I do.
BUT beware, mean spirited geeks (the kind you may have once seen hanging from their underpants in the locker room) have not only figured out how to hack the precious info off your phone, but how to do it from over a mile away! They can even plant fake text messages, and use your phone as a listening device by having it call them. fooey.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64463,00.html
and
http://www.thebunker.net/security/bluetooth.htm