TastySam Diaz over at ZDNet recently posted his death knell for RSS, claiming that it was “a good idea at the time, but there are better ways now”:
The truth of the matter is that RSS readers are a Web 1.0 tool, an aggregator of news headlines that never really caught on with the mainstream the [...]
After two years without a data smartphone, I finally took the plunge and bought an iPhone. I couldn’t be happier with my purchase! I was very sad to leave Verizon, but I am so glad with what I can do. In fact, I am writing this on it right now.
When I went out for [...]
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I think Steven Leavitt (of Freakonomics) best distills this idea to its very core.
“So if you take the drug and pee on a special piece of paper, a secret message appears. If you don’t take the drug, you can pee on it all you want, but it will not reveal the secret message.”
I can definitely [...]
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This is nothing short of amazing:
BumpTM makes swapping contact information as simle as bumping two phones together. No typing, no searching a list for the right person, no shaking your phone, no modem noises, no mistakes.
via Bump Technologies LLC.
Finally, a business-card replacement that makes sense. Bump provides seamless transfer of information using a shared, secured, [...]
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Saw this list of Twitter uses the other day; kudos to Olin for the top spot (though the list might be unranked) for the 3rd-Floor West Hall laundryroom Twitter agent. Anyone familiar with this know how it works? I don’t remember how the LaundryView system works, but if I recall correctly, there’s e-mail functionality. It’d [...]
You’d think my work laptop would have all the bells and whistles ready to go. After all, I run cygwin, the Linux emulator, as well as have full (legal!) installations of Office 2003 Professional and the latest updates from Microsoft. Apparently, my installation has issues, both of which are font related.
First, with cygwin. I [...]
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You owe it to yourself to spend the next 4 minutes or so watching this clip. Photographer Robbie Cooper has a series of video captures (beautifully lit, I might add) of kids and young teens playing video games. Titled “Immersion”, one possible way to interpret the video is a damnation of the incredible magnetism of [...]
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Before I switched over to full time software development, I used to write functional specs for some of the applications at ATG. The most frustrating aspect of this wasn’t the text itself, since describing what happens when you click a button is pretty sweet, but being blocked waiting for the UI designer to update the [...]
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Toyota, the undisputed champion of the hybrid-world, is contemplating adding solar panels to the next generation of Prius cars even though they know they’ll get a scant amount of electricity from it. It’s already being called a “symbolic” gesture.
Dear Toyota: really? You want to have Prius owners excommunicated from the driving public even more? (”Look [...]
