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Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Innovation Lab ::: INFO

Unsure if they mean to say an “it” city or IT (information technology) but this Place is located in Copenhagen IT University’s IT Greenhouse.

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Riya – Photo Search

Facial recognition combined with Flickr! Wow. Automatic tagging.

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Automattic

Secretive thing from the lead developer of WordPress.

jahshaka.org - Powering the New Hollywood

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

jahshaka.org – Powering the New Hollywood – Features

This is an oss video editing/effects tool. There is filmgimp too. I dunno how much tools like Gimp, Blender, and jahshaka have over other creative suites. Likely you’ll lose some horsepower in feature set upgrades (think about Maya or StudioMax vs. Blender… or Gimp vs. Photoshop), potential QA [...]

Data Visualization - Flight Patterns

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

Flight Patterns

This is very nice looking stuff. I’ve linked to Processing before as a cool tool and it’s nice to see people doing interesting projects. It is out of Celestial Labs which is a planetarium artwork in progress combining “science, statistical display, and contemporary art by interpreting the mechanical patterns and behaviors of these systems [...]

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

Mono Beta 2

An open source implementation of the .NET framework. It’s actually shaping up and people on a message board have tried it out with good results. I recalled a release by now but obviously not paying that much attention. Seems a dangerous path given lack of ownership of those APIs you aim to be [...]

GRAVITY Research: HIPerWall

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

GRAVITY Research: HIPerWall

50, 30-inch LCDs linked together to display for massive visualization.

The car that makes its own fuel

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

The car that makes its own fuel

VGMap by Eyebeam R&D: Vectored Flash Overlays for Google Maps

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

VGMap by Eyebeam R&D: Vectored Flash Overlays for Google Maps

This is a great idea and conceivably could integrate with GIS projects.

Eyebeam is a great looking outfit and I believe Jason Kottke has a stint there. Lot’s of very interesting projects.

iWay : Use your iPod Photo or Nano as a Yahoo! Maps directions viewer!

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

iWay : Use your iPod Photo or Nano as a Yahoo! Maps directions viewer!
iPod-iWay is a powerful step-by-step directions saving tool that will export online driving directions from results by Yahoo Maps and import them into your iPod Photo.

Backbase AJAX RSS Reader

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Backbase AJAX RSS Reader

Six Apart - Project Comet

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

Six Apart – Project Comet

Danger! Danger! Danger!!!
SixApart start using the word “My” in repetition throughout a user interface! Danger!!!

This is a really bad sign.

SuperfluousBanter: Stat Tracking for Web Projects

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

SuperfluousBanter: Stat Tracking for Web Projects

Web Analytics thread—several package names mentioned, NetTracker not mentioned.

iCalendar Files on Mac OS X

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

iCalendar Files on Mac OS X

mac google video viewer - Google Search

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

mac google video viewer – Google Search

I’m having a horrible Google week.

First, the content index for the entire bowdoin.edu domain was deleted after a request to remove one URL from their cache.

Why is this bad? We use Google search for our web site… which means we currently have no search.

What is our recourse? Wait. [...]