Transparent Laptop Lets You Spy on People As You Type
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Thursday, 7 January 2010
Samsung unveils e-reader, partnering with Google
Samsung unveils e-reader, partnering with Google
South Korean electronics giant Samsung jumped into the increasingly crowded electronic book reader market Wednesday, unveiling its first devices and a partnership with Google Books.
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Tablet Wars: Microsoft and HP to Unveil Apple Tablet Competitor
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is set to reveal his own rival to the Apple Tablet, according to The New York Times Bits Blog. We first learned about a Microsoft tablet device in September. We believe tomorrow’s announcement will be about the same device, currently called the Courier.
Tablet Wars: Microsoft and HP to Unveil Apple Tablet Competitor
According to leaked details at that time, the Microsoft Courier is a tablet built like a notebook, with a two-screen setup and a stylus, made for saving and sharing content and “clippings” from the web. It also supposedly acts as an e-reader. The NYT piece reveals that its manufacturer will be none other than computing giant HP.
While we don’t have any more details, we do think that it makes sense for Ballmer to reveal a new device at the world’s largest gadget trade show. We’re almost certain that Apple’s coming out with a tablet at the end of the month, and this is a strong way to counter that problem. We’ll be at Ballmer’s keynote, covering whatever may come from Microsoft and HP live tomorrow.
Tablet Wars: Microsoft and HP to Unveil Apple Tablet Competitor
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Floating cities of Second Life
Betty Tureaud art project
One of the charms of Second Life is the floating buildings. If you ask me this has not been taken enough advantage of. There are only a few floating cities or even communities and most of the floating things a single structures. It is a bit depressing how much stuff is built on solid green grass looking like something out of a ad for Suburbia.
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Google says its the end of the world
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Found this crazy little piece that slipped through Google Earth.
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
The Second Life Great Expedition: Going from the Web to Web 2.0 to Web 3.0
Above is a graph of the tradition World Wide Web of say 1999. The user has an interface to a service or site 9on the web. The interaction is human to machine, usually to get some information to buy something.
This limited model of web interaction is what collapsed so spectacularly in 1999.
Web 1.0 was replaced by Web 2.0. Starting with discussion groups and email and evolving through Social Network sites like Facebook and Wikipedia users started seeing the web as a place to come together, to communicate and collaborate.
The thing is that Web 2.0 is still build with 2D surfaces. Look at the surface of Wikipedia, Facebook or Twitter. It is a flat surface that usually just extends downward. This surface can be seen as a wall restricting communication. It is also dislocated, existing only on your desk top or maybe on your smart phone, but not aware of space. Social Networks are just networks of links without any real knowledge of how they are spatially located.
What is evolving now with Geo-Positioning, mobile computing, the Cloud, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality is the breaking down of the surface that exposes the Internet and the emergence, perhaps, f an Internet everywhere, which creates a shared space we can collaborate with other people and other components.
The Internet is not longer a surface facing us but a inclusive environment. The Internet starts to become exposed in coffee cups, in your shoes, in the front of stores. You move in the same virtual space with different devices using the Cloud to link your combined experience.
The Second Life Great Expedition: Going from the Web to Web 2.0 to Web 3.0
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Monday, 4 January 2010
The Brilliance of SketchFlow
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When I was a web developer I used to often rapidly put together UIs to show concepts to clients. What I often found was that I was simply wasting time. Either my UI concept, which I would stay up for hours to get right, was not good enough or if the client liked it they just assumed all the work was done and made irrational demands for delivery points. I would often get involved in long debates with Project Managers about what was and was not a computer program, and Project Managers are probably wise not to listen to coder to closely.
That is why SilverLight SketchFlow rought look is such a simple brilliant thing. It keeps the the rough look of white board while still having flow, so you can give the user the feeling of how the application will work. So now you can communicate the flow of a project without the client then assuming all the work is done.
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Top Predictions For 2010 « Word of Pie
2 SharePoint 2010 Won’t Matter: Got your attention? SP 2007 was a big hit. It has made a lot of headway, so much so that people are still trying to get a handle on their environments in many cases. This makes upgrades more daunting. I suspect that many will wait until SP1 is released and some best practices are out before taking the plunge. It will put a lot of pressure on ECM vendors, but that is itTop Predictions For 2010 « Word of Pie
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Sunday, 3 January 2010
Get ready for Windows 7 64 Bit
Here is a tip, if the guy tries to sell you a new 64 bit machine with 8 GB of RAM have it upped to 8 GM. Dealers are selling 64 machines that are little better than 32 bit machines because they move with 4 GM of RAM. By adding the extra 4GB of ram you open amazing capacity.
The above image shows 2 Second Life viewers logged in with 2 different avatars show real time 3-D each (most people with 32 bit XP machine have a hard time seeing 1), but there are also 2 Virtual Machines running 2 version of Linux at the same time? It is now not only possible to build VM on a single box, but to build virtual server farms.
Windows 7 is a massive leap forward for Microsoft, in one step it goes from having an out datted OS in XP and a failed Vista to passing beyond Mac OS X and all of the current Linux IMHO. And if you need to run Linux well you can, as I am here, run several different Linux versions at one.
This changes everything.
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