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OK Go has created the biggest Rube Goldberg machine of all time

Clint — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:21:25 +0000

Shocker – The New York Times makes a gaffe

Clint — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:30:29 +0000

A heading appears introducing Hillary Clinton and Chilean President Bachelet, innocent enough. Problem is it appears under a picture of two “little people” dressed as angels. oops.

Google person finder

Clint — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:09:43 +0000

Google has launched an application to help find people missing in the Haiti and Chilean earthquake at http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/ & http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/

Great idea and tremendously helpful for people attempting to find loved ones.

PleaseRobMe.com

Clint — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:53:00 +0000

A group called “ForTheHack” has created a site that tries to force us all to focus on the downside of location-based services like FourSquare.com and GoWalla.com. The mission is “Listing all the open homes out there”.

Of course the site owners don’t advocate actually robbing anyone’s home, they are simply exposing the risks when you share your location with the world. More an interivew on twit.tv with Boy van Amstel.

Sounds like a great idea for a site. What strikes me more is that it seems that the pendulum on privacy may have swung to far that this point. 5 years ago we were all talking about not putting you real name on the internet and now folks are readily sharing their locations with the public. At some point I am sure that there will probably be an incident picked up by the media causing a backlash against location sharing.

New Channel 9 show called “Cloud Cover”, focusing on Azure technologies

Clint — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:08:30 +0000

Twitter is moving to a “NoSQL” style data engine called Cassandra.

Clint — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:23:54 +0000

I don’t have much knowledge on the NoSQL movement although I have done some work with Google’s Bigtable. The concept of a non-relational, highly scalable database seems to be coming of age given the times we live in. Apparently right now Twitter uses MySQL with heavy caching using memcache but in the future they expect to be able to have no data caching in the future. Impressive given there traffic and the amount of writes that perform.

Lenovo W701ds

Clint — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:48:00 +0000

I love my W500, but this new W701 looks mighty sweet.

iPad & Flash from a developers point of view

Clint — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:37:00 +0000

Flash developer Morgan Adams gives his point of view on iPad Flash support, or the lack there of. If you haven’t been following this, I can sum it up. The iPad (or iPhone for that matter) doesn’t support Adobe Flash. Some people think there is a vendetta originating from Steve jobs. Others think that Flash is dead. As always the truth is somewhere in between.

It appears that the real reason may have more to do with the mechanics of the multitouch interface than any far flung CEO soap opera.

Bloom Box will power your house

Clint — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:29:37 +0000

Bloom Energy wants to power your home with a clean, renewable fuel cell. Big investment are going into this company and big promises are coming out. The official public launch is on wed 2/23/2010.

Twitter surpasses 50 million tweets per day

Clint — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:49:36 +0000

Incredible numbers. Only a few popular sites on the web get over 50 million visits per month.