Monday, September 22, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
How to Change the World: The Art of Visual Thinking
A great article. If the language of the mind is pictures, then this is an important read. Less is More. How to Change the World: The Art of Visual Thinking
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
CEO Jack Dorsey, who says Twitter captures the 'status of everything,' talks about monetization
Interesting and revealing interview with Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Autograph of 'The Art of the Start' by Guy Kawasaki - "Kick Butt and Change the World!"
"Kick Butt and Change the World!" A couple of Saturdays ago (July 5th), thank you to Neenz who works for Guy, a bunch of us got a chance to hang out with Guy Kawasaki for a couple of hours poolside during sunset at the Waikiki Prince Hotel. Guy is an author (I think 8 books now), venture capitalist (founder of Garage Ventures), and founder of truemors.com and his most recent startup alltop.com. You might be able to find a uStream recording of the gathering at Neenz's blog at http://www.faleafine.com/?p=171.
Guy's latest book "The Art of the Start" is one of my favorites (though there is a rumor of another one in the works!) and is the bible in my marketing group. We have several copies at Oceanit. My personal copy I gave to a good friend in Japan on one of our last trips so Lianne went out to Borders and bought me a copy. But unfortunately as we rushed out of the house to meet Guy, I forgot to grab it. But Guy is cool and so we meet up at the airport car rental the next day, he jump in my car, we headed to departures, and we got to chat as he autographed my copy. So mahalo Guy. Catch you on Twitter, and hopefully again in Hawaii. Aloha, Ian
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
Apple introduces new high-speed iPhone - International Herald Tribune
After about a week of reading comments on Twitter and from friends who have the new 3G iphone, there seems to be some real issues with battery life. Ok, I can live with the battery issue but as a serious email device will it be just as good as the Blackberry and Motorola Q? I also want to do live streaming video (which Qik has a hack for)
Apple introduces new high-speed iPhone - International Herald Tribune
Apple introduces new high-speed iPhone - International Herald Tribune
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools!
Some of these I use daily like twitpic, others I use once in a while like tweetscan. One of the newest desktop twitter clients called TweetDeck is great. I'm using it daily though it feels like a resource hog because my PC runs a little more sluggish.
Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools!
Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Weird Science with Dr. V on KGMB9: Episode 3 - Make Your Own Lava Lamp
Howzit! Check out this week’s episode of Weird Science with Dr. V on the Sunrise Morning program on KGMB9. Tune in every Tuesday morning at 6:40am HST, or if you're not in Hawaii visit www.KGMB9.com to watch the latest Weird Science experiement. Please forward this link on to friends and family, especially those with keiki (children). http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/6424/104/
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Johnny Chung Lee - Projects - Wii
Johnny Chung Lee - Projects - Wii. Thanks to Aaron Kagawa for this info. Visit his blog at kagawaa.blogspot.com
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Cops Can't Catch 'Em -- So Online Posses Are Now Nabbing Car Thieves | Autopia from Wired.com
Cops Can't Catch 'Em -- So Online Posses Are Now Nabbing Car Thieves | Autopia from Wired.com
Maybe it would be quite interesting if police posted stolen car info online as it happens. "Have you seen this car?" And then send an out "amber alert." I'll bet folks driving around town would be on the lookout for stuff like this.
Maybe it would be quite interesting if police posted stolen car info online as it happens. "Have you seen this car?" And then send an out "amber alert." I'll bet folks driving around town would be on the lookout for stuff like this.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
2008 Dual Use Industry Update
2008 Update On Hawaiis Growing Dual Use Industry
From: ikitajima, 11 hours ago
Dual Use Defense Industry 2008 Briefing at the Hawaii State Legislature
SlideShare Link
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Nano Water Treatment Needed
http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=28193
This story itself doesn't say anything groundbreaking, but other stories have mentioned the growing ubiquitousness of traces of pharmceuticals in water supplies around the world. (Lucky we live Hawaii where our 'treated' wastewater goes out to sea, and not into the drinking water supply loop.) Someone could do a lot of good and make bundles of cash if they could make a nano membrane that wicks these tiny compounds out of water. It would first be a high-end treatment technology for ultra pure drinking water, but eventually could be rolled out to treat wastewater so that these undigested and half-metabolizes drugs don't get into our ecosystems and drinking water sources in the first place.
This story itself doesn't say anything groundbreaking, but other stories have mentioned the growing ubiquitousness of traces of pharmceuticals in water supplies around the world. (Lucky we live Hawaii where our 'treated' wastewater goes out to sea, and not into the drinking water supply loop.) Someone could do a lot of good and make bundles of cash if they could make a nano membrane that wicks these tiny compounds out of water. It would first be a high-end treatment technology for ultra pure drinking water, but eventually could be rolled out to treat wastewater so that these undigested and half-metabolizes drugs don't get into our ecosystems and drinking water sources in the first place.
Apple's design process
Apple's design process
Posted by: Helen Walters on March 08
Posted by: Helen Walters on March 08
Interesting presentation at SXSW from Michael Lopp, senior engineering
manager at Apple, who tried to assess how Apple "gets" design when so
many other companies try and fail. After describing Apple's process of
delivering consumers with a succession of presents ("really good ideas
wrapped up in other really good ideas" - in other words, great software
in fabulous hardware in beautiful packaging), he asked the question many
have asked in their time: "How the f*ck do you do that?" (South by
Southwest is at ease with its panelists speaking earthily.) Then he went
into a few details:
Pixel Perfect Mockups
This, Lopp admitted, causes a huge amount of work and takes an enormous
amount of time. But, he added, "it removes all ambiguity." That might
add time up front, but it removes the need to correct mistakes later on.
10 to 3 to 1
Apple designers come up with 10 entirely different mock ups of any new
feature. Not, Lopp said, "seven in order to make three look good", which
seems to be a fairly standard practice elsewhere. They'll take ten, and
give themselves room to design without restriction. Later they whittle
that number to three, spend more months on those three and then finally
end up with one strong decision.
Paired Design Meetings
This was really interesting. Every week, the teams have two meetings.
One in which to brainstorm, to forget about constraints and think
freely. As Lopp put
it: to "go crazy". Then they also hold a production meeting, an entirely
separate but equally regular meeting which is the other's antithesis.
Here, the designers and engineers are required to nail everything down,
to work out how this crazy idea might actually work. This process and
organization continues throughout the development of any app, though of
course the balance shifts as the app progresses. But keeping an option
for creative thought even at a late stage is really smart.
Pony Meeting
This refers to a story Lopp told earlier in the session, in which he
described the process of a senior manager outlining what they wanted
from any new
application: "I want WYSIWYG... I want it to support major browsers... I
want it to reflect the spirit of the company." Or, as Lopp put it: "I
want a pony!" He
added: "Who doesn't? A pony is gorgeous!" The problem, he said, is that
these people are describing what they think they want. And even if
they're misguided, they, as the ones signing the checks, really cannot
be ignored.
The solution, he described, is to take the best ideas from the paired
design meetings and present those to leadership, who might just decide
that some of those ideas are, in fact, their longed-for ponies. In this
way, the ponies morph into deliverables. And the C-suite, who are quite
reasonable in wanting to know what designers are up to, and absolutely
entitled to want to have a say in what's going on, are involved and
included. And that helps to ensure that there are no nasty mistakes down
the line.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
NanoRadio
Alex Zettl's tiny radios, built from nanotubes, could improve everything from cell phones to medical diagnostics.
Shell shock
"An MIT materials scientist's research on sea snails has helped transform battery technology and may end the era when cell phones die if they're dropped and PDAs must be replaced if they get dunked in the tub.
Thanks to those sea snails and a eureka moment, Angela Belcher, Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, is developing smart nano-materials--hybrids of organic and inorganic components--beginning with a rechargeable, biologically based battery that looks like plastic food wrap. ..."
Thanks to those sea snails and a eureka moment, Angela Belcher, Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, is developing smart nano-materials--hybrids of organic and inorganic components--beginning with a rechargeable, biologically based battery that looks like plastic food wrap. ..."
Friday, March 7, 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Hawaii’s billion-dollar tech sector
Hawaii’s billion-dollar tech sector
Filed Under Sunrise on KGMB9
Politicians do this a lot: they sell an expensive project to the public by promising a lower price tag and a shorter time frame than will probably turn out to be the case. The way they do it is to accept the unreasonably optimistic forecasts that are given to them by consultants and other unsavory people.
We do this a lot: when something that politicians promised us fails to materialize in the time frame we were given, we jump to the conclusion that it will NEVER happen.
That’s what happened with Hawaii’s technology sector.
Politicians a generation ago got so excited about diversifying the economy that people got the impression it would arrive 10 minutes after tax credits were enacted. Instead, it took years. When it happened, many didn’t noticed, or assumed it was a scam, because they had fallen into the fallacy that late arrival mean no arrival.
They nodded their heads knowingly when the occasional tech start-up folded or moved to the mainland.
Remember the computer graphics company that went broke? Sure you do. What you may not remember is that another company bought the equipment and today is the highly successful renderfarm company Pipelinefx, still based in Honolulu.
Remember CheapTickets? It was sold to a big mainland company and moved to the mainland, eventually phasing out most of its Hawaii operations.
But other companies, like Oceanit and STI and Hawaii Biotech and Hoala Medical and Loea, have continued to operate and thrive in Hawaii.
The Hawaii Science & Technology Council briefed state lawmakers Wednesday and told them that for a 2002-2005 investment of less than $195 million the state got expenditures of more than $1 billion, half of it in wages and salaries for 5,383 jobs that pay an average $67,000 a year.
Act 221 companies generated 287 jobs, but the whole tech community benefits from those tax credit, so the credits are responsible for more jobs than that.
As tourism eases back from record highs we will be increasingly glad that officials of the last generation made the effort to diversify the economy.
So what should lawmakers do now?
Nothing.
There are a few states offering better tax credits than Hawaii does. And there are many states with better reputations for bending over backwards for business. But on the other hand we have the weather and the scenery and the culture and the food and the music and the key people in high-tech research and development are the sort of people who can name their terms and work where they like.
The best thing we can do with the tech tax credits is leave them alone, leave the rules of our local game unchanged for several years, and content ourselves with the tax revenue that comes from the payrolls and spending these companies have. Let the mainland venture capital community get used to the current situation; don’t fiddle with it.
Filed Under Sunrise on KGMB9
Politicians do this a lot: they sell an expensive project to the public by promising a lower price tag and a shorter time frame than will probably turn out to be the case. The way they do it is to accept the unreasonably optimistic forecasts that are given to them by consultants and other unsavory people.
We do this a lot: when something that politicians promised us fails to materialize in the time frame we were given, we jump to the conclusion that it will NEVER happen.
That’s what happened with Hawaii’s technology sector.
Politicians a generation ago got so excited about diversifying the economy that people got the impression it would arrive 10 minutes after tax credits were enacted. Instead, it took years. When it happened, many didn’t noticed, or assumed it was a scam, because they had fallen into the fallacy that late arrival mean no arrival.
They nodded their heads knowingly when the occasional tech start-up folded or moved to the mainland.
Remember the computer graphics company that went broke? Sure you do. What you may not remember is that another company bought the equipment and today is the highly successful renderfarm company Pipelinefx, still based in Honolulu.
Remember CheapTickets? It was sold to a big mainland company and moved to the mainland, eventually phasing out most of its Hawaii operations.
But other companies, like Oceanit and STI and Hawaii Biotech and Hoala Medical and Loea, have continued to operate and thrive in Hawaii.
The Hawaii Science & Technology Council briefed state lawmakers Wednesday and told them that for a 2002-2005 investment of less than $195 million the state got expenditures of more than $1 billion, half of it in wages and salaries for 5,383 jobs that pay an average $67,000 a year.
Act 221 companies generated 287 jobs, but the whole tech community benefits from those tax credit, so the credits are responsible for more jobs than that.
As tourism eases back from record highs we will be increasingly glad that officials of the last generation made the effort to diversify the economy.
So what should lawmakers do now?
Nothing.
There are a few states offering better tax credits than Hawaii does. And there are many states with better reputations for bending over backwards for business. But on the other hand we have the weather and the scenery and the culture and the food and the music and the key people in high-tech research and development are the sort of people who can name their terms and work where they like.
The best thing we can do with the tech tax credits is leave them alone, leave the rules of our local game unchanged for several years, and content ourselves with the tax revenue that comes from the payrolls and spending these companies have. Let the mainland venture capital community get used to the current situation; don’t fiddle with it.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
Solar without the Panels
Investors and utilities intent on building solar power plants are increasingly turning to solar thermal power, a comparatively low-tech alternative to photovoltaic panels that convert sunlight directly into electricity. This month, in the latest in a string of recent deals, Spanish solar-plant developer Abengoa Solar and Phoenix-based utility Arizona Public Service announced a 280-megawatt solar thermal project in Arizona. By contrast, the world's largest installations of photovoltaics generate only 20 megawatts of power.
Strong, Light, and Stretchy Materials
A nanocomposite of aluminum oxide and a polymer is as tough as metals but lighter.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Photos: Wireless sensor-making is a snap | CNET News.com
This is really neat. It's Lego block type of sensors. Photos after the jump.
Photos: Wireless sensor-making is a snap | CNET News.com: "Wireless sensor-making is a snap
February 27, 2008 3:37 PM PDT
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Here is a board for a wireless mote from the Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland. It was made using a Lego-like sensor platform that was developed by Brendan O'Flynn, who works in Tyndall's Ambient Electronic Systems Integration group. Different boards can be snapped together to give a sensor different capabilities.
Caption text by CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos
Credit: Michael Kanellos/CNET News.com"
Photos: Wireless sensor-making is a snap | CNET News.com: "Wireless sensor-making is a snap
February 27, 2008 3:37 PM PDT
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Here is a board for a wireless mote from the Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland. It was made using a Lego-like sensor platform that was developed by Brendan O'Flynn, who works in Tyndall's Ambient Electronic Systems Integration group. Different boards can be snapped together to give a sensor different capabilities.
Caption text by CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos
Credit: Michael Kanellos/CNET News.com"
Sunday, February 24, 2008
CrunchGear » Archive » Windshield wipers replaced with nano coatings
CrunchGear » Archive » Windshield wipers replaced with nano coatings
This is an interesting application of nano tech. But it had better work 100% of the time in rain or it would render the car useless in a downpour. Maybe all windows except the front window.
This is an interesting application of nano tech. But it had better work 100% of the time in rain or it would render the car useless in a downpour. Maybe all windows except the front window.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
And the 14 Grand Engineering Challenges of the 21st Century Are... | Wired Science from Wired.com
And the 14 Grand Engineering Challenges of the 21st Century Are... | Wired Science from Wired.com
Before you can save the world, you'd better write a to-do list so nothing gets overlooked. Some of the world's brightest minds have done just that by laying out this century's greatest engineering challenges.
The panel of 18 engineers, technologists and futurists included Google
co-founder Larry Page and genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter. They spent more than a year pondering how best to improve life on Earth and came up with 14 Grand Engineering Challenges, a list the National Academy of Engineering deemed so momentous it should be capitalized.
"Phyllis! Get me one of those interoffice mail envelopes!"
Photo of the Lenovo ThinkPad x300 after the URL jump. The interesting thing about the computer is how tiny the motherboard really is. It looks like the solid-state drive is larger than the motherboard.
As an otaku, I've taken apart many of my notebook computers and even my Mac Mini just to look inside. This ThinkPad looks really simple as far as parts are concerned.
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The Future of Tech February 14, 2008, 5:00PM EST text size: TT Building the Perfect Laptop The superslim ThinkPad X300 is Lenovo's bid for leadership in the high-stakes world of laptops
by Steve Hamm and Kenji Hall
"Phyllis! Get me one of those interoffice mail envelopes!"
It was just after lunchtime on Jan. 15, and Peter Hortensius was storming through the cubicles at Lenovo Group's offices in Morrisville, N.C., shouting for his secretary. Hortensius, senior vice-president in charge of laptops, had just heard that Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs had unveiled the supersvelte, aluminum-clad MacBook Air by declaring it the "world's thinnest notebook" and dramatically pulling it out of an interoffice envelope. Lenovo's ThinkPad X300 notebook was due out in February, after a year and a half in development, and Hortensius was alarmed that it could be upstaged before it even made its debut.
His secretary, Phyllis Arrington-McGee, ransacked filing cabinets until she found one of the envelopes. She handed it to Hortensius, who gingerly slipped the X300 inside. "It fits! It fits!" he shouted.
Perhaps no one was more relieved than David Hill, Lenovo's chief designer, who stopped by Hortensius' office right after the envelope experiment. It had been his idea to create the superthin X300, which was originally code-named Kodachi. Hill shared a laugh about the test with Hortensius and later couldn't resist a poke at Jobs' latest creation. "I'm a bit tired of looking at silver computers," said Hill.
"I'd never wear a silver business suit."
As an otaku, I've taken apart many of my notebook computers and even my Mac Mini just to look inside. This ThinkPad looks really simple as far as parts are concerned.
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The Future of Tech February 14, 2008, 5:00PM EST text size: TT Building the Perfect Laptop The superslim ThinkPad X300 is Lenovo's bid for leadership in the high-stakes world of laptops
by Steve Hamm and Kenji Hall
"Phyllis! Get me one of those interoffice mail envelopes!"
It was just after lunchtime on Jan. 15, and Peter Hortensius was storming through the cubicles at Lenovo Group's offices in Morrisville, N.C., shouting for his secretary. Hortensius, senior vice-president in charge of laptops, had just heard that Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs had unveiled the supersvelte, aluminum-clad MacBook Air by declaring it the "world's thinnest notebook" and dramatically pulling it out of an interoffice envelope. Lenovo's ThinkPad X300 notebook was due out in February, after a year and a half in development, and Hortensius was alarmed that it could be upstaged before it even made its debut.
His secretary, Phyllis Arrington-McGee, ransacked filing cabinets until she found one of the envelopes. She handed it to Hortensius, who gingerly slipped the X300 inside. "It fits! It fits!" he shouted.
Perhaps no one was more relieved than David Hill, Lenovo's chief designer, who stopped by Hortensius' office right after the envelope experiment. It had been his idea to create the superthin X300, which was originally code-named Kodachi. Hill shared a laugh about the test with Hortensius and later couldn't resist a poke at Jobs' latest creation. "I'm a bit tired of looking at silver computers," said Hill.
"I'd never wear a silver business suit."
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
The Nokia N810 - the first 10 days
Howzit. I was looking for something to use while sitting on the couch or in bed...so, i was looking for something with the following requirements:
1. Small and lightweight so I can hold in my hands (versus burn my lap or stomach with a laptop)
2. Slideout qwerty keyboard so i could double thumb type
3. Fast booting so i could get going quickly when i have an idea.
4. Wifi and web support so I can use Google Documents, Gmail, etc...
The N810 does all of the above. It's actually smaller than I expected. It's about the size of a Ninetendo DS. weights about 1.5lbs (?). But the small size has been nice. Also the battery life is really good. It will last 6 to 8 hours of constant use. When it goes to sleep, the battery can last days. Yes, it's fast booting. About 35 seconds to boot up. Wifi and web support is great. I can even use my verizon smartphone as a modem via bluetooth. The screen is very clear and it will display the entire width of a website for younger eyes but a few clicks of a button and i can blow up the screen to 150% and i am rocking. My big disappointment is the keyboard. It's stiff and the keys a little too flat so feedback is subtle. my Motorola Q has a better feel and i can type faster on that than the N810...applications are a little limited but i'm doing most things via web-based apps, so this is not a limitation for me. But one cool app I downloaded was a GPS camera that is integrated with Flickr and the N810's GPS. However, the internal GPS is slow to connect with satellites but it works with another free app i downloaded called Maemo Map. I've setup my Gmail via the built in email imap client (a bit slow when opening up an email) and i've setp several RSS feeds that are scrolling across the screen. The screen is a touchscreen which is essential because the navigation is a bit hard with the navigation button (again stiff but also small)...It's a great internet tablet...i can watch youtube, use twitter, iGoogle, you can load in most movies and mp3s...anything i can do on the web and i can pretty much do on the N810...i still can't get the N810 to stream video in a broadcast mode via ustream.tv without crashing the browser but hopefull this will be fixed. Pocketcaster.com is developing a client for the N180 so they might beat ustream.t to the punch. Skype will work once i get the installer to work. Overall, a great thin client web device.
1. Small and lightweight so I can hold in my hands (versus burn my lap or stomach with a laptop)
2. Slideout qwerty keyboard so i could double thumb type
3. Fast booting so i could get going quickly when i have an idea.
4. Wifi and web support so I can use Google Documents, Gmail, etc...
The N810 does all of the above. It's actually smaller than I expected. It's about the size of a Ninetendo DS. weights about 1.5lbs (?). But the small size has been nice. Also the battery life is really good. It will last 6 to 8 hours of constant use. When it goes to sleep, the battery can last days. Yes, it's fast booting. About 35 seconds to boot up. Wifi and web support is great. I can even use my verizon smartphone as a modem via bluetooth. The screen is very clear and it will display the entire width of a website for younger eyes but a few clicks of a button and i can blow up the screen to 150% and i am rocking. My big disappointment is the keyboard. It's stiff and the keys a little too flat so feedback is subtle. my Motorola Q has a better feel and i can type faster on that than the N810...applications are a little limited but i'm doing most things via web-based apps, so this is not a limitation for me. But one cool app I downloaded was a GPS camera that is integrated with Flickr and the N810's GPS. However, the internal GPS is slow to connect with satellites but it works with another free app i downloaded called Maemo Map. I've setup my Gmail via the built in email imap client (a bit slow when opening up an email) and i've setp several RSS feeds that are scrolling across the screen. The screen is a touchscreen which is essential because the navigation is a bit hard with the navigation button (again stiff but also small)...It's a great internet tablet...i can watch youtube, use twitter, iGoogle, you can load in most movies and mp3s...anything i can do on the web and i can pretty much do on the N810...i still can't get the N810 to stream video in a broadcast mode via ustream.tv without crashing the browser but hopefull this will be fixed. Pocketcaster.com is developing a client for the N180 so they might beat ustream.t to the punch. Skype will work once i get the installer to work. Overall, a great thin client web device.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Example Entry for Idea Streaming Blog
Name: Oceanit's Idea Streaming Tool (?)
What: Implement an online tool that can push ideas to people's desktops so they can collaborate on the next big thing at Oceanit. Central storage. Private. RSS/Atom based reader that looks like a scrolling stock ticker that takes up minimal desktop space
Why: ideas that are posted to things like a sharepoint forum die when the conversation slows down and ends, and you don't get anymore emails.
Who: Who wants to help?
When: Roll out full system by end of March '08
Budget: free to a few dollars. Do it with free stuff to prototype the idea and validate the value and process.
Posting: avoid posting anything and everything to this site. Post in a targeted fashion. e.g., you have a new concept for the Space Elevator, or cold fusion, etc...
What: Implement an online tool that can push ideas to people's desktops so they can collaborate on the next big thing at Oceanit. Central storage. Private. RSS/Atom based reader that looks like a scrolling stock ticker that takes up minimal desktop space
Why: ideas that are posted to things like a sharepoint forum die when the conversation slows down and ends, and you don't get anymore emails.
Who: Who wants to help?
When: Roll out full system by end of March '08
Budget: free to a few dollars. Do it with free stuff to prototype the idea and validate the value and process.
Posting: avoid posting anything and everything to this site. Post in a targeted fashion. e.g., you have a new concept for the Space Elevator, or cold fusion, etc...
Starship enterprise: the next generation
I believe this is the article in the Economist magazine that Pat referred to this morning related to SSA.
More of the article after the jump.
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10566293
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More of the article after the jump.
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10566293
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Jan 24th 2008 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
A fleet of privately financed spaceships is emerging. It heralds a new business in space travel
Virgin Galactic
THE way Will Whitehorn tells it, the story began in 2003 in Mojave, California, on a visit to Scaled Composites, a company with a reputation for designing and building futuristic and sometimes wacky-looking aircraft. Mr Whitehorn is one of the top brass in Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group; and Virgin Atlantic, Sir Richard's airline, was sponsoring Global Flyer, a Scaled Composites creation, on a non-stop voyage around the world. On his way out of the factory Mr Whitehorn saw something unusual and asked what it was. Burt Rutan, head of Scaled Composites, told him it was a spaceship. He was building it for another customer, but he couldn't say any more.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Private Blog
Any way that we can make this a private site? IN case we have an IP on this site... Also, how do we download the ticker tape you were talking about, Ian?
Friday, January 25, 2008
Kaaawa Online
http://ilind.net/
This is the one thing I take a few minutes to look at every morning. Ian Lind is a classmate of Jan's and comes over for Christmas ham. Somehow he can take his walk on Kaaawa beach and have a post up everyday before 6am. Lots of purdy pictures. He writes for the Weekly and still has an investigative edge. Once in a while he has scoops that I can use at Oceanit. He likes cats AND dogs.
This is the one thing I take a few minutes to look at every morning. Ian Lind is a classmate of Jan's and comes over for Christmas ham. Somehow he can take his walk on Kaaawa beach and have a post up everyday before 6am. Lots of purdy pictures. He writes for the Weekly and still has an investigative edge. Once in a while he has scoops that I can use at Oceanit. He likes cats AND dogs.
The pessimist's view of econ-o-rama 2008
I was referred to this one by the Arlington Institute's "The Future" email. Caution- a bad attitude and a few bad words. To Kunstler's credit, he did foresee the sub-prime debacle, so he might have a decent clue. His weekly blog does read a little Hunter S. Thompson-esque, lapping at a huge void in our society with at least persistence and a decent vernacular.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Web 2.0 Trends
Web20 Trends Updated
From: josanku, 1 week ago
Web2.0 Trends
2007 hot issues reviewed
2008 web2.0 prediction
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McNeill (2007) Four Presentation Genre
McNeill (2007) Four Presentation Genre
From: jeffmcneill, 4 months ago
Instead of one right way to do presentation slides, this presentation suggests there are four distinct genre, and explains what they are good for and how to construct them.
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