How to launch a tech company in one weekend - CNN.com
Topic: Miscellaneous
10:36 am EST, Nov 24, 2008
Twitpay was one of several projects in development at Startup Weekend, held November 7-9 in Atlanta, Georgia. The event brought together more than 100 programmers, marketers and designers who tried to create new companies from scratch in less than three days.
Atlanta Startup Weekend was a fantastic experience. I expected it to be more structured, but its a good feeling to team up with a group of smart people and produce something useful over the course of a weekend. More hacking less talking. I helped create Twitpay which enables users to send money over Twitter. Check it out!
Prototype - Lessons of Survival, From the Dot-Com Attic - NYTimes.com
Topic: Miscellaneous
9:42 am EST, Nov 24, 2008
Mr. Kirsch, a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, saw a way to ensure that the next generation of entrepreneurs could avoid the problems of that bubble, or “at least make new mistakes”: He would document what did and didn’t work during the flurry of business activity around the new technology called the Internet.
In June of that year, he started the Digital Archive of the Birth of the Dot Com Era, usually called the Dot Com Archive (dotcomarchive.org). Shortly thereafter, a partner of a venture capital firm that was closing its doors donated every business plan that the firm had received from 1999 to 2002 — documents covering some 1,100 companies.
The items listed on the new page are basically the same as before, but they are more tightly written and no longer include derogatory statements about the Bush administration such as: "The Bush Administration has been one of the most secretive, closed administrations in American history." Apparently, that's now a secret.
Girls hang on Virgil Griffith. This is no exaggeration. At parties, they cling to the arms of the 25-year-old hacker whose reason for being, he says, is to “make the Internet a better and more interesting place.” The founder of a data-mining tool called WikiScanner, Griffith is also a visiting researcher at the mysterious Santa Fe Institute, where “complex systems” are studied. He was once charged, wide-eyed rumor has it, with sedition. No wonder girls whisper secrets in his ear and laugh merrily at his arcane jokes.
Petzold Book Blog - Hard Work, No Pay: What's the Point?
Topic: Miscellaneous
7:38 am EST, Nov 21, 2008
Those of us still writing programming books often feel increasingly foolish for doing so. The money has dropped so low that the act has become financially irresponsible. Most programming books these days are written by people who have real jobs, either working for someone else or owning their own consulting firm.
"Scientific American is reporting that 'data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter point to vast glaciers buried beneath thin layers of crustal debris.' Data from the surface-penetrating radar on MRO revealed that two well-known mid-latitude features are composed of solid water ice. One is about three times the size of the City of Los Angeles. This certainly makes the idea of establishing a station on Mars far more plausible."
Interesting. This result is reasonable for me. How are your results?
The analysis indicates that the author of http://www.memestreams.net/users/decius/ is of the type: INTJ - The Scientists
The long-range thinking and individualistic type. They are especially good at looking at almost anything and figuring out a way of improving it - often with a highly creative and imaginative touch. They are intellectually curious and daring, but might be pshysically hesitant to try new things.
The Scientists enjoy theoretical work that allows them to use their strong minds and bold creativity. Since they tend to be so abstract and theoretical in their communication they often have a problem communcating their visions to other people and need to learn patience and use conrete examples. Since they are extremly good at concentrating they often have no trouble working alone.
We daydreamed through the various crises of the last eight years, really the last forty or fifty. We won't be able to stay asleep through what's coming.
As part of its belief that robotics is an important emerging technology, Microsoft has released Robotics Developer Studio 2008, a software program that enables users to create applications for robots.
YouTube - Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote
Topic: Miscellaneous
8:30 am EST, Nov 20, 2008
Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen.
