The Rapport technology, known as Kilocore, will initially be aimed at portable applications like digital video delivered to cellphones. According to Mr. Singer, reconfigurable logic promises better energy efficiency, which has become a watchword in large computer data centers as well.

Mr. Singer said Rapport, which raised $7 million last year and is based in Redwood City, Calif., licensed a computing design from researchers at Carnegie Mellon.

That approach has permitted Rapport to create a chip with 256 computing elements that can be configured on the fly to adapt to different software problems. A follow-on version of the chip will have more than 1,000 computing elements and will contain a version of I.B.M.'s Power PC microprocessor.

This sounds familiar...

I.B.M. to Work With Start-Up on Chip That Uses Less Power - New York Times

As mentioned, 100% of 2 and 3 letter domain names are taken, but it starts to free up as the number of possibilities expodes, all the way up to 63-character domain names. The most popular registered domain name length is actually 11 characters long, tailing off from there.

11 characters seems weird, until I look at the last three domains I hit:
- livejournal.com
- memestreams.net
- itsyourturn.com

Still seems weird.

Dennis Forbes - Pragmatic Software Development

Earlier this week, he stopped by at the Business 2.0 offices to show off what he had been working on for past few months. Accompanying him was Mike Cordano, a former Maxtor sales guy. Mike is the CEO, and Patel is the chairman of the Fabrik, a San Mateo-based company that plans to reinvent the world of storage. But before we started talking about Fabrik, I asked them how big did the One-Touch business really get. hundreds of millions, they claimed. That’s not bad, enough to take what they had to say seriously.

GigaOM : » Fabrik of Storage

A DEVICE that can pick up on people's emotions is being developed to help people with autism relate to those around them. It will alert its autistic user if the person they are talking to starts showing signs of getting bored or annoyed.

One of the problems facing people with autism is an inability to pick up on social cues. Failure to notice that they are boring or confusing their listeners can be particularly damaging, says Rana El Kaliouby of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "It's sad because people then avoid having conversations with them."

Media Lab smoke & mirrors, or actual development?

New Scientist Tech - Technology - Device warns you if you're boring or irritating

Here's an awesome Flickr mashup. In fact, one of the best we've seen. It's called Bubblr, and it lets you create a comic strip using Flickr photos. It's built using Flash from the looks of it, but it's a very nice implementation that uses a minimal amount of controls.

Monkey Bites

Why is it that I can buy a CD and legally listen to its content on my iPod, but the DVD I legally purchase cannot be watched on my video iPod?

The Big Picture: Wired: How to Put Your DVDs on Your Video iPod

So add one more skill to our career advice for young people: be willing to take risks! Perhaps more importantly, be willing to tolerate (and perhaps even encourage) risk-taking in those who are managed by you. Of course I realize that this is much easier said than done. I was a "leaf node" at Sun, and a zillion other places before that. I've even done a little time as a "branch" (and I sucked at it).

But can anything be done about all the spirit-squashing risk-aversion? Recognition is the first step. Unfortunately, those who recognize it tend to be the leaf nodes--the ones with the power to create and implement the ideas, but very little power to authorize them. Those with the most potential to create change are the branches. The Managers With a Clue.

Creating Passionate Users: Death by risk-aversion

We just remembered that in addition to owning 60% of NetSuite, Larry Ellison was also a major investor in Salesforce. So the dude is making a lot of money from enterprise software that is not owned by Oracle. Which begs tha question: if there is so much value in NetSuite and Salesforce.com, shouldn't Ellison have built these companies within Oracle?

What a silly question. Larry is going to invest in what he considers to be good investments, but he's gambling with his own money. I am sure it helps him that they are built on Oracle... but he was also a substantial share owner in Apple for a while. Should Oracle have built Apple too?

It would have been more reckless for Larry to have used Oracle money (rather than just siphoning it off so that he has investable assets) to invest. And to build every enterprise tool that might be better for Oracle if built by Oracle is a good way to kill Oracle.

alarm:clock: Larry Wins; ORCL Investors Do Not

Just as many sites have started creating different stylesheets for different media types (print, screen, etc.), I’m suggesting that we use a different stylesheet for different screen resolutions. With simple JavaScript, we can test for resolution and then load the corresponding stylesheet.

Digital Web Magazine - Preparing for Widescreen

How silly is the Web 2.0 hype getting? You tell us! Here's a quick quiz...we looked in 30Boxes and analyzed 37Signals that led us to come up with the 43Things below. So without further ado, can you decide...

Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character?

Cerado's Web 2.0 or Star Wars Quiz