Technologies collide

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TransAct Technologies Responds to
Questions Related to Its Patent
Allowance Covering Technologies in Its
Epic

TransAct Technologies Responds to
Questions Related to Its Patent
Allowance Covering Technologies in Its
Epic 04/07/2005 07:33 AM
dBusinessNews.com Apr 7 2005 10:26AM GMT

802.16e positioned to compete against
mobile broadband wireless technologies
such as cellular, the proposed 802.20,
and proprietary technologies

802.16e positioned to compete against
mobile broadband wireless technologies
such as cellular, the proposed 802.20,
and proprietary technologies 08/29/2004 03:57 AM
[PRWEB Aug 29, 2004]

When dunes collide

When dunes collide 12/25/2003 06:42 PM
The mating habits of barchan sand dunes.

WiMAX, 3G Could Collide

WiMAX, 3G Could Collide 03/22/2005 07:29 PM
Extreme Tech Mar 22 2005 9:03PM GMT

When universes collide...

When universes collide... 12/19/2003 11:35 AM
Once More With Hobbits - the Lord of the Rings meets Once More With Feeling, the Buffy the Vampire musical episode. There are only lyrics at the moment, but mp3s are promised soon. Until then, you'll have to sing along yourselves!

UFOs Collide

UFOs Collide 04/05/2005 12:17 PM
My last postings have been the boring non-illustrated kind; so here's a photo Kåre, Janus and I caught last year of two UFOs colliding in Death Valley! . We were lucky to catch this photo and another one of eerily human-like aliens from outer space after Kåre and I had been sitting in the desert for more than an hour taking pictures of the stars (having fun with the 17-35mm lens on a F3 (wiiiiiide) and taking digital pictures with...

When Worlds Collide: AGP vs PCI-E!

When Worlds Collide: AGP vs PCI-E! 04/18/2005 02:02 PM

Enpar Technologies raises stake in Green
Environmental Technologies to 19.7%

Enpar Technologies raises stake in Green
Environmental Technologies to 19.7% 02/14/2004 10:52 AM
Canadian Press Feb 14 2004 2:11PM GMT

One dead as two coaches collide

One dead as two coaches collide 01/27/2004 03:34 AM
One person dies and 41 are injured in a collision between two coaches on the Yorkshire Wolds.

Two cultures of fauxonomies collide...

Two cultures of fauxonomies collide... 06/05/2005 10:47 PM

There's been an enormous amount of good stuff around about tags and folksonomies recently, which I've not really had enough time to interrogate fully. One particularly interesting experiment has been the Cloudalicious service. Cloudalicious was apparently inspired by the Grafolicious service which tracks changes in the rate of bookmarking for any given URL as well as creating browsable interfaces for getting to grips with tags. Cloudalicious takes this one stage further - showing how the actual tags that people use to describe a given URL change over time. This blurry mess of semantic data is known as a 'Tag Cloud'.

But what do changes in a tag-cloud mean? Probably the most obvious underlying cause for a change in the words used to describe a site would be that the site itself has changed. You could probably use an analysis of the changing tag-cloud to get a handle on what's happening to the site. That's quite interesting.

After that - or alongside that - another underlying cause could be a change in the vocabulary around a subject. At a really grand level, if you can imagine a one hundred year tag-cloud around a gay novel, then it might start with lots of people using the tag invert, with this gradually giving way to homosexual, then gay and potentially after that, queer.

There's a really nice illustration of this on a weblog called P.S. which has a post called Tagclouds and cultural change. In it, there are a lot of illustrations of the take-up of the tag 'Ajax'. You could argue this one in a couple of ways - a new concept emerges and a weblog might change direction to deal with it. In that case it's just about the content changing. But for the most part the examples that the article uses are about specific unchanging individual articles, not whole weblogs. The vocabulary around the posts is changing, not the posts themselves. In the following graph from that article, Ajax is the pale blue line that - over time - becomes the tag of choice for the article in question:

But there's also a third potential cause for changes in a tag-cloud over time - that people might approach the very act of tagging differently - that their understanding of what they're doing might develop. This is a change in the nature of tagging itself. And this is what I want to talk about really briefly.

Matt Webb and I did a fair amount of work around tagging with a project called Phonetags that I never get time to properly write up. As we were working on it, we came to realise that each of us had a radically different understanding of what a tag was. Matt's concept was quite close to the way tagging is used in del.icio.us - with an individual the only person who could tag their stuff and with an understanding that the act of tagging was kind of an act of filing. My understanding was heavily influenced by Flickr's approach - which I think is radically different - you can tag other people's photos for a start, and you're clearly challenged to tag up a photo with any words that make sense to you. It's less of a filing model than an annotative one.

When I came to use del.icio.us I approached tagging in the way that made sense to me from Flickr. So any and all links were covered with loads of keywords with no thought for how they ought to clump together. I just tried to describe what the link was about in some way. Joshua and I had a bit of an argument about the way I was using it, actually. The browsing interface didn't really suit an approach that had an enormous number of orphaned tags. You can get a sense of how out of control it all got with this visualisation of my tags. At the end of the argument I said to Joshua that it was almost like he was treating tags as folders. And he replied, exasperated, that this was exactly what they were. It was just that now an object could exist comfortably in a number of folders so you didn't have to enforce an arbitrary heirarchy on your filing...

So two radically different forms of tagging that really share very little in common with one another - which leads to the question, is there room for two different paradigms here (at least) or will there be some refactoring and adaptation that moves us towards one or other model?

To help answer this question, here's a representation of the tag-clouds surrounding my weblog over time (you can see the original in context on Cloudalicious):

So this basically traces my weblog over the last year. Each coloured line represents a particular tag - its height on the graph indicating its 'weight' - how often it is used in relation to the other tags. Here's where it gets interesting - there's at least one really significant shift of emphasis that happens over the year, between the blue and the red lines. This really does look like an ongoing shift of emphasis in the community of people who have bookmarked my site. And here's the really interesting bit - the two tags are almost exactly the same. The blue one is blogs and the red one is blog. But why such a dramatic shift between the two tags?

Now of course, this is only one weblog and it's difficult to come to any significant conclusions based on one example like this. But we could use it to form a hypothesis for other more technical people to test elsewhere. So here is that hypothesis - that the shift from people using blogs to blog represents the increasing dominance of a Flickr-style paradigm of tagging. Imagine the process of annotating a weblog - if you tag it with 'blogs' it seems clear that you are adding it to a collection of some kind. 'Blogs' is clearly the name of a folder which houses links to weblogs rather than an attempt to describe the weblog itself. But tagging something with the term "blog" suggests quite the opposite - to tag a link 'blog' suggests that I'm attempting to describe the link not as belonging to a bin labelled 'blogs' but simply as a 'blog' in and of itself. It is my conjecture, therefore, that the folder metaphor is losing ground and the keyword one is currently assuming dominance.

To test if this theory is correct - to see if one model of tagging is becoming dominant over another - should be relatively simple. You could use tag-stemming to spot tags with common roots in popular URLs, and then look for significant changes in their proportionate usage over time. I'd be particularly interested in tags that described the format of the object on the page (article vs. articles, quiz vs. quizzes, searchengine vs. searchengines) rather than the subject (trees, nuclear fission, cats). If someone was to do this kind of research then I'd be delighted - because it's those kinds of studies and observances in user behaviour that allow us to design better interfaces to support these innovations.

IBM, Microsoft Collide on Collaboration

IBM, Microsoft Collide on Collaboration 02/05/2005 09:20 PM
Analysts say the battle could determine which vendor leads the markets for messaging, which Microsoft has traditionally led, and collaboration, which IBM has dominated.

when gadget bl0gs collide

when gadget bl0gs collide 03/08/2004 11:17 PM
the important thing, when entering a market with an established player, is having some sort of differentiation

Two Small Planes Collide in New Jersey
(AP)

Two Small Planes Collide in New Jersey
(AP) 08/07/2004 10:19 AM
AP - Two small planes collided Saturday morning in New Jersey, killing at least one person and sending one aircraft plunging into the back yard of a home.

Four Police Cars Collide During Exercise
(AP)

Four Police Cars Collide During Exercise
(AP) 09/22/2004 04:27 PM
AP - Don't give up the training. Traffic snarled for miles on a highway in northern England on Wednesday after four police cars collided with each other and blocked the road, apparently during a training exercise.

Logging and Politics Collide in Idaho

Logging and Politics Collide in Idaho 08/08/2004 09:17 PM
A Bush administration plan to overturn a Clinton-era ban on building roads in roadless areas is drawing the usual divisions.

When games collide with movie makers

When games collide with movie makers 07/03/2004 05:30 AM
The film industry is becoming more interested in gaming, says Daniel Etherington of BBC Collective.

Small Planes Collide in N.J., Killing 5
(AP)

Small Planes Collide in N.J., Killing 5
(AP) 08/07/2004 03:39 PM
AP - Two small planes collided Saturday morning in New Jersey, killing all people five aboard and sending one aircraft plunging into the back yard of a home.

Animation and mobile devices collide

Animation and mobile devices collide 02/05/2005 09:10 PM
Remember when you were a kid and you learned how to animate something? You took a notepad and slowly drew pictures on each page, then created a "flip book" that would animate the drawings until you ran out of paper. My favorite animation to draw was an Evel Knievel-type motorcycle jump over several cars that always ended in disaster.

Two Power Brokers Collide in Iraq

Two Power Brokers Collide in Iraq 08/21/2004 11:24 AM
Moktada al-Sadr has shown how a portly cleric with a dedicated militia and an artful grasp of Shiite street politics can confront American power.

Like Particles, 2 Houses of Physics
Collide

Like Particles, 2 Houses of Physics
Collide 01/22/2004 03:19 AM
A drama of two renowned laboratories played out at a conference in Oakland, Calif., over a puff of primordial matter with an otherworldly name: the quark-gluon plasma.

Charter Schools and Testing Collide

Charter Schools and Testing Collide 08/19/2004 03:19 PM
The education policy of the Bush administration is founded on two pillars: standardized testing and charter schools. However, as reported in this New York Times article (see also the audio archive at NPR or nonsubscription coverage at the Boston Globe) , the US Department of Education's own testing data show that nationwide, charter schools are, in aggregate, lagging their public counterparts.

Science, Politics Collide in Election
Year

Science, Politics Collide in Election
Year 08/17/2004 03:30 PM

Direct and Related Links for 'Science, Politics Collide in Election Year'

“With more than 4,000 scientists, including 48 Nobel Prize winners, having signed a statement opposing the Bush administration’s use of scientific advice, this election year is seeing a new development in the uneasy relationship between science and politics….

Two Trains Collide Near Amsterdam
Central Station

Two Trains Collide Near Amsterdam
Central Station 05/21/2004 01:04 PM
Reuters via Wired News May 21 2004 5:18PM GMT

Tour Bus, Pickup Truck Collide, Killing
1

Tour Bus, Pickup Truck Collide, Killing
1 01/04/2004 01:32 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 4 2004 0:37AM ET

Have you heard? It's in the stars, next
July we collide with Mars...

Have you heard? It's in the stars, next
July we collide with Mars... 01/01/2004 01:29 PM
A better 2004? A mixed look at what Indian and Chinese astrologers see for the new year. We're soon to move into the Chinese year of the monkey, a symbol of revolution, movement and changes... a year of more conflict and disharmony in international relationship but there are good chances of seeing new light and brighter future after struggles.
But on the brighter(ish) side, Stargazers agree that the coming 12 months cannot fare much worse than the seesaw ride that the world went through in 2003, dogged by war in Iraq, fluctuating financial markets and mysterious diseases.

Science, Politics Collide in Election
Year (AP)

Science, Politics Collide in Election
Year (AP) 08/14/2004 01:02 PM
AP - Last November, President Bush gave physicist Richard Garwin a medal for his "valuable scientific advice on important questions of national security." Just three months later, Garwin signed a statement condemning the Bush administration for misusing, suppressing and distorting scientific advice.

Two Trains Collide in NY During Morning
Commute (Reuters)

Two Trains Collide in NY During Morning
Commute (Reuters) 04/19/2004 08:25 AM
Reuters - At least 30 people were injured during their Monday morning commute when two trains collided in a tunnel near New York's Pennsylvania station, officials said.

Economy, Politics Collide for Bush Team
(washingtonpost.com)

Economy, Politics Collide for Bush Team
(washingtonpost.com) 08/07/2004 12:08 AM
washingtonpost.com - With job creation stalled, the stock market sliding and oil prices at record highs, a divided White House is under pressure to produce an economic policy response for President Bush's fall reelection campaign, Republican economic advisers said yesterday.

"The Way We Eat Now: Ancient bodies
collide with modern technology to
produce a flabby, disease-ridden
populace "

"The Way We Eat Now: Ancient bodies
collide with modern technology to
produce a flabby, disease-ridden
populace " 05/27/2004 09:08 PM

SharePoint Products and Technologies:
Integrating SharePoint Products and
Technologies and Microsoft Office
InfoPath 2003 Sample

SharePoint Products and Technologies:
Integrating SharePoint Products and
Technologies and Microsoft Office
InfoPath 2003 Sample 11/16/2003 11:48 PM
Use these sample files to create custom reporting forms. You can create individual and summary status reports using an InfoPath form library and a SharePoint site. These files include a custom template that provide customized views of the form library.

where skin porn and food porn collide

where skin porn and food porn collide 03/23/2005 10:09 AM

It's fun to use google and see what it returns when searching for 'sticky buns' as, well, the imagination is a poor substitute for reality. When food and skin porn collide it gets fairly ugly pretty quickly. Sticky buns are likely the source of inspiration for the Finnish bostonkakku which are served like a pie rather than the individual buns. One of the guys at work quipped that it is served this way because you can feed 20 instead of 8 people.

I figured that since I was making dallaspulla that I'd make the inspiration for texaspulla and bostonkakku so that my test subjects would know just what they had been missing all these years. :) The dough is a snap to make even without a mixer and is much easier to work with than the pulla dough. The only drawback is the time spent waiting for the dough to rise. With a four-day weekend approaching where absolutely nothing will be open and we'll likely have crappy weather given that it's a holiday, what could be better than making a pan of sticky buns and eating them instead of chocolate eggs? These are, by far, the best cinnamon rolls I've ever made and my test subjects consumed them in a shark chum feeding frenzy. Two guys even asked me for the recipe.

Sticky Buns, a.k.a. caramel rolls or cinnamon rolls

Makes: 12 sticky buns
Time: ~30 minutes prep, 3 hours for dough rising
Source: Cook's Illustrated

This recipe has four components: the dough that is shaped into buns, the filling that creates the swirl in the shaped buns, the caramel glaze that bakes in the bottom of the baking dish along with the buns, and the pecan topping that garnishes the buns once baked. Although the ingredient list may look long, note that many ingredients are repeated. Leftover sticky buns can be wrapped in foil or plastic wrap and refrigerated for up to 3 days, but they should be warmed through before serving. They reheat quickly in a microwave oven (for 2 buns, about 2 minutes at 50 percent power works well); they can also be put into a 325F/175C-degree oven for about 8 minutes.

Dough

• 3 large eggs at room temperature
• 3/4 cup buttermilk (2 dl piima) at room temperature
• 1/4 cup (.5 dl) granulated sugar 
• 1 1/4 teaspoons table salt 
• 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast  (1 packet sunnuntai dry yeast)
• 4 1/4 cups (10,5 dl) unbleached all-purpose flour, plus additional for dusting work surface
• 6 tablespoons (85g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled until warm

1. In bowl of standing mixer, whisk eggs; add buttermilk and whisk to combine.
2. Whisk in sugar, salt, and yeast.
3. Add about 2 cups (5 dl) flour and butter; stir with wooden spoon or rubber spatula until evenly moistened and combined.
4. Add all but about 1/4 cup (1/2 dl) remaining flour and knead with dough hook at low speed 5 minutes.
5. Check consistency of dough (dough should feel soft and moist but should not be wet and sticky; add more flour, if necessary); knead at low speed 5 minutes longer (dough should clear sides of bowl but stick to bottom).
6. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface; knead by hand about 1 minute to ensure that dough is uniform (dough should not stick to work surface during hand kneading; if it does stick, knead in additional flour 1 tablespoon at a time).
7. Lightly spray large bowl or plastic container with nonstick cooking spray. Transfer dough to bowl, spray dough lightly with cooking spray, then cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap.
8. Set in warm, draftfree spot until doubled in volume, 2 to 2 1/2 hours.

Caramel Glaze

• 6 tablespoons or 85g unsalted butter 
• 3/4 cup (1,75 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 3 tablespoons corn syrup, light or dark
• 2 tablespoons heavy cream 
• 1 pinch table salt 

1. Meanwhile, combine all ingredients for glaze in small saucepan.
2. Cook over medium heat, whisking occasionally, until butter is melted and mixture is thoroughly combined.
3. Pour mixture into nonstick metal 13- by 9-inch (33cm x 23cm) baking dish.
4. Using rubber spatula, spread mixture to cover surface of baking dish.
5. Set baking dish aside.

Cinnamon-Sugar Filling

• 3/4 cup (1,75 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 
• 1 pinch table salt 
• 1 tablespoon or 15g unsalted butter, melted
• Raisins (optional)

1. Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and salt in small bowl.
2. Mix with a fork until thoroughly combined, using fingers to break up sugar lumps.
3. Set aside.

To assemble and bake buns:

1. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface.
2. Gently shape dough into rough rectangle with long side nearest you.
3. Lightly flour dough and roll to 16-inch x 12-inch (40cm x 30cm) rectangle.
4. Brush dough with 1 tablespoon melted butter, leaving 1/2-inch border along top edge; with butter remaining on brush, brush sides of baking dish.
5. Sprinkle filling mixture over dough, leaving 3/4-inch border along top edge; smooth filling in even layer with your hand, then gently press mixture into dough to adhere. Add rasins if you desire.
6. Beginning with long edge nearest you, roll dough into taut cylinder.
7. Firmly pinch seam to seal and roll cylinder seam-side down.
8. Very gently stretch to cylinder of even diameter and 18-inch (45 cm) length; push ends in to create even thickness.
9. Using a serrated knife and gentle sawing motion, slice cylinder in half, then slice each half in half again to create evenly sized quarters.
10. Slice each quarter evenly into thirds, yielding 12 ~1.5 inch (3,75 cm) buns (end pieces may be slightly smaller).
11. Arrange buns cut-side down in prepared baking dish.
12. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and set in warm, draft-free spot until puffy and pressed against one another, about 1 hour.
13. Meanwhile, adjust oven rack to lowest position, place pizza stone (if using) on rack, and heat oven to 350F/175C degrees.
14. Place baking pan on pizza stone; bake until golden brown and center of dough registers about 180F/82C degrees on instant-read thermometer, 25 to 30 minutes.
15. Cool on wire rack 10 minutes; invert onto rimmed baking sheet, large rectangular platter, or cutting board.
16. With rubber spatula, scrape any glaze remaining in baking pan onto buns; let cool while making pecan topping.

Pecan Topping

• 3 tablespoons or 50g unsalted butter 
• 1/4 cup (.5 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 3 tablespoons corn syrup, light or dark
• 1 pinch table salt 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract  or vanilla sugar
• 3/4 cup (1,75 dl) pecans or walnuts, toasted in a skillet over medium heat until fragrant and browned, about 5 minutes, then cooled and coarsely chopped

1. Combine butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt in small saucepan and bring to simmer over medium heat, whisking occasionally to thoroughly combine.
2. Off heat, stir in vanilla and pecans until pecans are evenly coated.
3. Using soup spoon, pour heaping tablespoon of nuts and topping over center of each sticky bun.
4. Continue to cool until sticky buns are warm, 15 to 20 minutes.
5. Pull apart or use knife to cut apart sticky buns; serve.

Web Technologies

Web Technologies 05/09/2004 10:39 PM

Orient Technologies

Orient Technologies 01/05/2005 08:14 AM
Orient Technologies are releasing all sources in to SF's CVS

A9.com > Search Technologies

A9.com > Search Technologies 04/14/2004 05:22 PM
Possibly the most fashionable looking search engine ever: A9.com, by Amazon

a9.com
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i2 Technologies replaces CFO

i2 Technologies replaces CFO 12/15/2003 08:07 PM

3G Technologies Rev Up for Blitz

3G Technologies Rev Up for Blitz 12/26/2003 05:23 AM
Hankooki Dec 26 2003 4:41AM ET

Useful Dead Technologies

Useful Dead Technologies 02/01/2005 09:18 PM
As time progresses, we expect technology to progress as well. It doesn't always do so. Whether from corporate greed or corporate stupidity or just plain evil orneryness, some very good technologies have been allowed to die, usually being replaced by something vastly inferior and sometimes not being replaced at all. Listed here are some technologies that were very useful, but have become not more useful but less; or died off completely. These are good and useful technologies that have been superceded by less useful and usually very annoying technologies.

VhaYu Technologies

VhaYu Technologies 03/14/2005 04:20 PM
VhaYu Technologies
http://www.vhayu.com/index.asp

Vhayu delivers the fastest and easiest to use real-time software solutions to the world’s leading financial institutions for the capture and high speed analysis of massive amounts of streaming and historical data. The company's proven software solutions meet the needs of mission critical financial applications which rely on the fastest technology available to perform algorithmic trading, quantitative research, pre & post trade analytics, strategy development, real-time compliance, back testing and market sweeping for best execution. Vhayu’s products are linearly scalable, fault tolerant and cost effective. This has been added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Top 5 technologies that are perpetually
almost there

Top 5 technologies that are perpetually
almost there 03/13/2003 10:25 AM
Hungarian is the language of the future - and always will be. Top five technologies of the future - and...
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