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We're Virtually Rich!

We're Virtually Rich! 09/08/2004 06:10 PM

BlogShares - Gadgetopia: Our share price has gone through the roof at Blogshares. I have no idea why or how this happens, but an outgoing link from us is worth $25K these days. I think that's good.

Actually, this graph is a little misleading since it starts at $800, so the increase is actually about 25%, not the 500% it looks like. However, our total valuation looks good, though I haven't the first clue why, or why we peaked then fell a while back. If anyone knows the mechanics behind this, speak up.

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Wi-Fi changes virtually everything
(USATODAY.com)

Wi-Fi changes virtually everything
(USATODAY.com) 02/19/2004 11:23 AM
USATODAY.com - Watching football on TV doesn't cut it anymore for John Furrier and his son, Alec, 8.

Round Up: Virtually nowhere to go

Round Up: Virtually nowhere to go 04/23/2004 02:48 PM
newmediazero Apr 23 2004 6:26PM GMT

Desktop revolution virtually here

Desktop revolution virtually here 08/17/2004 03:53 AM
Computer Weekly Aug 17 2004 8:10AM GMT

Making money from virtually nothing

Making money from virtually nothing 01/19/2004 05:06 AM
BBC Jan 19 2004 9:04AM GMT

Treatment: Tricked Into Seeing,
Virtually

Treatment: Tricked Into Seeing,
Virtually 06/07/2004 09:57 PM
It is one of the odder effects of a stroke: Some patients become unable to see anything in one part of their visual fields, even though their visual circuitry seems intact.

Free Speech -- Virtually

Free Speech -- Virtually 12/19/2002 05:39 PM
Late last year, John Stanforth posted to his personal Web site a reminiscence about software he had developed for internal...

Play in a Top Orchestra, Virtually
(Reuters)

Play in a Top Orchestra, Virtually
(Reuters) 06/14/2004 09:59 AM
Reuters - Ever dreamed of playing in an orchestra? Well now you can and from the comfort of your own home or school.

spending cuts for virtually all agencies

spending cuts for virtually all agencies 05/30/2004 05:00 AM
slashing the federal budget .. lying about it .. less .. cut

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Virtual Server 2005 virtually done

Virtual Server 2005 virtually done 06/14/2004 12:55 PM
Microsoft releases a "release candidate," or almost final, version of the software.

Virtually Free for All in Utility
Computing

Virtually Free for All in Utility
Computing 07/02/2004 02:33 PM
Internet News Jul 2 2004 5:41PM GMT

Uninspired, wired and virtually hired

Uninspired, wired and virtually hired 07/08/2004 08:37 AM
globetechnology.com Jul 8 2004 1:25PM GMT

Virtually) At Your Data Network's
Service

Virtually) At Your Data Network's
Service 09/24/2004 05:34 PM
Internet News Sep 24 2004 8:55PM GMT

Drug Development is Virtually Dead

Drug Development is Virtually Dead 12/30/2004 09:07 AM
Technology Review Dec 30 2004 1:34PM GMT

Desktop Conference 2005 -- You're
Virtually There!

Desktop Conference 2005 -- You're
Virtually There! 02/01/2005 09:05 PM
Market Wire Jan 18 2005 6:27PM GMT

Recreating Historical Monuments,
Virtually

Recreating Historical Monuments,
Virtually 02/12/2004 02:16 PM
I'm sure similar projects are being worked on elsewhere, but it's nice to know that people are creating virtual replicas of historical monuments that let people "go back in time" at the click of a mouse. From the article, it sounds like the team in this case is paying great attention to detail, making sure that the representation is as accurate as possible. While not taking away from the value of actually visiting historical monuments, it would seem that this makes for a nice complement for people who want to compare what may have been with what's there today. Also, it allows people nowhere near these historical sites to check them out.

Online Church Tries To Virtually Smite
Blasphemers

Online Church Tries To Virtually Smite
Blasphemers 05/19/2004 01:14 PM
It's almost amazing it took this long. Last week, lots of people were talking about a new virtual online church set up by the Bishop of London, which let online worshipers set up 3D avatars and explore the virtual church. However, with such an open space, it didn't take long for people to login with the user name "Satan" and start preaching things that the church was unlikely to approve. Apparently, there are "cyberwardens" who have a "smite" button (I couldn't make this up if I tried), but they haven't been effective in keeping out the troublemakers. To deal with it, they've been trying to make it more difficult for the e-blasphemers to communicate with others. They've turned off a function that would let people announce things to everyone in the church and have kept visitors off the virtual pulpits. They're also looking for more people to hand the virtual smite button to (which doesn't seem particularly worthy of the "love thy neighbor" philosophy, but that's besides the point...), which only means the e-blasphemers will be trying their best to get their hands on the smite button as well. How long until they take over the church?

Briefly: Virtual Server 2005 virtually
done

Briefly: Virtual Server 2005 virtually
done 06/14/2004 12:55 PM
roundup Plus: Netegrity updates provisioning tools...RealNetworks, Starz launch movie service...The Body Shop buys HP gear.

Yahoo Defines Virtually Unlimited As 2
Gigs

Yahoo Defines Virtually Unlimited As 2
Gigs 06/15/2004 03:32 AM
Last month, Yahoo responded to Google's Gmail by saying they would offer 100 megs of email for free and virtual ly unlimited storage to those who paid. We wondered how they defined virtually unlimited and now we know. It turns out that, according to Yahoo, vi rtually unlimited is 2 gigs at $20. Doesn't seem all that unlimited, but Yahoo is clearly counting on the press to focus on how two gigs tops the one gig of Google. So far, that's exactly what the press is doing. Most seem to brush over the fact that Yahoo's 2 gigs cost money while Google's 1 gig is free. Anyway, the one thing made clear by all of this: online storage space is (once again) a commodity. While some think that's a bad thing, it really means that there are a ton of new possibilities for services to be built around tons of free online storage. Understand ing commoditization is critical for any tech company these days - and recognizing when something becomes a commodity is the first step. Next up is figuring out how to use that to your advantage.

Armstrong Virtually Wraps Up Tour Title
(AP)

Armstrong Virtually Wraps Up Tour Title
(AP) 07/24/2004 11:32 PM
AP - Lance Armstrong capped his most dominant Tour de France with a crushing win in the final time trial Saturday, all but guaranteeing him a place in history as the first six-time winner of the 101-year-old race.

The Observer | Business | A newspaper
virtually all over the planet

The Observer | Business | A newspaper
virtually all over the planet 07/26/2004 02:34 PM
A Newspaper Virtually All Over the Planet .. Guardian Discovers, um, Web .. leitura "on-line"

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Virtually immersed: The life and times
of an online gamer

Virtually immersed: The life and times
of an online gamer 12/29/2004 03:22 AM
Article.wn.com - Tue Dec 28, 12:07 pm GMT

Google Expanding Gmail Storage: Wants To
Make It Virtually Limitless

Google Expanding Gmail Storage: Wants To
Make It Virtually Limitless 04/01/2005 02:05 AM
It was exactly a year ago that Google launch ed their Gmail service shocking many into believing it was an April Fool's joke, because it offered so much more service than anyone else. The company even made it difficult to delete messages within Gmail, claiming that 1 gig would last a lifetime. Well, apparently some people used up that lifetime supply much faster than Google expected. Just days after Yah oo caught up to offer 1 gig of storage, Google is doubling Gmail's storage to 2 gigs, which sounds like the beginning of a storage war (instead of a price war). However, one of the statements in the article is a bit odd. It suggests Google is going to keep increasing the amount of storage allowed every day, so that it really is somewhat limitless. It's not clear then, why they don't just get rid of all limits on Gmail -- or just rever t back to last year's glitch where some people thought they had 1 terrabyte of Gmail storage. At least all of my spam will have plenty of room to stretch its legs now.

Brand New Universal Remote Control Turns
Off Virtually any Television - Anywhere

Brand New Universal Remote Control Turns
Off Virtually any Television - Anywhere 03/28/2005 03:39 AM
A Brand New "Universal Remote Control that can turn off Virtually any Television in the world" is now available online from http://hopkinsgifts.tripod.com/news.htm . [PRWEB Mar 28, 2005]

Iran conundrum Breaking codes is
virtually impossible, experts believe

Iran conundrum Breaking codes is
virtually impossible, experts believe 06/15/2004 11:54 AM
BBC Jun 15 2004 4:05PM GMT

An Education in Flexibility: Gateway
Notebook-to-Tablet PCs Enhance Learning
Virtually Anywhere on Campus at W

An Education in Flexibility: Gateway
Notebook-to-Tablet PCs Enhance Learning
Virtually Anywhere on Campus at W 03/27/2005 05:50 AM
Frontline Mar 27 2005 9:42AM GMT

Super Universal US, Asian & European
Remote Control Turns Off Virtually any
Television - Anywhere

Super Universal US, Asian & European
Remote Control Turns Off Virtually any
Television - Anywhere 03/24/2005 04:27 AM
A Brand New "Super Universal US, Asian & European Remote Control that can turn off Virtually any Television in the world" is now available online from Los Angeles internet company. [PRWEB Mar 24, 2005]

ETech come-down...

ETech come-down... 02/13/2004 08:03 PM

Right then. Emerging Tech is over and everyone's heads are full and we've all got a little bit of a hangover from last night celebrations and socialising. I'm now back in Los Angeles, having taken the train up from San Diego with the lovely Phil and Anno. The train journey was filled with little aggravating child noises and I was sitting in the wrong direction so arrive in LA feeling queasy and dizzy. The train goes so close to the Ocean that it's almost impossible not to want to sacrifice all future working ambitions, get out at any convenient station and run giggling into the water with warm sand between your toes. Manfully, I have resisted.

I fly back to the UK on Sunday evening - arriving back sometime around early lunchtime on Monday. I think I'm going to have to make an appeal for a long weekend off work to try and digest everything that's been going on and make sense of it. I think my understanding of the event is even more blurry this year than last. In the meantime posting is likely to be more erratic than usual...

Loïc's Etech report

Loïc's Etech report 02/12/2004 03:20 PM

"No one owns who my friends are". Great FOAF session today. Dan Brickley who created FOAF, gave a good overview of what it is and how it is used.
I enjoyed the idea of dating on phones via bluetooth and FOAF.

This way you can date somebody who is in the same room, same restaurant, immediately, with the same interests as you... Great stuff.

Marc and Eric also OF COURSE showed People Aggregator. I really like the idea of linking the friends I have in Orkut with the friends I have in Linked In, with the friends I have in ...

I am not sure these networks will agree to share their databases with you (or anybody else), Marc, but let's see what happens. I agree on the fact that if we all own our own identity on a FOAF file, it is better than having to fill-it in in 10 different networks...

Also saw a demo of NewsMonster, it is an RSS reader that supports FOAF. Nice work, John. "There is too many social networks. You do not own my data, I do. "

John is also working on "Exportster", which is a plugin that should be ready within a month. Its goal is to be able to export the data from the different networks and sync them.

"We export the data from social networks and sync them all, so that there is one macro level FOAF file, in order to have a unified data model."

Tribe also announced that they support FOAF.

Greg Elin showed fotonotes.net that is coordinating a semantic photo project which is exploring the issues combining FOAF and RDF for photos, impressive.

Marc Powell talked briefly about Indyvoter.org, "injecting the virus of political dialogue into online social networks", also supporting FOAF. [Loïc Le Meur's WebLog]

BTW What my hands are trying to convey are the two dots over Loïc's letter i.  :-)

More fun with etech audio

More fun with etech audio 03/19/2005 03:04 AM

Ev gave an amazing demo of Odeo. That thing is going to be as big (or bigger) than Flickr, I'm sure of it.

Here's the whole talk as a ogg file (my mp3 export in audacity refuses to work) and some photos of the screens on my feed (lots more I'll upload later).

Danny and Merlin's lifehacks talk was good too, here's the whole thing as an ogg file as well.

Links from Day 3 of ETech

Links from Day 3 of ETech 03/19/2005 02:33 AM
This is a dump of lnks of interest to me that come up during talks during the third day at Etech. Newest at top. An Intimate History of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin Matt Webb says this is one of his favorite books from 2004.

Links from Day 2 of ETech

Links from Day 2 of ETech 03/17/2005 03:25 AM
This is a dump of lnks of interest to me that come up during talks during the second day at Etech. Newest at top. Late start because I was running in the AM. Ta-da Lists Really simple to-do list management. Cory Doctorow's notes Cory's notes from James Surowiecki's talk, "Independent Individuals and Wise Crowds, or Is It Possible to Be Too Connected?" The SchoolTool Project "SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence." Instiki "Instiki is a Wiki Clone (What is a wiki?) that’s so easy to set up and so pretty to look at, you’ll be wondering whether this is a real wiki at all...Instiki only relies on Ruby—no Apache, no MySQL, or other dependencies(yay!). Instiki runs on Windows, Linux, OSX, and any other platform where Ruby does." Dodgeball "A service which aims to coordinate social interactions between mobile users" Pac-Manhattan "Pac-Manhattan is a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980's video game sensation Pac-Man. This analog version of Pac-man is being developed in NYU's Interactive Telecommunications graduate program, in order to explore what happens when games are removed from their 'little world' of tabletops, televisions and computers and placed in the larger 'real world' of street corners, and cities."

Etech Notes

Etech Notes 03/17/2005 03:37 AM
Transcribed two sessions: Wikipedia and the Future of Social Computing (video snip) Tags and Folksonomies Panel...

Etech Bound

Etech Bound 03/14/2005 06:25 PM
Headed to my third Etech next week.  I'll only be there for part of it, so drop me a note if you want to meet....

Links from Day 1 of Etech

Links from Day 1 of Etech 03/17/2005 03:25 AM
This is a dump of lnks of interest to me that come up during talks during the first day at Etech. Newest at top. Citizen journalism, one-handed department "There has been so much debate over whether bloggers are journalists, the real issue has been obscured: are IRC chatters journalists? Mr. Sun has done some careful investigation and found that the IRC conversation logged below preceded the supposed revolutionizing of journalism by bloggers." Totally unrelated to the conference, but a funny reminder that I don't read Mr. Sun enough. Ten Hour Takeover "Ten Hour Takeover is your chance to choose the music Radio 1 plays." The BBC asked listeners to send a text message song request. Ten hours of music totally driven by the listening public. Awesome. "Average UK adult listens to 24 hours of radio a week" according to Paul in the presentation, BBC Programme Information Pages: An Architecture for an On-Demand World. Wow. That's amazing. For comparison, I found this document about American teenage radio habits stating that US young adults agee 12-17 listen to an average of 13.5 hours of radio a week. Maybe it's because we've got more Clear Channel and they've got Radio 1? Cory's notes from George Dyson's talk Dyson's talk on "Von Neumann's Universe" was one of my favorites so far, and makes me want to take a field trip to Princeton to visit the Institute for Advanced Study. Near Near Future A blog from a woman who's, "currently working as a new media consultant for a multimedia and virtual reality park in Turin." I like the way she's got her categories displayed across the top of the page, using a larger font to display categories with more posts. pasta and vinegar "A blog by nicolas nova about pasta (human computer interaction, innovation, technologies, futuristic trends, location based services, mobile computing, user-centric stuff, video game design) and vinegar (digital culture and various weird stuff)." The real digital divide (The Economist) "Encouraging the spread of mobile phones is the most sensible and effective response to the digital divide" (The above link is not from the conference, I read this on the plane and it's very interesting, I recommend the whole Technology Quarterly in the March 12th-18th The Economist. A lot of what I read in it feels relevant to what I'm thinking about and hearing at ETech.) Google Sets "Automatically create sets of items from a few examples." Here's an example with peanut butter & jelly. Tech Buzz Game "The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends." applied minds, inc. Danny Hillis is talking about walking dinosaur that's electrically driven and fully articulated and all kinds of amazing robots that I'll find links for and pictures of later, I want to listen now. Flickr Graph "Flickr Graph is an application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com." Flickrfox "flickrfox is an extension for Firefox (version 1.0) that lets you browse your Flickr photostreams in a sidebar." Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager looks really cool but doesn't seem to work in Firefox. It graphs the popularity of baby names over time.

Google at ETech

Google at ETech 03/11/2003 11:38 PM
This is interesting. I'm not sure what to make of it, but apparently Google is a platinum sponsor at the 2003 Emerging Technology Conference. Hm. Amazon.com, ADC, and Macromedia are also on the list. A few of the sponsors have speakers on the list of featured speakers. It looks like Google's Craig Silverstein is giving a keynote. I haven't decided if I want to try and go this year. The conference will be during a very busy time for me....

[etech] From the Labs

[etech] From the Labs 03/17/2005 03:00 AM
Fifteen minute presentations on what's going on in labs... Rick Rashid, Microsoft Labs. "SenseCam" is a wearable recorder, presumably part of MyLifeBits, the Gordon Bell project. He takes us under the hood. E.g., they wait for stability to take a photo in order to avoid blurriness. "The ultimate blogging tool," he says [if you've confused blogging with living]. He says there are 12 operational units so far. They're building a new generation: Smaller, GPS, continuous audio. He also talks about "surface computing" that lets you manipuate images on a surface. [It's very similar to a concept video Bruce Tognazzini did...

You say Etech, we say Etcon, Etech,
Etcon. Etcon, Etech.

You say Etech, we say Etcon, Etech,
Etcon. Etcon, Etech. 02/01/2005 09:56 PM
The Early Bird discounts for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference run out on Monday. So hurry hurry hurry, and I'll get the first round in come March 14-17. There's a considerable amount of coolness on the program, and to balance...

[etech] iRobot

[etech] iRobot 02/10/2004 02:48 PM
Helen Greiner, iRobot president and cofounder, is giving a commercial. She shows an ad. She tells us her company is hot. She tells us that her company's robotic vacuums (Roombas) pick up more dirt than conventional vacuums and cost less than the competitors. The only topic of technical interest she touches on is how Roombas escape from tricky areas of houses. In her demo of the vacuum, she actually sprinkles crumbs on the floor, like every door-to-door vacuum sales person in history. Oy veh. Vacuum robots are just the tip of the iceberg, she says. [Let's hope so.] The...
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