Posted in etech07, miscellaneous on 29 March, 2007 | No Comments »
Today just a few pictures from the Make: Fest at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology conference 2007 (etech2007). The ‘fest’ was not that big, but there were some cool projects. Especially the 3D projects were awesome, all hacked together with fairly little resources and normal parts. Great stuff.
Here are also some pictures from the hotels I’ve been [...]
Posted in etech07, interaction design on 28 March, 2007 | No Comments »
OK, the title of this talk was a bit on the vague side, but it did turn out to be very inspiring. The bottom line was how to keep complex systems usable.
Charles Armstrong took stage for the first part. His point was about making ’sociomimetic’ systems easier to use. Sociomimetic stands for mirroring social behavioural [...]
Posted in etech07, future, innovation, software development on 28 March, 2007 | No Comments »
In a way I’m a bit disappointed by the talk of Jeff Hawkins on Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM). But, I guess, it’s my own fault as well. Already I read his book (On Intelligence), read up on the NuPIC platform and played around with the demo application. So what can you expect from a 45 [...]
Posted in delicious on 27 March, 2007 | No Comments »
Like a moth to the Freebase flame « Jon Udell
The point Jon Udell makes is exactly the weakness that was exposed on Etech2007. Robert Cook (freebase) gave a presentation about what freebase could be. THE problem with the whole idea is that they do not know yet how they are going to tackle a user [...]
Posted in etech07, future, innovation on 27 March, 2007 | No Comments »
Another part of the ‘briefing’ today was about how web 2.0 and wallstreet are related. Seems like a far stretch, but actually wallstreet turns out to be fairly connected (yes, that is an understatement). Nowadays trading takes place within (a) millisecond(s), and no that is not overstating it.
Peter Bloom and Bill Janeway took a seat [...]
Posted in etech07, future, innovation on 26 March, 2007 | No Comments »
The first part of the O’Reilly Radar Executive Briefing mainly dealt with the way manufacturing of hardware is changing. It started off with a talk about the Make: magazine with the editor and publisher Dale Dougherty. Basically what is happening is that a some people like to hack hardware to make new things. This could [...]
Posted in delicious on 26 March, 2007 | 1 Comment »
RFIDIOt.org - RFID IO tools
Something that might become handy some day. Information about RFID readers, and a python script to read them.
(tags: rfid python tools mifare cards identification)
Posted in etech07, miscellaneous on 26 March, 2007 | 1 Comment »
After a long day of travelling (Düsseldorf - Atlanta - San Diego) I arrived in San Diego saturday night. After a quick bite and a look at the view from my room, it was time to sleep some jetlag away. (It turned out that there is no need to worry about anything, there are three [...]
Posted in delicious on 24 March, 2007 | No Comments »
Tabblo bought by HP
Interesting, this might be the first major ‘django’ company that has been bought by a big corporation. Tabblo is a really cool application, curious to see how HP will market it.
(tags: tabblo django hp web2.0 photography)
Posted in delicious on 22 March, 2007 | No Comments »
Creating a CSS layout from scratch : Subcide
(tags: css)
