The New York times is reporting that Google has filed a patent for floating data centers, ostensibly in order to bring the centers closer to certain geographic areas where it is not reasonable or cost effective to build them on land. I don’t know about you, but that seems to be a pretty niche market [...]
Category Archives: Borderline_GEEK
Techcrunch 50 - rich media vs meatspace.
September 8, 2008 – 8:23 pm
I won’t say much about this here since it’s covered in detail elsewhere, but for those of you who haven’t heard, a lot of new startups are demo-ing today at Techcrunch 50. The social media stream has really come together on this one, with a ton of great coverage online. Check out the livestream here [...]
Twistori tracks Apple keynote
June 9, 2008 – 11:15 am
For when live blogging just isn’t fast enough, Twistori is offering up real–time twitter tracking for several key terms related to the Apple keynote address taking place later today. Real time goodness, all wrapped in a very attractive auto-updating interface. What’s not to love? Check it out here.
Since this is a Twitter-dependent service, any bet [...]
TED talks: Robert Ballard
May 27, 2008 – 5:15 pm
The Technology, Entertainment, Design conference has a wealth of great talks on it’s website, and I hope to highlight some of the most fascinating of them in the coming months (though really, most all of them are mind-bendingly interesting).
The talks are short, sweet and extremely educational. My first pick is this talk by Robert Ballard. [...]
Seesmic: a New Kind of conversation
May 22, 2008 – 1:50 am
Over the last few days I have been checking out Seesmic, a new asynchronous video chat utility. At first, I was extremely skeptical about it or it’s usefulness, after all, video chat has been around for a long time and I’ve somehow managed fine without it. (In fact, I avoid it with a passion) The [...]
Top Five Real-Life Ironman Projects
May 14, 2008 – 5:22 pm
Film is rich with the kind of cross-pollination between science and art that inspires really great ideas. There is nothing more fascinating than digging up the grains of truth behind movie fantasies. I can’t say to what extent, if any these re-life projects have taken inspiration from the cinema, but one thing is [...]
Updated: Ping.FM Tutorial
May 12, 2008 – 1:19 am
For those that haven’t heard, Ping.fm is a great tool that allows you to post to multiple Social networks and Blog services at once. So instead of say, updating your Facebook status, then logging in to Twitter and updating there you can do it all at once. (and more, but we will get [...]
Twitter and Friend Sourcing: a Proposal
April 24, 2008 – 5:42 pm
Your TwitterBase
I recently read a post by Mark and Sean Evans over on their blog talking about Twitter. They touched on something that I’ve been hearing and thinking a bit about lately, but defined it in a particularly succinct manner:
“Twitter has accomplished want nobody, not even Google, has yet to figure out - [...]
Fuzz of the Week: OpenGL
April 20, 2008 – 1:05 am
Fuzz of the week is a weekly column where I give a shout out to a company or product that deserves some recognition. My pick for this week is OpenGL. For those of you that don’t know OpenGL is an application programming interface (API) for graphics applications. OpenGL got an early start back in [...]
The Fear of Free Part 2: Overcoming Objections.
April 16, 2008 – 1:14 pm
Last week we introduced the topic of open-source or “free” products in the corporate environment, and this week we are going to identify and address some of the reason for resistance when it comes to adopting free solutions in a business environment and how to overcome them.
