Allegedly the Philips DesXcape is a detachable 15″ monitor that connects to a host computer via WiFi. There’s some muttering about it running WinCE to connect to the host desktop, but I wonder if it can stream video and stuff. This could be what we’re looking for in terms of a wireless monitor (though only […]

WhatsUpNYC, a new service that SMSs or emails you when something you’d be interested in is happening. Currently only available in NYC, and still in beta. They also post all the events on their events blog. WhatsUpStanford, anyone?
What’s Up New York (WUNY) alerts you to select smart events in New York City. We are a […]

Vodafone has a very cool flash demo of the future. Play around, it’s like a virtual world.

I thought this program sounded cool…any thoughts?!

Editing documents in groups can be a challenge. Versioning systems like cvs or subversion can help your group to keep a consistent copy of your document, but don’t go that extra mile. Wouldn’t it be great to edit the same document, live, in realtime, together with everyone in your […]

Does anybody know of any really cool, stable, open-source photo album packages for a website? I’m working on prototyping the Groups@Stanford site, and was looking for that piece. Do you have any other suggestions for open-source or relatively cheap technologies to use in other parts of the site?

SOCA is near and dear to my heart. Site is nicely designed and updated by Jonathan Lipps…the sql database is essential to SOCA’s collecting of applicaitons every year for An Art Affair. It is also used for raffling off tixs to SOCA in the City.
It’s hosted offsite and folks are redirected […]

If you remember the Lego Master Builder Competition that I mentioned here before, you’ll enjoy this article on the Lego Master Builder contest winners.
On Thursday, the finalists were walked through LegoLand and told that on Friday, they’d be given a tub of 4,000 Legos with which to craft something they’d see on their tour. But […]

Good brainstorm tonight on what programming/stuff would help student groups innovate in the Blender. Here’s the whiteboard of ideas.

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But of course, Microsoft had to jump on the bandwagon. I am currently beta testing the new MSN Toolbar — it seems awfully weak in comparison to my Google toolbar.

Here is a little more about it:
With the MSN Toolbar, you can search the Internet from any Web page. The toolbar is part of MSN […]

Fusedspace is a competition to innovate physical spaces–perhaps the E@S screens or the Blender would qualify? Hard to tell, I can’t use the site in my Apple browser…
Fusedspace calls for innovative ideas that, by means of existing technology, can change or improve our current relationship with physical public space or that can otherwise bring about […]