Archive for February, 2004

We discussed at tonight’s meeting ideas for things to go into the Blender…so let’s start a thread to continue that discussion. Post your ideas as comments! Basically, we wanted to come up with ideas for items and other things to go into the Blender space for fun/useful purposes/randomosity…
My ideas:
* a ball pit (a […]

Might be a good addition to isis.stanford.edu…Stanford Report Article on the Blender:
The space has been designed through the efforts of the Office of Student Activities, ISIS, the Associated Students and Tresidder Meeting Services. These spaces became available when Information Technology Systems and Services and Continuing Studies vacated the second and third floors of the Nitery.

Greg Reinacker’s linking to an extension for NewsGator (the RSS Outlook plugin) that takes advantage of the Event Share Framework (ESF) to share event information.
Where have I heard these lines before?

Recently, the need to share event information between entities has dramatically increased. Individuals desire to aggregate, publish and distribute event information in many locations, […]

Hey everyone,
I’ve been posting here lately, please let me know if this is the correct place to blog thoughts, or is there elsewhere that’s THE place to blog.
Apologies for not being able to attend tonight’s meeting about the Blender at the Space. Please do not take my poor meeting attendance as a sign […]

Just ran across this website today, Technology Research News. There are lots of articles on display technologies, usability and way far-out research stuff. Fun for the technophile.

Simple Rotate

21Feb04

Simple Rotate, a little plugin for iMovie that supposedly does some movie rotation. We should check this out for the E@S screen pipeline.
via Boing Boing

Parents Weekend

21Feb04

Parents Weekend is coming up this weekend and I’m wondering if there’s anything we’d like to prototype with a whole lot of visitors to campus. Anybody have any ideas? Is E@S traffic way up?

More a community photo posting site than anything, but with a very talented group of photographers and a search engine to find the best pics. You have to create an account to download photos, but these could be very useful for marketing/video/image creation purposes.
Check it out here: Stock Photo Exchange

Though he calls it being “snared by a gimmick“, Adam Greenfield, a prominent web designer and critic, found a location-aware LCD screen “compelling”:
Drawing, no doubt, on the cab’s current GPS coordinates, cross-referenced against the advertiser’s database, the message was “Stop by the nearest BankBrand ATM @ 35th and Madison!”…And you know what? I found it […]

HBS Working Knowledge: Done Deals: John Doerr
Interesting insights on Doerr’s hit companies from the guy himself. What a track record (although I’m sure there are a few misses along the way). This site has a lot of other good reads, and plenty of business mumbo jumbo in between.


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