Archive for March, 2004

Can everyone please click on this link to test the groups@stanford layout, and comment if something funny happens? Thanks. I have to ask since my Apple Safari browser doesn’t work anymore and there are plenty of other browsers that might be out there too.
Final GroupsATStanford prototype?

This is cool…  By feeding PieSpy (a tool for visualizing IRC social networks) the texts of Shakespeare’s plays, you can get a visual representation of the interactions of various characters.  And it actually seems pretty accurate, based on my limited knowledge of Shakespeare…
http://lister.linux-srv.anlx.net/shakespeare (via Slashdot)

If you think Google News is cool, check out Topix - News organized by topic and location (XML, too)
If you think Google Local Search is cool, check out Yahoos! new SmartView. Just go to Maps on Yahoo! and enter a location — then you get a wonderful map with areas of interest highlighted with […]

More cool blender furniture:
http://www.memoryfoamfactory.com/everyday_comfort.html

Blenderblogs

06Mar04

As you probably know Josh, Bob and I were designing/hacking away on the Blender blogs last Friday. Our plan is to have one blog for each group and then group called the Blend (for now) that will basically an aggregation of all these other blogs, so that people can see what everyone else is doing.
In […]

Ok, there’s not much more I can say about this…Wavemarket…it’s epic, it uses cell phones to both recommend things to you and to allow you to rate and recommend things to others. It’s a company based in Emeryville, and we should use them. Or beat them. Something…
Oh, and they use maps…

So, once again, I have been contacted to help develop a new non-profit directed at seniors and aging called Smart Silvers Alliance — whose mission is to advocate for technologies that will allow the aging population to live safely and independently longer in their homes as they age. This will eventually be directed toward […]

Hi guys, I thought you would be interested to learn that the first IM company is now expanding into the social networking area. Will be interesting to see how/whether they will leverage the advantage of being client and peer based vs. the Orkuts and Friendsters of the world.
Here is the link to the article

Amazon & RSS

03Mar04

For all those Amazon fans out there… They just rolled out a whole list of RSS feeds for categories… Check them out at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/xs/syndicate.html/103-3496998-6955033
(from Robert Scoble)

Could potentially use something like this for some of our high-profile installs. The NEC LCD3000 (30″) is still over $4k.
30″ LCD Sale, Mar 3
Last day. Dell Home has a $400 off coupon good on their 30″ LCD W3000 TV 1280×768, DVI, Code: 5410C872D91E Exp 3/3
$2799 - $400 coupon = $2399 shipped free.


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