Larry Page (one of the two Google founders, and a Stanford grad) is coming to Stanford on Thursday to give a talk–5pm in TCSeq200. Come and hear him speak (the talk shouldn’t be too technically intense), and get free pizza!

Jaron Lanier’s coming on Friday the 13th…. prepare to have your mind blown. Just missed Genevieve Bell, Intel’s social anthropologist of technology. Check out the video of her talk. Come on Terry, post to E@S.

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

Stumbled upon the Fry’s clone here in Taiwan (or probably more realistically, the Fry’s inspiration). I feel right at home. Just like Fry’s only 1) more jam packed with stuff that’s made here anyway so 2) the prices are better and 3) you can negotiate (which is especially fun when you don’t know […]

Hey Team –
I hope everyone is enjoying their Winter Break. However, if you are stuck in an airport en route to somewhere exotic or are tired of viewing your Family Guy DVDs, and you just happen to be perusing the ISIS Blog, you might find this Washington Post article about Apple’s iPod as enjoyable […]

It’s about time to take another look at flash. While alpha geeks at the last O’Reilly ETCon threw around the buzzword “Rich Internet Applications” which are basically database driven flash apps, the problem was that the backend was all proprietary Macromedia stuff. Now amfphp provides an open source alternative for flash remoting. We could do […]

I already now have a reputation as a jargon-junkie (calcify, adhocracies, philosophistry)…
well, here’s more… javant-garde, entreprenerd, Sand Hill road kill, schleptop.

ON INTENSITY
An intense center of work is a function of having intense people. Intense people cannot be borne in a workplace — they have to start out that way. Having a common overall goal indeed helps, but the former condition is necessary.
Constructive, intense people find rewards for progress within themselves, not from the outside. They […]

Just search for anything in normal Amazon search, and your results list will include quotes from books where your search string is found…
Easy access to vast database of info. Impressive.

This is so cool:
http://www.mailinator.com/mailinator/Welcome.do
Basically, any time you need an email address, but don’t want to give out your real one (think signing up for a website that requires confirmation, or meeting someone at a party… ;-) ), you just give them a mailinator address (make it up as you go). Then it’s like […]