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Future display driver? This is one small little PC. Antelope Technologie

Events at Stanford is actually cool. I was out of town for a couple days, came back and there were my Events at Stanford RSS feeds chock full of cool upcoming events that I really want to check out. Of course RSS feeds aren’t available to the public yet, but they’re awesome.
Way to go […]

A few of us discussed an idea like this not too long ago. I’d like to see Stanford get one of these! Ananova - Plan for ‘window on the world’ attraction (via Smartmobs)

Tufts Portal

20Oct03

Courtney Young (previous E@S project manager at U. Comm.) says hi from Harvard.
She passed on the link to another calendar/portal implementation at Tufts Background Info here
They deliver portal content to PDA’s and cell phones as well. Notice the “related links” feature when you click on an event. Pretty cool…
“TuftsLife.com is a […]

THE SOURCE

19Oct03

Back in the day we defined the Events at Stanford mission statement as “Creating THE SOURCE of event information at Stanford.” When I ran across the following quote yesterday, that statement jumped into my head. We haven’t achieved it yet, but we need to keep working in that direction.
From Richard Saul Wurman’s Information Anxiety 2.
“I’m […]

I’d like to give the prize to Terry Winograd for being the earliest of early adopters. I sent him an email at 11:20pm inviting him to become a calendar administrator and by 11:26 he had completed the process.
Way to go Terry!

Everybody in the south isn’t backwards!

IP + 802.11 = Bad News For Phone Companies

(Via Slashdot)

LazyWeb

08Oct03

OpenP2P.com: LazyWeb and RSS: Given Enough Eyeballs, Are Features Shallow Too? [Jan. 07, 2003]
The original formulation was “If you wait long enough, someone will write/build/design what you were thinking about.” But it is coming to mean “I describe a feature I think should exist in hopes that someone else will code it.”

Now you can get information about the concert you’re experiencing via a PDA. Scott, will the next Art Affair feature this technology? How could this generalize to events? What kind of metadata could you provide to add value to events? NPR : A Digital Companion for Concert Fans

I think it’s a great day when a news service with no reporters or editors or even fiction writers on its payroll can win a Webby award for Best News Service. Of course, it’s our friend Google News. This just further points out the fact that it’s those who make the information accessible who add […]


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