This morning, Jen and I were playing with MyHeritage.com‘s facial recognition system. Here you can see the MyHeritage system found Jen’s face and someone lurking in the bushes. Who could it be hiding in the Belgian forest? Perhaps British mathematician, logician, and cryptographer Alan Turing? Maybe, star of television’s Baywatch and Knight Rider, David Hasselhoff …
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First Crack 76. Paying Attention with J Wynia
Back from SXSW 2006, J Wynia and I grabbed a morning tea and talked about: Using email clients for reading and managing RSS feeds J’s Windows Attention Recorder and Edison Thomaz’ OnLife and the AttentionTrust Recorder Comparing technology adoption to the ebb and flow of tides The ethics and benefits of attention recording Some thoughts …
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Making Jonathan Coulton Videos – Minnesota’s Winter Pasttime
A 10th Grade class in Sobriety High down the street in Edina made a video for Jonathan Coulton’s ‘Mandelbrot Set’. Aside from being a brilliant project, making videos for JC is a an excellent way to get through Minnesota winters. I should know.
We’ve Got To Start Somewhere
“I’m going to fine you $1 every time you write the word ‘consumer’ instead of customer!” – Ben McConnell
You are a Dynamic Inventor
So says, My Personal DNA Report.
Amazing Race Season 9 – Episode 4
Deutsche Bahn…I have such fond memories of the DB. Like the time I caught a trip from Hamburg to Hannover on St. Niklaus Day – and the conductor’s passed out apples w/the DB logo grown into them. Ahhh, German hospitality. Wall of Death Jen, “Can I do it?” No argument here. “Awe, you don’t get …
9 More SXSW 2006 Selections
Vile Lives by The ArmSimple, rock. Just the way I like it. Goodbye Daily Sadness by Cruiserweight Punk, rock, chix. East Side by BenkoHardcore Dork Rock. Hanging Around by Gemma HayesA little country, a pretty voice. One of a million just like her, doesn’t change that I just like her. Broaden a New Sound by …
We Are All Silos
Another day, another MacLeod (the word I’m using to describe my heavy-handed, Hugh MacLeod-inspired imagery). How many login/password combinations are you (or your browsers) remembering? Aside from the security issues inherent in having multiple keys around the web, each login/pass is another barrier to adoption, integration, usability, and usefulness. Customers are the silo, not publishers …
Back to Basics 2.0
I predict the next internet-enabled application to capture our imagination will have no AJAX, Flash, what-have-you. It will be so minimal, so basic, so straight-forward, it’ll make Google.com’s interface feel complicated. On a related note: “Here’s betting that ‘Web 2.0’ is what we’ll call the next crash.” – Doc Searls
Time to Mothball WishRSS – RSS Feeds Standard for Amazon Wishlists
A while back, I played around with Amazon’s ECommerce Services to spin out RSS feeds for wishlists – the result was the highly flakey and slow WishRSS. Today, Amazon announced RSS feed for wishlists exists by default. Yea! Now I can cross a rebuild of WishRSS off my list of Things To Do. Nice. Gotta …
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