Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Video: 1h Blogumentary

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Have a look at this one hour documentary on blogs…

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Humor: Art Lebedev Eraser

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Russian design studio Art Lebedev is offering a palm-size eraser that is shaped like a Delete key on a computer keyboard. About USD 8…

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Time: Visualize the Blogosphere

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Swedish company PrimeLabs is providing a new screen-saver called “Twingly” that visualizes worldwide RSS feeds on a globe in real time…

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NASA: World Wind 1.4 released

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NASA has released a new version of their virtual globe software called World Wind. Also called by users of the software the “Google Earth killer”, this release brings many new features that are not available in other globe software packages. Besides being able to fly-over the Moon and Mars, the software also allows to layer additional images from other servers over the surface of the globes. Other new features include a timer to simulate and synchronized the Sun’s position when using Sun Shading, to create time lapsed or reverse running movies, a WMS Importer and an Anaglyph 3D mode to see World Wind in true 3D with Red/Blue-glasses that are often given away for free…

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Video: Web 2.0 explained

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Kansas State University Professor “Michael Wesch” has made the second draft of his video available online that provides a flyover from early HTML to Web 2.0 in less than 5 minutes. Great work…The video is also online at “mojiti.com” were you can write your comments directly into the video itself…

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Research: Unveiling the Quantum Computer

There were quite some stories going around the last days regarding Canadian company D-Wave and their presentation in the Silicon Valley yesterday. If you want to learn more about it: ABC News has a two page story about it. Rose.blog (D-Wave) also has more detailed info and links. There is a Press Release at the [...]