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Silverlight 2 Release soon

October 13, 2008

Silverlight 2 will be released within the next 24 hours.  I’ve been working with it since day one earlier last year and I’m very excited for the Silverlight team to have reached this major milestone.  Congratulations! Highlights of new Silverlight 2 features include the following: .NET Framework support with a rich base class library. This [...]

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Sprout

October 13, 2008

I’ve been playing around with Sprout today. It’s a web based Flash widget building tool.   My favorite part about it is the Components service.  This little tool bar provides loads of easy to build functionality in to my widget.  The widget above was build using the RSS reader.  All I did was supply the feed [...]

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I heart my new cup

October 9, 2008

I heart my new cup Originally uploaded by futileboy This is my new favorite travel mug. It’s a double wall ceramic cup with a silicone lid. Most important of all it’s dishwasher and microwave safe. I’ve always liked the New York coffee mug that Graham made, but I really always wanted a lid.

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Rick & Noah talk economics

October 8, 2008

Great blog post on the Barbarian Group site titled Baudrillard, Economics and the  Death of Reality.  I feel like I’ve become a lot smarter about our country’s economic systems in the last few weeks.  Be sure to read Rick’s comments as well.  If you haven’t heard it yet be sure to check out the two [...]

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dark detecting circuit for your jack-o’-lantern

October 8, 2008

I found this nice and simple little LED project for your jack o’ lantern over at the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories blog. There design uses a darkness detecting LED circuit to automatically light up the eyes at night I think this is just the sort of weekend project I’ve been looking for.  I might try [...]

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customized chumby

October 6, 2008

DSC09695.JPG Originally uploaded by Sara Antoinette Martin I like the idea of replacing the fabric to create a custom chumby look. Check out the other pics in her flickr pool of the custom job.

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What is Web 2.0

September 26, 2008

I’m working a little preso to help explain what Web 2.0 is all about. This is my first version, and I’m working updating it but I wanted to share my “beta” version. Web 2.0 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: 2.0 web)

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Tonchidot

September 25, 2008

Real world tagging with the iPhone using Tonchidot. Simply amazing!

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Ubiquity for Firefox

September 25, 2008

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. he overall goals of Ubiquity are to explore how best to: Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.) Enable on-demand, user-generated mashups with existing open Web [...]

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Building Personal Brand

September 23, 2008

Here’s Gary Vaynerchuck‘s keynote speach from the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC last week. I had a chance to meet Gary in the speakers lounge while he was preparing for his speech below. Super nice guy, who is really excited about his work and the industry. I was lucky enough to attend the Wine 2.0 [...]

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