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The Uncanny Valley

July 21, 2006

I find the concept of the uncanny valley very interesting. Having worked with 3D modeling and design, I’ve watched the work of people much more talented then myself create human like characters. I never knew there was a name for it before, but I’ve felt the instinctual feelings that something was wrong with the person [...]

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Antitagging

March 28, 2006

Antitagging Originally uploaded by futileboy. Anti tagging or untagging or negatagging or my favorite taxnotomy. I want to emplement a system of tagging that allows me to describe what something is not. I think this would be very useful on flickr. For example a picture of a cup of coffee is not tea. Here’s a [...]

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What’s up with Brightcove?

December 28, 2005

Welcome to Brightcove Here’s what I found so far: The founder Jeremy Allaire is smart guy. He was one of the creators of Cold Fusion. He also created Homesite which became part of the very successful Dreamweaver application produced by Macromedia. What Brightcove is doing: Creating an open standards based software application that will be [...]

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