Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Adobe launched Photoshop Express beta today. It’s a very “flashy” web-based consumer-oriented photo editing product. It integrates it’s own album sharing feature, and links directly to Photobucket, Facebook, and Picasa. The features are pretty basic - certainly not what I’d call a slimmed-down Photoshop. The flash interface is terrific. Simply rolling over editing options automatically [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
This comes from MIT professor John Maeda . He’s also the author of the book The Laws of Simplicity
Tags: John-Maeda, MIT, Simplicity
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Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
The interweb never ceases to amaze me. This blog is dedicated to the garbage left on New york City streets every day. What a great concept! Each day, Americans fill up 63,000 garbage trucks.
I can’t say I’m much better - although most of our garbage goes to recycling - it’s [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Granted today by the USPTO, patent #7,349,830 describes a patent granted to Microsoft for Weather Profiling. And you thought global warming was going to be bad:
Sleet driver not found.
A problem has caused The Sun to stop Shining correctly. Windows will close the sun and notify you if a solution is available. Ok?
You may be a [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
As a kid I was a geeky audiophile. No speakers were ever large enough. No amplifier had enough RMS watts. No preamp had enough signal to noise. I dreamt of those large reel to reel tape machines, but lived on an 8-track budget.
Fast forward to 2008 where “hi-fidelity” is a nostalgic [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Forget everything you learned on Dragon’s Den and come hear the truth about VC financing. EventBrite is hosting a VC Roundtable event in Ottawa on April 16th. Featured speaker is Rick Segal - VC with JL Albright, SuperBlogger, and the man who brought us Chapters Online!
The event is free, located in [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Long ago… if you were able to remove the label from a beer bottle - intact, it either proved you were a virgin, or brought you “sexual luck”. With Oxford Landing’s new labels, removing them won’t be as tricky! The idea behind the tear-away tabs is you’ll be able to remember [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Jobe Roberts
Burning Man 2007 - Apocalypse Stagecoach
According to the Whois lookup results from InterNIC it is said that God.org will expire on Saturday May 24 2008! For those of you who are not prepared for the world to end in less than 65 days, you might be relieved to hear that God.net will keep [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
The USPTO published a patent application from Apple today describing a “three-dimensional display system.” Pretty soon that Meatloaf video on your ipod will scream out at ya like a 3-D bat out of hell!
According to Apple:
Recent developments in computers and computer graphics have made spatial 3D images more practical and accessible. The [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
The Dow’s VentureSource released this report yesterday stating that US investment in web 2.0 companies grew 88% in 2007 over 2006 to $1.43 billion. It warns investors that investment in this sector may have peaked because the total number of deals only increased by 25%. DJ also expresses a concern that Facebook [...]
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