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What if you accessed the web to create, edit and share your documents, Well Writely had the same idea and Google has just acquired them to further illustrate the fact that it’s a sound concept :
Take a look at Writely while waiting for them to properly integrate Google
Ipifini, Inc. has created a bottle where you choose what flavour the drink will have by selecting the appropriate button on the package. The packaging product found it’s source in the science fiction writer Jeff Noon’s 1997 book Solace : “I love the idea of the soft drink that can be turned into any kind of flavour you want. Why doesn’t somebody make this happen?”
Wired has published a nice little article that has images and a slideshow available to see the different images of what Apple’s Operating System and other software has looked like over the years :
Enjoy !
I’ve been reading a lot recently about the ‘Web 2.0′, and how getting people to participate and create, is the future. Wikipedia is often cited as an example. The recent study that has flared up in the magazine Nature’s face is interesting in this matter. It is for me an indication that saying everything should be open as if trying to find some parallel with the words Open Source is just not feasible as a model.
Letting anybody post anything, anywhere and expecting people to respect one another and be accurate in all they say is pretty utopian. The will to get rid of all structure and process that is inherent to professional structures in order to get things done faster sounds nice but is just far too simplistic in the real (and virtual) world.
An article from the Herald Tribune, offers an interesting read about the effect the proposed legislation that France’s government is in the process of voting. I’ve read some articles from some wannabe tech sites that go for full blown insults about France or the French, but as this article explains the move is being closely watched by other governments. The article also explains that the ‘if you do that we’ll leave” concept that the sites I referred to seem to gloat about is highly unlikely. Well insulting a country and it’s people because you feel large corporations should be able to do what they want isn’t a initial sign of great intellectual fortitude…
Read the article on the Herald Tribune
Addition (09 Apr 06) : Just came across this very interesting article that explains how Steve Jobs when interviewed several years ago put forward the idea that “If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own.” Also on the same very interesting blog there is an article that discusses the real implication of the removal of DRM rights and the fact that contrary to common Mac fans beliefs, the removal of the ipod DRM system may incite people to in vest in an interoperable and more open system ! Certainly go and take a look at this blog it is full of interesting articles 
Take a look at this experimental game from Jenova Chen that was done for thesis work and is a very interesting piece of work (In My Humble Opinion) :
Flow In Games
Once you have read how to play click on Play “flOw”
Bravo on the design and the concept !
This is a demo of how you can create boxes, in this case news feeds, and let the user define where the boxes are placed on the screen. i really like the way the boxes have highlighted areas that you can move them to. Letting users place them anywhere at all just seems a bit silly but this way you can give them a heads up on where they can be placed :
Draggable Boxes Demo
It is furthermore explained here in detail :
How To Do It Details
Just had a peak at the software on offer from SeriousMagic that enables you to start you own Video Log. On your way to stardom with your own broadcasting channel straight from your own PC
The video presentation sure makes it look easy :
Vlog It Presentation
Go take a look !
I you often get media files in formats that you can read but that it would be easier to transfer them into another format for your non-techy friends then this ‘little’ tool may be pretty useful to you :
MediaCoder – The universal audio/video transcoder
It boasts the following :
Supported Inputs:
MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AAC+/Parametric Stereo, AMR NB/WB, MusePack, WMA, RealAudio
FLAC, WavPack, Monkey’s Audio (APE, APL), OptimFrog, WMA Lossless, WAV
H.264, Xvid, DivX 4/5, MPEG 1/2/4, H.263, 3ivx, RealVideo, Windows Media Video 7/8/9, DV
AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, RealMedia, ASF/WMV, Quicktime MOV, OGM
CD, VCD, DVD, CUE Sheets
Supported Outputs:
MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AAC+/Parametric Stereo, AMR NB/WB, MusePack, WMA
FLAC, WavPack, Monkey’s Audio (APE, APL), OptimFrog, WMA Lossless, WAV
H.264, Xvid, DivX 4/5, MPEG 1/2/4, H.263, Flash Video, etc.
AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, PMP (PSP Media Player?Format)
So for people like me it is pretty close to being the universal remote transcoder 
I just read this sentence in the MediaGuardian Week-end briefing (via email). Several times actually, thinking now what does that mean and then and how did that happen over the Internet. Obviously my brain was not quite switched on but hey still pretty weird thing to read !
“Cult film fans bitten by Snakes on a Plane via internet” was referring to an article on page 11 of ‘The Daily Telegraph’ about some wacky film that was expected to tank and Internet fans plus buzz about it got the whole thing flying on back (excuse the pun).
The lead actor is Samuel L Jackson an ‘FBI agent’ that has to save ‘the witness’ from ‘the assassin’ who decides that 500 snakes on a plane should do his job nicely. Jackson is quoted to have said “I didn’t even read the script. It just saw it and it said Snakes on a Plane and I said, ‘OK, good. I’m there’.” :
Read the article (on The Daily Telegraph)
Along with reading that on page 20 of the ‘Sunday Express’ that there is an article explaining how : “Fans rally for statue of Benny Hill”, we’re not in April yet are we ?
Oh and have a nice day !
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