The Future Hasn’t Arrived Yet
I came across an old blog post of mine that caused a double-take. The post, titled “One-Screen Access to Your Life” isn’t about Netvibes or another Web 2.0 application, but cites a story at the New York Times from November 2002. Yale computer scientist David Gelernter is glad that the Microsoft trial is behind us, ...
Mobisodes
In “Pocket-size screen’s new rules”, Laura M. Holson writes: Mobisodes are more popular among teenagers in Europe and Asia, largely because the advanced technology in use there makes it easier for them to be viewed. And much of the original video programming now being produced is short and derived from youth-oriented television properties. It seems ...
eHub Needs Your Opinion
[Update: This post is left up for historical reasons. Since the date of this post, Charlie and I have emailed and we called a truce in the comments below. This is a non-issue now.] This morning I was checking my inbound links and came across a post, “I’m Off eHubwatch“, by Charlie O’Donnell of Union ...
Cactus Friends
One of my favorite new character designs is cactus girl from tokidoki, a series of art, t-shirts and accessories by Italian artist Simone Legno. I’m pleased to see he’s launching cool new vinyl toys next month – cactus friends (shown above). Tokidoki means “sometimes” in Japanese and cactus girl certainly exemplifies that attitude – cute ...
eHub Interviews at the Speed of Web 2.0
eHub has been thrilled to hear from so many of the creators of web 2.0 applications, services, and sites. There are already twenty live eHub Interviews including: BlinkList, CafeSpot, CentralDesktop, CiteULike, Codase, ColorBlender, CommunityWalk, elfURL, eyeOS, fileNice, goowy, Kiko, MapStats, Netvibes, Openomy, PageBites, Plazes, Protopage, Voo2do, and Writely. Check daily for new interviews!
I Love Giant Robot
Our new t-shirts from Giant Robot SF (Max’s is 2K and mine’s Gamma-Go).
eHub turns One (Month)
eHub turns one month old today. Read the blog post, a Statistical Month in Review.
A Statistical Month in Review
Today is the one month birthday of eHub. I started blogging here at emilychang.com on September 3. A week later, I made eHub as a resource to keep up with the rapid-fire development of new web apps, services, and social trends that I had already been following with a keen eye. I’ll post thoughts about ...
RoboSapien
Oh yes, please. I’ll take a RoboSapien v2 (around $229 USD)! RoboSapien is a toy-like biomorphic robot designed by Mark Tilden and produced by Wow Wee toys. The RoboSapien is preprogrammed with moves, and also can be controlled infrared by the included remote control, by a personal computer with the help of an infrared transmitter, ...
Medicine Eat Station
I’ve been a vegetarian for more than ten years now so of course, I was excited to try the new-shojin food at Medicine Eat Station. The minimalistic, all vegetarian dishes date back 500 years to the traditions of Shojin monks. Medicine Eat Station, San Francisco. The food was extremely fresh, with little seasoning, showcasing the ...
eHub Interviews Translated into Japanese
Thanks to Ryutaro Kamitsu, select eHub Interviews will be translated into Japanese. Ryutaro plans to translate eHub Interviews Netvibes, Kiko, and Writely, and has already translated eHub Interviews Protopage in Japanese. The English version of eHub Interviews Protopage was just launched on October 5, 2005.
Kevin Kelly: Out of Control
Though it was written more than ten years ago, this caught my attention and seemed particularly relevant again. From Kevin Kelly’s Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World. As we make our machines and institutions more complex, we have to make them more biological in order to manage ...
eHub on Digg
eHub pops onto Digg with over 540 diggs and traffic quadruples on eHub’s server. Thanks Diggers!
eHub makes PubSub Top 100 Sites
eHub makes PubSub Top 100 Sites by Daily LinkRank. LinkRanks is PubSub’s method of measuring the strength, persistence, and vitality of links appearing in over 16 million sources that PubSub monitors. See eHub’s rank on October 2, 2005.
eHub Makes Daypop Top 40
eHub shoots to the number 5 spot on Daypop’s Top 40 for October 2 and 3. The Daypop Top 40 is a list of links that are currently popular with webloggers from around the world.
eHub Interviews Launches
eHub Interviews launches featuring four interviews with creators of web 2.0 applications, including Writely, Protopage, CommunityWalk, CentralDesktop. New interviews will be launching daily at eHub Interviews. Stay tuned for interviews with Netvibes, last.fm, Kiko, Findory, Blinklist, Meta, Openomy, Prodigem, Fundable, Mappr, SiteVista, NetworthIQ, SWiK, eyeOS, Listal, LibraryThing, CommonTimes, Slawesome, CampaignMonitor, Filenice, voo2doo, Feedmarker, Delineate, MapStats, ...
eHub Interviews to Launch the Week of Web 2.0
eHub Interviews, a series of email interviews with the creators of Web 2.0 applications and services, will launch this week (October 3-8, 2005) as part of the unofficial Web 2.0 week here in San Francisco.1 With over 150 web applications and services in eHub (and growing every day), we felt it was time to hear ...