Mash-up the Web
While the term mash-up has its roots in hip hop culture, the web mash-up seems a natural evolution of our need to customize and our love of hacks. (See an earlier post on creating “clever solutions to an interesting problem.”) In Sampling the Web’s Best Mash-Ups, Business Week provides “a guided tour of the some ...
Mac Mini
Smaller is better. The new Mac Mini is lighter and thinner than my firewire drive.
Well-behaved women seldom make history
Received email from misbehaving yesterday and I’m proud to be listed among many of the most influential women in technology today. misbehaving.net is a weblog about women and technology. It’s a celebration of women’s contributions to computing; a place to spotlight women’s contributions as well point out new opportunities and challenges for women in the ...
Happy 10 Years
It’s hard to believe it’s already been 10 years for the commercial web! All you kids out there (that’s all of you 13 year olds that are signing up for livejournal at lightening speed) that think the internet has always been around, get this – when you were three, the commercial web was only just ...
Ajax the Web
In his essay, Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications, Jesse James Garrett articulates a new use of several existing technologies – XHTML, CSS, DOM, XML, and Javascript, which, when used together as an “Ajax engine” could change the nature of web applications. By moving to asynchronous patterns of delivery, the whole paradigm of a ...
It’s an electrolumniscent world after all
I’m a nut for anything illuminated (eg. my sculptures circa 1999) so this is definitely something I can relate to… “Illuminated Handbags. Ladies, suppose that your handbag featured a “cool, gentle light” inside, so you could see where everything was—wouldn’t that be great? Of course it would, and the good news, reports Thaddeus Herrick in ...
Kid robots jogging
Newscasters seemed to be mocking Sony’s child-shaped walking robot that can now jog. Personally, I think it’s amazing that the robot can now actually jump and lift itself off the ground. Sony shows off jogging robot A small step for a Sony robot could turn out to be a giant leap for robotkind. Sony has ...