Archive for March 13th, 2008
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
New York Philharmonic Plays North Korea – online rebroadcast
Great UI, absolutely terrible buffering! I’m on a T-1 at my office (about 10 people share the line), and it’s jittery and jumbled to the max. But…see the concert here. Looks like they sourced the digital playback from a company called Permission TV.
1 Comment » - Posted in Piano Wire by Eric Porres
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Ideablob & Launchbox
Ideablob is a pretty interesting site, brought to you by Advanta (the bank). It is a place to submit ideas (inventions, new product lines, etc.) to potentially win $10K (contest expires 3/31) to help them grow, and adds a social layer wherein visitors can vote on ideas they like, and there is an advisory panel [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Things that make me go "hmmm" by Eric Porres
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Interesting Semantic Web article from The Times Online (London)
“The semantic web is the term used by the computer and internet industry to describe the next phase of the web’s development, and essentially involves building web-based connectivity into any piece of data — not just a web page — so that it can “communicate” with other information. Whereas the existing web is a collection [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Marketing,Things that make me go "hmmm" by Eric Porres
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Skywalker Last Supper Painting Made With 69,550 Star Wars Frames
Pretty cool (link here). The algorithm used to assemble the mosaic came out of Matlab, from the The Mathworks, one of our (Underscore’s) clients.
