There are a bunch of videos from the D conference now up and among those, a seven part “series” from an interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, lots of good things in there, fun to see them interacting together and skirting some questions while looking back on an industry that they largely built. Too bad there were two interviewers and the woman, whatever her name is, was horrible. Mossberg isn’t too bad.
(There’s also an highlight reel)
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Startup Search tracks Web startups, their products, key employees, investment firms, and investment partners. Startup Search also tracks the success of each product since it was first introduced to the world, using publicly available metrics pulled into a single page. It’s a research tool, a discovery engine, and a fact-filled directory of our little Web startup world. I’ll walk through a few features.—Startup Search: tracking the web startup ecosystem
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Google has released a browser plug-in called Gears, which enables people to use web apps while offline. The technology behind the plug-in gives developers the ability to implement offline functionality into their browser-based web apps. Gears is an open source collaboration between Google, Adobe, Mozilla, and Opera.—Google Gears in Context Browser Gets a Boost From Google
Constant Bowing
It’s pretty sickening to see how our government keeps bowing to US pressures in various fields, sometimes seemingly without even bothering to confirm facts and analyze the situation. The media isn’t being helpful by “reporting” based on talking points by the plaintifs, only a few people seem to really follow such issues, in this case Michael Geist following the supposed camcording and pirating of movies where Canada is being blamed for insane percentages with no actual proof—actually all the proof is contrary to that—and where Harper is now answering with new legislation.
I know pressure accounts heavily in such decisions and not just ideas and what’s right but I have to mention something that comes up for me on pretty much all country and province directions; stop looking at the fucking US for guidance and comparison!! They lead virtually nothing these days! Look at scandinavian countries, at asia. Basing legal decisions and policy directions on backward looking uninventive consumer fighting corporations is not the way to make those decisions.
(Same kind of argument for the environment, same for health services, etc.)
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Another fantastic visualization by Stamen, Trulia Hindsight is a map with various zoomed areas where you can see the evolution of cities and properties there, really well done, like all their stuff.
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MIcrosoft will be coming out—end of year, for business partners only—with Surface which looks to be like a fantastic platform. You’ll forgive me if I’m highly sceptical of when it ships and of how much of the demos will be shipped at that time but still, looks awesome. The next move is yours Steve, table/touch iMac at $2500 later this year? ;)
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So, I submit for your review, editing and clarification, a new draft of what rights we, as consumers, might demand from companies making hay off the data we create as we trip across the web.—The Data Bill of Rights
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I did not expect this one: despite ongoing rumors that Viacom would snap up the music site for a massive $450 million, CBS will announce today the acquisition of Last.fm for $280 million, according to an unverified source. The aim is to attract young people to the CBS brand.—WOW: CBS Acquires Last.fm for $280 Million
Wikis in Plain English
From the people who brought us the excellent RSS in plain english comes Wikis in plain english. Very well made and worth a look. However, I think their tools are getting a bit too mixed and matched, the RSS was superb with all the “throwing” of pages but this one, although still very smart, seems to use too many elements. I wish they’d covered CamelCase too. Still, nice overview.
Google Street Level View
Consider me floored. This is mad. Google now has street level “3D” photography for some cities, I played around San Francisco. Looking down the street from here you can almost see the apartment we stayed at last March, 3-4 houses after the first trees. You can even use the arrows to turn around.
- Here’s the cafe I went to a couple of times, to the right is the parc I had my last lunch at.
- Citizen Space is here,
- Here’s Adaptive Path where I went to the 6th anniversary party, the taco truck was just on the left edge there.
- Frog Design is in that building
- Here’s the Apple Store on Market.
- First breakfast of the trip was here
Impressive.
(via cfd)
