Archive Apr 10, 2006
Clint Higley on Playmotion
What geek doesn’t dream of something like Star Trek’s Holodeck or the downloadable training programs available to citizens in the movie version of Total Recall? Playmotion is working to bring these sci-fi fantasies to life with exciting overlaps between the physical world and a virtual world orchestrated by Playmotion Environments. At SXSW Ponzi talked with [...]
IE7 UI is Probably Going to Suck
Here's the problem with Daniel Glazman's IE7b2 UI report: he's spot-on. Major “ouches” to Microsoft. I didn't want to agree with him, given that he hasn't quite developed a killer experience in NVU – but he's really right, and it's really sad: In terms of UI, this IE 7 beta 2 certainly does not feel [...]
Flickr Helped me Lose Weight
Indirectly, that is. With more people uploading their Pirillo snapshots onto the Web, I've become a lot more self-conscious about my appearance. I cringed when I saw this snapshot of me (with Nancy White out of focus in the foreground). “Oh my god. I'm turning into Chunk from The Goonies.” I was a couple of [...]
I Download Videos
Sometimes you just wanna save an unsaveable video to your hard drive. Perhaps you thought it was funny, poignant, or… just needed to fill up space. Problem is: few of the more popular video download services make it simple for you to grab the media files (no matter the format). I just found out about [...]
