2006 April 10

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 Clint Higley from Playmotion about what the company can do today and what’s available in the not too distant future when we can all marry Sharon Stone in our own personal movie.

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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:

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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 weeks into it when Doc recorded history. Which is bigger: my tag or my ass? I don't have any “recent” photos of me; I'll wait until I hit my target weight to begin side-by-side comparisons. I don't wanna be a fat Fluckr anymore.

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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 KeepVid – which enables you to download videos from Google, YouTube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion, and others. Now, if only terabyte hard drives were more readily available! Which reminds me, I've really gotta order that new computer. Tomorrow, I plan on downloading the Internets. If I don't have enough space, I'll have to convince everybody to stop uploading videos for me to download. I'll encourage them to make funny comics like If 24 Was Real or The Search for Spock.

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