World: r3wp

Doc: it was much worse in Italy. costed like 2x that, when they opened 
it it was basically empty, and then they realized it was the most 
useless thing.

Jolicloud  - netbook UI based on Ubuntu + HTML 5 .... nice looking 
design ....


http://digitizor.com/2010/07/17/jolicloud-1-0-brings-a-new-html5-interface/

I looked at that, including a demo. The interface doesn't have an 
obvious way to switch between running applications or tell which 
applications are running. And it *does* have multiple running applications. 
It looks semi-pretty (with the exception of the WinXP Luna colors) 
but not very usable.

wow a nice XP skin for the ipad, running web applications.... 

yes I'm being ironic  ;-)

it even has loads of "spy on my friends" apps  yay!     not!  :-0

for the ipad
 - it's not very touch-friendly either; better use a mouse.

Now this is cool: http://www.flipboard.com/

http://scobleizer.com/2010/07/20/exclusive-first-look-at-revolutionary-social-news-ipad-app-flipboard/

Yes, now I see why geeks hate the iPad. They didn't think of this 
app. :-)

Finally something usefull for typing on touch based devices :-) http://www.blindtype.com/

whatabout us touch typists??

I see Tan Le's mind mapping interface is going to make typing redundant 
soon ...

it does not seem powerful enough to replacy typing... but, it would 
be interesting to have that device on while you type / user the mouse 
and let the computer "learn" and see how much it can predict. if 
you also process what's coming from the camera and microphone maybe 
we can get something useful. probably needs much faster computers 
to do all that though.

*replace

Hard to say from such a short demo, but it's very impressive ...

Likely you'd do something similar to speech recognition and select 
words off the screen using the interface

well here they know where you typed... so they are mapping different 
info than phonemes.  the apparent random letters aren't random at 
all.

http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26

Hacking your device to make it do what you want is now legal.

this is great news indeed... it may even provide some level of prior-art 
for the anti-trust case against Apple's iOS4.. (I wish!).

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/fraunhofer-fit-touch-free-gesture-control-for-multiple-users-vi/

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/interpads-10-inch-tegra-2-toting-android-tablet-may-make-german/

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/07/26/2344203/OpenGL-41-Specification-Announced

blindtype sort of like swype?

looks like it's even more forgiving of how you "type"

and in BlindType it seems you do individual character presses

There's a local guy here named Barnaby Jack who showed on Black Hat 
how to remote break in to a cash dispensing machine ... overwrite 
the OS, and to start dispensing out cash!

Seems they allow remote login to change graphics, get reports etc, 
and this is a poorly protected vector

Wow... I'd rebuild it so it shows that people have no more money 
in their account  ;-)

he was going to talk about this in Black Hat last year but the banks 
asked him to wait till they had some more security in place!

He actually bought a cash machine off the internet .. .so he could 
examine it.  When the delivery guy came to deliver it, he asked Jack 
why on earth he was buying a cash machine for his home.  Jack replied 
that he wanted to avoid paying bank fees!

Google axes Wave: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html

Not surprising ...

But as I recall you could still run your own servers if you wanted 
to continue using it

The thing I liked the most was "spelly"

Wave was just too geeky for most users

yes, the UI was too hard, even if the concept is "brilliant".

I don't think the UI was hard at all. My parents were able to use 
it without any problems (and they can't even rename a folder on their 
PCs), my sister had no trouble (and she's not much better than my 
parents with computers) and a friend of mine who is reeeeallly bad 
with computers (like, worst case scenario) figured everything out 
pretty much on her own (and she doesn't understand a word of english). 
I think the much bigger issues here were that people always tried 
to compare it to vastly different things (Skype, Facebook, Twitter, 
etc.) which made them completely oblivious to it's potential. It 
was also maybe hard to see the potential because third party adoption 
was really low. I think there are two reasons for the low adoption. 
For one, there was no real incentive for a developer to write an 
extension for Google because there were no real solutions to easily 
make money with Wave (an app store could have helped here, which 
Google planned to do at one point but never did). The other is something 
I don't understand at all, the API documentation. It's horrible. 
You have to look up everything in the source code because the docs 
tell you next to nothing. This hasn't improved at all over time and 
it's a shame because writing an extension for Wave is actually very, 
very easy and it allows you to do stuff that just wasn't possible 
before Wave unless yo spend a 100 times more time on it to get all 
the necessary behind the scenes stuff working.

I think I didn't get the concept... looked to fragmented to me.

Christoph, and I will suggest that what would have made it "magical" 
were simply a form of skin, but a little deeper in the form of a 
template.


This way, as an example, you could select a template for your "group" 
called "Soccer moms", and it would show you a calendar, a bunch of 
"starter threads", and a scratchpad, for example.
The engine was all there for this.


You could tweak your templates, and share them with others, which 
could be rated.

Well at least there are individuals and companies already saying 
that they will continue developing Wave so it isn't dead, it's only 
Google that gave up on it. One company completely integrated Wave 
into Outlook for example. I always thought it would be much nicer 
to have Wave running in a native application.

It was open source ... so you could host your own servers

http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4c48ab9e7f8b9ab179ad0100/chart-of-the-day-msft-operating-income-q2-2010.gif

Isn't red usually bad?

And so it's in this chart as well I guess.

http://www.savegooglewave.com/#save-wave

seems to be down

http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2010/08/opensolaris-is-now-officially-dead-rip/

leaked memo .. so unofficially dead!

makes you wonder if mysql is next ...

I wonder if this would have happened if Google had used oracle as 
their primary database engine

Looks like the ability to sue Google was one of the things Sun was 
selling to Oracle http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/the_shit_finally_hits_the

http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/30824

John Carmack still has the touch. Demo of Rage on an iPhone 4.