World: r3wp

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.

Firefox beta 4, introduces tab Panorama - http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/designing-tab-candy/

REBOL makes it to the obscure language of the month list:

   http://www.devtopics.com/rebol-obscure-programming-language-of-the-month/

pretty accurate summary

the summary is just a copy of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REBOL

well, that explains why it's so good :-)

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9181918/Windows_DLL_exploits_boom_hackers_post_attacks_for_40_plus_apps

Some news about upcoming WebOS 2.0 release (now owned by HP) - http://www.precentral.net/webos-20-details-stacks-exhibition-just-type

remote facebook logout, this is cool.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20015482-245.html?tag=river

you can log out of facebook now?

you can logout a session running on another machine... remotely.


for example, you can lock out an iphone app which was logged on to 
your facebook account.

bassically, it de-activates the session key.  so that a new login 
process is required.  since you may have several sessions opened 
at any time, this is very nice, and should be available for ALL on-line 
sites.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/microsoft-windows-phone-7-is-most-thoroughly-tested-mobile-platform-ever-released/9590?tag=mantle_skin;content


You'd think zdnet would grammar/spell check their blogs

Yesterday Microsoft’s new mobile platform Windows Phone 7 hit the 
RTM milestone, and in the official announcement Microsoft was keen 
to stress how mush tested had gone into this new platform.

Mush.....may be a US journalistic meme:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mush_from_the_Wimp

...Huh, I skipped right over "mush" and saw that "tested" should 
be "testing"

Interesting link

Nice :-) http://www.osnews.com/story/23784/ARM_Unveils_Cortex-A15_Up_to_2_5Ghz_Quad-core

http://www.osnews.com/story/23785/Apple_Caves_Drops_Ban_on_iOS_Third-party_Development_Tools

Dunno why it is being considered a breaking news, but OSNews.com 
seems to be happy about Broadcom open-sourcing their drivers :-)


http://www.osnews.com/story/23786/BREAKING_BROADCOM_OPEN_SOURCES_WIRELESS_DRIVERS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geqip_0Vjec

Those quadrocopters are getting crazier by the week.

scary :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2bExqhhWRI&feature=related

two highlights of that "dog" are when it recuperates (in real time) 
when pushed sideways... the other is at the end... when it starts 
running and JUMPS over a 3 ft wide obstacle... look at how precisely 
its hind-legs land just beyond the obstacle... waiting for the proper 
balance to occur...

now THAT is downright scary

Maxim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc

Maxim, that's the old video - there's a new, improved robot now

wow Henrik - that one is so advanced!

Earlier prototype (unweaponised):
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntR12VcbeqE

henrik, hahaha

weaponized "bigdog"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptyV1cpE14o&feature=related

OMG it has a pup!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIipbi0cAVE&NR=1

IT is getting there.  With the copters, it means one day truly having 
"flying cars" because the control systems should be good enough they 
evoid "everything" but let you pick a place to "go".

funny, I am currently in brazil and there is a gyrocopter producer 
here near sao paulo which I will visit next week.
will try a ride... :-))

btw, does somebody has a advice for getting a helicopter license 
in the USA? 

found many in the net but would appreciate a local advice for the 
best location.

You "really" want to learn to fly a helictoper? It takes a lot of 
study, is time consuming, very hard to get time on a machine, expensive, 
and, THEN what?

Just asking...

like Rebol, somewhat...