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Archive for May, 2007

you can touch this

Posted by maz on May 30th, 2007

This week Microsoft announced it’s “Surface Computer Milan”. [youtube zFliDRSaV3k nolink] It’s an acrylic table that’s 22 inches high, with a 30-inch horizontal display. Remember those tabletop arcade games in bars in the 80s? It looks something like that. Inside, there’s a PC running Vista, a projector, and an array of cameras that track objects [...]

inveterate optimist

Posted by maz on May 29th, 2007

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. Woody Allen If you have a “bad hair day” just take comfort in this quote and believe in being innovative

high-speed innovators

Posted by maz on May 25th, 2007

Spammers are supposed to be one of the fasted innovating community in the whole “business world”. In this context John Graham-Cumming stated the following at last year’s EU Spam Symposium: Spammers innovate constantly: the products they sell how they send the spam (fixed IPs, broken web forms, open proxies, zombie networks, …) the content of [...]

about blogging in general and WordPress in special

Posted by maz on May 24th, 2007

A CNET Interview with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and co-creator of WordPress. About 5 to 8 percent of the blog posts have a youtube video on them. In this case it was not possible By the way: I can’t help myself, imho Matt would personate the perfect “Jamie Oliver for the blogging community”! Maybe [...]

self-sustaining skyscraper

Posted by maz on May 22nd, 2007

A building that is about 50 floors high, has wind turbines and solar pannels, rotates around it’s own axis, needs just roughly 5 percent of the people usually needed on the construction site and is autonumous from external power supply has to be science fiction, hasn’t it? In fact it’s reality! You don’t belive it? [...]


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