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How I Photosynth’d my family room

I just put up a Photosynth of my family room. Unfortunately you need a Windows machine to view it. But, this is a combination of 50 images I made this afternoon with my Canon 5D. It took only a few minutes to upload them all and complete the Photosynth. Very easy to do. Anyone can [...]

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2008
How do you add value to a rubber band?

Tonight there are thousands of college students around the world trying to answer this question, so I thought I’d help. Next week I’ll be judging their efforts. It’s Entrepreneurship Week and Stanford’s page on the week has the details. I was at the kickoff, where they showed...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-23-2008
Silicon Valley headed for political trouble?

Talking with Andrew Feinberg, editor of Capitol Valley Media, I was challenged several times about why I, other tech bloggers, and why Silicon Valley itself doesn’t get involved more in what’s happening in Washington D.C. Politics and geeks rarely mix. Geeks want to build stuff. Politicians...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-22-2008
Attention thieves; keeping you from living a “FOOCamp life?”

Last week when I was talking with Linda Stone I told her that I tried to live a “FooCamp Life.” What’s FOOCamp? That’s Tim O’Reilly’s annual campout where he invites about 300 “Friends Of O’Reilly” to O’Reilly’s headquarters in Sebastapol...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-22-2008
NHK here interviewing me

A team from Japan’s NHK (top TV network sponsored by the government) is here interviewing me about Digg and Facebook and their impact on society. Lots of interesting questions and the translator, Keiko Mori, does an awesome job. She’s amazingly fast. Interviewing me is Daigo Shimode. I’ll...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-21-2008
Obsolete skills

Francine Hardaway is here and we’re talking about obsolete skills. Things we used to know that no longer are very useful to us. Here’s some we came up with. How many can you come up with? 1. Dialing a rotary phone. 2. Putting a needle on a vinyl record. 3. Changing tracks on an eight-track...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-16-2008
Cool face detection software

Gavin Longhurst, Vice President of Business Development for BigWorld Technology, showed me some cool new face detection software, called “Seeing Machines,” yesterday at the Stanford University Metaverse Summit, which I got onto my Qik channel via my cell phone. They are preparing to show...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-16-2008
Revision 3’s hot new studio

You’ve heard of Diggnation or the GigaOm show, right? Well, my friend Jim Lauderback, CEO of Revision 3, the folks who do a range of Internet video shows, including Diggnation, invited me over for their 4 p.m. Friday video afternoon. On the screen? Gary Vaynerchuk’s daily wine video blog...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-16-2008
Seattle vs. Silicon Valley sillyness

Ahh, there’s a big debate about which is better, Seattle or Silicon Valley. There are things to like about both (I’ve lived in both places). But for me there’s no option: I couldn’t do what I do anywhere else in the world than here (the range and diversity of tech companies is...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-15-2008
Are you breathing while emailing?

Linda Stone is a former executive who worked at Apple and Microsoft. Has been doing all sorts of research over the years and is probably most famous for coming up with the term “continuous partial attention.” Which, basically, explains our behavior while using Twitter. Lately she’s...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-15-2008

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