From the monthly archives:
August 2007
My Dots for Thursday, August 09, 2007
Zoho launched their new viewer product and it’s pretty simple and interesting. No account registration is necessary. You just upload a file (most office and standard document types are accepted) and then they give you a permalink you can share out as you see fit to collect feedback, etc.
It’s going to be difficult to carve into people’s habits of sending the entire file but this is a pretty slick extension to social bookmarking (wink wink nudge nudge to anyone using Blue Dot or del.icio.us). Share your permalinks out with your social network and collect feedback in a way that doesn’t have to plug up mailboxes!
One thing to keep in mind though, while the URL is randomized and not crawlable by Google, they are also not currently deletable (which I think they’re going to have to change at some point) and if anybody you share the document with posts the URL publicly on sites which DO get crawled, you could end up with much broader distribution than you intended.
[tags: zoho, viewer, software, collaboration, permalink, thepugetnews]
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Fake iPhone Cut and Paste demo. Max Headroom comes to Apple…
I love this. Some guy (by the name of lonelysandwich) made a spoof iPhone concept video on how to invoke a non-existent copy and paste function. It’s especially eery as he used a mashup of the iPhone tutorial guy and spliced in his own sound and altered visuals (anyone remember Max Headroom? Yeah, kind of disjointed like that). It looks like a pretty good idea though, and makes good use of multi-touch and screen real estate. Precise selection of a block of text looks like it would take some getting used to.
iPhone Copy and Paste from lonelysandwich and Vimeo.
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“Be Kind Rewind” trailer
The new Jack Black and Mos Def movie looks like it will be pretty funny.
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My Dots for Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Amazon owned CustomFlix changed their name to CreateSpace and offers a comprehensive self-publishing service in Books, DVD, CD, Video Downloads, and HD-DVD. Perfect for the artist who wants to self-publish and retain all their rights.
Quoted: Make your media available to millions of customers on Amazon.com, CreateSpace, and your own site with our inventory-free self-publishing platform. No set-up fees. No minimum orders. You keep the rights.
[tags: publishing, thepugetnews]
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Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, describing Web 3.0
One thing I really appreciate about Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google - he seems to have an ability to slow down his delivery, pick his words very precisely, and make it applicable to the environment he is operating in, even when the question is one he hasn’t heard before. I think his take on Web 2.0 and 3.0 is illuminating, although I wouldn’t refer to Web 2.0 being just about Ajax.
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“No End in Sight,” Directed by Charles Ferguson
This new expose on Iraq looks scathing and excellent. I definitely want to see it:
The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003) as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts. NO END IN SIGHT examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy – the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government, and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today.
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My Dots for Tuesday, August 07, 2007
William Gibson Q&A in support of his new novel “Spook Country,” a speculative fiction novel set in the recent past.
Quoted: You can see it in corporate futurism as easily as you can see it in science fiction. In corporate futurism they are really winging it - it must be increasingly difficult to come in and tell the board what you think is going to happen in 10 years because you’ve got to be bullshitting if you claiming to know. That wasn’t true to the same extent even a decade ago.
[tags: William Gibson, books, technology, thepugetnews, science fiction]
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My Dots for Monday, August 06, 2007
David Byrne went and toured Philip Johnson’s famous architectural “Glass House” and wrote up a very detailed response to what he saw and experienced there.
Quoted: The repetitive minimalist patterns — the grass, the carpets, the little ripples on the (round) pool, the dappled light — it all seems like one very considered vast modernist artwork, or stage set, as if to say that modernism doesn’t stop at the door of the museum or at a building’s edge. It’s a way of remaking the world.
[tags: art, architecture, Philip Johnson, David Byrne, thepugetnews]
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Social Bookmarking explained in Simple Terms by Common Craft
I wish the video were more agnostic to the bookmarking services out there, but this is a great description of how/why you should use social bookmarking to store the best sites on the web.
If you’re interested in social bookmarking, I recommend Blue Dot!
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“Into the Wild” Trailer
I read “Into the Wild”
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