Links for the end of the summer
Christine Herron is tantalizing me with Chumby. No doubt some investment of hers. Its a small 7″ish display that does……. well not really sure. I don’t see any buttons on it - which I guess means it has to be a touch screen interface. But Christine is on the ball and its sexy, so…..
Suw - is cold. “Awwww - this is Northern Cali honey - not LaLa.”
Ross Rader is finally figuring out (3 years later) how blogrolling fits into Tucows strategy. So they’re gonan ‘give it away for free’ - for now. Gee - that took long enough. But credit should be given to Jason DeFillippo - who invented blogrolling.com - the first blobject web service. He’s blogging mainly at Vox now.
Speaking of Ross - who clearly has some time to blog today - he’s going on and on about how he agrees with 37Signals and the ‘less is more’ crowd. He’s using Zoho as an example. But - for the record - I actually agree with Zoho. But for other reasons. If Ross is so into 37Signals - he needs to go to Foo Camp and sleep on the floor of Tim O’Reilly’s offices. That’s allot less that he’d find in a hotel room, which (in this case) would be considered feature rich.
How cool is it to live on the Pacific ocean right near a fancy resort? You get to use their lobby for Lobbycon, nofoo, fooless fooanderings. For free.
Interesting goings on - at Yahoo.
Northwest Airlines is supporting Google Calendar. Notch another one up for lock-in. You think anyone at Northwest is thinking about Eventful or Upcoming? I somehow doubt it.
Robert took my advice and now trusts Rahul Sood.
Rafat calls this one right. It’s not a matter of if, but when. MySpace founders leaving [when?]
Ashish is 27 - happy birthday dude.
I myself am also interested in what Mark Pincus ‘can do’ - but what people are forgetting is what Mark tried before. He was in charge, He called the shots. He’s responsibel for what Tribe is. So how’s that gonna change this time around? Mark’s REAL GOOD at being an Angel investor, but his - well let’s just say - we’re ALL interested in seeing what Mark does. Bryan Lawler rocks - he can do ANYTHING - not the questions is “what?”
Paolo - this one if for Monica.
Tony Perkins keeps bothering Nick. Hmmm - not sure which notion I enjoy more?
Hey Marc -
You may remember me from back in the “early Mac” Levco and Gryphon Software days. Anyway, I’m the head software guy at chumby.com.
The device is an ARM9 266MHz device with a 3.5″ 16-bit display with a touchscreen, wifi, usb, a bend sensor and a light sensor. It runs Linux, and the source is open, including the schematics and mechanical drawings for the housing. It runs Flash 7 (the only software that’s closed), although a hacker can really run anything they want on it.
Cheers -
Duane Maxwell
Hey Marc -
You may remember me from back in the “early Mac” Levco and Gryphon Software days. Anyway, I’m the head software guy at chumby.com.
The device is an ARM9 266MHz device with a 3.5″ 16-bit display with a touchscreen, wifi, usb, a bend sensor and a light sensor. It runs Linux, and the source is open, including the schematics and mechanical drawings for the housing. It runs Flash 7 (the only software that’s closed), although a hacker can really run anything they want on it.
Cheers -
Duane Maxwell
Hey Marc -
You may remember me from back in the “early Mac” Levco and Gryphon Software days. Anyway, I’m the head software guy at chumby.com.
The device is an ARM9 266MHz device with a 3.5″ 16-bit display with a touchscreen, wifi, usb, a bend sensor and a light sensor. It runs Linux, and the source is open, including the schematics and mechanical drawings for the housing. It runs Flash 7 (the only software that’s closed), although a hacker can really run anything they want on it.
Cheers -
Duane Maxwell
“Northwest Airlines is supporting Google Calendar. Notch another one up for lock-in. You think anyone at Northwest is thinking about Eventful or Upcoming? I somehow doubt it.”
Marc, I respectfully suggest you actually try out Eventful and spend some time to understand what it is . . . and isn’t. Why would Northwest Airlines be “thinking about” Eventful or Upcoming? I can’t speak for Upcoming, but we’re a service to help people find events that are relevant to them. Northwest is an airline. If you buy a ticket from that airline and then want to save information about your flight to whatever personal calendar tool you use, why wouldn’t Northwest wanna support Google Calendar, along with Outlook and other apps? Makes abundant sense to me. But it would be weird for them to support Eventful, unless maybe they wanted to add “find out what is going on in the city you’re planning on traveling to”. Then, sure, they oughta check us out.
“Northwest Airlines is supporting Google Calendar. Notch another one up for lock-in. You think anyone at Northwest is thinking about Eventful or Upcoming? I somehow doubt it.”
Marc, I respectfully suggest you actually try out Eventful and spend some time to understand what it is . . . and isn’t. Why would Northwest Airlines be “thinking about” Eventful or Upcoming? I can’t speak for Upcoming, but we’re a service to help people find events that are relevant to them. Northwest is an airline. If you buy a ticket from that airline and then want to save information about your flight to whatever personal calendar tool you use, why wouldn’t Northwest wanna support Google Calendar, along with Outlook and other apps? Makes abundant sense to me. But it would be weird for them to support Eventful, unless maybe they wanted to add “find out what is going on in the city you’re planning on traveling to”. Then, sure, they oughta check us out.
“Northwest Airlines is supporting Google Calendar. Notch another one up for lock-in. You think anyone at Northwest is thinking about Eventful or Upcoming? I somehow doubt it.”
Marc, I respectfully suggest you actually try out Eventful and spend some time to understand what it is . . . and isn’t. Why would Northwest Airlines be “thinking about” Eventful or Upcoming? I can’t speak for Upcoming, but we’re a service to help people find events that are relevant to them. Northwest is an airline. If you buy a ticket from that airline and then want to save information about your flight to whatever personal calendar tool you use, why wouldn’t Northwest wanna support Google Calendar, along with Outlook and other apps? Makes abundant sense to me. But it would be weird for them to support Eventful, unless maybe they wanted to add “find out what is going on in the city you’re planning on traveling to”. Then, sure, they oughta check us out.
Brian- I’m not saying it doesn’t make sense to put a personal flight itinerary into Google.
For Upcoming - I’m surprised you don’t see the power of being able to tell people - all around the world - where you’ll be - when. So I want my itinerary automatically sent into my Upcoming cities - around the world - so all my friends who subscribe to me - will know when I’m coming to town. That’s Upcoming.
And as to my ‘lack’ of using Eventful - you obviously are looking into your member base and you don’t see my name. For that I apologize. But at no time should you take my complex life and time arrangements as anything more than my company taking off and I don’t NEED to use or have an Eventful account to know it is - and isn’t.
And to that - I thik you should see where Eventful and Northwest CAN hook up together:
- remember the idea of sending EVDB a city and date and you return an ad and list of events? Well Northwest can be an adervister and sponsor of that sort fo web service.
- how ’bout your example of sending the city and date of your travel itinerary to Eventful and get back the coolio events happening in that city.
Both of those are legitimate, powerful connections you could make to Northwest.
IMHO.
Good luck and keep going!
Brian- I’m not saying it doesn’t make sense to put a personal flight itinerary into Google.
For Upcoming - I’m surprised you don’t see the power of being able to tell people - all around the world - where you’ll be - when. So I want my itinerary automatically sent into my Upcoming cities - around the world - so all my friends who subscribe to me - will know when I’m coming to town. That’s Upcoming.
And as to my ‘lack’ of using Eventful - you obviously are looking into your member base and you don’t see my name. For that I apologize. But at no time should you take my complex life and time arrangements as anything more than my company taking off and I don’t NEED to use or have an Eventful account to know it is - and isn’t.
And to that - I thik you should see where Eventful and Northwest CAN hook up together:
- remember the idea of sending EVDB a city and date and you return an ad and list of events? Well Northwest can be an adervister and sponsor of that sort fo web service.
- how ’bout your example of sending the city and date of your travel itinerary to Eventful and get back the coolio events happening in that city.
Both of those are legitimate, powerful connections you could make to Northwest.
IMHO.
Good luck and keep going!
Brian- I’m not saying it doesn’t make sense to put a personal flight itinerary into Google.
For Upcoming - I’m surprised you don’t see the power of being able to tell people - all around the world - where you’ll be - when. So I want my itinerary automatically sent into my Upcoming cities - around the world - so all my friends who subscribe to me - will know when I’m coming to town. That’s Upcoming.
And as to my ‘lack’ of using Eventful - you obviously are looking into your member base and you don’t see my name. For that I apologize. But at no time should you take my complex life and time arrangements as anything more than my company taking off and I don’t NEED to use or have an Eventful account to know it is - and isn’t.
And to that - I thik you should see where Eventful and Northwest CAN hook up together:
- remember the idea of sending EVDB a city and date and you return an ad and list of events? Well Northwest can be an adervister and sponsor of that sort fo web service.
- how ’bout your example of sending the city and date of your travel itinerary to Eventful and get back the coolio events happening in that city.
Both of those are legitimate, powerful connections you could make to Northwest.
IMHO.
Good luck and keep going!
The little Chumby is very sweet indeed.
I already like this awesome toy for tech. lovers.
I think it can become some kind of a Teddy Bear for geeks.
Thank you for sharing this story with me !
The little Chumby is very sweet indeed.
I already like this awesome toy for tech. lovers.
I think it can become some kind of a Teddy Bear for geeks.
Thank you for sharing this story with me !
The little Chumby is very sweet indeed.
I already like this awesome toy for tech. lovers.
I think it can become some kind of a Teddy Bear for geeks.
Thank you for sharing this story with me !