mad dog in the fog

Preview of a new electronic reader designed for business.

List of Twitter clones for the enterprise

"…can the Mountain View online goliath continue its winning streak for another 10 years? Unlike during its infancy, Google now has a target on its back along with a sizable workforce - 19,604 across the globe - that makes it difficult to be nimble."

"In essence, Facebook users didn’t think they wanted constant, up-to-the-minute updates on what other people are doing. Yet when they experienced this sort of omnipresent knowledge, they found it intriguing and addictive. Why? Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does — body language, sighs, stray comments — out of the corner of your eye."

"Tumbltape turns any Tumblr blog into a playlist."

"Photosynth is a potent mixture of two independent breakthroughs: the ability to reconstruct the scene or object from a bunch of flat photographs, and the technology to bring that experience to virtually anyone over the Internet."

Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines images for similarities to each other and uses that information to estimate the shape of the subject and the vantage point each photo was taken from. With this information, we recreate the space and use it as a canvas to display and navigate through the photos.

"Wikipedia is an undeniably helpful resource for researching bands, with fairly accurate data that tends to be updated in near real time. Amazon hopes the same sort of thing will happen on its new SoundUnwound site, which borrows a page from Wikipedia's playbook by allowing users to edit information about any band, label, album or song."

Good to see that DirecTiVo is coming back.

Historical photos of San Francisco

(via mickeleh)

Panoramic view. Check out the full-screen view.

Good tips from the founder of Freshbooks about what *not* to do

The California Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park will re-open on Sep. 27

Great photos

A comphrehensive description of the various fees from the major airlines

"…while the glitches are important to point out, overall Outside Lands was an impressive event. There was a sense among all the people I spoke with that we were part of something special, from the chance to walk through long stretches of the park in misty darkness (as packs of bikers cycled by) at the end of the night, to the colored lights shining up against the trees bordering the stages, to the way that for a 60,000 strong crowd, no crush was totally unbearable (well, the beer lines were a little annoying)"

Roundup of video links for Outside Lands performances

Reviews of Radiohead's performance at Outside Lands Festival

Flickr has finally launched full-screen slideshow

"A startup is the art of making do with less resources, and in turbulent times such resources are more difficult to acquire at speed. But the upside of a recession is there is less competition and time to explore whitespaces."

"If you’re looking to mock up an iPhone app during the design or coding process, a good place to start is the fully editable PSD file on teehan+lax that includes samples of most elements."

"…it seems that a growing list of characters from my favorite TV show — AMC’s “Mad Men” — have signed up for Twitter."

Zac White’s Open Clip framework uses a shared space on the iPhone. Any application that includes Open Clip can then access the common area and write to it, and read from it, thereby enabling copy and paste between participating apps.

"Could Twitter have charged users as an alternative? Sure. And some would have paid it. But that would start a bad precedent. In order for Twitter to get the SMS deals it needs (and has in the US, Canada and India) to make its business viable, scalable and one day figure out how to make it profitable, it can not be beholden to carriers. Setting the precedent of just passing it onto the users would have put Twitter at a negotiating disadvantage with future deals. They needed to prove they'd walk away, even if it meant shutting down a country partially for a while. This was a smart business move."