Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Odiogo, which I have promptly implemented on this site, takes your RSS feed, turns it into mp3 files, one for each post. A WordPress plugin gives the visitors the option to hear the post. Posts can also downoaded via Itunes… Works like…
Aptera on ABC After considering the Volt for my next car buying cycle (in about a year), I have decided to go Jetson. And no, our family does not have antennae.
Another step in the right direction. You might be able to overlay schematics over any real life building…. Technology Review: TR10: Augmented Reality
The Stewart for Temporal Affairs at a Trappist Monastery in Massachusetts has found another way for salvation through hard work. Selling remanufactured toners: All I wanted was a little bit of black dust for one of our monastery printers. In my search…
A sophisticated browser, which straddles the desktop/server divide has been launched by Google. It aims to create a better platform for its webapplications, which need to be faster and more secure to compete with the local desktop, currently dominated by Microsoft. The…
A mashup utility good for everything. For now, only in command line. Mozilla Ubiquity, Microsoft IE8, and the fracturing of Web pages | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET
Steven Levy outlines the greater benefits of launching the Iphone 2.0. But though the low price will dominate iPhone chatter between now and July 11, there is actually a much bigger iPhone story to tell. Today marked the official transformation of Jobs’s…
Disney Goes All The Way Online If the thought of planning a trip to the happiest place on Earth on a flat map online (let alone on paper) seems too dull—Disney World now offers visitors a 3-D interactive map on Google Earth.…
Following a story on the Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus Blog I’ve run into YouNoodle.com a social networking site for entrepreneurs and educators. Lots of mashups and some interesting applications. The site still needs some improvement and the communication tools improved,…
Technorati Tags: wordpress,web,organization,information,bookmark,social media A little introspective review of the best ways to post stuff to your WordPress Blogs. Ma.tt » Favorite Posting Bookmarklet
Amazon.com’s eInk technology is here. It is a wireless (piggybacking the phone network) device that can store or access remote content (books, blogs, etc.). The device costs something as well as the service, but is a valliant leap forward after the several…
In China sharing as a social statement does not really work. A strong instrumental/exchange orientation would make Homans the happiest man alive. If he was still alive… Social media’s value proposition is different for the mainland Chinese than it is for Americans…
PC MAG list of the new and/or undiscovered Web sites that have grabbed their attention this year. You’ll see a large collection of Web applications and tech sites, excellent blogs, offbeat social networks, and, as always, a handful of addictive Flash games…
Connection maps of world locations based on article coocurrence in Google News Buzztracker – World News – 2006-08-03 Buzztracker: World News, Mapped Yesterday | Tomorrow Current World View – 2006-08-03 Today’s Top Locations * Beirut (08%) * Baghdad (07%) * Washington (07%)…
As if free mp3 downloading wasn’t aggravation enough for the music industry… Preloaded iPods prompt legal ponderings By Kevin Maney, USA TODAY A blossoming trade in Apple iPods and other digital devices pre-loaded with movies, TV shows and thousands of songs is…
says Engadget No XP on Intel Macs, but Vista is good to go – Engadget If you’ve been counting on being able to run Windows on those new Intel-based Macs, Apple’s not about to make it easy for you — at least…
Apple’s switch to Intel chips raises the possibility of running both Mac OS X (the mac operating system) and Windows on the same computer. Basically you can choose, at boot up, what do you want your computer to be today, a Mac…
Did Sony really find the holly grail of e-publishing? We’ve been hearing of e-ink for some time, now Sony launces a paperback size reading tablet that uses e-ink as underlying technology (basically a reconfigurable plastic sheet with tiny balls embedded in it,…
After my third attempt in the last three years and a day wasted on scouring the web forums, UBUNTU rules. I installed the latest addition to the Linux universe on my personal desktop. Despite a harebrained installation glitch (you are asked to…
It is for visions like some of those found in this article (see excerpt below) that “I Think” deserves a spot under the sun. The article, syndicated by Yahoo!, and originally published by Extreme Tech, makes in its first prediction (we want…
Mapping is becoming more and more a web-based killer app. Modern Cartographers Vital in Digital Age – Yahoo! News
In the context of our generalized enthusiasm for prediction markets, Yahoo! has been running for some time a Buzz Game. Essentially a fame stock exchange for communication technologies, players are allowed to invest 10,000 virtual dollars in the fates and fortunes of…