Archive for May, 2007

Gear Mesh: Power To The Peers

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

There’s broad recognition that the Google Gears announcement is one of high impact, but I haven’t seen anyone getting close to just how big. Yes, working offline is important, but it’s not new. As Dave Winer points out, the Radio blogging system was doing it in 2001. It actually goes back further than that as [...]

TV Mesh

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Starting next month, Apple TV users will be able to select “YouTube” as an option from the device’s main menu and view thousands of the most viewed and most popular videos on the site.
Apple TV set to download YouTube | CNET News.com
The possibility of making real money from virtual creations is the subject of the [...]

The Presence of The Past In The Future

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Commenting on my Speech Mesh entry, csven wonders whether Microsoft’s Surface Computing technology announced today could be combined with a “traditional typing shorthand solution allowing for very simple but very fast sentence construction”. I believe this is called semantic compaction by folks involved with augmentative and alternative communication. Semantic [...]

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