I’m Goosh-ing
4 Jun 2008 5:03pm GMT I came across Goosh.org yesterday through someone's tweet and I'm in love. Goosh, a "UNIX-like command-line interface for Google," combines the search functionality of Google with the simplicity of command line. It brings me back to the days of using Pine for email.
News Flow
3 Jun 2008 3:21pm GMT Tonight browsing Plurk, I saw heyitskenn's plurk about the service being acquired by Pheltup .
Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, 2008
4 May 2008 8:07am GMT I really enjoyed O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo this year, which took place in San Francisco on April 22-25. The Expo is a companion event to the Web 2.0 Summit, and "an expanded, inclusive gathering for the technology and business communities through a combined conference and tradeshow."
New Interface Paradigms
26 Feb 2008 3:01pm GMT It still strikes me as fascinating that the iPhone and the OLPC (or XO) laptop were both released in the last year, and yet they're such radically different "computing" and communication devices and concepts. I've spent some time playing simultaneously with the iPhone, the XO or OLPC laptop, and my regular computer combo - an Apple slim keyboard and MacPro tower. I thought about the emotional attachments I've formed based on user experience. Ignoring the discussion of their obviously different...
Now Your Plants Can Call or Twitter You
26 Feb 2008 2:15pm GMT Botanicalls is a project by students at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program. It's "a system that was developed to allow plants to place phone calls for human help. When a plant on the Botanicalls network needs water, it can call a person and ask for exactly what it needs. When people phone the plants, the plants orient callers to their habits and characteristics." Botanicalls Twitter DIY is a version for Twitter so your plants can send Twitter updates when they need water, or send...