Archive for the ‘Virtuality’ Category
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Technorati Tags: Carnegie Mellon,Randy Pausch,Virtual Worlds,Virtual Reality,VR,Last Lectures Carnegie Mellon University professor and virtual worlds pioneer Randy Pausch died from complications of pancreatic cancer this past Friday at the age of 47. About a month after he was told he had “three to six months of good health left,” ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Technorati Tags: Podcamp Boston 3,PCB3,Podcamp Boston I finally made it back to Orlando a day late from Podcamp Boston, and got dumped on by a thunderstorm on my two-hour ride home to Plant City on the Interstate, without time to pull over and get my rain gear on. However, ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Technorati Tags: Podcamp Boston 3,U.S. Airways,airport delays,Philadelphia My trip to Boston just got way more interesting, and much more expensive. I just got settled into a $284 hotel room at the Airport Marriott—in Philadelphia. The flight out of Boston ended up arriving here two hours late because of ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Technorati Tags: Podcamp Boston 3 My decompression from Podcamp Boston has started as I wait here in Logan Airport a couple of hours before the first leg of my flight home to Florida, sitting within view of the gate for my flght, letting my phone and my laptop charge ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
The latest update on the fundraising effort to go to Boston is—no update. Nothing has come in.
podcamp-boston-ledger.pdf is the current ledger for the trip.
Here’s the current status of things. The tolls and MBTA pass I was able to set aside from my own paycheck, so all that’s left are the airfare ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
I'm not totally sure what possessed me all of a sudden to want to meet all these people I keep listening to and reading about in Boston. Maybe it's because I'm getting severe cabin fever from being able to go anywhere in the evenings because of Tampa Bay's daily ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Coming up on my first month with my Samsung Blackjack II, I thought I would share a list of Windows Mobile apps that have become indispensable, and/or just plain cool: fring is a mobile instant messaging and voice-over-IP client that includes support for all the major ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
It was unfortunate to read today Jeff Pulver's (@jeffpulver) very brief announcement of his resignation as a director of one of the many companies he founded, PulverMedia. But, we are in a bad economy right now, and there aren't very many who have been immune. It appears the company is ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
I received a postcard in the mail today.
Not just any postcard. @Tojosan (Todd Jordan) has decided to do his part to help make "social media" more "social" by sending out a personal postcard to five or so selected Twitter users as a means of connecting with online contacts in the ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
DivX, Inc.'s Stage6 video site, which allowed users to share videos in high-quality format using the DivX Codec, has gone to the deadpool. This is a bit of a bummer, as the DVD recorder I bought not too long ago (to replace the DVR I left behind in ...
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