Mind your own business.

IPIX: Bancrupt and still holding patents for 360° panorama creation!

Seeded on Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:07 AM EDT (heise.de)

Heise online reports that bancrupt company IPIX will sell their patent holding the creation of 360° panoramas. Part of the patent protects undistorting images made with fish-eye lenses.

technology, tech, software, patents, photo, 360, panorama, conversion, ipix, stitching

Hidden failure: Successful Newsvine-Claiming on Technorati leads to nothing

Thu Aug 3, 2006 9:14 PM EDT

There had been a lot of discussion about how to claim your Newsvine column on technorati's homepage. Newsvine's McGyver and now Netscape's Murdoc Corey Spring did go very well into detail on how to setup an account and do the claiming with some tricks.

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technology, claim, newsvine, howto, technorati

Microsoft's PhotoSynth the next (3D) Flickr?

Seeded on Tue Aug 1, 2006 7:55 PM EDT (walterra.twoday.net)

About the potential of PhotoSynth. As always, there's a high possibility that Microsoft screws it.

technology, tech, internet, microsoft, apple, news, vista, photosynth, optical-flow

In-Browser Realtime Visualisation of Website Traffic

Seeded on Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:59 PM EDT (metaportaldermedienpolemik.net)

Today we released preview videos of RhNav - Rhizome Navigation, a software which provides interfaces based on user behaviour analysis. It is also able to visualise current website traffic in realtime as a graph. It works both as a browser-plugin and as a stand alone application.

technology, web-2-0, tech, internet, analysis, web, open-source, browser, traffic, interface

Importance of professional legal advice with startups

Seeded on Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:53 AM EDT (Geeking with Greg)

Greg Lindon, developer of Amazon.com's recommendation system and founder of findory.com, writes about the necessity of professional legal advice in the early phase of a startup. He gives an inside view of his experiences, the costs and the drawbacks.

business, internet, blogging, lawyer, startup, legal, findory, greg-linden

Manifxto

Seeded on Sun Jul 23, 2006 6:14 AM EDT (manifxto.org)

This is Kevin Tod Haug's blog. Kevin is a visual fx supervisor and impressed with his work on Fight Club. His posts focus on the working situation most visual fx artists are put in the movie business.

business, art, film, movie, internet, blogging, blog, movies, visual-fx, manifxto

Grumpy Gamer

Seeded on Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:56 AM EDT (grumpygamer.com)

Grumpy Gamer is the blog of Ron Gilbert, creator of such computer game classics like the Monkey Island series. In his posts he talks (read rants) about the industry he's working in and keeps us updated on the progress of his own projects.

entertainment, games, tech, blogging, computer, blog, startup, gaming, video-games, publisher

Geeking with Greg

Seeded on Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:03 AM EDT (Geeking with Greg)

This is Greg Linden's blog, author of Amazon's recommendation engine and founder of Findory.com. Currently he shares his thoughts on the early days of his company.

google, yahoo, technology, msn, artificial-intelligence, information-retrieval, data-mining, greg, amazon-com, computer-science

How to claim your newsvine column on technorati.com

Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:34 PM EDT

**Update: Seems I was not the first to cover this. See Corey Spring's article and the comments for further and earlier info. Thanks to Brian Ford for pointing me to it. Visit his column, looks interesting.**

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technology, claim, newsvine, technorati, column

Mind your own business.

Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:06 AM EDT

With this article I start a series about my thoughts on the media business. media meaning everything which enables people to communicate or interact with themselves through culture technologies.

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media, technology, games, brands, tech, earnings, blogging, industry, gaming, video-games

SideFX's Houdini on a Mac?

Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:14 AM EDT

There seems to be a promising opportunity on the rise: Running SideFX's Houdini on a Mac.

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technology, art, film, tech, pro, apple, intel, movies, mac, windows

Semifiktive Halbwahrheiten

Seeded on Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:00 PM EDT (rafelsberger.at)

Semifiktive Halbwahrheiten is a news generation site which uses words from recent news headlines as search terms to fetch images from yahoo image search.

media, art, tech, internet, odd, video, arts, find, random, create

Conspiracy Theory

Sun Jun 4, 2006 3:09 AM EDT

Just stumbled upon this quote from 1997's Conspiracy Theory, directed by Richard Donner (who is, just as a side note, also the director of the original "The Omen", whichs remake starts on 666):

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entertainment, bush, film, world, trade, stone, war, george, odd, news

One and only?

Wed May 31, 2006 4:59 AM EDT

There is no mother tongue, only a power takeover by a dominant language within a political multiplicity.

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immigration, politics, boston, language, salon, brawl-english-illegals

RhNav - Rhizome Navigation

Tue May 23, 2006 6:45 AM EDT

RhNav provides graphical navigation aids based on user behaviour analysis. Thanks to a hint from ChristianJeitler on netznetz.net about the wonderful "processing", I was able to stitch together a first working draft of RhNav with a three dimensional graph.

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analysis, navigation, user, behaviour, visualization, graph, rhnav, rhizome, metaportal, medienpolemik