Screenshots And Video Of The New Joost
Joost has announced that they are changing the way their service works. Having used it quite a bit, I think this is probably the best thing for them since it was based on a misguided channel/TV metaphore. However, I wonder (along with Techcrunch) what their added value really is. [...]
First impression: Google delivered, I’ve never used a browser this fast. It’s great.
Yesterday, a cartoon was prematurely leaked detailing Google’s vision for what a browser could look like. Now, 24 hours later I’m reviewing what until yesterday was a well kept secret.
So here’s my first impressions.
Fast and responsive. What can I say? Firefox 3 was [...]
Tagged firefox, google, reviewsWhat Apple Knows That Facebook Doesn’t.
Business week has an interesting article on the economics of platforms. Interesting, but flawed. They compare two platforms (Facebook, and Apple’s mobile platform). The argument goes roughly as follows: Apple is using it’s platform to create a new market by being open and Facebook is using traditional methods of using [...]
Intriguing phrase (about Alexandria’s lighthous) from an article (page 31) by Neal Stephenson from 1996:
The collapse of the lighthouse must have been astonishing, like watching the World Trade Center fall over. But it took only a few seconds, and if you were looking the other way when it happened, you might have missed it entirely [...]
Songbird Blog » Songbird Beta is Released!.
Having played with several milestone builds of songbird, I was keen to try this one. This is a big milestone for this music player & browser hybrid. Since I’ve blogged on this before, I will keep it short.
The good:
New feathers (songbird lingo for UI theme) looks great. Only criticism [...]
Tagged google, itunes, reviewsI’ve uploaded the photos from my recent vacation in Spain. Earlier, I posted an overview of the places I’ve visited so I won’t repeat that here. I took quite a bit of photos and filled both 1GB SD cards I have.
Of course, I took lots of nice panorama photos as well. The latter have also [...]
Tagged photography, travelingI have this page elsewhere on this site where I try to keep track of various accounts I have with social networks and other sites. I updated it earlier today with some interesting additions.
It seems finally decentralized social networking is starting to happen. It’s all very low profile now but promising. It all started somewhere [...]
GeenStijl : ANP doet Google Earth na.
Ten years ago, I was a computer science student in Utrecht who was about to leave the Netherlands to live in Sweden. At the time, I had been living for about a year in a very spacious (50m2) attic room on a top location: Domplein, complete with nice view [...]
One of our interns, Filip Suba, presented a paper earlier this week in Turku at the Symposium on Applications & the Internet. He’s one of my former (since today) master thesis students that has been working in our team at NRC for the past few months. The paper he presented is actually based on his [...]
Tagged Academic, New publication, research, workshopI more or less executed the plan listed in my previous post to the letter. I flew to Spain, spent a few days at Christian del Rosso’s place in Madrid and took the opportunity to benefit from the relatively mild weather (32 degrees or so) to see most of Madrid’s major touristic attractions.
After that, I [...]
