Spheres

I never knew that spheres were so much fun!

The site that I can't get enough of is cgsphere. The galleries are awesome!

The idea is you start with a very simple sphere scene and use your imagination.

Unfort. I'm nowhere near that level. I've still tinkering with cheetah-3d. Its very simple (and yet powerful). It has a gradual learning curve that keeps me motivated. A lot of people rave about Blender, but theres too many buttons for me to remember.

Sprites of yesteryear

Very interesting art. Richard Horsman has taken sprites from old games and converted them to 3D images. Cool.

Great article about what its like living in the valley during the web2.0 growth. I agree there is less money squandered on stupid ideas. Also the cost of development is a lot lower.

During the first boom-bust, startups were spending silly money of areons, party launches, clustered oracle servers, huge sun boxes and weblogic bea server-apps. With the maturity of Open Source, we have real stable frameworks and operating systems for free.

Communication is better now. IM is another cog in your communication rather than the exception. With better high-bandwidth penetration in the home, it means that everyone is contributing and producing content.

Fantastic! :)

Architects

Interesting article at ibm developerworks about how developers become architects

Stores rave about web reviews

We got a mention in the chicago tribune about how stores love reviews.

Tim Bray on Ruby

Tim Bray talks about Ruby.

Lunch with Eric

Some of us from powerreviews had a very pleasant lunch talking to Eric Miraglia from yahoo YUI team. We talked about the YUI library and cool things that can be done.

He posted his comments on his blog.

Pixar pics

Nice pictures of a tour around Pixar.

Mash up or shut up - Yahoo Hackday.

Yahoo opened their campus last weekend for their developer hackday. There were lots of workshops and talks and had a great time absorbing.

They really have some talented people working on api's that make the average developers life a lot easier.

Anyhoo.. I was the first to get registered and was given a whole bunch of cool swag. woohoo!

The offices are pretty cool and every hack need was taken care of.

They had Beck play and it was a fantastic concert. They truely are original both musically and in their performance. They also had some very superb puppets!

In fact the puppets themselves made a very funny yahoo video.

If you ever get a chance to go to one of these, I would recommend it. Great day.

Whats behind a macworld keynote

A look into whats behind a keynote address at macworld.

Google development practices / Woz

Steve Yegge talks about how Agile Development isn't the silver bullet. He goes into how software development is done at google.

Went and saw Woz on his book signing tour. It's fascinating to hear him speak about the early days and how he really did push the boundaries of computers.

Supped-up Video iPod tomorrow?

Theres been lots of press about Apples presentation tomorrow.

Wired has aggregated the best of the mockups that are floating around.

My favourite is the iPod Chimera.

Paper Scissors Rock

Very arty paper cuts.

Nabaztag

I just saw Nabaztag on my surfing and I think it's quite cool. We have an ambient orb in the office but Nabaztag looks a lot more fun!

Flicker and YouTube links.

NYT article

The New York times has an article about consumer reviews where PowerReviews gets a mention.

Techcrunch interviews P.G.

Techcrunch interviews Paul Graham.

Noah takes a picture of himself every day for 6 years and stitches them into a movie. Mesmerizing.

Interesting picture of frozen cherry trees.

Peer Pressure

Nice like article from entrepreneur.com about reviews and peer pressure.

Of course.. being the best review service out there.. we get a mention! ;-)

Customer satisfaction

It's very satisfying when our customers really love what we do!

Nathan Decker, Director of E-commerce, evogear.com:

"PowerReviews enabled one of our biggest coups to date. The implementation went smoothly, their team offered exceptional support, and the product itself far exceeded our expectations. Not only did we gain functionality on par or superior to the largest and most sophisticated eCommerce sites, we immediately differentiated our offering in the marketplace. In short, this company has it dialed. They are Web 2.0 personified. What exactly is Web 2.0 you ask? Who the hell knows, but PowerReviews has found a way to enable any website with robust, scalable, and fully featured reviews at no cost. As for me and my team, we are absolutely stoked."

Lessons from Kiko

Looks like Kiko the ajax web calendar is getting sold on ebay.

Theres a writeup of the why it failed by one of the founder.

Paul Graham seems to think that startups should stay out of Google's way.

I'm not sure I totally agree with that point of view. Theres been some reports that Googles other services (other than search) are not being as used as much as they hope.

Evolution of the desktop

Nice screenshots of opsys desktops of yesteryear.

Earthquake

First noticable (4.4) earthquake in SF.

Heres the image from the USGS.

Unfortunately I was in milbrae and didn't feel a thing. Yeah.. I was still there at 8.00pm.. Phuu.. working at a startup