Recovery.gov heat map visualization

September 28, 2009

Recovery.gov went live today with new Apps from North Highland Partners! Now we can visualize how $800B of the recovery dollars are being spent.

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Magenta, watch out for Wordpress + Instinct

September 23, 2009
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The cost of building a commerce App can be reduced by cobbling together a CMS and an e-commerce engine. Scott discusses Instinct, a popular plugin for Wordpress.

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Play Mario Brothers for Free

September 23, 2009

Mike Onghai wrote a version of Mario Brothers in Flash, and now its the top widget on WidgetBox with nearly 1 million installations. Impressive. I stumbled across it today while looking for Wordpress plugins. Thanks, Mike, for brightening my morning!
PS. Click on “1 player game” to start. Use the arrow [...]

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It might get loud

September 16, 2009

My wife and I saw “It Might Get Loud” last week. Fabulous movie. If you’re a guitarist, and many of us are, you can’t miss this.
The quintessential moment for me was a scene with Jimmy Page, listening to “The Rambler” in his music library. Jimmy leans back, emits a huge, white grin, [...]

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iApps: $200M a month and growing

September 9, 2009

AdMob released a somewhat controversial report, estimating that the iPhone and iPod together throw off $200 million per month in app revenue. Distimo, a recent analytics startup in the Netherlands, also showed off some impressive growth statistics for the iPhone in the August report.
OM Malik blogged about this in August. The comments were long, [...]

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Augmented Reality is building buzz

September 9, 2009

Back in the early 90’s, IBM used the Sporting Events team to try all kinds of new fangled ideas. I was lucky to be part of that team, working from within IBM Research with a ragtag group of engineers and product designers who were fascinated with the Web and its potential.
IBM’s at it again. [...]

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