References to friends in the past couple posts have included links over to their Friendster.com profiles, and it looks like the site is starting to secure a future, considering that it’s still in beta phase. I was curious how they were planning on turning it into a profitable venture, but at it [...]
Yay, and yay, and part in thanks to my sister, who just picked up the 12″ G4 Powerbook for her start at BU. It’s a good experience for me too, in fact, as Microsoft’s grasp becomes clearly evident in her struggle to learn OS X’s new interface. Keep those questions coming, Mel. [...]
Tim Oren’s blog had an interesting tidbit on Virtual Reality guru Jaron Lanier. I remember well the hype surrounding the CAVE at my alma mater, with some interesting applications including this one (PDF) by uber-geek classmate and friend Matt Ahrens. Scott Fisher has some interesting current work going on, but as Jaron points [...]
Spent some time this evening doing a little email catch up, which included over 150 emails from the NBR Japan Forum mailing list. I really should just use their website. Anyhow, randomly picking mails I happened upon this rather interesting perspective on how the Japanese differ from Chinese and Americans. In particular:
Does anyone know if the Urban Challenge, or some variant, has made its way to Tokyo? I think this would be a fantastic event — and an even greater challenge with the language differences. One could really make some tough questions if they required translations for the answer. Plus, the Japanese language [...]
Gen posted a link with a nice long list of bloggers over at Microsoft. Thanks to Safari’s tabbing feature, I managed to scan every blog rather efficiently[1]. It was apparent that many were working on web-services and web-related protocols (particularly XML). One that particularly caught my eye was Brian Keller’s blog, with [...]
I checked out the Asakusa Samba Festival this past Saturday, in which my boss and another colleague participated. The photo gallery should speak for itself, but I’ll add that the crowd was definitely insane. I have never seen so many Japanese officers-of-the-law doing crowd control. They were polite as always, and seemingly [...]
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