2007 Nov 28, 5:07Vishu, my ex-office-mate, has left Washington and Microsoft for California and Facebook. Vishu and I shared an office for a while and I really enjoyed it. We were able to distract one another from,
and help each other with work. We'd often bounce ideas off of one another, work related or otherwise. For one such idea I recently received a Microsoft patent cube, a small marble cube inscribed with
my and my invention's name. There are some photos of
other people's patent cubes on flickr. Vishu
would have received one for this idea too since we developed the idea and wrote the document about it together, but they wait a long time to send you the cube and he was gone a few weeks before they
sent it (don't worry, he got the credit and other rewards though).
A week or two after I got my cube Vishu was visiting the Microsoft campus just before moving his family down with him to California. A bunch of us joined him for lunch that day and it sounds like
he's enjoying his new job already. Have fun Vishu!
microsoft facebook vishu cube patent nontechnical 2007 Nov 6, 2:46Video of TED lectures. TED is (from Wikipedia) "... an annual conference held in Monterey, California and recently, semi-annually in other cities around the world. TED describes itself as a "group of
remarkable people that gather to exchange ideas of inc
analysis blog video visualization internet social technology ted business news ideas conference 2007 May 1, 4:33In the past I've come up with ideas for software and find that the very idea is implemented soon after. So this time rather than getting down about it I'm going to make it work for me. I'll state
what I want to use and hope that its magically implemented. In order to uniformly support comments on my website I want a web service with the following features:
- Allow users to view and add comments for any particular URI.
- Use OpenID and optionally Card Space to
identify users.
- Use a captcha system that's optionally cute or humorous.
- Has atom or rss feeds of the comments available.
- Doesn't require users to register.
- Doesn't require any extra steps for commenting on a URI that no one has commented on.
I'm going implement this now so no one go off and do it before me so that I can use it without having to do anything...
technical homepage 2005 Nov 30, 3:35Clay Shirky writes about why ontologies are overrated. I don't agree with everything but Clay brings up some interesting ideas.
blog development internet reference ontology
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