Archive for October, 2006
Talking about impressive videos, having met David and Jason on Copenhagen in 2005, during their “Building of Basecamp” workshop, I can assure you, these guys are as much mac addicted as I am, so it comes with no surprise this video at Apple site, a mix of interview with a first person explanation why Macs helped their business, in these case the products developed by 37signals.
Its nice to see some well made software get its share of support from a company like Apple, a company that always search for simpler ways of working too it kind of fits in, doesn’t it? 
October 23rd, 2006
It’s not just visually impressive, if Scrybe turns out to be everything the video promises, I think we’ll have a new calendar/organizer winner, and all from the confront of our web browser, offline and online!
Check out the impressive features presented on the video. The content copy from other applications like Excel into the calendar and the other way arround seems to me extremelly well developed, dont you think? Well just check the video out… and of course register for a beta account! I did!
My favority feature is the paper sync, but you really have to see the video!
October 23rd, 2006
Miguel just sent me the email alerting to it, but I couldn’t resist to actually write about it here, Sun just release what seems to be a self contained portable datacenter:
After today, you’ll never look at an ordinary shipping container quite the same way again. Project Blackbox is a prototype of the world’s first virtualized datacenter–built into a shipping container and optimized to deliver extreme energy, space, and performance efficiencies.
Designed to address the needs of customers who are running out of space, power and cooling, Project Blackbox gives customers a glimpse into the fast, cost-effective datacenter deployments coming in the near future–where thinking out of the box means putting an IT infrastructure in a box.
I can’t stop thinking about the whole list of possibilities for its use, from war conflicts to international aid missions there’s a whole lot of situations to choose from. I actually haven’t read the policies of its use,if its just a demo product or something to be used only by Sun, but one thing is for certain, these are indeed great times, one we can already pack an entire datacenter into a container box.
Check out some more use scenarios Sun just put up online for its use.
October 18th, 2006
I’ve been following the Microformats project pretty much from the beggining, but we never learn as much from documentation or even by reading their mailling list, as from hearing one of the minds behind it presenting the subject: Tantek Çelik on Microformats at the “Future of Web Apps”.
If you haven’t figure out what Microformats is all about, this should be a first in your reading/hearing queue!
October 16th, 2006