With The Band

362 days, 6 hours, 41 minutes.
In 362 days, we’re going to have a new president. We’re mired right now with candidates of both parties yammering about their platforms, attacking each other (since when did being called a Muslim get considered an insult?), and telling us what we think is important.
But what do you think is […]

Many believe that Israel is a perfect country for testing electric cars, due to the short distances between major cities, its entrepreneurial prowess, and its unique geopolitical needs.
Will Israel be the first country to be fully electric? Israel is already leading the way in solar technology. Story here and here. See more about Project […]

After considering it for a while, I decided to give my DC Metro Times checker it’s very own website! Everyone welcome getmetrotimes.com !
GetMetroTimes.com is a FREE service that allows you to quickly and easily check when the next metro train is arriving at your nearest station. You can check it online, or on your […]

Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Wish I was there.

I heard some rumors over the weekend, and now TechCrunch is reporting that CompUSA is shutting down. Good.
They shut down the store nearest me in Maryland a while back. It was replaced by a Micro Center, a chain I had never heard of.
To put it simply, they nailed it. A haven for both geeks […]

Wave by wave, technology has brought us amazing advancements.
Problem is, they don’t replace each other, they are cumulative. People still have records, 8-tracks, tapes, CDs, minidiscs*, 8mm reels, VHS tapes, DVDs… All are recently or long obsolete, but still technically operational, and therefore used.
The same happens with communication, particularly recently. Not only do previous methods […]

Justin posted the other day about social objects, particular aspects of us (pictures, bookmarks, status, etc…) that can be shared with other people. I was going to write a post about how my “killer” social object would be location. I ended up scrapping it, but given Yahoo’s announcement of FireEagle, a platform for personal geographic […]

Google released a set of standards called OpenSocial, which will allow developers to, instead of writing, say, a Facebook application which only works on Facebook, an application that will work on any social network that supports OpenSocial (which a lot of the other social networks other than Facebook/MySpace do).
It’s not the open social network.
It’s […]

I’ve noticed something over the past couple years. The old status quo of internet usage was to hide behind nicknames, and to divulge as little personal information as possible. Instant messaging, web sites, and chat never demanded much more than a pseudonym, and with no way to form relationships, there was no expectation of telling […]

Wired has a good article on the three potential ways in which Facebook might die. It’s common to see these predictions on big sites, as they often come true (how often do you do a search on Yahoo! or log into your Friendster account?).
I would add on a few more:

Lawsuits - Privacy is always a […]