December 31, 2008
December 30, 2008
Star Trek - Trailer 2 HD Quality (Dir. by J.J. Abrams)
Wikipedia
Star Trek is a science fiction film directed by J. J. Abrams, written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and produced by Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk. It is the eleventh Star Trek film and features the main characters of the original Star Trek series, who are portrayed by a new cast. It follows James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) enrolling at Starfleet Academy, his first meeting with Spock (Zachary Quinto), and their battles with Romulans from the future, who are interfering with history.[1] The film is scheduled for release in conventional theaters and IMAX on May 8, 2009 in North America and the United Kingdom.[2]
Development of the film began in 2005 when Paramount Pictures contacted Abrams, Orci and Kurtzman for ideas to revive the franchise. The creative team contrasted Orci and Lindelof, who consider themselves "Trekkies", with casual fans like Abrams, who all aimed to create a film that would interest a general audience. They wanted to be faithful to Star Trek canon, but also introduced elements of their favorite novels, modified continuity with the time travel storyline, and modernized the production design of the original show. Filming took place from November 2007 to April 2008 under intense secrecy. Midway through the shoot, Paramount chose to delay the release date from December 25, 2008 to May 2009, believing the film would perform better in the northern summer.
December 29, 2008
Street Fighter 4 'Ink Bleed'
The new Street fighter 4 by capcom looks sweet!.
Capcom has released a new trailer for Street Fighter 4 that features footage of characters new and old. Street Fighter 4 will be available in arcades, on the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
This is the first official trailer for Gouken, an anticipated addition to the growing cast of Street Fighter 4. Known as Sheng Long among certain circles, he is the master of Ken and Ryu, who treats his art of fighting as a means of defense rather than offense. Street Fighter is coming to the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, from Capcom.
Capcom has released a new trailer for Street Fighter 4 that features footage of characters new and old. Street Fighter 4 will be available in arcades, on the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
This is the first official trailer for Gouken, an anticipated addition to the growing cast of Street Fighter 4. Known as Sheng Long among certain circles, he is the master of Ken and Ryu, who treats his art of fighting as a means of defense rather than offense. Street Fighter is coming to the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, from Capcom.
December 28, 2008
Tim O’Reilly Steers Us to a Post-Web-2.0 World
Tim O’Reilly, head of O’Reilly Media, famous publisher of tech books and other things like Make Magazine and planner of conferences/expos like Web 2.0 Expo, takes me through the Web 2.0 wave of technologies and talks about the past few years since the last downturn.
December 24, 2008
Lectures on how Google's PageRank operates
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Link to course
Part of what makes Google such an amazing engine of innovation is their internal technology stack: a set of powerful proprietary technologies that makes it easy for Google developers to generate and process enormous quantities of data. According to a senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google, Googlers work and think at a higher level of abstraction than do developers at many other companies, including Microsoft: “Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement” (Credit: Joel Spolsky). This series of posts describes some of the technologies that make this high level of abstraction possible. The technologies I’ll describe include:
Link to course
Part of what makes Google such an amazing engine of innovation is their internal technology stack: a set of powerful proprietary technologies that makes it easy for Google developers to generate and process enormous quantities of data. According to a senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google, Googlers work and think at a higher level of abstraction than do developers at many other companies, including Microsoft: “Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement” (Credit: Joel Spolsky). This series of posts describes some of the technologies that make this high level of abstraction possible. The technologies I’ll describe include:
December 23, 2008
StarCraft 2 'Battle Report 1' clip
StarCraft 2 'Battle Report 1' clip
Gamers are impatiently waiting for the release of Blizzard's StarCraft 2 and videos like these are making the wait a little more unbearable. This first in a video series called StarCraft 2 shoutcasts feature Designers Matt Cooper and David Kim going against each other in the Kulas Ravine Map.
Gamers are impatiently waiting for the release of Blizzard's StarCraft 2 and videos like these are making the wait a little more unbearable. This first in a video series called StarCraft 2 shoutcasts feature Designers Matt Cooper and David Kim going against each other in the Kulas Ravine Map.
December 8, 2008
December 7, 2008
Youtube is finally going HD
"These new HD videos, however, are clearly a game-changer. Web video always had the name of having relatively sub-standard video quality and being generally grainy and hard to watch (and YouTube especially). Now, you could easily put up a screen-cast on YouTube in HD, or film a video with your new Flip MinoHD and have it seen in its full 720p glory."Readwriteweb
December 5, 2008
A conversation with Arianna Huffington
Arianna appeared on Charlie Rose Thursday night, where she discussed the world of blogging.
December 2, 2008
December 1, 2008
Cristiano Ronaldo free-kick compilation
Ronaldo is the top contender for 2008 FIFA player of the year award.
In The End - Vegeta Tribute, definately a classic
I definately agree with this comment by hamps19.
"Even though this is Linkin Park and DBZ, and both have formed their stigmas over the years, I still have to admit that this video is unabashedly awesome. Everyone's seen it like 8 years ago, back in the day when they were a kid and loved it. NEVER FORGET"
"Even though this is Linkin Park and DBZ, and both have formed their stigmas over the years, I still have to admit that this video is unabashedly awesome. Everyone's seen it like 8 years ago, back in the day when they were a kid and loved it. NEVER FORGET"
Lionel Messi
The youne Argentine Lionel Messi, is swiftly becoming recognized the indisputable talent as one of the worlds best soccer players, and without doubt one of the best dribblers.
November 5, 2008
Web 2.0 Summit - John Doerr
The Web 2.0 Summit began today in San Francisco with some big names in tech talking about politics,green tech, and of course things happening in web 2.0. Talks will be going between Nov 5 to Nov 8. Here's a talk between John Doerr a distinguished Silicon Valley investor from Kleiner Perkins and John Battelle from last years Summit. You can follow the rest of the video's here.
Halo 2 video link
Halo 2 video link
November 4, 2008
Top anime characters
CNN is cool. In addition to the huge touchscreen “Magic Wall” (which was originally military technology), CNN’s Wolf Blitzer gets to play with Holograms today during their coverage of the presidential elections.
CNN’s Jessica Yellin is the guinea pig, appearing virtually with Blitzer.
I have no idea why Yellin doesn’t just go to the studio instead of being wherever she is, or why they don’t just point a camera at her and bring her into the story in the normal way, and I don’t care. They have a hologram, and if I wasn’t getting on a plane in twenty minutes I’d be watching CNN the rest of the evening.
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CNN’s Jessica Yellin is the guinea pig, appearing virtually with Blitzer.
I have no idea why Yellin doesn’t just go to the studio instead of being wherever she is, or why they don’t just point a camera at her and bring her into the story in the normal way, and I don’t care. They have a hologram, and if I wasn’t getting on a plane in twenty minutes I’d be watching CNN the rest of the evening.
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October 16, 2008
Full Top Gear test of the RR Phantom
Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson takes a spin of the Rolls Royce(RR) Phantom throw Hull. This is a personal favourite of mine, as he expresses something about design in the car, which was they had the money and resources to do some much, yet they did so little. And that made the car better.
Part two
Part two
October 2, 2008
About the Current market crisis, interview with Warren Buffett
A talk on the state of the US economy by Charlie Rose with Warren Buffett.
Recently Warren has put a 5 billion dollar stack into Goldman sach and 3 billion in General Electric after the October 29th 2008 stockmarket plumet.
September 30, 2008
An update on the Economy
Lehman Brothers, Congressional politics, AIG, House Financial Services Committee, Stock Market, Barney Frank, finance, Democratic minority, economy
September 25, 2008
Steve Ballmer talks about the future of software and mobile
Ballmer remains very bullish on search (advertising) and see's mobile as one of the new completely unconquered markets where new software will emerge. Follow up on the dicussion here
Ballmer and Winblad also discussed the mobile market. Ballmer is focused on the smartphone market, where Microsoft software is a major player. 125 million smart phones will be sold this year, he said, and that will grow to a billion in five years. He says proprietary hardware/software stacks (iPhone) will have trouble competing with the more open approaches, such as Microsoft, Android, Symbian, etc. He ads a caveat, however: users won’t trade off usability just to have different hardware choices. The operating systems must work seamlessly across different hardware configurations.
September 17, 2008
Diablo 3 Preview
Eights years since the release of Diablo II, Blizzard coming out with Diablo 3. Here's a video Preview and some(link test) game info from the Lead World Designer of Diablo Leonard Boyarsky.
September 16, 2008
A discussion about the crisis on Wall Street
A discussion about the crisis on Wall Street with Lawrence Summers, Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times Charles Gasparino of CNBC, Josh Rosner of Graham Fisher & Co. and Nouriel Roubini. Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest US investment bank, has filed for bankruptcy protection, stock markets and the US dollar have tumbled in reaction to Lehman's collapse.
Guest speakers :Lawrence Summers, Charles Gasparino, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Nouriel Roubini, Josh Rosner.
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Guest speakers :Lawrence Summers, Charles Gasparino, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Nouriel Roubini, Josh Rosner.
September 15, 2008
Javascript tutorials
(Slides available at http://yuiblog.com/assets/crockford/javascript.zip). Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford provides a comprehensive introduction to the JavaScript Programming Language in this four-part video. This is the first section of the four-part video
Javascript Lecture Part 2 of 4
Javascript Lecture Part 2 of 4
September 10, 2008
Top Gear take on the US part 1: $1000 car & alligator brake challenge - Top Gear - BBC autos
A chance to see the famous Top Gear American road trip with fat Stig, alligators, guns and bargain car deals. Want to watch more? Check out part 2! Jeremy Clarkson
BBC: £1500 Porsche Challenge - Top Gear
The Top Gear boys Jeremy Clarkson Richard Hammond and James May are all given £1500 to buy a second hand Porsche. As the Top gear production team provide a variety of challenges to put their purchases to the test, who will come out victorious as the best bargain buyer, and who will be shown to be the worst at selecting a vintage (and cheap!) Porsche? Watch this great challenge clip from BBC car show Top Gear to find out!
Don't forget to hit 'view in high quality' at the bottom right of the video to get the best picture. Visit http://www.topgear.com for all the latest news and reviews.
Jeremy's Extreme Ford Fiesta road test
The Top Gear boys are deeply offended by a fan letter claiming that they don't review cars properly anymore. To compensate, Jeremy Clarkson takes the new Ford Fiesta for an extraordinary road test including a car chase inside a shopping centre, and a Royal Marine assisted beach assault. Brilliant high quality video from BBC motoring show, Top Gear. Visit http://www.TopGear.com for all the latest news and car reviews.
Top Gear - Ariel Atom - BBC
Jeremy Clarkson challenges the Ariel Atom to prove more fun than a motorbike - with astounding results. The speed is unlike any car or motorcycle on the road today, Top Gear investigates!
Jeremy Clarkson tests Koenigsegg CCX - BBC
Jeremy Clarkson test drives the Koenigsegg CXX - and Stig takes it round the Top Gear track. Speed racing automobiles take to the road in this exciting free clip from BBC Worldwide.
September 6, 2008
Robert Scoble takes a look behind Facebooks new design and HD video plaform
"If you haven't seen it yet, Facebook has an awesome new design. I wanted to hear more about it from the guy managing the team that did it. Here's Mark Slee, lead product manager at Facebook giving us insight into how they worked it out. Oh, and you'll get a rare look into the executive offices at Facebook."
"Chris Putnam, software engineer at Facebook who runs the video team, talks about its new HD video feature. He also tells me about how he got his job at Facebook, which is quite interesting because it wasn't with a traditional interview"
"Chris Putnam, software engineer at Facebook who runs the video team, talks about its new HD video feature. He also tells me about how he got his job at Facebook, which is quite interesting because it wasn't with a traditional interview"
August 30, 2008
August 29, 2008
Bill Gates
Carnegie Mellon was the final stop on Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates' recent tour of several nationally recognized universities.
As founder, chairman and former CEO of Microsoft, Gates revoluti...
As founder, chairman and former CEO of Microsoft, Gates revoluti...
August 13, 2008
What took them so long to make another game?
Blizzard has a reputation for being very careful about the quality of their product. They've probably been testing and tweaking every aspect of the game since the beginning of the project, and they won't stop until the game ships out for retail shelves. All in the name of making sure the player loves the experience. I don't think they've disappointed yet. Long wait or no.youtube
University Lipdub (HS Furtwangen) from DASKAjA on Vimeo.
University Lipdub (HS Furtwangen) from DASKAjA on Vimeo.
August 7, 2008
FriendFeed and Plaxo’s Pulse
There is a sea change underway in social networking. If there were any doubt that we are moving from the “walled garden” phase to a new era defined by interoperability between aggregation hubs and the rest of the Social Web, recent moves by Facebook and MySpace should erase any doubt.
The biggest winners of the future will be the services that do the best job of harnessing the power of the virtuous cycle of social discovery at the core of “Social Web Aggregation.” Let’s take a look at how two pioneers of the new model are faring, Plaxo Pulse and FriendFeed…Music
The biggest winners of the future will be the services that do the best job of harnessing the power of the virtuous cycle of social discovery at the core of “Social Web Aggregation.” Let’s take a look at how two pioneers of the new model are faring, Plaxo Pulse and FriendFeed…Music
July 31, 2008
My Idea - RealScrapbookStuff.com
This was a tough one. As I took my daily walk and started brainstorming various options for photo sharing services, I kept coming up with ideas. Problem was, they were all being done. Submit a photo via Email? Upload files without any sign-on friction? Mashup photos with music? Put live annotations on videos? (congrats, btw!) Argh! I kept racking my brain and finally decided to bring out my secret weapon - my wife. As she was running out the door, I asked her what problems she has with image/video websites. She thought for a few seconds and said “I need a website to help me to with my scrapbooking”. She headed out the door, and I had my idea for the day.
Now, I know a handful of you are already heading straight to the comments to post a bunch of links to similar photo sharing sites. However, every scrapbooking-type site I’ve seen falls into one of the following two catagories:
Use your computer to create a physical scrapbook that is mailed to you
Use your computer to create an online scrapbook that is embedded in social networks, blogs, etc..
This idea is different - I’m proposing a site where hardcore scrapbookers can upload digital photos to create scrapbook pages, and use digital reproductions of real stickers, stamps, and borders to mock up their pages. The site keeps track of all of the materials that are used in the online creation, and when the user is finished they would then have the option to purchase all of the raw materials (including the cropped, re-sized, printed photos) and have them shipped straight to your front door.
I’m not a scrap-booker myself, but based on observing my wife and her friends, here are a few problems I believe this would solve:
Now, I know a handful of you are already heading straight to the comments to post a bunch of links to similar photo sharing sites. However, every scrapbooking-type site I’ve seen falls into one of the following two catagories:
Use your computer to create a physical scrapbook that is mailed to you
Use your computer to create an online scrapbook that is embedded in social networks, blogs, etc..
This idea is different - I’m proposing a site where hardcore scrapbookers can upload digital photos to create scrapbook pages, and use digital reproductions of real stickers, stamps, and borders to mock up their pages. The site keeps track of all of the materials that are used in the online creation, and when the user is finished they would then have the option to purchase all of the raw materials (including the cropped, re-sized, printed photos) and have them shipped straight to your front door.
I’m not a scrap-booker myself, but based on observing my wife and her friends, here are a few problems I believe this would solve:
May 1, 2008
mytipnetwork - [cdxvbzbke]
Midori is an offshoot of Microsoft Research’s Singularity operating system, the tools and libraries of which are completely managed code. Midori is designed to run directly on native hardware (x86, x64 and ARM), be hosted on the Windows Hyper-V hypervisor, or even be hosted by a Windows process. According to published reports, Eric Rudder, senior vice president for technical strategy at Microsoft and an alumnus of Bill Gates' technical staff, is heading up the effort. Rudder served as senior vice president of Microsoft’s Servers and Tools group until 2005. A Microsoft spokesperson refused comment.
“That sounds possible— I’ve heard rumors to the effect that he [Rudder] had an OS project in place,” said Rob Helm, director of research at Directions on Microsoft. He noted that it is quite possible that the project is just exploratory, but conceivably a step above what Microsoft Research does.Welcome to the test page function for fa Facebook test run.
A list of friends isn’t enough to create a sense of audience, it’s merely a pre-requisite. What users need the most is feedback (re-assurance) that their audience is 1) present and 2) listening to them.
Follow Me, Follow You. The loop starts with the notification that another user “is now following you” (on Twitter or Flickr or FriendFeed, which are all based on the same passive follower pattern). Note that Faceook’s model of a relationship is symmetric such that both users have to agree on being connected. (What are the implications?)
Let users know who’s following them – so obvious that it shouldn’t need mentioning
Spotlight 2009 Samba - Christine & Jean-Sébastien
Listen to audio
Prefer audio? Great! “Right click” for the MP3 format.
You’re already getting those countless emails. How could your system send fewer and still be effective? GetSatisfaction sends one update per day, Dopplr send one a week.
Bonus points: Make a distinction between reciprocal followers, like Flickr: “Yay! grex has marked you as a contact too.” vs. “If you don’t know grex, grex is probably a fan of your photos …”
“That sounds possible— I’ve heard rumors to the effect that he [Rudder] had an OS project in place,” said Rob Helm, director of research at Directions on Microsoft. He noted that it is quite possible that the project is just exploratory, but conceivably a step above what Microsoft Research does.Welcome to the test page function for fa Facebook test run.
A list of friends isn’t enough to create a sense of audience, it’s merely a pre-requisite. What users need the most is feedback (re-assurance) that their audience is 1) present and 2) listening to them.
Follow Me, Follow You. The loop starts with the notification that another user “is now following you” (on Twitter or Flickr or FriendFeed, which are all based on the same passive follower pattern). Note that Faceook’s model of a relationship is symmetric such that both users have to agree on being connected. (What are the implications?)
Let users know who’s following them – so obvious that it shouldn’t need mentioning
Spotlight 2009 Samba - Christine & Jean-Sébastien
Listen to audio
Prefer audio? Great! “Right click” for the MP3 format.
You’re already getting those countless emails. How could your system send fewer and still be effective? GetSatisfaction sends one update per day, Dopplr send one a week.
Bonus points: Make a distinction between reciprocal followers, like Flickr: “Yay! grex has marked you as a contact too.” vs. “If you don’t know grex, grex is probably a fan of your photos …”
April 28, 2008
Test post
Here is the one sheet and trailer for the latest Liam Neeson film, Taken. The film revolves around a former spy Bryan ( Liam Neeson) who relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace - from LOST), who has been kidnapped and forced into the slave trade. The film also stars Famke Janssen, Xander Berkelyy and Leland Orser.
Blizzard has denied rumours that development on StarCraft II has been largely postponed until Diablo III is finished.In September, battleforums.com carried quotes from an "anonymous source from inside Blizzard" that said: "Starcraft 2 is still being worked on, but only by a minuscule amount of people compared to what Blizzard put on the Diablo 3 team."
The comments suggested that massively anticipated dungeon crawler Diablo III would be out before RTS StarCraft II, a reversal in expected release timings.
Blizzard has denied rumours that development on StarCraft II has been largely postponed until Diablo III is finished.In September, battleforums.com carried quotes from an "anonymous source from inside Blizzard" that said: "Starcraft 2 is still being worked on, but only by a minuscule amount of people compared to what Blizzard put on the Diablo 3 team."
The comments suggested that massively anticipated dungeon crawler Diablo III would be out before RTS StarCraft II, a reversal in expected release timings.
Halo 3 Masterchief
Zinedine Yazid Zidane (pronounced [ˌzineˈdin jaziːd ziˈdan ]; born 23 June 1972 in Marseille), popularly nicknamed Zizou, is a French former football midfielder. He was a member of the French national team that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and the recipient of the Golden Ball after he captained the French side to the 2006 World Cup final, a match that saw his career end in controversy after he was sent off for headbutting Italy defender Marco Materazzi.
He played for four European clubs, and won the 2002 UEFA Champions League with Real Madrid. One of only two three-time FIFA World Player of the Year winners (Ronaldo being the other), he was also named European Footballer of the Year in 1998. In 2004, fans voted him atop UEFA's fiftieth-anniversary Golden Jubilee Poll, and he was included in Pelé's FIFA 100.
He played for four European clubs, and won the 2002 UEFA Champions League with Real Madrid. One of only two three-time FIFA World Player of the Year winners (Ronaldo being the other), he was also named European Footballer of the Year in 1998. In 2004, fans voted him atop UEFA's fiftieth-anniversary Golden Jubilee Poll, and he was included in Pelé's FIFA 100.
April 27, 2008
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