Digg Labs: A Glimpse of Real-Time Possibilites on The Web

After I received an email from Kendall of The Wharton School I looked at the new services on Digg Labs. He described them as offering a glimpse at the possibilities to deliver a real-time experience to the web. As I look at both stack and swarm I think he's right. it could be a very big 1st step in the evolution of how we interact on the web.

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Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth (Awesome!)

Ever wondered what it would be like to walk through your digital photos in 3D or see what hundreds of other people shot at the same location? See Photosynth in action and hear how Live Labs is exploring new ways to change the way you think about the web.

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The World's Most Photorealistic Vector Art

If I didn't know it already, I wouldn't discern that the gallery is made up of drawings. Yes! They are NOT photographs.

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Pentagon Watching Youtube Closely

The Pentagon is keeping a close eye on what its troops post online, with special attention being paid to videos that show the aftermath of comba

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Make your own buttons : Google style

Custom Buttons are by far my favorite feature in the new Google Toolbar, which comes out of beta today. Clearly I �m not the only one, either -- we have over 600 buttons in the gallery, with new buttons being added every day.

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Opinion: 'Perfect Storm' of Mac Sales May Be On Horizon

"A family in my neighborhood has been all PC since the PC XT. But the eldest son is going off to college and says he wants a Mac. It's the vanguard of a new generation gap. He's never owned a Mac but he's gotta have one � a good sign for Apple."

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An AJAX enhancement for WordPress blogs

"This is cool. AjaxWp is a lightweight JavaScript enhancement that adds AJAX functionality to WordPress blogs speeding up load times, increasing the responsiveness of the user interface and giving the blog an overall cooler look."

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Digg.com 4th most linked to site on the web!

Forget Alexa. Based on links Digg.com is the 4th most popular site on the web. Beating even AOL.com and cnet.com. Netscape.com, newsvine.com and reddit.com don't even come close. Digg on...

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Amazing Retro 1950's Ads (Really Cool)

The Ad*Access project consists of hundreds of retro ads from the 1950's. They are grouped into five categories: Beauty & Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation & World War II. These subjects were chosen for their broad popular appeal and proven interest to students, faculty and researchers.

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Segway Centaur

These things look really cool, hopefully they do decide to go ahead and sell them.

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Review: Apple's wireless Mighty Mouse

A review of Apple's bluetooth Mighty Mouse

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Flying Windows, Bad Ass Mac Screen Saver

If you own a Mac you definitely want to check this out. This screen saver will take which ever windows you have open and fly them around your screen, flip, twist and twirl them around in an impressive eye candy way. Those around you will most likely want to find out where in the world you found those. Best of all, freebie....

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Amazing GUI Idea: Foldable Windows!

"Fold n' Drop is an interaction technique being developed for seamlessly dragging and dropping between overlapping windows using gestures. You can fold back and sort through a stack of windows like they were paper. After you drop the object, your window layout is instantly restored to normal. Try the Java demo.

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Macbook Pro Battery Recall (15")

Apple has initiated a worldwide battery exchange program for certain rechargeable batteries that were sold for use with 15-inch MacBook Pro computer systems from February 2006 through May 2006. The affected batteries have model number A1175 and a 12-digit serial number that ends with U7SA, U7SB or U7SC.

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Ze Frank, YouTube, and Making Money

The brilliant Ze thinks there is a coming of age happening online, as demonstrated by the recent debate among blogs kicked off by Wired News and Boing Boing about YouTube's terms of services. As more people invest more time into these videos, and the prospect of making money actually begins to become real for many of these contrubutors.

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