Category Archives: Untitled, unfinished, incomplete

Reminiscing about Nintendo and Sega

Aug 28th – 6pm

Watching Google and Yahoo! compete is like watching Sega and Nintendo back in the day when it was SegaCD vs Super Nintendo (wow, now I get to date myself with “obscure” references to old skool technology!). Oh yeah, and meanwhile Microsoft is pricing itself out of the market, just like NeoGeo did.
With Google’s more staid [...]

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A combined view of the world

Aug 14th – 12am

In a post titled “The new Combined View and hybrid web/desktop apps“, Brent Simmons reveals that’s he’s starting to see the power of AJAX-powered interfaces in Mac apps, namely NetNewsWire (beta 3.0b7 now available).
Going one step further, he makes a very important observation:
The key to the whole thing is JavaScript. When something happens in the [...]

By Chris Messina | Also posted in Microformats, Open source, Technology, Usability, Web building | Comments (3)

Calling FUD on Godin

Aug 11th – 12pm

The media we use to represent ourselves has a tendency to consume us.
Or so it would, should we allow it.
Seth Godin says that The prevalance of online video, constant skype connections and the multiple threads of data we get online, combined with the enormous overhead that flying now brings might just change the [value of [...]

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