Archive for June, 2007

Watch the iPhone launch live from New York!

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Thanks to the cool new Mogulus video platform, you can watch the live stream of the launch of the Apple iPhone in New York! Go to http://iphonelaunch.tv! What I wonder is what will happen to the embedded video once the launch is over... Live video doesn't make too much sense when ...

Robotic cars: let’s get out of their way

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

photo: Global Reaction Technology will thrive once we humans don't slow it down. Not only literally in speed, but in phase-space hobbling its capacity to explore a much vaster range of solutions than the ones found when our needs are taken into consideration. Even the technology that is apparently human centric, like ...

SnapShots of links on the blog

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

I am tweaking the blog templates, trying to give the three languages (English, Italian, and Hungarian) a coherent view, as well as streamlining the home page, and giving the various additional pieces of information their own page, instead of cluttering the sidebars. Also I took the opportunity, and installed the latest ...

We all feel fine - and it shows

Friday, June 15th, 2007

We Feel Fine is an incredible display of the power of the web to transform the way we think about humanity. Emotions are among the most human of characteristics, and being able to see their power dynamically is astonishing.We Feel Fine is a website that analyses blog postings to search ...

Human speech is an important interface… for the future

Monday, June 4th, 2007

I have been using (and selling) Dragon NaturallySpeaking for the last ten years, and love it. It has become exceptionally accurate and responsive in its various revisions, especially now, that it can swallow all the hardware power we can throw at it. However, current dictation software is only useful if ...

Family Tree

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Family Tree Originally uploaded by david.orban This is a partial view of my family tree, as it is growing on http://geni.com, which enables family members to freely collaborate on adding further and further details. Started less then a month ago, my tree now includes almost 300 people, spanning 5 generations, and covering three ...