Archive for February 20th, 2008
Lighting Without Lights: Creating HDR Images in Photoshop
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008I checked into a charming little hotel while on assignment in San Diego recently. When I opened the door, the soft, diffused light streaming into the room through the windows was beautiful. There were flowers on the table in the alcove. I had to have a photograph of it. There was one tiny problem. No [...]
Yahoo Can’t Find the Pirate Bay
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008A search for “pirate bay” on Yahoo no longer turns up a link to the controversial BitTorrent search engine. It appears that Yahoo has decided to filter the site from its search results. Clear references to the site appear in Yahoo’s drop-down search assistant, but when you click on those, you still don’t get [...]
Microsoft To Announce WorldWide Telescope On February 27
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008A source close to Microsoft says the company will launch new desktop software called WorldWide Telescope on February 27 at the TED Conference in Monterey, California. Our guess is that this is what Robert Scoble was talking about last week when he said he saw a new Microsoft project that brought him to tears.
The service [...]
Ex-Apple Team To Launch Stealth Startup Fotonauts
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008A team of five former Apple software engineers, led by former Apple Exec Jean-Marie Hullot, have been working on a new stealth desktop/web photography focused startup called Fotonauts since late 2006. Sometime in the next couple of months, they’ll launch publicly. The company is based in Paris, France.
Hullot, who worked with Steve Jobs at Apple [...]
Microsoft To Give Students Dev Software For Free
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008At a talk tomorrow at Stanford University, Bill Gates will announce that they are making much of their developer software free to college and university students. The program, called Microsoft DreamSpark, will be run by Joe Wilson, Senior Director of Academic Initiatives.Covered software includes Visual Studio Professional Edition, XNA Game Studio, Expression Studio, SQL Server [...]
Mixx To Cluster Related Stories - Digg Should Have Done This
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Digg competitor Mixx continues to impress us with new features (although the exodus of Digg users to them may have been short lived).A new feature launches this week on Mixx called Related Items. It solves a common problem found on Digg and other sites where multiple articles on the same story compete with each other [...]
Rackspace Offers Cloud Computing with Mosso
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Last week’s incident with Amazon Web Services briefly going down may have raised questions about the reliability of cloud computing, but demand is high enough for competitors to keep trying to get into the game. The more companies that enter this space, the cheaper and more competitive that Web-scale computing should become.
Today, hosting provider Rackspace [...]
Hijacking Search: Surf Canyon and ManagedQ Rethink The Search Experience
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Creating a new search engine seems like a futile exercise. If Yahoo and Microsoft cannot compete with Google in search, what chance does a startup have? So instead of creating new search engines, we are starting to see the rise of search applications that sit on top of existing search engines.
Two recent examples are Surf [...]