January 2008
14 posts
Internet '96 →
Classic! “In 1996, the Internet Archive began archiving the web for a service called the Wayback Machine. They’ve now archived 55 billion web pages. That’s enough web pages that if you were to print them all out using your roommate’s printer while he was at class and tape them end-to-end, you could reach the moon and back 28 trillion times.” …...
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mixi.jp
Finally on mixi (ミクシィ)… as 光の流れ. Not exactly productive but anyway… around 16.4mm users registered as of Jan 08. There’s an interesting ‘footprint’ feature that chronologically lists the people who have visited your page. Of course that means if you click on someone’s page, they’re more than likely to want to see who that person is in return… well...
“Much more to be told here” - SocGen’s €5bn... →
So really, how do you accumulate >EUR 25BN of underlying equity delta without anyone noticing…?? That’s a lot of futs… W.T.F.
WatchDone in Flash 4 almost seven years ago… old skool.
Oh to be part of the chain...
Finally got round to signing up to del.icio.us and Twitter.
FLASH FORWARD - Los Angeles Times →
“It’s way beyond Web design now. Way beyond a single program or person. As you read this, millions of people are uploading their dreams, thoughts, desires, fears, visions, memories and prayers into the virtual stratosphere. Entire cities—New York, San Francisco, Tokyo—are going wireless. Hand-held devices no longer distinguish among the singular functionality of “phone,”...
Delicious Library →
It was inevitable someone would build this… digital library management for all your books, movies, music and games. Scan the barcode in via ISight or DV cam and there you go, the item appears on your digital shelves. Well it does a lot more, all explained in the link…
Tumblet widget on the good old Mac Dashboard
I never thought I’d be a Mac convert… always strangely enjoyed tinkering away with IRQ settings, corrupt drivers and the Windoze registry… Anyway back to the point, just testing out this Tumblet widget for the simple reason that I think it is cool (except it doesn’t allow Title editing… minor gripe(!)).
What?
Web technology and the way it integrates and permeates is truly incredible. I see and read cool things constantly but know that there is so much more. Look at how you can outsource blog functionalities to external services like Tumblr and Disqus. The evolution of blogging and having an online presence is continuing at a breakneck pace (well I believe anyway). The virtual world impinges on the...
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Flow of Light photos →
My photo-site…
First Tumblr Post
Well the title says it all!