September 14, 2005

YubNub is a web command line. A starting point for a Web OS, as Jon Aquino suggests. via eHub

A 40-minute video preview of Office 12. I don’t normally watch videos this long. But it was worth it. Office 12 has a REALLY different user interface (critique). It’s also supposed to have a lot of new features. What struck me the most in the video is how Powerpoint creates diagrams. You type text, and Powerpoint can automatically convert that into value chains, org charts, etc. Julie mentions that a blind user was able to create graphics using this feature, and that this was the first time she has been able to create graphics in all her life!

Google Blogsearch. Comments Ok 28 Sep 2005 7:29 am: Nice!

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes will be released. (I’ve transcribed the quotes.) Comments Anonymous 20 Sep 2005 6:08 pm: btw its available at a website, all strips ever published Anonymous 20 Sep 2005 6:09 pm: and its searchable thru google, let me know if you want the link S Anand 21 Sep 2005 4:58 pm: YES PLEASE! Can you mail me at root dot node at gmail dot com?

I have an automated (and lazy) way of finding interesting sites. This is what I do every day. I get the del.icio.us tags of every URL I blog about. (It’s available at http://del.icio.us/rss/url/ followed by the MD5 hex version of the URL). I pick the most popular tags (at least 50 links must have this tag), and use them as my “preferred tags” I scan the most popular sites on del.icio.us, and get each site’s tags If a site has my preferred tags, I give it points (the number of points is equal to the number of times I’ve blogged that tag) I pick the top 5 sites based on my points, and read them. There are two problems I have now. Firstly, I will find sites similar to those I have blogged about – not discover anything new. That’s fine to start with – I can search for those manually. The bigger problem is, this is restricted to del.icio.us. There are two ways I can extend this (lazily). ...