Month: September 2006

  • It’s all about video

    With broadband lines now being the basis of internet connectivity, video is THE “theme du jour” in internet hype. With YouTube clones springing off faster than you can blink your eyes, even traditional german print media houses are thinking that they should also have one. Rem.: Over here in germany you very rarely have integrated […]

  • Mark Lombardi : Global networks

    One of my long term areas of interest is design in general but especially information visualization. Even one of my theses during was about aesthetically pleasing layout algorithms for trees/hierarchies (For you tech guys: Done in the mid eighties in LOOPS/Flavors/LISP and Smalltalk-80 on Apollo Workstations for application in an expert system shell). Hence i […]

  • Beta for NYTimes Reader available

    I just noticed (via Read/WriteWeb) that the NYT opened up the beta program of the NYTReader software. Times Reader was unveiled by Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and Bill Gates in Seattle on April 28th this year and seems to be a successor or variant of the software that microsoft code-named “Max“. The screenshots at Read/WriteWeb look […]