Category: Noteworthy

  • ViewTec and CyberCity- see the future of Google Earth

    If you want to see where Google is Headed with its combination of Google Earth and Google Sketchup have a look at The joint efforts of two (small) swiss companies: viewtec and cybercity as well as a german one RSS Especially viewtec provides a full range of solutions for the 3d visualization of the world […]

  • Chumby and Greenphone, opening up the embedded device market

    Recently two hardware announcements caught my interest, not only because cool mobile devices were introduced. More interestingly to me was the fact they brought the openness we all know from the open source software on our PCs and Laptops to the embedded devices market. First Qtopia, announced the greenphone, a mobile phone that targets developers […]

  • New Netscape beta is an interesting variation on digg

    Netscape yesterday launched a beta version of their site. At first glance it is a digg clone. But its puts on some interesting twist by having an editorial team to follow the proposed stories and introduces another set of buzzwords: metajournalism and social journalism. Jason Calacanis (GM of Netscape): “We did not create the New […]