One Laptop Per Child' Program Faces Challenges

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16739657

Hotcakes

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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Give One Get One

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQbtebeftyA

URL

URL have become such a basic part of our lives. Yet there is no east
way to handle them in email or word processing documents etc.

I'm proposing a standard.
URL should always be encapsulated in a button. clicking the button
activates the button. CNTRL click and a small editor pops up to allow
the user to edit the URL. For mac its CMD click.

This way, the URL can be as long and crytic as needed. The user will
never "break" it. Because its safely tucked away.

Onscreen keyboard in iPhone 1.1.2

Onscreen keyboard in iPhone 1.1.2

Totally cool. New feature. When I hold down a key, a popular menu
appears if there are alternative versions for that letter.

Feliz año nuevo!

Cafè

Über phone

Most north Americans will shrug their shoulders at this. But many
cultures around the world need those extra keys.

And! The cool thing is - users are no longer required to memorize
special keystroke combos to key in those letters.

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Idea for touch

New touch device. 

Like iphone. But for car.

GPS built in.

Also controls climate control system.

Can pop out of dash if you want to take it with and for composing emails.

New glasses

Progressive lenses

July 2007

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Musings about twitter

With just five or six one sentence posts to my twitter micro blog I can backtrack thru each day.

I am curious though. After six months will it make any sense? After one year? When will the BREAD CRUMBS become meaningless?

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Hypercard

I would rather have hypercard than an iIPHONE. The. World already has enough PDA. But we don't have a hypercard.
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Twitter

I have started using twitter to jot down what I am doing during the day.

Twitter is a micro blog. Its super simple. One input field and the question

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

The idea is your friends can subscribe to your twitter. This way all the folks in your circle of friends keep up with each other on what each is doing and where they are.

My main harlep is that I can't do searches. At least I don't see how.

I can make entries in the thing from the browser on my cellphone.
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Re mitch kapor course on open source at M. I. T. Available for free download at iTunes U.

People who are used to working in closed environments protected from scrutiny of outside world sometimes struggle when going into open source projects where 'eyes of the world' are on them.

The apache guy gave an example. IBM threw a bunch of people into the apache project but they kind of kept to themselves. Preferring to stand in front of whitboards and draw boxes.

Up until now we mainly think of open source methodology as for coders. But it might also work in the design process. And since design is basically ideas this opens up other fields other than software.

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msmobiles.com - Major New Palm Product Announcement Tomorrow

http://msmobiles.com/news.php/6404.html

Dang this is going to be a busy summer.

Palm - they might announce their long long awaited linux platform. Nobody knows. msmobiles out scooped engadget!

Apple - iphone - driving up the price of apple stock. Expectations are going thru the roof. Its gonna get compared to everything under the sun!

HTC - largest mfgr of windows mobile devices. Not sure what they're going to release but they produce nice devices. Big taiwanese outfit.

Three major announcements within the next few weeks.
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Mamp

I installed mamp on my mac this morning. MAMP is a one click install of
Apache
MySQL
PHP
For macintosh.

Whoever wrote this software should be commended. The UI is outstanding by mac standards. Very simple.

There isn't much to apache. You just run it. Same with PHP. No config. You just use it. Mysql - have never used it. Thinking to by an oreiley book on mysql.

LAMP does the same thing for linux.
WAMP does the same thing for windows.

Do a find on LAMP WAMP MAMP on Wikipedia. You'll find even more products of similiar flavours. Like SQL server versions.

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New search idea

Don't know if this would be feasible.

Current search model works like this.

Type in search parms.
Press return
You get back links to other pages.

Each one of those 'sites' has a full user interface with buttons more links ads etc etc

But what if they don't WANT to create a UI? With todays search model they have to create that UI. You can't surf raw data. It has to be presented.

So what if the model was divided in two pieces (or more?)

You'd have data keepers. And you'd have presentation providers. Each would partner with each other and each would do what they do best.

Adobe would be a great presentation provider. They're great at that. New york times is a great data keeper. Same with WSJ.

We already have crude examples of this. My yahoo comes to mind. But their presentation of the news is lackluster and plain.

Google has a similiar feature that allows users to show snippets of news from RSS enabled websites but again its very plain and boring to the eyes.

Digg.com is something like this model. But even though their website looks modern its still basically a bunch of bullet point items marching down the page.

Need to go back and look at newsvine.com again


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