The $100 Laptop Project is a non-profit association dedicated to research to develop a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionise how the world’s children could be educated, co-founded by tech guru Nicholas Negroponte. Bill Gates has scorned the project. This for the apparent reasons that
It’s based on Linux
Google backs up the project (Microsoft hates Google)
He [...]
Forget fancy AJAX technologies and superpowered blogs. This is the ‘real’ ‘web 2.0′…
17th November 2005
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Just to shortly elaborate on the post David has on his site regarding a proposal for a new e-mail system in order to avoid spam, you could just as easily go the other way, and do as Bob Geldof: Just don’t do it at all…
11th November 2005
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I was just about to tell you that David has a nice post about mail spam, where he has a very ingenious proposal for getting rid of it. But then I saw this other post. Sony has entered the realm of spreading a ‘Corporate Virus’. Their new copy protection scheme seemingly acts like a combination [...]
28th October 2005
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Ever wondered why protagonists in video games primarily are white? Well, no wonder, since 83.3% of all people working in the industry are white. I wonder if these statistics could be applied to the buyers as well today…? Here’s a quick overview (source):
Male = 88.5%, Female = 11.5%
White = 83.3%, Black = 2.0%, Hispanic/Latino = [...]
21st October 2005
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The Core: The Apple team, from left: engineering vice president Fadell, iPod head Jon Rubinstein, industrial design chief Ive, CEO Jobs and marketing director Philip Schiller
Now the mighty fine team at Apple does a good job regarding both trends, hardware and software. Today I want to give something back to them. I’ll bet this idea [...]
Giddyup! Finally! Welcome to [°} Interiority version 5.0 (beta), code named Complex. Boy, have I worked on this for a while now. Yes, that was the small secret I talked about earlier. The reason I launch it as a beta is that I’m only finished with the blog & photography section, but I wanted to [...]
7th June 2005
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Apple went to bed with Intel yesterday. I really don’t know what to say.
One thing is that games could be easier to port to the Mac, but I’m mostly a pro user and gaming is for my X-box (long live the Dreamcast), and a cheaper Mac? Well, that I need to see, before I [...]