http://joelgibby.net Putting my face in your book since 1980. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:03:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Very subtle, YouTube. I almost didn't even notice. While I was clicking around, watching videos today on my YouTubes, I was oblivious to the fact that the site had undergone a total UI makeover. To start things off, the design is clean(er). In comparison to earlier designs, the new design ... http://joelgibby.net/2010/03/13/youtube-unveils-new-ux-redesign/ Came across this tremendously rewarding link courtesy of News.YCombinator: http://www.philipkdick.com/new_letters-laddcompany.html http://joelgibby.net/2010/03/12/philip-k-dick-letter-regarding-blade-runner/ Twitter today released new location features to the http://twitter.com website, enabling users  to share their current location when posting new tweets. I have not confirmed whether this feature has been enabled for all users, but I have gathered some screenshots to share: This new feature set will finally enable other location-based ... http://joelgibby.net/2010/03/10/twitter-com-adds-location-to-tweets-implications-for-realtime/ [caption id="attachment_131" align="alignleft" width="165" caption="Evan Williams, Twitter Founder and CEO"][/caption] Strange coincidences are not irony. So don't say that this is ironic. It's just a strange coincidence: @ev (Twitter Co-Founder and CEO Evan Willams) posts a tweet that he is proud of his vast team of genius candidates: "@ev Super happy about ... http://joelgibby.net/2010/03/08/twitter-com-might-begin-using-bit-ly-to-shorten-urls-twitter-journalism/ A new tool to save time LucyPhone knows your pain. Waiting on hold sucks. You are spending precious time listening to some of the world's worst. Music. Ever. Seconds seem like minutes, and minutes seem like an eternity. You can never get that time back. Ever. You don't have to wait ... http://joelgibby.net/2010/03/03/lucyphone-com-never-wait-on-hold-again/ Announcement via Twitter Alex Payne, a developer @Twitter announced today via tweet that work has been completed on a project to enhance the scalability, resiliency and quality of people search results at Twitter. While the engineer tried to downplay the announcement, the impact could be huge for how people ... http://joelgibby.net/2010/03/02/twitter-developer-announces-advanced-people-search-upgrades-ahead-of-sxsw2010/ Location is Big But it's only a small part of the larger social landscape. Take a step back and think about what sites like Foursquare and Facebook are asking everyone: Who are you? Where are you? What are you doing? Who are your friends? What do you like? What do you DISLIKE? ... http://joelgibby.net/2010/03/02/a-users-eye-view-of-location-and-activity-in-the-stream/ Author's Note: I began this post at midnight after waking with what seemed like hundreds of ideas swimming in my head. This is what spilled out. It is raw. It is not "bloggy" It may still have errors even after I've revised it a few times. I'm not going to ... http://joelgibby.net/2010/03/01/social-inspiration-prime-time-for-location-actions-and-beyond/ Our office participates in the Dell Warranty Parts Direct service program. Basically it allows us to be "self-maintainers" and order our own warranty parts as needed rather than having to wait on hold with support to go through the same troubleshooting steps we've already completed. It's usually an efficient way ... http://joelgibby.net/2008/10/27/quality-control-dell-wpd/ We will be seeing some (hopefully positive) changes in the way Comcast manages their network; specifically Peer to Peer traffic to and from their customers. On August 1st, the FCC released a press statement skewering Comcast's practice of throttling or dropping altogether traffic bound for or coming from their customers that ... http://joelgibby.net/2008/08/12/monumental-fcc-ruling-on-comcast-p2p-practices/ Update: Johnny's website has moved. The new site is here:http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ Came across Johnny Lee's work on using the Wiimote as a low-cost IR camera for interacting with displays. He's got a couple of really neat applications demo'd on his site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ The one that really caught my eye was one that could ... http://joelgibby.net/2008/03/09/more-multitouch-wii-based-whiteboard/ Here's something I completely missed, probably because it was eclipsed by the rabid praise of the iPhone and manufactured hype of MS Surface: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfFwgPuEdSk It would be nice to see real innovation be rewarded and reported rather than advertising dollars deflect our attention.Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places. http://joelgibby.net/2008/01/27/multitouch-vs-ms-surface/ [caption id="attachment_79" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="-- Sharp guy with cool glasses"][/caption] My glasses are pitiful. Deep gashes in the lenses, discolored anti-reflective coating (from rubbing them with my shirt - hey they can't get any worse, right?), flaking "titanium" paint, and one of the bridge thingies that sits on your nose fell ... http://joelgibby.net/2008/01/02/getting-eyeglasses-cheap-locally/ Here I sit, 10:00PM on a weeknight formatting my harddrive after backing up all my important data. Looking over my shoulder I see the yellow progress bar of the XP setup telling me that the quick format is almost done. Soon setup will be copying the old files I know ... http://joelgibby.net/2007/12/17/not-staying-the-course-with-vista/ Dell may have abandoned its Axim handhelds, but hackers haven't. A new unofficial ROM puts Windows Mobile 6 on the Axim X50v and it runs far smoother than Windows Mobile 5.0. read more | digg story http://joelgibby.net/2007/08/11/dell-axim-x50v-gets-unofficial-windows-mobile-6-upgrade/