Google’s Michael Jones on How Maps Became Personal
Here’s a great interview with my former CEO/CTO, the brilliant Michael T. Jones, in the Atlantic magazine. Link goes to the extended …
Mapping The Entertainment Ecosystems of Apple, Microsoft, Google & Amazon
Without commenting on the companies themselves, this is definitely worth reading for yourselves (Thanks Daniel!): A convergence towards Apple’s business model It’s …
3D Photo Booth
The ultimate vision among 3D printing enthusiasts is the Replicator from Star Trek (perhaps combined with the Teleporter for the live scanning …
Optical camouflage turns car’s back seat transparent
The goal of making the car invisible is a great one. Blind spots create significant hazards. For example, just last night, I …
Why Microsoft and Internet Explorer need WebGL (and vice-versa)
I was disappointed today to read the headline “Microsoft refuses to endorse WebGL, labels it ‘harmful’,” which itself is derived from a …
Read/Write World
It’s not often since I started at Microsoft 3 years ago that I get to blog about what I’m working on. It’s …
The Unauthorized History of Virtual Worlds
I wrote the following essay to help us get going crafting a review paper for a major comp-sci journal. ‘Us’ in this case …
The Singularity is Nigh
IEEE Spectrum: Special Report: The Singularity I’ll post more when I get a second, but it’ll take some time to digest. For …
The Future of Virtual Worlds
So my friend Cory Ondrejka (co-creator of Second Life) started an interesting thread last week that I didn’t see covered as widely …
Google Earth, for the Human Body
Researchers at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory claim a novel approach to accessing patient medical records — using the human body as the …
