Monthly Archives: April, 2008
The Power of Kindness and Emotional Intelligence
Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at Berkeley, has a nifty essay on Power and it’s not Machiavellian. Read the essay here
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
I’m currently evaluating this service, after using some of the other amazon services such as s3, this looks super sexy in a techy way. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2′s simple [...]
Situated Software
Clay Shirky’s Situated Software: Clay says, “I teach at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where the student population is about evenly divided between technologists who care about aesthetics and artists who aren’t afraid of machines, which makes it a pretty good place to see the future.”
Points on a Sphere (PV3D)
Handy snippet from massivecube for distributing exact amount of points on the surface of a sphere. http://blog.massivecube.com/?p=9
Tweener
My favorite tweener engine for Flash – in both AS2 and 3. Simple, clean and fast. Docs are here: http://hosted.zeh.com.br/tweener/docs/en-us/
Wii Flash
Combine the Wii Controler and Flash by using the wiiFlash api this great work by Joa Ebert and Thibault Imbert The WiiFlash project is divided into two parts: WiiFlash Server (C++ or .NET server that handles Wiimote communication) WiiFlash ActionScript API (SWC component) Check it out: http://wiiflash.bytearray.org/
Mootools Mocha UI
I LOVE Mootools and here is another reason why - Mocha : “Mocha is a web applications user interface library built on the Mootools javascript framework. The Mocha GUI components are made with canvas tag graphics.”
Google App Engine Released
http://code.google.com/appengine/ Run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.
Untitled Mirror
Check out this great work done in processing. Untitled Mirror is a Processing based program that reads incoming video from a camera and triggers particles from points of the video frame that have changed by a certain level. The result is an image that is fairly representative, yet disappears within moments.
Flare Visualization Toolkit
Flare is a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations. For example, flare can be used to build basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more. Flare is written in the ActionScript 3 programming language and can be used to build visualizations that run on the web in [...]