This has been a popular topic of late given Google’s recently publicity circus. Here is a quick video and nicely rounds up a number of facts about internet censorship in countries all around the world.
via Geeks Are Sexy
The premise for this is a bit stupid, but I like this app simply for it’s “cool factor”.
Hint: It’s not YouTube’s fault…
All kids should be banned from the internet and sent to work in Siberian coal mines. Trust me. They’ll thank you for it when they grow up.
NOTE: movie studios, please disable this feature when you release movie trailers on YouTube… mmmkay?
The little guy has quite the vocal range. This gave my day a pretty good, happy spin to end things with. Enjoy.
via YouTube
This is pretty awesome.
As you know, when iRobot isn’t hard at work developing some adorable automated vacuum cleaners, it has a quite lucrative sideline in DARPA-funded research projects. On that front, it looks like we finally have some results to report back on that ChemBot project that first appeared on our radar early last year. Unveiled at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) yesterday, this palm-sized troublemaker is being billed as “the first demonstration of a completely soft, mobile robot using jamming as an enabling technology.” The “jamming” in question is something called “jamming skin enabled locomotion,” which traps air and a collection of loosely packed particles in a package made of silicon rubber. When air is removed from the pocket, the silicon restricts and seems to solidify. The robot consists of several of these pockets, which can be inflated or deflated separately, giving the device the ability to perform simple actions. This is all pretty rudimentary at the moment, but who knows? We may see Flubber in our time, after all.
via Endgadget
For those of you who haven’t heard yet, Monday afternoon I quit my job at MySpace and put in a two week notice that I would be leaving. My last day at MySpace will be October, 16th.
I’ve really enjoyed my time at MySpace. I love all the people that I’ve met there and I’ve made a number of what I expect will be life long friends. The job has been challenging in a number of ways that I didn’t expect. Through those challenges though, it has also allowed me to grow personally and professionally in a lot of ways and I will definitely miss it.
I was fortunate enough to be on what is without a doubt and by a wide margin the most talented team in the company, the MySpace Developer Platform, where I learned a ton from my teammates and the other incredibly bright people around me. During my time on the team I was able to be a core contributor to the launches of MySpace’s OpenSocial platform, OpenID implementation, and OAuth implementation.
I hope MySpace continues to put a strong emphasis on open web standards in their platform and continues to recognize and empower the team of very talented engineers they have working for them. MySpace has some huge challenges ahead of them and I hope at some point in the near future to read all about how my former teammates and others conquered those challenges with ease.
For myself though, the direction I’ve chosen to take my career is different and will no doubt be an exciting one for me. I will be moving to San Diego in a few weeks to join another talented team at a start-up called MeLLmo.
In the last year, I have really developed a passion for Ruby web development an I also have a strong interest in iPhone development (doesn’t everyone these days? silly fanboys). The move to MeLLmo will finally allow me to jump into those tech interests of mine fully and I am excited about the opportunity to work with the team there.
I had a number of options when it came to finding a new job in either of these areas, but the team at MeLLmo was without a doubt the most interesting to me. Unlike the other opportunities out there, the all-star team at MeLLmo consists of former top employees from Apple, Business Objects, IBM, Oracle, and SAP and also presented me with an opportunity to once again work with a former colleague of mine, Paul Walker, who is also from the MySpace Developer Platform.
After meeting the team, it was obvious to me that the crew over at MeLLmo is extremely passionate about their company, their product, and the technology they are using and I am eager to jump right in and surround myself with that sort of enthusiasm.
Leaving a good job and good friends is always difficult, but I am looking forward to the move to MeLLmo and I wish nothing but the best for all my friends and colleagues at MySpace.
Hang in there!
Read more about MeLLmo here.
Check out MeLLmo’s first product Roambi here.
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