Miscellaneous Debris

So, we’ve got a lot going on lately, what with the move and all. We’ll try to keep the content rolling despite real work. Rich attended Startup School 2009 over the weekend, and although he didn’t find much to blog about, you could try to rally him into a post by commenting or pestering him… Read More

Auto-Tuning the Spoken Word

The good thing about having a blog without a narrow focus is that I can blog about pretty much anything. And I do. Case in point, auto-tuning. Until a few months ago, I wasn’t familiar with the practice of auto-tuning, which applies effects to people’s voices. I guess it’s usually applied to singer’s voices to… Read More

OpenWorld Cometh

So, we’ll all be making the trip to OpenWorld in a few days. I’m the only one on the team actually flying, but if you’re familiar with Bay Area traffic, you could argue that we’re all traveling (vs. commuting). Anyway, I’m not sure of my exact itinerary, assuming you care, but due to our recent… Read More

PhotoSketch Looks Awesome

After several days under the weather, I emerged today to several thousand unread feed items. Normally to get through a lot of content, I scan the titles of the items for interesting stuff before reading further. Today, I think I passed up PhotoSketch (h/t Techmeme, Gizmodo) at least four times before it stuck, but when it… Read More

Sudoku anyone?

Just testing out a collaborative sudoku gadget from Google Wave. Update: you’ll only see this if you have a Google Wave account. 7 invites left. First 7 to comment gets an invite! Update: All my (Jake’s) invitations are gone, not sure where Rich is with his batch. Also, the Wave script seems to be borked.… Read More

Gazing into the Future of Tech

There are few things like predictions to spark some discussion, and I found a set of predictions about what everyday technology we won’t be using in a decade on TechRadar (h/t Digg) that I’m sure will produce some discussion. If nothing else, it’ll get you thinking about the future and you’ll interact with your tech,… Read More