Silicon Valley Musings

I just noticed that Winster receives their first round of funding from US Venture Partners (USVP), PodTech’s VC and current abode.
Winster is social gaming and retail site. Jerry Kaplan is their CEO. When I first came to the valley “back in the day” Mr. Kaplan’s GO Corporation was the hot startup.

Using the satellite images in Google Maps you can easily track environmental damage in your neighborhood.
Here are some pictures of the Kaiser/Hanson Cement Plant in Cupertino. Notice how the mined area is almost as big the very popular Rancho San Antonio Park.
You can read more about Kaiser/Hanson Cement at the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Website.

This picture was taken in Terminal A at Mineta San Jose International
Airport.

There is a search arms race brewing between Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Since these three companies will be frequently mentioned together when discussing search, I thought it would be appropriate to have a short hand way of refering to them collectively.
So I coin the phrase, “gimme”, which is how I would pronounce the acronym GMY […]

Silicon Rally ? April 19, 2004
Terse due to low laptop battery
The most interesting person (aside from Dr. Engelbart) was Mora Mclean, Africa America Institute http://www.aaionline.org.
Gapminder, Ola Rosling
Open source data series visualization
Uses to visual two variables. Examples: Money vs Heath
Animated. Using Director, moving to Flash
Using the WHO and UN’s data sets. Currently for sale, but is […]