Silicon Valley Musings

Professor Martin Chalfie joins sixty other Nobel laureates in endorsing Barack Obama for president. Read their open letter here and watch Professor Chalfie’s video below.

Developed by Clearspring, here is another great example of using Web-based technology to promote a political agenda, namely a revised tax plan.

This Keating Economics video is one of the most dramatic examples to date of using YouTube to manage and convey a political message.

In less than twenty four hours, the 30 second teaser has been viewed a half a million times, and the full 13 minute version over two hundred thousand times.

From Obama ‘08 iPhone Application page:
Obama ‘08 is your official, comprehensive connection to the heart of Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s campaign, giving you the tools you need to make an impact and stay in the know.
Making a difference takes only moments using the Call a Friend feature. Want to do more? Find your local […]

Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo.
From Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene

Work on how to transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs to the video.

Some poor restaurant owner in Bejing became internationally renown  by using the results of a web-based translation service.

Robert Scoble states: “First of all, Twitter doesn’t store my Tweets 25,000 times. It stores them once and then it remixes them.”
I do not know how Twitter is built. However, “back in the day,” I was the development manager for a real-time, stock quote delivery system, so I do have experience with architectural issues similar […]

From PodTech post.

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In a surprise announcement at the 16th World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett informed a keynote audience that the world’s biggest chipmaker would work together with Grameen Bank. The financial institution was started […]

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