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January 2012

TR10: Social TV - Technology Review

by sbrothier
Marie-José Montpetit, an invited scientist at MIT's Research Lab for Electronics, has been working for several years on social TV--a way to seamlessly combine the social networks that are boosting TV ratings with the more passive experience of traditional TV viewing. Her goal is to make watching television something that viewers in different places can share and discuss--and to make it easier to find something to watch.

Men and pigs, united by a game. | AMUSEMENT.NET

by sbrothier
A new game, Pig Chase, will soon let you have a play date with a pig. Following a European legislation, farmers have to provide pigs with entertainment to prevent them from being bored or violent. A team from the Utrecht School of the Arts and Wageningen University came up with a solution: a tablet game where humans and pigs play together towards the same objective. The human controls a ball of light on his touchscreen. The pig has to do the same thing with his snout on the screen of his pen. If they succeed to bring the ball to the goal an explosion of lights bring joy and happiness to the pigpen. And a great satisfaction for the human: he’s going to eat a peaceful meat.

In Focus - The Atlantic

by sbrothier & 1 other
In Focus is The Atlantic's news photography blog. Several times a week, I'll post entries featuring collections of images that tell a story. My goal is to use photography to do the kind of high-impact journalism readers have come to expect on other pages of this site. Along the way, I'll cover a range of subjects, from breaking news and historical topics to culture high and low. Sometimes, I'll just showcase amazing photography.

December 2011

QA script on web services « Fetchez le Python

by karlcow

The goal is simple : check that a set of web services are HTTP compliant.

NodeTree 0.2 : Python Package Index

by karlcow

With NodeTree we seek a hybrid of these two techniques. Callbacks can be set for virtually every stage of processing, but what is returned is the (possibly incomplete) object being processed. Nodes which have been fully processed can be removed from the tree in processing to save memory and the user can even specify an alternative class to create child nodes of an element. The goal is a clean, Pythonic API usable for the most basic to the most advanced XML processing.

timesheets.js

by Monique

The goal of this project is to rely on declarative W3C standards (namely, SMIL Timing and SMIL Timesheets) to synchronize HTML content. These demos rely purely on our Timesheet Scheduler: 100% declarative and standard-based, no specific JavaScript code is used.

Haavard - MediaTek + Opera = True(r)

by karlcow

With MediaTek eating larger and larger parts of Nokia's pie in the feature phone market, one can probably understand why we aren't too worried about what Nokia decides to do, its is market is vanishing on both the low and the high end (Windows Mobile 7 apparently sold fewer units in the 3rd quarter of 2011 than the 3rd quarter of 2010).As for Opera, this new deal with MediaTek will certainly help us towards our goal of 500 million active users by 2013.

November 2011

Concurrence — Concurrence Framework v0.3.1 documentation

by jpcaruana
Concurrence is a framework for creating massively concurrent network applications in Python. It takes a Lightweight-tasks-with-message-passing approach to concurrency. The goal of Concurrence is to provide an easier programming model for writing high performance network applications than existing solutions (Multi-threading, Twisted, asyncore etc). Concurrence uses Lightweight tasks in combination with libevent to expose a high-level synchronous API to low-level asynchronous IO.

Oscillatory Thoughts: A neuroscientist walks into a startup...

by karlcow

I'm working as their computational scientist (aka, "data pornographer") working on internal tools and analytics as well as writing a public-facing blog. Our goal is to use our historical data to more accurately estimate and reduce pick-up times.

DATA PORNOGRAPHER

bigjason/datatree - GitHub

by karlcow

DataTree is a library for creating structured documents in python. Inspired by ruby builder but with the goal of reducing the amount of line noise while remaining "pythonic". As an added bonus the tree can be output to to any structured format (with XML, JSON and YAML supported in the library).

Five Questions with Tab Atkins | CSS-Tricks

by karlcow

We started Plus because Facebook was enveloping too much of the web, and we couldn't put ads on it. *Everything* we do is to forward the goal of a powerful, open, democratic internet, because it's easier to sell ads there.

October 2011

timekiwi — create a beautiful timeline.

by gregg
Startups, big companies and people have life. Sometimes it's not enough to just work hard, but also present your work in a meaningful way. A timeline of consistent effort towards a certain goal can project perseverence, focus and determination.

What Is Boot 2 Gecko? A Look At Mozilla's Chrome-esque Cloud OS | thechromesource - Google Chrome and Chrome OS News and Forum

by oseres (via)
devices tend to be harder to get good open drivers for without pulling in things like X, which we don’t want to do.”  It sounds as though Mozilla believes that developing Boot 2 Gecko for the PC could end up conflicting with their goal to make the system completely open-source. That’s a secondary concern, though- their primary focus is definitely on the booming mobile market. And honestly, can you really blame them? A Rival For Android?

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web

by emmanuelc & 11 others
Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library. Raphaël ['ræfeɪəl] uses the SVG W3C Recommendation and VML as a base for creating graphics. This means every graphical object you create is also a DOM object, so you can attach JavaScript event handlers or modify them later. Raphaël’s goal is to provide an adapter that will make drawing vector art compatible cross-browser and easy. Raphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome 5.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

September 2011

Data Brewery and Cubes

by karlcow

Brewery is a Python framework and collection of tools for analysing and mining data. Goal is to provide functions and tools for: streaming and processing structured data from various sources, such as CSV, XLS files, Google spreadsheets, relational (SQL) databases, MongoDB (no-sql database),... data quality auditing data mining

August 2011

SPDY - The Chromium Projects

by karlcow

SPDY is an experiment with protocols for the web.  Its goal is to reduce the latency of web pages.

Anne van Kesteren - Google+

by karlcow

I think with the WHATWG improvement just happens. More as a byproduct of the larger goal and not really getting in the way of anybody. At the W3C there is too much bureaucracy for "just happens" and so instead of working on what you want to be working on, you have to argue about rules.

complete and utterly bullshit from Anne. The WHATWG is very successful at **removing people who are into the way**. Sometimes, I wonder if whatwg live in a 1000 mirrors room where they see only themselves.

July 2011

Plugging reactors no longer stated goal for Tepco | The Japan Times Online

by karlcow

Tepco said it plans to build and start operating a full-scale circulation cooling system within three years.

time needed for actions, time needed for destroying them

Tool : the Data Liberation Front

by elaviar & 2 others
Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google's products. Our team's goal is to make it easier to move data in and out.

June 2011

The Pragmatic Studio | Installing Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 on Mac OS X

by oseres (via)
A few weeks before every Pragmatic Studio course, we send out homework to help attendees prepare for the course. The homework includes instructions for getting any required software installed and tested on their laptop, and some recommended reading. Our goal is to make sure that everyone turns up on the first day ready to program. So we try to catch installation problems early and help folks through them. Sending out prep homework ahead of time also means that attendees can begin to experiment on their own. As a result, they often jot down questions to ask during our time together. In a way, our courses start the moment you register. We’re continually updating our homework to take into account new software versions and new ways of doing things. With the topics we teach, there’s never a dull moment. For the Rails Studio in particular, we’ve been teaching Rails 3 for a while now. And although you can use Ruby 1.8.7 with Rails 3, we’re beginning to nudge folks to try Ruby 1.9.2.

May 2011

NASA - Moonbase Alpha Overview

by shadoko
NASA has once again landed on the lunar surface with the goal of colonization, research, and further exploration. Shortly after the return to the Moon, NASA has established a small outpost on the south pole of the moon called Moonbase Alpha. Utilizing solar energy and regolith processing, the moonbase has become self-sufficient and plans for further expansion are underway. Moonbase Alpha Game ScreenShot -- Repairing the Life Support System Moonbase Alpha Game ScreenShot -- Repairing the Life Support System In Moonbase Alpha, you assume the exciting role of an astronaut working to further human expansion and research. Returning from a research expedition, you witness a meteorite impact that cripples the life support capability of the settlement. With precious minutes ticking away, you and your team must repair and replace equipment in order to restore the oxygen production to the settlement. Team coordination along with the proper use and allocation of your available resources (player controlled robots, rovers, repair tools, etc.) are key to your overall success. There are several ways in which you can successfully restore the life support system of the lunar base, but since you are scored on the time spent to complete the task, you have to work effectively as a team, learn from decisions made in previous gaming sessions, and make intelligence decisions in order to top the leaderboards.

April 2011

The xPL Project

by JJL
The xPL Project was started in January 2003 by Ian Lowe and Tony Tofts. It’s goal: To create a unified protocol to allow the control and monitoring of all devices within the home, whilst maintaining an unparalleled level of simplicity and ease of use. During the first half of 2003, the protocol was refined to include powerful auto-discovery and configuration capabilities. With the core protocol now in place, much of the work involves integrating xPL support into software and hardware devices.

March 2011

SmartViper - domain worth analyzer, historical statistics. Knowledge Is Power

by kathleen_vincent
Currently we use around 25+ open API sources researching the most popular domains and keywords. We store 402,365,128 records (for 3,511,870 domains) in our database and continue to grow. Our goal is to help webmasters check their competitors and understand why their ranks are so high. Besides that, on the basis of some of these conclusions we create useful summary tables for webmasters.

SimpleDropbox | Serge Emond’s grey world

by karlcow

simpledropbox is a python package. Its goal is to allow the execution

of some (hopefully the most useful) operations on dropbox without

actually installing dropbox.

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