Mike G ("GeekyTech"):
About Mike G ("GeekyTech"):
Researcher/writer on technology.
Mike G ("GeekyTech")'s "Real" Website: http://www.virb.com/mikeg514
Age: Old
Location: CT
Team Mike G ("GeekyTech"):
Three weeks, 3 hotels
After two weeks in a row of living in hotel rooms (Boston, Westin Waterfront, for 5 days, Atlanta, a Hilton, for two days), I've landed in San Diego for a third consecutive week (Sun-Sat) for our company conference. I hear Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is supposed to have some meeting or event in the hotel tomorrow ... but - growing tired of hotel life... this one is the best of the lot it seems...
Microsoft Worldwide Telescope
Microsoft research is dedicated this to Jim Gray (employee lost at sea a while ago)
TimeTube
Enter in a keyword and see a timeline built from YouTube videos matching the term. Some pre-built timelines include Obama, etc.
I Want You To Want Me / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar
I just thought this was interesting ... visualization, dating sites, search for connections and for self. More at http://iwantyoutowantme.org/statement.html
Another similar example: http://www.flong.com/projects/dumpster/
Student's Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt
Pretty amazing story: "Buck, 29, a former Oakland Tribune multimedia intern, used the ubiquitous short messaging service to tap out a single word on his cellular phone: ARRESTED. The message went out to the cell phones and computers of a wide circle of friends in the United States and to the mostly leftist, anti-government bloggers in Egypt who are the subject of his graduate journalism project. The next day, he walked out a free man with an Egyptian attorney hired by UC Berkeley at his side and the U.S. Embassy on the phone."
The Last Lecture
If you haven't seen this already (it's been on TV lately - Oprah, Diane Sawyer), worth watching - very inspiring, funny, insightful and sad all wrapped up together. Other info at: http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
Aspen Institute and National Geographic magazine video clips
2008 Aspen Environment Forum (environment, climate, etc)
The Moses Mashup
Paraody of the 10 Commandments and Heston as Moses...
Sundance Channel
On iTunes. Includes the award-winning series "Big Ideas for a Small Planet" for those of us that watch a lot of documentaries. Some downloads might be free.
Where Do You Fit?
Do you cringe when your cell phone rings? Do you suffer from withdrawal when you can't check your Blackberry? Do you rush to post your vacation video to your Web site? Are you on this site all day long? Find out what type of geek you are: Pew Internet Project's Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users.
