Waxy.orgAndy Baio lives hereBBC Two's Horizon on "The Electronic Frontier" in 1993- April 24, 2008 Continuing the series of portrayals of technology from the VHS era, here's another contribution from Martin Brewer, who brought us the first episode of The Net. This is another BBC Two show, an episode of Horizon from 1993 on "The Electronic Frontier." The broad theme of the episode is the information economy, and it's a whirlwind tour of influential people and tech in the pre-Web 1990s. They focus heavily on Microsoft, Apple, and General Magic, with interviews from key players from each. ...http://waxy.org/2008/04/bbc_twos_horizon_on_the_electronic_frontier_in_1993/ ZombieURL- April 19, 2008 For the last few weeks, I've been spending every Friday with a small group of brilliant geeks — Rael Dornfest, Asha Dornfest, Chris Anderson, Greg Borenstein, and Adam Greene — for a weekly one-day hackathon. We call it Bottlecap Labs, a place to bounce around ideas, support each other's work, and occasionally whip up a project. The first is ZombieURL, a TinyURL-clone with a twist. Put in a URL, send it to a friend, and enjoy. Keep a camera nearby to capture the fun. (Here's..http://waxy.org/2008/04/zombieurl/ Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2- April 14, 2008 One of the biggest criticisms of Google's App Engine have been cries of lock-in, that the applications developed for the platform won't be portable to any other service. This morning, Chris Anderson, the Portland-based cofounder of the Grabb.it MP3 blog service, just released AppDrop — an elegant hack proving that's not true. AppDrop is a container for applications developed with the Google App Engine SDK, running entirely on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure. Just like Google's Appspot,...http://waxy.org/2008/04/exclusive_google_app_engine_ported_to_amazons_ec2/ Fanboy Supercuts, Obsessive Video Montages- April 11, 2008 This insane montage of (nearly) every instance of "What" from the LOST series started me thinking about this genre of video meme, where some obsessive-compulsive superfan collects every phraseactioncliche from an episode (or entire series) of their favorite showfilmgame into a single massive video montage. For lack of a better name, let's call them supercuts. (Thanks, Ryan.) Here are some examples I could find, but I'm sure there must be more. Post 'em in the comments and I'll add them. ...http://waxy.org/2008/04/fanboy_supercuts_obsessive_video_montages/ Waxy.org Redesigns- April 9, 2008 For the first time since I started blogging in 2002, I've redesigned Waxy.org. Over the last six years, I've grown pretty sick of the old design but never found the time to rework it. Mostly, the changes are cosmetic. Cleaner design, new logo, bigger type, headlines, better iPhone support, and more space devoted to Waxy Links. I've also taken the opportunity to change my URL structure, removing some cruft and giving some additional length to the slugs. All old URLs should redirect,...http://waxy.org/2008/04/waxyorg_redesigns/ Internet Power Volume 2: Education- April 3, 2008 Earlier today, I received an email from Steve Ducharme, the producerdirector of the Internet Power series that I digitized last month. "I produced, edited and narrated that video many years ago," he wrote. "Thanks for digging it out. I haven't seen it in years. We really have come a long way since then." In the comments, several people pointed out a noticeable mistake in the video in which the narrator claims Mosaic was developed in 1934. As it turns out, this was fixed in later...http://waxy.org/2008/04/internet_power_1/ Game Neverending Relaunches- April 1, 2008 Just received word that Game Neverending is back online! This game was extremely innovative, but played by very few people during its limited beta test. One of the very first web-based MMOs, Game Neverending was eventually shut down as the Ludicorp team focused their efforts on Flickr. Last year, Cal Henderson showed me an internal server running the original GNE code, but it wasn't accessible outside the company intranet. Over the last year, Cal and Myles have ported the old ASP codebase...http://waxy.org/2008/04/game_neverendin/ |