What is Web 2.0

I’m working a little preso to help explain what Web 2.0 is all about. This is my first version, and I’m working updating it but I wante...

Tonchidot

Real world tagging with the iPhone using Tonchidot. Simply amazing!

Ubiquity for Firefox

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. he overall goals of Ubiquity are to explore how best to: Empower users to control the web browser w...

links for 2008-09-24

esquire e-ink, getting to know it- part 1 - a set on Flickr photo set showing the inside of the screen parts. (tags: e-ink e-paper Hacks) Can You...

Building Personal Brand

Here’s Gary Vaynerchuck’s keynote speach from the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC last week. I had a chance to meet Gary in the speakers lounge wh...

Arianna Huffington in Conversation with Tim O’Reilly

From the Web 2.0 Expo last week here’s the video of Arianna and Tim.

Web 2.0 Expo NYC Keynote - Ben Huh

Speaking at Web 2.0 Expo NYC today

Come and hear me speak at the Javits Center if you’re attending the Web 2.0 Expo. The topic is Prototype Fidelity.  How to to go from nothing ...

The Esquire e-ink cover

  I’d really like to get a copy. I picked up a copy of the new Esquire while at the airport. It’s nice in person in all its blinky glo...

links for 2008-09-12

TiVo: Decrypt and Remove Commercials from TiVo Recordings in One Step (tags: tivo recording commercials technology howto reference lifehacker)

Swype’s touchscreen keyboard concept

Amazing!

Plastic Logic Previews Electronic-Reading Device at DEMOfall 08

Plastic Logic revealed their new electronic ink device today at DEMOfall. The size is the same as 8.5 x 11-inch paper and is about as thick as pad...

The Infamous Microsoft ad

Here’s the video of the commercial   Here are my thoughts via Utterz

Building Personal Brand

Here’s Gary Vaynerchuck’s keynote speach from the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC last week. I had a chance to meet Gary in the speakers lounge wh...

Arianna Huffington in Conversation with Tim O’Reilly

From the Web 2.0 Expo last week here’s the video of Arianna and Tim.

Web 2.0 Expo NYC Keynote - Ben Huh

Speaking at Web 2.0 Expo NYC today

Come and hear me speak at the Javits Center if you’re attending the Web 2.0 Expo. The topic is Prototype Fidelity.  How to to go from nothing ...

The Esquire e-ink cover

  I’d really like to get a copy. I picked up a copy of the new Esquire while at the airport. It’s nice in person in all its blinky glo...

links for 2008-09-12

TiVo: Decrypt and Remove Commercials from TiVo Recordings in One Step (tags: tivo recording commercials technology howto reference lifehacker)

Swype’s touchscreen keyboard concept

Amazing!

Plastic Logic Previews Electronic-Reading Device at DEMOfall 08

Plastic Logic revealed their new electronic ink device today at DEMOfall. The size is the same as 8.5 x 11-inch paper and is about as thick as pad...

The Infamous Microsoft ad

Here’s the video of the commercial   Here are my thoughts via Utterz

Get Your War On: The Surge

Prototyping links

Make Perfect iPhone Mockups (We Can’t Help With The Actual App) If you’re looking to mock up an iPhone app during the design or coding process, a g...

links for 2008-08-14

Ad-ID Implementation in Windows Media Technologies Advertising Digital Identification (Ad-ID) is a centralized Web-based system that assigns unique...

links for 2008-08-13 [delicious.com]

what's the resolution? developing to handle varying monitor resolutions (tags: wpf development programming) RCCS: View Book Info Review of t...

Resources for Learning Silverlight

Nibbles great tutorials and samples Silverlight.net Learning is a great starting point MSDN Silverlight Center for all your developer reference nee...

Enter the Matrix Code

You’ve all seen them before on your mail and packages. They are starting to turn up all over the place. It’s also becoming a much mor...

Testing the new iPhone WordPress app

I’m posting this message from my iPhone using the new WordPress client app!

iPhone as remote keyboard

iPhone as remote keyboard Originally uploaded by futileboy This has got to be one of my new favorite features of the iphone. The Remote ap...

Gas Buddy

GasBuddy.com is a fantastic site with a heat map of all the gas prices across the nation.  I feel bad for California, but too much because we’...

Fairwell to Microsoft from David Stutz

This letter from David Stutz is back from 2003, but still seems to me to be relevant. I found this via a post by Cory on BoingBoing. Read on and ...

SEO for Silverlight

There are more challenges when it comes to optimizing for search engines to consume your content if it is a dynamic Rich UI application that doesn’...

Google Calendar Sync

I’ve got a problem.  A problem with Outlook and Exchange.  You see I have two exchange accounts on two different servers.  This is p...

Summer Reading list from Roy Christopher

Roy Christopher has posted his annual Summer Reading List.  Lots of tasty treats for your mind.

How to get around Seattle

If you live in Seattle you know this is a car town.  It’s nearly impossible to get to some points without the use of car.  It’s sort of s...

Calling Web Services Asynchronously with ASP.NET

Very nice introduction to web services with ASP.NET video. This was perfect for what I’m working on today.

Daily video

Watch the latest videos on YouTube.com

Wordle me

I’ve always said I was half designer half developer and my del.icio.us tags seems to show that thanks to Wordle

Programming the Phoenix Mars Lander

I found out about an article about programming the Phoenix Mars Lander from the Phoenix’s twitter today.  First off I have to say that I’m rea...

The Internets is brokes

Man all sorts of stuff seems to be acting up lately.  First Twitter, then Brightkite, and now even Amazon all seem to be acting unstable. ...

The Internets is brokes

Man all sorts of stuff seems to be acting up lately.  First Twitter, then Brightkite, and now even Amazon all seem to be acting unstable. ...

Alexander Girard

I’ve been seeing Alexander Girard’s work turning up all over the place lately. First with House Industries and the alphabet blocks and ...

One desktop to rule them all

There’s been a lot of talk lately about multitouch interfaces.  There have been a bunch of tasty bites of information coming out of Micr...

Prototyping Flexible displays

This makes my head explode!

Magnetic Levitation Haptic Interfaces

This is some older technology that has been “superseded by other projects.” but is still pretty interesting to see. Part 1: Part 2: T...

e-ink video

This little video is a little old, by new technology standards, but I thought it was still a nice showcase of the various e-ink work that is being ...

giant outdoor deep fat fryer

Cory Read’s Wedding Originally uploaded by Lori & Todd hmmm… I know I don’t need one of these, but it would be fun t...

Windows 7 multitouch

Looks like some “Windows 7″ multitouch is starting to, er, surface. Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7 personally, this doesn’t seem...

Using the Wii Balance Board as an Input Device

I’m looking forward to see what comes of this. I’m not sure if anyone is paying attention, but there’s s market for odd bluetoot...

Scion xB ghostride

This is why the Scion xB is an always will be the sweetest ride around. I mean look what it’s done here. It’s like the pool in Cocoon.

Microsoft’s Listas

Okay How did I miss the Microsoft Labs Listas service.  I’ve been going on for ages about how much I’ve wanted a service like this...

WPF Multitouch Framework demonstration

I found this one searching around on youtube today. The music and voice over remind me of an old science class filmstrip, but the information is g...

Ask Dr. Ryan - from the past

For a short period of time I had a column here on Futile that was called Ask Dr. Ryan.  Futile has evolved much over the years.  I though...

Up to date books from O’Reilly

I picked up the Essential Silverlight 2.0 book while I was at the Web 2.0 Expo.  I’ve been meaning to share.  It’s the first ...

Interactive everywhere

I’m not surprised too much by the idea of putting interactive technology in every place imaginable.  I don’t think it will be too ...

Interactive everywhere

I’m not surprised too much by the idea of putting interactive technology in every place imaginable.  I don’t think it will be too ...

ASP.NET MVC Framework

There’s a new version of the ASP.NET MVC presentation online.  I much prefer this side by side method of displaying presentation based t...

ASP.NET MVC Framework

There’s a new version of the ASP.NET MVC presentation online.  I much prefer this side by side method of displaying presentation based t...

Non-rectangular LCDs (audio post)

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Time lapse video of work in Illustrator

Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo. Time lapsed! Pshaw, that’s how I fast I am in real time.

Time lapse video of work in Illustrator

Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo. Time lapsed! Pshaw, that’s how I fast I am in real time.

Windows XP on the OLPC demo

Watch and enjoy. I can’t wait to get my hands on this to try out. I’m really interested to see what it would be like to develop for. ...

Windows XP on the OLPC demo

Watch and enjoy. I can’t wait to get my hands on this to try out. I’m really interested to see what it would be like to develop for. ...

Tweetclouds

I tried out tweedclouds today and found out just how boring my tweets are!  Actually to be fair it’s a mix of my delicious and tweets.&#...

Tweetclouds

I tried out tweedclouds today and found out just how boring my tweets are!  Actually to be fair it’s a mix of my delicious and tweets.&#...

links for 2008-05-14

Software Development in the Real World: How To Convert Movies to Flash or Silverlight with c# (tags: video converter c# programming .net)

links for 2008-05-14

Software Development in the Real World: How To Convert Movies to Flash or Silverlight with c# (tags: video converter c# programming .net)

links for 2008-05-13

.NET Developer Center - Yahoo! Developer Network very nice and simple developer site from Yahoo (tags: asp.net API webdev Reference programming yahoo)

Polar bear book sizes

Polar bear book sizes Originally uploaded by futileboy Just got the third version of the Polar Bear book from Roy C.. Thank you! I have on my...

OLPC, future of computing, and stuff…

I’m sitting here in a Starbucks trying out the OLPC as a blogging platform. It’s a great little machine for so many reasons, but I̵...

Live Mesh in use

I managed to convince some of my co-workers to start using Live Mesh as a lightweight collaboration tool.  The experience has been interesting...

Why Targeted Advertising is Important

I found this ad today while doing a little research about Microsoft’s SharePoint Server I very much like the juxtaposition of Mary Kay R...

Radiohead Remixes

I wanted to share a remix an old co-worker of mine, who goes by the name Umami, of the Radiohead song Nude. I think it’s really good. If yo...

Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus

While I was at the Web 2.0 Expo last week I saw Clay Shirky give a talk on Cognitive Surplus. Out of all the things I learned at the event this on...

Expression 2 is out

Microsoft released the Expression 2.0  suite of products today.  I’ve been using expression since last year and religiously updatin...

Microsoft Surface in AT&T Retail Store

I’m not sure why we don’t have one of these here in Seattle with AT&T wireless based here and Microsoft here.  It seems silly....

Windows Live Application Based Storage

Okay,  this is it for Microsoft Live I swear.  I’ll blog about Adobe’s Open Screen Project next so that I don’t look li...

Windows Live Agent

I just stumbled upon the Windows Live Agent.  I’m not sure how I missed this before.  Their blog is full of some very interesting s...

Twistori is lovely

Twistori is so very pretty and simple.  I’m in love with the concept.  you really have to just go play with it.  Oh, and works...

Infinite Live Mesh Remote Desktop

It just goes on forever Of course it’s the first thing that comes to mind when I see that I can remote back in to my machine from a remote ...

Microsoft Live Mesh Part 3

I had a chance to see Ori Amiga give a presentation around the Live Mesh platform at the Web 2.0 Expo.  At first I was little hesitant about t...

Microsoft Live Mesh Web 2.0 Keynote presentation

Here’s the Live Mesh Keynote presentation from the Web 2.0 Expo. Technorati Tags: Live Mesh,Microsoft,Web 2.0,Keynote,Video

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Microsoft Live Mesh part 2

Technorati Tags: Microsoft,Live Mesh,review Okay after a little bit of dorking around and a reboot I was able to get my laptop added as a device on...

Microsoft Live Mesh

I just got my beta access to the Live Mesh services.  This is the first page you get as a new user.  I’m going to start playing aro...

Y! OS

Notes fresh from Web2.0 Expo Rewiring Yahoo! Open Yahoo! to Developers like never before Making Yahoo! more Social The SearchMonkey is the first ...

Yahoo! Search Monkey Dev Beta

You can sign up now for the SearchMonkey Developer Preview now. As Ari Balogh, Yahoo!’s new CTO, will discuss in his Web 2.0 Expo keynote th...

Video of my iPhone getting laser etched

Video of my iPhone getting laser etched Originally uploaded by futileboy Here’s a short little video clip of the etching machine in action....

QR codes laser etched on my phone

CR codes laser etched on my phone Originally uploaded by futileboy My iPhone is all customized and pretty thanks to Instructables.com. The...

On my way to Web 2.0 Expo

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Silverlight 2.0 Twitter Widget

I’m on an RSS widget roll.  I put together a widget that is much like the Flickr widget only it uses Twitter as the source.  Now Tw...

links for 2008-04-13

GreaterSeattleArea - IHFWiki (tags: allergies food seattle) Gluten Free Bakeries and Restaurants in Seattle, Washington: Sunny Valley Wheat Fre...

Stealing web site design

So when is it okay to borrow someone’s html code and design?  I think there are times when it’s okay to take a snippet here and bi...

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Silverlight 2.0 Flickr WordPress Widget

Technorati Tags: Silverlight,WordPress,Widget,Flickr I had the challenge of creating both a simple Silverlight 2.0 flickr viewer and a WordPress wi...

Working, sharepoint and C#

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Evil IE formating bug

I talk about the most annoying rendering bug I’ve found in IE. It made me so mad! Mobile post sent by futileboy using Utterz.  Rep...

SharePoint 2007 Templates

SharePoint 2007 Templates This is great if you have to work with Sharepoint. (tags: Sharepoint webparts)

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