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Breaking Bitcoin 6 Apr 2013 | 11:02 pm
Bitcoin is raising some interesting questions about the value of currencies. We are intimately familiar with fiat currencies detached from precious metals. The Chinese started the first fiat currency ...
Voice Recognition Demo at TED 2013 2 Mar 2013 | 10:00 pm
Last weekend's hack project showed up in a video on the main TED 2013 stage. The task was to cause a phone call to hang up via a voice command so people who may be paralyzed and not have use of their...
USRP Instant SDR: "Getting Started" Kit for Software-defined Radio 28 Feb 2013 | 07:06 am
Ettus Research just released an interesting new "get started with software-defined radio (SDR) kit" called the USRP Instant SDR. It consists of a USRP, an RF board and a USB stick that boots up linux ...
50th Episode of our 350 Third Podcast 27 Feb 2013 | 04:00 am
Scott Barstow and I just released the 50th Episode of 350 Third, our humble podcast covering the impact of the Internet on business. However, in celebration of the 50th episode milestone, we instead d...
RunDumper Map Animations 17 Feb 2013 | 10:02 am
I've just updated http://RunDumper.com animating the maps. (RunDumper lets you download your http://RunKeeper.com workout data) If you don't have an account, try anders94 and click on one of the runs ...
Zero Dark Thirty 14 Jan 2013 | 07:37 pm
I had imagined if Hollywood were to do a movie about killing Bin Laden, it would have been 2 hours of hard-core "seal team gets ready" and then the "Go! Go! Go!" scene. Close to the 2 hour mark, I tho...
Microsoft's Tablet Problem 2 Jan 2013 | 10:45 pm
Typical PCs retail around $400 and Microsoft gets roughly $35 for the OS. Above that, they probably average $80 for Office. The OS in the tablet market is not a billed item. In the case of Apple, it i...
Just Released: pub-sub-map, Publish and Subscribe to Real-time Locations on a Map 2 Nov 2012 | 05:00 pm
I have open-sourced pub-sub-map, a node.js driven web application that presents a map and lets you subscribe to real-time location markers. As marker positions get updated, the new location is pushed ...
SwitchCoder - Code Voice and SMS Applications in the Cloud 19 Oct 2012 | 03:00 am
My latest project, SwitchCoder, allows you to write voice and SMS applications in JavaScript and have them run from inside the phone company. Check out our intro video: Getting up to speed is easy. H...
RunDumper.com Update 13 Oct 2012 | 09:05 pm
To those of you who were getting Rails errors trying to test out http://RunDumper.com, I have pushed a new rev of the code that should address that. Also, the maps take a little time to download, so i...
