Welcome back to our fourth season of NUrdRadio. We welcome the season with Wikipedia’s birthday, Obama’s inauguration, new smart phones and the most important news of the year.

• Happy Birthday Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia was launched January 15th, 2001
  • mediawiki
    • php
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

• SugarCRM – php, 500,000 lines of code
  • customer relationship management
  • community build — free
  • sell support
  • http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/

• Twitter Suggestion
  • New page for people’s feeds you might want to follow
  • Kinda of like that facebook piece that tells you about people you don’t want  to be friends with
  • algorithm is undesclosed

• mrtweet
  • “your personal networking assistant”
  • analyze data:
    • friends
    • followers
    • content
  • suggest people to follow based on data

• barack obama
  • blackberry
  • • will they surgecially remove obama’s blackberry from his hip?
    • might get a winmo replacement phone
    • lee thinks that they will all get eee pc’s
  • spaceships
    • obama reviewing spaceship designs
  • DTV
    • run out of money for the converted box
    • push back to get more money
    • someone in obama administration stands to gain from this
    • if moved, how will they notify every of the move
    • already had lots of trouble telling everyone this data
  • secretery of energy
    • steven chou
      • nobel-lauriate
      • physics
    • not yet approved
  • digital camera
    • obama first president to have portrait with digital camera
    • turns out it is a canon
    • was it cleaned up in aperture or lighroom
      • almost like vim and emacs
  • apple products
    • ipod
    • macbook
    • iphone
  • net neutrality
    • obama for
    • biden against
    • last mile problem
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
    • Net Neutrality in the US

• lenovo touchscreen android device

• palm pre
  • sprint only
  • slide-out qwerty
  • touchscreen
  • wifi
  • gps
  • accelerometer
  • conduction charging extra
  • touchscreen extends down to button area
  • webOS
    • card model
    • live preview
    • only JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
    • seems like one giant web browser
  • price rumors
    • 150 or 199 with a two year plan
    • 399 ubsubsidized
  • stock went up five dollars from one dollar a share to six
  • http://www.slashgear.com/palm-pre-roundup-1530522/
  • http://i.gizmodo.com/5126870/in-a-nutshell-palm-pre-vs-iphone-vs-g1

• steve jobs is stepping down
  • till june
  • health reasons
  • stock fell only 4 bucks
  • rumors that he isnt coming back

• OLPC
  • amazon, maybe closed already
  • no crank, pull tab thingy
  • drop sugar in order to focus on dual-touchscreen interface model
  • “get one, give one”
    • originally, pay 400 for one for you and one for a child
  • on amazon
    • either that, or pay 200 just for yourself
  • mesh networking

• Body Hacks via Boston.com
  • Some cool effects you can have on our body
  • Ganzfeld procedure
    • Stop input to senses and let your mind take over
    • You trip balls
    • Sensory deprivation tanks
  • Rubber hand illusion
    • Hide real hand, put fake one to look like, as you see, that it is your hand
    • touch both the real and fake hand in same spot (someone else)
    • soon you think fake is real, so stab the fake, and it will hurt
  • http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/graphics/011109_hacking_your_brain
  • second hack:
    • close your eyes
    • stick hands forward
    • feel your hand in space
    • have someone push down on your hands
    • resist it
    • have them stop
    • feel your hand in space
    • you will think that it is much higher

• Ruby / Merb Merge
  • Rails is a web framework started by Danish David Heinemeier Hansson.
    • provides abstraction in MVC
    • really popular
  • Merb is also a web rails framework started by Ezra Zygmuntowicz
    • Speedy and library agnostic
      • easy switchability
    • a hacker’s tool, not the norm
  • A storm of Rails VS Merb has been brewing, with both communities arguing
  • The merb and rails core teams met up, and decided to put arguments aside
  • Announced merger for Rails 3.0 on December 23rd
  • www.rubyonrails.org/merb

• yi editor
  • net gen editor
  • splice of vim and emacs
  • written in Haskell
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_(editor)

• RED camera
  • twice HD

• opening song
  • In The Hollow (Stars Hollow Theme)
  • from Penmachine Podcast
  • http://www.penmachine.com/podcast/2006/05/in-hollow-stars-hollow-theme.html

 

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