Archive for June, 2009

Today in Technology: Here Comes Opera Unite – Cool Concept, Will it Catch On? June 17, 2009 No Comments

Opera Unite is a feature in the new Opera web browser that makes your web browser into a server that others can access.  This is certainly forward thinking and something that Opera is hedging on succeeding for the success and growth of their company it seems (it certainly has caught lots of buzz in the [...]

Boston Startups: Swaptree – Barter Your Way to Satisfaction June 16, 2009 No Comments

Back when I was a kid I absolutely loved trading sports cards – it was an obsession of mine.  Bartering after all is one of the original forms of acquiring goods and just feels good to do, know what I mean?  In college I spent some time buying cheap DVD’s from Ebay and Half.com – [...]

Boston Startups: Socrato – Improving Student Achievement and Helping Teachers June 15, 2009 1 Comment

Socrato is a web service dedicated to improving student achievement by helping improve testing.  The company is based in North Andover, MA and it’s focus is to provide practice testing materials online to make taking practice tests easier and more accessible.  Thus far, their main focus appears to have been on state-level standardized tests – [...]

Today in Technology: Amazon Releases Another Kindle – The ‘DX’ June 12, 2009 No Comments

So Amazon has released a new, bigger, badder Kindle. This one features a 9 inch screen and will be available next week for the light hearted price of $489 (woah…). John Biggs at TechCrunch had some interesting tidbits in his review – saying that the cons of the device were its weight, which is [...]

The Power of the Brain: Man Re-Creates Rome After Seeing it Once June 11, 2009 No Comments

This blew my socks off earlier today (thanks to @guykawasaki for the link): This guy is autistic and is nicknamed ‘The Living Camera’. What he can do is simple incredible – here’s a quick description of the video and then you should just watch it for yourself:
Stephen Wiltshire has been called the “Human Camera.” [...]

New Tiger Woods 2010 for Wii Includes Disc Golf! June 10, 2009 1 Comment

That’s right folks: the new version of EA’s Tiger Woods’ video game for the Wii includes a disc golf game!  It looks pretty awesome too in terms of gameplay, though the courses are regular ball golf courses instead of typical wooded disc golf courses.  Who knows, perhaps if this thing gets lot’s of excellent feedback, [...]

Today in Technology: Twitter Stops Growing (as much) June 9, 2009 No Comments

Check out the graph for yourself:

It’s pretty clear to see that the last month has seen Twitter’s growth curtail to almost nothing. This of course is very strange based on the rampant growth that the service saw in the months prior. Om Malik over at GigaOm had some interesting ideas on this (actually [...]