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Yellowbird – Immersive 3D Video

Z E N B A C H — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:50:20 +0000

Using similar technology as stitched images to create 3D panoramas in QTVR, Yellowbird has developed their own Google Street-like camera to record video in panorama.
The only way to get how awesome this is by experiencing it. Enjoy!

Scaling FetLife.com with Ruby – James Golick

Z E N B A C H — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:17:13 +0000

GoRuCo 2010 – James Golick – Scaling to Hundreds of Millions of Requests from Gotham Ruby Conference on Vimeo.

By James Golick

Protos
Engine Yard
EC2 – slow scaling
NoSQL
MongoDB – locked ;(
SoftLayer – performance win!
Sysbench
starling / workling
friendly
cassandra – worked! (distributed systems, only store activity feed)
Hadoop

AR Drone – Augmented Reality Flying Computer

Z E N B A C H — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:28:17 +0000

Introducing the AR Drone, the perfect combination of the coolest latest technologies; accelerometers, augmented reality, wi-fi cams, intelligent hovering, iPhone, etc, etc. Just amazing!

AR Website: http://ardrone.parrot.com/
AR Drone Blog: http://blog.parrot.com/category/ar-drone/

Chile Earthquake Videos – 2010

Z E N B A C H — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:47:42 +0000

Here is a list of videos of the Chile earthquake 2010.
(Lista de videos del terremoto en Chile.)

StackOverflow Architecture by Joel Spolsky

Z E N B A C H — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:07:59 +0000

In depth look at StackOverflow history, design, and architecture by Joel Spolsky:

Vuvox – Create your own Digital Collages

Z E N B A C H — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:31:03 +0000

This stuff is exciting.. very exciting!

YCombinator – Rejection! let’s parrty with Ibizaah!

Z E N B A C H — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:49:59 +0000

When you startup gets rejected by YCombinator you get this email:

We’re sorry to say we couldn’t accept your proposal for funding.
Please don’t take it personally. The quality of the applications
continues to increase with each cycle, and since there’s a limit
on the number of interviews we can do, we had to turn away a lot
of genuinely promising groups.

Another reason you shouldn’t take this personally is that we know
we make lots of mistakes. It’s alarming how often the last group
to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that
we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall
just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.

We’re trying to get better at this, but it’s practically certain
that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups.
If you do, we’d appreciate it if you’d send us an email telling us
about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.

Y Combinator Staff

Then you cry a little and then you celebrate by throwing a party with Ibizaah!

Congrats to the selected ones and to the rest (most of the applicants I suppose) join me at Ibizaah! and get some tunes going on!.

Ibizaah! is born! – A YouTube video mixer and playlist creator

Z E N B A C H — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:16:06 +0000

Have you ever used YouTube to DJ at a party and found frustrating having to change among windows while searching for the next song?
Basically, if you are listening to a song on YouTube, you cannot search for another song within the same window without interrupting that song, unless you open another window. Not that that is a real issue for most people, but for some (like me) it is a little annoyance. Anyway, I decided to take a break from coding last week and decided to .. code some more, but this time, for leisure not for work (and one day I’ll get a life too.. hehe).

I started coding last Monday and yesterday I finished Ibizaah!.
Ibizaah! lets you search and play YouTube videos at the same time within the same window. You can also add your search results to a left or right playlist, cross fade sound across videos, and reorder playlist order by drag and drop.
Eventually, I would like to allow users to save their playlists, share them, and even load them from their YouTube accounts.

Go give it a spin at the next party and let me know how it goes!

Here is a screenshot:

Google Wave – 3.5% Explained

Z E N B A C H — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:20:50 +0000

This is one of the best explanations I’ve seen for Google Wave, fun, short, concise.. koodos!

A Visual Guide to Twitter

Z E N B A C H — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:11:58 +0000

For all those that still don’t get the Twitter thing.. which includes me.

http://applicant.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/tweetcurrency1.jpg