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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

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!

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

Dharmesh Shah Startup Advice

Z E N B A C H — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:12:44 +0000

Very interesting talk about running an startup company.

Cooliris Demo – El Navegador de Internet en 3D

Z E N B A C H — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:35:31 +0000

Conocido como Piclens y en su nueva encarnacion como Cooliris, este nuevo plugin para Firefox, Safari, IE esta revolucionando la manera en la que millones de usarios estan navegando la internet.
Cooliris permite de forma sencilla navegar y buscar contenido (fotos, videos, flash) en la internet mediante una pared dinamica en 3D.

Cooliris – The End of 2D Internet Navigation is Here!

Z E N B A C H — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:45:49 +0000

We are in the midst of a new paradigm in Internet Navigation. Cooliris is only a year old and is already changing the way millions navigate through rich media content over the Internet. Why? you really have to see it for yourself to understand. The experience puts anything before it to shame, forget about all the current internet browsers and dive into a sci-fi like 3D experience that cooliris can offer.
My prediction is than in about 2 years interactive 3D navigation is going to be the de facto way to surf the web and companies like Cooliris are going to rule the navigation market over all the existing 2D browsers such as Firefox, IE, Safari, etc..
Today, Cooliris is an addon to current browsers, soon it will be opposite or simply 2D browsing will be a thing of the past all together.
Cooliris is a new beast with limitations and is meant more for content browsing and discovery than for publishing, messaging, networking or shopping. As soon as these limitations are eliminated the game is over for the era of 2D browsing.
Check Cooliris and experience this new paradigm change for yourself -> http://www.cooliris.com/

Here is a video telling you about it: