The World Wide Telescope is a project from Microsoft Research that made Robert Scoble cry, is now being featured on the latest round of TED Talks. This product looks truly amazing and will probably change the way we see our little spot in the universe. I can’t wait to give this a try with my 5 year old son when it is released this spring!
Egadget.com has a video that show the Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard being installed, setup, Configurated, and used! A couple of years ago, Art Lebedev Studio showed a prototype of their Optimus Maximus keyboard with OLED keys that can display any image you want. Of course the default is numbers and letter, but the keys can also be customized with icons of your choice or predefined ones for your favorite applications.
You gotta love the Mac rumor mill! Gear Live is reporting that Flash on the iPhone is just around the corner and will be available along side Apple’s release of the iPhone SDK near the end of this month. I can’t wait to start hacking some cool Flex apps if and when the Flash Player is made available on the iPhone.
So I’ve started a new job today (will blog about that later) and my new employer has just sent me a brand new Windows laptop. It’s been about 2 years since I last developed using a Windows machine, so am wondering what essential software I should be downloading to install? What handy utilities and applications do you use in your day-to-day work?
One of the knocks I have heard against Silverlight has been around how long will it take Microsoft to obtain the same penetration as the Flash Player and if not how long, how will they do it?
If Microsoft is able to acquire Yahoo!, it certainly puts them in a much better position to quickly drive adoption of the Silverlight plugin. Based on Alexa traffic ranking, if Microhoo becomes reality, Microsoft will own 3 of the top 5 web properties on the internet. Yahoo is ranked one with a reach of 28% of all global Internet users. Live.com is ranked number four with a reach of 25% and MSN.com is ranked number five with a reach of 17%. Do the math and you get 70% of all global Internet users visiting a Microsoft property every day!
Now of course, MS would have to integrate some Silverlight apps into the popular Yahoo properties, but really that shouldn’t be all too hard.
