Wired News put out a recent story on a musical instruction web app recently demoed at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It is called In the Chair, and it sounds like a real step forward for music education. Check out the demo video:This is the sort of thing that I...
Google Reader has had some recent exciting new developments. This is really an excellent RSS reader which I have started to use as my main news aggregator. If you are not familiar with the concept of an aggregator, check out this Wikipedia page for more...
I have been using Google Book Search nearly every day since it was launched. Google is attempting to accomplish with printed text what they have done with the internet, which is to have every bit of information available at one’s fingertips. They still have a...
News at Seven is a recent project launched by Northwestern University (my Alma Mater). This thing is really amazing. It is a completely automatic news generator. Using characters from Half-Life, the program creates a news feed by scraping news sites, blogs, videos and...
Apple has released some really excellent ads over the years. Their short-lived but very famous 1984 Superbowl ad is very memorable:Steve Job’s keynote address announcing the Macintosh from the same year is also really great:A more recent ad for the...
