Champagne Velvet

Originally uploaded by jbum.

It’s pretty amazing how quickly a new company, web site, etc. can become such a part of life that you forget what we did without it. Flickr’s birthday has made me think about a bunch of others:

• Amazon - 1995
• Craigslist - 1995 (on Usenet)
• eBay - 1995
• Google - 1998
• Napster - 1999
• BitTorrent - 2001
• iPod & iTunes - 2001 (iTunes was Mac only until 2003)
• Wikipedia - 2001
• Mozilla Firefox 1.0 - 2004

As well as ones I can’t believe have been around for so long:

• Plasma TV technology - 1964
• LCD monitors - 1968
• GSM - 1987

So this is the video iPod, eh?

Think Secret can confirm…
This video iPod, which has been in development and on the table since before Apple released the 5G iPod last year with video playback, will feature a display that will occupy the entire front face of the device. Sources who have seen the device report that it features a digital click wheel, one that overlays the touch-sensitive display and appears when a finger touches it and disappears when the finger is removed.

Out. of. control. OLEDs? Badass, whatever it is, real or not.

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twelve hard drive bays
it ran dead silent
it is Aluminum that has been melted and mixed with some sort of noise absorption material that bonds directly with the aluminum

Decision made - I’m waiting to build the MythTV box until I at least know how much this thing costs. What a beautiful beast.

aXbo sleep phase alarm clock

aXbo is able to calculate the optimal point at which to wake you

I signed up for the preorder today (1/24/06) and it says they are starting delivery today so I’m not sure why it’s still a preorder but we’ll see. Check out this article on sleep stages for more information. via hiptechblog.com.

From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, expanding on Tim O’Reilly’s Meme Map which gives examples of Web 1.0 companies and their 2.0 successors.  It’s pretty unbelievable to me that it has still been less than a year since the term AJAX was coined.