TechnoMagicians Blog

Starting to see some real-time google maps creations popping up: Plotting Dublin's Aircouch coaches on Google Maps in real-time. Didn't seem to be working the last time I checked it out. Location of all running DARTS in Dublin plotted here in real-time. Of course there was my prototype just for proof of concept well before […]

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Excellent observations by Om about Google posted today: Over the years, I’ve noticed that Google’s success has largely been based on their ability to be highly counterintuitive. For instance, they started a search engine when everyone thought that game was over. They started to place ads in search results when everyone thought it was highly […]

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A bit of news with a recent Times mention of MaxDelivery: Even in the reckless days of dot-com overindulgence, Kozmo.com, the Internet-to-door delivery service, seemed excessive. The celebrated dot-com promised to deliver groceries, movies, take-out, or anything else within an hour after you pressed “Enter” on your computer. Not surprisingly, Kozmo imploded four years ago, […]

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KoZmo (not this KoSmo) made the 3rd spot on CNet's top 10 dot-com flops: The shining example of a good idea gone bad, online store and delivery service Kozmo.com made it on our list of the top 10 tech we miss. For urbanites, Kozmo.com was cool and convenient. You could order a wide variety of products, […]

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Interesting post by Peter Bromberg: I've taken a more than cursory interest in the whole Remote Scripting (.NET species) vs. AJAX and now ATLAS discussion, mostly because I started using Remote Scripting since Microsoft first released it, and because I continued to refine it after seeing Brent Ashley's excellent work with JSRS, which was one […]

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Looks to me like SipPhone is a dead end company. Its really too bad. My experience trying to purchase XTen pro as described here was a joke. Here is a thread that followed when I opened a ticket on the issue. How do companies like this stay in business more than a day when they […]

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As per usual with an incident like this there are many conflicting reports. Eye witness accounts of the plane hitting the ground very hard on the first touch down to eye witnesses saying that the initial landing was very normal and people were actually clapping until a few seconds later when the plane was shaking violently […]

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Yet another BlogChat type thing. We were actually in discussions years ago with a few Drupal type services to integrate BlogChat. I guess it took a few years for people to realize how useful a tool like this could be. I have just made a checkin into the contributions repo of an ajax enabled chat […]

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