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Safebridge a client from a fear years ago, marketing back on Facebook…Here is the double usb mouse concept
// September 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Economics, Uncategorized
That i’ve been holding onto for a long time. It would be simple to implement, with two usb mice. The problem is in the software, as the O/S needs to be reconfigured to either accept 2 input streams or to have the mice logically mapped from a single stream. Many applications would seem to be more intuitive with such an interaction. Click on the image for a larger version. So here it is. yup.
Fourtrack
// August 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
-Just installed this on my iPhone. FourTrack. Makes it easy to multitrack record, while waiting for the subway (see post re: city hall). A very fun and handy app.
-I’m offering free webhosting to any non-profit/charity that requires it, so feel free to contact me.
-Some new strategic coming for “Upcoming in Interactive - Winter”
-Also, I have heard back from City hall, they wrote a reasoned and clear response, which can be found in the comments for that post. Further to that, I’m excited that Streetcars will be getting GPS, so you’ll be able to look up where each car is at any given time, which should reduce some of the resource allocation problems i mentioned.
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ciao4now’
The beautiful design pattern cycle completes, when you connect to Wifi. 4T broadcasts a webpage on a secret port displayed on the phone. type the url into your laptop/desktop browser and download the wavs!
Scarlatti
// August 12th, 2009 // No Comments » // Flatulence, Uncategorized
Added Scarlatti on a Quality Casio Keyboard. (insert irony here), to videos widget (right column)
Clever: iPhone Applications: Heads Up Display
// July 31st, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
A clever iPhone application.
Musik fun
// July 9th, 2009 // No Comments » // Economics, Uncategorized
Almost done moving… 3 moves in 3 months. This will be my new room in August.
My friend Peemo (at PeterMohideen.com) put these up from his new shiny Ipod3GS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hkP7-RlOR0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_AA44bMkYE
Enjoy 
Upcoming in Interactive
// June 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
Hello All, I ‘ve just published an article called “Upcoming in Interactive” which details 7 disruptive trends and technologies at Bloor Media Group.
the website is site www.bloormedia.com , the article post is here. Thanks!
Building Public Space Under the Gardiner Express
// June 20th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // BrainStorms
Here was my letter to Toronto Mayor David Miller in response to Les Klein’s idea to build a green roof over top of the Gardiner: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/putting-the-garden-back-in-the-gardiner/article1188258/
Dear Mayor David Miller,
I am a great fan of yours and love our city very much. I think you have done an excellent job. Thank you so much for the dedication and honesty with which you brought to the Mayor’s office. Below please find some quick simple points/idea, which I thought to send along and which I hope will be of use to you and your administration:
• Suggest A:
‘one stop rule’ for streetcars and buses, which would prevent 2 buses/streetcars from tailing one another.
Reasoning: especially with streetcars, where one cannot pass another, they tend to bunch, with the front streetcar collecting all the passengers on a run, and the other will follow in its wake, with no passengers for the remainder of the route!
A ‘one stop rule’ would leave adequate spacing between streetcars and buses, which is better resource allocation and improves service. As an economist, I mention that it is a pareto-efficient improvement, with no losers. I wanted to check again, if there was a reason for its implementation or non-implementation?
• Suggest B:
In response to Les Klein’s suggestion of a green gardiner, which seemed to attract a lot of media attention
I thought to suggest to you what I believe is a better idea, (if it has not been suggested before) the possibility of zoning to build an enclosed mall/retail/public space under the Gardiner. At first thinking it is a possibly ‘crazy’ idea, but here are the reasons as a possible method to save and legitimize the Gardiner:
- The bracing of the gardiner already is ripe for such a structure, as there is no foundation to lay. All weight-bearing wall/trusses are already in the Gardiner structure.
- Given proper soundproofing, only cosmetic changes need to make the space such as this inhabitable. See pic of Gustavino’s (below)
- You can enclose a large area extremely cheaply with a ‘sheet of glass’ style architecture, which can be ‘hung across’ vast expanses to enclose the space.
- The Gardiner buttresses are ironically, already in a vault shape.
- Give incentives for developers in this space, it enlarges real estate and brings in extra taxation revenue for the city, through permit and property tax.
- An ‘Eaton Centre’ style mall down in this area will popularize the waterfront, (which I have read has been an iniative of yours, in your study of Chicago) by attracting people to the area. Tourists and residents alike.
- In visiting costal towns, I notice that there is always a commercial centre a few blocks inland from the actual coast line. This ‘mall’ would act as such a ‘base’, being a commercial center, steps to the water.
- Building a mallway underneath will reinforce the existence of ‘The Gardiner’ as a viable structure in the community and part of Toronto. (If not leaving it there, the other option is to tear it down, which is costly).
- This will cause no disruption in service to the highway itself, saving millions.
- Building one length of such a mall, would act as a pilot, and if successful, the length of the ‘mall’ could easily be extended easily (lots of room to grow).
- In my envisioning of such a project/structure, there is a public running and bicycle lanes as part of the throughway, (actually a loop) that allows runners to jog, and cyclists to commute for free in a clean-air enclosed environment. The runner/cyclists and commuters would support the retail stores in the area. Especially in the winter, this will indeed see even more use during the winter as a local draw.
- I refer to the restaurant Gustavino’s (a high-end restaurant) under the Queensborough bridge in New York, and other projects of this nature in England/New York, which have been very successful when executed properly. If done well, they are ‘unique’, Gustavino’s is largely considered an architectural masterpiece. Such unique structures add to the cachet and attractiveness of the city.
Thank you very much, Mayor David Miller and your staff for handling this email. I hope it affects some change or will be used as an idea to strengthen other more deserving ideas for the improvement of the city.
All best, kindly
Alwin
Using vectors to measure organization’s efficacy
// June 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // BrainStorms, Economics, Four Stars, Meta, Three Stars
Why are some organizations efficient and others not?
It occurred that possibly the best way of analyzing and finding inefficiencies in an organization is to use vectors. Like electricity, macro-economics and swimming, aggregate/net action is really the most important thing. Measurement of energy versus application is easily seen with vector relationships. If bureacracy brings you in a circle, your net vector will be zero, but energy applied, will be much higher. The organizations with the greatest absolute vector magnitude divided by energy applied will be the strongest most efficient organization. This ratio, M/E call it should be as important as P/E for finance. It seems that this is the easiest way to create metrics, for bureacracies and to eliminate ‘circles’.
A view of the future, from August 2006. Jeff Han discusses Multi-touch Interactions
// June 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
A view of the future, from August 2006. Jeff Han discusses multi-touch. I’m sure you’ve all seen this, and I’m making my case from the back of the pack; I’m making a case in my bloor media article that multi-touch interaction libraries have reached a downstream point, such that they will become ubiquitous, just like cds and just like the internet, which were around for 5 years or so, before they gained critical mass appeal and acceptance.
It’s dependent on cost/technical barrier/network effect.
With O3d and other 3d markup languages, Multi-touch is about to hit that point in the next few years in a way it could not of before. Check out what Jeff Han was doing in 2006. (which is now all owned by the damn see eye eh likely). Dell’s XT2 is the first commercial tech with multi-touch. Just like ARPA-net to the internet, it’s coming…
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