Bill Wolff's Composing Spaces

While watching the Giants OT victory over the Bengals today I saw this new Microsoft ad: Video: Pride The ad is a direct response to Mac’s outstanding I’m a Mac, I’m a PC campaign, which effectively makes the argument that PC users are the dorks and Mac users are the cool kids (full disclosure: I have a [...]

Al Gore’s TV network, Current, has joined forces with Twitter to Hack the Debates. Twitter users watching the debates can send a tweet with the additional extension “#current” which will be scraped for inclusion. According to an AP article by Jake Coyle: During the debates, the network bent on viewer-created content will broadcast Twitter messages — or [...]

Search engine developer, Anna Patterson, who designed search technologies bought by Google has launched her own search engine meant to rival Google: Cuil (the article says Cuil is pronounced “cool” but the coloring of the font suggests “coo-el”). Cuil displays its search results as chunks of text across two or three columns. Here, the search results [...]

Via Ewan McIntosh, introducing Animoto, an application that mashes together the images you upload with music you select to create a unique video production. The folks at Animoto—"a bunch of techies and film/tv producers who decided to lock themselves in a room together and nerd out"—have developed "Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that thinks like an [...]