Posts Tagged ‘Berkeley’
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. Mark Zuckerberg is on-stage for a question-and-answer session. You can watch it here live or update as we go. This is paraphrased.) Jessica Livingston: First I want to go way, way back. I know you built a few things in high school. What did you learn from those experiences? Zuckerberg: I mostly built stuff I liked. I built games and I built AIs to play the games against me
Tags: Ais, Answer Session, Berkeley, Blogging, Daylong Program, Experiences, Hacker Culture, Incubator, Mark Zuckerberg, Play Games, Play The Games, Question And Answer
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Earthmine released its own augmented reality application, Wild Style City , earlier this year. With that application, Earthmine captures 3-D views of cities and then lets artists draw fake graffiti all over them. Users can cruise through the streets of San Francisco and view the graffiti and other messages that others overlay on the real places. Now the Berkeley, Calif.-based company is releasing a suite that lets others to do the same thing on smart phones and web sites. Earthmine’s data is
Tags: Apps, Artists, Berkeley, Cruise, Graffiti, Iphone, Mapping, Reality Application, Smart Phones, Streets Of San Francisco, Web Data, Wild Style
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
In the world of audiophila, when it comes to the absolute best speaker money can buy there is great debate. Are the Wilson Alexandrias better than the JM Labs Grand Utopias or should you seek out an older pair of MartinLogan E2’s? Well, if you ask a recording engineer or someone who owns a mastering lab what are the best speakers money can buy - you might get a very different answer than you are looking for. They might just say Meyer Sound X-10’s. Who is Meyer Sound you ask? They are a Berkeley,
Tags: Alexandrias, Berkeley, E2, Great Debate, Jm Labs, Loudspeakers, Martinlogan, Mastering Lab, Meyer Sound, Money, Recording Engineer, Speakers, Utopias
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Invisible College : J. Bradford DeLong (2006), "The Invisible College," Chronicle of Higher Education Review 52:47 (July 28, 2006): The Chronicle: 7/28/2006: The Invisible College: Right now I'm looking out my office window, perched above the large, grassy, Frisbee-playing, picnicking, and sunbathing area that stretches through Berkeley's campus. I'm looking straight out at the Golden Gate Bridge. It's a view that I marvel at every day. I wonder why the c
Tags: Berkeley, Bradford College, Chronicle Of Higher Education, Frisbee, Golden Bridge, Golden Gate, Golden Gate Bridge, Grasping Reality With Both Hands, Invisible College, J Bradford Delong, Picnicking, Sunbathing
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Author Ayelet Waldman Progressive activist and renowned Berkeley author Ayelet Waldman is calling 10th Congressional District Democratic candidate Anthony Woods the equivalent of the “It’s Like I Died and Went to Congressional Candidate Heaven.” Too bad for Woods that Waldman doesn’t live in the 10th District and can’t vote for him. But Waldman is hosting a fundraiser for him on July 11 and that’s good news for any candidate, particularly one entering a congressional race with littl
Tags: Ayelet Waldman, Berkeley, Big East, Congressional Candidate, Congressional District, Congressional Race, Democratic Candidate, East Bay, Fan Author, Fundraiser, Heaven, Progressive Activist
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