Bye Bye Holographic Storage

I remember reading this great article about holographic storage in 1991. Yes, that’s 1991, I was a nerd even back then (article on Der Spiegel or via Google Translate). Holographic storage was going to take over everything and replace hard-drives in five years. I guess that didn’t happen, but companies such as InPhase sure kept [...]

Ditch Flash, Mr. Jobs. Really?

Apparently Steve Jobs told the Wall Street Journal to ditch flash because it is a buggy old technology with security holes. That’s an interesting attitude, considering that the real reason for why Apple refuses to support Flash on the iPhone and iPad is that it would undermine the Apple store and they would have to [...]

Link: Game Development in a Post-Agile World

I ran across this totally awesome rant/statement of facts (thanks Slashdot) about real-world development, hype, and just getting things done. I personally have always been a huge proponent of just doing what works and feels right in the particular situation, borrowing bits and pieces from all kinds of methodologies. I’ve never been a fan of [...]

Hello Blog

I am slowly surfacing again, joining the living again after spending the entire year in a (umm) timely-challenged project. Or is that scopely-challenged? Or just unrealistic deadlines for the given scope? Well, either way, it doesn’t matter anymore. It’s now live!
What is it? Well, my team and I built a completely new eCommerce platform for [...]

Search Engine Hype – No Words

Razorfish consolidates offices

Looks like we’re closing some of the offices, here a link to another side with the story (that way no-one accuses me of leaking internal information ;-().
More on Media Bistro.

Time Entry on iPhone

A few months ago the Razorfish IT team released the probably best iPhone app I have on my iPhone: Timeline.
Time entry has so far always been a huge pain in the a!@# at every company I’ve worked for, no matter whether Excel, automated versions, especially the horrid Oracle application we’re currently using — it’s slow, [...]

Surface Physics Engine Demo

Some of the folks I work with obviously have way to much spare time on their hands:

DaVinci (Microsoft Surface Physics Illustrator) from Razorfish – Emerging Experiences on Vimeo.

Oracle buying Sun

Oracle just announced to buy Sun for a wee bit over $7b. I think this is a brilliant move, by far better than the previous offer by IBM.
On a side note, it is almost impossible to type on an iPhone on a moving train.

Ascii Videos

This is completely insane but I love it. Who knew you can play youtube videos on a 80×25 text console. Windows could never do that ;-)

Source: Hackszine.com