Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category
Ubiquity: an interesting way to interact with a browser
By jose in Announcements, Software, Web 2.0Just a quick note to mention Ubiquity. It can be ‘quicksilver for firefox’ but it goes a lot further I think. It takes a very refreshing view to repetitive tasks we all do and renders them obsolete. For example: You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant [...]
Merlin Mann (43Folders) declares moral bankruptcy of the ‘productivity Pr0n’ cult
By jose in Announcements, Blog, Time managementImage via Wikipedia In an impressive display on coherence, Merlin Mann (43Folders) declares moral bankruptcy of the ‘productivity Pr0n’ cult. This is something I have discussed before on ap.com (post: rethinking life hacks). Merlin has declared he wants a new direction for 43Folders; it was harming people more than helping, since the time readers spent [...]
Happy Birthday AP.com!
By dario in Announcements, BlogPrecisely two years ago, Shane posted our first mission statement. Simple and ambitious as it was, that post pretty much sums up why we are still here.
I have moved
By jose in AnnouncementsI’m now at the Max Planck institute for Human Development, Berlin. I’ll be working on the large Knowledge Collider project (LarKC), an EU grant that aims to create a platform for real-time reasoning on the semantic web. The semantic web is being around for years, but only now it’s getting enough momentum. This is an [...]