And now for something completely different. If you’re interested in advanced animated film production techniques, you would have heard of the National Film Board (NFB) and Norman McLaren in particular, who developed early animation technology […]
I just saw this in a Tweet by Matt Ball of Vector1Media. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado has just published an interactive map on Google containing geographic data for flex fuel, hybrid, […]
This is pretty interesting. There is an Autodesk Labs project called Dragonfly, which is a Web-based application for home improvement projects targeting beginning “home designers” like the typical homeowner. Dragonfly provides on-line design tools to […]
One of the challenges facing utilities and telecommunications firms worldwide is an inefficient paper-based process for managing engineering design information. The challenges associated with a paper-based information flow includes poor data quality, low productivity, multiple […]
Recently the Free and Open Source Software Learning Centre (FOSSLC) held their annual Summercamp in Ottawa. Haris Kurtagic and I prepared a presentation on a RESTful implementation of an open API for data access that […]
There’s an interesting article in Wired listing the top utilities in the US in 2008 for solar power generation. It is really amazing how many of these are in California. Southern California Edison, which provides […]
The City of Vancouver has passed a motion endorsing open data, open standards, and leveling the playing field for open source software procurement. I had blogged about this earlier.
Google Wave was previewed at Google I/O. According to one source, it is a combination of social networking, Gmail and Google Docs. Google Wave was designed by the Rasmussen brothers (Lars and Jens) who founded […]