Design a blogging feature for OneNote
Being first to THINK and first to DO are definitely two different things. While the former is clearly prerequisite to the latter, it's the latter that ultimately counts.Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog : Design a blogging feature for OneNote.
Integrate 251 Diet Cokes with 1,506 Mentos in an Interactive Series Circuit
Don't even TRY to pretend you don't wish you'd thought of this first. Once again, TOO LATE!
Come up with a technique to overcome Spasmodic Dysphonia
Great Scott! Literally. Dilbert creator Scott Adams may have actually advanced science with his rhyming technique that successfully treated this rare, but well documented condition. Now I'm just waiting for the Dogbert remix: "Out! Out! You demons of Dysphonia!" It's indeed a good news day.
Be First to Create the World's Largest eBook Collection
Or not. The world's largest eBook Consortia is already Housed in World eBook Library Multi-Terabyte server network is the world's largest digital archive of PDF eBooks and eDocuments. Our collection hosts more than 330,000+ PDF eBooks and eDocuments. As a member you will have complete access to the entire collection. Our collection is constantly growing. Our projection is to reach 500,000 by fall of 2007. Next idea for being first?
Quick! Be First to Publish the Top Firefox 2 config tweaks!
Too late, Lifehacker is all over it. Geek to live, d00d.
Keep Up with Web 2.0 Better Than Everyone Else
My bet is that Original Signal is Transmitting Web 2.0 better, faster, and cheaper than you, me, and everyone else we know. But then again, even that is nowhere near good enough to keep up with the increasingly infinite mix-n-Mashable webiverse; so, go ahead, knock yourself out chasing this one.
Of course, here at Too Late Labs, our too late tiger team of uber developers is presently debugging the deep-stealth working prototype for Web 13.0, deep in the top secret underground bunkers at 529 Bryant St., so good luck keeping up; we've already invented stuff that won't even occur to you before 2016 -- which will be -- yep, you guessed it ... TOO LATE!
Special Report: Toward a Parenthetical Markup Language
Psst! Haven't you heard? She's really smart and full of great ideas, but like, she talks on average of 3.5 to 7 SECONDS longer than the average verbal exchange allows. Can you BELIEVE the audacity? Who does she think she is, clarifying her points in such precise detail and thereby heading off my own irrational and unsubstantiated objections before I even have a chance to voice them? How DARE she infringe on my inalienable RIGHT to start out believing of every human that opens his or her mouth, "you are stupid and wrong -- and therefore a terrorist threat to the status quo -- because I didn't think of your stupid superior innovative idea first! Die, innovator! Die! We HATE you for being one step ahead of us and will therefore make certain you never work in this town again!"The moral of our introduction today is, crime just doesn't pay. Moreover, it is the worst interpersonal crime of all to deviate from the norm in any way. So stay safe, never step out of line, never speak your mind, never invent, and never ever ever risk a failure, however bold the venture. Whatever you do, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER, particularly via improved software, hardware, or network capacity. You have been warned, brash and foolish innovator.
Today, we take a look at making the web even more Taggity, Stickity, Post-it-y, Traily, and Gossipy. MyStickies are a Web 2.0ish incarnation of an old idea -- as I recall, Alexa was early to the party, but changed course when prehistoric web inertia won out. In any case, this is an idea that poses no threat of being accused of being Too New, as it's been implemented many times in various inferior forms. Said stickies are also in a similar category with Trailfire, as well as vaguely related to tagging in general. Personally, I've always clumped all these efforts under the general made-up heading of a Parenthetical Markup Language (PML) for the web. The problem with all such efforts is that they are subject to Network Effects and if they are to succeed, must reach that ineffable Tipping Point where the adoption momentum curve crosses adoption inertia curve. The last time that happened was probably with HTML itself and the emergence of NCSA's original Mosaic web browser.
Clearly, tags are here to stay and will be a fundamental component of web content aggregation, coordination, collation, and contexualization forevermore. However, tags still don't provide that rich PML experience for which humans yearn. And after all, until everyone has equal opportunity to backstab, badmouth, alienate, and assassinate human web identities in the same manner that they blackball and blacklist humans in real life, the web will simply be incomplete. So let's get to work! There's loads of permanent reputation ripping to get done! All you humans that make those of us in the middle of the bell curve feel just a little bit stupid or uncomfortable ... Up Against The Wall!
J&J scientists make a breakthrough in neuropathy
Worthy of mention on a personal note, as I've known three people in the past five years that have had episodes of various neuropathies. It's a very peculiar health issue, to say the least, and could also relate to phantom limb pains suffered by amputees."Scientists with Johnson & Johnson say they've identified a key process involved in creating neuropathic pain and believe they're well on their way to finding new drug targets to stop the pain. At the center of their work are ion channels that initiate constant and rhythmic pain signals to the brain. And they say that their increased understanding of the way that these pacemaker channels work will have implications in a variety of diseases, including inflammatory ailments."
"What we have shown in our early preclinical research is that we can inhibit the inappropriate neuronal activity and resulting sensitivity that follows nerve injury," said Alan Wickenden, Ph.D., Research Fellow in the Pain and Related Disorders Team at J&JPRD. "Trauma to nerves and the tissues that surround them seems to trigger a complicated cascade of events that results in an increase in the activity of these pacemaker ion channels and the resulting transmission of pain signals to the brain. We are encouraged by early evaluations of certain chemical structures that seem to disrupt this rhythmic transmission."
SCIENCE DAILY: ScienceDaily: New Mechanism Underlying Pain Found
Free 160-bit Encrypted Anonymous Email within 128-bit SSL
Yeah, that would be StealthMessage.com. Also see the entertaining (though from my own few tests, far less reliable) alternative, Will Self Destruct, complete with MI:3 skin. :) Hardcore, Lightweight, Old-Sk00L, Retro, Anti-Virus
It's hardly news to the Sourceforge community, but ClamAV beats the rap that effective AV software has to be bloated bombast-ware that bundles everything from basic AV to DHS wiretap detection. So if you've finally begun to notice the sorry state of client-side AV software and thought you'd strike first, Too Late, Somebody is Already Doing That and doing a damned good job, too; so you'll just have to clam it.Version 0.88.5 features a very handy option to scan everything currently memory, the report looks like:
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Scan started: Tue Oct 17 11:19:27 2006
*** Scanning Programs in Computer Memory ***
*** Computer Memory Scan Completed ***
-- summary --
Known viruses: 73372
Engine version: 0.88.5
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 0
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 220.22 MB
Time: 125.771 sec (2 m 5 s)
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Completed
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Wow! 220.22MB in RAM, right now. This, on a Windows XP box that, from the user's perspective, has "nothing running right now." Typical. :)
Index and securely manages all logs and IT data from a single console
This is like serious "you're smoking dope" pipe dream stuff from just a couple of years back. Splunk > The search engine for logs and IT data.
Completely Free International Phone Calls
Too late, Futurephone beat you for time-to-market by delivering a better way to call internationally than paying high rates at home, using a low quality pc connection or buying a calling card with hidden fees, one time charges and long PIN numbers to remember.More details at the ever vigilant SeekingAlpha.
Tags + Community + RSS + Rollover Power tools
Jamendo: Open Your Ears. The musical ear is the door to the inward eye; the eye too often held tightly shut against the unexpected, the foreign, the cognitively dissonant or overvalent. Listen ... awaken new senses ... and smell the stench of your own petty prejudice and self-destructive discrimination. Don't worry ... I'm used to going first; it's not pretty, but it's REALITY. We can get beyond it, but only if authenticity is our mutual guide. That, and the Jamendo Spy Firefox Extension, perhaps. 
Memory Glasses
The MIT Memory Glasses Project: a wearable, proactive, context-aware memory aid based on the MIThril platform and wearable sensors. The primary goal of this project is to produce an effective memory aid and reminder system.
Tags + OPML + amazing discovery algorithm + tight title and summary gen + constant flow of what's new
Yeah! NOBODY is doing *that* yet! Well, except Megite, remixed and remashed for post-information age CROWDSOURCING. Why didn't YOU think of that fast enough?! 
Twitter: 40404 FOUND
"Twitter is for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you are doing. For some friends you might want instant mobile updates—for others, you can just check the web. Invite your friends to Twitter and decide how connected you want to be." 
The Firefox of media players; MP3 Blog Surfing++
Songbirdnest.com | Songbird Media Player: "Songbird is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox, it is built from Mozilla, cross-platform and open source."Unlike anything before, it surfs sites like those included at MonkeyFilter Wiki's MP3 Blog Listing. After all, if you can't connect with the average monkeys, you'll never go to scale with any product or service, however novel.
"Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players." —Aaron Boodman, Greasemonkey
Time Value of Innovation
Roughly, there are two stages to innovation; namely, research and development, followed by practical application or implementation. At Too Late, Somebody is Already Doing that, we hope to provoke and encourage those in the first camp to out invent the competition by bringing new ideas to fruition faster and motivate those in the latter camp to take action by putting these innovations to practical new uses that generate revenue.
Doing either or both of these things can contribute to maximizing the Time Value of Innovation. Those who "get it" about new technologies and who apply them to solve pressing problems first can realize significant and valuable return on investment. Those who fail to see the obvious can suffer catastrophic loss.
By way of illustration, at the inaugural Seattle Innovation Symposium held in September 2005, David Croson, PhD and associate professor at Southern Methodist University, shared an interesting anecdote that recounted the way that assassinated U.S. President William McKinley died, at the 1901 World's Fair. Just ten feet away from the place where McKinley's fate was determined, lay a fully operational new technology that might have saved his life: the x-ray machine. At the 1901 World's Fair, the pinnacle event for the future of applied technologies, a team of the best and brightest were frantically trying to find the second of two bullets lodged inside the declining President; and yet, apparently nobody thought to suggest, "hey, roll that new x-ray picture taker thingie over here STAT and see if we can find the other bullet! This is the President of the United States and if we don't try something, he will certainly die!"
Notwithstanding modal global sentiment about U.S. presidents in 2001 versus 1901, the early 20th century surgeons stitched him up and sent him back to Washington, where he died shortly thereafter.
What opportunities, laying just within reach, are your businesses or business units missing out on? Are you a VP or CEO lying on the table with two bullets buried in your business case and surrounded by a bright but overly risk-averse or unimaginative team that is missing the intuitively obvious?
Whether you are a new startup, or an old standard striving to keep the pace of innovation set by nimble new entrants, Product and Process Management for Innovators might start you down the road toward a sustainable model for applied innovation, or even save your assets before it's too late.
Doing either or both of these things can contribute to maximizing the Time Value of Innovation. Those who "get it" about new technologies and who apply them to solve pressing problems first can realize significant and valuable return on investment. Those who fail to see the obvious can suffer catastrophic loss.
By way of illustration, at the inaugural Seattle Innovation Symposium held in September 2005, David Croson, PhD and associate professor at Southern Methodist University, shared an interesting anecdote that recounted the way that assassinated U.S. President William McKinley died, at the 1901 World's Fair. Just ten feet away from the place where McKinley's fate was determined, lay a fully operational new technology that might have saved his life: the x-ray machine. At the 1901 World's Fair, the pinnacle event for the future of applied technologies, a team of the best and brightest were frantically trying to find the second of two bullets lodged inside the declining President; and yet, apparently nobody thought to suggest, "hey, roll that new x-ray picture taker thingie over here STAT and see if we can find the other bullet! This is the President of the United States and if we don't try something, he will certainly die!"
Notwithstanding modal global sentiment about U.S. presidents in 2001 versus 1901, the early 20th century surgeons stitched him up and sent him back to Washington, where he died shortly thereafter.
What opportunities, laying just within reach, are your businesses or business units missing out on? Are you a VP or CEO lying on the table with two bullets buried in your business case and surrounded by a bright but overly risk-averse or unimaginative team that is missing the intuitively obvious?
Whether you are a new startup, or an old standard striving to keep the pace of innovation set by nimble new entrants, Product and Process Management for Innovators might start you down the road toward a sustainable model for applied innovation, or even save your assets before it's too late.
Idea: Let's take down NETFLIX! Yeah!
SeekingAlpha says DVDExpress' Biz Model Threatens Netflix, so again you are just too late.Log in directly to the vending machine. Nifty.
Teleportation: No longer an original accomplishment
Sure, you can scale it up from here, but you're still a follower. CNN report Scientists teleport two different objects: "Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark have made a breakthrough by using both light and matter.
'It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium,' Polzik explained in an interview on Wednesday."
'It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium,' Polzik explained in an interview on Wednesday."
VERY Simple to Use Video Chat Rooms
REALLY old news on this one. This is not your usual lame-o bundled one-to-one webcamware like Netmeeting, etc. This is actual multi-participant video conferencing software that you can slap on any web page. Appears mostly frequented by tragically lonely kidlings of all ages, but that's beside the point. The blog started a year ago, this month.
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