Too Late To Be First

Jott my voice to blog,...

Jott my voice to blog, this is a random post to the too late blog from a random restaurant in Palo Alto, you only get 30 seconds, but a lot of times that's adequate just to slap something on the blog. ____ cool, first I have seen that it works as(?) well. See you. listen

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NOTE: This is one of the worst transcriptions I've seen so far, but I was pushing the envelope by using a speaker phone with plenty of background hum due to server noise. I've not edited the above in any way, so that you can get a realistic take of performance. I'll likely post a few more items here with the service and if it lives up to expectations, may never typo another post here again!

Keep having fun ..

Take Architecture into the 22nd Century

Contents:

Jumeirah residents actually already moving in.
The view from atop Burj Dubai as of last August.
The planned Rotating Sky Tower by David Fisher.
Sky Tower's completely Self-Sustaining Energy Footprint.

Voice to Text to Twitter to Blog to Art to Email to Mobile to Office to Web to Go. Right.

Yikes. Too many to keep up with and I just don't have the time I once had to pretend to keep up. Rest assured that I always knew it was a vainglorious delusion ... but glorious ... and vain ... indeed it was.

jott.com - get simple back. as in, get simplicity back into your life, i guess. and actually, it is pretty damned simple. lists, groups, reminders, to-dos, calendars,

kwiry.com - See it? Hear it? Text it before you forget it with mobile txt message reminders to your computer. Might not be needed if you already jott'd it, though.

websketch.com - Impressive interface for sketching up your own websites. Drag and drop your new website into reality.

LaunchSplash.com - Fills a need of 100% of web startups - drop dead simple launch pages for your upcoming site - build community before you even have one.

ZoomProspector.com - Whether you're looking for your new office across the city or across the country, find the right location by a number of factors: cost, labor market, education level, job growth, incomes, etc.

Make getting off the grid, REALISTICALLY competitive with the grid

Solar City has done it. This is precisely the model required to rapidly ignite uptake of solar power. Theoretically, solar has always been a no-brainer; realistically, it's simply been too far out of reach to make a deep impact in the consumer residential mass market. The problem has always been the high initial startup cost, followed by prohibitive monthly costs for workin' folk.

However, if we workin' folk can make a reasonable one time investment, then immediately replace our utility bill with one that is equal or just a bit lower, NOW as everyday consumers, we can make that choice.

For global warming's sake, let's all hope that this New Financing For Solar catches on, quickly.

Wifi-enable any SD Camera

DEET'DUH'DEEEE!!! ON ME!!!!

How in the world did I miss this for nearly FOUR YEARS??? Oh well, it just validates my career choice of becoming expert at being Too Late To Be First, right? That said, there are some recent new developments that will make the Eye-Fi even faster and easier to use.

Mate an iPod with a Beanie Baby

And you get a Chumby, apparently. Who knew?

Oh, and yes, the little critter speaks Wifi (even WPA2/AES-PSK) right from the cradle. While there is some very cool interactivity in this widget, it's too bad this virtual chumby doesn't let you change channels like the real thing. What you're seeing here is indeed one of my actual channels, (very minimal, suitable for grandma's coffee table ... hey, good name for the channel ... "coffee table" ... thanks for the idea).

A Chumby TV channel: