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Readybot cleans your kitchen

Robot wars be damned, I want one of these things .

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-03-2008
Friday Fun: LOLCODE! on the DLR

The LOLCAT is mildly amusing, but what I find really amazing is that someone actually took the time to write an implementation LOLCODE for the DLR . Imagine that, instead of writing boring old C# code, you wrote something like this: HAI CAN HAS STDIO? I HAS A FISH ITZ "Yummy" VISIBLE FISH VISIBLE...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-23-2007
What exactly is an iPhone application?

Scoble mentions 3 new iPhone apps today from Newsgator, Bloglines, and Google. It's interesting that companies keep saying they are doing "iPhone development", when really these are nothing more than sites skinned to look more natural on the iPhone. The iPhone is the only mobile phone that...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-24-2007
Blogs are "definitely not reputable news sources"

Jawn Murray, a columnist for AOL's Black Voices and a regular personality on the Tom Joyner Morning Show , had this gem in the latest Giant magazine. Blogs are online diaries written by your average Joe - people who don't work in the entertainment industry and have no formal journalism training. They...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-24-2007
I Don't Get Twitter

I am really struggling to find value in Twitter, and I'm certainly not the only one staying out of the Twitter lovefest. It is mildly interesting from a technical perspective but doesn't really add much to what I can do today. (Not to mention it's been down and/or slow under the load lately...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-22-2007
Licensing the Office 2007 UI - what is Microsoft's IP strategy?

Jensen Harris announced that the Office 2007 Ribbon UI can be licensed . For the last year or so, one of the questions I've been asked again and again has been: "Can I use the new Office user interface in my own product?" I have to be honest - I'm a bit baffled at this whole thing. Note, they are not...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-27-2006
The tradeoffs of the Energy Policy Act of 2005

As part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that Congress passed last year, Daylight Savings Time will be extended by four weeks. One of the rationales behind DST is that we leverage the longer daylight hours in the summer months to minimize the need for artificial light. This operates off the assumption...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-30-2006
PodShow gets funding... but forgets to renew DNS?

Maybe that really was the last Gillmor Gang . My downloads of the latest show kept failing, and now I know why - PodShow.com expired on Oct 4th and is now parked. Ooops! I don't know what's more ironic - their domain expires and they forget to renew just after they get funding, or that GoDaddy sponsors...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-09-2006
Gartner sends a cease and desist to remove a link

Scoble passes along that James Governor, an analyst for RedMonk, received a C&D from Gartner for a link . Wow. I obviously haven't seen the letter, but I'm trying to imagine what possible legal recourse they have to linking to a publicly visible URL. Obviously there's no copyright infringement and...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-11-2006
The Lost Mac Ads

Perhaps in light of the Apple ads that don't make sense , Best Week Ever unveiled the Lost Mac ads this week featuring Christian Finnegan and Nick Kroll. PC: "Right, but a podcast about your favorite hoodies and independent films won't help you pay for that vacation." Mac: "No, that's what my trust fund...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-09-2006

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