First Look

Man in the field Terry Jones has gone beyond the amazing feat of helping keep a circus aloft — he’s there on the front lines to present this latest discovery of nature’s miraculous ability to adapt. Are flying, migratory penguins yet another portent of global warming, perhaps?
“…they don’t need to huddle together every winter for […]

In addition to my duties here at Lockergnome, I’m also still working on my beginner’s programming language called Leopard. The last update that I posted here detailed the fact that I was working with WeatherBug to expand the tool and integrate it with their WeatherBug Achieve curriculum for schools.
Those efforts are still underway, and […]

The Science Channel debuts “It’s All Geek to Me,” a new weekly series that brings O’Reilly author and The New York Times personal technology columnist David Pogue’s expertise on the world of technology to television. In each half-hour episode, Pogue uses his unique brand of humor to help average consumers unravel the mystery behind complex […]

The following post was taken from the official Leopard blog.
It’s been about six months since WeatherBug and I became partners in distributing my beginner’s programming language called Leopard as a trial version through their network. During that time, we’ve received some fantastic and encouraging feedback from the users, and over the past few months, work […]

The following post was taken from the new and official Leopard blog.
I’ve been saying for a few weeks now that the first day of November would be the start of the revival of Leopard, the beginner’s programming language that I’ve been working on since I was fourteen-years old. Many of you have exercised extreme patience […]

Internet search has proven to be one of the most lucrative businesses in technology. Improving upon an already successful model, Zotspot today announced its official launch as the first Internet search engine to pay its users in cash for their normal search behavior. By using Zotspot as their primary search engine, users earn money and […]

I wanted to share with you some information on Photosynth, a new technology developed by Live Labs, Microsoft Research, and the University of Washington, to create a unique and immersive three dimensional online photo sharing experience for consumers. Below is some additional information on this exciting technology. A video preview of Photosynth and screen shots […]

JaJah, the pioneering communication company, is launching right now, a new, revolutionary Web telephony service, allowing standard phone calls to be made from any computer at highly competitive rates.
Called JaJah Web, the new service is launching at this very time at www.jajah.com, with a special offering of five full free minutes of web telephony to […]

Sing your favorite songs on video and share them online! As anticipated a few days ago, today I am launching my online video music station for broadband users only.
This new site is my first humble effort at putting into practice some of the grassroots publishing ideas I have learned about online, while mixing in […]

Sing your favorite songs on video and share them online! As anticipated a few days ago, I am launching today my online video music station for broadband users only.
This new site is my first humble effort at putting into practice some of the grassroots publishing ideas I have learned about online, while mixing in […]

Festoon is a new free video conferencing tool that supports real-time screen sharing while seamlessly integrating with Skype and Google Talk.
Festoon, formerly known as VSkype, has changed its name while releasing a completely upgraded new version of its simple-to-use PC-only video conferencing tool.
Festoon is very simple to use and it allows to run one-to-many […]

If you are an early adopter, one of those like me who likes to try and experiment as early as possible with these fascinating new media technologies, you are already probably familiar with Flock, the social browser built on top of the Firefox engine.
But if the early news of Flock has passed by you too […]

The same guys who have recently launched Skylook, the cool Outlook-based Skype recorder, have given me the honour of uncovering first their latest free audio recording and messaging tool that is being released today: WaxMail.
With WaxMail, you can start replying to your Outlook e-mails via your own voice. At no additional cost.

What I thought was just a silly-fantasy of a passionate amateur musician like me, has surpassed my wildest expectation and has now turned into an actual product.
After the recent debut of Ninjam, which premiered the immense opportunities available to those who, like me, dreamed of hooking up with far away music partners to jam together […]

By far, the most difficult step for any would-be online video producer, blogger or videomaker is the ability to master the idiosyncrasies of a multitude of different video formats, encoding and compression nightmares and the needs to serve the same content optimized for different users and connections. Nonetheless, all the buzz around video blogging and […]

Scoping the contents of an information site is a tough task. That is why major search engines have become the major, most used, and accessed gateways to anyone’s site pages. They are indeed, by far, the fastest and easiest method to discover and find out whether your site has any content relevant to their interests.
But […]

Microsoft MSNBC has been working hard with its partner Pictometry to capture areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
After talking with the people on the ground supporting relief efforts, it became apparent that the lack of information about the status of homes and buildings was hampering relief efforts.

Developed by Stefan Kellner and Felix Petersen, here is an open collaborative effort for annotating locations.
This is a grassroots approach to location-aware interaction, which leverages the local network you are connected to as a location reference.

This week, Robin Good’s new media picks selection includes:

Open Source server-based RSS feed aggregator
RSS newsmastering tool self-discovers hot topics
Blogging to the Web from within Microsoft Word
Free online content storehouse (1GB) and sharing platform
Web site traffic ranking and popularity reporting service
Web search via SMS
Multilingual web search interface
Usability testing community […]

This week my new media picks include:

Customize content into marketable products
RSS submission tools compared
RSS output for Macromedia Dreamweaver
Blog geo-coding service
Podcast music network supporting indie bands
Online guide to understanding Digital Rights Management
The future of music
Earth interactive mapping service
Earth satellite visualization
Magazine cover creator
PHP forum software does […]