Amy Chen's iLike of Superstar earlier today reminded me of this old debate, recently made famous by the scene in Juno. Sort of like choosing between Haagen Daz, B&J, or Godiva chocolate ice creams. - Amir Gharaat
This first release lays a good end-to-end foundation… easy set up, smooth cursor movement, and reliable click events. But the UI has key design flaws and missing features that keep it from being an everyday tool. It’s just enough to generate enthusiasm. Looking forward to updates and hope to see other developers innovate around this idea. - Amir Gharaat
I should add, more than any other iPhone app I've used, iTap highlights how unforgiving glass can be with moisture. I might be the minority but I experience frequent "fits and starts" when I attempt long, precise paths. This is a rare problem in most apps... iPhone SDK includes Apple's well-designed touch widgets which don't require high precision. But for this experiment I had good accuracy only when I wrapped a bit of Kleenex on my fingertip. - Amir Gharaat
Amazon's new music wiki-mashup-store... still looking to see how it's better than last.fm. And they're not even using RDFa? No API? No RSS? - Amir Gharaat
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I'm so proud of my friend Linus Upson for leading this project. He is the most accomplished engineer I've worked with. From his contribution to DBKit at NeXT before he could legally drink through founding three successful companies... and recently leading Gears and Chrome at Google, he's the embodiment of "smart"+"determined". He recently told me over dinner that his secret project will have significant impact. Not that I doubted him, but now that I know the details, I can't overemphasize how much impact it'll have. Congrats, Linus. - Amir Gharaat
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Do not want. I love touching teh cards, not some greasy screen, and looking at someone's stack, playing with the chips. Nah, this table would be like going to a baseball game and staring at the JumboTron all night. - Kevin Fox
I think its awful cool though, even if I would miss holding the cards. - Rachel Lea Fox
Yes, I agree there's nothing like the feeling of cards and chips. That said, imagine how much more poker per hour you could play!! - Amir Gharaat
You can play more poker per hour on the Internet, too! You could just get ten of your friends around a table with laptops and play online poker (together or separately). I think computer assistance for board/table/card gaming is possible and promising, but I don't think this is how to do it. (My own dreams have been tokens marked in a way that overhead cameras can easily pick them up, and a projector showing auxiliary information and directions on the table as the physical bits move.) - ⓞnor
Dan, have you seen Eye of Judgment for the PS3? It uses cards with barcodes and a camera. There's no projector, but the video from the camera is shown on screen with 3D overlays. http://youtube.com/watch?v=UEh... - Ben Darnell
You can try one out live in Las Vegas at the Excalibur now. - Ken Gidley
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“Anyone have a SocialThing Beta invite for me? Much appreciated.”
"DimP automatically extracts object motions from the videos. DimP then allows the user to control video playback by scrubbing these objects on their trajectories." - Amir Gharaat
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NIce poster. I wasn't really interested in this film, though, until I heard that Rob Corddry (formerly of The Daily Show) plays the role of press secretary Ari Fleischer. That's some evil-genius casting! - M. Donaldson
