Tag: tim_oreilly
Too Much Data in the Car
You can see from my previous post I love my Garmin C340 in-car GPS unit. With the voice directions announcing turns including street names, it seems to be only a slight distraction to the task at hand – driving the car. In fact compared to hunting for a street or location, it probably reduces the […]
Posted: October 19th, 2007 under General.
Tags: gps, innovation, internet, tim_oreilly, traffic, travel
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TV Listings and Web 2.0
One area of information cataloging, tagging, indexing, etc that has not been impacted to date are those horrible TV listing grids. You know those grids on the TV channel with the unidirectional fix scroll rates and the channel you want always just went by! Or, the page-based ones, like Comcast, that show 3 lines of […]
Posted: September 21st, 2007 under General.
Tags: innovation, tagging, tim_oreilly, tv, web-2.0
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Just Give the One Finger Salute and Keep Going
In many ways this story illustrates the spirit of America. Unfortunately, I think today we have alot of people that have gotten the “salute” part down perfectly, but missed the part about making something happen! BTW, you’ll also learn a bit trivia. Name the only man to go supersonic not in a vehicle? I guess […]
Posted: May 21st, 2007 under General.
Tags: blog_entry, innovation, life, tim_oreilly
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