Archive for October, 2008

“Hello Dave, You Look Nice Today” – One step closer to HAL 9000

Today, the machines became a little smarter, as a computer named Elbot managed to achieve a 25% success rate when convincing a human being that they were talking to another human. via Gizmodo & The Telegraph  Should the law of exponential growth hold, it isn’t going to long until we can create programs that can ace the turing test. [...]

Lets Spread the FUD – Web 2.0 Style.

A deluge of European startups descended on London’s ExCel Centre for the Future of Web Apps 2008 conference this week, and while the economic crisis has already reached Europe, the fear clearly hasn’t reached its startup community.Via GigaOm OK so its hard to deny that everything in the world is in melt down, but it [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-10-09

Sometimes I wish iTunes could read my mind. It never picks a song I want to listen to when its in shuffle. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-10-05

mmmm, the smell of home cooking, burger and wedges. The perfect Sunday dinner. #

The Problem with Open – Android vs iPhone.

There has been lots of talk about Apple is doomed to fail with the iPhone as a software Platform and the Android platform is going to be so much better, simple because its open. Firstly, take a look at the iPhone. Its a fantastically designed device, and the attention to detail is insane – that’s [...]