Stories by amichail

Is Google worried about the Facebook platform? After all, why pay for advertising if you don't need to?

Canada gets poor grade for failing to innovate

Are web 2.0 and sound software engineering practices incompatible?

Mining your email to automatically broadcast your mood. Can also broadcast collective moods (e.g., in an organization, country, etc.).

Brad Ideas: Crazy ideas, inventions, essays and links from Brad Templeton

What percentage of Java/C# developers can write a generic sort?

When will we see "ball cams" in sports?

Inspirational video for when you are down (add others in the comments)

Hubo FX-1 chair bot

A real-world use of lift: Scala + Lift compared to Ruby on Rails

Building a general purpose 'human computer' using human computation games

What else should I add to Study Stickies? Is it good enough for more significant promotion (e.g., on StumbleUpon)?

Google Reader: "A connection to the internet could not be made. Would you prefer to read in offline mode?"

Will justin.tv have an impact on computer science enrollment and if so in a positive or negative way?

If you have too many visitors (e.g., due to a digg/reddit submission), should you give certain visitors higher priority?

How important is a founder's personality as it relates to the target demographic?

A reCAPTCHA is more than a CAPTCHA, it also helps to digitize old books.

Google Tech Talk: On Getting Creative Ideas

Google bans essay writing adverts (What took them so long?!)

What about a blog reader where you can prioritize the blogs to which you are subscribed and bloggers get this info as feedback?