EDAD660 (2008)

Two things caught my eye this week, and I think that you may find them interesting too.  The first is a free software package called “Jing” that can be used to capture video and audio from your computer.  The quality is fantastic, and they have a one-click feature that allows you to post your video to the web along with an Embed link.  Here’s a quick video I just made about a project that I’m working on for a class at NYU:

If you want to see the full project feel free to visit it at http://itp.nyu.edu/~cmk380/pileup_04/applet/

The second item of note has to do with an article that CNN ran this week on Google’s plans to create vast floating offshore data centers.  These centers could be used to host Google’s various web services, such as it’s search engine, Gmail, Google Docs, etc.  The plan right now is to also take advantage of emerging energy production technologies, such as wave and tidal generation, to help power these floating computer centers.  Pretty cool stuff!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/09/18/computer.navy/index.html?eref=rss_latest

Saw this on digg this morning – though you guys would find it interesting as we talked about trans-oceanic cabling in class.  Hope your school year is off to a great start so far!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/28/google_undersea_cable_two/

Map of undesea Internet cables – full article below the image:

http://news.cnet.com/2300-1033_3-6035611-1.html

And an article that describes what happened when the cable was cut under the harbor in Egypt last year:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/01/internationalpersonalfinancebusiness.internet

Not the speed testing site that I was looking for, but pretty cool nonetheless:

http://www.speedtest.net/

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