A recently published patent application titled “SCRIPT-INTEGRATED STORYBOARDS” by Apple shows the company’s interest in stepping even deeper into the world of motion picture production. Apple describes the background on the patent, Producing motion pictures can be an exciting project. Motion picture productions can range from major studio epics to documentaries produced by small independent [...]

Code Swarm is an Open source tool for generating animated videos from source code commit history. You can see the interactions between developers. I think it really captures the organic essence of Open source projects. You can find similar videos with the Python and Apache projects. It’s truly amazing. Linked via O’Reilly Radar

Be sure not to miss this episode of net@night. Austin Hill is the guest of Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte, talking about Akoha.

The iFrame is a touch-screen web tablet powered by Ubuntu and with a custom interface close to the one of the iPhone. This tablet has been unveiled yesterday by Olivier Seres. The interface is pretty slick and the device looks awesome. TechCrunch is also working on a similar project called the CrunchPad. Michael Arrington announced [...]

TechCrunch have been tracking layoffs in the tech industry for about 6 months and it’s getting worse and worse. John Gruber recently reported that Microsoft is about to cut 5,000 jobs, Sony is announcing $3 billion annual loss and Nokia is talking about a profit drop of 69%. On the other side, Apple is reporting [...]

Yesterday, Identi.ca — the open microblogging service — got a major facelift. The new design is really sweet and support for groups have been added; a feature still not available on Twitter. Identi.ca recently got funding from Montreal Start Up. Great job guys.

Tonite was the first edition of iPhoneDevCamp, organized by Sylvain Carle from Praized Media and hosted at Station C. For a first edition I didn’t expect that many people. We were about 40 and for the most, iPhone developers having done real projects. An high quality audience. The camp was divided in two parts; a [...]

Love them or hate them, with a speech like the one Barack Obama gave this morning, we all feel like American patriots. On the occasion, the White House website got a face-lift. It even got a blog with a first post saying the media efforts will center around communication, transparency and participation. A radical change [...]

Michael Arrington has published some letters from formers Google employees who have been asked by Google HR, why they left the company. Google is now a big company and is not perfect. From what I read in those letters, people tend to idealize what it is to work at Google; they end up being disappointed [...]

Colloquy, an excellent IRC client for Mac OS X is now available for iPhone. $1.99 on the App Store but also in Open source.