Author Archives: Thomas Purves

Do androids dream of electric pants?

Posted on November 13, 2007 by Thomas Purves

Thanks to Open Gardens for pointing this out. Two good vids on youtube demoing googles new mobile phone operating system/software platform called android. The first video features Sergey Brin himself introducing some of the things android can do. (which are … Continue reading →

Posted in android, Archive, google, mobile, open, pants | 2 Comments

“Some people tell me it is a beautiful shape, but I cannot tell this because I am an engineer.” – Gábor Domokos

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Thomas Purves

Ha, a quote that seems to explain a lot about this world? 1. How many the things that surround us may work, but are not beautiful. 2. And the corollary, why some things that are beautiful don’t seem to work? … Continue reading →

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Facebook Fatigue, it’s Spreading

Posted on November 9, 2007 by Thomas Purves

Do you feel like the applications are killing Facebook? For all the gold rush and hoopla surrounding the Facebook platformitization, is it living up to expectations? I don’t think it is. The world could use a great social operating system. … Continue reading →

Posted in Archive, Attention Viruses, facebook, memes, socialgraft, socialmedia | 4 Comments