Ivan Zuzak

"We’re going to be rolling out the free digital forms of FREE over the next two weeks. First up: the Scribd form, right here on the blog (and anywhere else you want—it’s embeddable). This is the whole book! Also released today: the free unabridged audiobook. You can either download the whole things as zipped MP3 files, or play them on the Wired.com microsite." - Ivan Zuzak from Bookmarklet

Vidio sam je prvi i zadnji puta 1985. godine u Brightonskom Odeon kinu i do danas je nisam zaboravio, hvala na podsjećanju :) - Fritz

"Barry was one of our few destination specific interviews. We had heard about him months before and wanted to meet him and do an interview. The drive from Marfa to Fort Davis was filled with blue skies and white clouds. We set up the interview in the back of the Snake Museum and Barry began to tell us his tale. If you are ever in Fort Davis make sure to stop in and see Barry and ask him to tell you the story about the monkey and the parrot." - Ivan Zuzak

"this magazine collates some of the most creative and innovative visualisation of information that try to simplify the complex. this volume is based around circles. next is based on isometrics. please send your examples of isometrics for the future issue 3." - Ivan Zuzak

Very cool - M F

@Adam Turetzky, give us some WebKit stuff. :) - JohnDu™

"Even though I’m an “okay” presenter, it was easy to see right away some areas of development and the power that great delivery has in connecting with the audience and conveying ideas well. I’d never had an objective view of how I communicate and as Kelly recorded my delivery, she had great insights for me. Great communication is more important than ever right now. It feeds the impression we leave about our transparency and authenticity (or worse, can do the opposite). She had a great quote by Bernard Baruch “The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.”" - Ivan Zuzak from Bookmarklet

"We met Doc Whitman in front of his house in Marfa, Texas.  He is a retired Border Patrol Officer who spends his time keeping lawns and visiting with his wife Francis. Doc considers himself to be an "old eccentric" and "different from everybody else."" - Ivan Zuzak

"We met Traci while checking into the Riata Inn. Her interview took place in the parking lot behind the motel. Her energy and kind spirit made the interview a pleasure to conduct. She told us of growing up in Texas and about her love for her brother. She and her husband have been managing the Riata for one year and enjoy the experience, but Traci says she misses sitting on her porch in West Texas listening to the rain." - Ivan Zuzak

"Google’s Holodeck isn’t quite as cool as the Star Trek Holodeck, but give them a few years, I’m sure they’ll figure out how to do that as well." -- MG Siegler - Ivan Zuzak from Bookmarklet

just star the issue to cast the vote. more stars = more chance that the issue will be resolved earlier. - Ivan Zuzak from Bookmarklet

"Today we're introducing Google Fusion Tables on Labs, an experimental system for data management in the cloud. It draws on the expertise of folks within Google Research who have been studying collaboration, data integration, and user requirements from a variety of domains. Fusion Tables is not a traditional database system focusing on complicated SQL queries and transaction processing. Instead, the focus is on fusing data management and collaboration: merging multiple data sources, discussion of the data, querying, visualization, and Web publishing. We plan to iteratively add new features to the systems as we get feedback from users." - Ivan Zuzak from Bookmarklet

it's exciting! - Sets Turan

"Google Translator Toolkit is a new tool being launched today to help translators organize their work and benefit from shared translations, glossaries and translation memories." - Ivan Zuzak from Bookmarklet

Haha, that sure is one (fun) way to measure the quality of translations. And I agree, it's a bit quirky right now, but I think we will see drastic increase in quality as more and more people join in and "crowdsource" the engine. - Ivan Zuzak

"...we're now ready to show off -- and get feedback on -- the gadgets.realtime set of APIs. These APIs will let Google gadgets hosted in different user's browsers communicate with each other. The first API, gadgets.sharedstate, is available on the new Talk Developer Sandbox. With this API, you can share an object between instances of a gadget, and be notified in realtime when the other instance modifies it. More APIs and UI improvements to allow gadgets.realtime gadgets to be used on orkut and iGoogle are in the works and coming soon." - Ivan Zuzak from Bookmarklet

Vijay, my chess skills are weak, I'm sure you'd make short work of me :) I'm happy just giving people another way to play! - Moishe Lettvin

"With release 1.2.3 of the Python SDK, we are psyched to present an exciting new feature - the Task Queue API. You can now perform offline processing on App Engine by scheduling bundles of work (tasks) for automatic execution in the background. You don't need to worry about managing threads or polling - just write the task processing code, queue up some input data, and App Engine handles the rest. If desired, you can even organize and control task execution by defining custom queues... Last but not least, the 1.2.3 release is full of other new stuff as well! Stay tuned to the blog for more updates or check the release notes for exciting info on: Asynchronous urlfetch support, Django 1.0 support." - Ivan Zuzak from Bookmarklet

"If you haven't created a presentation in Google Docs in a while, you should consider trying out these recent enhancements: 1) Multi-shape formatting allows you select multiple shapes and/or text boxes, and format them all at once. 2) Manipulation of text boxes got easier in some more ways, too. Text boxes now grow in size as you type and you can now vertically align the text within multiple boxes using a new Text Vertical Alignment button in the toolbar. 3) When you are giving live presentations, you now can better navigate to specific slides within your presentation." - Ivan Zuzak from Bookmarklet

Yea Feed-Buster busted doesnt want to be my friend... lol. I am having trouble getting the pictures to load correctly on my profile. - The Consultingguy

Can't wait for the Glastonbury vids! - Ivan Zuzak from Bookmarklet

"Jim Carter grew up on a farm with ten brothers and sisters. Although Jim always wanted to stay on the farm, he was called upon by God to bear witness. After Jim left his home he got married and later divorced. Jim is currently living near his son in government housing but plans to move to Albuquerque, New Mexico in the near future." - Ivan Zuzak

"We found Rey in downtown Springer as he was exiting the local grocery store. He hopped into our van and we drove to his house where we conducted the interview. Rey is an art school teacher and a military veteran. He plans on expanding his chicken coup, adding onto his house, acquiring some quail, building a tree house, constructing a miniature golf area and planting a secret garden. When we left Rey he was kind enough to offer us a cold drink of water and homemade biscuits with jalapeno jelly." - Ivan Zuzak

"The printing process in question is a simple but, as usual with Keats, pretty clever idea. The cover is printed in a double layer of standard black ink, with an incrementally screened overlay masking the nine words. Exposed over time to ultraviolet light, the words will be appear at different rates, supposedly one per century." - Ivan Zuzak from Bookmarklet