Fire Back at The Ranch!

OMG! There’s been a fire in the building where our new Podcast.com offices are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just up the road from MIT!

We share a floor at the Cambridge Innovation Center with Google among others. (The CIC webserver is down – wowis it hosted there, or just getting lots of traffic?)

One electricity worker, who was working on whatever caused the explosion was killed in the accident.

Our man Justin, who was up on the 11th floor got out OK. I work from home.

3D News with RSS

For Vista, when it comes out, here’s an app/widget from Microsoft called UniveRSS.

UniveRSS is a showcase application that demonstrates the use of several WPF features, 3D animations, data binding, and data visualization. Currently UniveRSS uses the RSS Feed Store managed through Internet Explorer 7. Later versions will allow you to manage the Feed Store from within the UniveRSS application.

It looks very nice and very much the type of thing I envisage in Second Life, when (and if) we get html on a prim surface. With all the available data bindings and communications we have at our disposal there, it should be faily easy to build this in the Metaverse.

Thanks to Dave Winer for the link.