Archive for March, 2008

Google Trends for Online Photo Printing Sites

31st March 2008 by eamonn No Comments

This Google Trends graph comparing photo printing sites is interesting. The seasonal Christmas surge is very evident. It also looks as if by this measure that Snapfish has caught up with and pulled ahead of both Kodak and Shutterfly.

Key: snapfish, kodak easyshare, shutterfly, walgreens photo, walmart photo
Probably however the Snapfish versus Shutterly comparison [...]

Me talking about Snapfish Lab

30th March 2008 by eamonn No Comments

Here is a thirty-second extract of the video in the previous post, showing me talking about Snapfish Lab.

Artículo en Noticias

29th March 2008 by eamonn No Comments

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Artículo en Noticias, originally uploaded by Lalo.Zanoni.

If my Spanish is correct this article starts “LABORATORY OF IDEAS. This is the design of the Web of the future. Hewlett Packard re-arms its business strategy at the [...]

HP LABS — New Products in the Works at HP LABS

29th March 2008 by eamonn 1 Comment

This video was on the front page of siliconvalley.com, the web presence of the San Jose Mercury news. It features several HP Labs projects including Book Prep, Face Bubbles, Snapfish Lab, and Conversa.

(I appear at time 1:27 describing Snapfish Lab)

links for 2008-03-22

22nd March 2008 by eamonn No Comments

Submit A Business Plan
Handy cheat cheat for what should be in a business plan.
(tags: startup ideas business)

links for 2008-03-20

20th March 2008 by eamonn No Comments

Software and Opinions » Blog Archive » Google AJAX APIs outside the browser
Running a Javascript API outside the browser. Another example of how AJAX APIs are also web service APIs.
(tags: ajax webservices)

Finally got laptop usable again — with Ubuntu Linux in VMware under Windows

20th March 2008 by eamonn No Comments

After my disk failure, my re-born laptop is more-or-less fully functional again. Previously I used dual boot setup. This time I used the free VMware Server to run Linux under Windows. So far it works well: I can do almost all my work in Linux, escaping out to Windows just to use [...]

links for 2008-03-14

14th March 2008 by eamonn No Comments

YouTube APIs and Tools – Google Code
YouTube now has a new fairly powerul API.
(tags: programming javascript code architecture ajax library reference)

Day Five Without Windows

13th March 2008 by eamonn No Comments

As I briefly mentioned in a recent twitter I got the dreaded Blue Screen of Death when booting up my laptop in Windows last weekend. Repeated attempts to reboot in various “safe” modes were to no avail and finally a CHKDSK revealed that there was disk corruption. I need to re-install Windows, and [...]

links for 2008-03-11

11th March 2008 by eamonn No Comments

Towards truly document oriented Web services – O’Reilly XML Blog
Compares and contrasts different web service approaches: RPC, document-oriented, state transfer, and REST
(tags: architecture programming webservices)

links for 2008-03-10

10th March 2008 by eamonn No Comments

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Video og HP Labs Launch in which I appear
(tags: hp snapfishlab)

links for 2008-03-09

9th March 2008 by eamonn No Comments

Livemocha: Learn Languages and Practice with Native Speakers
(tags: language mandarin social)

links for 2008-03-08

8th March 2008 by eamonn No Comments

Exceptional Performance
Websit performance tips.
(tags: architecture code design css ajax)

Big HP Labs Event Today

6th March 2008 by eamonn No Comments

We had a big event in HP Labs today unveiling our new research strategy. My small part was helping to demo our Snapfish Lab web site. We also released a video about Snapfish Lab in which I make an appearance.