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Monthly Archive for December, 2006

What happened to Transmeta Crusoe?

I have an old Fujitsu LifeBook P2120 which I used now as a DVD player by connecting the S-video out to my TV. While was using it to play CSI today, I noticed the Transmeta Crusoe chip decal. I almost forgotten all about that.

Remember the secretive launch of Transmeta, much like the stealth Web 2.0 startups these day? Even Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, was on board.

Linus eventually left in 2003 and in 2005 announced they are getting out of chip business.

Is Transmeta out? Not quite. They were working on a secret project again, this time for Microsoft. The idea behind the project itself is very interesting.

7 years.

links for Dec 4-10

Too busy this week.
links for 2006-12-08

Site Preview with Snap.com

You may have notice that as you hover over a link on this site, a dialogue bubble pops up showing a snapshot of the link (Try it).

Snap.com provides that a little javascript that does the magic that you saw. You don’t even have to sign up.

Site preview with Snap.com

Thumbshots has thumbnail preview of sites for a long time (and I’m sure there are many more). These (Web 1.0?) sites should have made it as easy to include thumbnails for user to include into their site. But I guess they stopped innovating and Snap came in. A case of doing something simple, better.

It would be interesting to see Snap.com’s revenue model.

links for Nov 27-Dec 3

Interesting finds this week.

  • MySQL tuning
  • User Experience diagrams
  • More open source businesses

Continue reading ‘links for Nov 27-Dec 3′



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