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I start Brief 346 with a public apology for the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever done in my life. Then we introduced the alpha phase of an idea to bring an open source element to Geek Brief.
It looks like there could be a problem with Psystar, the company that says it’s selling Mac clones. Gizmodo is on it and they’re doing a great job. They have their readers on the ground tracking down whether or not Psystar is the real deal or not.
Joe Finnigan brought us our first open source story about a Web application called iubo. It’s a U.K. startup that enables users to organize personal and public information in a single place that you can search. It’s like a private search engine you can use to search the details from your life.
’s Baggers is a restaurant that was opened last year in German. It doesn’t have waiters. Food is delivered to diners via roller-coaster like tracks. Footage is from the BBC, and I heard about the restaurant listening to The World on NPR.
Lindsay Plumley, a huge Friend of the Brief, submitted a story about the gigantic 1080p displays that will hang above the field in the new Dallas Cowboy stadium. Lindsay’s blog is borrowedlinks.blogspot.com.
We end the episode with the craziest robot footage I’ve ever seen. The song is Drive Away by Matthew Ebel.
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April 17th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Woah, that ’s Baggers delivery method was quite interesting!
Enjoy your trip to NY! Don’t forget to Qik everything! :)
April 17th, 2008 at 12:49 am
I think judging by the first two stories, that this open source experiment is quite promising. Looking forward to seeing what else people are able to turn up.
Have a great time in New York, guys!
April 17th, 2008 at 6:33 am
that crazy robot footage had me splitting my sides where can i find it to download.
April 17th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
As always, great job and a great brief!!! Love it when my Mac shows me there is a new Geekbrief.tv… it’s as moxie as hearing Madonna and JT’s new song! ;)
April 17th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Has anyone managed to successfully login to the iubo service? Looks really cool… but It keeps telling me my Username is invalid. Did I miss something? I have tried all kinds of combinations… like passwords… text digits… special char… etc. etc..
Thanks in advance to anyone who knows the trick. I’m feeling a little slow right now.
:)
CHeers!
Daniel
April 17th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Additionally… Mr. Joe does have something to do with the company… he is a student who started the app. Apparently he and a friend Lynne are developing and maintaining it, repectfully. :)
just FYI… Seems like a great idea… hope it works out for them.
:) Cheers! (again)
Daniel
April 17th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Hey Daniel,
We released a small update that messed up our username verification. So we had to patch our patch :). Should be all fixed now!
Sorry for the trouble.
Cheers
Joe
April 18th, 2008 at 9:08 am
@ Cali, Glad I was able to help out with the open source experiment!
April 18th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Hi,
I’m running Firefox 2.0.0.14 and your site is broken. It’s OK with IE7.
Regarding ads, you realize that unless there’s a compelling reason to watch, most people will probably skip them. I skip anything longer than about 10–15 seconds, unless it’s of interest to me, in which case I’ll watch all of it.
Regardless of the above, I’ll continue to watch GBTV, because you do it *so* well. :)
Cheers from Australia!
April 18th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Hi Cali,
It was pretty amazing hearing you talking about the s’Baggers in Nuremberg. First time for me that an US-podcast reported about my hometown. :-)
By the way: seems to me that with that railways they try to draw off the guests’ attention from the meal. :-) Didn’ like it very much, but hopefully it improved since my last visit.
Regards from Germay,
Fabrice
April 18th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Thanks Joe!
That’s amazing that you sorted that out so quick! GOD I LOVE THE INTERNET!
:)
Double Cheers!
Daniel
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:45 am
I thought that SBaggers restaurant is pretty cool. I’ll have to get some pictures or video footage of it if I go there. I go to Germany fairly often, so I might stop by there if I’m ever in the area.