Entries about Technology
ShowClix
Located in an unassuming retail building in Oakmont, ShowClix is a live event and ticketing web application with web 2.0 elements. The start-up was created by area residents Joshua Dziabiak and Lynsie Camuso who originally worked on it at Tuscany Cafe on the South Side. You can search for shows anywhere in the United States, [...]
Read More >>FIRST Robotics Local Kick-Off
This past Saturday as many as 18 high school robotics teams from around the region gathered at the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) in Lawrenceville for the FIRST Robotics 2008 kick-off. Over the next six weeks these teams and others will build robots to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition.
During the kick-off the teams [...]
Google Map of Free Downtown Wifi
Want to know where downtown you can get your 2 hours of juicy free wifi goodness? I spent way too much time translating the map on the project’s website from tiny dots on a static image into this Google MyMap. I should note that this map is not official or endorsed in any way. Enjoy.
Read More >>Pittsburgh 2050
Elliance, an internet marketing company located on the North Shore, has created a slick web application called Pittsburgh 2050 that allows Pittsburghers to share their ambitions for the city. The current suggestions range from the serious (”I want Pittsburgh to be voted the most bike friendly city in the US”), to the sarcastic (”I want [...]
Read More >>Pittsburgh is 3rd Bloggiest City
According to USA Today, Pittsburgh is the 3rd “bloggiest” city. Based on a per capita measurement of Pittsburgh-specific blog posts Pittsburgh comes in behind only Boston and Philadelphia.John Geraci at outside.in, the company that provided the data, has written a blog post discussing why these seemingly unlikely cities made the cut. He suggests that although [...]
Read More >>Robot Hides Cold Metal Body; Dances Into Our Hearts
A simple yellow robot built by a Japanese research scientist has been transformed into a YouTube star by Marek Michalowski, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute. In the video Keepon, the robot, dances to “I Turn My Camera On.” It has been viewed 1.6 million times.
The goal is to create robots to [...]
Urban Living Exhibit at Wood Street Galleries
Next month Wood Street Galleries presents Urban Living. The exhibit will display the perspectives of how technology and the environment affect our urban living. The show will last from January 25 to April 5, 2008, and is free to the public.
Read More >>CAMT Podcast
Every Friday The Center for Arts Management and Technology puts out an entertaining podcast hosted by Brad Stephenson, Jason Hansen and occasional contributor Josh Futrell. The podcast located here in Pittsburgh, interviews artists, helps out with tech tips, reviews the new products on the market and answers listener questions.
Read More >>Randy Pausch Wins Top Computing Award
Randy Pausch, a CMU professor has received the top award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Mr. Pausch is best known for founding Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center in 1998. He has terminal cancer and in September gave a “Last Lecture” titled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.
Read More >>Posted, by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Post-Gazette just recently launched Posted a flickr like community. It is an interesting project from Post-Gazette as they had just recently gone under a major site overhaul and a photo community was highly unexpected. Not many user of the site as of now, but posted photos are featured on Post-Gazette’s home page in [...]
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