Investment, search engines, iPhones, and a cool hardware hack. It could be notes from a pitch meeting last year but it’s not, it’s today’s four short links:
- The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan, Open Source Funding — lovely criteria for a company that he’ll fund. “8. You must post your business plan here, or you can post it on slideshare.com , scribd.com or google docs, all completely public for anyone to see and/or download”
- Introduction to Information Retrieval — readable and real-world book on writing search engines, from three Stanford professors (one of whom happens to be the head of Yahoo! Research). Found via Greg Linden’s glowing review.
- The iPhone Becomes a Web Server (ReadWrite Web) — I got a frisson reading this. There’s something exciting in the idea that I can carry my web app around with me in my pocket. I can’t say why, but I feel like having your mobile device offer services to other devices (be they mobile, laptop, desktop, or server) opens the door to different architectures. We played around with this a while ago with desktop web apps, but it didn’t fly. I’ll be watching this space.
- Hemispherical Mirror Projection — very cool, albeit non-trivial, hack to get a Mac’s screen projected, with compensation for the distortion, inside a half-dome like a planetarium.