At Fuse we like trying out new things and we always have very willing folks to sign up with. We started continuously monitoring each others locations 24×7 yesterday. As I came into work today it was great to see everyone converging into our workplace. I have used other services like Glympse and many others which [...]
I had been planning to do this for a while and finally got around to visiting Jigsaw Renaissance which is a maker space in Seattle. They have recently moved into a really cool historical building and Lion gave us a fun tour of all the spaces and the very interesting basement. The building owners are [...]
Facebook launched the Like button 18 months ago and it has had a huge impact on how people browse and share information and form associations with other entities. Within days websites had integrated Facebook social plugins which made it super easy to feed stuff back to Facebook and share with your friends in a frictionless [...]
I am a Program Manager at FUSE Labs. If you were to ask me “What does a PM at FUSE Labs do?”, my short answer would be: whatever it takes to rapidly innovate on an idea and bring it to fruition. This often demands a very fluid set of tasks that span different skills. As [...]
Alexander Chen from Creative Labs at Google has made this beautiful interactive string instrument out of the subway map of New York. And, of course, it’s all in HTML5. Conductor: www.mta.me from Alexander Chen on Vimeo. You can read more on his blog here. [via Gizmodo]
In 1990, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan collaborated with Michael Brook and released an album called Mustt Mustt. [You might know Michael Brook as the guy who invented the Infinite Guitar which was used for the haunting notes on U2's With or Without You] It combined a traditional Qawalli style song with guitar and produced a [...]
Blame it on the Voices covered a venn diagram published by reddit user prateekmi2 today which shows the search terms that people use for different religions on Google search. It exposes the different words associated with different religions and the common words are equally interesting. Web Seer is another visualization tool built specifically for comparing [...]
Forbes recently published a visualization based on IRS data which shows where Americans moved between 2008 and 2009. You click on the city name that you are interested in and it shows you a dense sets of lines showing migration paths. Red lines show that there was a net number of people moving out whereas [...]
Every night, we surrender ourselves to the most enigmatic aspects of our reality – sleep. We voluntarily (or involuntarily) enter this dormant state of being for 1/3rd of our life, each time waking up hours later to face the remaining 2/3rd of of the day. What exactly happens when we are unconscious? You can always [...]
I was born and grew up in Bombay and I moved to the US a little less than 4 years ago. I have noticed many people here unsure about the correct name for the city. If you are not from India, and are reading this, then you have probably also had that question sometime in [...]
