How-To How to Use the Cloud to Cook Turkey It's not turkey-as-a-service, but you can use CloudKick and a GoTemp USB thermometer to monitor the temperature of your turkey, get graphs of its progress and even give you an SMS notification when it's done. Fear not fellow vegetarians: you can use this hack to monitor the temperature of anything. Hack Klint Finley View comments
Cloud Computing 13 Reasons Why One Developer Dropped Google App Engine Carlos Ble is a developer out of Spain. His company decided to use Google App Engine (GAE) but dropped it after what he said were months of delays. Earlier this week, Ble outlined in a blog post the 13 reasons why his company decided to drop Google App Engine. The post had 89,000 views and 158 comments in one day. Some commenters were… Alex Williams View comments
2010 in Review Top Trends of 2010: The Rise of Tumblr, Posterous & Light Blogging One of the big themes of 2010 has been the increased simplicity of posting content to the Web. Whether it's Facebooking with your family, tweeting with your online buddies, or sharing a favorite video, photo or quote on Tumblr. All of these activities have given millions of people an opportunity to add their voice to the Web. Tumblr and similar… Richard MacManus View comments
Internet of Things MIT Media Lab Hacks the Kinect for Browser Navigation With Gestures (Video) Hackers at the famous MIT Media Lab have built an open-source Chrome browser extension that uses the Microsoft gesture-based controller Kinect to navigate around tabs and Web pages. The group says the end result is like the movie Minority Report and that seems like a fair comparison. Called DepthJS, the software is on GitHub and open for… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News Maria Thomas (NPR/Etsy) to Judge Knight News Challenge Maria Thomas, former head of digital media at NPR and CEO of craft marketplace Etsy, has joined this year's Knight News Challenge and will participate in judging hundreds of funding proposals to create the future of news media, the organization announced today. The Knight Foundation began 70 years ago next month to support innovative news… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments