The Compost

Content Aware Image Resizing

This is some groundbreaking imaging technology - and from the demo, it doesn't appear to be just a daydream.

Additional links:

http://go2web2.blogspot.com/2007/08/fascinating-content-aware-image.html

http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/

Parking Garage

Parking garage in Munich, Germany.

Aviary

Here's one company to watch.

http://www.creationonthefly.com/

Aviary is a platform ecosystem for people who create. It is organized around a suite of Flex-based rich internet applications geared for artists of all genres. From image editing to typography to music to 3D to video, we have a tool for everything.

Adobe AIR

To be released later this year, Adobe AIR is on track to be one of the most significant technology developments since the introduction of the Netscape Navigator browser in 1994. This will be a game changing technology release.

I've included a few links to give you a taste of Adobe AIR.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/

http://onair.adobe.com/

http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/onair/

http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/videos/

video: Social Networking 3.0 panel

AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 2007 - Social Networking 3.0

http://alwayson.goingon.com/page/display/15568?param=session/118

Panel includes: Charlene Li, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research; Travis Katz, SVP, MySpace International; Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Facebook; Rich Rosenblatt, CEO, Demand Media; Gina Bianchini, CEO, Ning; Karl Jacob, CEO, Wallop

company: Orbious

A unique and innovative approach to document tracking - very interesting concept by Orbious

More info at TechCrunch: Orbious Will Make Forwarding Confidential Documents Dangerous

video: The New Captains of Innovation

AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 2007 - The New Captains of Innovation

Panel includes: Guy Kawasaki, Co-Founder, Truemors; Craig Sherman, CEO, Gaia Online; Paul Martino, CEO, Aggregate Knowledge; Gil Penchina, CEO, Wikia

http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/16815

video: Pitching to the Press

An hour long video featuring a panel that includes Michael Arrington of TechCrunch - on how to talk (and pitch) to the press.

More at: http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2007/07/the_naked_truth_goes_straight_to_video.html

Virtual Reality - 2007 AlwaysON Stanford Summit

Flip Side of Entrepreneurship

Great article by Glenn Kelman of Redfin describing the struggles of entrepreneurship.

"Lately I've been thinking how hard, not how easy, it is to build a new company. Hard has gone out of fashion. Like college students bragging about how they barely studied, start-ups today take care to project a sense of ease..."

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/08/on-the-other-ha.html