Month: February, 2010

Location Based Services Survey

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Site Purpose Monthly Visits Revenue/Notes stractor.com location tracking ? ? mint.com financial tracking 1,200k+ High dollar affiliate marketing promotions - banks, loans, credit cards, mortgages rescuetime.com time tracking 80k- Premium accounts $9/month for long-term (1 year+) data view and trend analytics loopt.com social/location sharing 120k $13 million investment. Location based advertising, virtual coupons i.e. Jack-in-the-Box [...]

Preparing the Playstation Eye for Multitouch

In order to use the 120 fps Playstation Eye camera with your IR multitouch table, you have to remove the infrared blocking filter built into the camera and add your own visible light blocking filter. This can be accomplished in a few short steps detailed here at the nuigroup forums, and a floppy disk material [...]

Multitouch Air Hockey in Processing

I'm working on a multitouch implementation of virtual air hockey in Processing using the awesome JBox2d library. This involves a few hacks and workarounds that might be useful to share with others. More to come...

Stractor Trademark

Developing a business plan for Stractor. I would rather focus on organizing the technical challenges but I'm putting that aside for now. One problem I have with the site is the domain name. I originally decided on the name Stractor due in no small part to the availability of the domain name "stractor.com." Just days [...]

New Site

After years of limbo, I'm finally launching a new site.  I would like to showcase my work and not get too hung up on maintaining the site itself, so I've settled on WordPress. Things to come: Project showcase Research journal Design portfolio The occasional personal blog once in a while (but not too personal) If [...]