Today, Mickey Mouse just turned 80 years old. And the happy mouse still looks so young!
Mickey Mouse turned 80, marking a huge anniversary in the history of cartoons. Innovation played a tremendous role getting illustration and design to evolve from the first days of Walt Disney?s most famous character to the innovative animated graphic cartoons of today.
Mickey's debut was in the cartoon Steamboat Willie November 18, 1928. He evolved from being a captain at a boat, to a happy mouse in the city. Going from black & white to full color.
I love my chumby, but there are not that many widgets available yet. If I browse through the widgets on Chumby.com, I sometimes get disappointed. Where are all those smart widget developers? Right, developing applications for the iPhone, Facebook or Android.
It won't be until Chumby is going mainstream, more widgets will become available.
My Top widgets I would like to see developed are:
Techmeme Chumby Widget. All day, tech stories break on Techmeme. Keeping track of the most popular Techmeme sources would be great through my Chumby. Currently big names as Techcrunch and GigaOm already have a Chumby widget. No Techmeme widget exist yet.
Sphinn Chumby Widget. The SEO community's own DIGG style news site. Breaking stories in the SEO world can be followed through Sphinn. If somebody would develop a Sphinn widget, we can all follow the Sphinn stories on our Chumby.
Twistori Chumby widget. Twistori.com is an interesting project. It follows Tweets made on Twitter on 6 different words: Love; Hate; Think; Believe; Feel and Wish. On Twistori the collective feelings of the Twitter world are displayed in an interactive way. You can watch for hours to see what people are writting. A Chumby widget would make this available for all on our Chumby.
As I'm not an application developer, I call on all who can do this to develop these highly needed Chumby widgets
Finally I bought a Chumby, the little desktop computer on a Linux OS. For months I've been eying the little gadget, and today I finally pulled the trigger.
I bought the Chumby on eBay with the Microsoft Cashback promotion. Yesterday you could get a discount of 25% through Microsoft Live Search On all items with a buy-it-now price.
A also still had two eBay giftcards, so the Chumby comes to me at a reasonable price.
Reputation management becomes much more important in the Internet age. What is being posted now, can bite you in the ass later on. So showing off some stupid action on national television, might end up on the internet...and then what..?
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