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San Francisco Federal Building

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A historic document in the annals of Maya’s Mom

Original Message from Ann on LinkedIn

The Neuroscience of Meditation and Attention

The neuroscience of meditation - focusing on how the contemplative practice alters and sharpens the brain’s attention systems. Meditation is now being quite extensively studied by cognitive science owing to the clear effects it has on the brain, and on the increasing evidence for its benefit in mental health.
From: The Neuroscience of Meditation and Attention [...]

iPhone Name Tag

Turn your iPhone into a Name Tag
Have a new iPhone? Found yourself staring at the beautiful screen instead of socializing with people? Here’s an application to help you with your iPhone addiction.
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Powerset, natural language search platform

I attended a special event at Powerset on Thursday, where they opened up what they are working and planning on. Powerset, if you hadn’t heard, is a new search start-up looking at becoming a relevant player in the search game. Their not-so secret weapon is natural language technology they licensed from Xerox PARC.
As [...]

No Plan, No Capital, No Model… No Problem

I was lucky enough to be on a panel last week at the Churchill Club, I was a last minute fill in for Ann. The panel was about starting a start up with little to no capital. I’m not sure about the “no plan” or “no problem” part of the title. The panel [...]

mkaz.com blocked in china !?

I’m not sure if I upset China some how, but according to this site, http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/ mkaz.com is blocked in China.

A strange red light from my MacBook Pro

A very strange thing just occurred with my MacBook Pro. The audio output stopped completely, it was working earlier today. I tried to change the volume, and it showed as muted but with full volume, a bit weird. Plus it started emitting a strange red light out of the headphone jack.
A little searching and supposedly [...]

Our garage in the Palo Alto Daily

Our garage is featured in the Palo Alto Daily news today. The article talks about our two companies, Maya’s Mom and Mozes sharing the same space. Another interesting bit, Flock was in the space before us and I’m using their blog editor to make this post.
Full article is here: Start-ups share a vision - and [...]

Flickr is Photo Journalism

On my way into work today, around 7:30am I heard on the radio a landslide occurred in North Beach in San Francisco.
When I got to work I saw the Chronicle had an article about the landslide, listed as their breaking news at 8:34am.
But Flickr was the only one who could show me actual [...]