Just arrived in San Francisco. In the next few days I’ll be attending Google I/O and spreading the word of Palringo. The city view from the hotel is awesome…

This must be the millionth day in a row I’m at a barbeque of some sort. This time it’s just at home…

Also enjoying goulash soup prepared on a bonfire…

It’s been an inspiring couple of days. Thinking Digital is one of the few interesting events which are held locally in the North East of England.

Thinking digital seems to be modelled after TED. The general idea being a convention in which people deemed the worlds greatest “thinkers” give short talks relevant to their field, sharing their experiences, ideas and inspirations.

A few highlights (in order of appearance)…

Tara Hunt presented a great speech entitled “Happiness and Your Business Model”. It focused on developing a happier environment for employees, and a happier company image.

Ray Kurzweil gave an interesting talk on the technological singularity. The premise is that technological advancement has been exponential. Every decade brings a thousand-fold increase in the computational power available for the same cost. The same trend applies to storage density, microprocessor transistor counts, and biological research such as genome sequencing. Ray predicts a future where this exponential advancement in technology continues to fundamentally change the nature of society.

Aubrey de Grey gave an interesting talk on aging. He argues that aging is a side-effect of being alive in the first place. Metabolism and cell division result in mutations, shortened telomeres, and the buildup of chemical ‘junk’. He believes that with continuing advancements in medicine and technology it will be possible to cleanup the buildup of damage in the human body which leads to aging.

“Andy demonstrates how not to do a barbeque.”

Stay tuned for a public beta of the Mac OS X Palringo client, starting in June this year

We proudly present Sam’s latest masterpiece, demonstrating some Palringo features, and giving a sneak preview of things to come.

  
"Blame these two for today’s scheduled downtime"

Scan used to reliably do next day delivery, but have been slipping lately. Hence, our PC case didn’t arrive on time.

"PC cases are for sissies anyway…"

 
"With four 64-bit cores, 10KRPM HDD and plentiful RAM, the AwesomePC is as powerful as it is stylish."

Note: If you consider yourself an awesome programmer, wish to join an awesome team, work on awesome projects, using awesome tools (pictured above), you may be interested in our jobs page.

I am please to announce that we’re just putting the finishing tweaks on our most requested feature…

It’s now possible to keep multiple conversation windows open simultaneously, and switch between them easily.