Will Olbrys and His Ego

Will Olbrys

I currently work full time at Poke New York 44 Bond Street New York, NY 10003 (212) 254-8800
GrandCentral Phone Number: (917)720-5076
Location: Brooklyn, NY

Online Identity

aim: ThaCubist
email:
del.icio.us: wfolbrys
twitter: willolbrys
linkedin: willolbrys
resume: pdf
blog: willolbrys.com
xbox360:Completion

Projects

the border film project
gamer 2.0
manhattan youth orchestra

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Whats with the blog?

I'm really getting interested in semantic forms of social networking and communication tools. I've decided to run a site dedicated to my work in the area (what little there is) and trumpet the glory of good code and good ideas.

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Nov 20
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» Google Launches Message Board Search
Some interesting notes on Google’s datamining efforts.
Nov 19
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» CS 294-5, Spring 2006: Great Algorithms
Full lecture pdf’s on the great algorithms of computer science, hard nerd.
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» Mark Boulton's ebook: A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web
Its book day at willolbrys.com! This one is not free, however, but check out the sample.
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» John Resig - EtherPad: Real-time Editing with JavaScript
John Resig has a nice writeup of EtherPad, an improved SubEthaEdit for the web. This is why the web is exciting to me, stuff like this.
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David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today - Strange Overtones

I just heard it today, and maybe I’m biased because I love them as individual artists, but this album has a great sound.

Nov 18
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LIFE: Portrait of pacifist and advocate of Ind… - Hosted by Google

Google is digitizing all of LIFE magazine’s photos and putting them in Google Image Search. What a great day.

LIFE: Portrait of pacifist and advocate of Ind… - Hosted by Google Google is digitizing all of LIFE magazine’s photos and putting them in Google Image Search. What a great day.
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» Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront
Amazon is making themselves a huge player. They are expanding in all the right ways and have “bigger than Google” written all over them.
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» Lines at the ER, a television boom, emptying suburbs. A catastrophic economic downturn would feel nothing like the last one. - The Boston Globe
I dont usually do political stuff, but this is just fascinating stuff.
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thanks lookbothways:

blech.

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Updated RSS Feed

I’ve just updated my RSS feed to use FeedBurner. If you could update your reader app to poll the new feed instead i would be forever grateful.
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» 10 Semantic Apps to Watch - One Year Later
Slow and steady wins the race. Unless youre ridiculouly fast and agile and have video sharing and auto tagging!!!!
Nov 12
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» The Unofficial Guide to Friendfeed: What Makes Friendfeed Special
Seriously. Friendfeed. If you’re not using this to manage all your networks how do you do it? Chi.mp? or Glue? I prefer the firehose method.
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» Gobby
Windows, Linux and OSX compatible collaborative editor.
Nov 11
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» Google Adds Voice And Video Chat to Gmail
Whats up super huge Google empire? Oh? Video chat you say?!1?!
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» Spot.Us Experiments With Citizen-Funded Community Journalism
Excellent citizen journalism site. I love this idea.