I don’t normally like embedded videos. That’s why you’ve never seen one on Simply-Basic before. However, I came across this video that left me quite impressed. The program that the video shows is called “Assist Sketch Understanding System and Operation.” It is a physics simulation environment. I believe it’s a demonstration by an MIT professor, [...]
March 2nd, 2008
Does Your Computer Know Physics?
by John Kolbert
December 15th, 2007
YouTube Gets a Big Update
by John Kolbert
YouTube, the ever-present video hosting service just made some big improvements to their web-interface. Among their upgrades are:
new video tab
most active and previously popular viewing options
channel results in search
the music section has been given subcategories
added RSS links for your frequent searches
add a profile picture
turn on/off comments voting on videos you upload
For a complete list of [...]
October 24th, 2007
YouTube + Adsense = Nonsense
by John Kolbert
So I logged in to my Adsense account today to check on how things were going, and I was surprised to see something new. Apparently, Adsense has has consorted with YouTube (both Google entities) to bring you videos that you can place on your website with advertisements built right into the unit. This may not [...]

