Notes for 6/1/2009 at MasterMaq's Blog

Notes for 6/1/2009

By Mack D. Male | June 1, 2009 at 5:37 pm

Today was my first full day in London, UK. Weather was great, and I thought it was a productive day in terms of work. I’m here until the 11th. Here are my weekly notes:

One of the coolest things about Heathrow is seeing all the different types of airlines. Every plane seems to have a different logo and paint job. It was particularly interesting to see so many planes with the F1 logo, though the British Grand Prix isn’t until June 21st.

I completely agree with these comments on Flickr’s current UI/implementation for Creative Commons. It could be much better.

This was announced earlier in May, but I only recently had a chance to look at it – AWS Import/Export. Basically you can now send hard drives full of data to Amazon and they’ll upload them to S3. Very cool.

The product I’ve been working on at Questionmark was recently released: Introducing Questionmark Live.

Apparently the number of homeless people with laptops is on the rise. I guess I’m not entirely surprised at that, considering my experience at Homeless Connect (almost everyone was familiar with Facebook).

Bing is now live. TechCrunch notes that Bing 411 also launched.

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, General Motors filed for bankruptcy protection.