Microsoft has put out an awesome app for iOS, and it's free.  It takes 360° pictures like this one of our new office hallway:

But the best part is that when you load this picture into Photosynth or share it on Facebook, you can spin it around as if you were actually in the room.

Here's the link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photosynth/id430065256?mt=8

P.S. If you haven't come to visit us at our new office yet, what are you waiting for?

When we build a website, we spend about 20% of the allotted time designing the user experience and the graphics, and about 20% more programming the features of the site.  In other words, it only takes 40% of the process to build what you might expect to see when the website is finished.

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Blog readers, you can now subscribe via RSS at feeds.feedburner.com/engenius.  Enjoy!

This TED Talk by Sasha Dichter is making its way through some of my circles of friends, thanks to Seth Godin's mention.

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A guitar’s tuning is rather strange.  The strings are separated in pitch by inconsistent intervals that were designed to make a few chords and patterns easier for your fingers to form.  Listen to folk music with an untrained ear and you’ll hear familiar changes and progressions.  They are pleasant and time-tested, but hardly represent the possible combinations of sounds that can be made with six strings worth of tone.

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