Threshold Blog

Flying Colors

Stop what you are doing right now and go explore Red Interactive's new site: http://www.ff0000.com

Once you've set up the super simple ye olde thyme avatar just say "Hello There Good Sir!" to fellow visitors with the chat function. Or, if you are so inclined, you can even put your dukes up and start sparring with 'em. But I prefer just jumping up and flying into the starlit sky.

Word on the street is that this "Red Universe" was in beta form for quite a while where it was carefully refined and perfected by suggestions from invited friends and colleagues. It definitely shows in the final execution. A+

"Microsoft Surface" surfaces

Today, Microsoft officially announced Surface.  A completely new computing model based on touch.  Imagine computing on a coffee table where the table interacts with your phone, your camera, your credit card, or even random objects placed on top of it.  All these interactions happen through the simplicity of the touch interface.  The idea is similar to what Apple is proposing with the iPhone, and now Microsoft is making it even more ubiquitous as a common computing platform.

Take a look at Microsoft's videos on their site here:
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
Another nice video demonstrating the capabilities here:
http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/05/29/announcing-microsoft-surface.aspx

Threshold Goes Green

Threshold is officially committed to lessening our impact on the environment, individually and collectively as a business. We have all been doing things on our own, but hope that by our efforts to green Threshold, we can make an even bigger step toward reducing our impact on the environment, and hopefully encourage others to do the same......

Here is what we have done so far:

1. Volunteered with Treepeople, planted 25 trees, 50,000 lbs of CO2 offset by our efforts.
2. Donated money to Treepeople in lieu of holiday gifts, and purchased holiday cards from Treepeople that were made from 100% recycled paper, and printed with soy based biodegrable ink.
3. Switched to non disposable coffee cups, plates, glasses, and silverware.
4. Switched all of our light bulbs to CFL's.
5. Buying coffee that is organic, fair trade, and shade grown.
6. Cut our paper use, email documents vs. printing them out, use the projector in meetings instead of paper copies, scan documents for a digital library.
7. Switched to 100% post consumer reycyled paper, chlorine bleach free.
8. Switched to rechargeable batteries.
9. Started recycling program for Threshold, only paper is recycled for our buidling, so we have taken it upon ourselves to recycle all bottles, cans, and paper that comes out of Threshold, and we are committed to recycling our toxic materials (batteries, toner, etc.) in an environmentally responsible way.
10. Switched to biodegrabale cleaning products and soaps.

The Break-Up

Looks like Microsoft is stealing back Apple's personification technique in ads. And to great effect. Find out more at http://bringtheloveback.com

Army Restricts Blogging, Blocks Access To YouTube, MySpace, MTV, More...

This is just plain sad....