today, i was introduced to Gizmoz - an application that a buddy used to turn a picture from being a semi athletic/female photo into a trans gender australian. now that takes talent. good chuckle. sticky, fun, and entertaining. wish it were easier to upload photos (might be a mac thing but i could not get a photo to load) and wish i was able to tweak the mashup he created. i think the latter of the two would be a great way of enabling low investment interaction - swap out the background, switch up the voices, etc...

for your personal amusement, below is the photo jawed started with and the output he created :)

If your startup is anything like most others out there, you've a dispersed team of developers, colleagues and friends who you're conferencing with. If you're at the customer stage, you probably have a newsletter that you're distributing - and, it's not automated. If this sounds like your team, you've got to have a Mac! I wrote about it at Zopa, but after listening to Steve Job's opening speech at Apple's WWDC 2006 conference it's clear that a startup is hindered if its team isn't running on Mac Leopard (it's next operating system). Here's why:

• Built in video cam

• If the whole team's got a Mac, conferencing is a breeze. Better yet, you'll be able to walk someone through a document during the conference - everyone can see each other and the document at the same time! COOL!

• Mac Mail is now coming with stationary! So, if you're sending out newsletters, you have an HTML template that's ready to go with no effort (assuming it's got all the bells and whistles to help us avoid getting tossed into junk mail)

BUT, the coolest thing of all is you can stream web site content to your desktop with no coding. All you do is drag a box over, say, an eBay auction in your browser - and the data on the auction will automatically stream to your desktop - so you don't need to open a browser to figure out the latest price on that cool item you want!