Daniel Ha, co-founder and CEO of Disqus, and Pete Cashmore, founder of social media guide Mashable, announced today a partnership between Disqus, Mashable, and comment aggregation service uberVU to enable Social Media Comments on the popular Disqus commenting system. Disqus will use uberVU’s technology to scrape the Internet and pull in comments relating to posts.
According to Mashable, the services that will be accessed include Blogger, Digg, Flickr, FriendFeed, Moveable Type, Picasa, Twitter, TypePad, Vimeo, WordPress, and YouTube, with more added over time.  If a post is discussed on any …

 
What happens when you pit a 400-pound sumo wrestler against a little pink scooter?  Well, SolidWorks has a pretty funny interactive demo that allows you to see!  This is a recreation of the Simulation skit with the infamous pink scooter and the Sumo wrestler from the Tuesday General Session at SolidWorks World 2009.  There is actually more to see on this page than what they did on stage.
See how the scooter handles the real-world stress, drop, motion, and airflow tests (after all, it IS entirely within the realm of possiblity that a …

Back in early December, I reported that SolidWorks Labs had unveiled Treehouse, an app that lets you set up a file hierarchy for new assemblies using your templates.  But based on the comments to my article and the responses I saw on Twitter and the app page itself, users were hoping for more functionality, such as opening and modifying existing assembly structures or inserting existing parts or assemblies.
While at SolidWorks World 2009 in Orlando earlier this month, I was able to meet William Doll, Director of SolidWorks Labs.  I …

Fielder Hiss, Director of Product Management at SolidWorks, took the stage once again for Wednesday’s General Session.  SolidWorks had another surprise in store for everyone, as Joe Grand and Dr. Mike North from the Discovery Channel show, “Prototype This” took the stage.  At first, it seemed as if they were a no-show, then they made their way through the audience from the back of the room on an apparatus they had designed for firefighters to use to transport gear and personnel.
They gave an interesting talk about some of the …

Tuesday’s General Session opened up with Fielder Hiss taking the stage.  I missed a little of the opening comments, as I had left my camera battery up in my room.  When I returned, there was an awesome Neo Shifters video playing.  Everyone who attended the CSWP Event Monday night got a Neo Shifters set.
TRANSFORMING ROBOT CSWPS
After the video, Jeremy Luchini took the stage and he talked with Yanick Tremblay, Design Manager for Mega Brands.  Yanick quickly walked us through the design process for creating a transforming robot.
Jeremy then talked …

SolidWorks is investigating the future of technology and the CAD interface.  In the Partner Pavilion, they have a Microsoft Surface table set up with a basic 2D sketcher and eDrawings running on it.  I spent a little time this afternoon playing around on it and talking to Kirk Haller, Director of Research at SolidWorks.
Kirk and his team at SolidWorks wrote the code for the sketcher in 3 weeks.  For the eDrawings implementation, they worked with IdentityMine Inc. and stripped out the eDrawings UI, replacing it with a Surface UI.  The …

Monday night is the night of the CSWP event.  All those users who are certified are eligible to attend.  This year’s event was held at Disney’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice at Fantasia Gardens.  The event this year was sponsored by Mega Brands, who provided all the iCoaster sets for the contest of the night.

There were many intriguing designs.  This is the kind of toy that any engineer/geek would love to have on their desk!
There was roast turkey and beef and some buttery mashed potatoes that were the bomb!  A good time was …

SolidWorks treated the journalists of the press to a dinner event at The Great Hall of China in Disney’s Epcot China Courtyard.  It was a beautiful setting and the weather was perfect!
During the opening comments, Jeff Ray announced that there were over 150 journalists attending SolidWorks World 2009; the most ever at the event.  He also recognized the journalists who had traveled the farthest to the event, including one from Australia.
Jeff also mentioned a few interesting tidbits regarding Sir Richard Branson.  Sir Richard almost NEVER accepts speaking engagements …