Developed in conjunction with the US Postal Service, Stamps.com is a revolutionary software-based service that allows you to calculate and print official USPS postage right from your PC.

Stamps.com even keeps track of all your postal spending using your client codes, and can even recommend optimal delivery methods, formats and more. Plus, Stamps.com gives you postage discounts you can’t even get at the Post Office or with a postage meter.

I’m currently comparing this service vs Endicia. I’ll give update on this comparison test.

Video: Microsoft Virtual Earth demo by Stephen Lawler

Microsoft’s Stephen Lawler gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, moving up, down and through its hyperreal cityscapes with dazzlingly fluidity, a remarkable feat that requires staggering amounts of data to bring into focus. Google might still be ahead of the game, but even in beta, Virtual Earth shows incredible promise. Microsoft’s visions for the product — as a provider of real-time weather and traffic data, or a realistic backdrop for game developers and IM conversations, or virtual ad space — all seem well within the limits of possibility.

For more information visit;

Microsoft Virtual Earth Official Site
Microsoft Virtual Earth Developer Site
Microsoft Local Live

Video: BumpTop desktop demo.

BumpTop, a fresh user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3D extreme. In this physics-driven universe, important files finally get the weight they deserve via an oddly satisfying resizing feature, and the drudgery of file organization becomes a freewheeling playground full of crumpled documents and clipping-covered “walls.”

Visit BumpTop Desktop for more information.

Video: Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel: Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design

Who is Jeff Han?

After years of research on touch-driven computer displays, Jeff Han has created a simple, multi-touch, multi-user screen interface that just might herald the end of the point-and-click era. Han launched a startup called Perceptive Pixel.

Jeff Han’s intuitive “interface-free” computer displays — controlled by the touch of fingertips — will change forever the way you think about computers. His prototype drafting table-cum-touch display, developed at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He moved photos by fingertip — as if they were paper on a desk — flicking them across the screen and zooming in and out by pinching two fingers together, as well as a Google Earth-like map that he tilted and flew over with simple moves.

For newest detailed video demonstration visit Perceptive Pixel.

Video: Richard St. John: Secrets of success in 8 words and 3 minutes

Who is Richard St. John?

Richard St. John knew how he had found success — through his marketing company, the St. John Group, which boasted clients like Nortel and BlackBerry/Research in Motion. But he couldn’t get away from the question: Why him? He thinks of himself as an average guy, not talented at school, not terribly handsome or particularly lucky. So he spent more than a decade interviewing 500 people he defines as successful — from architect Frank Gehry to non-celebrities successful in their own lives.

The St. John’s Group official web site
Official “Spike’s Guide to Success” web site.