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Barbie’s Dream Closet Is Powered By Zugara’s Webcam Social Shopper
We Are Organized Chaos22 Feb 2012 | 10:34 amThe latest company to license our augmented reality merchandising software, the Webcam Social Shopper (WSS), is one of the world’s most iconic brands: Barbie. Partnering with Mattel, AttentionUSA and several other amazing companies we let fans of all ages step inside Barbie’s Dream Closet and actually see what they would look like in some of her most famous outfits. It was just over a week ago that the Dream Closet came to life as both a New York Fashion Week event and a website, but I’ll let Mattel’s press release provide more context, rather than recreate the wheel:… -
Linden Lab acquires experimental game studio LittleTextPeople
The Metaverse Journal - virtual worlds news17 Feb 2012 | 5:54 pmSpotted this little snippet on Gamasutra: Second Life developer Linden Lab has acquired the experimental game studio LittleTextPeople, which specializes in exploring the emotional possibilities of interactive fiction.This marks the first acquisition for Linden Lab since former Sims developer Rod Humble took over as CEO in 2010, and falls in line with the comapny’s new strategy to experiment with game design and develop products beyond Second Life. LittleTextPeople, founded by writer Emily Short and Maxis veteran Richard Evans, has so far focused on the development of software that… -
Obama Administration Moves Forward With Privacy Bill of Rights
Advertising Age - Latest News22 Feb 2012 | 9:00 pmAs Obama administration announces blueprint for a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, DAA says it supports do-not-track option.
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What Marx Leads You To -- $50,000 for a 96 m
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Native American Sim Spirit Nations
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Nice new Linden road but...another abandoned parcel
19 Feb 2012 | 3:58 pmNice new Linden road but...another abandoned parcel Check this out! Visit De Campion (31, 167, 75) Posted via email from Prokofy's posterous -
I believe Norea died in RL years ago but all her stuff perfectly preserved in SL...
19 Feb 2012 | 3:22 pmI believe Norea died in RL years ago but all her stuff perfectly preserved in SL... Check this out! Visit Cayuga (182, 7, 73) Posted via email from Prokofy's posterous
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leolaporte: Oh, by the way @SteveMartinToGo is live now on http://t.co/dCJSBkdO
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leolaporte: Yes @Byrdman10! We are setting up our own servers to support HQ live streaming on Roku. Soon!
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leolaporte: @Rolandish BS of course they could. They're a (very expensive) paid service! It's pure greed.
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Barbie’s Dream Closet Is Powered By Zugara’s Webcam Social Shopper
22 Feb 2012 | 10:34 amThe latest company to license our augmented reality merchandising software, the Webcam Social Shopper (WSS), is one of the world’s most iconic brands: Barbie. Partnering with Mattel, AttentionUSA and several other amazing companies we let fans of all ages step inside Barbie’s Dream Closet and actually see what they would look like in some of her most famous outfits. It was just over a week ago that the Dream Closet came to life as both a New York Fashion Week event and a website, but I’ll let Mattel’s press release provide more context, rather than recreate the wheel:… -
Shoppers That Use The Webcam Social Shopper Convert 2x – 3x More (AR Data)
2 Feb 2012 | 10:18 amIn our continuing effort to share as much data with you (about augmented reality) as we can, we wanted to get a quick post up about this: One of our clients, Denmark based online retailer LazyLazy, was recently interviewed by Internet Retailer. In the interview CEO Søren Filbert had this to say about our augmented reality merchandising software, the Webcam Social Shopper (WSS): ”17% of our visitors are using this and they are converting two to three times more.” Now, that’s a great stat, but when you couple it with data we’ve previously noted in this… -
Branded Augmented Reality Campaigns Provide High Engagement Metrics
27 Jan 2012 | 11:26 amThe end of last year we partnered with SocialVibe and Deutsch to launch the “Anthem Blue Cross Webcam Exam” for Zynga’s network. It was a branded engagement that used augmented reality to allow people to interact with three Doctor’s tools – if you’re interested you can read more about it here. Today, I just wanted to share some of the data being released: The average time spent with the Anthem Blue Cross ad is 76.1 seconds, Seventy-seven percent of consumers run through all three tools, and 71.6% of consumers click through to the landing page for more information… -
A List – Augmented Reality And Venture Capital Funding
24 Jan 2012 | 3:43 pmInvestment in augmented reality development is one key to our industry’s success. So we thought we’d aggregate, and share a list of our industry’s “success stories”. We’d like this list to not only be about the developers that are getting venture capital funding, but the large corporations that are validating the space by investing their resources/money towards AR as well. As you can see, the space is starting to heat up. We’ll try to update this list regularly, so please feel free to add anything I’m missing in the comments. Total Immersion gets $5.5M to expand… -
Ever Wish Your Car Had A Heads Up Display?
12 Jan 2012 | 3:23 pmAre you kidding me? A Heads Up Display (HUD) for my car… just like a fighter pilot? I’m in. Wait… do we get missile lock too?
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The Metaverse Journal - virtual worlds news
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Linden Lab acquires experimental game studio LittleTextPeople
17 Feb 2012 | 5:54 pmSpotted this little snippet on Gamasutra: Second Life developer Linden Lab has acquired the experimental game studio LittleTextPeople, which specializes in exploring the emotional possibilities of interactive fiction.This marks the first acquisition for Linden Lab since former Sims developer Rod Humble took over as CEO in 2010, and falls in line with the comapny’s new strategy to experiment with game design and develop products beyond Second Life. LittleTextPeople, founded by writer Emily Short and Maxis veteran Richard Evans, has so far focused on the development of software that… -
Aussie R18+ legislation aiming for Jan. 2013 introduction
15 Feb 2012 | 5:16 amAustralian gamers can expect to have an R18+ classification for games by January 1, 2013, according to the federal government.Federal Minister for Home Affairs Jason Clare today introduced the R18+ bill in parliament and announced the federal government expects the R18+ for games legislation to officially come into effect next year.Last month, Clare announced his intention to stick to former Federal Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O’Connor’s previous plans in introducing the R18+ legislation in the February 2012 session of parliament.Clare has stayed true to this plan,… -
Credit card thieves target OpenSim grids
13 Feb 2012 | 9:00 pmCredit card thieves have figured out a way to steal money from OpenSim grid owners. They take the credit cards, and use them to purchase virtual currency from the grids. Then they turn around and redeem the currency for cash before the card holder notices the theft and complains. The credit card company reverses the transaction and now the grid is out the full amount — plus the time spent dealing with the issue. Any grid that issues its own virtual currency and allows it to be redeemed is potentially vulnerable. Second Life, for example, to combat against this kind of fraud, has a security… -
28 Australian Tertiary Institutions in Joint Paper on Second Life
8 Feb 2012 | 4:25 amIf you were in any doubt on the level of cooperation in Australia amongst educators, this may clarify it for you just a little: 28 Australian higher education institutions released a joint paper at the ascilite 2011 Conference between the 4th-7th of December at the University of Tasmania in Hobart.The paper, titled, “How are Australian higher education institutions contributing to change through innovative teaching and learning in virtual worlds?”, was a landmark event bringing together all these institutions and was made possible in part by the close cooperation forged among… -
Academic Research Paper on OpenSim Community
8 Feb 2012 | 4:23 amWhile the nature of the firm has long been established as the dominant form of organizing for value creation, emergent forms of organizing such as the private-collective community model have recently gained attention from researchers and practitioners. Little is known about how such communities, where private goods from stakeholders are shared and freely distributed among a public collective, sustain themselves. The purpose of this research is to examine how the resources, stakeholders, and overarching network structure in which these are embedded influence the sustainability of the…
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Obama Administration Moves Forward With Privacy Bill of Rights
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YouTube Hires Bing Exec to Lead Marketing
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Americans Holding Onto Their Cars for Almost Six Years
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Campbell Counts on Soups in a Pouch to Spur Turnaround
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See Pereira & O'Dell Execs Dance in Brazil Carnival Parade
22 Feb 2012 | 12:43 pmThat's P.J. Pereira and Andrew O'Dell, chief creative officer and CEO, respectively, of their namesake San Francisco agency marching in the samba school parade during Carnival in Rio.
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AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology News Feed
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Nanion Unveils Orbit 16 for Analyzing Bilayer-Reconstituted Ion Channels and Nanopores
22 Feb 2012 | 11:30 pmBy Cameron Chai Nanion Technologies has introduced a new line of products for efficiently analyzing bilayer-reconstituted nanopores and ion channels. The first product of this new line is the Orbit... -
Effect of Acetylation on Energy Sensing Thermostat Protein Molecule
22 Feb 2012 | 11:29 pmBy Cameron Chai Researchers of National Taiwan University and Johns Hopkins institution have identified the mechanism of an energy sensing “thermostat” protein, which identifies the energy storage or... -
Scientists Develop Novel Technique to Fabricate Customized Ferroelectric Nanostructures
22 Feb 2012 | 11:20 pmBy Cameron Chai A research team from the Georgia Institute of Technology has devised a ‘soft template infiltration’ process for synthesizing free-standing piezoelectric ferroelectric nanotubes and... -
Novel Technique Produces Nanowires with Different Profiles, Widths and Compositions
22 Feb 2012 | 10:19 pmBy Cameron Chai A research team led by Silvija Gradeèak from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a novel technique capable of accurately controlling the composition, profiles and... -
Novel Self-Assembly Technique to Grow Gold Nanowires for Chemical Sensing
22 Feb 2012 | 10:17 pmBy Cameron Chai A research team led by Alexander Star from the University of Pittsburgh, together with researchers from the National Energy Technology Laboratory, has developed a self-assembly...
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TechCrunch
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Tencent CTO: Facebook Took a Page From Our Biz Model
22 Feb 2012 | 11:32 pmEditor’s note: Guest author Gang Lu is the editor of TechNode, a bilingual blog based in China. As Facebook’s imminent IPO became the talk of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, you might have read from the social networking site’s SEC S-1 filing that it pulled in more than $1 billion in profit on revenue of $3.71 billion last year. What Facebook’s prospectus will not tell you, is that the social giant has taken a page from Tencent’s business model, at least according to the Chinese Internet giant’s CTO. Xiong Minghua, Tencent’s CTO, said in a speech at the ChinaBang Awards… -
Cloud Security: DataLocker Lets You Encrypt Your Sensitive Dropbox Files For Free
22 Feb 2012 | 9:55 pmWe’re all becoming increasingly reliant on consumer cloud services, as cloud storage providers like Dropbox make it easy to share and store files, folders, images, sync between platforms, and more. They make our lives easier, but because they store an enormous amount of potentially sensitive data, there are some inherent risks. While Dropbox is for personal use, it and services like it are increasingly being used by businesses — another example of the ongoing consumerization of enterprise and IT. It’s also true that most people want their data in their cloud service to be… -
Report: Video Accounts For Half Of All Mobile Traffic; Android Biggest For Mobile Ads
22 Feb 2012 | 9:22 pmMobile video now accounts for half of all mobile traffic; and on some networks, that number is as high as 69 percent — a testament to the rise of smartphones and tablets as the mobile devices of choice for consumers, and their growing interest in using these devices to do a lot more than just make phone calls. The data, from quarterly report on mobile data usage out today from mobile analytics firm Bytemobile, also found that Android is generating more mobile ad volume than iOS devices, and that Google now accounted for 75 percent of ad-generated data across all platforms. Bytemobile… -
Clothes Horse Wants To Solve The Biggest Problem With Online Shopping: Finding Clothes That Fit
22 Feb 2012 | 8:58 pmClothes Horse, a fashion technology company based out of New York, is publicly launching its platform today in an attempt to address one of the biggest challenges facing online shoppers: buying clothes that fit. Through the use of a customizable widget that merchants add to their own websites, Clothes Horse can determine within just 30 seconds how the retailers’ items will fit any customer. The goal is not only to decrease shopping cart abandonment, but also the rate of returns due to ill-fitting clothes. The problem with shopping for clothes online is that customers have gotten… -
The Winners Of This Year’s $100,000 TechFellow Awards Are…
22 Feb 2012 | 8:33 pmTonight, Silicon Valley’s heroes gave competition a rest and joined together at the third annual TechFellow Awards to celebrate the spirit of innovation. An all-star committee of industry moguls carefully considered your nominations of visionaries in the fields of engineering, product design and marketing, general management, and disruptive innovation. They chose 5 leaders per category and awarded them each a $100,000 grant to invest in a startup of their choice. Supported by Founders Fund, TechCrunch, and New Enterprise Associates (NEA), the awards ceremony was hosted by Jim…
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MediaShift
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I'm Mad as Hell, But I Haven't (Yet) Cut the Cord
22 Feb 2012 | 12:30 pm"You can cut the cable, dad," my teenage daughter has told me more than once when I've grumbled about the poor service, unexplained fees and large percentage increases I've had to pay over our introductory "triple-play" rates to our cable company. We did suspend our cable service for weeks a couple of summers ago when we were away much of the time. But now the service is back on, despite the charges, cable box freeze-ups, service interruptions and too-frequent slowdowns in our Internet. It's not that we couldn't live without cable TV. We could, in ways I'll explain. We can't, though, easily… -
Daily Must Reads, Feb. 22, 2012
22 Feb 2012 | 8:15 amThe best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung 1. Anonymous inundates WSJ's Facebook pages to protest story (FishbowlNY) 2. Republican presidential candidates duke it out on Twitter. Who's winning? (AllTwitter) 3. Storify for the iPad unveiled (Storify) 4. Google to launch pilot pay-TV program in Kansas City (New York Post) 5. Condé Nast seeks to unite magazine production for tablet, mobile (PaidContent) 6. How 'Grammar Girl' turned a hobby podcast into a robust media company (Nieman Lab) Subscribe to our daily Must Reads email newsletter and get the… -
Why Esquire Created a Trailer for the Zanesville Animal Escape Story
22 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amLights, camera ... magazine article? Esquire recently released a 46-second video trailer for a story in its March print edition, available on newsstands yesterday: "Animals," by Chris Jones, a feature about the escape and eventual killing of zoo animals in Zanesville, Ohio. Magazines have been creating videos to accompany articles for a while now. However, Esquire put an innovative twist on the practice by making a trailer-style video and using it to publicize the article before it was printed. Esquire's trailer experiment might be the first foray into a new method of getting readers to… -
Special Series: Cutting the Cord to Cable TV
21 Feb 2012 | 9:30 amWith rising cable and satellite bills, thrifty Americans pinched by the recession have considered cutting the cord to cable. The savings can be enormous, even if the tech know-how can be daunting when creating your new cable-free TV-watching environment. So MediaShift has decided to devote a week of editorial to cord-cutting, with our in-depth guide, first-person accounts, and even a defense of cable TV. And we want to hear from you about your experience -- whether you like cable or loathe it. Sharing your setup and your situation as a cord-cutter might help others take the plunge. Here are… -
Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, Feb. 21, 2012
21 Feb 2012 | 7:57 amThe best stories across the web on journalism and digital education 1. Baltimore Sun: Chelsea Clinton fails Journalism 101 again (Baltimore Sun) 2. Should J-schools include more entrepreneurial courses? (Digital Journal) 3. Director named for new Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer University (Macon.com) 4. 5 places to get digital textbooks (Mashable) 5. 65 free interactive whiteboard resources for teachers (TeachHUB) This is a summary. Visit our site for the full post ».
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Audit Notes: Tax Break, No Wage Pressure, Clowning Schneiderman
22 Feb 2012 | 9:54 pmReuters's David Cay Johnston has a good column today on why tax rates are lower than we generally think: We typically calculate them based on adjusted gross income. But the Tax Policy Center has numbers on what tax rates would be as a percentage of cash income, which includes tax-exempt income excluded from the AGI. Johnston writes that this... -
What Santorum Didn't Say
22 Feb 2012 | 2:52 pmAs he tries to cement his newfound position as a leader in the Republican presidential primary campaign, Rick Santorum has embraced a favorite tactic among GOP pols: attacking the media. Complaints from Santorum and his aides that journalists unduly focused on the candidate’s views on social policy have, at least, succeeded in making “Is the media... -
The IRS and the Chicago News Cooperative
22 Feb 2012 | 12:23 pmI wrote back in November that the tax man was making it harder for the nonprofit-news movement to flourish or even survive. Now the IRS figures prominently in the downfall of a major nonprofit news organization, the Chicago News Cooperative. The CNC will "suspend publication" this weekend after the MacArthur Foundation withdrew its funding, citing concerns about its status... -
What We’re Learning About Hospitals, Part One
22 Feb 2012 | 11:22 amBeware the Affordable Care Act! That was the message of a fine National Journal piece that thoroughly investigated the current economics of the nation’s hospitals. Stories about economics—especially those that go deep—are always tough to do, and reporter Margot Sanger-Katz put it all together, lacing her piece with plenty of warnings about what health reform will and won’t do. The... -
Audit Notes: Fed Transparency, Carp Invasion, Chinese Imports
21 Feb 2012 | 10:38 pmThe Wall Street Journal is good to bird-dog the Federal Reserve on transparency, and it gets results even before publishing its story. The paper reports that the central bank, which doubles as a bank regulator, has all but quit having public meetings on new rules: The Fed is making these sweeping changes—the most dramatic since the Great Depression—almost completely...
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Common Sense Journalism
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Still working on getting the Internet thingy
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Copy editing: Has the job really changed?
13 Feb 2012 | 6:15 amI was a bit confused by the pronouncement by a Gatehouse VP in a recent story announcing that Gatehouse was following the rest of the traditional "print" and wire service universe in setting up editing hubs in Rockford, Ill., and Framingham, Mass.Declared David Arkin, vice president of content and audience: "The role of the copy editor today is to move copy as they get it."Maybe I missed all those languid days by the copy desk pool, with the slot lazily sipping pina coladas while the rim rats worked on their tans. I never did get the good schedules. What exactly does Arkin think a copy desk… -
Quicken backlash grows
12 Feb 2012 | 11:38 amI wrote here a few weeks ago about Intuit's apparent arrogance in redesigning the budget function in its Quicken software.The threads of discontent on its feedback site continue to grow longer - here and here and here, for instance.Now there's an online petition.We'll see if it has the same effect that such other efforts have recently. Intuit says it focus group screens and beta tests this stuff, but somehow it must have missed a large swath of unhappy people. -
AP Style: Workforce as one word
12 Feb 2012 | 6:31 amNot sure how this one got by me, but tucked into the changes in AP's 2011 Stylebook is one I've urged for years -- workforce as one word instead of work force, a form that newsrooms and others increasingly were ignoring anyhow.So thanks for the change, AP. The world is once again safe for democracy. Now let's work on the equally arcane and increasingly ignored under way in favor of underway (which AP as of this writing still reserves for the nautical sense: "an underway flotilla"). -
A salute to MyMissourian
11 Feb 2012 | 9:33 pmClyde Bentley, a friend and professor at Missouri who was the guiding force behind one of the earliest citizen-journalism sites, MyMissourian, announced this week that the site was shutting down. Its content will be folded into the regular Missourian's From Readers section.It's worth taking a moment not to mourn the passing, but to celebrate all it has represented and all the changes that have have come along in eight years so that, for the most part, we really don't debate anymore whether readers should have an extensive place at the journalism table - both as consumers and as producers of…
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The roots of social conservatism
22 Feb 2012 | 12:29 pmAS RICK SANTORUM is now the national front-runner for the Republican nomination, his candidacy has renewed some evergreen questions about social conservatism in America, and specifically the question of why America is so much more socially conservative than comparable liberal democracies. Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto wrote up an interview with Jeffrey Bell, author of the forthcoming "The Case for Polarized Politics", on this topic. This bit caught my eye:The roots of social conservatism, [Bell] maintains, lie in the American Revolution. "Nature's God is the… -
You may not think what you think you think
22 Feb 2012 | 9:57 amA FASCINATING case is pending before Robert Blink, a judge in Polk County, Iowa. Around 6,000 black people passed over for state jobs and promotions since 2003 are suing the state of Iowa, claiming not that they faced overt or deliberate discrimination, but that the people who made hiring decisions subconsciously favoured whites. They are suing for $67m less earnings, but their lawyer says that the suit's real goal is not financial, but forcing the judge to order changes in how the state trains managers, screens candidates and tracks hiring disparities.The issue of unconscious bias arose last… -
Programming note
22 Feb 2012 | 9:33 amTONIGHT the Republican candidates meet in Arizona for what could be the last debate of the primary season. It will certainly be the last debate before Arizona and Michigan hold their primaries on February 28th—polls show tight races in both states, with Rick Santorum leading in Michigan and creeping up on Mitt Romney in Arizona. And, as a result of Mr Romney dropping out of a planned debate in Georgia next week, it will be the last debate before Super Tuesday, when voters in ten states go to the polls. So tonight offers one last chance for the candidates to confront each other and… -
Testing teaching, teaching testing
22 Feb 2012 | 7:07 amDIANE RAVITCH, the education-reform advocate famous for having long advocated chartered schools and centralised assessment of teachers only to turn against both reforms in the past few years, has a post at the New York Review of Books railing against New York's new testing standards. The state moved last week to conduct a centralised assessment of all public-school teachers on the basis of whether they have improved student performance year to year, and to fire teachers who fail to do so. New York had to make this move to meet criteria for the $700m it will receive under the federal Race to…
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A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
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Duck Duck Go Passed 1mm Searches Per Day
16 Feb 2012 | 3:15 amI'm a bit late with this news about our portfolio company Duck Duck Go but I am super excited about it so I'm posting it anyway. I'll let a tweet tell the story: We received over 1,000,000 direct searches yesterday for the first time ever!duckduckgo.com/traffic.html — duckduckgo (@duckduckgo) February 14, 2012 One million searches per day is not chump change. AOL does somewhere around four or five times that every day. And if you look at this public chart of Duck Duck Go's growth, you'll see that they may pass AOL sometime this year. Why is DDG growing so… -
Utilities vs Networks
11 Feb 2012 | 6:09 amIt's interesting to see a network, Instagram, starting to replace the iPhone's native camera application in many users' daily usage of their phones. I see this in my kids' behavior all the time. When they want to take a photo, they open Instagram, not the camera application. In the PC era, when applications got bundled into the operating system, they became instoppable. All the competitive apps got left in the dust. But in the mobile era, it seems that a different dynamic is at play. The native applications are getting beat by networks. And these networks will eventually go… -
Payments Day
8 Feb 2012 | 3:24 amYesterday was payments day at USV. Two pretty big things that our firm has been involved in for a while now were coincidentally announced on the same day. First, our newest portfolio company Dwolla announced the closing of a round we led on their blog. Dwolla is building a large network of engaged users via a radically lower cost payment system. How much lower? Zero for transactions below $10 and a $0.25 flat fee for transactions over $10. If you move $10,000 over the Dwolla network, you or the recipient (your choice) will be charged $0.25. That's it. Dwolla does this by avoiding credit… -
Building The Ecosystem
7 Feb 2012 | 2:58 amI've always seen the work that my colleauges and I do as more than venture capital investing. That is our main job and we need to do it very well. But we also need to work to make sure the macro environment for our investing activities remains attractive. There are two primary activities that Union Square Ventures focuses on in addition to our core venture capital activities of backing and then working closely with entrepreneurs and their teams. They are policy advocacy around protecting the freedom to innovate and efforts to build the ecosystem for startups and entrepreneurship. Longtime… -
The Academy For Software Engineering
13 Jan 2012 | 2:39 amA number of years ago, I wrote a blog post talking about the need to teach middle school and high school students how to write software. In the comments (where the good stuff happens), a Google engineer told me to go down to Stuyvesant High School and meet a teacher named Mike Zamansky who had taught him to write code in high school. So I did that and thus begun my education into the world of computer science education in the NYC public high school system. What I learned was that other than Mike's program at Stuyvesant and a few other small programs, there wasn't much. So began…
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augmented.org
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Gravity AR and news for the starting week
13 Feb 2012 | 4:02 amG-Force for AR Metaio’s Augmented City with 3D markerless tracking has been shown last year at insideAR and ISMAR. But now metaio’s Dr. Himane explains a bit more on how the Augmented City is being upgraded to benefit from 3D markerless tracking. Their latest video shows it in action. The short excerpt with the real 3D-overlay on a building without any markers shows the way we always wanted AR for mobile devices in the first place! No floating GPS-based 2D-billboards nor black/white markers on all the buildings walls of the world. This is definitely a big step towards their… -
Mixed News for the New Month
3 Feb 2012 | 9:00 amHey everyone! Time for an all-inclusive update today, giving a wider overview of news for you to enjoy the AR weekend! Let’s start right away with a fancy picture and a new tech demo: Interactive car windows GM and the Future Lab joined forces to bring us a nice prototype of the augmented-car-window scenario. I’ll just have this one for itself: Designing Real World Collaboratories with Christopher Stapleton Christopher Stapleton gave a guest article on medicalaugmentedreality to talk about AR, medicine and innovating the innovation. Please check it out and join the open questions… -
Projected Experiences
30 Jan 2012 | 9:52 amHey guys, busy days. I’m sorry for the delays. But now it’s time to pick up the loose ends and to take a good look around into 2012 and upcoming technology. While I meditate a few more hours, let me kick off with a beautiful projected augmented reality demonstration I missed to blog last year. It just came across my browser again. So, a good epic start to follow up with! :-) Augmenting the Sydney Opera house outside and inside makes this one special. It just blows you away. The creative guys from Obscura Digital have done more of that kind lately (like the Sheikh Zayed Grand… -
Welcome 2012! Welcome CES!
10 Jan 2012 | 5:24 amHey everbody, happy new year and welcome back for more Augmented Reality fun in 2012! I’m sure we can expect more insane technology updates through the year. Major new gaming console updates to be expected – they will bring some AR news along for shizzle. Also tinier and following Moore more powerful smartphones, new tablets (ipad3 in a month?), and more technology fairs to show off the latest gizmos. To kick off the year, I’ll directly quote some news, shown at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012, that started today. Anti-Couch-Potatoe To start with the big player, we have… -
Immersive Imaging and Seasons Greetings!
19 Dec 2011 | 7:25 amHey everybody! It has been a while. I hope you enjoyed the ISMAR, its coverage, the pictures (all my pics are now available through ISMAR website) and the time beyond to digest all the cool impressions, ideas and new tech stuff! Being very busy the last weeks, I’d like to close for 2011 with awesome projected AR and some more news pieces! Enjoy! Immersive Imaging Coolest videos first! The guys from PlayStation have created a great show to promote their Great Films fill rooms site. A stunning combination of projected AR with a tracked moving steadicam and real props (floating through…
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Deeplinks
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EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database
22 Feb 2012 | 3:41 pmCopyright Lawsuit Threatened Essential Tool for Engineers Around the WorldSan Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce that a copyright lawsuit threatening an important database of time zone information has been dismissed. The astrology software company that filed the lawsuit, Astrolabe, has also apologized and agreed to a 'covenant not to sue' going forward, which will help protect the database from future baseless legal actions and disruptions. Software engineers around the world depend on the time zone database to make sure that time-stamps for email and… -
The New EFF Issues T-shirt!
22 Feb 2012 | 3:26 pmWe're happy to announce the arrival of the new EFF Issues T-shirt! The back displays the full constellation of EFF's work areas: Privacy, Free Speech, Transparency, Fair Use, International, and Innovation. In our ongoing search for a women's T-shirt with the perfect fit, we printed the women's style on Hanes ComfortSoft. These tees feature flattering sleeves and a more comfortable fit for greater ease whether you're navigating a server room, a court room, or the local coffee shop. See our T-shirt size chart for more information. If you donated to EFF recently, be on the lookout for your… -
Court Finds Social Network Add-On Violated Spam, Hacking Laws
22 Feb 2012 | 11:52 amIn a potentially troublesome decision, a federal district court has found that a start-up violated anti-spam and computer crime laws by creating and marketing a browser to let users view their social networking accounts in one place. The case demonstrates the difficulties facing those who seek to empower users to interact with closed services like Facebook in new and innovative ways. In Facebook v. Power Ventures, Facebook sued a small company that created a tool for users to access and aggregate their personal information across social networking sites. In 2010, the court ruled that Power… -
Government Pressures Twitter to Hand Over Keys to Occupy Wall Street Protester's Location Data Without a Warrant
21 Feb 2012 | 10:11 pmOn October 1, 2011, over 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge. Most of the protesters, including Malcolm Harris, were charged with the mundane crime of disorderly conduct, a "violation" under New York law that has a maximum punishment of 15 days in jail or a $250 fine. And yet on the basis of a charge no more consequential than speeding ticket, the New York City District Attorney's office sent a poorly worded subpoena to Twitter requesting "any and all user information, including email address, as well as any and all tweets posted for the period of… -
This Week in Censorship: Syrian and Iranian Bloggers Under Threat, CPJ Calls for an Anti-Censorship Coalition
21 Feb 2012 | 2:56 pmIranian netizen under immedate threat of execution According to a report from Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Saeed Malekpour, the 36-year-old web and circumvention tool developer who in January was sentenced to death, is now under threat of immedate execution. In the report, RSF writes: "The family of Saeed Malekpour [has reported] that his sentence order has been sent to the office responsible for carrying out sentences, which means that he could [be] executed at any time during the coming hours or days." Malekpour is currently in solitary confinement in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison. EFF…
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Assistive Technology
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ATIA 2012 Followup
29 Jan 2012 | 12:56 pmJust got back from attending and working with Ginger Software on the Exhibitor floor of the ATIA 2012 Conference in Orlando, Florida. It is always so exciting to be able to attend this conference which is packed with passionate educators who are looking for the newest tools and strategies to assist their students. As much as I love walking the Exhibit floor looking for new products it is reconnecting with my fellow assistive technology colleagues that makes this conference very special. Having the time after hours to share ideas, resources and… -
Wikisummarizer Adds Keyword Cloud
24 Jan 2012 | 4:26 pmIf you have ever played around with Wordle then you know just how much fun it is to see the keywords from a website jump out at you- visually showing you the topics that have been covered. I was very glad to receive an email from Henry Lewkowicz from Context Discovery that a Keyword Cloud feature has been added to Wikisummarizer. I gave it a try and searched on the term "Assistive Technology" to see how the Keyword Cloud feature would work. Wikisummarizer generated the Keyword Cloud very quickly and when I was done I copied the embed code that was supplied and pasted… -
NoteControl - Taking Charge of Your Resources
22 Jan 2012 | 1:54 pmWith information coming at us at a frantic pace it is no wonder that we can quickly become overwhelmed. This is especially true for students who have a need to curate their notes and sources when writing research articles. Life was a lot easier for me when I was in school, there were simply books and journals, that I used to cite my works. Today students are faced with the myriad of Internet sources, books, journals, podcasts, and multimedia to keep account of when doing research. In this light, Matchware, recently released a new product NoteControl aimed at students to help them… -
The Kindle Fire: Fully Loaded If A Little Fuzzy
5 Jan 2012 | 3:07 pmThe Amazon Kindle Fire was released on Nov. 15, and shocked consumers with its $199 price tag. It seems like most of the rhetoric around the device has been its price, and while that certainly is a huge part of its success, it also has some pretty spiffy features. I have a Fire and I've compared it to a friend's Barnes and Noble Nook and in just about every unscientific test, the Fire came out ahead. First of all, it feels great in the hand. It's a solid device that doesn't feel like you will break it in half if it gets roughed up a bit. The sleek edges feel like they could be an Apple… -
Send to Your Kindle-Great Utility
2 Jan 2012 | 2:49 pmNow that the holidays are behind me it is time to share some new ideas and tips and tricks. I have been doing a lot more reading on my Kindle's then ever before and when I came across the Send to Kindle Chrome Extension that would enable me to send web pages to my Kindle I was really excited to test it out. So for those of you who prefer to read web content on your Kindle this could be the perfect solution. I installed the Send to Kindle Extension to my Chrome browser which was very quick. Once installed, I set the Options in the Send to Kindle Extension to send the…
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Mind Mapping Software Blog
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Mind Map Analysis: A yearly planner map that can significantly increase your value
20 Feb 2012 | 1:17 pmThis innovative yearly planning mind map incorporates some unique elements that make it an order of magnitude more productive than the typical personal planning map. The majority of this value comes from a type of topic that most people forget to include in their mind maps – which can help you dramatically improve the value you provide to the people you serve. One of the real advantages of running the Mind Mapping Insider program and doing analyses of mind maps is that I get to encounter some really intriguing visual maps – ones that help me expand my perception of what’s possible… -
A comparison of mind mapping apps for the iPad
17 Feb 2012 | 5:43 amHow do the mind mapping apps for the iPad compare with each other? Here is a visual analysis, in the form of a chart, which compares price vs. functionality, and what that translates into in terms of potential value to you. The larger the circle, the greater the program’s value. Please click on the image to view a larger version of this chart. Ideally, you want a low-cost (or free) app with lots of functionality. That yields a lot of value. But don’t discount the higher-priced mind mapping apps in this chart, because even the highest-priced one is only US$15.99 – still a… -
The top 10 visual thinkers on Twitter
16 Feb 2012 | 1:52 pmVisual thinking is an essential executive skill today. If you want to keep up with the latest thinking on this fascinating topic, why not follow these 10 visual thinking experts on Twitter? Please click on the image above to load a clickable image map, where you can navigate to the Twitter feeds of these experts. Or navigate to them using the links in the descriptions below. Rather than just give you the “tip of the iceberg, I took some time to locate some of their best work, so you can get a better sense of who these people are and what they do – and the rich, vibrant field that… -
How to evaluate your ideas using a mind map
13 Feb 2012 | 2:17 pmMind mapping software is an excellent tool for not only capturing your ideas, but also performing a quantitative evaluation of them, so you can select the best possible solution. In this latest Mind Mapping Insider video tutorial, I will demonstrate how to: Set up a mind map to make the idea evaluation process easier (hint: it’s a different format than the usual radial mind map) Select appropriate criteria to evaluate your ideas Develop appropriate weighting for each criterion Integrate them into your mind map Compare your ideas side-by-side and select the most valuable ones If your job… -
Top 10 books on visual thinking
13 Feb 2012 | 10:26 amVisual thinking has become so popular today that it has spawned many excellent books from its most talented practitioners. These books are invaluable guides to this fascinating world of non-linear, bigger-picture thinking. They include many types of thinking with diagrams, mind maps, sketches and other forms of non-linear communication. If you want to learn about leading visual thinking strategies and techniques, I recommend these 10 books: The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex…
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VentureBeat
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LG kicks off the quad-core smartphone craze with the Optimus 4X HD
22 Feb 2012 | 9:45 pmLG was the first company to show off a dual-core smartphone last year, and it has once again beaten the rest of the pack with tonight’s announcement of the Optimus 4X HD, the world’s first quad-core phone. The news heralds next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a major event for the mobile industry where LG will be showing off the Optimus 4X. But you can bet it won’t be the only company hawking quad-core smartphones. 2012 is expected to be the year of quad-core smartphones, which will deliver the obvious benefit of more computing power, but also more… -
Attorneys general fear Google’s new privacy policy is an “invasion of privacy”
22 Feb 2012 | 6:02 pmMore than three-dozen state attorneys general expressed fear, in a letter to Google CEO Larry Page, that Google’s soon-to-be enacted, one-size-fits-all privacy policy is an invasion of consumer privacy and trust. In a choicely worded missive sent to Google’s chief executive, the National Association of Attorneys General outlined a bevy of concerns around the new policy, slated to go into effect on March 1, and requested an immediate meeting with the company. Google announced in late January that it would be consolidating 60 different privacy policies into a single policy. Come… -
OnLive delivers ridiculously fast web browsing on the iPad
22 Feb 2012 | 6:00 pmOnLive promised that it would one day run Windows desktop computer apps on an Apple iPad, and today it is delivering on that promise. As an added benefit, it is also launching the world’s fastest web browser on the iPad. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based OnLive Desktop Plus app is finally available for users to download today, after years of development. The app uses OnLive’s cloud service — which the company also uses to deliver high-end games to low-end computers — to stream desktop apps such as Microsoft Word to the iPad. The paid service is also packaged with an Internet… -
The 7 ‘creep factors’ of online behavioral advertising
22 Feb 2012 | 5:53 pmThe flood of news stories on the data-collection and online behavioral advertising (“OBA”) practices of search engines, mobile apps, brand advertisers, and social networks is giving many people a very distinct feeling: the creeps. Whether the stories are about concerns over Facebook sharing its users’ profile details with advertisers, Google bypassing default browser settings, or Target figuring out a teenager is pregnant before her parents do, the natural reaction is to picture the companies’ employees as shadowy, green-eyed peepers crouching in the darkness. The curious thing about… -
Apple, Foxconn and the FLA respond to ABC’s “iFactory”
22 Feb 2012 | 4:59 pmApple, Foxconn, and the Fair Labor Association have each responded to ABC’s “iFactory: Inside Apple” news special, which aired last night on ABC. The iFactory Nightline episode told the story of Foxconn, a Chinese factory that produces iPads, iPhones, and MacBooks for Apple. The factory has been criticized for poor working conditions and suicide threats. Apple invited the Fair Labor Association, along with ABC’s Bill Weir, to take a look into its assembly lines. The factory, while clean and seemingly safe, still has suicide nets that scale the sides of its buildings to…
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gonepublic: philosophy, politics, & public life
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Reading Arendt
17 Feb 2012 | 6:12 amI’m gearing up to teach a graduate seminar on Hannah Arendt next fall, which involves the lovely task of collecting, re-reading, and sometimes reading for the first time a wonderful assortment of books, all arrayed on my desk, including, by Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism, Between Past and Future, On Revolution, On Violence, Eichman in Jerusalem, Men in Dark Times, Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy, Crises of the Republic, The Life of the Mind, The Human Condition, and the newly published, The Promise of Politics. Books about Arendt are many. I reviewed a few of… -
a night at elaine’s
17 Dec 2011 | 6:19 pmReading Ian McEwan’s piece in the New York Times on the passing of his friend Christopher Hitchens, I am transported to a night many years ago when my friend Jonathan Tasini invited me to join him for dinner with Harper’s editor Lewis Lapham and friends one evening in New York. And so we gathered at the famous restaurant, Elaine’s, at a nice round table in the middle of the room: Lewis Lapham, his good friend Christopher Hitchens, “Hitch’s” girlfriend (and subsequent wife) Carol Blue, someone rather pompous from the New York Observer, Jonathan, and me, with… -
Action 2.0
1 Dec 2011 | 5:43 amI am coming to see that Marshall McLuhan’s mantra, “the medium is the message,” is true today in a whole new way. In his day, the mass medium showed the world as a global village that one could only watch. Big broadcasting nailed home the message that people are passive bystanders and that the only action that could change that was mass action that might or not be picked up by mass media. The first generation of the Internet did little to change that. There was more opportunity and ways for individual one-to-one communication (email) or one-to-many communication… -
Gendered Conference Campaign Continues
20 Nov 2011 | 3:48 pmYou’d think that by now philosophy conference organizers would stop and think — if all my keynoters are white men, might there be a wee bit of a problem? I have to think about this all the time as associate editor of the Kettering Review. We put together issues by topic and include pieces ancient and contemporary, some reprinted, others published first by us. Often the first pieces that come to our attention are written by those who have had easier access to the world of letters, generally men of European ancestry. But any one of our issues is always much stronger for… -
APA Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession
17 Nov 2011 | 6:36 pmBegining this summer, I am on this committee, the APA Commitee on the status and future of the proffssion, effective July 2012. I am now trying to discern what this commitee has done over the years and what good it needs to do in the immediate future. Please le me me know your ideas and concerns.
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Twitter / Scobleizer
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Scobleizer: RT @robinwauters: Surely @realdanlyons gets that making biased assumptions about @arrington and @sarahcuda work ethics, and lying about ...
22 Feb 2012 | 11:45 pmScobleizer: RT @robinwauters: Surely @realdanlyons gets that making biased assumptions about @arrington and @sarahcuda work ethics, and lying about ... -
Scobleizer: RT @robinwauters: See how badly @realdanlyons screwed up reporting on @scobleizer (see comments) http://t.co/4vHJsWWh very unprofessiona ...
22 Feb 2012 | 11:45 pmScobleizer: RT @robinwauters: See how badly @realdanlyons screwed up reporting on @scobleizer (see comments) http://t.co/4vHJsWWh very unprofessiona ... -
Scobleizer: My new sounds: Disrupting wealth management. visit to @wealthfront's headquarters, part I. http://t.co/GRV1ydkm on #SoundCloud
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Scobleizer: Disrupting wealth management. visit to @wealthfront's headquarters, part I. [Live] http://t.co/N9PsLda9
22 Feb 2012 | 6:16 pmScobleizer: Disrupting wealth management. visit to @wealthfront's headquarters, part I. [Live] http://t.co/N9PsLda9 -
Scobleizer: RT @maxtillich: @Scobleizer thanks for your work, i accepted my first job offer because you interviewed the founder, keep it up!
22 Feb 2012 | 4:20 pmScobleizer: RT @maxtillich: @Scobleizer thanks for your work, i accepted my first job offer because you interviewed the founder, keep it up!
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Open-Government Blog
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Spokesman-Review Editorial on SB 6109
17 Feb 2012 | 10:37 amThe Spokesman-Review writes this excellent editorial on why SB 6109, which exempts recordings of executive sessions from disclosure, should be passed by the House. -
Olympian Editorial on SB 6109 (Executive Session Tapes)
16 Feb 2012 | 4:02 pmThis editorial from The Olympian describes why it's good that the Senate passed SB 6109, which makes tapes of executive sessions exempt from disclosure. A good exemption from disclosure? Yes, because now agencies can tape their executive sessions without worrying about them being automatically disclosed--but, if there is a lawsuit or some other reason to have a record of what happened in the executive session, then the tape exists. -
Too Much Disclosure?
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KING 5 Story on Big Public Records Act Awards Against the State
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Various Legislative Things
8 Feb 2012 | 1:33 pmThis time of year there are numerous legislative things happening on the public records front. Here are some of them:Public given one minute to testify on Public Records Act bill.Newspapers editorialize against Public Records Act bills.Editorial from The (Vancouver) Columbian on Public Records Act bills.School districts want to charge for "search time" to gather public records.
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Fast Company
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Paul Graham: Why Y Combinator Replaces The Traditional Corporation
22 Feb 2012 | 11:35 amIf Y Combinator is the next PayPal Mafia, then Paul Graham is Silicon Valley's godfather. Graham is the cofounder of Y Combinator, the investment firm that plugs seed money ($18,000 on average) into early stage startups in exchange for mentorship and access to its ever-growing network of alumni. It's the latter benefit that's truly made Y Combinator a Valley powerhouse--YC's vast network of influential entrepreneurs that includes breakout Valley stars such as the founders of Dropbox and Airbnb. (We attempted to capture this network on our list of the Most Innovative Companies in Business with… -
Follow-Up: Google's Goggles Come Into Focus
22 Feb 2012 | 10:09 amGoogle's working on a new device, a pair of augmented reality glasses that've been all but confirmed by the New York Times. We looked at this idea a couple months back--now here's what's new.The New York Times isn't messing around with today's headline: "Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses By Year's End." Nick Bilton's convinced enough by info from his sources to really go for it. And the article's original pre-publish headline even borrows a little sci-fi iconography to spice things up: "Google to Sell Terminator-style Glasses..."That's more or less what we said back in December when we… -
How To Pitch A Startup In Three Minutes
22 Feb 2012 | 8:25 amh5.boxxytitle {font-family:impact;font-size:24px;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:normal;} .gradient {display:block;background-color: #ffde00; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left right, from(#bf9b6c), to(#ffde00)); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, #bf9b6c, #ffde00); background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(left, #bf9b6c, #ffde00); background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(left, #bf9b6c, #ffde00); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(left, #bf9b6c, #ffde00); background-image: linear-gradient(left, #bf9b6c, #ffde00); filter:… -
Brands Get Physical To Build Trust
22 Feb 2012 | 7:47 amFrom handshakes to hardware, intimate signals constantly affect us in life. As the world becomes increasingly digital, we are losing many sensory signals that once moved us. Here's what can companies do to reclaim these touching moments.I’m sure you’ve had the experience of reaching out to shake someone’s hand, only to be surprised by a palm so limp that it feels more like a dead fish than a warm welcome. What was your immediate impression of the person? How, then, did you reassess them? If you thought it indicative of a weak character, you’re onto something. Some years ago,… -
Google May Sell AR Glasses This Year, New Premium Ads Expected From Facebook, Apple Plans Second Enormous Data Center
22 Feb 2012 | 7:38 amBreaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.UK Govt. Calls For Innovation, Alternatives To GPS. There's a sore need to innovate in the navigation space and create GPS alternatives, a committee has warned. The way things are wired today, fluctuating space weather could easily knock out GPS systems crucial to everyone from the military to financial systems, leaving no back-up plan if such an event took place. --NS--Updated 10:30 a.m. ESTGoogle's Doodle commemorates 155 years since the birth of Heinrich Hertz, the first person to prove the existence of electromagnetic…
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ActionScript
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Introducing HTML5 Game Development
15 Feb 2012 | 11:37 pmMaking video games is hard work that requires technical skills, a lot of planning, and—most critically—a commitment to completing the project. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn step-by-step how to create a real 2D game from start to finish. In the process, you’ll use Impact, the JavaScript game framework that works with HTML5’s Canvas element. -
Introducing Starling
12 Jan 2012 | 2:17 pmStarling is an ActionScript 3 2D framework developed on top of the Stage3D APIs (available on desktop in Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3). Starling is mainly designed for game development, but could be used for many other use cases. Starling makes it possible to write fast GPU accelerated applications without having to touch the low-level Stage3D APIs. Most Flash developers want to be able to leverage GPU acceleration (through Stage3D) without the need to write such higher-level frameworks and dig into the low-level Stage3D APIs. Starling is completely designed after the Flash Player APIs and… -
What's New in Flash Player 11
6 Dec 2011 | 7:06 pmThis book will present you with a full rundown of all the new features in the upcoming Flash Player 11 runtime. Along with each feature, if applicable, will be a demonstration of how to employ the new feature. There's also be a short introduction to Flash Player and a chapter dedicated to providing you with additional resources. -
Automating ActionScript Projects with Eclipse and Ant
12 Oct 2011 | 6:08 pmAutomating repetitive programming tasks is easier than many Flash/AS3 developers think. With the Ant build tool, the Eclipse IDE, and this concise guide, you can set up your own "ultimate development machine" to code, compile, debug, and deploy projects faster. You’ll also get started with versioning systems, such as Subversion and Git. -
Creating HTML5 Animations with Flash and Wallaby
7 Sep 2011 | 1:41 pmCreating standards-compliant animations for the Web just got a lot easier. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to convert Flash animations into HTML5, using Wallaby—the experimental tool from Adobe. Wallaby makes Flash content available for devices that don’t support Flash runtimes, including the iPhone and iPad. This book shows you how to create compelling content for HTML5 environments with relative ease—whether you know Flash or not.
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Wired Top Stories
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 23
22 Feb 2012 | 9:01 pmGoogle's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills. -
DataLocker Aims to Allow Personal Cloud at Work
22 Feb 2012 | 4:40 pmAppSense Labs today released a new product aimed at making free-wheeling consumer cloud practices such as synching of mobile devices more acceptable at work. But while Dropbox is popular and DataLocker is welcome for encypting mobile data, the bigger question facing IT soon will be what to do about iCloud on Macs and SkyDrive on Windows 8. -
Alleged Accomplice of Accused Cable-Modem Hacker Testifies Against Him
22 Feb 2012 | 4:37 pmThe alleged accomplice of an accused cable-modem hacker testified in court on Wednesday that the suspect taught him how to pirate cable service using hacked firmware and cloned Mac addresses. -
After Oracle Lawsuit, HP's Itanium Sales Take a Hit
22 Feb 2012 | 4:16 pmLooking at Hewlett-Packard?s financials, it?s easy to see see why the company around and sued Oracle last year after the database vendor decided to pull support for HP?s Itanium systems. -
Ex-Apple Man Streams Flash Onto the iPad
22 Feb 2012 | 4:13 pmOn Wednesday, OnLive unveiled a new version of OnLive Desktop -- a iPad application that lets users access a virtual Windows desktop and Windows applications housed on servers in the proverbial cloud -- and this new version includes a browser equipped with Adobe Flash. Famously, Apple doesn't allow the Flash player to run locally on the iPad, but OnLive is offering a way around the restriction.
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Twitter / spin
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spin: All I know is I used to be a Google fanboy & despite no one else innovating around them, I find my lack of faith lately in GOOG disturbing
22 Feb 2012 | 10:57 amspin: All I know is I used to be a Google fanboy & despite no one else innovating around them, I find my lack of faith lately in GOOG disturbing -
spin: Is justin.tv a reasonable alternative to livestream/ustream? Haven't fully explored pro broadcast there yet (if they have it).
22 Feb 2012 | 10:56 amspin: Is justin.tv a reasonable alternative to livestream/ustream? Haven't fully explored pro broadcast there yet (if they have it). -
spin: The pricing plans for Livestream and Ustream don't make it easy for those who can't rely on Google's broadcast services ever launching.
22 Feb 2012 | 10:55 amspin: The pricing plans for Livestream and Ustream don't make it easy for those who can't rely on Google's broadcast services ever launching. -
spin: Posting from Bottlenose. Different.
21 Feb 2012 | 5:41 pmspin: Posting from Bottlenose. Different. -
spin: @ChrisPirillo heh, see my profile pic. In the state of Washington, I'm spin. :D
21 Feb 2012 | 5:28 pmspin: @ChrisPirillo heh, see my profile pic. In the state of Washington, I'm spin. :D
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Ryan Stewart - Mountaineer Coding
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Speaking at the LA PhoneGap Meetup on Wednesday, February 15th
9 Feb 2012 | 8:49 amI’m doing a presentation in conjunction with HTC at the LA PhoneGap meetup on Wednesday, February 15th, so if you’re in the area, come by. I’m going to be covering Debugging and Deploying with PhoneGap, which includes talking about using the debug tools like weinre and using PhoneGap Build to deploy it across a bunch of platforms. From the site: AGENDA: 1. Android Tablet Development (Lance Nanek & Michael Ludden, HTC) 2. Debugging and Deploying with PhoneGap (Ryan Stewart, Adobe) Android Tablet Development. HTCdev has created a PhoneGap plugin for their Scribe Pen… -
Hoping for a Web App Future
1 Feb 2012 | 2:04 pmIf I think back to 2006/2007 I was very happy with how things were shaking out. The web was on the upswing and we were moving away from native applications. All of the great things about the web–its ubiquity, its freedom, its openness–were being harnessed to create native-like experiences that, I hoped at the time, would see us all do away with native apps. At the time, there wasn’t much (I thought) that web apps couldn’t do that we needed native apps for. How wrong I was. With the introduction of the iPhone, and subsequent smartphone releases, we’ve seen a huge… -
Dealing with Binary Data from a Canvas Object using JavaScript TypedArrays
29 Jan 2012 | 12:55 amI’m not sure how helpful this will be for anyone, but during the process of doing a binary WebSocket demo I found myself learning a lot about JavaScript typed arrays and how that translates into binary data. The demo I wrote took Canvas image data and sent it over a binary WebSocket connection. The WebSocket server took that data and sent it out to all of the connected clients, who would then render the Canvas data as a PNG. It’s kind of a niche use case but I wanted to specifically create a binary WebSocket demo. It also was a more efficient way to send image data than doing… -
HTML/JS/CSS and Tooling
19 Jan 2012 | 1:13 pmI enjoyed this post by Grant Skinner that walks through his view of the evolution of technology and where/how/when tooling starts to come in. Adobe makes tools for web professionals. That’s what we’ve always done and that’s what we’ll do for a long time. You could even paint a broader brush that we make tools for creative people to share their creations. Watching our own evolution over the past year or so with regards to HTML tooling has been very interesting. We got some flack for not moving in earlier, but as Grant rightly points out, tools are a major investment and… -
Appreciating Tricks Because of What They Can Represent
16 Jan 2012 | 3:28 pmJeff Croft has a nice riff on some of the responses he got when he tweeted about what Steven Witten has done with his site, acko.net. It’s an insanely cool piece of CSS and 3D work and Steven did an informative writeup
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NYT > Technology
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Monitoring Your Health With Mobile Devices
22 Feb 2012 | 9:53 pmSmartphones may some day help people take better control of their health by tracking it with increasing precision and convenience. -
App Smart: A Review of Ringer, Ringdroid, Ringtone Maker and Ringtone Studio
22 Feb 2012 | 9:53 pmA selection of smartphone apps allow users to create their own ringtones. -
H.P. Reports Lower First-Quarter Revenue and Profit
22 Feb 2012 | 9:40 pmThe decline, in Meg Whitman’s first full quarter in charge, cut across all divisions. Dell Computer also reported lower net income. -
T-Mobile Files Request to Block Verizon’s Planned Spectrum Deal
22 Feb 2012 | 9:37 pmIn its filing, T-Mobile, the No. 4 cellphone carrier, told the F.C.C. that Verizon’s acquisition from cable companies would place an “excessive concentration” of wireless spectrum in Verizon’s hands. -
Microsoft Files Complaint Against Motorola in Europe
22 Feb 2012 | 9:37 pmThe software maker ratcheted up its battle with Google, which acquired Motorola Mobility last year, by accusing the cellphone maker of charging too much for use of its patents.
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Media Decoder
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Another Agency Joins the Hot Field of Shopper Marketing
22 Feb 2012 | 3:40 pmTeam Enterprises, which is based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is starting Team TransActive with a pair of executives, Tom Dowdy and Ira Rosenkrantz, who are well known in shopper marketing, a field that focuses on consumers at the point of sale. -
Deal Puts Mickey Mouse and Spielberg on Chinese Screens
22 Feb 2012 | 3:33 pmThe agreement is with You On Demand, a growing service in China that is operated by the son of Vince McMahon, the World Wrestling Entertainment chief. -
Gannett Pushes Its Pay Wall Plan to Investors
22 Feb 2012 | 2:54 pmThe publisher of newspapers like The Des Moines Register also stressed its sports properties and digital revenue. -
Before Final Episode, Carr and Stelter Consider the G.O.P. Debates
22 Feb 2012 | 2:44 pmDavid Carr and Brian Stelter discuss what the debates have meant for cable television, the Republican Party and American politics. -
Cable TV Consortium Ends Effort to Promote Interactive Ads
22 Feb 2012 | 1:30 pmCanoe Ventures, which was formed by the leading cable TV operators, will lay off 120 of its 150 employees, including the chief executive.
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danah boyd | apophenia
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Are Librarians Encouraging Public Libraries to Abide by COPPA?
20 Feb 2012 | 7:55 amThe Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) was created to prevent corporations from collecting data about children without parental permission. This law explicitly does not apply to public institutions, non-profits, and government agencies. Yet, many public institutions not only choose not to collect data about children; they forbid children from accessing information without parental permission. Much to my surprise, this includes many public libraries. Dear Librarians… Will you help explain something to me? Last week, I went to the Boston Public Library’s website… -
New Pew study on tone of social network sites
10 Feb 2012 | 5:46 pmPew Internet & American Life Project just released a new study called “The tone of life on social networking sites” where they examine adult meanness and cruelty. This complements their piece on “Teens, kindness, and cruelty on social network sites.” Like teens, most adults find people on social network sites to be kind. But what fascinates me about both the adult and teen studies is that frequent users are more likely to witness negative exchanges. (Not surprisingly, young people are more likely to be frequent users which helps explain part of why young people… -
World Economic Forum: More than Meets the Eye
29 Jan 2012 | 7:16 pmI spent the last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. When my friends (y’all) learned I was going, some were supportive while others were horrified. A few called me an outright traitor. Given how much mythology there is around this event, I want to take a moment and briefly share my own experience there. If you read news articles about WEF, you get the impression that it’s a high stakes event where many of the world leaders gather to discuss governance and finance. (Journalists especially love to highlight when said leaders snicker or snark at one another.)… -
How Parents Normalized Teen Password Sharing
23 Jan 2012 | 1:24 pmIn 2005, I started asking teenagers about their password habits. My original set of questions focused on teens’ attitudes about giving their password to their parents, but I quickly became enamored with teens’ stories of sharing passwords with friends and significant others. So I was ecstatic when Pew Internet & American Life Project decided to survey teens about their password sharing habits. Pew found that one third of online 12-17 year olds share their password with a friend or significant other and that almost half of those 14-17 do. I love when data gets reinforced. Last… -
We need to talk about piracy (but we must stop SOPA first)
17 Jan 2012 | 6:51 amMuch to my happiness, the internets are in a frenzy about the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (aka SOPA). Congress is currently in recess, but the House announced a hearing on the potential impact to the Domain Name Service on January 18 and everyone expects the Senate to begin discussing a similar bill “PROTECT IP Act” when they return to DC on January 24. There’s a lot to these bills – and the surrounding furor – and I’m not going to go into it, but I recommend reading the actual bill and Open Congress info, the Wikipedia article, EFF’s blog,…
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Dwell On It
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Hatters gonna hat
20 Feb 2012 | 7:33 amI’m a social gamer. This doesn’t mean that I play what are commonly called “social games”, because generally, they aren’t actually social, and while they might be compelling to some – particularly to those whose experience with electronic entertainment is a bit limited – they’re not generally a lot of actual fun.No, I’m a social gamer. I like to communicate about games. I like to talk about them. I like to write about them. I like to have enjoyable cooperative gaming experiences with my friends and family – in the same room, if at all possible. I also like to just play… -
Haters gonna hate
20 Feb 2012 | 6:02 amYou’ve seen the phrase. Perhaps you’ve seen it often.“Haters gonna hate.”It’s a simple truism – tautological, in fact – but most times you see the phrase, it’s a sign that the person writing it has switched their brain off, just when they should be making sure that it is on. Read more ...Ads by Project Wonderful! Your ad here, right now: $0 -
Little Text People at GDC
17 Feb 2012 | 6:24 pmIf you’ve got a pass for GDC (all-access or a summits/tutorials pass), you can catch the 60 minute talk at 11am on 5 March in room 2006 at the West Hall as a part of GDC’s AI Summit. Read more ...Ads by Project Wonderful! Your ad here, right now: $0 -
Linden Lab Acquires Game Studio LittleTextPeople
16 Feb 2012 | 4:31 pmTechnology and Team Join Linden Lab to Support Company’s Strategic Initiative to Launch Innovative New Digital Entertainment Products This Year Read more ...Ads by Project Wonderful! Your ad here, right now: $0 -
Opposite day
14 Feb 2012 | 7:25 amAdorkable Peapod threw out a blogger challenge. Blog the opposite of what you normally blog. That was a bit of a head-scratcher for me, since being relentlessly (even unpredictably) eclectic is just a part of my natural charm.However, there’s one thing that I don’t normally do, and that’s fashion-blogging. So I went out and got mys Read more ...Ads by Project Wonderful! Your ad here, right now: $0
