February 2012
31 posts
Four Trends to Trickle Down the Mountains From...
Here are four trends buzzed around the Summit that could spur the next wave of innovation: Technology fuels an education revolution. Catalyzed by cloud computing, online video, and the lower cost of tablet PCs, a crop of new initiatives are set to change the way the world learns. Four notable examples are: Free classes: Khan Academy, with its mission to “provide a free world-class education...
It's time for a unified ebook format and the end...
via radar.oreilly.com
On iPads and Personal Computers: A Post-PC...
via macstories.net Post-PC empowers people to work and be entertained thanks to new interfaces and easy access to apps. The post-PC device is different from a netbook because netbooks didn’t really revolutionize anything; unlike Apple’s, devices from the competition fail at empowering people because they lack the software ecosystem. Post-PC is the ecosystem of devices and services. Hardware...
Lego Office Is As Much Fun As Playing With Legos |...
via fastcodesign.com very jealous
Map of London by cocktail bars
via yfrog.com yfrog Fullsize - http://yfrog.com/h7jw2jp
How do robots see the world? - Robot readable...
via vimeo.com How do robots see the world? How do they gather meaning from our streets, cities, media and from us? This is an experiment in found machine-vision footage, exploring the aesthetics of the robot eye.
Very early stage thinking around Perceptive Media...
So what is Perceptive Media? “It takes narrative back to something more aligned to a storyteller and a audience around a campfire using Internet technologies and sensibility to create something closer to a personal theater experience in your living room…” via cubicgarden.com
The BBC is Experimenting with Perceptive Media
Remember when Intel turned your life into a museum exhibition using your Facebook data? Or when Google put your place of birth into Arcade Fire’s The Wilderness Downtown video? How about when Take This Lollipop warned you – specifically you – about the dangers of social networking? That’s ‘Perceptive Media’, and it’s coming to a TV near you – eventually. via thenextweb.com
A VC: Payments Day
Both of these situations recognize something fundamental about payments. And that is that being in the payment flow allows you to do other more imporant things for your customers. In Etsy’s case, that means things like gift cards, better shipping options, better marketing opportunities. In Dwolla’s case that means making payments essentially free and making money on value added...
Google Chrome Browser Comes to Android - Ina Fried...
via allthingsd.com
Technology: Rise of the e-book : Nature : Nature...
Traditional publishers may have their flaws, but they also know how to distribute and publicize books. If writers want to self-publish, they have to take on all the things that publishers do. And today, mastering the art of book publicity is tricky. Many newspapers are shutting down their book-review sections. Discussions about new books are migrating instead to blogs and social media such as...
Mozilla developing Web push notification system...
Mozilla is developing a push notification system for the Firefox Web browser. It will allow users to receive notifications from websites without having to keep those sites open in their browser. The system will also be able to relay push notifications to mobile devices. The project is part of Mozilla’s broader effort to ensure that the Web is a competitive platform that can match the...
HUD Google Glasses are real and they are coming...
Google’s glasses… Our tipster has now seen a prototype and said it looks something like Oakley Thumps (below). These glasses, we heard, have a front-facing camera used to gather information and could aid in augmented reality apps. It will also take pictures. The spied prototype has a flash —perhaps for help at night, or maybe it is just a way to take better photos. The camera...
Google - Solve For X
via wesolveforx.com Google Launches “Solve For X” Ideas Conference. Google’s new technology-enabled ideas conference, “Solve For X,” brings together what the organizers call “technology moonshots”—ideas that “live in the grey area between audacious projects and pure science fiction.” The first conference took place in the first...
Google+ Launches a Developers Page to Build an...
via thenextweb.com
WatchThe next 80%
View more presentations from Helge Tennø
(via (5) The next 80%)
5,000 APIs: Facebook, Google and Twitter Are... →
The Best Of The Best: The IxDA Selects The Best...
via fastcodesign.com
“Lessonsmith is a platform where teachers and other professionals can collaborate...”
– Lessonsmith - Crafting lessons through collaboration
The Death of the Cyberflâneur
via nytimes.com omething similar has happened to the Internet. Transcending its original playful identity, it’s no longer a place for strolling — it’s a place for getting things done. Hardly anyone “surfs” the Web anymore. The popularity of the “app paradigm,” whereby dedicated mobile and tablet applications help us accomplish what we want without ever opening the browser or visiting the...
What is the mystery “entertainment device” Google...
via gigaom.com
Update: Facebook Has A Mobile Card Up Its Sleeve...
via paidcontent.org
Betaworks Shareholder Letter
via scribd.com http://www.scribd.com/doc/79687334/Betaworks-Shareholder-Letter
Amazon's products visualization - YASIV
Check out this website I found at yasiv.com If you like clicking on “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought” links to find new books, you will love this homemade Amazon books visualization and recommendation site. Follow this link to see the search results for Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84. Created by Andrei Kashcha, the site uses Amazon data to create a flowchart with book cover links to...
The Technium: The Next Transitions in the Technium
via kk.org
Google is powerful now, but Amazon, Facebook, and...
The danger to Google, in other words, is that as social networking, smartphones and tablets increasingly come to dominate the Internet, Google’s chance to earn advertising revenues from searching will shrink along with its influence. via business.time.com
Inside Stripe, The PayPal Competitor Backed By...
“Setting up that merchant account, which most people use to accept payments, can be up to a three-week process,” John says. “With Stripe, you fill out your details, and you’re ready to go in five minutes. We’re not one layer in the midst of a whole bunch of other layers. You don’t have to plug us into a whole bunch of other services. Stripe is complete.”...
Hello Tokyo! The Guardian experiments in immersive...
via niemanlab.org
The Future of the Book Is the Stream - Megan...
What Netflix’s Watch Instantly has done for movies, and what Spotify has done for music, Audiobooks could do for books. The service has the potential to reframe book-buying as a transactional thing, making it less about purchasing an object, and more about purchasing an experience
via theatlantic.com
The book industry has been built on a business model that effectively discourages the...
January 2012
132 posts
WatchNo straight lines Grey 2012
http://www.slideshare.net/alan.smlxl/no-straight-lines-grey-2012
WatchStraight Line Thinking Stops Here. Designing business success in a non-linear world (2010)
No Straight Lines | Making sense of a non-linear...
via no-straight-lines.com
Open-source Weave liberates data for journalists,...
University to show off the latest version of Weave, an open-source, web-based platform designed to visualize “any available data by anyone for any purpose.” Think of Weave as more programming language than app. via niemanlab.org
Discovery will no longer be limited to text search...
Discovery will no longer be limited to text search via trendwatching.com
Codecademy launches platform to let anyone create...
via gigaom.com
BBC News - Fiction gets technology makeover
via news.bbc.co.uk
Textbook of the Future: The challenges | ZDNet
The problem is that any electronic textbook program would have to be a ten to twelve year commitment at bare minimum in order to send a single generation of kids through elementary and high school. via zdnet.com
Clear: A To-Do List App With A UI From The Future...
, Clear boils basic to-do list functionality down to something like a pure sensory experience. To-do items are displayed in thick blocks of bright color like vertical xylophone keys, with no beveled buttons or menus in sight. Instead, the UI is primarily gestural. via fastcodesign.com
Kinect Star Wars
via lucasarts.com This teaser video from agency AKQA for the Xbox 360′s upcoming Kinect Star Wars game features comedy actor Chris Pratt (from TV show Parks & Recreation) taking over the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi. He has a lightsaber duel with Darth Vader in a homage to the famous scene from the movie Episode IV: A New Hope. Unfortunately, Pratt’s lightsaber skills leave a lot to be...
Two iPhone Screens Become One In New Mobile Game...
A new multi-screen iOS game called Johnny Test: Roller Johnny uses Bluetooth to share screens across multiple devices. This development inspires new possibilities for apps, games, etc. It is the first iOS gaming experience with co-operative screen play, allowing people to team up and explore together. via psfk.com
Two iPhone Screens Become One In New Mobile Game...
A new multi-screen iOS game called Johnny Test: Roller Johnny uses Bluetooth to share screens across multiple devices. This development inspires new possibilities for apps, games, etc. It is the first iOS gaming experience with co-operative screen play, allowing people to team up and explore together. via psfk.com
Two iPhone Screens Become One In New Mobile Game...
A new multi-screen iOS game called Johnny Test: Roller Johnny uses Bluetooth to share screens across multiple devices. This development inspires new possibilities for apps, games, etc. It is the first iOS gaming experience with co-operative screen play, allowing people to team up and explore together. via psfk.com
Two iPhone Screens Become One In New Mobile Game...
A new multi-screen iOS game called Johnny Test: Roller Johnny uses Bluetooth to share screens across multiple devices. This development inspires new possibilities for apps, games, etc. It is the first iOS gaming experience with co-operative screen play, allowing people to team up and explore together. via psfk.com
Two iPhone Screens Become One In New Mobile Game...
A new multi-screen iOS game called Johnny Test: Roller Johnny uses Bluetooth to share screens across multiple devices. This development inspires new possibilities for apps, games, etc. It is the first iOS gaming experience with co-operative screen play, allowing people to team up and explore together. via psfk.com
Two iPhone Screens Become One In New Mobile Game...
A new multi-screen iOS game called Johnny Test: Roller Johnny uses Bluetooth to share screens across multiple devices. This development inspires new possibilities for apps, games, etc. It is the first iOS gaming experience with co-operative screen play, allowing people to team up and explore together. via psfk.com
Book Chargers
Secret phone charger for the literary aficionado The dummy book motif has appeared on accessories from handbags to desktop boxes, only partially satisfying true literary geeks because, after all, they’re only just replicating the covers. Book Chargers by Rich Neeley Designs, on the other hand, are made from actual vintage books outfitted with an impressively subtle...
Online Education - Coursera
We are committed to making the best education in the world freely available to any person who seeks it. We envision people throughout the world, in both developed and developing countries, using our platform to get access to world-leading education that has so far been available only to a tiny few. We see them using this education to improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the...
Just to Clarify: Stories are the Last Mile in Big...
The point is simple. Data is not the target. Data is not the answer. Data is not the insight. Rather, data is the enabler for the real target: Insight that is communicated to the right person at the right time, in the right way. And although the above story is short, it is clear, clean and to the point. And it is aimed at a business problem that can be addressed through the appropriate...