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Here is my piece from Edutopia: A Student Calls for a Learning...
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The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph
- In 1900, <10% of families owned a stove or had access to electricity
- In 1915,...
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Why Collaborative Storytelling Is The Future Of Marketing
Full Story: FastCompany
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Phoenix Pro: New Guitar Plugin Turns Hacks into ShreddersHah! If only.
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Reimagining business with a social mindset – Deloitte Tech Trends 2012
Even today, business leaders may dismiss the potential of social business,...
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My prediction for the next 5 years: demand for renewable energies will grow even faster than demand for Internet access. This is one of my core...
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Mazda Envisions Creating Their Future Car Today
It’s a new bold design idea of a car that weighs less than 1,000 pounds, yet still packs a...
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The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish
The above chart shows a distribution of 2500 newly printed fiction books...
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Railroad Sensors Predict Derailments Wirelessly « Wireless Sensor Networks Blog
Union Pacific, the nation’s largest railroad company, says
Future of Facebook Mobile | David Morin
David Morin, chief executive officer of Path and a former Facebook Inc. employee, talks about the largest social-networking company’s culture and opportunities in mobile applications.
Azumio turns your phone into a biofeedback device
Whether it is analyzing your heart rate, controlling stress, or tracking your sleep patterns, Silicon Valley-based Azumio is using smartphone technology to give users a better and more accurate picture of your health. In this video, SmartPlanet gets a demo from Azumio’s Jen Grenz on how the entire process.
Could these cloud based applications help your business grow?
For small and medium-sized businesses, one of the main challenges is keeping operational costs down while ensuring efficiency and meeting best practice. Thankfully, the tools offered by developments in the field of cloud computing have given businesses of all sizes the ability to remain at the top of their game by allowing them to carry out tasks cheaply and easily on the move. The provided infographic highlights some of the best free and paid-for cloud-based applications available today.
Facebook: Proponent of Growth
On April 24th, Facebook featured Viddy and SocialCam in its Newsfeed. Since then, both apps have experienced a growth of approximately 10 million new users a week. Both video-sharing apps currently sit at around 40 million users each. This is one of many examples of how an app can catalyze itself.
Point in case: Be broadcasted on Facebook for accelerated growth.
Start-up brings ‘adventure’ to lunch in Japan
A web app called Social Lunch is gaining popularity for bringing people together in their lunch hour in Japan. The app uses a social networking site to pair people with common interests in the same location for lunch with one another in hopes of expanding their business networks.
In its first six months, Social Lunch has gained over 35,000 members and organised 2,500 social lunches throughout Japan. Their plan is to eventually expand out into other parts of Asia in the forseeable future.
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Buy ‘Em?
When Zynga agreed to buy “Draw Something”, it was the hottest game on the mobile charts. It was the game that would bring OMGPOP to the limelight and hook millions of users instantly. With such a big fan following, Zynga decided to buy out OMGPOP for a cool $200 million. It seems Zynga has employed the clean buyout strategy whenever it sees a competing gaming mobile app move up the charts.
However, since April, Draw Something has seen a steady decline of over 5 million users, bringing the once daily active user population from 15 million to 10 million. Speculations for the decline seem to elude that the barrage of ads from brands maybe a potential reason. Another maybe the sheer repetition of words, which have affected user interest levels. A similar example of this would be how the buzz around iPhone pictionary wore off awhile back.
Whatever the case, Zynga now holds the reigns to the game. One wonders if they could have bought OMGPOP for cheaper had they waited for the buzz to wear off.
Think GPS is cool? IPS will blow your mind | ExtremeTech
For all of their awesome applications — from portable navigation devices, to self-driving cars, to cruise missile targeting — the American Global Positioning System and its Russian cohort GLONASS have two fundamental flaws: They don’t work indoors, and they only really operate in two dimensions.
Now, these limitations are fair enough; we’re talking about an extremely weak signal that has traveled 20,200km (12,600mi), after all. Passing through concrete and other solid obstacles is hard enough for a strong, short-range cellular signal — you can’t seriously expect a 50-watt signal traveling 12,000 miles to do the same. Detecting a GPS signal on Earth is comparable to detecting the light from a 25-watt bulb from 10,000 miles.
The situation is a little more complex when it comes to detecting a change in altitude; GPS and GLONASS can measure altitude, but generally the data is inaccurate and too low-resolution (on the order of 10-25 meters) for everyday use. Even with these limitations, though, space-based satellite navigation systems have changed almost every aspect of society, from hardware hacking to farming to cartography to finding a girlfriend.
What if we had a navigation system that worked indoors, though? What if we had an Indoor Positioning System (IPS)? Believe it or not, we’re very nearly already there.
AT&T Watson Voice Recognition Technology & Speech API
AT&T Watson is a voice recognition tool that transcribes spoken words into text on the fly. Developers can integrate this technology into their own innovative mobile apps. Developers can also utilize the AT&T Watson speech API to bring their innovative mobile app ideas to life. Researchers plan on continuing to develop APIs for specific categories to ensure the best use of the technology.
Facebook is currently in route to launching the listen feature next to the like button on the band pages. Currently, it is not available for everyone, but this feature will allow you to listen to their music by launching Spotify and MOG apps from within Facebook. The eventual line extensions of these modules would be to extend a retail component for band t-shirts and concert tickets, making it the complete online store within Facebook.
Concerns voiced from the musicians have been that this made lead to a decrease in traffic to their individual websites. Regardless, musicians will have to remain vigilant that this will eventually happen and they may have to concentrate their traffic on the Facebook page. Other speculations about Facebook’s strategies based on this move are (1) Will they incorporate the iTunes Store into their band pages? (2) Will applications such as Hulu be incorporated into Facebook to watch your favorite shows? These are still early days for those questions, but hopefully Facebook’s operational strategies are aligned with its explosive growth.
Are you one of those city dwellers trapped in matchbox apartments, looking for a better and more efficient way to get your work done? Work+ was a concept born out of New York City, which helps you discover your ideal setup by scouring Foursquare and NYC WiFi HotSpots and letting you know what is currently available, logging your every experience. Whether you require coffee, internet or silence, Work+ will customize the results based on your preferences. Work+ was exclusively made for NYC Big Apps 3.0.
