The Global Intelligram: Trotting Disruptive New Age Intelligence in a Limitless World
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Here is my piece from Edutopia: A Student Calls for a Learning...
The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph
- In 1900, <10% of families owned a stove or had access to electricity
- In 1915,...
Why Collaborative Storytelling Is The Future Of Marketing
Full Story: FastCompany
Hah! If only.
Reimagining business with a social mindset – Deloitte Tech Trends 2012
Even today, business leaders may dismiss the potential of social business,...
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...
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...
The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish
The above chart shows a distribution of 2500 newly printed fiction books...
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.
Verizon Shows Off Its Hurricane Force
Verizon showcases how it uses mobile cell sites to restore wireless services after hurricanes and other disasters.
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.
The History of the Telephone | AT&T
View the original patent given to Alexander Graham Bell prior to the first telephone call. George Kupczak discusses the origins of the telephone and shows some of the first telephone models.
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.
Embark NYC | Making Subway Travel Easy
Embark NYC is a mass transit mobile app designed for travelers to make travel decisions more smart and sensible, while avoiding any travel surprises such as subway maintenance etc. Currently connecting 12 cities, Embark NYC has been funded by John Hering, Start Fund, SV Angel and Y Combinator and is the winner of the MTA App Quest.
Key features of Embark NYC:
- Tailored step-by-step trip planning, even with no cell signal
- Trip sharing via email, text message, or Twitter to coordinate plans
- Upcoming arrivals and street maps for each station
- Smart geo-location and landmark search
- Push notifications for delays & diversions during your commute
- Available on both iOS and Android
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