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Truth be told I drive a P.O.S. Dodge Neon that’s good enough to take me from home to campus, and back in one piece. That’s why like most poor souls, my idea of an expensive tuned ride exists only in the virtual world.As seen above, I’m driving a Concept Mustang GT in the streets of ...
The interactive aspect of television runs an entire continuum; from the instinctive changing of channels, to selecting movies on-demand (depending on cable provider), to the more esoteric real-time SMS voting, allowing viewers to affect the program being watched (e.g. American Idol). Ironically, of all the interactive features a television could have, the conversational …
Take a peek at my latest design… and what’s that in the silver foil?Similar Posts:How to: Fry an egg using your computerBehind the scenes at Valleyschwag…Cooking Together, Happy TogetherFor Sale: My Mac Geek StashToday’s Links: WTF 2.0
Most of you know what the Apple TV is… you know that Internet appliance which lets your purchase and rent movie (and music) titles directly from the iTunes store for your television, without the need of a computer? While Apple has started renting HD movies over iTunes as well, you can’t purchase them through iTunes ...
This morning I sat in on Karen Morse’s workshop introducing Facebook to her fellow UB librarians. While our UB Libraries has already taken to blogs, wikis, Youtube and Facebook, Karen’s talk was the first of a series aimed at helping the rest of the librarian community understand what social media was about. This was particularly ...
I first heard about LiveNewsCameras.com via Steve Rubel’s twitter yesterday, and I’m hooked. Dare I say, this is journalistic history in the making. In short, LiveNewsCameras.com feels like a cross between the rawness of lifecasting and the professionalism of newscasting. The “New” NewsLaunched just two days ago, LiveNewsCameras.com emerged in the …
Click to see entire DEFCON photo set: Skip Day 0 and head to Day 1 and 2!Here’s the complete leak of photos and videos I’ve shot from DEFCON 16 in Las Vegas over the weekend. Rather than embargo my media until I write elaborately about my incredible experience there (in an upcoming blog post), I’ll ...
Images used in this comic strip came from Flickr tag “edupunk“Following the emergence of Edupunk…25th May 2008: Jim Groom coined the term “Edupunk” in his post The Glass Bees.29th May 2008: Darcy Norman lists his edupunk heros: “On thinking about edupunk, it strikes me that I’ve been drawn to a group of people that have ...
Actually this is kinda clever… no? For the longest time, I’ve been a fan of mechanisms that help us record and search various aspects our lives in a seamless fashion. From lifecasting (video) to lifestreaming (conversations, user generated content), I’ve tried everything thrown out there by innovative developers in hopes of finding something that could …
This is just a small excerpt of it. Click to see the entire mashup… I wanted to post something for those of us free of consumerist tendencies on Valentine’s Day, but I’ve been working my socks off and my brain’s pretty dead. Fortunately, Beth Kanter dished out an entire series of Valentine’s related tweets this morning. ...
I’ve never been huge on weddings, let alone imagine myself being anyone’s best man. That’s life taking us into unexpected places. Yet, instead of being consumed by change, we’ve to learn to ride it. This is perhaps the best quality I’ve seen from my friend, Kelvin (aka MrBig).Serendipityby Kevin LimAs the “Best Man”,I’d like to ...
I love Comic Life. That’s why I’m delighted to have a pre-release hands-on with the new “pro” version, Comic Life Magiq!Brian Caldwell, Senior Director of Plasq.com, notes that Comic Life Magiq took 15 months of development and is released as a new Leopard only application. The reason? Comic Life Magiq is built from the ground ...
What is Nico Nico Douga?Vizuality: Visual LiteracySo what is Nico Nico Douga? (For Non-Japanese readers only) - Incredibly popular in Japan, Nico Nico Douga was originally created as a mash up of Youtube and 2-channel – the latter is Japan’s most popular BBS (bulletin board system). This explains the whole Japanese video mashup phenomena, with ...
As seen on Howard Rheingold’s vlog:Whenever people refer me to pseudo-critics of social media (i.e. Andrew Keen), I refer them to Fred Turner or to Trebor Scholz, who actually know s …
Having given my talk on at the , the fine students and teachers gifted me which contained , so I bought myself , something which I recommend everyone read. Before I left, I also got some for my colleagues since it was near the high school.Similar Posts:I heart Wikipedia: How to use ...
In this short 4min videolog, Howard Rheingold shares what Craig Newmark has to say about the philosophy behind Craigslist, the quantity of users vs. abusers in a free market system, and the difference between journalists and bloggers (pressure of revenue, burden of fact checking). For a web service that has a mere 25 staff members ...
You might have heard of Netvibes, but have you tried it since they released their “Ginger” update? Your private page now lets you aggregate your social web accounts and pull down updates from your favorite services onto a single page, saving you from logging into everyone, and letting you track updates easily from Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, ...
Stewart & Colbert ‘08 ? on 12seconds.tvI’m so outta style. Meantime, you can catch all the action at demconvention.com. They’ve even got live streaming HD video so you’ll feel as if you’re right there.Similar Posts:Stephen Colbert and his take on political satire via NPR’s Fresh AirFlickr video? Yeah, you’ve got 90 seconds to …
It’s so darn ironic that just yesterday, a visual designer friend of mine was complaining about how the U.S. government prefers to give the international students in the hard sciences discipline a total of 26 months OPT (Optional Practical Training). This is an incredible 17 month extension from the typical 12 month work opportunity given ...
Wanted to have an online get-together with the media socialists, so we tried a six-way video conference using TokBox.com. Definitely convenient that the service is entirely web-based. By 11am EST, three of us chatted over video, one friend lurked (no cam nor mic), while the rest couldn’t make it. While it was certainly fun seeing everyone’s ...
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