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Straight outta Singapore comes The Geek Goddess Show, a somewhat bi-weekly videocast on social media in the Asian scene. Hosted by Estee Teo and Peter Du, the digital duo aims to highlight web trends happening in places like China and Singapore. Being an English show on a Chinese subject, the show serves to bridge viewers ...
Here’s punking and power reversal at its finest… Reader Heather Glogowski tipped me off last week about how a UK band, Get Out Clause, used public video surveillance to make a music video and requested the footage under the Freedom of Information Act (also on BoingBoing). This situation reminded me of how an ingenious man ...
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 ...
Yay my first Flickr video! Make and upload one using Photobooth (mac only) and tag it as: videoboothWe’ve come a long way from wacky animated gifs. Word just got out, and Flickr’s showing the goods. We have video.Isn’t Youtube enough?No. Read on.What’s this I hear about a time limit of 90 seconds?From their Flickr Help ...
I caught up with BAK2u CEO Paddy Tan at Macworld this morning. He shared with me on the surprising number of attendees who came to his anti-theft software booth after losing their iPhones at the expo, either due to negligence or theft right on the show floor. Speaking of which, there are so many iPhone ...
When my colleague Derek Lackaff and I conducted the “COM125: Intro to the Internet” class simultaneously in Singapore and Buffalo, New York (Spring 2007), we decided to do something completely different… We ran a social learning experiment of the “funnest” proportion (watch video). Given the positive feedback we’ve gotten from students in …
Watch on Vimeo or download the iPhone version (mpeg4 / 137.7mb).Watch previous episodes on Blip.tv or subscribe to theorycast via iTunes.Netbooks have amazingly dominated Amazon’s laptop sales charts for the past month. Small, lightweight and relatively cheap… just what are netbooks truly about, why are they so popular and what does it mean for the ...
Watch on Youtube or download the video iPod version (.m4v / 60mb).Check out the all previous episodes on Blip.tv or subscribe to theorycast via iTunes.In theorycast episode 41, I reviewed the Cricket laptop stand from LCDarms.com. This week, LCD Arms marketing manager Joe Tosolt was kind enough to send me their signature EVO LCD Arm ...
In this 20 minute video interview, you’ll get to ride with AtlasRider (aka Bill) as he travels on his decked out Ninja 650r touring bike across the U.S. and Canada. His most recent trip was his Saddle Sore 1000, where he rode 1,000 miles in under 24 hours through New Mexico (See journey plotted ...
Click here to see the Seero interface up close…For the second commute to the CIT conference in Batavia, Mark McBride drove, with Ken Fujiuchi riding shotgun. I was behind the scenes, taking the opportunity to try out live video streaming with GPS tracking via Seero.com. As you can see, I’m in the back seat managing ...
I’m strolling along sunny Phuket beach in Thailand remotely from Buffalo, New York. Approximately 8651 true miles away, my holiday experience is mediated via Mapjack.comI asked friends to come along, by twittering where I was (via URL). @Prissyhan sent me a coconut to drink, but since it was viscerally lacking, I closed the loop by ...
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“L’arbre de Cracovie,” c. 1742. The Tree of Cracow as depicted in a satirical print. The figure of Truth, on the far left, pulls on a rope to make the tree go “crack” every time something false takes place beneath it. According to the caption, the falsehoods include an innkeeper who claims he does not ...
Inspired by my Facebook friend, Steve Cavrak, I asked CIT 2008 conference participants about their favorite three Web 2.0 tools they use for their academic work. Not surprisingly, responses didn’t include searching library databases as much as people (expert) searching through social networks. Also, I found that sharing what you know is just as important ...
Click the above image to supersize it… Here’s an appearance by yours truly on Issue 1 (2008) of theITsociety quarterly. Soh Cheng from the Singapore Computer Society (SCS) wrote this three-page “Young Professionals” interview with me on my rationale for blogging and lifecasting. Didn’t know I was still considered young, but I won’t …
IPEVO’s marketing executive Caroline introduces me to an LCD picture frame that does more than just show great photos, the IPEVO’s Kaleido R7The Kaleido R7 comes as a 7-inch, 800 x 480 LCD display, with 512MB internal memory as well as an SD card slot. This glossy looking networked picture frame comes in both wired ...
We’ve heard this time and time again, but when will publishers and producers learn? Don’t ever let fans who buy legally get more hurt, than those who don’t.Digital Rights Management (DRM) only serves to incentivize piracy, unless it is brought a reasonable point of convenience for the user.The most recent case involved the long awaited ...
This morning, while I was googling up “point metrics game mechanics” for rewarding environmental action (e.g. recycling plastic = 5pts, refusing disposable chopsticks = 8pts), I chanced upon a terrible environmental board game and an example of eco-currency. Since I barely had time to blog about it earlier, I emailed them onto my environmentalist ...
Last Saturday, I was invited to talk about online campaign strategies at the 7th Annual Planned Parenthood Advocacy Conference in Rochester, NY. Being an all-women event, I was given a glimpse into a world rarely witnessed by men. Curiosity took the better of me, as I interviewed everyone from student advocates to regional leaders in ...
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 …
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