November 2011
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Google, Apple and the war for the cloud →
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Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a... →
stoweboyd:
In a fascinating and detailed analysis of the UX factors behind Angry Birds success, Charles Mauro touches on many aspects of the game’s design, including human short term memory:
Charles Mauro via Pulse UX Blog
It is a well-known fact of cognitive science that human short-term memory (SM), when compared to other attributes of our memory systems, is exceedingly limited. This fact...
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The Entrepreneurial Generation - William... →
stoweboyd:
William Deriesiewicz via NYTimes.com
Here’s what I see around me, in the city and the culture: food carts, 20-somethings selling wallets made from recycled plastic bags, boutique pickle companies, techie start-ups, Kickstarter, urban-farming supply stores and bottled water that wants to save the planet.
Today’s ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the ...
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56% Of Young Professionals Won’t Work At A Company... →
Shea Bennett via AllTwitter
Cisco surveyed 2,800 college students and recently employed graduates and discovered that two thirds will actively enquire about a firm’s social media policies during a job interview, with some 56% refusing to work at a company that bans social media.
When you consider that a third of the students polled “consider the Internet to be as important as air, water, ...
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Social Network propaganda posters
bitshare:
Much like the Super Mario propaganda posters, these posters by Aaron Wood carry the same message of a hypothetical war promoting their respective social networks Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus.
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Japanese Telexistence Robot Is Like a Real-Life... →
youngfuturist:
“The Telesar V can deliver a remote experience straight to its operator, transmitting sight, sound and touch data using a series of sensors and a 3D head-mounted display. The robot’s operator wears a 3D display helmet, which relays the robot’s entire field of view. A set of headphones transmit what the robot can hear.”
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A design that will control a real plant with your...
bitshare:
If you don’t have a green thumb but are into technology and have a smart device, this may be what your looking for. Designer Samuel Wilkinson has created a design where plant meets app.
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All I want for Christmas is.. err.. You! →
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giant robots smashing into other giant robots:... →
thoughtbot:
kumade
Small bug fix in the kumade Heroku deployer from Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw). Apps are now restarted after deployment (7c5a6c6). This led to version 0.8.1 of kumade (eed756a).
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Read my lips: no new features; that’s the tale for suspenders this week. Instead, the…
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The iOS 5.0.1 OTA Update →
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Fraser Speirs:
This morning, I updated 37 iPads from iOS 5 to iOS 5.0.1 in less than two hours. I set them out on a table and walked down the line hitting “update” on each, then walked away.
Job done.
After all is said and done, this may actually be my favorite thing about iOS 5. OTA updates just work and are fast as hell.
Best of all, no computer required. This will mean a...
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Bus ride + Concert + Advertising + Public... →
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Who's the Genius in Our Midst That We're Not... →
Tom Denari via Advertising Age
Geniuses make themselves evident by having ideas bigger than we can conceive; it seems that they can see the future. Their thinking is highly disciplined, even though their behavior might not be. They appear fearless.
Why don’t we listen?
First, geniuses can be annoying, as pragmatism is not their strong suit. They don’t live in the same reality as the rest...
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Thought You Should See This: Eye on Identity... →
thoughtyoushouldseethis:
The other day, TechCrunch writer Robin Wauters flagged a company, Boundary. “Nice logo,” he tweeted, and I agreed. So I got in touch with the company to get the story, and what I got provides, I think, a salient lesson in the process, application and reality of identity design in the…
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Mexican man decapitated for using social media to...
bitshare:
In another gruesome report, the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas is sending another clear and powerful message to those using social media to expose the cartel.
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Comcast begins limited IPv6 rollout to home... →
infoneer-pulse:
On Wednesday, Comcast announced that it has started an IPv6 market deployment pilot in the town of Pleasanton, California. Comcast Xfinity Internet subscribers in Pleasanton who have an IPv6-capable DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem can automatically receive an IPv6 address as well as an IPv4 address. However, this only happens if they connect their Windows 7 or Mac OS 10.7 system directly...
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A bad sign: Google Plus referral traffic continues...
bitshare:
Has anyone that has been using Google Plus feel like their circle/friend stream and site interactions has gone down a bit? I can’t quantify the “feeling” I have other than noticing my posts on Google Plus seem to get less and less action. I know I don’t post ground breaking stuff, but it’s not that bad where I’ve seen such a continual drop off of interaction.
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How The World Will Shape Itself to Please Social... →
infoneer-pulse:
The old staleness: hiring an expert to design soundscapes for bars, restaurants, museums, and the like.
The new hotness: allowing the sonic environment to shape itself around the musical preferences of the people in the room.
The catch: If you’re the private type, your taste will be left out of the equation. Everyone else will have more fun than you.
This idea of having...
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The book is great technology, but it’s not good... →
infoneer-pulse:
Printed books may have been groundbreaking technology 500 years ago, and they still have plenty of value as an information-distribution platform — but they are no longer good for every purpose, Matt MacInnis of digital textbook publisher Inkling told attendees at the GigaOM RoadMap conference in San Francisco on Thursday. When it comes to learning and exchanging information...
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'Consumer Reports' Satisfied that iPhone 4S Fixes... →
parislemon:
Phew! Thank god. Clearly their reports last year really hurt iPhone 4 sales and destroyed Apple’s business.
Consumer Reports is very important and influential, you see. There’s no actual data to back this up. And they sure seem like more of a link bait farm. But you must respect their authoritah!
Seriously, all the Consumer Reports iPhone hoopla did last year was prove that no one...
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Another good use of Siri, this time to get free...
bitshare:
Most everyone is familiar with Siri by now. If your not, it’s the voice activated intelligent assistant on the new Apple iPhone 4S. Since Siri’s inception, people have been finding cute and creative ways to use it. This new way, coined SiriTunes may be the most controversial yet.
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“It’s not obvious exactly what to do here.”
– HP’s new CEO Meg Whitman talking to employees about the future of webOS today.
In April of 2010, when HP bought Palm for $1.2 billion, I spoke with Brian Humphries, HP’s SVP of Strategy. His quote:
“Our intent is to double down on webOS.”
That was just a year and a half ago. I’m getting...
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Make your Ruby objects Likeable with Redis →
thechangelog:
The Gowalla development team has released Likeable, a Ruby library to make it simple to add social ‘likes’ to your Ruby classes.
With just a few lines of Ruby, you can track likes using Redis as your data store:
class Comment
include Likeable
# ...
end
class User
include Likeable::UserMethods
# ...
end
comment = Comment.find(15)
comment.like_count #...
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Google Brand Pages vs. Facebook Fan Pages →
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7 of the The World's Most Powerful People are in...
bitshare:
Forbes just published the world’s most powerful list of people. There are 70 people on the list from politicians to religious leaders to drug dealers. Some of the names you might recognize already from the Top 40 under 40. To come up with the list, Forbes has four measurements: how many people does this person oversee, financial resources, influence and power.
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Google Plus brand pages open up to the public
bitshare:
Google Plus just opened up brand pages to the general public. Now if you wish, you can create a brand page for your business, website, store, restaurant or what have you. Brand pages have a “page” verification badge at the top that identifies them as a brand page. They also have a +1 button right under the default profile image for easy sharing and a ‘share this page’ for direct...
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Visit my Multiply site! →
Hello friends!
I’ve just joined Multiply. I’m hoping you could visit me there and check out my page. Thanks!
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American Public University enlists faculty to... →
infoneer-pulse:
Student loan debt continues to rise, and with it concern among educators and politicians (including President Obama) and new federal policies aimed at reducing students’ burden. One small private Christian college is expanding its own efforts, embracing a trick of the trade historically used by many law schools.
Huntington University, a liberal arts college in Indiana, is...
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Zuckerberg: Facebook Is Not Going To Build Any... →
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Nokia's prototype flex-phone may revolutionize...
bitshare:
Nokia appears to be the first company to come up with a working prototype of a smart mobile phone that you can bend and flex to perform actions like zoom, scroll or take a picture. I have seen this concept before with the paper thin concept phone or more of a graphical design with the Galaxy Android.
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A lot happens on mobile devices in one minute...
bitshare:
Similar to what happens around the web in 60 seconds, here is an infographic that shows you everything that happens on mobile devices in 60 seconds. It’s completely mind blowing to know in just one minute, 23,148 apps are downloaded in the App Store!
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CIA's 'vengeful librarians' track Twitter,... →
infoneer-pulse:
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has established a compound in Virginia that focuses on one very important aspect of international espionage: social network spying.
According to the Associated Press, which was provided some insight into the CIA’s operations, the Open Source Center, a team also known as the “vengeful librarians,” analyzes up to 5 million tweets a day to...
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Don't let anyone ever tell you that you are too...
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Reminder: Anonymous set to obliterate Facebook Nov...
bitshare:
When Anonymous is not busy taking down governments and fighting Mexican drug cartels, they are planning other things - like targeting one of the biggest websites known to human kind - that’s right, they plan on taking down Facebook.
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Tenenbaum Demands Rehearing of $675,000 RIAA... →
infoneer-pulse:
After more than five years the long-running and controversial file-sharing case of Joel Tenenbaum against the RIAA continues with his legal team filing a petition for a rehearing en banc. Tenenbaum argues that the jury instruction which led to a staggering $675,000 fine was both erroneous and prejudicial.
» via TorrentFreak
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Go to Google.com and search "Do a barrel roll"
newsweek:
You’ll be pleased.
