For Inspector Gadgets
- Reuters + Nokia collaborate on project for reporters on the go
Called Reuters Mobile Journalism, the initiative relies upon connecting peripherals to Nokia’s high-end N95 device: A Bluetooth-enabled keyboard, a small tripod for video interviews, and a microphone that can plug into the mobile handset. This is the sort of discreet marketing that sells the N95 to adopters like me! (via Brian)Keywords: mobile, socialmedia, web2.0, media, journalism, nokia, gadgets - Nokia Nseries: 14 Days Videocast
Brian from Ogilvy is managing the “14 Days by Nokia Nseries” video podcast about shooting videos using the Nokia N95. My friends told me how they found it -insert expletive- silly to use Velcro to stick a US$699 camera phone to the BMW for dramatic shots. On the flipside, they like watching the for the Brit-Asian female host. Priorities people! Keywords: videos, nokia, podcast, marketing - How Justin.TV’s Live Video System Was Born
Kyle Vogt hand-built version 1.0 of Justin.tv’s lifecam from some off-the-shelf parts, a grip of EVDO cards and some "borrowed" equipment from MIT. Good stuff… Keywords: evdo, interview, lifecasting, camera, surveillance, video, howto - How to use Live Interactive Video Streaming for your Web Experience, Events, and Crises
Lifecasting, or event streaming, can provide the web strategist with a low-cost effective tool to enhance communications to customers. Jeremiah outlines the most successful ways to use these tools, and provides some best practices. Keywords: lifecasting, business, howto, tips, tools, marketing - Review: Eye-Fi Wireless 2GB SD Card
When you realize that this SD card has integrated Wi-Fi abilities to immediately upload your photos, then you start to understand why all the buzz is justified. Keywords: reviews, wifi, photography, productivity, gadgets - Wired: Flight of the Extreme UAVs, From Smallest to Deadliest
Today unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, range from slingshot-launched spybots to global guardians. In fact, the acronym should be UAS (unmanned aerial systems) to indicate an emerging network of air and ground elements. Keywords: uav, military, networks, surveillance - Uncanny Valley: Furreal Friends Butterscotch Pony
Not exactly creepy yet, but this steps it up a notch. Every girl dreams of having her very own pony! With realistic animation, movement and sounds, this incredibly lifelike pony is a very special, once-in-a-lifetime friend. This adorable pony stands over Keywords: uncannyvalley, toys, robots, animals
For Freakonomists
- Donors bid millions NOT to rename school – Yahoo! News
Reversal on an old tradition… Dean of Business School, Michael Knetter, decided to do something radical: find contributors willing to pay to keep the school’s name off the market. Keywords: academia, philanthrophy, marketing - Seth’s Blog: Radiohead and the mediocre middle
Seth’s question is: why did it take so long, and why did we see it from Prince (CD in the newspaper), Madonna ($120 mm to leave her label and go to a concert promoter) and Radiohead? (thanks Kenny!) Keywords: music, mp3, freeware, payasyouwish - Hello, India? I Need Help With My Math – New York Times
The second wave, according to some entrepreneurs, VCs and offshoring veterans, will be the globalization of consumer services. Early customers in a market that will one day include millions of households in the United States and other nations. Keywords: globalization, india, labor, trends, future - Exclusive: I Was a Hacker for the MPAA
MPAA hired a hacker, to get information legally? An illustration of the unethical extent of anti-piracy action. Keywords: america, p2p, piracy, interview, legal, movies, copyright, mpaa, torrents, hacking - NYT: The Inside Joke Behind the Muji Brand
New York shoppers who can read the characters in the Japanese label (????) immediately get the inside joke. The first character, ? (mu), means “without.” The second character, ? (jirushi), means “brand.” Keywords: japan, newspapers, marketing, interesting - Music lessons pay off in higher earnings: Reuter Poll
Looks like I shouldn’t have screwed around during my electric organ class… Keywords: music, education
For Lifehackers
- Flightbliss: Little or no cost ways of getting flight upgrades
Strategies to getting upgraded on your flight, depending on time, airline, destination, credit card, etc (via MrBig). Keywords: howto, travel, money - Twine: ‘Semantic’ website promises to organise your life
Twine is one of the first few commercial ventures to try harnessing the semantic web. Other semantic start-ups include the search engines Powerset and True Knowledge, and a free semantic database service called Freebase. Keywords: semanticweb, microformats, web2.0, webapp - GyPSii: Location-based social networking and media sharing
Social networking, search & location based suite of integrated mobile and web applications – for users to share, view & upload pictures, video, text and POI (points of interest) with a Geo-location. Keywords: gps, geography, photos, videos, cellphones - VectorMagic: Bitmap to Vector image converter
This site converts bitmap images to vector art – it’s an online auto-tracer. Just upload your image and they will vectorize it for you. Keywords: generator, conversion, imaging, tools, productivity - Vaio Running OS X – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Leopard now works on PCs. Reminds me of the video I did of Tiger running on my Sony Vaio, which ended up on TUAW… Keywords: hacks, leopard, mac, pc
For Social Media Pragmatists
- Digital Journal: Revenue-sharing aggregator for citizen journalists
An interesting effort at revenue-shared citizen journalism. Publish news and get paid for it based on the number of votes. Every single Citizen Journalist gets a chance to compete for a share of the cash pot. A monthly top earners leaderboard pushes users. I’ve already notices some elements of gaming from reading some of the higher voted topics. Keywords: aggregator, community, media, news, trends, web2.0, newspapers, business, citizenjournalism, crowdsourcing - Blogging for Large Classes
Prof. Alex Halavais provides examples of failures and successes in managing blogging in large classes, and some indication of where this might go in the future. Keywords: academia, blogging, howto, tips, pedagogy - Authority Level Stamp (for blogs)
The Berglund Center for Internet Studies and the Matsushita Center for Electronic Learning at Pacific University have a means to indicate the level of authority of the electronic materials we post. Here’s how it works… Keywords: authority, reputation, blogging, academia
For Cyberculturists
- Facebook Boots Pseudonymous Blogger, Then Caves to Blogosphere Pressure
"Certainly, I am not the only user of Facebook to use a pseudonym. Are the people who run Facebook familiar at all with the Internet? How many people actually do use their real names on the Internet… Keywords: facebook, identity, legal, problem - 10 characteristics of Generation Me
Stereotyping our youths to understand ourselves easier, not better (via Priscilla). Keywords: books, culture, youth, facebook, blogs - Gamasutra – Defining Games: Raph Koster’s Game Grammar
Ralph Koster touches on a ton of stuff – the shift in game design, the ultra-casual market like Habbo Hotel vs. WoW, this idea of ‘game grammar’, why patents are a necessary evil, and is ’single-player gaming dead’? Keywords: academia, gaming, research - On Being Graphomaniac
If general isolation causes graphomania, mass graphomania itself reinforces and aggravates the feeling of general isolation. The invention of printing originally promoted mutual understanding. Keywords: funny, geeks, books, culture, behavior - The myopia of PR detractors
Yet ANOTHER case of PR needing a dose of its own medicine. Seriously, our poor PR practitioners face same questions washed, rinsed and repeat every few media cycles. There’s nothing new here people, just remember the magical word: Appropriateness! Keywords: publicrelations, blogging, media, business, socialmedia
For Socio-Politicians
- Why Political Involvement Is Important
While it’s meant for Professional Educators in Texas, the way they’ve deconstructed the political involvement levels is pretty specific and useful. Cool chart. Keywords: politics, education, citizen, citizenjournalism, activism - The Pournelle Political Axes
Look at the chart… is it proof that the political spectrum has more than one dimension; that the old left-right category doesn’t really work? Keywords: politics, research, academia - One year after 9/11: Test of faith
A good historical look at what brought the middle-east conflicts about. Keywords: history, islam, 9/11, america - Malaysia to Make ‘Islamic Cars’ with Iran and Turkey
A niche for automobiles? Proposed by Iran, the collaboration would include installing features in automobiles such as a compass to determine the direction of Mecca for prayers, and compartments for storing the Quran and headscarves (via MrBig). Keywords: transportation, cars, religion, malaysia
We heart China
- China: “Journey to the Heart of Internet censorship”
Via Reporters Without Borders, a Chinese Internet expert working in IT industry has produced an exclusive study on the key mechanism of the Chinese official system of online censorship, surveillance and propaganda. The author prefers to remain anonymous. Keywords: censorship, china, research, phd - China’s Online Creative Community – Part 1: Intro
An emerging Chinese creative class resides on Neocha. In the article ”New Tea’ in China’, Pew Internet describes them as “China’s first website for artists to show off and share their wares, launched last week in Shanghai. Keywords: china, creative, class, art, web2.0, socialnetworks, for:triciawang - China’s rich spark dissent from below – Times Online
Tomorrow, the Communist party will probably unveil the nine men who will govern this nation of 1.3 billion people and oversee the world’s fastest-growing big economy for the next five years. Keywords: china, citizen, class, research, phd, news, politics
