Humble mouse turns 40 and loses its touch (6)
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"Engelbart first started making notes for the mouse in 1961, after deciding that he could do better than the standard gadget, a light pen which had been used on radar systems during the Second World War. 'We had a big heavy tracking ball - it was like a cannonball,' he said. 'We had several gadgets that ended up with pivots you could move around. We had a light panel you had to hold up right ...
Small steps into online consultation for government (2)
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It can be a challenge for government agencies to get the level of buyin required to build or buy the infrastructure required for online consultation.Questions get asked at senior levels around security and privacy, the risk of consultations being hijacked, the level of resourcing required, the concern about publicly getting few (relevant)responses or contrarywise the risk of getting to many and the risk of excluding groups who do not have access to the Internet.Plus there ...
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ben rogers said:
Graig provide a clear outline of the different levels of engagement and the resources required - risk and pitfalls
Reimagining Reaktor, with a Multi-Touch Interface in Processing (1)
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Spaces Multi-Touch Music Environment from BricK Table on Vimeo. Reorganizing an interface in Reaktor can make a big difference, but the team behind BricK have gone a great deal of extra distance. They couple Reaktor sounds with a multi-touch, collaborative table interface. You can read the full details on Create Digital Music, but I want to call particular attention to the Reaktor element – and how changing the interface impacts the way this works musically: ...
Robots Play Music With Real People (1)
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clipped from blog.wired.comRobots Pass Musical Turing TestThe Robotic Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology just blew our minds with some videos depicting robots playing music with real people. These robots, developed with funding from the National Science Foundation, listen to humans creating music in real time and play along with them. One might say they improvise. clipped from gtcmt.comRobotic Musicianship GroupThe Robotic Musicianship Group aims to facilitate meaningful musical interactions between humans ...
Google Voice Search [Tom Hume] (2)
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"the sheer chutzpah of doing something like this, and the laser-like focus on reducing the time between deciding your wanting to know something, and Google giving it to you. ... Can you imagine what sort of world we'll live in in 5 years time, when improvements in voice recognition (probably based around brute-force techniques rather than smart voice recognition algorithms - scale's just another tool to these guys) put an increasing percentage of our species' ...
I Hate Mice (1)
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At Xerox Parc in the 1970’s, Alan Kay fostered the innovations that form the foundation of modern computing. Windowing, mice, object oriented languages, laser printing, WYSIWYG, and lots of other stuff we take for granted today either had its start or was fleshed out at Xerox Parc. The venerable mouse, which enabled direct manipulation of content on the screen, was just one of a few innovations that was screen-tested as a possible heir to the ...
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexican artist who makes interactive light installations. Here are 2 of his works: Homographies is an interactive installation featuring 144 robotic fluorescent light fixtures controlled by 7 computerized surveillance systems. As people walk under the piece, the light tubes rotate to create labyrinthine patterns of light that are “paths” or “corridors” between them. Pulse Room, a sensor records the pulse of the public and converts it into light flashes shown by ...
Man shot in Homewood burglary attempt (1)
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The incident happened just before noon at the Overlook at Homewood apartment complex off Valley Avenue.A man was shot several times after he kicked in the door of a Homewood apartment in what appears to have been a burglary attempt, according to police. The incident happened just before noon at the Overlook at Homewood apartment complex off Valley Avenue. A man in his 20s was at home when someone attempted to break into his apartment, ...
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Nicki said:
Me thinks the would-be burglar will think twice next time!
Desktop Tower Defense Creator Launches New Game Site (8)
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If you obsessively played Desktop Tower Defense last year (and really, who didn’t?), you’ll love this news: Paul Preece, creator of that insanely viral real-time strategy classic, has a new game site: Casual Collective launches today, backed by $1 million in seed funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners. It’s the brainchild of Preece (who’s CEO) and co-founder David Scott, a fellow UK game developer. (Scott’s Flash Element TD is even more popular than DTD.) The site ...
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Boris Mann said:
The creator of Desktop Tower Defense gets his own casual gaming company / portal funded.
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haggaret said:
Thanks for sharing this Boris. I was most definitely addicted to DTD. I remember "working from home" one day and just playing DTD all day. :)
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BarneyC said:
Oh crap there goes a few more productive hours the way of the pan
InDesign 2 Flash: Part I (1)
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InDesign CS4 delivers the ability to move your InDesign layouts to the web and beyond via SWF and XFL export features. The former creates a web-ready .swf file that's intended to be the final form for delivery, and not editable. XFL, on the other hand, is a new, XML Flash native file format. The purpose of this export path is to enable you to take your InDesign layouts and convert them into a native Flash ...
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Gio said:
Molto interessante... con la CS3 c'era l'integrazione con i CSS e ora Flash: stiamo a vedere (PS, maledetto flash!)
“Working the Room” through Social Media (1)
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“Working a Room” Through Social Media Social Media personality, Gary Vaynerchuk, created an excellent video about “giving a presentation versus working a room”. My summary of the premise: Old school brands that only use display ads are limiting themselves. Traditional advertising allows only one direction – from the advertiser to the consumer. It’s analogous to giving a presentation and then not allowing for questions, getting in your car and leaving. There is no opportunity for ...
329 - Chaffinch Map of Scotland (11)
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Chaffinch Map of Scotland is a poem written in 1965 by Edwin Morgan (b. 1920), Poet Laureate of Glasgow (1999) and (since 2004) Scottish National Poet (1). The work looks deceptively simple, while in fact it is a cleverly multilayered combination of poetry, cartography, ornithology, linguistics, and maybe just a hint of Scottish nationalism (2). The chaffinch (3), or spink, is a small songbird of the Fringillidae family, and can be distinguished by its greenish ...
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Andrew Taylor said:
Nice map and all, but I can't see any reasonable definition by which this is a poem.
What Is the Best Time to Submit a Story on Digg (22)
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The Social Computing lab at HP has released a research paper that finds a strong correlation between the popularity of content on Digg and the time when that submission was made. The research confirms that the best time to submit a new story on Digg is a weekday afternoon in the US. So if you are based on the other side of the world (e.g. India), make sure you postpone all Digg submissions until midnight ...
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The Deutsche Bank Store of the Future, originally uploaded by Chris Abraham. When I arrived in Berlin, my buddy Mark told me that I had to follow him halfway across town, past dozens of banks, including a number of Deutsche Banks, from where we were in Moabit down to Friedrichstraße, south of Straße des 17. Juni, to one particular Deutsche Bank called Die Deutsche Bank der Zukunft — “Deutsche Bank of the Future.” Well, the ...Shared by Chris Abraham (20)Contribute commentAndrea Vascellari (0) permalink
Like I said when everything moved to andreavascellari.com, I really want to make this more interactive… so let’s start with it! You know better than me how important it is to know your audience. Indeed today we can use excellent tools to analyze relevant data. For instance if I take Google Analytics, one of my favorite tools, I get good stats related to the geographical location, time, quantity, frequency, etc. but no info for example ...Shared by Annette Schwindt (5)Contribute commentFilm School Rejects (11) permalink
It's come to this. The age-old question of who makes the best Bond is tackled by our resident misanthropes - Jorge Sosa and Josh Radde. Which Bond will prevail?Shared by Ade Magnaye (13) embee (14)Contribute comment
