Bubble Alert: Facebook 'Garage' Goes Corporate, $70k Worth Of Sponsors Wanted* (2)
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Most Facebook developer events we've attended have been a bunch of dudes drinking beer and talking shop. Last summer, our first official day of work at SAI was capped off with a trip to the developer 'Hackathon' at Union Square Ventures, where coders ate pizza, sipped, and talked about their apps. That was cool. So what's the point of an invite-only Facebook seminar with a 30-minute "keynote" that someone's paid $15,000 to give? We can't ...
Wikis in Education: Teaching Students to Share Knowledge (1)
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Teaching and learning have always had a collaborative element, but wiki technology has in recent years made collaboration central to the method of many educators. Since they can be edited by anyone with access to them, education wikis are ever-changing and evolving documents that ideally represent the wisdom of the student crowd. Teachers are constantly finding new and creative ways to use wikis. One college new media class is writing its own textbook, for instance. ...
Hitachi fridge emits Vitamin C to keep frozen food fresh (3)
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Hitachi announced in Japan [JP] they will start selling the R-Y6000, a new refrigerator capable of emitting Vitamin C to keep stored food fresh, on September 24. The fridge is Nippon-only at this point. Hitachi sells a number of fridges on the Japanese market that lower the oxygen density via an integrated pump. But the R-Y6000 additionally is eqipped with a Vitamin C emission system that slows down the loss of nutrients in vegetables and ...
Japanese company develops double-sided touchscreen (3)
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At the Sign & Display Show 2008 in Tokyo (that ends tomorrow), a company called Teraokaseiko [JP] is exhibiting a transparent touch display, based on an inorganic electroluminescent panel, that can be operated by touching either side of the display. Teraokaseiko’s self-developed orange-colored monochrome panel features a resolution of 256 × 120. While the display has a transmittance of 51.2%, light transmittance of the inorganic EL panel (and the two touch panels attached to both ...
Charge your kids for making you drive them around (6)
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Do you have no-good, bratty, whiney kids who think the world revolves around them and make you drive them to all the cool hangouts around town just so they can avoid having to sit by themselves in the cafeteria even though all that stuff won’t matter by the time they’re 30 and actually realize how ridiculously unimportant their lives were when they were in middle school? Me neither, but I can’t wait to have kids. ...
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HA HA HA!
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Ryan said:
I know some family (read: in-laws) that could benefit from this.
BlackBerry Bold creeping into AT&T stores in October (1)
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I give up. I’ve been pining over this damn device for months and months and this is the straw that broke the camel’s back. Whether it’s AT&T or RIM’s fault, I don’t care, but I’m not waiting until October. You’ve lost me, RIM. Android all the way! Oh, BGR is reporting that the higher ups at AT&T have revealed the Bold will be available in stores on the 2nd of October. He speculates that a ...
Giving Voice to Bluetooth Headsets (1)
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I've never been a big fan of Bluetooth mobile phone headsets. Typically, the second I stick one of those geeky devices in my ear I start making Locutus of Borg jokes. Combine this with the general poor usability of these devices and it's been pretty easy for me to avoid assimilation by the Bluetooth-wearing collective. But I've recently had the opportunity to test out a new device that may change my opinion on Bluetooth headsets. ...
iPhone projector dock (7)
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This thing just makes sense – lots and lots of sense. It’s the Honlai Qingbar MP101 and I have no idea if you can actually buy one. If and when you’re indeed able to purchase this doodad, you’ll be able to project 640×480 movies and photos from your iPhone (or iPod Touch) while charging the device at the same time. The bulb is apparently good for at least 20,000 hours and there’s a built-in 2W ...
Amazon: No New Kindle In 2008 (AMZN) (3)
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Saving up for Kindle 2.0? You've got some time. New York Times writer Brad Stone interrupted his vacation to pick up the phone and actually ask Amazon PR dude Craig Berman when he could buy one of the new Kindles we've heard so much about recently: 'Don't believe everything you read,' Mr. Berman said. 'There's a lot of rumor and speculation about the Kindle. One thing I can tell you for sure is that there ...
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Bubble Alert: Facebook 'Garage' Goes Corporate, $70k Worth Of Sponsors Wanted* (1)
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Most Facebook developer events we've attended have been a bunch of dudes drinking beer and talking shop. Last summer, our first official day of work at SAI was capped off with a trip to the developer 'Hackathon' at Union Square Ventures, where coders ate pizza, sipped, and talked about their apps. That was cool. So what's the point of an invite-only Facebook seminar with a 30-minute "keynote" that someone's paid $15,000 to give? We can't ...
Apple Still Benefits from 'All is Forgiven' Customers (7)
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There has always been a solid corps of Apple adherents for whom the company could do little wrong. But as it extends its reach further into the mainstream even casual users have come to identify so strongly with Apple's high-end, individualistic vibe that they're willing to look the other way when products and execution are less than perfect.
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Considering that Apple competes as "least frustrating" for general users, Apple is very competitive on price. I think the iPhone is so far ahead that the benefits out weigh the costs. That said, I know I left the Apple fan club in 1997 and my experiences with Mac OS X from 2003 to today haven't changed that opinion.
Google Android App Store: Like iTunes, With One Big Difference (GOOG) (3)
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Google has unveiled its long-awaited answer to the iTunes app store for the iPhone: The Android Market, which will sell programs for the upcoming "Gphone" from T-Mobile, and every other handset that runs on Google's mobile OS. The big difference: Apple runs it own store with a pretty firm hand. If you want in, you've got play by their rules. But Google has an open door policy: Developers who want to put their program on ...
Google Android App Store: Like iTunes, With One Big Difference (GOOG) (4)
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Google has unveiled its long-awaited answer to the iTunes app store for the iPhone: The Android Market, which will sell programs for the upcoming "Gphone" from T-Mobile, and every other handset that runs on Google's mobile OS. The big difference: Apple runs it own store with a pretty firm hand. If you want in, you've got play by their rules. But Google has an open door policy: Developers who want to put their program on ...
Amazon: No New Kindle In 2008 (AMZN) (4)
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Saving up for Kindle 2.0? You've got some time. New York Times writer Brad Stone interrupted his vacation to pick up the phone and actually ask Amazon PR dude Craig Berman when he could buy one of the new Kindles we've heard so much about recently: 'Don't believe everything you read,' Mr. Berman said. 'There's a lot of rumor and speculation about the Kindle. One thing I can tell you for sure is that there ...
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Firefox Gets More Google Money. Time For The Mozilla IPO (Again!) (5)
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Firefox owner Mozilla has extended its lucrative search deal with Google (GOOG) for three more years, through Nov. 2011, chair Mitchell Baker writes. What's that mean? The Web browser dot-org will continue to make a lot of money -- we estimate about $150 million of revenue this year, and close to $100 million in pre-tax profit. In our eyes, it's yet another reason why CEO John Lilly should unlock the $4 billion we think Mozilla ...
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Comcast’s decision to cap monthy broadband usage at 250GB is being decried as the end of the Internet as we know it. Maybe so, but it can also be seen as the dawn of the Streaming Era. As the Olympics drew to a close with big numbers - 75.5 million streams (NBCOlympics.com), 40 million (BBC), another 130 million from the European Broadcasting Union, and 100 million Chinese viewers - the networks were already moving on ...Shared by Coxymoney (11) Greg (9) Martin Thörnkvist (2) matthooper (12) Miguel Caetano (42) pablo (12) Tim Heineke (1) Warner (6)Contribute comment
