Photosynth Launches (63)
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Two years after the first technology preview, Microsoft officially launched Photosynth, an interesting way to combine overlapping photos from a place and explore the place in detail from different angles. "Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines images for similarities to each other and uses that information to estimate the shape of the subject and the vantage point the photos were taken from. With this information, we recreate the space and use ...
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Tyler said:
This is great news! I've been following this product from the beginning and now we can make our own synths. I'll start this weekend and share the results soon."
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baron said:
finally its out, work with IE and Firefox
Google Search Insights (15)
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Google Trends is useful if you want to compare the popularity of two or more search terms, but it can't generate lists with popular search terms from a category, like in Google Zeitgeist. You need to provide the search terms and adjust them until you found the most popular keywords, but this is time consuming and ineffective.Google Insights for Search categorizes searches and shows popular queries from a category like Telecommunications, popular queries from a ...
Oxo Candela Lights Review (2)
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Candela was acquired by Oxo, and seeing these new Flare lights as rechargeable ambient lighting to replace/accompany candles, i couldn't resist. While i've always loved Candela's playful kids slug looking lights and the taller lights, i never knew what i'd really do with them. But in the new products since Candela met Oxo, you can immediately see the more mature, versatile, hyperfunctional designs which have emerged around the same technology. The Flare, DemiGlow, and Luau ...
The future of DJing (2)
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I stumbled upon this ongoing discussion over at 4four regarding to the future of DJing. This post from one of the members caught my eye instantly: "It's funny. I just went through almost 3 straight years of buying digital for the most part, but I've been buying mainly vinyl since about March... I just love playing vinyl - end of. As far as the future of DJing, I don't know what more you could do ...
A Better Interface for Google Bookmarks (53)
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Google promotes a new interface for Google Bookmarks, as part of Google Notebook. A similar interface can be accessed directly from Google Notebook if you click on "Unfiled bookmarks".The old version of Google Bookmarks was integrated with the web history and allowed you to bookmark previously visited pages with one click. Another feature that's missing from the new version is full-text search, since bookmarks have been converted to notes.On the bright side, the new interface ...
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symtym said:
excellent way to bookmark routine stuff and to research; really started using Notebook/Bookmarks in the last couple of weeks
Knol is open to everyone (179)
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A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we're making Knol available to everyone.The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people's heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could benefit from that knowledge. ...
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Johannes Henkel said:
By far the best knol thus far is of course Ryan's article about backpacking: http://knol.google.com/k/ryan-moulton/how-to-backpack/
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Jacob said:
I guess I'm going to spend some time writing a few Knols. I wonder how much adsense I can get out of it?
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Killahurtz said:
Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects.
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nanog said:
The key principle behind Knol is authorship.
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Haidong said:
sounds familiar?
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Walter DeFoor said:
Watch out Wikipedia?
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kara said:
google wikisi yolda...
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Liz said:
Another Google Base ?
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Mac said:
I'm an unabashed Google apologist, but sometimes their blog posts hurt me a little. E.g.: "We are happy to announce an agreement with the New Yorker magazine which allows any author to add one cartoon per knol from the New Yorker's extensive cartoon repository. Cartoons are an effective (and fun) way to make your point, even on the most serious topics."
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Umang Saini said:
I like the concept of authorship. It's primary competitor will be books and personal/organizational websites. Why would one host that on Knol. Monetization. Well lets see if anyone publishes their book via Knol (each chapter = 1 Know article) and how much money that makes :-)Anyone?
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Ed Dale said:
Needless to say - this is seriously one to watch
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ewbrown said:
It will be interesting to see if Knol takes off and becomes a valuable resource for information, like Wikipedia.
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Jeremy Weiss said:
Interesting...
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Adnan said:
I am looking at all my smart friends - you know who you are! Start claiming your space at Knol!
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Mark said:
Isn't that what wikipedia is for?
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Hashim said:
I'm going to reproduce my exact same Squidoo lens that's been earning me 20 bucks a month and see what happens.
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Ramon Silva said:
Já estava na hora de o Wikipedia ganhar um concorrente. Com monopólio não há evolução!
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Bambi said:
This is a great avenue for getting backlinks to your main site. Just pop up a "knol" of information and link it to your main site"
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Daiko said:
This should be filled with knowledge about indigenous people... Go ahead and write articles!
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k1v1n said:
Authoring and publushing on the Web has just gotten much more powerful. It begs the question: what is the purpose of a Web site?
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Zer0Her0 said:
How did I miss this launch?!
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SJudd said:
Let's see if Extension folks use this as a way of outreach, and also to gather information.
Motorola Finds A Scapegoat (4)
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Bloomberg.com: Technology: Motorola Inc., the largest U.S. mobile-phone maker, sued a former executive now working for Apple Inc., accusing him of disclosing its trade secrets to aid in the marketing of Apple’s iPhone. Michael Fenger in March ended an almost six-year career at Motorola where he was a vice president for the company’s mobile- device business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is now Apple’s vice president for global iPhone sales, according to ...
Google Suggests Sites for Your Profile (98)
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Google started to use the Social Graph API to suggest links that can be added to your public Google Profile. If you add links to sites that are connected to other sites using FOAF or the XFN microformat, Google makes it easy to import all the links. For example, if you have an account at FriendFeed, add a link to your FriendFeed page to import the sites you shared: videos uploaded at YouTube, Google Reader ...
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imma said:
well, this just looks like a good idea - it seems to be rather accurate, maybe a little scarily so (access your profile here when logged in http://www.google.com/s2/profiles/me)
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MiramarMike said:
Google starts to connect the dots using web standards and not some lock-in Facebook type manner ... this is going to get interesting
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4braham said:
It is beginning!
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Betula said:
Adam, take a look
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Jigar Mehta said:
This is really cool! Just add your friendfeed profile URL and it will suggest all other services which you have already added in FF..
Inside the Cloud: 9 Sectors to Watch (40)
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There’s already a ton of activity taking place in the cloud computing space, so much so that it can be hard to know who to watch. In many cases, it’s too early to pick winners. But there are distinct sectors of the IT industry that are particularly well suited to the on-demand, pay-as-you-go economics of cloud computing. Here are eight segments — and one company that’s a segment all its own — that we’re tracking ...
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dan said:
great hosting post
The Most Engaging Application Categories on Facebook (4)
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The looming Facebook profile redesign comes after over a year since the Platform’s launch. While no one knows exactly what will happen, some expect the changes to spur the development of new types of meaningful applications - while simultaneously stifling spammy applications that have plagued the platform. In anticipation of this potential inflection point, Inside Facebook has categorized the top applications (those apps engaging over 5,000 daily active users) by category across the entire platform. ...
Smart : Slim Poster (3)
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Une nouvelle opération d'affichage alternatif pour la marque Smart qui à placé sa campagne entre 2 panneaux illustrant la signature “Fits Everywhere” de la voiture. Explications dans la suite. Une réalisation de l'agence Jung von Matt, en Suisse.
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Adamo said:
fichissima pensata della smart, che si fa pubblicità in mini cartelloni
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OSSification (8)
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Sitting comfortably? Take a look at this excerpt from what appears to be a manual written maybe sixty years ago: Do you identify with any of it? Recognise those behaviours from anywhere? Stay seated. Now take a look at the cover page of the manual in question: Yup. Simple sabotage, as practised and trained for by the OSS. Yes, folks, many large enterprises have been OSSified. Of course it’s not happening in your organisation, or ...
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