10 Android Apps We Will Actually Use (36)
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Yesterday, Google announced the winners of the Android Developer Challenge I, a contest that awarded cash prizes to the most innovative and promising applications designed for the upcoming mobile OS, Android. The ten top teams received $275,000 and 10 other teams received $100,000. The ADC Gallery lists all the winners as well as the finalists. Although Google has already named their winners, we decided to browse through the gallery to find the apps that we're ...
New Nikon Holds a Secret (David Pogue/New York Times) (9)
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David Pogue / New York Times: New Nikon Holds a Secret — If you saw it just sitting there, you'd never guess that the new Nikon D90 is a mind-blowing, game-changing camera. — It looks like any other big, black intermediate single-lens reflex camera: much more compact than a professional model, but much bigger and heavier than a pocket camera.
David Silvernail shared as favorite Switched On: From Bluetooth to the bedroom and the backyard (3)
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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable AudioEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment. Last year, Switched On discussed the KeySpan TuneView and the DLO HomeDock Remote, two products that allowed remote control of an iPod using small screens on a remote. One of the limitations of those products was that they each required their own docks instead of working with any of the scores of iPod docks already ...
USB 3.0 gets seriously detailed (33)
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Filed under: Peripherals Just last week, Intel gave AMD, NVIDIA and a whole host of friends what they had been clamoring for: 90% complete USB 3.0 controller specifications. Now, the cool cats over at MaximumPC have churned out an encyclopedic writeup that details USB SuperSpeed remarkably well. The highlights include assurance that USB 3.0 will be backwards-compatible with USB 2.0 and that it'll provide transfer rates up to ten times more than USB 2.0's 480Mbps ...
10 Futuristic User Interfaces (Smashing Magazine) (15)
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Smashing Magazine: 10 Futuristic User Interfaces — Good user interfaces are crucial for good user experience. It doesn't matter how good a technology is — if we, designers, don't manage to make user interface as intuitive and attractive as possible, the technology will hardly reach a breakthrough.
Every Taxi in Beijing Bugged With GPS-Tagging Microphone For Instant Surveillance [Shhhh] (33)
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If you're in Beijing for the Olympics kick starting this weekend, don't be spilling any beans (state secrets or otherwise) in your cab back to the hotel, because you're being listened to. As the WSJ is reporting, on your taxi's dash is a microphone that can be activated remotely, at any time and without the driver's knowledge, for a live listen into any one of Beijing's estimated 70,000 cabs. And then, if the folks on ...
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rpy said:
at the risk of sounding like keanu reeves: whoa!
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JDAL. said:
This is absolutely correct. I've seen it with my own eyeballs.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hiring_a_community_manager.php (160)
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You know what little startup companies need these days? They need to hire more people! It may be a frightening thought, but in an increasingly social world - being social is becoming an important full time job. "Community Manager" is a position increasingly being hired for at large corporations (see Jeremiah Owyang's growing list of people with that kind of job) but what about smaller companies? We asked a number of people what they thought ...
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Matthijs said:
Community manager duidelijk uitgelegd op RWW
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Asfaq said:
Do companies in India employ people specifically for such roles?
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Andrew Louis said:
Really well written piece. This is a cut above the shrill material of the blogosphere.Introspective, good primary research, well organized sections, etc.
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lkratz said:
interessant ... Amélie ?
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Nico B said:
...and do news-sites need one, two or three?
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Nate said:
Interesting. I've very rarely heard community manager as a role in startups. Then again, the idea of product manager at a startup is often split into 3 or more roles: product marketer, product planner, program manager, project manager.
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dekrazee1 said:
This is what I do. Now, any questions? :)
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al said:
Nice article about Community Managers. By the way, take a look at 'Office Space' video-fragment attached, it's TERRIFIC!
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StreetForce1 said:
Yes every company needs a Mike Street aka super community guy!
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Dave said:
Thanks to Jamin for pointing out this article about the role of the "Community Manager."
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Thomas Smith said:
good description of community manager spots.
Scientists Invent Tech for Cost-Effective Solar Power from Windows [Solar Power] (12)
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Solar power is everywhere at the mo, maybe because it sounds more sci-fi than wind: which is the case with this new technology that turns windows into power sources. Clever bods at MIT have worked out how to use organic dye solar-concentrator coatings to collect light over a whole sheet of glass and "concentrate" it at the edges. This lets you have a much smaller (and hence cheaper) solar-electric cell mounted in the side of ...
Boeing's Skyhook JHL-40 blimp gives us hope for yesterday's future (19)
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Filed under: Transportation We love dirigibles and we're not about to apologize for it, so that's why Boeing's new Skyhook JHL-40 airship has us ooh'ing and aah'ing in wonder. The eight-engine blimp is being developed for 40-ton 200-mile hauls in adverse environments such as wildernesses and what Boeing calls places "no other kind of transport can go." It is also slated to have a minimal impact on the environment with a carbon-minimal footprint as it ...
