Location Based Augmented Reality for Android: Enkin (4)
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Enkin from Enkin on Vimeo. We have always been perplexed by companies building 3D cities for mobile devices as by nature of the device you are already in the city when using it and thus can just use your 'eyes' to look around. The same goes for maps, maps in cities are all well and good for getting from A-B but they fall down when you just want to know more local information at a ...
O2 starts 3G iPhone stampede - and runs away (4)
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Chokes the upgrade madness O2 today started taking pre-orders on its website for Apple's iPhone 3G - and stopped taking them again within minutes of opening the doors.…
Spinal Tap Teaches You To Set Up a Social Media Agency (3)
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Pick An Unusual Name - hyphens, adverbs and acronyms will always make you seem smarter and better qualified. “David St. Hubbins … I must admit I’ve never heard anybody with that name. It’s an unusual name, well, he was an unusual saint, he’s not a very well known saint. What was he the saint of? He was the patron saint of quality footwear.” Never Explain Why Your Staff Are Leaving - the only value your ...
Explaining why some old approaches wont work (1)
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I decided to look at some other webpages in the shared browser we have at Wimbledon. Of particular interest is the F1 british grand prix. Now having had some issues (still not resolved with over zealous copyright take downs of a youtube of the grounds that I posted thanks to IMG for trying to police the wrong thing and youtube not putting things back up as quickly as they take them down.) elements of copyright ...
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Ian Betteridge said:
Some interesting questions on copyright etc in virtual worlds.
Club Penguin and Second Life make it into top 10 fastest growing UK sites (1)
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Recently published data from Neilsen Online, reported on by Net Imperative shows the surfing destinations of UK residents. The research covers the period May 2007 - May 2008. The top ten based on total minutes includes sites such as MSN Messenger, eBay, Facebook and Google Search (the top four in order). The research also looked at the top ten fastest growing sites by total minutes. Extract: Facebook is the only website/application to have increased its ...
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Ian Betteridge said:
More evidence that Second Life isn't dying, just changing.
My Claw Once Pinched By Harlan Ellison (6)
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Harlan Ellison turned 74 years of age the other week. And so I dug out my copies of THE GLASS TEAT and THE OTHER GLASS TEAT, the collections of his columns on television written circa 1969-1971, and began to re-read them, as I do every couple of years. The thing you need to know about the GLASS TEAT books is that, for all the wrong reasons, they’re timeless. The states of American network tv, dissent ...
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Jason Matthews said:
harlan ellison is one of my longtime favorite writers. i don't recall whether he's written anything recently, though. i guess once you're able to publish a 50-year retrospective of your work, you can rest on your laurels a bit.
Moving back to Google Docs from Buzzword (15)
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I’ve been flirting with Buzzword since just prior to its acquisition by Adobe and inclusion into their online office suite. The interface is gorgeous and the amount of functionality is astounding for an online document editor. However, all that sparkle comes with a cost. Every time I go to Buzzword to work on one of my documents, it takes two to three minutes to load. It first loads the “framework” then it loads the “organizer”. ...
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Ian Betteridge said:
This is an example of someone who should not be using an online tool for his writing, using one. I've got a half-finished post about online versus offline apps, which I must dig out.
You Just Dont Get It (35)
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I just want to put it out there to save everyone and anyone who deals with me time. If at any point in time you utter the words "Just Don't Get It" or "Just Doesn't Get It" in any conversation with me, I will not do business with you.If you try to justify your business, idea, proposal or whatever and in the course of conversation you utter these words, you have just proven to me ...
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Kim said:
Mark Cuban is right on this, if your client doesn't understand your product then that's your fault not theirs.
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Art said:
Totally right. If you can't communicate it to me successfully -- and that's based on receipt, not transmission -- it's not me, it's you.
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Chris said:
Cuban's talking about investments, but i think this applies to so many areas, especially politics.
Are We Living in a Perfect Storm for Print Media? (17)
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I have been giving a lot of thought lately to what impact rising inflation might have on digital media. One strong possibility is that print will get crimped. Consider this a rather simplistic theory for a Saturday morning. However, it's my view that - as if they didn’t have enough to worry about - newspaper and magazine publishers may see a perfect storm accelerate if gas prices continue to escalate. There are three factors at ...
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Ian Betteridge said:
And once again, a perfect example of the law that states "Any headline with a question mark at the end of it can be answered 'No'"
The Tyranny of Persistence - how new media hacks are writing themselves into sharecroppers (2)
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Interesting story today on RADAR about Gawker Media cutting revenue per impression for its hacks even while revenue and traffic increases: ....the per-employee traffic isn't that much higher than it was a year ago. And yet the site traffic is up more—meaning the site is receiving more income that the company doesn't have to share with a writer. The site received 16.7 million pageviews in June. Only about 6 million pageviews of that traffic is ...
The (evil?) genius of Nick Denton (16)
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Interesting post on RADAR online about Nick Denton cutting pay rates for Gawker Media bloggers. I posted a comment which I'll share below.Hey Choire,Some notes on your story from one of Nick's top three Frienemies. 1. Despite this change in pay Gawker is very, very competitive in terms of not only blogging jobs, but MSM jobs. Most full-time folks at Gawker are probably making 3-5k a month/36-60k a year, and some are in the 60-100k ...