Winners of World's Best Presentation Contest (74)
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These are the winners of the Slideshare World's Best Presentation Contest. Notice the use of pictures and graphics, big fonts, and minimal text. Check them out! First Prize THIRSTView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: crisis design) Second Prize Foot NotesView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design inspirational) Third Prize Zimbabwe in CrisisView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: refugee hyperinflation)
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John-Michael Oswalt said:
First one is good, and the topic is interesting as well. Foot notes is cool, but I'm not sure it would make a great presentation. It would be cool to have running before one though.
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Jon of SMA said:
Great presentations and the first prize presentation sure follows a lot of Nancy Duarte's recommendations in slide:ology.
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Aju said:
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Microsoft Launches Photosynth: Your Pictures in 3D (92)
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Tonight, Microsoft has publicly launched Photosynth, its long awaited Live Labs product that allows you to stitch your photos together to create a detailed 3D environment. While most of the computation is done on your desktop, the images are uploaded to Microsoft's servers and Microsoft is giving all Photosynth users a total of 20GB of storage for their collections. The rendering and browsing is done with the help of Seadragon, another Live Labs product. Windows ...
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bfernald said:
So very cool, and surprise it's from Microsoft!
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shanusmagnus said:
This opens up a lot of possibilities for mapping real environments into 3d. The Microsoft-only thing is unpleasant, but what are you gonna do?
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ORB said:
Wooooow!
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Tom Steel said:
It really takes a different approach to shooting pictures to make the most out of Photosynth. If you often stitch together photos, you are probably already used to this, but Photosynth also gives you more freedom, as you can zoom in and out, or walk around an object and still have Photosynth recognize the common areas.
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тaмás said:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html
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Derick Valadao said:
Awesome, I'm downloading this and playing with it later.
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Devlin D said:
This is seriously a kick ass application.
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Chris said:
I've been hanging out to use Photosynth, it looks awesome! ...aaaaaaand it doesn't work on Macs. Typical. Boooo!
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CB said:
We tested the plugin in both Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7 without any problems.
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Edo said:
Detesto MS e tutti i suoi prodotti ma obiettivamente questo, sulla carta, sembra proprio una figata pazzesca
4 Personally Proven Steps To Become A Calmer Person (10)
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I love weekends. Why? I can wake up and just spend a few minutes lying awake without the need to do anything. No need to rush to work, or to speak to anyone. Just lying there with eyes wide open and nothing in mind. I realized then that those are some of the calmest moment in my life. It has always been a personal mission for me to be calm in every thing I do. ...
The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces - ReadWriteWeb (9)
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Web 2.0 has brought many wonderful innovations and ideas to the Internet. We can no longer imagine the web without a social dimension, and we can no longer imagine an online world that is read-only - it is now a read/write web full of user-generated content. But there is another fairly recent innovation, which might have just as profound implications. We're speaking of the contextual user interface. Even five years ago we lived in the ...
4 Personally Proven Steps To Become A Calmer Person - Stepcase Lifehack (17)
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I love weekends. Why? I can wake up and just spend a few minutes lying awake without the need to do anything. No need to rush to work, or to speak to anyone. Just lying there with eyes wide open and nothing in mind. I realized then that those are some of the calmest moment in my life. It has always been a personal mission for me to be calm in every thing I do. ...
How to be a Brilliant Conversationalist - Stepcase Lifehack (13)
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You probably shy away from some people on social occasions. Their conversations are tedious. You groan inwardly when they approach for you know that they are unremittingly dull company. Equally you may be fortunate enough to know some brilliant conversationalists who can enliven any discussion and who are excellent company whatever the circumstances. In what category would other people place you? How can you improve your conversational skills to become a welcome sight at every ...
Hakia Announces Semantic API (2)
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Semantic search engine Hakia today announced a set of APIs that opens up their natural language processing and search platform to developers. Hakia's Syndication Web Services really comes in two parts: search queries, which allow developers to add web search functionality leveraging Hakia's five billion page index, and XML feed calls, which give developers access to Hakia's underlying natural language processing technology. The latter of the two is clearly the more compelling of the offerings. ...
Picking Warren Buffett’s Brain: Notes from a Novice (9)
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The richest man in the world — $62 billion and counting. (Photo: CBS/AP) “Excuse me. Where is the most difficult to reach microphone?” I was out of breath from running up the steps but had managed to find one of the microphone stands, manned by two headset-wearing volunteers. More than 10,000 people had waited on the sidewalks overnight to be first in the doors of the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting, and I had made ...
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Lenny said:
Same old advice I love to give myself, but glad to see it so consistently given by the riches man in the world.
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Alex said:
Very cool article not only about investment tips from the richest guy in the world but also about going after the things in your life you want. In this case, Tim Ferriss' goal of asking Warren Buffett a question at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in original dragons lair in Omaha, Nebraska. Good advice.
Four Ways Traditional Market Research Can Kill Innovation (1)
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In almost all companies, market research is a critical part of the innovation process. Market research helps companies identify attractive opportunity areas, compare innovation initiatives, and fine-tune their strategic approach. It’s a pity then that companies frequently stumble when using market research to guide innovation decisions. It’s not that market researchers are bad people. Almost all the market researchers I have met are good, thoughtful people. The tools of market research are—when used properly—good, useful ...
The Multitasking Virus and the End of Learning? Part 1 (6)
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Josh Waitzkin’s learning abilities—and principles—extend far beyond chess. Some of you might be familiar with Josh Waitzkin. He was the subject of the book and movie, Searching for Bobby Fischer and an eight-time National Chess Champion in his youth. He also holds a combined 21 National titles in addition to several World Championships in martial arts, and now trains hedge funds and other companies in high-end learning and performance psychology. His cross-transfer of skill acquisition ...
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Jonas Martinsson said:
This is relevant for the idea behind FeedJournal - to create a reading experience that is not interrupted or multitasking
Towards a Value-Added User Data Economy (1)
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Every week it seems like the debate over access to, portability of and privacy over user data on the social web has reached new heights. It's only going to get louder though, just as discussions about other forms of economics will never be resolved. That's a part of what's going on, economics. This is an information economy, after all, and user data is clearly one of the most important currencies in circulation. User data has ...
Search, Aggregation, and Conversation: Keys to a Killer Web Service (2)
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There are thousands of new services that pop up every day. Too many services imitate, and only a handful innovate. With all of these services, one wonders what their plans are for success. Competition on the web is stiff and users are demanding more from the services they join. While there's no formula for success, there are three keys to a killer web service: search, aggregation, and conversation. In this post, we take a look ...
Next Gen Apps Won't Be Pushed Around By the Browser (5)
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The invention of the browser was a huge boon to the internet and a substantial amount of computing now goes on through that interface we've grown to love. The internet is not a place where innovation takes a break, though, and a new generation of applications are emerging that have a different relationship with the web browser. From taking control of the browser to connecting to the web outside of it, there are a number ...
The Lifehack Productivity Bookshelf (1)
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I just received my copy of Lifehack contributor Pamela Skilling’s new book Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams. Pamela’s book is a guide for people fed up with the corporate lifestyle — the lack of creative expression, the lack of spiritual reward, and ultimately the lack of control over the conditions of your own employment — who are looking to “make a break for it” and follow ...
Reuters Launches Calais 2.0 - Now With Pop-Culture (2)
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Thomson Reuters' Calais, a semantic markup API that we first reviewed in February, has reached its 2.0 release. The latest version aims to fix one of the main issues with Calais -- that it was too focused on business. Because Calais has roots as Clearforest, the rules it applies while parsing text are biased toward the language of business, which meant that its utility was limited. Version 2.0 has added new semantic entity types in ...
Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce (4)
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Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done by a single person or small groups of people, and farms them out to a global workforce. The large-scale committee approach is powerful because it leans on the concept of the "wisdom of crowds" (to a ...
Triangulating For Insight (2)
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I am a huge fan of triangulating. I don't think anyone or anything can give you the insight you need to truly understand things. Whether it's visiting comscore, compete, alexa, hitwise, and quantcast to get a more complete picture of a web service's usage, or reading a conservative oped page and a liberal oped page to get a broader view of a political issue, or reading a wide array of tech blogs to make sense ...
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