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Augmented Ikea
Check out this for a vision of try before you buy furniture. Download a printout, point it at the webcam and view a vision of your room with the Ikea sofa. Like it? Click to buy. What is happening now takes us way past Blade Runner check LA Times article. Life is changing... »
Posterous:
Who else thinks Posterous is the biggest thing since Twitter? No account setup/blog, write post@posterous.com multiple sites Posted via email from stevemuse’s posterous »
From Cool to Customer
Web 2.0 and Gov 2.0 have everyone in government a-twitter. The Department of Health and Human Services has forged a very public lead with their social media work on the peanut recall and now swine flu. Other agencies may be holding back—because they do not understand what the social media fuss is all about,... »
Stephen Wolfram to Answer Wolfram|Alpha Questions in Live Webcast
Thursday, June 4, at 4 pm US CDT details here http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/06/02/stephen-wolfram-to-answer-wolframalpha-questions-in-live-webcast/ »
Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World HC (Hardcover)
SELECTED AS A 2008 BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST. . The Net Generation Has Arrived. . Are you ready for it?. . Chances are you know a person between the ages of 11 and 30. You’ve seen them doing five things at once: texting friends, downloading music, uploading videos, watching... »
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (Hardcover)
From Publishers Weekly In this critical but optimistic overview, academics Palfrey (of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society) and Gasser (of the Swiss U. of St. Gallen) share their concern about the legal and social ramifications of the Internet with regard to the generation of “Digital Natives” born after 1980. In a wide-ranging... »
Set the Data Free!
RSS, XML, API, what other signals do we need to just set the data free! Any holdback of data is 21st Century equivalent of apartheid, yet so many people that control the data are now wholly supportive of releasing it like CDC released www.cdc.gov/metrics. Come on folks, release the data now, release the data now! Don’t be scared, new rules are being written as you think! »
Just Answer the Question!
www.wolframalpha.com aims to beat Google by just answering the question. Let’s say you want to know the answer to what year President Eisenhower died, do you really want a string of links or do you just want to know the answer, March 28, 1969. Designed by British physicist Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram answer engine is be launched in May... »
The Road More Travelled, The Genius of API’s
Best Buy’s announcement todays that is opening its doors to an almost infinite number of new store locations is proof positive of the genius of API’s, the code that allows third parties to dig into your goods, your inventory, your data and offer it up in ways that suit their customer base. Today no... »