June 2012
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“like others on the Nexus Q project, Jones is smitten with the idea that we’ve...”
– It’s a Sphere! The Inside Story of Nexus Q, Google’s Music Hardware Gamble | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
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“The queue is a transient song list, and not an actual playlist. When you add a...”
– It’s a Sphere! The Inside Story of Nexus Q, Google’s Music Hardware Gamble | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
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It's a Sphere! The Inside Story of Nexus Q,... →
Nexus Q is a puzzle — a satin-coated curio that begs to be touched and examined. But when you gaze into this mysterious black ball that crackles with light, you don’t see the future but rather blasts from the past: a return to speaker-driven audio, along with all the real-time social sharing that vinyl once inspired….
This system allows anyone with a Google Music collection to...
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Can Google Now take on Apple's Siri and win? |... →
Google Now sports a series of ten “cards” that can automatically keep themselves updated with information you might find handy, based primarily on your location, your search history, and personal profile information …. on a workday, the Places card might pre-load itself with information about nearby eateries when lunchtime rolls around. From the Places card, users could jump directly to...
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“Google Now goes much deeper than just voice recognition and AI. It actually...”
– Nexus 7 review | The Verge
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Nexus 7 review | The Verge →
the (Nexus7) is covered in a soft-touch, dimpled material which has the feel of taut leather. Amusingly, Android design chief Matias Duarte told me that the idea was to mimic “Steve McQueen style” driving gloves — and the effect is definitely there
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The next platform war: Google play vs. Apple... →
the most important announcement Apple made at its World Wide Developers Conference two weeks ago was that the company now has 400 million credit cards on file — double last year’s total and more than any other online retailer, including Amazon
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TED Blog | In praise of cooperation without... →
“Look for where changes are happening; look on the margins,” he advises. “There are millions of projects on Github. Look around the edges and see people experimenting with the political ramifications of the system.” Someone uploaded the Wikileaks cables with software to read them, he says. Someone else uploaded a tool for detecting naturally occurring haiku in State Department prose. The audience...
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TED Blog | In praise of cooperation without... →
When a lot of ideas come into circulation, it changes society,” Shirky says. “When there are more ideas in circulation, there are more ideas for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more argument. That’s what happens when media space expands.” The Internet is following the pattern, certainly providing us with another space for more argument
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Aurasma →
Aurasma is proud to announce that during our first year since our official launch we have worked with more than 6000 partners to deliver augmented reality campaigns and promotions across multiple industries including publishing, music & film, fashion, automotive, sports, education, retail and tourism. Also, downloads of the Aurasma Lite app and our partners’ branded apps now total more than 4...
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Google Plus Feed - Unofficial Gloogle RSS Feed... →
this seems to work, thank god
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426.9m Europeans online across 28 markets … from... →
a staggering 48% of Europeans say they use the internet whilst they watch TV (297.4m) and 16% of all time spent watching TV in Europe is done whilst using the internet. Europe’s heaviest online/TV multi-taskers are the Norwegians at 70%, followed by 68% of TV watchers in France and 62% of those watching TV in the UK
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426.9m Europeans online across 28 markets … from... →
96% of European internet users research online for purchases, 87% shop online and almost one fifth (19%) of all their shopping is done via the internet. In a six month period Europeans spent €188 billion buying goods and services online – an average of €544 per European online shopper. Norwegian internet shoppers averaged the highest spend online (€1,162) followed by Swiss (€919) and Danish (€894)...
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BBC News - Minitel: The rise and fall of the... →
Only in France could the public resources have been mobilised to give the project its initial boost. So for a few years, the country was the envy of the world.
But then, immobility and inertia - as the market simply passed by.
“The failure of Minitel was not one of technology,” says Benjamin Bayart, head of France’s oldest internet provider, French Data Network.
The design...
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“on Saturday, June 30, 2012, France Telecom will finally pull the plug on the...”
– Minitel, France’s precursor to the Web, to go dark on June 30 | Ars Technica
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“One legal hurdle they had to clear was that zeppelin airships are not allowed to...”
– How Google Pulled Off Their Live Video Skydiving With Glasses Demo | TechCrunch
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“After parcel post service was introduced, at least two children were sent by the...”
– Sending a child through the post, 1900 | Retronaut
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“Coliloquy’s digital books, which are available on Kindle, Nook and Android...”
– Your E-Book Is Reading You - WSJ.com
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“In the past, publishers and authors had no way of knowing what happens when a...”
– Your E-Book Is Reading You - WSJ.com
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“The publisher paid developer The Other Media more than £50k to make the app,...”
– Brian Cox iPad book-app sold 20k copies in its first three days | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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“At the beginning of the meal, everyone puts their phone face down at the center...”
– The Phone Stacking Game: Let’s Make This A Thing | TechCrunch
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“Google quietly made a massively important announcement about a new feature...”
– Google History: The New API That Powers Its More Private Version Of Facebook Timeline | TechCrunch
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“Abigail Sellen and Steve Whittaker have actually argued against recording too...”
– Project Glass and the epic history of wearable computers | The Verge
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“A couple of Boeing researchers created heads-up displays for engineers to...”
– Project Glass and the epic history of wearable computers | The Verge
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“Traditional computing paradigms are based on the notion that computing is the...”
– Project Glass and the epic history of wearable computers | The Verge
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“a woman using Google glasses while playing with her baby offered this compelling...”
– Google Glasses, $1,500 Each, Make a Splashy Entrance - NYTimes.com
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“The Nexus Q is $300, and much of that price is from the increased labor costs of...”
– Made in the USA: Google’s Nexus Q is symbolic and significant | The Verge
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“With epistly, you can send a special hand-written letter or card in the same...”
– epistly
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“The team, led by Google’s Dr Jeff Dean, used the 16,000 processor array to...”
– Google creates ‘artificial brain’ - and it immediately starts watching cat videos | Mail Online (my favourite headline)
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“Australian Bureau of Statistics research released today showed local businesses...”
– Online soars for local business | The Australian
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“Google scientists created one of the largest neural networks for machine...”
– In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning - NYTimes.com
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“Australia is one of Etsy’s most important international markets…...”
– eBay and Etsy choose Melbourne - News, Invest Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
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“Orbitz Worldwide Inc. has found that people who use Apple Inc.’s Mac...”
– On Orbitz, Mac Users Steered to Pricier Hotels - WSJ.com Oh FFS. This is irritating. I don’t mind being targeted based on my travel preferences, but based on the brand of computer I happen to be using?!! What if it’s the model chosen for me by my work?
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“Google has launched Build with Chrome, a web application that allows users to...”
– Google’s Minecraft-esque Build with Chrome lets you recreate the world in Lego (Wired UK)
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“Key distribution might seem like a mundane issue, but it was the greatest...”
– Unsung Heroes of Cryptography
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“In the Pacific campaign, the Navajo provided US Marines with an unbreakable...”
– Unsung Heroes of Cryptography
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“We like to think of Little Printer as something of a ‘Cloud Companion Species’...”
– Gardens and Zoos – Blog – BERG
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“We’re generally faster learners than our technology, as long as we are given...”
– Gardens and Zoos – Blog – BERG
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“I’ve been writing a lot in googledocs recently… the other week, I...”
– russell davies: On mending, mice and seams
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“Caught Mapping, produced by Chevrolet in 1940, explores how roadmaps were made...”
– Technology - Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg - A Vintage Look at ‘Modern Map Making’ in the 1940s - The Atlantic
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Docs Demo: Master's edition →
Edgar Allen Poe just wrote “I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat”. hmmm. this is a bit odd but fun
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“For twenty-first-century citizens, able digitally both to access and participate...”
– Lynette (lynetter) > How to Thrive in the Digital Age (School of Life)
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“some 3,054… 50% of the world’s total languages — are set to die out by...”
– Google Fights to Save 3,054 Languages
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“As much as today’s scientists celebrate Newton, their reverence is matched...”
– Technology - Alan Jacobs - Why Seventh Day Adventists Revere Isaac Newton - The Atlantic 