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Archive for September 2010

I like: Kid Adrift – Oxycotin

Music videos to me are generally a thing of the 80s, it puts visions of MTV station idents and piles of VHS casettes into my head. But I love this video, I won’t explain why because that would spoil it for you. Enjoy: Big shout to my mate Si for flagging this one up to [...]

Links of the day

GameCrush Lets Guys Pay Money To Play Online Games With Women (Seriously) – they should rake it in: its an escort agency for losers EconPapers: Trust network sclerosis: the hazard of trust in innovation investment communities – shared identity and experience serve as proxies for trust in influencing decisions, and subsequently how trust can serve [...]

Next generation haptic displays

Haptics are about the touch aspect of user interfaces. We’ve been used to them for a while in cellphones with a vibrating alert, the PlayStation2 rumble pack hand controller, but Nokia Research have been showing New Scientist how they would take it to the next level…

Great interview with Profesor Tim Yu on net neutrality

The US arguments over Net neutrality is interesting especially since the EU is now looking at net neutrality guidelines. Tim Yu at Columbia University did a lot of pioneering work around this in the US. It is interesting when they get on to discussing Google’s moves on net neutrality. Thanks to Engadget. You can check [...]

Amazing MIT Media Lab video

I found this MIT media lab video via Marc Ecko, much more intuitive than Adobe Photoshop – it could bring a whole new level creativity from kids to artists.

Links of the day

Hearst CEO: Bullish on Tablets, Not on Paywalls – I guess Murdoch won’t get a unitied media front then Welcome Windows Live Spaces Bloggers — WordPress.com – interesting move, Spaces blogging platform sucked. Meshin brings semantic smarts to organizing your email (video) | VentureBeat Licorize – for the web worker tribe – a kind of mix between Huddle and [...]

Great interview with Jack Ma of Alibaba

I love this interview that Jack Ma did with American talk show host Charlie Rose. Read more about it from TechCrunch.

The new Twitter: documentary evidence

When the new Twitter was first previewed I put down my initial thoughts on this blog post. Having had a chance to play with it and take some screen shots, I managed to confirm my concerns that: The new Twitter would affect delivery of brand messages and depersonalise consumer accounts The new Twitter would adversely [...]

Social CRM talk by Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah was speaking at an Edelman Digital event about social CRM. Some good (frank) stuff about the challenges faced and the limitations of the technology out there and thoughts about privacy, particularly as it relates to the lack of social norms currently hammered out with (I think) Steve Rubel talking about a likely future privacy [...]

Links of the day

nginx – alternative to Apache, apparently better for heavily loaded sites Anorak News » Paul Chambers And The Twitter Police: Freedom Of Expression Under Attack – we have cases like this and then the government tries to point fingers at countries like China regarding censorship? It beggars belief and common sense. It makes the west [...]

Fan Fiction 2.0

Fan Fiction has been around for decades from the Tijuana bibles of the early 20th century to the Wold Newton genre of fiction pioneered by Philip José Farmer which combined different fictional characters in a common time-line. Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series of graphic novels has renewed interest in the Wold Newton [...]

Really nice short discussion about ethnography in virtual worlds

More great content from PARC Ethnography in virtual worlds View more videos from PARC, a Xerox company.

I like: Burger King’s exploded view

The whole route of food photography is pretty jaded in terms of trying to convince you how good a burger is, so I loved the way Burger King printed this Haynes-Manual-esque exploded diagram of one of their burgers on the side of their take-out bags. It is so simple, but kind of cool.

Links of the day

Has the Times paywall killed its blogs? | The Wall Blog – so what does this mean about paying Times Online readers being more ‘engaged’? By sounds of it, it didn’t extend to blog conversations EU Parliament calls for pan-EU copyright law | Pinsent Masons LLP EU Funds “Universal Apps” Project PARC Forum – Ethnography [...]

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