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Apple’s Next Big Thing: MacBook Touch?

Published by rwatstein July 26th, 2008 in innovation, technology and Apple. 0 Comments

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Information Overload and the Erosion of Attention

Published by rwatstein July 19th, 2008 in web 2.0, innovation, information and technology. 0 Comments

Lucas McDonnell writes:”I came across an interesting panel discussion on CBC Radio about information overload and not only its effect on work productivity, but also how it can be managed effectively. Companies like Google, Microsoft and IBM have formed the Information Overload Research Group with the goal of helping people manage the amount of information they have to deal with in a day. According to Jonathan Spira, one of the group’s founding members, wikis, blogs and RSS have made the deluge of information worse, rather than better.

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10 Web 2.0 Ideas That Failed

Published by rwatstein July 19th, 2008 in web 2.0 and innovation. 0 Comments

The Web is an extremely fickle place. A Web service can be hot today and dead in the water tomorrow. While there’s no true science for determining exactly what makes one stick while another languishes, there’s a lot to be learned after one fails. Considering a startup? Here are 10 recent failures to add to your case studies.

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Virtual Worlds: 20+ Tools for Creating 3D Graphics and Environments

Published by rwatstein July 12th, 2008 in innovation, virtual worlds and technology. 0 Comments

Earlier this week Google launched Lively, a new social network where anyone can create an avatar and virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on the Web. 3D services such as Lively are popping up more and more online thanks to the popularity of virtual worlds like Second Life , Meez , and more. So are your skills up to snuff? We’ve gathered over 20 3D creation tools so that you can create your own avatar or virtual world. Whether you’re a 3D pro or just starting out, we’ve got tools for everyone. Try them out and let us know what you think.

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Literary Tattoos

Published by rwatstein July 12th, 2008 in web sites, innovation and literacy. 0 Comments

Jen runs a website called Contrariwise that focuses on tattoos based on books, poems, lyrics, movies, poems, plays, and quotations. If you have an appropriate tattoo, such as this typewriter tribute to Hemingway (“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”), you can submit a photo. Otherwise, it’s fun to look through. Be sure to check out the pain-o-meter if you are considering your first tat.

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Making a Modern 3-D Movie

Published by rwatstein July 12th, 2008 in innovation and technology. 0 Comments

More people than ever are setting up impressive home theaters with high-definition plasma displays, Blu-Ray players, and surround-sound speakers. Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D, opening today, exemplifies Hollywood’s best hope for luring people back to the theater: lots of action, big stars–and the option of full 3-D. But as the first feature-length, live-action digital 3-D film, Journey posed an unprecedented technical challenge. Today’s 3-D movies are a far cry from those of the 1950s, commonly considered the golden era of 3-D.

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New Technologies are Not Serving People with Disabilities

Published by rwatstein July 12th, 2008 in innovation, technology and disabilities. 0 Comments

Web technologies and mobile devices have created many new ways for sight and hearing-impaired consumers to find information and connect with friends. But as entertainment and communications tools increasingly take digital form, some people with disabilities feel left behind. Online videos are not required to have captions, for example, and ticker-style emergency messages are not narrated

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Penguin-Recognition Software

Published by rwatstein July 5th, 2008 in innovation and software. 0 Comments

Scientists studying a colony of rare penguins on a remote South African island are using sophisticated object-recognition software to identify and track individual animals–an approach that they believe could transform conservation fieldwork. The software involved–originally developed for recognizing individual human faces–has developed rapidly in recent years. But so far, the so-called Penguin Recognition Project, run by Bristol University, in England, is the first large-scale attempt to use this technology to catalogue and monitor an entire population of animals in the field.

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Bike Library ‘Victim of Its Own Success’

Published by rwatstein July 5th, 2008 in libraries, innovation and library services. 0 Comments

The Fort Collins, Colorado Bike Library plans to quadruple the number of bikes available to loan by next spring, after finding itself dramatically and happily oversubscribed. The library permits anyone with an ID and an e-mail address to borrow a bike for a week at a time. The library started with 50 bright red bikes this spring, and is now down by two, officials said. “We are a victim of our own success,” said Jeff Morrell, president of Bike Fort Collins. “There’s a waiting list every week.”That’s sort of an understatement: The manager of the Old Town Square branch said people have actually darted away from half-eaten meals in the plaza to snag a newly returned bike. Another woman was so reluctant to return it that the police were nearly called, he said.

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American Library Association Receives $1 Million Grant from Verizon Foundation to Study How Gaming Can Be Used to Improve Problem-Solving and Literacy Skills

Published by rwatstein July 5th, 2008 in innovation, American Library Association and gaming. 0 Comments

The American Library Association (ALA) will launch an innovative project to track and measure the impact of gaming on literacy skills and build a model for library gaming that can be deployed nationally. Funding for the project will be provided by a $1 million grant from the Verizon Foundation. “Gaming is a magnet that attracts library users of all types and, beyond its entertainment value, has proven to be a powerful tool for literacy and learning,” said ALA President Loriene Roy. “Through the Verizon Foundation’s gift, ALA’s gaming for learning project will provide the library community with vital information and resources that will model and help sustain effective gaming programs and services.”

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Vint Cerf Says Government Needs To Encourage Internet Competition

Published by rwatstein July 5th, 2008 in innovation and internet. 0 Comments

Vint Cerf said recently that he never intended to seriously propose that the U.S. government should nationalize the Internet. But he does think the Internet is seriously broken, with an economic system that discourages competition and innovation and encourages harmful monopolistic practices. He argued that the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which governs Internet service providers, is obsolete and needs to be revised.

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15 Turning Points in Tech History

Published by rwatstein June 29th, 2008 in innovation and technology. 0 Comments

Neil McAllister writes: “Imagine how different the computing world would be if IBM had used proprietary chips in the original PC, rather than off-the-shelf components. The PC clone market would never have happened, and IBM, rather than Microsoft, might have emerged as the leading company of the computer revolution. Or if Steve Jobs had never taken his fateful tour of Xerox PARC? Had he not seen PARC’s GUI in action he might never have created the Macintosh. And then where would Windows be today?”

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