Oct 30, 2008 | Mobile & Web | Tech News
WHAT IS IT? Image Source: Bug Conference No, I am not talking about the candidate. I’m talking the Obama campaign. First, the incredible list of accomplishments that his machine was able to produce, as of the end of September: On track to raise almost $700 Million dollars for the… Read More
Oct 30, 2008 | Mobile & Web | Tech News
WHAT IS IT ? Is it just me or is MTV finally figuring things out again ? As a teenager in the UK, the very first thing I’d do each day after school was to turn on Satellite Television and watch hour upon hour of MTV Europe (Occasionally switching… Read More
Oct 30, 2008 | Mobile & Web | Tech News
WHAT IS IT ? One of my last projects before I left Microsoft was working with Sony Pictures on the promotion of their upcoming movie, Angels & Demons. They’d been impressed with Photosynth, and our ability to create a high resolution 3D environment in the browser that a user could… Read More
Oct 30, 2008 | Tech News
WHAT IS IT ? Researchers in UCLA published a paper in the April issue of the journal Psychological Science, The Sunny Side of Fairness, that shows the brain’s response to fairness activates the region of the brain that also responds to food and other rewards. The experiment groups 12… Read More
Oct 14, 2008 | Tech News
WHAT IS IT? Brian Eno, the widely acknowledged Father of Ambient Music, is a bit of a polymath. Besides his many musical accomplishment, Eno is also an installation artist, newspaper columnist, and a thinker of the creative process. I particularly like his Oblique Strategies, a series of inspirational advices… Read More
Oct 13, 2008 | Tech News
WHAT IS IT ? Boing Boing posted an interesting link to the PBS documentary, ‘Stress, Portrait of a Killer’ that I apparently missed (torrent here) from Stanford researcher Prof. Robert Sapolsky. The video below gives a good overview of Sapolskys thinking, but essentially he suggests that most social animals… Read More
Oct 13, 2008 | Mobile & Web | Tech News
WHAT IS IT ? Political Streams was a project that was near and dear to my heart during my time at Microsoft Live Labs. The brainchild of the very talented and forward thinking social media scientist, Matthew Hurst. Political Streams provides a view into the ever changing political landscape… Read More
Oct 10, 2008 | Mobile & Web | Tech News
WHAT IS IT ? I stopped playing with my marbles many years ago but if you want to be the cool parent, uncle or aunt this holiday period it sounds like you’re going to have to revisit those yesteryear days. The latest hot fad from Japan has made it to… Read More
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