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• Gwiki technologies making headway

  
  I Think — Authority: 429
  When we launched Visible Pas t a few years ago, there was very low interest in geographic wiki applications. Geo wikis are editable sites that interact with mapping services. (For details, see the Read Write Web covergage of our Visible Past Virtual Omaha project). Since then, a new generation of geo wikis has been ...
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• Google and Microsoft join I3A’s Camera Phone Image Quality Initiative

  
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    The International Imaging Industry Association — colloquially known as I3A — announced today that Google ’s signed on as a member of the non-profit organization. They’ve also simultaneously announced that pre-existing member Microsoft has joined forces with Google on the Camera Phone Image Quality ...
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• Sony to Film 2010 World Cup in 3D For Futbol-Loving Countries Only []

  
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    Sony and FIFA have teamed up to bring next year’s second-biggest sporting event in 3D exclusively to those who truly appreciate the beautiful game. Read: not Americans Continued here: Sony to Film 2010 World Cup in 3D For Futbol-Loving Countries Only []
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• CompuLab fit-PC2i: Super Small PC Runs Win 7 or Ubuntu [Nettops]

  
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    It won’t run Crysis, but CompuLab’s claims this is the smallest dual gigabit Ethernet-equipped PC available. It measures just 4- x 4.5- x 1.05-inches, uses an Atom CPU (1.1GHz or 1.6GHz), and has room for a 2.5-inch SATA hard disk. Read more from the original source: CompuLab fit-PC2i: Super Small PC Runs ...
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• Female giant pandas ‘chirp’ to get pregnant

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, December 03 (ANI): A study on giant pandas has found that the females inform the males about their fertility status through chirp calls.Giant pandas’ short breeding season is facilitated with female pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) making high-pitched calls soliciting male attention.However, the breeding ...
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• Aplying Gofman’s frame analysis to online fora

  
  I Think — Authority: 429
  Image via Wikipedia An interesting thought about applying Goffman to online phenomena. A student of mine, Christina Kalinowski, wrote an excellent master thesis on the same topic. Will follow up with more soon. Let me start by shining a light on an odd phenomenon weve all experienced online. Lots of people on ...
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• Guy Demands to Be Arrested for Ripping His Own DVDs [Crime]

  
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    In Denmark it’s legal to make backup copies of your DVDs, but illegal to break the DRM that prevents copying them. This annoyed a guy so much that he decided to turn himself in for ripping his own DVD collection At first thought, Henrik Anderson seems crazy for doing something like this, but he’s actually ...
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• Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms [File Sharing]

  
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      The Spanish Government, one of the last bastions of legal peer-to-peer file sharing , has approved a law that will obliterate some of the most basic human rights, like freedom of speech and due process. All in the name of money Read more from the original source: Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic ...
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• It’s not what you know, but who you know … on your social network, that is.

  
  The Homa Files — Authority: 139
  Takeaway: Marketers have long used online media to manage their company’s reputation with consumers. However, in an effort to more precisely select and target profitable customers they have now turned the looking glass around on the consumer. By analyzing the online behaviors and social networks of their ...
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• Thermally-Activated Roof Tiles Change Color to Conserve Energy [Saving Energy]

  
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    Since black roof tiles absorb heat and white ones reflect it, we should all just plain re-do our roofs biannually to save energy as the seasons change. Or maybe just get roof tiles that change color on their own. A bunch of MIT students came up with this funky-looking roofing material, dubbed Thermeleon, which ...
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• Network Challenge

  
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  Image via Wikipedia To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, ...
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• Sonics Network for AMBA Protocol Features Free Tools, IP

  
  EDA Blog — Authority: 133
  Sonics Network for AMBA Protocol (SNAP) will offer SoC designers, free-of-charge, tools and IP for capturing and analyzing bus designs via its new online SNAP evaluation environment. The new product simplifies the evaluation process of Sonics IP, helps designers with their on-chip network designs, and eliminates the ...
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• SocGen On Life, The Universe And The Impending Burst Of The Biggest Central Bank Created Bubble In History

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  Albert Edwards and Dylan Grices latest must read slideshow : We have just had the worst decade’s performance for equity investors on record. Relative to government bonds, equities have been an even bigger disaster. Surely after such a terrible decade for equity investors things can only get better? On a ten ...
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• Zii Lives: First Look at the 1080p Android-Powered Trinity Phone [Creative]

  
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            Remember the Creative/ZiiLabs StemCell system-on-a-chip from a while back? The one that spawned that Android PMP design ? Well, the Zii project is marching on, which means new hardware, including the dual OS Trinity phone, 360 HD webcam and more. Read the original here: Zii Lives: First Look at ...
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• Socialite (formerly Eventbox) out of beta, into your Mac

  
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  -: Software , First Look , Snow Leopard Socialite , the Mac social networking application formerly known as “Eventbox,” has been released out of beta. The application is intended as a “one stop” for Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Flickr, Digg, and any site that supports RSS Read more: Socialite (formerly ...
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• Japanese toy review roundup

  
  Fanmode — Authority: 438
  The following reviews are in Japanese but they include a generous amount of photos so they’re well worth checking out. (Please do not hotlink images on these sites.) Ramuna reviews the Bandai Soul of Chogokin (SOC) GX-51 Getter Dragon figure from Shin Getter Robo: The Last Day. SR../Blood Zwei reviews the ...
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• Recession might get second lease on life if China collapses

  
  I Think — Authority: 429
  Hear, hear…. PRESIDENT OBAMA’S recent trip to China reflects a symbiotic relationship at the heart of the global economy: China uses American spending power to enlarge its private sector, while America uses Chinese lending power to expand its public sector. Yet this arrangement may unravel in a dangerous way, ...
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• Google Wave

  
  Norman Ralph — Authority: 407
  Thanks to an invite from Kieran today, I have just started looking into the world of Google Wave – the real-time collaboration and communication application from Google. It is still in beta form and as such does not have all the features you would expect from the full commercial product. It is missing a lot of ...
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• Mobile Augmented Reality and Mirror Worlds: Blair MacIntyre

  
  I Think — Authority: 429
  What is augmented reality? Diagram by Gary Hayes via Flickr One of the original augmented reality pioneers is Blair MacIntyre, whose work needs to be more widely known…  He works at the Augmented Environments Lab (AEL), a research group in the GVU Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The group ...
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• Archos releases developer edition firmware for Internet Tablets

  
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  According to a press release dated this morning, Archos is making proof-of-concept “developer edition” firmware available for its ARCHOS 5 and ARCHOS 7 Internet Media Tablets. Based on the Angstrom Linux distribution, this is by no means a commercial distro (no multimedia software) but since you’re taking it ...
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