With their Chrome web browser, Google has always been obsessed with speed. And now they’re speeding up another aspect of it: how often stable builds are released. The goal now is to release a new stable version of the browser every six weeks — about twice as fast as they currently do, Google says. In other words, get ready for Chrome 6, 7, 8, and 9 coming soon.
Designer Filippo Cuttica’s ‘Go with the Flow’ is a conceptual email user interface that allows you to visualize and filter incoming emails via a real-world water container and valve system connected to a computer. The emails are divided into three categories by tags (work, family and friends) and are represented by colored water drops from 3 different tubes. Users can loosen the valve depending on the amount of communication they wish to receive from any of the three categories, thereby helping them efficiently manage their personal and work lives.
Der Strom an Informationen reißt nicht ab. Gut so! Um ihn zu zähmen, benötigt man nur die richtigen Tools. Und wer Spaß daran hat, ist natürlich im Vorteil.
Während die Geschwindigkeit und Informationsvielfalt des Webs manche Menschen belastet und in ihnen das Verlangen nach einer neuen Langsamkeit weckt, gehöre ich zu denjenigen, die ihre reine Freude am Echtzeitweb und an der Selektion und Gewichtung von Informationen haben. Um den Spaßfaktor hoch und den Stressfaktor gering zu halten, bedarf es jedoch einiger nützlicher Hilfsmittel und Tools.
Martin Weigert auf netzwertig.com über seinen Umgang mit dem Informationsfluss.
Vgl. auch Mattias Webers Gastbeitrag "Ein Werkzeugkasten für den digitalen Alltag" auf dem Trendtag-Blog: http://www.trendtag.de/blog/matthias-weber-ein-werkzeugkasten-fur-den-digital...
SlideRocket goes beyond traditional presentation tools by harnessing the power of the Internet and making everything available to you in an integrated and intuitive online interface.
Eine interessante Alternative für PowerPoint-Ueberdruessige.
Stow Boyd fasst seine bisherige Erfahrung mit dem Tool zusammen:
I have had only the briefest experience with Sliderocket, so far. I used the exported presentation approach for the talk I gave recently in in Berlin, at Next10, and it went off without a hitch. In the coming weeks I plan to try the webinar capability, as well as other plugins. I will have more to say then, but I am interested in getting my presentations off my hard drive and up into the cloud in a form that can actually replace what I have been doing for the past ten years with Powerpoint. More to follow.
Mehr Details auf:
http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/sliderocket-the-last-stage-of-jettisoning-de...
NEW YORK -- Starting this week, AT&T, American Express, Microsoft and dozens of other major marketers will pull the veil off their web ads and show consumers what's inside.It's the first trial of what some hope will become the online ad industry's long-promised self-policing system designed to stave off the growing forces for regulation in Washington, as well as give consumers more control over how they are targeted by advertisers.
The system, deployed by a start-up called Better Advertising, will place an icon in the upper right-hand corner of the ads that looks like a cross between an eye and power button called the "power eye." Consumers who mouse over the icon will get a view of all the data that was used to target the ad, as well as the option to opt-out of future targeting by those companies.
I've just come back from a month-long, multi-city, US and Canada book tour for my new novel, For the Win. I've done book tours before, but this one was different: this was the tour with an Android Nexus One phone, and it was game-changing.
I've been told about the coming mobile revolution for 20 years now, but frankly, mobile phones are generally rubbish. The carriers are awful and abusive. The apps suck. And so on. Something's changed.Take directions: Google Maps are, of course, the ne plus ultra of navigation, so having them in your pocket is powerful. But combine that with Android's stellar turn-by-turn directions, which incorporates Google's traffic data to get you round the terrible snarls, and things get really easy. What's more, the ability to program the map destination by speaking it (Google's various voice apps have given it improbably good voice-recognition performance, producing a training set that is wide and deep), or by photographing it on a printout (using the Google Goggles app that converts images to words to Google searches), felt futuristic and deeply right.
Second, determine the specific goals of your mobile strategy and lay out a set of digital services that the mobile apps will help deliver to achieve those goals. Incorporate mobile metrics and an analytics package into the app to make informed decisions around app improvements and future releases. Don’t run product management blind.
And third, apps can utilise device hardware components that enable a phone to do far more than just serve as mobile brochureware. This may include using the device’s camera/video capture, location-detection capabilities, accelerometer, or mobile screen itself. Use the app as an engagement channel with social media tools, location-based search, and commerce, if appropriate, to expand the market and build a digital dialogue with consumers.
The wearable digital camera designed to take photos passively without intervention whilst being worn by the user.
Based on Microsoft SenseCam technology, Revue is a research tool aimed at medical researchers as an aid for people with memory loss.
One of the big trends on the Internet today is people's penchant for measuring every aspect of their lives with the help of diaries and personal sensors. Most of the tools allow you to quantify your daily activity deal with fitness and exercise, but a number of new gadgets also try to measure how well you sleep.
StayFocusd is a Google Chrome extension that helps you focus when you work and block time wasting websites. It sets a timer for addictive and time-consuming sites that you visit and then blocks them for the rest of the day when the time is up.
