August 2009
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WatchMaking Things Talk 01: Controlling lights with your mobile via XMPP
Intuity Media Labs’ prototype for an emerging technology solution that demonstrates a working sample of a system setup to control lights with your mobile phone via XMPP.
The implications of this technology, when fully functional, is huge for a lot of marketers and advertisers, artists, designers and brands alike, who look...
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WatchDeclutter your life.
Eric Giler, CEO of WiTricity takes technology to the next level by demonstrating the possibilites of wireless electricity, so you won’t have to plug-in any of your gadgets to the wall, ever again.
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Speed Kills
“To perfect things, speed is a unifying force,” the race-car driver Michael Schumacher has said. “To imperfect things, speed is a destructive force.” No company is perfect, nor is any individual.
What happens when we look closely at the rate at which we do things today? John Freeman argues that we need to slow down, not only to save ourselves but to save the beauty of...
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WatchA Handbook of Online India: New TrendsSpotting Report
A few highlights -
Interesting to note that Facebook is still catching up with Orkut in the social networking space, but with a year-over-year growth of 156%. Impressive.
All the hype and hoopla surrounding BigAdda hasn’t really helped them become a significant player in the social media space. They just account to 4% of Orkut’s...
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Twitter get its due, finally.
Value added services, like detailed analytics, for commercial twitter usage seems to be a great incentive to businesses, brands and companies who look into twitter for the ocean of data it provides.
“Twitter will still be free for everybody and we’ll still tell them to go crazy with it,” said Stone in an interview. “But we’ve identified a selection of things that businesses say are helping to...
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Tumblr, not Wordpress
A few reasons why I decided to host this blog on Tumblr, not Wordpress.
1. There are a wide range of customizable themes to choose from for free. Not a CSS expert? No problem - plenty of themes that are ready for immediate use without any customization. Wordpress offers a few free ones, but they don’t let you tweak the CSS for free. If you need to go wild with wordpress, you will have to...
