A study of Facebook app shows that social influence "switches on", driving mass downloading, only beyond a threshold popularity.
sent from Colby's iPhone
13 October 2010
7 October 2010
Graphic Content - Milton Glaser, Still Questioning
"An exhibition of Milton Glaser's recent work reveals that at 81, the renowned graphic designer hasn't stopped paying attention to the big issues." From The New York Times: http://nyti.ms/9Db2ue
23 September 2010
'One app for all' effort launches
"An effort to make apps that can run on any web-ready gadget, from phones to TVs, has been given a cash kickstart by the EU.
A European project to develop an application environment for every internet-connected device has received 10m euros in funding.
The project aims to sidestep operating systems and proprietary app stores by providing a web-based approach."
22 September 2010
Watch out for EverCookie - the cookie that is almost impossible to delete
It's hiding in too many places in your computer and it rebuilds itself. http://i.downloadsquad.com/2010/09/21/evercookie-the-one-cookie-that-you-just...
ComScore introduces social media monitoring tool
"The new Social Analytix service uses Radian6 technology to track mentions of brands, companies and products across 150 million web pages including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn Answers and blogs and forums."
Read complete article here:
17 September 2010
A new era of 'super Wi-Fi'
From CNN: "Freeing up vacant airways" could lead to extraordinary innovation and expansion. If the USA governmental agency FCC does this, the commercial exploitation could create an economic and cultural shift. http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/09/14/fcc.super.wifi/index.html?
13 September 2010
Collaboration Aims to Create First Accurate Geometric Map of the Internet
ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2010) —
" Researchers - at the University of California, San Diego, in collaboration with researchers from Universitat de Barcelona in Spain and the University of Cyprus - have created the first geometric "atlas" of the Internet as part of a project to prevent our most ubiquitous form of communication from collapsing within the next decade or so.
They describe how they discovered a latent hyperbolic, or negatively curved, space hidden beneath the Internet's topology, leading them to devise a method to create an Internet map using hyperbolic geometry.
In their paper, the researchers say such a map would lead to a more robust Internet routing architecture because it simplifies path-finding throughout the network. "
Read more...
12 September 2010
"The Grand Design" everything except god with capital "G"
Comprehensive book review that enlightens us deep into the content and how it's delivered. http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/12/the-grand-design-stephen-hawking
11 September 2010
Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter
http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/11/science-stephen-hawking-brian-cox
9 September 2010
Biometrics research - even twins have unique irises
A biometric is a stable and distinctive physiological feature of a person that can be measured and used to identify that person; the fingerprint is the most familiar example.
Now researchers have discovered irises differentiate each of us uniquely. Read article to discover more....
8 September 2010
Building architecture for archiving & findability
Lab notes from the real time experience http://visitmix.com/LabNotes/The-Archivist-Architecture
Holistic Ranch Management
Dynamic cattle grazing methods bring back grasses, save money and resources http://mobile.time.com/bu_ne/473261
1 September 2010
Location Determines Social Network Influence
Location Determines Social Network Influence - Number of Connections Less Important Than Proximity to Core
15 May 2010
Here's where you can follow Space Shuttle Atlantis' last mission online
Because I am such a fan and this final adventure for Atlantis closes 25 years of historical space exploration, I have taken the liberty of copying Tim Conneally's complete article posting from betanews.com with all pertinent links below. Follow the Atlantis over the next 11 days.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Heres-where-you-can-follow-Space-Shuttle-Atlantis-last-mission-online/1273851175?
"Here's where you can follow Space Shuttle Atlantis' last mission online
By Tim Conneally | Published May 14, 2010, 11:32 AM
NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled end its 25-year career with one final trip into space today. The shuttle will be manned by six astronauts and is expected to be in flight for twelve days. The STS-132 mission is to deliver equipment to the International Space Station which includes a Russian Mini-Research Module, a set of batteries for the station's truss and dish antenna, and other replacement parts.
However, the launch takes place today at 2:20pm EST, a time when most of the United States is at work.
Fortunately, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is making it very easy to follow the action online. NASA isbroadcasting the event live on its website, and is running a launch blog which provides frequent updates on the status of the launch.
Additionally, some excellent information can be found on both NASA and the Kennedy Space Center's Twitter feeds at @NASA, @NASAKennedy(the above picture was a TwitPic from Kennedy.)
Other useful twitter profiles to follow today are@NASA_Astronauts, and @nasatweetup."
Again, the above article was written and published by Tim Conneally for www.betanews.com
13 May 2010
Four Nerds & a Cry Against Facebook
From The New York Times:"Four N.Y.U. students have decided people should be able to communicate online without surrendering their privacy to a big business."
"Diaspora* group was inspired after hearing a talk by Eben Moglen, a law professor at Columbia University, who described centralized social networks as 'spying for free'."
Read their story and how they raised money to set up Diaspora. Great OpenSource initiative. http://nyti.ms/d01noz
Their Twitter = joindiaspora
Preparing your website development for the near future now - Choosing for hosting, servers, cloud computing & integration
For Kids2020Foundation.com, we have been getting informed by the experts about how to make choices for hosting and servers. Cost, security, scaleability and processes. The words of wisdom have been "cloud computing" -using services like Amazon's or Google's.
Ran across this article from ZDNet, which explains the key integration issues and benefits.
"Cloud-based integration platforms allow you to design, build, monitor, and manage integrations centrally (from the cloud) - yet deploy just the runtime to where the integration needs to occur – either in the cloud or on premise."
Separating the runtime, while unifying the administrative and management functions, eliminates unneeded complexity and dramatically increases the quality of:
1. Collaboration
2. Component Re-use
3. Data visibility and control
4. Policy standardization and enforcement
5. Configuration management
6. Monitoring
7. Auditing/validation
8. Reporting
They deliver the same benefits as SaaS applications themselves including:
1. Significantly reduced cost structure
2. No integration products to install and maintain
3. Automatic upgrades – no “rev lock” issues
4. Usage based pricing – can start small and expand over time
5. Global connectivity and access
Added benefit - positioned for the future - With a cloud integration platform, applications and data sources outside your firewalls can easily be added to your portfolio using the same distributed runtime, centralized management framework."
Read more here: http://bit.ly/axKfuj
12 May 2010
What happens when there are no more IP addresses to give out?
"The speed with which the remaining pool of net addresses are being used up seems to be accelerating."
10 May 2010
Panel of experts discuss implications of Facebook as parallel social universe
The Allure of the Hive: Social Networking and Social Change
Roundtable
Participants: Nicole Ellison, David Kirkpatrick, Dhiraj Murthy, Sean Parker, Andrew Rasiej (other panelists TBA)
Video
"Facebook is more than a "social network." It is a parallel universe of relationships and social life, which for many of its 500 million users has become a field of action nearly as significant as their real-world interactions. The average American user spends more than six hours per month on Facebook, and increasingly uses it as a primary tool for communication. Facebook and other Internet social media occupy a larger and larger portion of the time people spend online, becoming massively potent forces of change whose impact we are only beginning to comprehend.
How does the new world of digital "friendship" affect our social life in the real world? How are we ourselves changing as we increasingly inhabit yet another virtual universe? What does the growing penetration of Facebook and social media portend for the way life will be lived, and how will it affect how we organize ourselves, from family life to politics?
One of the primary architects of Facebook joins experts on individual empowerment and Internet media to elucidate the impact of this looming presence in modern life."
Also read the supporting blog from Huffington Post explaining more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-luce/allure-of-the-hive-expert_b_569444.html
7 May 2010
FEAR.LESS MAGAZINE HAS LAUNCHED. – fear.less - stories of overcoming fear
fear.less first online magazine dedicated to stories of overcoming fear.
"Are you ready for your fears to
In light of a world framed by news that continually provokes our fears, this new approach for sharing and crowdsourcing our fears is refreshing.
Dan Yoder's blog on "10 Reasons to Delete your Facebook Account" targets issues
What do you think about your user contract with Facebook? The comments to Dan Yoder's blogpost are as interesting as this post. They spotlight the value-based issues with social media and reflect people's desires to roam free of restrictions or exploitation. Gives us greater insight into perspectives coming from the fringe in the wider digital arena. You can read more on his actual blog http://rocket.ly Business Insider posted a copy of Dan's blog - and has the list of comments referred to above.
http://www.businessinsider.com/10-reasons-to-delete-your-facebook-account-2010-5
http://www.businessinsider.com/10-reasons-to-delete-your-facebook-account-2010-5
Growing digital literacy through the Digital Media and Learning Lab
"Digital Media and Learning Research Hub is located at the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute and hosted at the UC Irvine campus. We think digital media practices are fundamentally reshaping society in far-reaching ways, especially in how people all around the world are learning and connecting with one another."
Check out the bibliography for papers on digital literacy.
2 May 2010
It’s Complicated: Making Sense of Complexity
From The New York Times: "Complexity used to be so simple. It meant progress. We liked it. Now the most intractable issues of our age, from war to finance, are tangled in ways that inspire headaches, not awe." http://s.nyt.com/u/XvG_
30 April 2010
Nobel laureate physicist disinvited from a physics conference!
Isn't this crazy?
Nobel laureate physicist Brian Josepheson - head of ‘Mind-Matter Unification Project’ in Cambridge - was disinvited from a physics conference by Antony Valentini due to Brian's interest in paranormal consciousness.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/04/no_place_for_the_paranormal_at.html
I met Brian during a conference on Quantum Entanglent at the Human Scale in Utrecht years ago when I gave the follow up keynote speech to his. He is a person so curious and fascinated by consciousness that his studies and research bring nothing but enlightenment to physics.
29 April 2010
28 April 2010
18 April 2010
Read that small print - thousands of game customers sold their souls when they agreed to terms
Uh oh! The concept of devil is alive in the tricky use of terms and conditions requiring agreement upon purchase.
"British firm - GameStation - added the "immortal soul clause" to the contract signed before making any online purchases earlier this month. It states that customers grant the company the right to claim their soul."
16 April 2010
Untitled
European flight map - notice no Western Europe flights - impact of Icelandic volcano explosion http://ping.fm/8IlVu
via Ping.fm
14 April 2010
US Library of Congress plans to digitally archive all 4 years of Twitter's tweets
"The US Library of Congress said Wednesday it plans to digitally archive all of the billions of messages known as "tweets" sent on Twitter since its launch four years ago."
Read rest of story: http://betasignal.com/m/#_Cluster26940
9 April 2010
ACTA: The acronym hardly anyone knows yet should be scared to death of
What happens when net neutrality, governance and a single perspective cross swords? From the Inqisitr: http://www.inquisitr.com/69290/acta-the-acronym-hardly-anyone-knows-yet-shoul...?
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