links for 2008-9-26
September 26, 2008
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Processing Light, an exhibition organized & curated by Maxalot, will be all about especially commissioned generative works applied as large-scale super highres projections onto one of the walls of the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM).
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Yesterday, Google posted a fascinating timeline of the past ten years.
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IBM opened up cloud computing centers in four countries on Wednesday to let enterprises, universities and governments test Web-based services and applications.
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If you’ve ever shelled out $1,500 for a new dealer-programmed keyfob after sending yours through the washer and dryer or left your iPhone in the back of a cab, you’ll appreciate this “advance” from Nissan: a phone that can lock and unlock your car.
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Radiohead’s remix contest for its track “Nude” was a big deal by any measure. According to Radiohead’s merchandise company W.a.s.t.e., the remix page for the track has received over six million unique visitors who cast nearly a half a million votes and listened to tracks 1.7 million times.
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Today the story of Muxtape, the popular but shortlived music service that let users create virtual mixtapes, has finally come to light. In a lengthy blog post on the site’s homepage, founder Justin Ouellette details his legal wranglings with the four major record labels and the RIAA, which led him to shut the site down in August (an unaffiliated site, Mixtube, lives on).
- Use Google Monitor to Crowdsource Group Questions [TechCrunch]
Google Moderator, which launched on September 24, 2008, a simple tool that helps groups determine which questions should be asked at all hands meetings, conferences, Q&A sessions, etc. The idea is that there are always lots of good questions to ask…
links for 2008-9-17
September 17, 2008
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Long-term Gizmodo fans may remember the Mickey Mouse inspired MP3 player announced last year. Well, if you ever wondered what happened to this little number you’ll be pleased to hear it’s now available in the UK.
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Increasingly open ways of participating in the selection and display of content are blossoming. Harnessing the ubiquity of internet access, the Brooklyn Museum are able to produced Click!1, a “crowd-curated” photography exhibition.
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Given the rising popularity of social media services, it’s not uncommon for someone to have their photos scattered across a handful of sites, like Facebook, Flickr, or a personal blog.
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As more Web properties crop up, the number of usernames and passwords you need start piling up.
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T-Mobile has sent out invitations for the official announcement of the first Googlephone, the HTC Dream. The press conference will be held in New York on September 23rd, but first adopters of the Android-powered phone will have to wait until probably October 20 to get their hands on one.
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We’ve seen some pretty cool car adverts over the years and new and used car website motors.co.uk has celebrated an upgrade to include new video content with a poll to find the nation’s favourite.
links for 2008-07-18
July 18, 2008
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The DO lectures will be all about getting a handful of speakers down here in the hope that they may inspire you to do something. To give you the tools and the desire to change the things you care about.
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The long-familiar, two-dimensional paper representations of our world are giving way to active, software-driven interfaces that display multiple layers of data in manifold ways.
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Amazon will launch a new streaming video service to select customers on Thursday called Amazon Video on Demand.
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Even as Yahoo loses execs by the dozens, they continue to hire new blood.
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Shelby Supercars already builds the world’s fastest car. Now it’s building the world’s fastest EV, a 500-horsepower Tesla-killer it says will be on the road next year.
links for 2008-07-17
July 17, 2008
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Film and game makers join forces for Prince Caspian
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Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John posts about this marvellous artifact: the autographed typewriter on which Douglas Adams wrote The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for sale for a mere ~$25K.
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Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John has the exciting news that Apple I BASIC has been extracted from an audio cassette and converted to MP3. It’s actually got a pretty good beat.
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Fantastic stop motion…
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