links for 2008-10-3
October 3, 2008

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Here are some initial shots of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic aka the Tube aka the first Symbian S60 touchscreen phone.
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The U.S. will snatch the lead in mobile technology from Europe as the Internet is integrated with mobile devices, Nokia’s CEO told a Silicon Valley audience on Wednesday night.
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a visual representation of (a sample of) over 1.4 million rows of data originating from the Federal Election Commission, aiming to reveal donations & examine any patterns in the type of donations given.
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an online information dashboard for the Indianopolis Museum of Art, which attempts to measure & visualize various aspects of the museum’s performance. the goal of this dashboard is to seek to quantify & report out on areas of activity of general interest to museum observers & to particular interest to museum studies specialists, colleagues & patrons. tracked data attributes include “Fans on Facebook”, “KWh per Day Energy Consumption” & “Number of Art Works on Loan”.
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Apart from 3D forcing you wear silly hippie glasses that make you look like a dork and which leave you with a splitting headache, 3D is still largely a novelty. But now TV makers like Philips are determined to make 3D tellies a reality.
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Nintendo has just fired the latest salvo in the portable gaming wars.
links for 2008-9-29
September 29, 2008
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There’s nothing a like a good snitch to get keyboards clacking and today’s hot news is that Nokia’s low cost iPhone rival is going to be officially launched next week at a London event.
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Everyone keeps talking about Smule’s virtual lighter iPhone application called Sonic Lighter…
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Joe sez, “Neuros has a new technology to superimpose text from a dedicated chat room in real time on a TV set, allowing a sort of ‘crowd narration’ for events or shows. Neuros is inaugurating this technology with the upcoming presidential debate so that anyone can participate in real time fact checking, discussion etc along with the candidates. While anyone can participate in the discussion you’ll need a Neuros OSD to see that discussion on your TV set superimposed over the debate.” Participate in the US Presidential Debate with Crowd Narration.
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Hacakday offers instructions on how to create the smallest web server you ever did see: it occupies the dimensions (except depth, of course!) of a business card! I can’t see myself handing these out at meetings any time soon, however. Not, at least, without creating a bomb scare.
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Proceeds from the sale of these “cardboard” silkscreened duvet-sets goes to benefit a Dutch homeless charity.
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We all know how much companies in China love producing knockoffs of successful products, and ActFind is selling a bunch of the iPhone.












