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The mobile social: Not ready for prime time?
via CNET News.com by (author unknown) on February 12, 2008
With Yahoo throwing its hat in the ring, all eyes are on location-based services as the app that will bring mobile social networking to the forefront.
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Furby redux? Ars Technica reviews the Pleo
via Ars Technica by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng) on February 12, 2008
Pleo, the cute little robotic dinosaur, has charmed his way to the front page of... well, everything. But is this thing all it's cracked up to be? We spent a few weeks with ours to find out for sure, and came out with a very different opinion.Read More...
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Second Life on an iPhone
via Massively by Akela Talamasca on February 12, 2008
Filed under: At a glance, Real life, Video, News items, Second Life, Free-to-play, Academic, Virtual worldsAt first glance, this looks like Second Liferunning on an iPhone, but this is not the case. Instead, it's more of a SL-by-proxy sort of situation, where commands being entered through the iPhone interface are transmitted to an actual SL session running somewhere. There is a slight lag to...
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Textbook Tinkering
via Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog by Joe Wikert on February 12, 2008
... audio segments from the instructor's lectures. In short, you're creating your own mashup of the original e-textbook. (Kindle Version 1.0 obviously isn't built to handle or support all this, but I'm hoping a future version will! And yes, I realize the IP management issues that would be involved in this as well, but hear me out...)The semester ends and you're left wi...
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NASA's Smart Swimsuit Gives You Superspeed [Swimsuits]
via io9 by Charlie Jane Anders on February 12, 2008
The world's fastest swimsuit uses technology from NASA to improve athletes' times by a crucial fraction of a second. Speedo's new LZR Racer, pronounced "Laser Racer," is designed to work like a spacesuit, with the seams "ultrasonically welded" instead of sewn, to reduce drag in the water by up to 10 percent. When athletes premiered the swimsuits on the Today Show yesterday, the studio...
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Fixing Democracy, answers to the following question: It's the morning...
via kottke.org by jason@kottke.org on February 13, 2008
Fixing Democracy, answers to the following question:It's the morning after the election. The president elect calls you up and says, "You know, after this grueling, absurd campaign, I now see that the state of our democracy is something we have to grapple with right away. What should I do?"Respondents include Bill Bradley, Hendrik Hertzberg, and Dahlia Lithwick. (via snarkmarket) (link)
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EU commissioner: Let’s extend music copyrights to 95 years. Ars: 50 years is plenty
via Ars Technica by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson) on February 13, 2008
Charlie McCreevy, the EU's Internal Market Commissioner, wants copyrights for musical performers extended from 50 to 95 years. The UK has already rejected the same idea, twice.Read More...
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Sen. Clinton is ruthless; she needs a little more ruth
via SIVACRACY.NET by (author unknown) on February 13, 2008
Ezra Klein explains:... Put another way: If Hillary Clinton does not win delegates out of a majority of contested primaries and caucuses, her aides are willing to rip the party apart to secure the nomination, to cheat in a way that will rend the Democratic coalition and probably destroy Clinton's chances in the general election. Imagine the fury in the African-American community if Barack...
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Attack of the Badly-Drawn Clones in New Animated Star Wars Series [Star Wars: Clone Wars]
via io9 by Graeme McMillan on February 13, 2008
Somebody, somewhere may be excited about the upcoming Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated movie and TV series. Unfortunately, it's not the animation experts at animation blog Character Design. Or the Star Wars fans on that site.Character Design finds the already released footage lifeless:I would consider myself a Star Wars fan so what is happening to the animated Clone Wars makes me sad. THERE...
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