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Confirmed: Facebook Apps Are Useless
via Silicon Alley Insider by Vasanth Sridharan on May 01, 2008
Everyone knows that most Facebook apps are time-wasters, at best. But here's statistical proof: A breakdown of the service's 23,160 applications, via Facebook's self-selected categories.We keep hearing promises that there are developers, somwhere, working on geniunely useful apps for the site, but even if they never materialize, that's not a catastrophe for Facebook (or...
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Note to Web 2.0 Companies: Early Adopters are not the Mass Market
via Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life by (author unknown) on May 20, 2008
If you work in the technology industry it pays to be familiar with the ideas from Geoffrey Moore's insightful book Crossing the Chasm. In the book he takes a look at the classic marketing bell curve that segments customers into Early Adopters, Pragmatists, Conservatives and Laggards then points out that there is a large chasm to cross when it comes to becoming popular beyond an initial set...
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New York Times Foreclosures Graphic
via Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media by Matthew Hurst on May 27, 2008
An elegant data illustration. I like this in part because the data is presented in a manner that reflects the metaphor of the text (shadow).[Note: I manipulated this image using picnik which I'm amazed by.]
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Google’s Eric Chu Sheds Light on Android
via Android Phone Fans by phandroid.com on May 26, 2008
Eric Chu - Google’s Mobile Platform Program Manager and head honcho for the Android Developers Challenge - spent some time with us to discuss Android, shedding some interesting light along the way.First on the menu was the composition of the ADCs Top 50 Apps. The undeniable majority of apps, if you had to categorize them, fell into the “Social Networking” department. This seems like...
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Twitter Opens Their Messaging Platform
via Stay N' Alive by Jesse Stay on January 15, 2008
Today, in the first post on the new Twitter Technology Blog, Alex Payne announced that Twitter is releasing their underlying messaging platform, which they call, “Starling”, to the community. From the announcement it appears Starling is the basis for handling all communication underne
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Make3D --- convert your images to 3d
via MAKE: Blog by philliptorrone on January 28, 2008
Stanford's 3D tool where you can upload your own 2D image and make it 3D (site seems to be getting hammered at the moment)- Make3D converts your single picture into a 3-D model. It takes a two-dimensional image and creates a three-dimensional "fly around" model, giving the viewers access to the scene's depth and a range of points of view.It uses powerful machine learning techniques (more...
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Twitter Apps
via Fimoculous.com by rex@fimoculous.com on February 01, 2008
Some good new Twitter apps: Twitter 100 (shows 100 of your friends on one page), Tweet Scan (search Twitter), Favotter (shows everyone who has favorited you), Tweetmeme (tracks popular links), Twitterverse (big Twitter tag cloud), and Politweets (tracks candidate name references).
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Microsoft's World Wide Telescope Demo Video
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on March 02, 2008
Microsoft's World Wide Telescope is a web connected desktop app that renders a tiled tour of high resolution, zoomable images of the entire night sky, woven together from a number of different telescopes and satellites. It leverages a "3D teraserver visualization engine." Robert Scoble's first interview at Fast Company TV is with Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay, who worked on the project. ...
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Google Reader’s new “share note” feature: the video review
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble One thing is FriendFeed now says it is importing these headlines. I wish these comments had a LOT more features.I love the idea of Google Reader’s new “share note” feature, but find it lacking in implementation — watch along in this video review.What’s really wrong with it?1. It’s breaking on my machines. No way to cancel note that I can see, and UI is not...
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waayt!
via Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? by ichctcf on May 20, 2008
waayt! hugz befo u go?yep. u gots it.picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: pip » Recaption This
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