Futurology

Android and iPhone Augmented Reality apps

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:04:34 -0800

I have just found some mobile augmented reality apps for Android and iPhone mobiles.

which are based on the

augmented reality API's !

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Cuil - the next Google ?

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:00:57 -0700

Cuil is the world’s biggest search engine.

The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now.
Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as M$.

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Looking familiar

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:57:18 -0700

The largest car maker in the land was effectively nationalized. It then killed more brands and product lines, even ones that could have survived.
   Chrysler, hanging on to unloved mainstream sedans such as the Avenger, was in a deep crisis and needed a European manufacturer to take over its operations.
   Ford, resisting the urge to go cap in hand to the government, stayed its course and solidified its market share, despite its own union troubles. It managed to shore things up and grow from there.
   USA 2009? No, UK in the 1970s.
   This is not a political post—it’s just pointing out how history repeats itself. I also have a funny feeling the US scenario will play out the same way as the UK one did.
   British Leyland was broken up further and its “volume” operations—despite making fewer cars than London Taxis International—are owned by the Chinese state.
   Chrysler UK no longer exists. Its plants wound up making Peugeots.
   Ford UK might not be as strong today as in the 1980s, but it still has a good market share.

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DailyMe’s 3rd Release is Live Today

nobody@vox.com(DailyMe) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:44:20 -0700

Today we are unveiling our latest release of DailyMe, featuring better personalization technology, a new community area and our much awaited behavioral recommendation engine, Newstogram™, both on DailyMe.com and in our Publisher Solutions Suite. Newstogram™ lets you see the categories, people, companies and topics you’ve been reading about and will make story recommendations based on your interests. Newstogram™ recommendations are made in the ‘Headline News for You’ area in the center of our home page and also in the right rail of most other pages.

Our latest version has furthered our efforts to provide individual users with personally relevant news. It also encompasses a community area where users can discover and share news among one another. It further advances the user-centric approach that DailyMe believes will best serve news audiences.

We’ve given the site a new design and layout and added some key functionality to the left rail of every page. Among the new features, you should note:

• Track-It - Easy, one-click system to track news from anywhere on DailyMe.

• My Beat - Your place to clip articles from DailyMe or from any other website and share your news with others. You can even write articles and post them to your Beat.

• My Community - Discover news that interests you through other user-editors and the news they clip or write.

• Multiple Digest Delivery - You can now schedule delivery of your news by topic, day and time (business news in the morning, sports and tech in the afternoon, perhaps).

Enjoy!
http://DailyMe.com

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Join DailyMe on our Facebook Fan Page

nobody@vox.com(DailyMe) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:57:06 -0700

Our Facebook Fan Page is live and ready for action. Join us over there for discussions, humor and banter on... just about anything. Our DailyMe team members check in and comment on our weekly discussions and posts from the fans.

Here's the link:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/DailyMe/255985420456

We look forward to seeing you over there!

- Lisa

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Probe

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:30:00 -0700

Here are some more neat finds on YouTube. I have only a vague recollection of this show, but I might be confusing with others that had fake computer messages going across the screen (The Invisible Man, The Gemini Man, The Incredible Hulk, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, etc.). Apparently, it was originally entitled Probe, but was retitled Search (possibly due to a conflict with another TV series). It didn’t last, due to a producer change and the idea of a revolving star each week (mixing between Hugh O’Brian, Doug McClure and Tony Franciosa). But the theme music and titles are great (note the use of the MICR typeface) and very early 1970s. They also hint at the optimism people had toward technology as a tool to aid mankind, in this case, an agency specializing in searches.

Probe title sequence 1972

Search TV Intro

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A New DailyMe is Coming Soon

nobody@vox.com(DailyMe) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:41:45 -0700

It’s been a while since you’ve heard from us, because we’ve been busy planning, designing, and building a more enhanced and more personalized news experience for you at DailyMe.

We’ll be adding new community features including the ability to discover news through user-editors in the DailyMe community and a means for you to create and publish a digest of news you’ve clipped, commented on or written to share with others. You’ll get a more comprehensive and relevant view of your news and you’ll notice the difference from the moment you start clicking around.

Here’s a quick summary of what to expect in our upcoming latest version ofDailyMe:

· Related News: Recommends articles and stories based on the context and combination of the stories you read.

· One Click to Track News: An easy way for you to track and follow news with a single click from anywhere on our site.

· My Web Page: A webpage just for you; Clip articles from all over the web and share your news with others.

· My Editors’ News: Discover news that interests you by following user-editors and the news they clip.

· Multiple Digest Delivery: Schedule delivery of your news by topic, day and time.

· Enhanced Layout and Design: We’ve improved our interface to provide a better experience for you.

Stay tuned – we’ll be making an announcement in the next few weeks.

- Lisa

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Classic tales in Tweet form

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:02:21 -0700

My friend Marie Young Tweeted about two 19-year-olds getting a book deal. As far as I can make out, as the article is not clear about it, they are rewriting 20 classics in Twitter form.
So, does that mean we will get the following (as I Tweeted back to Marie)?

@flyinglens I wonder, e.g. Cinderella: nasty stepsisters! Gone to ball, OMG, left shoe behind! Prince C. brings it back. Thank goodness!

@flyinglens Or, Pride & Prejudice: Mum tried to hook Jane up. Darcy can be an SOB, but he does good stuff, cool! Nice ring! Yay Gardiners!

Scary stuff.

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Saab can reach for the sun, under Christian von Koenigsegg

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:39:13 -0700

[Cross-posted] I never expected this a few years ago, but a few weeks ago, it was becoming more likely: Koenigsegg will buy Saab, says The New York Times.
GM and Koenigsegg say there is now a memorandum of understanding, contingent on loans from the European Investment Bank, guaranteed by the Swedish government.
I am conﬁdent. Christian von Koenigsegg strikes me, in the conversation I had with him some years ago, as someone who is not afraid to answer questions directly. He is accessible, and he loves cars.
People also had doubts about how Jaguar and Land Rover would ﬁt with Tata, which made subcompact cars and heavy trucks in India. Yet, Tata has shown a readiness to push forward new models that Ford never had the guts to do. We need to look at the management style and the national culture. continued

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The next XJ

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:37:05 -0700

Someone at Jaguar’s ad agency in London sent me a link to this today: an interview with Jaguar design boss, Ian Callum, on the next XJ saloon.

All New XJ—Ian Callum Interview

This may well be the most anticipated saloon launch this year. I can’t wait to see what the new car looks like, especially as it will be very different to the Arthur Daley–John Prescott type.

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