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  • Songza: like Pandora but with a dose of cultural insight

    I’ve been enjoying Songza recently which is like Pandora but driven by social intelligence Songza – Listen to Music Curated by Music Experts.

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  • Icewall One: pod shaped living quarters that can survive anything

    These things look indestructible. Icewall One – Designers of the Igloo Satellite Cabin, PolyPod Snowcamper and other polar field equipment . Related articles Will Apple kill off the iPod Classic? (reviews.cnet.com) Line 6 Pod HD Pro? or Avid Eleven Rack? (gearslutz.com) Halley VI research station, Antarctica – review (guardian.co.uk)

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  • iPhone GPS apps showdown

    I have no idea how I got around without this stuff.. Apps with Maps: 11 iPhone GPS apps compared | Macworld. Related articles Appmosphere, Inc. Releases Revamped Coupon App (prweb.com) Bad Elf Dongle Adds GPS To Non-Cellular iDevices (cultofmac.com) CoPilot GPS review: You can argue with free (reviews.cnet.com) Profit By Search Has Now Made Available…

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  • Using video to re-invent education (TEDTalks)

      An excellent overview of the potential of online video to re-invent education by hedge fund analyst and creator Salman Khan.   Salman Khan: Lets use video to reinvent education | Video on TED.com.   Related articles   Let’s use video to reinvent education: Salman Khan on TED.com (ted.com) An Olympic phenom gives out gold, silver…

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  • Scoot: a better way to get to work

    scoot. Related articles First Impressions on a First Flight on Scoot, Singapore’s Newest Airline (jaunted.com) To Skate or to Scoot (5min.com) Scoot’s smoothest moves (todayonline.com) Have you heard of Scoot? (teacherlingo.com) Top Two Achievable Apps for the Electric Motorcycle (tsrperformance.com) Proposed e-bike ban sparks debate (blogs.windsorstar.com) WITH VID: E-bike debate picks up speed in Windsor…

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  • Health problems of victims of Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear plant take years to appear

    Popular movies like the new Chernobyl film point to a disturbing trend: Many of the residents of radiation exposure such as Chernobyl and Fukushima experience long term health problems such as thyroid disease, heart disease, heart valve/vascular disease that take decades to appear leaving them disabled and requiring disability benefits but with little sources of support.…

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  • BleepingComputer Discussion Forums

    BleepingComputer Discussion Forums. Related articles Is Your Computer Infected? If So, These 3 Forums Could Be Your Lifeline (makeuseof.com) Cloud computing: 9 in 10 are positive on it, survey says (zdnet.com) Cloud Computing is Having a Disruptive Impact on Sales (customerthink.com) Giving great technical support at a small software company without being swamped (successfulsoftware.net) Tech…

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  • SonicRim | Global Design Research

    SonicRim | Global Design Research. Related articles Sharp debuts custom Feel UX for AQUOS line Is UX Strategy Fundamentally Incompatible with Agile or Lean UX? Using Neuroscience to Inform Your UX Strategy and Design UX Strategy: The Heart of User-Centered Design How to Calculate the ROI of UX Using Metrics Stakeholder Research Precedes UX Research…

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  • MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining

    MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining This new center, part of the MIT Human Dynamics group, studies the ways we can use millions of sensors in portable devices already in common use to actually measure human behavior in real time. So, the end of psychology, the beginning of digital anthropology. Related articles Social Robots May Gain…

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  • Mzinga, Inc. | The Leader In Social Software & Analytics Solutions

    Mzinga, Inc. | The Leader In Social Software & Analytics Solutions. another web 2.0 instant social networking market research tool Related articles OmniSocial Launched By Mzinga Insight on social software and big data analytics IDC: Analytics a $51B business by 2016 thanks to big data Big Data is a Big Confusion Webinar: Demo of Survey…

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  • Jan Chipchase: Future Perfect ethnographic design research

    Future Perfect » Everything’s Rosy. Related articles Jan Chipchase: Smart Service Design Needs A New Language For Anonymity (fastcodesign.com) chipchase chitchat (wklondon.typepad.com) Learning how to listen (slideshare.net) Using Drone for Ethnographic Research? Not Yet. (w5blog.com) Ethnographic Practice in Industry (qrfrag.blogspot.com) Ethnography in the public eye; a few lessons along the way (blogs.lse.ac.uk) User experiences (ethnographymatters.net)…

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  • The Alliance for Green Heat: finally some kind of objective analysis of biofuel stoves

    The Alliance for Green Heat. It seemed impossible to find any kind of standardized analysis of biofuel, pellet or other wood burning stoves which are immersed in a kind of cloud of owner loyalties. Fortunately I at least found this site which provides a good summary of some of the models. Enviro mini appears to…

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