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  • Downloads transform iPhone into handy tool

    Downloads transform iPhone into handy tool – The Boston Globe. Definitely get apps: where, stanza, recorder Related articles Asahi Launches iPhone Application Development Services in New York (prweb.com) iPhone 5 Travels 20,096 Miles Before Ending Up in Your Hands [INFOGRAPHIC] Mashable iPhone 5 Travels 20,096 Miles Before Ending Up in Your Hands [INFOGRAPHIC] | The…

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  • Study points to hazard of driver iPods

    Study points to hazard of driver iPods – The Boston Globe. Interesting research at UMASS human factors lab. 2 seconds is the amount of time at which people fiddling with an ipod in their car will triple their liklihood of an accident. Related articles How to test the usability of wireframes. | Loop11 (loop11.com)

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  • Creating Flow: Jenova Chen’s games

    Welcome to Jenova Chen’s Homepage. This guy has invented a game that creates the feelings of Flow which are found by psychologists to promote health and well being. Related articles Hit List Q&A: Jenova Chen, thatgamecompany President (joystiq.com) Journey wins the GameCity Prize 2012 (telegraph.co.uk) Emotional experience through a gameplay world (brainygamer.com) Crafting wonder (brainygamer.com)

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  • Click to translate: computational linguistics hits its stride

      Click to translate – The Boston Globe.   Related articles   Breakthrough Linguistic Ventures – The Microsoft Speech Translator is Debuted at Asian-Based Seminar (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com) Linguistics tool simultaneously compares multiple translations of Othello (wired.co.uk) Language is shaped by brain’s desire for clarity and ease (eurekalert.org) pattern, a Python web mining and NLP tool…

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  • Obama Uses Social Networking for Content Focused Campaign

      This is amongst the rare elections in my experience where the Democrats have succeeded in communications and this is due to Obama’s clever use of social networking technologies, as this MIT article describes. While McCain and Palin continue to use their crudely effective cliche sound bytes to attract less knowledgeable voters, Obama/Biden are proving…

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  • KMWorld & Intranets

    KMWorld & Intranets 2008. Related articles Search Technologies Named to KMWorld’s 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management (prweb.com) Mindbreeze InSite Wins KMWorld Trendsetting Product Award (arnoldit.com) Smartlogic’s Semaphore, the Open Semantic Platform, Has Been Named by KMWorld as a Trend-Setting Product of 2010 (prweb.com) KMWorld Recognizes TheBrain Technologies Knowledge Management Software as a Trend-Setting…

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  • Christopher Tennant: Ethnography of the very rich

    The laugh of luxury – The Boston Globe. This is hilarious. This guy went to the best schools and grew up around the rich and now has written a funny ethnography of what it is like to be one of the rich. Turns out they are even more neurotic, stressed, and unkempt than the rest…

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  • The Political Mind by George Lakoff

    Book Review – ‘The Political Mind,’ by George Lakoff – Review – NYTimes.com. Related articles Obama and Warren cribbed “build it” narrative from progressive Berkeley Professor (legalinsurrection.com) Obama, Warren’s “You Didn’t Build That” Meme Taken From LeftProg Berkeley Professor (sfcmac.wordpress.com) All Together Now – Political Metaphors – 08/16/12 (prn.fm)

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  • USC Creative Technologies and Media degrees

    Degree Programs. This is an interesting MS in compsci which focuses on multimedia and creative technologies. Related articles Hawaii vs. USC: TV Schedule, Live Stream, Radio, Game Time and More (bleacherreport.com) Where Competency-Based Degree Programs Work (insidehighered.com) Hey, I’m over here: Men and women see things differently (eurekalert.org) Robotica (wired.com) USC Develops Robot With Tactile…

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  • Understanding the customer experience with social networks

    Hurry up, the customer has a complaint – The Boston Globe. A number of companies are now developing positions such as Chief Twitter Officer, Chief Facebook officer, LinkedIn, YouTube etc. due to the growth of customer feedback in online web 2.0 communities and the need to address it. Related articles The 8 Things You Should…

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  • Infoporn: Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer

    Infoporn: Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer. This article argues that each hyperlink in the internet is like a synapse in the brain which now results in the internet having the computational power of a brain. Related articles Building a virtual supercomputer (thehindu.com) AMD unveils teraflop FirePro GPU (zdnet.com) The smartphone is the PC of…

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  • For California man, life is smooth sailing

    For California man, life is smooth sailing – The Boston Globe. Wow. This guy lives on 500 a month on a boat. Related articles All sides: Keep houseboat case alive (scotusblog.com) Design Ideas from Dreamy House Boats (apartmenttherapy.com) Living in a Houseboat (graphicsoflight.wordpress.com) Sweet Pea: A Tiny Green Houseboat Jetson Green (apartmenttherapy.com) Houseboat Life (justalittlebrit.wordpress.com)…

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