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52 Cool Facts About Social Media - Danny Brown
52 Cool Facts About Social Media - Danny Brown
As social media continues to gain acceptance as a bona-fide communications platform, I thought it might be fun to have a cool fact about it for every week of the year. So, here are ten facts about the five most well-known social media outlets – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and blogging – with two more bonus facts thrown in just for fun. (And to get to the figure of a fact a week for a year).
#facebook#socialmedia#socialnetworking#statistics#trends#hznmc#hz10#hz10mu#hzk10#MarcusInstitute#midea#cooltech#nmfs_f10
·dannybrown.me·
52 Cool Facts About Social Media - Danny Brown
Rhizome | Art in Your Pocket 2 : Media Art for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad Graduates To The Next Level
Rhizome | Art in Your Pocket 2 : Media Art for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad Graduates To The Next Level
In the summer of 2009, I wrote an article here at Rhizome about the burgeoning activities of media artists creating new works or updating versions of their older interactive screen-based projects for Apple's iPhone and iTouch mobile devices. As the article made its way throughout the blogosphere, comments surfaced ranging from criticism of the "closed world of Apple's App Store and iPhone devices" to a championing of the availability of inexpensive multi-touch technology now available to artists who had been waiting for a platform that could adequately display and allow for the type of interaction their projects demanded. A year after the article came out, the draw of these devices and their potentially expansive audience has become even more irresistible to artists enough so that several more "apps" have surfaced. The following article catalogs several new iPhone works which have emerged over the past year, works that are pioneering the next generation of portable media art.
#art#ipad#iphone#mobiles#mobile#newmedia#hznmc#hz10mu#MarcusInstitute#midea#cooltech#hz10#hzk10
·rhizome.org·
Rhizome | Art in Your Pocket 2 : Media Art for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad Graduates To The Next Level
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butterscotch
butterscotch.com is your fresh, friendly, smart and sticky portal into the world of technology. We help you do more with the tech you already own and turn you on to the latest and greatest in language everyone can understand. We promise not to talk down to you and to only talk up the most interesting and impactful software, trends, news, gadgets and gear if you promise to come back often. Have a look around and see what sticks!
#howto#resources#technology#web2.0#cooltech
·butterscotch.com·
butterscotch
New Media Initiatives » Building the Walker’s mobile website with Google AppEngine, part 1
New Media Initiatives » Building the Walker’s mobile website with Google AppEngine, part 1
Over the summer, our department made a small but significant policy change. We decided to take a cue from Google’s 20% time philosophy and spend one day a week working on a Walker-related project of our choosing. Essentially, we wanted to embark on quicker, more nimble projects that hold more interest for our team. The project I decided to experiment with was making a mobile website for the Walker, m.walkerart.org.
#art#museum#mobiles#mobile#hznmc#hz10#hz10mu#cooltech
·blogs.walkerart.org·
New Media Initiatives » Building the Walker’s mobile website with Google AppEngine, part 1
ConnectTweet - Groups and businesses are made up of many people, ConnectTweet combines your voices on Twitter.
ConnectTweet - Groups and businesses are made up of many people, ConnectTweet combines your voices on Twitter.
ConnectTweet facilitates your voices combining. More on why I built ConnectTweet here. For example... say people at the front lines inside your company add a #tag to their company relevant tweets, ConnectTweet can suck them up and post them to @yourorg's Twitter account allowing the company's followers to clearly see the human voices on the inside. ConnectTweet allows the contributors to your central Twitter stream to continue to use their personal accounts that they are familiar with, no new logins to remember. This approach also allows your organization's followers to discover the Twitter streams of the unique individuals that make up your company.
#app#collaboration#microblogging#twitter#tools#socialnetworking#cooltech#hznmc#hz10#hz10mu#hz10ib#hz10anz
·connecttweet.com·
ConnectTweet - Groups and businesses are made up of many people, ConnectTweet combines your voices on Twitter.
Optical character recognition (OCR) in Google Docs - Official Google Docs Blog
Optical character recognition (OCR) in Google Docs - Official Google Docs Blog
What we launched as an experimental feature for the Documents List Data API last year is now available on the upload page: check the “Convert text from PDF or image files to Google Docs documents”, upload your scanned images (JPEG, GIF, PNG) or PDFs, and Google Docs will extract text and formatting from the scans for you to edit away.
#cloudcomputing#google#pdf#tools#ocr#cooltech#cybersalonaz
·googledocs.blogspot.com·
Optical character recognition (OCR) in Google Docs - Official Google Docs Blog
25+ Extremely Useful Tricks for the WordPress Functions File
25+ Extremely Useful Tricks for the WordPress Functions File
In your WordPress theme folder, there lays the most powerful theme file known as functions.php. As the name suggests, this file adds unique functions to your WordPress installation. This file works just like a plugin within your theme. So you can modify/override WordPress core features without editing any core file. If used correctly, this file can do wonders for your WordPress site. It also speeds up development because you can have all the codes at one place. In this article, we will share some of the most incredible and most wanted tricks for the WordPress functions.php file.
#howto#php#wordpress#cooltech
·wpbeginner.com·
25+ Extremely Useful Tricks for the WordPress Functions File
Find Health, Education, Science & Technology Articles, Reviews, How-To and Tech Tips At Bright Hub - Apply To Be A Writer Today!
Find Health, Education, Science & Technology Articles, Reviews, How-To and Tech Tips At Bright Hub - Apply To Be A Writer Today!
Bright Hub’s goal is simple: share knowledge about how the simplest scientific idea evolves into tomorrow’s technology. With an expert writer network and an active community of life-long enthusiasts Bright Hub provides a level of technology transparency rarely seen in high tech. The team of writers and managing editors utilize deep domain expertise to focus on creating valuable information for both novice and advanced consumers. With a content inventory of thousands of science and technology articles, software and hardware reviews, buyer’s guides, blog entries and forum discussions, Bright Hub is able to provide readers with a dependable resource to make informative technology decisions.
#blog#community#technology#news#reference#writing#cooltech
·brighthub.com·
Find Health, Education, Science & Technology Articles, Reviews, How-To and Tech Tips At Bright Hub - Apply To Be A Writer Today!
Truveo Video Search
Truveo Video Search
Truveo is one of the largest video search engines on the Web and the most comprehensive search engine for video, making it possible for consumers to search and browse through over 300 million videos from thousands of sources across the Web. Truveo is the search engine that powers many of the Web's most popular video destinations. Truveo currently powers video search for AOL Video, AOL Search, Brightcove, CBS RADIO sites, Clevver, CSTV, Excite, Flock, Infospace, Kosmix, Microsoft Corporation, Pageflakes, PureVideo, Qwest, CNET's Search.com, Sportingo, Sports Illustrated, Widgetbox, YourMinis, and hundreds of other applications worldwide reaching an audience of over 75 million users a month.
#search#video#web2.0#cooltech#cybersalonaz
·truveo.com·
Truveo Video Search
Mattress Factory | Weblog: QR Codes : A Visitor's Resource Guide
Mattress Factory | Weblog: QR Codes : A Visitor's Resource Guide
As a follow-up to Lindsay's post from yesterday, I thought I'd provide some background and resources for visitors who might like to participate with the QR technology we've recently rolled-out in the galleries. The symbol you see to the below is a QR code, or two-dimensional bar code that contains information. QR codes can be read by most 3G mobile phones with a camera and bar code-reading application. The "QR" stands for "Quick Response," because the information contained in the code can be quickly, easily and reliably accessed in a matter of seconds. In an attempt to reduce the quantity of printed gallery guides we produce, we've placed several of these codes throughout the museum. Each code contains different information; some access video of artists talking about the piece the visitor is viewing or video of the artist installing the work, some display still images and background information, while others contain short anecdotal text messages about the pieces they are near.
#tagging#tools#cooltech#museum#hz10mu
·artyoucangetinto.blogspot.com·
Mattress Factory | Weblog: QR Codes : A Visitor's Resource Guide
HackCollege - Student-Powered Lifehacking
HackCollege - Student-Powered Lifehacking
Lectures are boring and inefficient. Long hours spent studying hand-written notes is very 1994. Anyone graduating today needs to know not how to operate a computer, but when. The fault is both with the students and the teachers. HackCollege is changing education. HackCollege is educating the students of the world about effective, open source software, putting techno-political arguments in everyday language, and creating a cult of "Students 2.0." If we can change the way 1 percent of college students and faculty in the world view education and technology, we've done our job.
#blogs#education#howto#productivity#student#cooltech#cybersalonaz#secretrevolution
·hackcollege.com·
HackCollege - Student-Powered Lifehacking
Building a Better Submission Form - Open Blog - NYTimes.com
Building a Better Submission Form - Open Blog - NYTimes.com
f you participated in our invitation to photograph a “Moment in Time” earlier in May, you used our new photo submission software, which we call Stuffy. Built to enable users to upload media files — and to allow our producers to review uploaded files quickly — Stuffy uses a “NoSQL” storage engine to make customized forms simple. In the application, a form serves two purposes: to tell the application what fields to display in the form, and to collect submissions for the application. So we made the move to a simple NoSQL storage engine — a schema-less, fully customizable data store. Each document can have its own set of fields, but there’s none of the traditional overhead of relational database systems. Document-oriented databases also offer speed and scalability, which is a high priority for NYTimes.com.
#programming#ruby#webdesign#cms#cooltech
·open.blogs.nytimes.com·
Building a Better Submission Form - Open Blog - NYTimes.com
jQuery Slider Plugin, jQuery SlideShow, Free Slideshow Software Download | SlideDeck
jQuery Slider Plugin, jQuery SlideShow, Free Slideshow Software Download | SlideDeck
The goal of SlideDeck, our newest digital product, is to make it easier for users to digest and understand the content of a website. We have developed a formula that storyboards a process, product, service or other subject matter and applies a simple format to best understand the content and make a decision regarding it. SlideDeck was designed to replace the web’s current model of text heavy services pages, unclear product tours and confusing process diagrams with a fun, quick and beautiful way to interact with websites.
#ajax#design#plugin#wordpress#slideshow#cooltech#cybersalonaz
·slidedeck.com·
jQuery Slider Plugin, jQuery SlideShow, Free Slideshow Software Download | SlideDeck