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David After Dentist | Know Your Meme
David After Dentist | Know Your Meme
On January 30th, 2009, Youtube user booba1234 posted the video David After Dentist. The video stars the user’s son David, just after having oral surgery to remove an extra tooth during the summer of 2008. According to Booba1234, David was very nervous about the surgery and so his father decided to videotape a before-and-after to make him feel better. Following the surgery, young David was high as a kite, and the rest… is history. Within just a week of its posting, David After Dentist racked up over five million views, numerous remixes, and many, many reposts of the original. At the time it was one of the fastest-growing viral videos to date (not adjusted for internet inflation)
#meme#youtube#culture
·knowyourmeme.com·
David After Dentist | Know Your Meme
MASHe » Blog Archive » Twitter + voting/polling + Yahoo Pipes = TwEVS (The Making Of)
MASHe » Blog Archive » Twitter + voting/polling + Yahoo Pipes = TwEVS (The Making Of)
Recently David Muir of EdCompBlog was looking for a way to use Twitter as a personal response systems (also known as audience response systems, electronic voting systems, clickers …). I’ve previously covered this technology in DIY: A wi-fi student respons
#pipes#twitter#data#cybersalonaz#mashup#hznmc#hz10
·rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk·
MASHe » Blog Archive » Twitter + voting/polling + Yahoo Pipes = TwEVS (The Making Of)
MediaShift Idea Lab . How Talking into a Mobile Phone Can Help Change Lives | PBS
MediaShift Idea Lab . How Talking into a Mobile Phone Can Help Change Lives | PBS
Voice has a big advantage over SMS and data transmissions because it channels spoken language directly. People of varying literacy levels are able to use voice technology with keypad and voice navigation, and this means applications can be run in local languages. Users can issue commands and requests and thus communicate more effectively. The downside of using voice comes on the receiving end. Voice data is much harder to process than text or other data. It requires considerable technical effort (or a lot of people power) to parse and separate voice data. Even then, the accuracy isn't perfect. Searching through voice data also remains a near-impossible feat. On top of that, airtime costs tend to run higher with voice than for text message. Yet, even with these challenges, there are several notable projects that leverage the voice capabilities of mobile phones to deliver important information in interesting ways.
#mobiles#mobile#nmcfuture#hznmc#hz10
·pbs.org·
MediaShift Idea Lab . How Talking into a Mobile Phone Can Help Change Lives | PBS
Ipseity Personal Branding Wordpress Theme – Human3rror – I Break Stuff.
Ipseity Personal Branding Wordpress Theme – Human3rror – I Break Stuff.
“Ipseity” means selfhood, or individual identity. I couldn’t think of a better name for the theme (and I wanted something original). It’s powered by Wordpress, it’s super light weight, around 150kb total file size (without background images), only 3 .php files, 1 .css file, and 2 essential .gifs (the arrow keys), and a js folder for the side-scrolling action. It’s also easily styled with H1/H2/H3 tags and you can add images… heck, you could even make it a photo portfolio with style!
#wordpress#free
·human3rror.com·
Ipseity Personal Branding Wordpress Theme – Human3rror – I Break Stuff.
Ipseity Personal Branding Wordpress Theme – Human3rror – I Break Stuff.
Ipseity Personal Branding Wordpress Theme – Human3rror – I Break Stuff.
“Ipseity” means selfhood, or individual identity. I couldn’t think of a better name for the theme (and I wanted something original). It’s powered by Wordpress, it’s super light weight, around 150kb total file size (without background images), only 3 .php
#wordpress#free
·human3rror.com·
Ipseity Personal Branding Wordpress Theme – Human3rror – I Break Stuff.
Helvetireader
Helvetireader
Helvetireader is a userscript that pares down Google Reader to what I consider to be the essentials. In particular, it's made for looking at just unread feeds in the expanded view, using Keyboard Shortcuts instead of on-screen buttons. It’s not going to suit how everyone uses Google Reader, so you can take the CSS and personalise to your hearts content!
#google#design
·helvetireader.com·
Helvetireader
IEBlog : Preventing Operation Aborted Scenarios
IEBlog : Preventing Operation Aborted Scenarios
Nearly a year-and-a-half ago, I blogged about an error that can occur on some websites that generate content via script. This content can cause Internet Explorer’s HTML parser to get into an unrecoverable state, which makes it doubly-hard to find and diagnose why this error is happening. When this state occurs, the HTML parser cannot continue, and simply throws up its hands and admits: “Operation aborted!”
#javascript#web#webdesign
·blogs.msdn.com·
IEBlog : Preventing Operation Aborted Scenarios
The Wired Campus - Google Hands Out Cellphones, Hoping Students Will Build Better Apps - The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Wired Campus - Google Hands Out Cellphones, Hoping Students Will Build Better Apps - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Google has donated cellphones to 11 colleges and universities for use in introductory computer-science courses this fall, hoping that students will build some interesting applications for the company's cellphone software. Each college has received 20 HTC phones loaded with Google’s Android operating system, which the company says allows students with no programming experience to create applications for sites like Facebook and Twitter.
#google#mobiles#mobile#hz10#hznmc#android
·chronicle.com·
The Wired Campus - Google Hands Out Cellphones, Hoping Students Will Build Better Apps - The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Wired Campus - Google Hands Out Cellphones, Hoping Students Will Build Better Apps - The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Wired Campus - Google Hands Out Cellphones, Hoping Students Will Build Better Apps - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Google has donated cellphones to 11 colleges and universities for use in introductory computer-science courses this fall, hoping that students will build some interesting applications for the company's cellphone software. Each college has received 20 HTC
#google#mobiles#mobile#hz10#hznmc#android
·chronicle.com·
The Wired Campus - Google Hands Out Cellphones, Hoping Students Will Build Better Apps - The Chronicle of Higher Education
HeadSPIN: A One-to-Many 3D Video Teleconferencing System on Vimeo
HeadSPIN: A One-to-Many 3D Video Teleconferencing System on Vimeo
This installation presents a 3D teleconferencing system that enables true eye contact between a three-dimensionally transmitted subject and multiple participants in an audience. The system is able to reproduce the effects of gaze, attention, and eye contact not available in traditional teleconferencing systems.
#video#communication#3d#collaboration#hz10#hznmc
·vimeo.com·
HeadSPIN: A One-to-Many 3D Video Teleconferencing System on Vimeo
Online collaboration: LotusLive
Online collaboration: LotusLive
LotusLive provides integrated social networking and collaboration services to simplify and improve your daily business interactions with customers, partners and colleagues. Work seamlessly with people inside and outside your organization and streamline communications. LotusLive was designed with your business' security in mind and includes exciting features such as e-mail, Web conferencing, instant messaging, social networking and more. Accessible through a Web browser, LotusLive is available anywhere, anytime.
#cloudcomputing#business#networking#software#collaboration#hz10#hznmc#hz09biz
·lotuslive.com·
Online collaboration: LotusLive
IBM - Smarter Business and Smarter Technology for a Smarter Planet
IBM - Smarter Business and Smarter Technology for a Smarter Planet
On a smaller, flatter, faster planet, we increasingly find ourselves working with people far outside our company walls: partners, suppliers, customers and remote employees. IBM is leveraging new tools like social software, wikis, blogs, and presence awareness throughout its collaboration portfolio. LotusLive™ combines these capabilities in the cloud to make it easy for people to reach beyond their physical boundaries.
#nmcfuture#socialmedia#hz10#hznmc#hz09biz#cloudcomputing#hzk10#hz10k12
·www-03.ibm.com·
IBM - Smarter Business and Smarter Technology for a Smarter Planet
YikeBike - The world's first super light electric folding bike. | Urban Freedom
YikeBike - The world's first super light electric folding bike. | Urban Freedom
YikeBike is a statement about using smart technology to solve the problems of our increasingly congested, polluted, stressful cities. It is the first commercial expression of the mini-farthing concept, created up by a bunch of successful entrepreneurs, engineers and dreamers. We sat down to try and answer:
#green#nmcfuture#bicycle#innovation
·yikebike.com·
YikeBike - The world's first super light electric folding bike. | Urban Freedom
Storytelling and Web 2.0 Services: A synthesis of old and new ways of learning
Storytelling and Web 2.0 Services: A synthesis of old and new ways of learning
Storytelling was for a long period the only way people had to learn from each other’s experiences. Even today there are still some cultures which have a strong storytelling tradition. In this article we present the outcomes and experiences we acquired during the realization of several EU educational projects in which we combined storytelling and Web 2.0 services.
#storytelling#web2.0#web2storytelling
·elearningpapers.eu·
Storytelling and Web 2.0 Services: A synthesis of old and new ways of learning
Cloud Intelligence
Cloud Intelligence
Jules Verne published his novel at the dawn of industrialised globalisation, when the steam engine and the colonial conquests of Europe made it possible for the first time to circumnavigate the planet in relative comfort, and in less than three months. In the 125 years since, the pace of globalisation has accelerated exponentially. This flood of globalisation has carried the economic and environmental crises to almost every corner of the world. Are these crises an inevitable part of human nature? Or is it possible to shape a new connected consciousness to tackle global problems collectively and equitably? Welcome to new the social ecology of the 21st century. Welcome to mobile banking from a New York taxi cab direct to rural Kenya. Welcome to the wild wondrous web of blogs, podcasts, mailing lists and streaming video from camera phones the size of credit cards. All instant and all the time. The world has changed. We have changed.
#cloudcomputing#hz10#hz09au#hznmc#hz09biz#nmcfuture#socialmedia#future#hzk10#hz10k12
·cloud.aec.at·
Cloud Intelligence
DataMasher
DataMasher
How do the States Compare? Mash up some government data to find out! The Federal Government produces an immeasurable amount of data each day. DataMasher helps citizens have a little fun with those data by creating mashups to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare on important issues. Users can combine different data sets in interesting ways and create their own custom rankings of the states.
#data#analytics#visualization#database#mashup#hz10#hznmc#hzk10#hz10k12
·datamasher.org·
DataMasher
Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design | Tactical Technology Collective
Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design | Tactical Technology Collective
Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design is a manual aimed at helping NGOs and advocates strengthen their campaigns and projects through communicating vital information with greater impact. This project aims to raise awareness, introduce concepts, and promote good practice in information design – a powerful tool for advocacy, outreach, research, organization and education.
#design#analytics#visualization#graphics#infographics#nmcreading
·tacticaltech.org·
Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design | Tactical Technology Collective
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog
At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our costs low. After looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we decided to build our own custom Backblaze Storage Pods: 67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867. In this post, we’ll share how to make one of these storage pods, and you’re welcome to use this design. Our hope is that by sharing, others can benefit and, ultimately, refine this concept and send improvements back to us. Evolving and lowering costs is critical to our continuing success at Backblaze.
#design#opensource#howto#technology#cloudcomputing#hznmc#hz10#hz09au#hzk10#hz10k12
·blog.backblaze.com·
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog
At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our costs low. After looking at several overpriced commerci
#design#opensource#howto#technology#cloudcomputing#hznmc#hz10#hz09au#hzk10#hz10k12
·blog.backblaze.com·
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog
U.S. Online Video Market Soars in July as Summer Vacation Drives Pickup in Entertainment and Leisure Activities Online - comScore, Inc
U.S. Online Video Market Soars in July as Summer Vacation Drives Pickup in Entertainment and Leisure Activities Online - comScore, Inc
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released July 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that 158 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month, the largest audience ever recorded. Online video reached another all-time high in July with a total of 21.4 billion videos viewed during the month.
#statistics#video#online#hznmc
·comscore.com·
U.S. Online Video Market Soars in July as Summer Vacation Drives Pickup in Entertainment and Leisure Activities Online - comScore, Inc