How often do you ask your peers for cool iPad Apps? And, how often do you request hot new Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare Apps from your friends? Until now, the App world has been a messy place: millions of apps floating in the cloud, never receiving attention. But we see some new technologies pop-up that will show you cool, peer recommended Apps…
Quixey, a Mountain View based startup – which has raised $400,000 in seed funding from Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors- got closer to that goal, with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Foursquare integration
Apps developed on the APIs for these social networks are now searchable via Quixey.com. The Quixey engine now boasts an index of apps from about 20 platforms.
This digital era makes us connected to each other, to knowledge and to a limitless amount of information. So much information even, that we just can’t process is. So from text we sailed towards mindmaps, and then we had to capture everything into video’s.
But nowadays we have so much information available that we for example need infographics to showcase it.
Written by Pierre van Veldhoven on February 23rd, 2011 | 1 comment
For all you haters out there who say the iPad is a useless piece of eye candy well you’re wrong. Can your BlackBerry make paintings sing? Didn’t think so.
“Singing Fingers” is headed up by Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum of the MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergarten group, and it allows you to fingerpaint on your iPad while the mic records whatever sounds are going on at the same time. Then, you can play back the sound by touching the paint, like a sort of voluntary synesthesia. It seems totally mad, ‘til you see the video.
Ever heard of Flip? You should. They introduced the revolutionary Flip Cameras, an extremely easy to use, yet high quality handheld camera range.
Their products have swept through the blogosphere as they allow low budgets bloggers, vloggers and other content producers to easily and cheaply produce some great content. (more…)
Location based apps and games have been around for some time now and every newly invented game has something better than the last one. Below graph shows the possibilities of some well-known apps.
This checking in is all very well, but what can be done to make it more engaging instead of shouting to the world that you are in your favorite bar down the street (again!)?
There’s a new service online called Hollrr. This new tool (that you can of course link to your Facebook, Twitter and Digg account) can be used to ‘holler’ about your favorite products.
By clicking ‘Hollrr this!’ and publishing your shouts to your other social networks, you can create popularity for a product or service that you feel deserves it.
In 2009 we saw an increasing number of mixing real and virtual worlds, commonly known as augmented reality and probably best known in Android and iPhone app Layar. Just before the end of the year Adidas announces to also tap in to this hip technology.
In February 2010 you’ll be able to buy a pair of Adidas sneakers that can be used to control a digital world on your screen. All you have to do is show your shoe to your webcam and the virtual world will open.
Recent Google Maps images of Sydney’s popular Bondi Beach show a massive school of unidentified sharks cruising just meters away from swimmers. Visit Australian Coastal Watch and zoom in to take a closer look at the sharks. Pretty amazing, but scary stuff…
Sorry, that shark bite was not real. It’s a simple, clever but smart promo for Shark Week by Discovery Channel. The campaign was created by agency Jack Watts Currie, in Sydney.
Some more interesting information about the campaign?
About a week ago, I wrote an article about the history of Elf Yourself and asked the question: Will Elf Yourself return in 2009 again? On the OfficeMax site, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Facebook all kind of hints appeared of a possible return. And 12 hours ago, 12 o’clock midnight US time, Elf Yourself 4.0 is live again! Just like last year OfficeMax teamed up with JibJab.
So what’s new this year? There are two new elf dances! In addition to “Disco Elves”, “Country Elves”, and “Elf Classic”, you can choose to model your creation off the “Hip-Hop Elves” or “Singing Elves” dances. The “Charleston Elves” won’t be coming back this year.
Google Wave is the web’s hottest new property, which allows users to swap messages, video, pictures, gadgets and links with one another. Millions of people out there are in fact stalking their lucky friends for a Google Wave invite.
Joe Sabia of Whirled Interactive from LA had been toying with Wave for just 24 hours and thought “we gotta do something with this…”. Together with his good friend Scott Chan he created the following highly entertaining video:
Joe came up with the idea 3 days ago, because he wasn’t satisfied with the current Google Wave videos. Joe Sabia sums up the reasons: “a) some don’t show the actual product, b) they sometimes fail to connect the product to people who don’t really understand the purpose and c) they could garner more excitement”.
