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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Akira
Posted in General Interest
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iPad Keynote in less than 180 Seconds
Bored of watching the full iPad keynote? No problem! The following video by Neil Curtis sums it up to convenient 180 seconds of all the important words spoken there. I assure you, that no scene is repeated and everything was said on this keynote!
Urban Skiing
A Romanian guy having winter fun – until the cops show up and ruin it – Busted! [via]
Nu opgeven: Alpe d’HuZes 2010
Een compilatie van ons (WWAV) Alpe d’HuZes avontuur in 2009. Opgeven is geen optie!
Geef je nu op voor 2010: www.opgevenisgeenoptie.nl
David Agus: A new strategy in the war on cancer
Traditionally, David Agus explains, cancer treatments have had a short-sighted focus on the offending individual cells. He suggests a new, cross-disciplinary approach, using atypical drugs, computer modeling and protein analysis to treat and analyze the whole body.
Australia Ends Internet Freedom
Posted in Innovation & Knowledge Economy, Politics, Privacy
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Don’t shorten your URLs !
Posted in Humor
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SmartMobs: Eighteen years of technology
The above cartoon is going around the email circles under the title “18 years of technology.” Since obesity is such a trendy topic, it seemed appropriate to include the cartoon here for our geeky readers. [SmartMobs]
Posted in Humor
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Twones ready for World Domination !
StartHub Portret: Twones from erwin blom on Vimeo.
Last week Twones got a visit from StartHub.nl, the website that portrays Dutch technology start-ups. StartHub got an exclusive look behind the scenes and grabbed the atmosphere in our office very well. ‘It’s deadly serious, but it’s also serious fun’. Check out the video (in Dutch) to get an impression of who we are, how our office looks like (sometimes) and to get a sneak preview of our next release. Rock, rock on!
TedxAmsterdam: Kevin Kelly – technology’s epic story
Kevin Kelly draws out a long story about techology in general. However, he manages to make a point how to deal with Technology.
Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Strategies
No conversation about Enterprise 2.0 proceeds very far without coming to the idea of Return on Investment (ROI). Often champions of Enterprise 2.0 within the organization must be able to tell a compelling ROI story to their management before they can gain approval to move forward with their project.
Still, it is possible to affect positive ROI when it comes to Enterprise 2.0. It’s a matter of shaping the tools to the needs of your organization, knowing what you’re trying to achieve before you begin and taking an active approach to adoption. It’s about recognizing adoption not as something that happens, but as something you create.
The considerations that go into creating that adoption are the subject of this paper
Posted in Webtech
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Global Peace-Index
While probably not fully scientific and with some slack, food for thought, why this is. For one, it does not show where the war comes from, thus indirect war then seems unrated. Another one, GDP vs peace, GDP vs religion, really that suprising? Ow, define peace…
still food for though.
Prototype of the Augmented ID concept
A TAT Cascades powered prototype of the Augmented ID concept. Accurate mobile face detection and recognition using Polar Rose’s FaceLib. Recognizr shows how powerful computer vision and 3D graphics can be used to create fast, precise and aesthetic augmented reality. This prototype runs on Android.
Website: Tat.se [via]
Blog: Mobileuserinterfaces.blogspot.com