WebUrbanist has gathered some great portraits from 12 photographers. My favorite is
from Nina Pak. Check out the collection
Here
Photo Credit: Nina Pak
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a prototype contact lens
which incorporates display and radio components, allowing communication directly to
the eye. Obvious future applications of this are displaying the name and other information
about the person you're looking at. Read the full article on
The Economist site
TinEye is a reverse image search facility which allows you find where your images are being used across the internet. There's a firefox plugin available now so you can right click on an image and see where its being used. This should be of great interest to photographers who want to track usage of their images. I bought some stock photographs for my website www.VisiActive.com and I was able to find out where these images were used on other sites. The video shows more detail about this free product:
Apart from Google Wave, there are many other web collaboration tools available and Life Hacker details their top 10 applications in this category in this article: Web Collaboration
The previous article provided two videos to explain "Software as a Service" (SaaS). Well SaaS is one example of what you could run using Cloud Computing and other uses for cloud computing include peer-to-peer applications, web applications and "Software And Service" applications. This video explains Cloud Computing concepts:
The first video explains, in two minutes, what Software as a Service is. The second video is an interview with Stan Swetw CTO of Workday, who explains the benefits of SaaS in more detail:
Sorry this was a re-post from 2 years ago...
Microsoft is showing off its new table surface technology and this video demonstrates how it could change the way we interact with computers significantly. However this technology is not expected to be available in mass production for 4 or 5 years.
This short video, although made last year (which is a long time in terms of the Net) has very relevant information for social networking and online marketing.
For some time now I've been looking at the best way to integrate all the various social media applications I use, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, my website and a few other sites. Well this video hints at a way to do it. Worth a look:
