An app that turns the content from your social graph into a customized magazine-like experience. All the interesting stuff your friends share, presented in a single, slick, user-friendly experience for your iPad.
random bits of micro-content goodness from greg verdino: marketer, futurist, speaker and author of microMARKETING (mcgraw-hill / 2010)
An app that turns the content from your social graph into a customized magazine-like experience. All the interesting stuff your friends share, presented in a single, slick, user-friendly experience for your iPad.
OK, so maybe the headline is a bit misleading because this is actually pretty cool. Pilot Pens has unveiled a new app that allows you to turn your handwriting into a personal font for your computer - which brings us back to the headline. Even I can't read my own handwriting.
More at http://www.pilothandwriting.com
It will only be necessary to carry an inexpensive instrument not bigger than a watch, which will enable its bearer to hear anywhere on sea or land for distances of thousands of miles.”
– Nikola Tesla predicts the cellphone in a 1909 interview with the New York Times
Well worth watching as a glimpse (pun intended) into how new computing interfaces are blowing technology wide open - even if you're not an Apple fangirl. From the video:
"To this technical-ninny it's clear in my compromised 100th year, that to read and to write are again within sight of this Apple iPod pioneer"
My daughter loves playing "office", a game that generally involves the employment of some kind of robot to improve productivity and profitability. While I'm sure she would have played with this when she was a bit younger, I have to agree with Gizmodo's assessment that this toy (basically a toddler version of the corporate drone workstation) is a pretty depressing concept.
But a nice one with some great, up-to-date numbers.
... without any of the masturbating men you don't want to know about.
My take on Buzz so far? *yawn*
But we'll see. In the meantime, if Google hasn't turned you on yet, you missed the announcement or haven't yet grown tired of the knee-jerky blog posts alternately slamming it as lame or presenting it as a social media game changer, this here is Google's official demo clip that shows how the thang works.
I'd love to tell you how this thing will work but [leans in close for full effect]... it's magical. I suppose this is what passes for good copywriting these days?
