How to Fix Location-Based People Discovery Philip Cortes is co-founder of people discovery startup Meeteor. Follow him on Twitter @philipcortes. No clear winner came out of South by Southwest’s battle of people discovery apps. Highlight seems to have received the best press, and according to Robert Scoble, about 5% of SXSW used the service. Why did these apps fail? 1) Lack of Single-Player Mode. 2) Not Capturing Intent. The social overlap between users can act as the lubricant that facilitates meeting, but it alone won’t compel two strangers to meet. 3) Transparent Privacy Settings. 4) Pick a Niche. 5) Mimic Offline Behavior. All five of these solutions don’t have to be solved perfectly in order for one app or web service to win the race.
IGM: Apple launches iTunes U app creating a virtual classroom for students Apple Thursday announced a new app designed to interact with and expand its iTunes U content collection. The app bring together the course materials in podcast form on an iOS device. With the app, users will be able to essentially have a virtual classroom where users will be able to subscribe to courses, see notes from the instructor, gather materials, and get notifications on updates. Also, if students take notes within iBooks, those notes will be available within he iTunes U app. It seems Apple is trying to incorporate features similar to the Blackboard service. iTunes U App also brings together content from other areas of the iTunes Store including iBooks and App Store. Educators can manage their classes using a Web-based tool. Recent Articles Browse and search for more articles
Mercedes Rolls Out Invisible Car When Mercedes wanted to promote its new fuel cell vehicle, instead of placing it squarely in front of everyone in the world, the company decided to make the car invisible. We have video. In this clever publicity stunt, Mercedes wanted to emphasize that its F-Cell vehicle has no exhaust emissions, making it virtually invisible to the environment. If you take a look at the gallery below, you'll see how these clever dudes did it: by placing a mat of LEDs across one side of the vehicle and mounting a video-shooting Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR camera on the other side. We saw a Halloween costume like this once. Mercedes is doing basically the same trick. Mercedes says its hydrogen-powered drive system is "ready for series production," but other reports have its commercialization set for 2014. By the way, with all the ultra-cool cars in the Mercedes stable, why did the company pick a minivan for this showy demo?
Why You Have Your Best Ideas When You're Least Productive Collection of Helpful Cheat Sheet Wallpapers for Web Designers and Developers Last year we brought together an ultimate list of cheat sheets and quick references for web designers and developers.Well,all of them were PDF files but this time we have compiled only cheat sheet wallpapers for web designer s and developers More Cheat Sheet Wallpapers Spread your love! Share this post if you like it: Best Tumblr Blogs: 33 Tumblrs You NEED To Follow Tumblr continues to grow and new features just keep coming -- the latest being an an Android app and third-party iPad app. And now this for the social network based in New York: Tumblr hit 1 billion posts today. Its staff acknowledged the mark in a Tumblr post, stating, "The things you do with Tumblr continue to blow our minds. :)" Tumblr's rapid ascent in some ways mirrors that of Twitter, which made headlines when it hit the 1 billion tweets mark a year and a half ago. That number ballooned to 20 billion total tweets just last month. Not yet into Tumblr? Follow HuffPost on Tumblr: Huffington Post, HuffPost Comedy, HuffPost Tech, HuffPost World Do you follow any great Tumblr accounts? Submit Your Favorite Tumblrs Please upload a screenshot from the Tumblr account you'd like to nominate.Just press command + shift + 4 on a Mac or follow instructions here for a PC. loading...
8 Qualities of Remarkable Employees Great employees are reliable, dependable, proactive, diligent, great leaders and great followers... they possess a wide range of easily-defined—but hard to find—qualities. A few hit the next level. Some employees are remarkable, possessing qualities that may not appear on performance appraisals but nonetheless make a major impact on performance. Here are eight qualities of remarkable employees: 1. When a key customer's project is in jeopardy, remarkable employees know without being told there's a problem and jump in without being asked—even if it's not their job. 2. People who aren't afraid to be different naturally stretch boundaries and challenge the status quo, and they often come up with the best ideas. 3. Remarkable employees know when to play and when to be serious; when to be irreverent and when to conform; and when to challenge and when to back off. 4. 5. 6. An employee once asked me a question about potential layoffs. 7. 8. Great employees follow processes. Forget good to great.
Steve Jobs Was Right, Android Logs Everything [Video Back in April, Apple had a bit of a PR problem when it was discovered that iPhones were storing a cache of data on which GPS locations that handset had visited in an unencrypted file. The whole thing was just a bug, but the controversy was dubbed LocationGate, and Apple even had to testify in front of the Senate about the matter. The whole fiasco even prompted an email from Steve Jobs, which dropped something of a bombshell: he said Apple doesn’t track anyone’s location, but that Android tracked everyone. At the time, there wasn’t a lot of proof to back up Steve’s assertion, but as it often does, time has proven Steve Jobs right. 25-year-old Android developer Trevor Eckhart has discovered a piece of software that comes installed on most Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones called Carrier IQ secretly logs everything a user does with his or her phone, including text messages, encrypted web searches, phone calls, location and, well, you name it. What is Carrier IQ? Absolutely insane.
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse Star Ocean Star Ocean (スターオーシャン, Sutā Ōshan?) is a franchise of action role-playing video games developed by the Japanese company tri-Ace and published and owned by Square Enix (originally Enix). Creation and influence[edit] Design[edit] Star Ocean games are known for their real-time battle engines, and, for being one of the first of its kind to come to the consoles. Star Ocean games also take an all-encompassing approach to items. The characters of the series were designed to be "action-figure-like". Finally, both the second and third games were somewhat notorious for renaming characters whose names contained religious references, which some fans found unusual given the recent association with Square and other RPGs (most famously Xenogears) that do not omit such references. Games[edit] Star Ocean: The Second Story was released for the PlayStation on July 30, 1998, in Japan, May 31, 1999, in North America, and April 12, 2000, in Europe. North American releases[edit] Manga and anime[edit]
The Official Dropbox Guide To Getting More Space! We get asked a lot how to get more space in your Dropbox, and we realized that we’ve never put an official guide together. So here it is! When people start using Dropbox, they start small but often need more and more space over time. We’ve created a bunch of free ways to get more space, but also make it simple to get loads of space really fast. Take A Tour For people new to Dropbox, there are a few things you should try out first — we want you to install Dropbox on a bunch of computers, use our sharing features, and more. Tell Your Friends A while back, we noticed that most of our growth was from word of mouth: people that love Dropbox tell their friends. Be A Student The first lines of Dropbox were written back when our cofounder Drew Houston had just graduated from school but forgot his USB key on a bus ride. Have Fun We’ve done a bunch of fun challenges and quests where the prize was more space.