R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me
Social bookmarking service Delicious announced five years ago last Thursday that it had been acquired by Yahoo The first comment posted on the blog entry announcing the deal was from TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, saying "Congratulations! Yahoo sure does get tagging I see." When I heard the news, I felt very differently. I was deeply saddened that it wasn't US Library of Congress to acquire Delicious. Five years later, Yahoo announced internally today that it is closing down Delicious. It's a loss not just for the many people who used Delicious to archive links of interest to them around the web, it's a loss for the future - for what could have been. Update: 24 hours later, Yahoo! Above: A leaked slide from the internal deck shown today at Yahoo, listing a host of services Yahoo will sunset, merge or turn into features of other services. How ReadWriteWeb Used Delicious Thanks for All the Bookmarks, Folks angusf - Angus Fraser, Experience Architect at News Digital Media
Bento Laptop Tablet Hybrid by René Woo-Ram Lee
Bento is quite an exceptional and forward thinking concept by René Woo-Ram Lee. It’s quite a plausible scenario that most of use/own a tablet, a PC, external hard drives and a smartphone. Now combine the power of these to have fully customizable Bento Laptop! Laptop with 15″ OLED screen11″ tablet and 4″ phone sit in shallow depressionsSolar powered lithium-ion battery1TB SSD drive Designer: René Woo-Ram Lee The Fujitsu branding is evident and rightly so, the concept is a part of the Fujitsu Design Award that is organized by Designboom.
RT @JeromePineau: Autodesk’s Jerome Pineau: Why Great Service Is Social | Yay #socialservice! :)
As Autodesk‘s social media strategist, Jerome Pineau is no stranger to the inner workings of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the like — he leads the 3D design software maker’s efforts on all social channels. But why is social media so critical to the success of Autodesk and its service department? We spoke with Pineau about the use cases, benefits and future of social media in relation to service organizations. Why would a service firm want to turn to social media? What benefits does social media offer a service organization? Does it make sense for any business, small or large, to employ social channels for customer service? How is Autodesk using social channels to connect, engage with and respond to customers? Any tips or best practices for service folks thinking about, or just starting to use, social media for their business? What’s the future hold for social media as it relates to customer service?
T3's top 10 hot gadgets of 2013 - and not an Apple in sight
Apple has been excluded from a list of the top 10 gadgets for 2013. The Hot 100 list highlights gadgets rated the most wanted in the world by tech magazine T3,. Apple - which has previously topped the list on three separate occasions – fails to make the top 10 for the first time since 2009. Its highest-ranking product is the iPad mini in 15th place. 3D printers top the list for their “life-changing potential” with food printing already taking place and clothes, drugs and even mobile phones expected to be printable in the next 10 years. Samsung leads the way for smartphones, with the Samsung Galaxy S4 coming in at number two. This year’s list also sees a number of projects from Kickstarter - the world’s largest funding platform for creative ideas - getting recognition. 2013 is shaping up to be a big year for gaming, with the Sony PlayStation 4 coming in at number three and a raft of gaming products featured in the Hot 100. Here are the top 10 gadgets of 2013, as chosen by T3. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6.
Dell Social Innovation Competition Final Event | RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service
We invite you to join us on Monday, May 16 for the Final Event of the Dell Social Innovation Competition, where more than $100,000 in seed funding will be awarded to the world’s top student social entrepreneurs. Selected from a pool of more than 1,400 entries from 85 countries, you’ll be inspired by how our five Finalists are working to effect transformational social change. You’ll also be among the first to discover which team will be crowned the DSIC Grand Prize Winner and given an opportunity to launch their social venture. Learn more about the Finalists here. This year’s Final Event will also feature keynote speeches from Sonal Shah, who heads the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, and from Manoj Sinha of Husk Power Systems, the 2008 DSIC Grand Prize Winner. In addition to enjoying complimentary food and drinks, attendees will be eligible to win Dell prizes, including a laptop and tablet! Join the conversation on Twitter: #DSIC11 Presented By: Sponsored by:
What wizardry is this?! | Bilgidrom- Where Knowledge Is Power
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Build your own Google TV Using RaspberryPi, NodeJS and Socket.io | Donald's Blog
Hardware Components: The RaspberryPi (Tested on Raspberry Pi model I-B, I-B+ and II-B)A USB WiFi dongle or Ethernet cable (Tested on Edimax WiFi Dongle)SD/MicroSD card (8 GB+) (check out NOOBS) Software Stack: Raspbian – a fork of Debian designed for the Raspberry Pi Node.js Socket.io – Web-sockets moduleExpress – Web-framework moduleOmxcontrol – OMX-player controller moduleChromium BrowserOMX-playerYoutube-dl – Youtube video downloaderQuo.js – Cross-platform swipe gestures libraryHTML5, CSS3 transitions, Javascript, and Moustache as a template engineYoutube API End-result: Outline Installing software and packages.Basic shellcodeServer-side scripting: Node.js, Express.js, and Socket.ioClient-side scripting: Dashboard and remote mobile-app 1. Installing Raspbian and Node.js Follow this tutorial to install Raspbian and Node.js on your Raspberry Pi Installing Chromium browser and Youtube-dl Build from source or use apt-get sudo apt-get install chromium-browser Install and update Youtube-dl script 2.
Next-gen LEGO Mindstorms + Autodesk = Huge educational potential
I thought about getting my wife the new LEGO Mindstorms EV3 set for Valentine's Day, but it won't be available until this fall. And she'd divorce me. In all seriousness, though, the LEGO World exposition opens in Copenhagen today and the company is announcing its next-generation Mindstorms robotics set, called the EV3. LEGO has already made some really significant contributions to STEM education through their Mindstorms program with countless robotics teams, competitions, collaborative class activities, and even adventurous kids who have created thousands of robots and learned to program, all while building with LEGOs (actually sophisticated TECHNIC elements, but they're LEGOs at heart). EV3, though, is a quantum leap forward in functionality from both a hardware and software perspective and a partnership with Autodesk lets users view in 3D how the primary models are constructed.
