Archive for October, 2009
Google Wave is the perfect collaboration tool.
Created by Chris F. Masse
The Future of Collaboration
via vint.sogeti.nl
links for 2009-10-31
Google’s Wave Might Find Its Real Home Inside Company Servers The roll-out will mean one significant thing: You can construct and run your own Wave servers on your own hardware, and have them link up to the greater Web should your Wave conversations need to include people from the outside world. And that means companies [...]
Microsoft Multipoint – Collaborative E-learning
via youtube.com Microsoft MultiPoint enables one computer to serve many students simultaneously. Using multiple computer mice that drive uniquely-designed on-screen cursors, Microsoft MultiPoint allows three to 30 students to simultaneously use and learn from educational software on one computer. This not only offers a more affordable solution, it also creates an active, collaborative learning experience [...]
Augmented reality will make mechanics of us all
via blogs.telegraph.co.uk This video shows off an augmented reality system developed for the US marines to help them with field repairs to the LAV-25 A1, a light armoured vehicle. The operator, who is not a trained mechanic, has no trouble fixing the problem guided by the arrows and messages superimposed onto his field of view [...]
links for 2009-10-30
Peace on Facebook Facebook is proud to play a part in promoting peace by building technology that helps people better understand each other. By enabling people from diverse backgrounds to easily connect and share their ideas, we can decrease world conflict in the short and long term. (tags: socialmedia stats social data analytics facebook education [...]
The ROPID Robot Jumps And Runs Like An Excited Kid
via gizmodo.com This cute, little Japanese robot is like a kid after too much candy, but somehow it’s got better balance than most of us after a long day of writing posts. Check out how it lands gracefully after some high jumps.
RockBand Robot playing the iPhone
via creativeapplications.net The light sensor sends data to an Arduino, which is waiting for a spike in the data. The Arduino runs the sensor data through some averaging filters, and sets a threshold for on and off. The iPhone touch screen isn’t like most PDAs. It uses a capacitive touch screen. I had some conductive [...]
Fixing the laptop
via sinfest.net
Turn a user into a passionate customer before making them sign up for your service
A great presentation on solving problems for social software. Sachin Agarwal created two very interesting images that are part of this presentation and that shows what the big problem is in a sign-up proces: Designing For Social Traction View more documents from Joshua Porter.
