Archive for September, 2009

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts quote great visualization on youtube

Donnerstag, September 24th, 2009

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” . The information age was given recently a new visual metaphor for this  quote from Greek philosopher Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC).
This video was generated by combining thousands of photos (the parts) to generate this animated 3D view (the sum) of San Marco Square [...]

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How does Apple Genius work?

Montag, September 21st, 2009

The Apple iTunes Genius feature can create personalized play-lists for your iTunes library and provide you with recommendations regarding media and other products that you maybe would like to buy.
How does Apples itunes Genius functionality work?
Apple is making no secret out of what Genius does, you can find it all here:
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/us/terms.html
We would also strongly suggest [...]

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Auf deutsch – Apple nano Bedienungsanleitung inklusive Reset iPod nano

Sonntag, September 20th, 2009

Hier gibt es die originalen deutschen Bedienungsanleitung (en) zum Apple iPod nano:
http://support.apple.com/de_DE/manuals/#ipodnano
Insbesondere wichtig kann die Anleitung zum Reset des iPod nano (und der anderen Modelle) sein:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1320?viewlocale=de_DE

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Search engine trend: remove typing as the barrier to entry

Dienstag, September 15th, 2009

Google:

Search with voice recognition: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-mobile-app/
Google Fast Flip: GoogleBlog and here http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/

Microsoft:

Bing Visual Search: BingBlog: Visual Search – Why type when you can see it? Example: VisualSearch (needs Silverlight installed)

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About ownership of data on Facebook

Dienstag, September 15th, 2009

“The more dependent we allow ourselves to become to something like Facebook — and Facebook does everything in its power to make you more dependent — the more Facebook can and does abuse us,” Harmsen explained by indignant e-mail. “It is not ‘your’ Facebook profile. It is Facebook’s profile about you.”
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html

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Thematic Web Archives: Capture reality as it shows up on the Web

Samstag, September 12th, 2009

“A thematic Web collection is an archive of Web objects identified and captured using a set of URLs believed to be relevant to a specific theme or topic”
Source
The outstanding, best documented and analysed case is obviously 9/11:
http://september11.archive.org/
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2002/One-year-later-September-11-and-the-Internet.aspx
http://bibnum.bnf.fr/ecdl/2003/proceedings.php?f=schneider
In this sense our article about Carl Backstrom´s death and his traces on the web can be seen as [...]

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