December 2011
177 posts
IBM: Mind-Reading Machines Will Change Our Lives
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign In its “5 in 5” forecast, IBM predicts the power to control things with thoughts will be common in five years. Via mashable.com
Experts make predictions for 2012
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign After a year of attention-grabbing headlines around the world, what might 2012 bring? BBC correspondents make their predictions on the big stories and the names to watch. Via bbc.co.uk
Layar Browser – Layar
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Via layar.com
The MOG Blog
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Via blog.mog.com
European Design Awards Winners | StockLogos.com
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Via stocklogos.com
Latest Logo Awards Submissions | Brands of the...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Brands of the World is the world’s largest library of brand logos in vector format available to download for free. BotW is also a great place for designers to showcase their work. Via brandsoftheworld.com
Five clever ways to keep your New Year's...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign If you tend to forget about your New Year’s resolutions, try making them more attainable with the help of technology. Read this blog post by Sharon Vaknin on How To. Via howto.cnet.com
A place for everything: How to manage your photos
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign It really doesn’t take a lot of work to keep your photos organized, just a little commitment. Read this blog post by Lori Grunin on How To. Via howto.cnet.com
The Best of The Best Music of 2011 | Evolver.fm
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign It’s that time of year. The lists. Always, the lists. December, originally pronounced “They Say Best” by the ancient Romans (note: it wasn’t), is when some feel the need to tell others about music they preferred in the time it last took the Earth to orbit the Sun. We could play that game too. Instead we’re going to go all meta-scalable on this thing with a “best...
Here are the 30 innovative music startups set to...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign It took some time, but the music industry is finally starting embrace the possibilities of the Internet, and one of the best places you can go to witness this is the annual Midem conference … Via thenextweb.com
Web Trends: Listen To Spotify's Most Played Song...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Check today’s trends for the music video from the year’s biggest Spotify hit, Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep.’… Via billboard.biz
Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Dead-end experiments. Useless drugs. Unneeded surgery. The truth is, our scientific stories about causation are shadowed by all sorts of mental shortcuts. Via wired.com
OpenSimulator: School Quick Start Guide
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign You know WHY you want to get started with 3D virtual worlds in your school. Well, now you can know HOW. This e-book provides an introduction to OpenSimulator, step-by-step setup instructions and ev… Via scribd.com
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Call for papers: Journal of Virtual Worlds Special Issue: Asian Perspectives Via jvwresearch.org
Lastest Education Technology News | All things...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Lastest Education Technology News - SL - National Educational Technology Plan, Public Forum, 2009 Image by… Via edteck-lms.org
2012 Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign 2012 Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds Conference & Announcements: http://t.co/Clh8mipY… Via kaplaneduneering.com
16 predictions for mobile in 2012
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign As expected, the past year was an exciting one for mobile tech. I did reasonably well on my 2011 predictions, but now it’s time to power up the crystal ball and gaze at what 2012 will bring. Here are my 16 predictions for the new year. Via gigaom.com
Google+ New years party Fireworks seasonal effects...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign What is Google+ offering for this New Year? of course this is the first new year for the hottest and fastest growing social network Google+. First, this year there are lots of online virtual parties organized through Google+, thanks to the wonderful unique feature Google+ hangouts. Second, If you have used Google+ creative kit then you might have already heard about...
The complete guide to Twitter’s epic 2011
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign While Twitter has steadily gained momentum over the past five years, in 2011 it finally felt like it became established as an essential part of not just the Web technology scene, but … Via thenextweb.com
Lire ses tweets dans Google Reader
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign GTweet est un service Web en cours de développement permettant à partir de sa Timeline Twitter de générer un flux RSS à inscrire dans Google Reader ou dans le lecteur de news de son choix. Tous les tweets de votre timeline sont alors envoyés par ce flux RSS vers le lecteur de news. Via ballajack.com
Benefits of Listening to Classical Music | Uratex...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Mozart. Vivaldi. Bach. You hear these names and you sit and wonder why so many people listen to them at all and not to your favorite rap or rock music. Via uratexblog.com
Starting A Blog in 2012? Avoid These 7 New Blogger...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Are you thinking of starting a blog in 2012, or making significant changes to your old one? One thing that you should always be 100% clear on is your purpose of writing. Is it to start a personal blog where you don’t really care if you have a total readership of 9 or is it to have a blog that you want to monetize at some point. If you belong to the former camp,...
Lapidarium notes
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Amira Skomorowska’s notes […] “One of the most wonderful things about the emerging global superbrain is that information is overflowing on a scale beyond what we can wrap our heads around. The electronic, collective, hive mind that we know as the Internet produces so much information that organizing this data — and extracting meaning from it — has become...
4 Key Criteria to Build Your Dream Blog
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Have you wanted to start a blog, a website or an online business, but you’re not sure where to begin? Are you already putting in the hard yards to build one or the other or both, but you’re not sure if it’s going where you want it to go? Building blogs and online businesses is very exciting, but it’s a very challenging endeavor as well. Whilst the excitement helps,...
Salviati: vetro di Murano, gioielli, cristallo,...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Nel 1859, Antonio Salviati, un avvocato innamorato della mitica città lagunare volle la rinascita del vetro veneziano che stava cedendo il passo al cristallo d’Inghilterra e di Boemia. Assicurandosi la collaborazione dei migliori maestri vetrai e tecnici di Murano, Salviati inventò un nuovo metodo di fabbricazione di tessere da mosaico in vetro, il quale suscitò...
Le plein d'astuces pour maîtriser le nouveau Gmail
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Quelques trucs et astuces pour maîtriser la nouvelle version de la messagerie Gmail, voir l’améliorer… Via coreight.com
Résolution 2012 : Mettre en place une stratégie...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Les médias sociaux sont devenus indispensables à l’activité commerciale des entreprises. Source de trafic, d’innovation, nouveau moyen d’intéraction dans le cadre d’un service après-vente, ils sont partout. Pour gérer cette communauté les outils CRM social (ou SCRM) ont pris place dans le paysage marketing des entreprises. S’ils offrent de formidables opportunités, ils...
ARCHITECTING THE FUTURE-Hardin Tibbs, Keynote
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Hardin Tibbs reflects on his influence from Buckminster Fuller, saying that he gave people the license to think “Big” and how he started his own journey along such lines. shared by David McConville Via vimeo.com
Vadim Lavrusik: Curation and amplification will...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Vadim is the Journalist Program Manager at Facebook and he makes interesting points among which I’d emphasize a couple: 1. Via scoop.it
Logiciel gratuit en Francais pour créer ses pdf...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Il suffit d’utiliser GreenCloud comme imprimante par défaut, et vous pourrez
- Prévisualiser, éditer et supprimer les pages inutiles
- économiser du papier en diminuant la quantité d’encre
- Imprimer recto-verso en 1 clic
- Imprimer plusieurs pages par feuille de papier,
ou même créer un PDF et l’envoyer directement par dropbox ou Google Docs
fait...
DVICE: Alien-faced robot will seduce you with its...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Via dvice.com
Rollerphone projects the time on the wrist, and a...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign This is the Rollerphone, and it is currently a concept watch/telephone, but can do two things which are quite revolutionary. Via coolest-gadgets.com
mySimpleSurface - organise your notes and share...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Create as many surfaces as you need and link them together. Manage large projects with inter-related surfaces. Organise them in the way that makes sense to you. Share with team members for viewing or editing. Via mysimplesurface.com
The Seven Things That Make A Difference on Google+
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign These are the 7 most common mistakes many individuals and brands are making on their Google+ business pages. 1.) Not posting consistently. 2.) Poor use of photos.
3.) Not applying for Direct Connect. 4.) Not using recommended links. 5.) Vague personal taglines. 6.) Not verifying your page with Google+.
7.) Not leveraging Circles to segment your...
YouTube Offers All Schools Education-Only Link,...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign All schools can now use the YouTube educational video site, youtube.com/education, without having to jump over Internet filtering hurdles. For schools that choose to opt in to the YouTube for Schools Program, YouTube will redirect Web users who go to the site straight over to youtube.com/education. On this portion of the site, all comments are disabled and the only...
CIRCOS - Software for Data Visualization
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Circos is a software package for visualizing data and information. It visualizes data in a circular layout — this makes Circos ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions. Circos is ideal for creating publication-quality infographics and illustrations with a high data-to-ink ratio, richly layered data and pleasant symmetries. You have fine control...
Google Earth: Over 1 Billion Downloads and So Many...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign “Google Earth was one of the very first pieces of software that I began to create educational resources with. As I put it in one of my first ever blog posts 5 years ago: ”This app won me over straight away.” The engaging environment really struck a chord with me and I remember fondly my first forays into using it to support learning. It has developed so much over...
mySimpleSurface - organise your notes and share...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Create as many surfaces as you need and link them together. Manage large projects with inter-related surfaces. Organise them in the way that makes sense to you. Share with team members for viewing or editing. Via mysimplesurface.com
30 Digital Classroom Blogs From Around The World |...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Blogging is a simple way for students and teachers to stay connected. In an effort to create a digital classroom, many teachers work hard to answer questions, create homework assignments, and take much of the learning experience online by harnessing the power of blogs. Via edudemic.com
Knol For Education - Gust MEES
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign “GOOGLE Knol” has a BIG POWER for Education which authors will explain and show here. Everyone is learning from everybody… Via knol.google.com
Curated WOW Tech Products and Gadgets: Curisma
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign The name Curisma comes from curation, curiosity, and charisma and Curisma helps you discover and buy cool tech products you love through personalized recommendations and deals, combining community-sourcing with machine learning. Users can freely add new products and tools to Curisma by using a simple bookmarklet. For more info check: http://curisma.com/ Via...
Create Curated Link-Maps: MindiT
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign MindIT is a free bookmarking service which allows you to easily bookmark any page on the web and to add it to a specific “link-map” you have created. Link-maps can be searched and shared with others publicly. Learn more while seeign one at work here: http://www.mindit-bookmarking.com/share?map=Cn6iUCxOacz02VH3w52aaX6847WawJOnxfff2KhRg1PgImHA78k99WyXf ...
Curating Information and Data Sense-Making Is The...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Robin Good: The Institute for the Future and the University of Phoenix have teamed up to produce, this past spring, an interesting report entitled Future Work Skills 2020. By looking at the set of emerging skills that this research identifies as vital for future workers, I can’t avoid but recognize the very skillset needed by any professional curator or...
For You: Is Curation The Ability To Create a...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Robin Good: While I am absolutely thankful to Guillaume De Cugis and everyone else on the Scoop.it team, for providing me with probably the best content curation and newsmastering tool I have ever used, I have not been able to restrain my discontent for their (and other content curation producers) somewhat misleading communication strategy. I am in fact, a strong...
Curate Your Own Music Compilation: Everyone's...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Everyone’s Mixtape is a new web-based service allowing anyone to create his own music compilation by simply selecting and organizing their favorite music tracks on YouTube, Soundcloud and Vimeo.
Creating a compilation is as easy as dragging a URL icon to your mixtape thanks to a simple and very intuitive user interface and selecting the order in which youe...
Share Video Clips Privately: Givit
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign If you have been looking for an easy way to publish and share your videos only with a handful of friends or with your family, Givit.com is the free service you have been looking for. Givit is available both as a desktop (Mac and PC) and an iPhone/iPad mobile app (Android coming soon). It can record, store and privately share your video with the people you want. To...
How YouTube Killed TV [Infographic]
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign If you are looking to find some data that puts YouTube and Television had-to-head, this visually rich infographic will provide you with lots of useful stats. Via freemake.com
Transcribe and Subtitle Any Video Clip Easily with...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign UniversalSubTitles is a free online service which allows anyone to easily create text captioned subtitles for any Internet published video or to leverage the volunteer contribution of others to achieve the same result. The service provides an easy-to-use interface which facilitates going through a video clip in small chunks while transcribing the audio track to text....
Twitter Makes Two Major Announcements
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Twitter is the second biggest social network after Facebook. Its growth has accelerated after it was embedded in the new Apple mobile operating suystem (iOS5). Despite its popularity, its user experience is not as inviting or as multimedia rich as Facebook and Google+. Since the launch of Twitter over 5 years ago, users have moved on from a “text” web and are...
Backup Your Social Media Accounts For Free With...
Via Scoop.it - Socialdesign Imagine one fine day Facebook or Twitter suspends your account. You apply for reactivation and then wait until the account is restored, but there is a good chance of your account never seeing the light of the day leaving you with no option but to open a fresh account and start all over again. Social media plays a dominant role in our lives and it is estimated that 22...