Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

In October 2006, I was away on a business trip when a fr... event destroyed the contents of my family’s rural home... oncoming five-foot wall of water, my wife had little tim... possessions. For all the things we lost that day, I stil...
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DEATH IS A PART OF LIFE AND LIFE HAS (TO AN EXTENT) BECO...
Our increasing digitality means that we will increasingl ...
Held in the inspiring setting of the Tropenmuseum’s ex ...
Thus stimulating a reconsideration of how death, mournin ...

On the 25th March 2011, Mark Coop of 'Keep Calm and Carr... registered a trademark of the words Keep Calm and Carry ... to take control of the very British and now very famous,... invoking, wartime poster. The trademark has angered Bart... discovered

Broken sleep affects the ability to build memories, a st... suggests.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science findi ...
The Stanford University found disrupting sleep made it h ...

An individual is the only ethical integration point for ...
Our purpose is to catalyze a Personal Data Ecosystem whe ...
The Startup Circle - for startups committed to putti ...
1 Million People for Personal Data - gathers people ...
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1000Memories is the passion of three friends who have lo... believe that the Internet offers a better way to bring p... build something special in their memory. We aspire to cr... visitors can gather and remember the lives of the people... place where

Despite to the vast advances in capacity and capability ... the past two decades, the representation of users, their... and preferences in application software has changed litt... of modern personal computing and personal information ma...
In this pro

Poyozo gives you your own data back by downloading the i... currently giving to the web on to your own computer. You... importing your data from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, ... Calendar, any email service, any RSS feed, Flickr, Wesab... Skydeck, Do

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of...
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... That is, some of us do. Others use data.

At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our custom... month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of ... customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our... looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we d... our own cus

Timeline yourself.
Automatically create a Personal Timeline of your life fr ...

Archiving digital photos is hard if you want to do it ri... change. When Phanfare started back in 2004, Flash 7 was ... format on the web. Now H.264 is the standard for high qu... resolutions are always increasing. Phanfare can change w... carrying yo

In 1733 a Russian commander, disgusted with the debilita... rampant among his troops, buried a soldier alive as a de... nostalgia.

The service is focused on the idea of “You over Time,⮮.
Imagine Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, Delicious, Facebook ...
Read on: the first 20 SitePoint readers to follow the li ...
My Life, The Digital Version
... nts of your own, family members, friend

We present a design concept of a tangible user interface... contents. A layer structure for image presentation and t... gestures are proposed to facilitate navigation in the di... collections. We describe how gestures support the photo ... the visual

Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) are emerging as a new pa... interaction with the digital world aiming at facilitatin... GUI-based interaction. Interaction with TUIs relies on u... skills of interaction with the real world [9], thereby o... promise of

The fate of human memory: My latest Wired magazine column
Quick: Can you do long division? Probably, though you'd ...

The education secretary, Alan Johnson, has come under fi... the use of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia for sc...

One Day in History
Make history with us on 17 October by taking part in the ...
'One Day in History' is a one off opportunity for you to ...