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2013-01-30 08:09:08     Share a secret - One Time

https://onetimesecret.com/

When you send people passwords and private links via ema... are copies of that information stored in many places. If... link instead, the information persists for a single view... can't be read by someone else later. This allows you to ... information

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/Channels/digital economy

2013-01-30 08:08:50     Web Monitoring with Stella - Is your site fast?

https://www.blamestella.com/#

Powerful API
Incorporate our world class monitoring technology into y ...

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/Channels/techie/web development

2013-01-29 07:49:58     Public Transportation ... for Your Car? - Commute - The Atlantic Cities

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/01/pu.../4452/

The Rapid Commute system, as he calls it, would enable l... commuters to hop aboard a train instead – while still ... personal vehicles with them. Drivers already similarly u... waterways. So why not deploy the same concept, Farooq fi...
A diagram o

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/Channels/sustainability

2013-01-28 17:39:08     Friday, 1 February, 2-3pm | Centre for GeoInformatics

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geoi.../friday-1-february-2-3pm/

The democratizing technologies of the web have brought t... raw-materials required to make a map to a wider audience... This proliferation of mapping has redefined modern Carto... general practice of “making maps” to the purposefu... Purposeful

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2013-01-28 10:15:47     Internet access declared a basic right in Germany | Sci-Tech | DW.DE | 27.01.2013

http://www.dw.de/internet-access-declared-a-ba.../a-16553916

A top German court has ruled that people can sue their I... for damages if connection is lost. The court has ruled t... Internet represents a basic need in modern society.

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2013-01-28 10:15:08     BBC News - 'Quantum smell' idea gains ground

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21150046

A controversial theory that the way we smell involves a ... effect has received a boost, following experiments with ...
It challenges the notion that our sense of smell depends ...
Instead, it suggests that the molecules' vibrations are ...

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2013-01-28 10:14:56     BBC News - Quantum biology: Do weird physics effects abound in nature?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21150047

Disappearing in one place and reappearing in another. Be... at once. Communicating information seemingly faster than...
This kind of weird behaviour is commonplace in dark, sti ...
Welcome to the frontier of what is called quantum biology.
It is still a

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2013-01-26 16:21:01     Bootstrap Tour, easy product tours with Bootstrap from Twitter

http://sorich87.github.com/bootstrap-tour/index.html

Quick and easy way to build your product tours with Twit... Popovers.

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/Channels/techie/JavaScript

2013-01-23 08:56:24     Skepticism About Tenure, MOOCs and the Presidency: A Survey of Provosts | Inside Higher Ed

http://www.insidehighered.com/...-presidency-survey-provosts

Today's provosts are a skeptical lot. That may come with... they must constantly prioritize some ideas (and some peo... others -- tasks that are never easy and have been made m... the economic downturn.
But the 2013 Inside Higher Ed Survey of College a

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/Channels/education/Higher Ed.

2013-01-23 08:40:01     More Joys of Electronic Medical Records | WhiteCoat's Call Room

http://www.epmonthly.com/...s-of-electronic-medical-records/

So I tried something that sounded easy when I thought of... technically quite difficult when I tried to actually do ... the number of times I clicked on different check boxes a... different screens I had to navigate in order to document...
This is eas

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2013-01-23 08:02:13     'Smart-Tattoos': How They Could End Up Saving Your Life

http://www.takepart.com/...ey-could-end-saving-your-life?...

So they’re not exactly cute, but if you came of age du... chances are you have at least regrettable tattoo anyway.... if that same tattoo is in the shape of a butterfly!) B... temporary tattoos do much more than serve as a symbol of... they can re

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2013-01-23 08:01:51     Nokia Patents Vibrating Smart Tattoos | PCWorld

http://www.pcworld.com/...tents_vibrating_smart_tattoos.html

Our bodies may some day become extensions for smartphone... devices, if a new Nokia patent is any indication.
Nokia has patented magnetic material that would alert we ...

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2013-01-21 09:35:19     What is the difference between The Hobbit and the news? Not as much as there should be | Charlie Brooker

http://m.guardian.co.uk/c.../difference-hobbit-news-not-much

And oddly, this coincides with reports that an audience ... reacted badly to test footage from Peter Jackson's forth... movie. The Hobbit is shot at 48 frames per second – tw... as standard films. The studio claims this gives it an un... fluidity. T

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/Channels/digial media

2013-01-21 09:31:15     Metamaterial camera needs no lens, could herald cheaper imaging tech

http://www.engadget.com/2013.../metamaterial-imaging-sensor/

Metamaterials are proving to be quite useful for toying ... electromagnetic spectrum, whether for technology previou... the stuff of science fiction, or for boring real-world a... Engineers at Duke University have come up something that... the latter

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2013-01-21 08:59:25     iBeam.it — FAQ

http://blog.ibeam.it/FAQ

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2013-01-19 18:29:19     About Us · Zapier

https://zapier.com/app/about

Syncing data on the web has always been a pain. Either y... or you buckled down and built it yourself with an API. I... technical you had few places to turn for help.
That's why we built Zapier.
Zapier is for busy people who know their time is better .

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/Channels/techie/open data

2013-01-19 09:48:33     BBC News - Has chip and pin had its day?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21085738

Ross Anderson, an academic in the Computer Laboratory at...
"It's a complete non-starter," he told the BBC.
"You can't just change all the systems because you come ...
He does however agree that there are "significant risks" ...
"I personally won't use

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/Channels/digital economy

2013-01-11 10:34:20     Manchester honours the woman behind the pioneering music of Doctor Who | UK news | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...byshire-electronic-music-dr-who

The godmother of British electronic music who helped to ... most recognisable TV theme tunes of all time and pioneer... through her work in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is to b... an inaugural one-day celebration of her work in Manchester.
Delia Derbys

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/Channels/Dalek

2013-01-11 10:33:13     Disney's new augmented reality toys are promising, but frustrating | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/...oys-are-promising-but-frustrating

Disney is launching augmented reality toys with a line o... in October; from there, it'll expand into other characte... then, it's keeping a tight wrap on images of what it's d... weren't allowed to take shots or video. We did learn tha... to Disney I

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2013-01-11 09:33:24     Camlistore

http://camlistore.org/

a way to store, sync, share, model and back up content
a work in progress
Open Source (Apache licensed)
an acronym for "Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed ...
... neither "Cloud" nor "Local". happily both.

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2013-01-11 09:29:40     Is It Time London Had A New Tube Map? | LBC

http://www.lbc.co.uk/is-this-tube-map-an-improvement.../1850

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/Channels/maps and geography
/Channels/visualisation

2013-01-10 21:24:43     f.lux: software to make your life better

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie ...
Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and ...
During the day, computer screens look good—they're des ...
f.lux
... use it just because it makes your computer look better.

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/Channels/HCI stuff/emotion and fun

2013-01-10 18:44:48     Tethercell: Control battery-operated devices from your smartphone or tablet | Indiegogo

http://www.indiegogo.com/tethercell

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2013-01-10 18:33:21     StickNFind- Bluetooth Powered ultra small Location Stickers | Indiegogo

http://www.indiegogo.com/sticknfind

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2013-01-09 10:47:59     The Story of the PING Program

http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/ping.html

Yes, it's true! I'm the author of ping for UNIX. Ping is... thousand-line hack that I wrote in an evening which prac... seems to know about. :-)

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2013-01-09 06:10:52     Twitter Engineering: Improving Twitter search with real-time human computation

http://engineering.twitter.com/...search-with-real-time.html

Before we delve into the details, here's an overview of ...
First, we monitor for which search queries are curre ...
Behind the scenes: we run a Storm topology that trac ...
For example, the query [Big Bird] may suddenly see a ...
... ckobama

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/Channels/techie/collective intelligence

2013-01-09 06:01:31     Tongue and Tech: The Many Emotions for Which English Has No Words - Megan Garber - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201.../266956/

There are many, many more conditions out there that Engl...
Here, selected from the blog So Bad So Good, are some of ...
Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut
Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for ...
... g of a cleve

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/Channels/HCI stuff/emotion and fun

2013-01-08 19:23:40     JSON-LD - JSON for Linking Data

http://json-ld.org/

JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linking Data) is...
A simple example of a JSON object expressing Linked Data:
{
"@context": "http://json-ld.org/contexts/person.jsonld",
... ta-aware processors on how to interpret the JSON object.

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/Channels/techie/semantic web

2013-01-08 18:33:57     TwitLonger — When you talk too much for Twitter

http://www.twitlonger.com/about

Twitlonger is a way to let you post to Twitter when 140 ... isn't enough.
With Twitlonger, you can write what you need and a link ...

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/Channels/techie/social networking

2013-01-07 19:20:22     zSpace - revolutionary virtual-holographic computing

http://zspace.com/

zSpace is a revolutionary, immersive, interactive 3D env... computing, creating, communication and entertainment.

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