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Article: How Has Cloud Computing Changed Business?

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:32:56 -0430

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Facebook destroza los "6 grados de separación": Son 4,74

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:25:32 -0430

La teoría de los seis grados de separación entre todos los individuos fue revisada este martes por una investigación de la Universidad de Milán, según el cual en Facebook esta separación quedaría reducida a 4,74 grados.

“El mundo es aún más pequeño de lo que imaginamos”, afirman los cinco investigadores (Lars Backstrom, Paolo Bodli, Marco Rosa, Johan Ugander y Sebastiano Vigna) en un estudio sobre Facebook publicado este martes en el que también colaboró la red social.

Según una hipótesis formulada por primera vez en los años 20, todos los individuos del mundo están vinculados a otra persona en una cadena de relaciones individuales que no se extiende más allá de seis personas. Pero en Facebook está relación se convierte en 4,74.

En una entrada de blog publicada por el equipo de datos de Facebook, éste reconoció que los científicos habían utilizado la última generación de algoritmos para medir el número de saltos que separan a toda pareja de individuos en Facebook.

“Encontramos que los grados de separación entre dos usuarios de Facebook es menor que los comúnmente citados seis grados, y que han continuado disminuyendo en los últimos tres años a medida que Facebook crecía”, afirman. “Los seis grados realmente exageran las asociaciones entre dos usuarios típicos”.

“Mientras que el 99,6% de todas las parejas de usuarios están conectados por cinco grados (seis saltos), 92% están conectados sólo por cuatro grados (cinco saltos).

“Y como Facebook ha seguido creciendo durante los años, representando una fracción cada vez mayor de la población, se ha vuelto cada vez más conectado”, afirman. La distancia media en 2008 era 5,28 saltos mientras que ahora es 4,74.

Así, “Cuando consideramos el usuario más distante en la tundra siberiana del que se encuentra en la selva peruana, un amigo de tu amigo probablemente conoce a un amigo de su amigo”, explicaron.

Los investigadores afirmaron que si nos centramos en un sólo país, la mayoría de las parejas están separadas por tres grados o cuatro saltos, y que la gran mayoría de conexiones abarcan una corta distancia.

“Encontramos que el 84% de todas las conexiones se producen entre usuarios del mismo país”, señalaron.

Para realizar el estudio, a comienzos de este año, los científicos estudiaron 721 millones de usuarios activos de Facebook -una cifra que representa más del 10% de la población global- y los 69.000 millones de relaciones y amistades que existen entre ellos.

AFP

http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2011/11/23/facebook-destroza-los-6-grados-de-separacion-son-474/

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Decide - Avisa si es un buen momento para comprar productos electrónicos

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:10:43 -0430

Si estáis pensado en comprar una TV o un nuevo móvil, pasaos primero por decide.com, sitio que realiza previsiones para informar la posibilidad de que el precio baje en un futuro cercano.

Todos ya hemos sufrido en la piel la frustración de comprar un producto electrónico y ver como dos semanas después bajan el precio en el mercado. Decide quiere evitar este tipo de situaciones y ofrece tanto una web como una aplicación para iPhone que nos avisa si es o no el mejor momento para la operación.

La aplicación móvil, lanzada esta semana, funciona de forma parecida a su hermana web, mostrando los resultados de la búsqueda con el símbolo verde o rojo para ayudar a tomar las decisiones. En este caso incluye también un lector de código de barra, siendo ideal para los momentos en los que estamos frente al producto, en la tienda.

Aunque haya sido creado para el mercado norteamericano, seguramente la tendencia de precios se refleje en nuestros países.

http://wwwhatsnew.com/2011/11/17/decide-avisa-si-es-un-buen-momento-para-comprar-productos-electronicos/

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Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:07:30 -0430

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Kids Want iPads This Holiday Season

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:06:50 -0430

A new report from Nielsen reveals that kids ages 6-12 want Apple devices, especially iPads. Forty-four percent of kids ages 6-12 expressed interest in the iPad, up from 31 percent in 2010. Only 30% of kids want an iPod Touch, and 27% want an iPhone. For kids ages 13-and-up, iPads still top the wish list, with 24% this year, up from 18% last year. The second most desired item is a computer - 18% of kids ages 13-and-up want it more than an iPad. Yet last year, computers were the top most desired item for this age group after televisions, smartphones and then iPads. When it comes to holiday shopping, 2011 is most certainly the year of the iPad.

In September, information from the International Data Corporation (IDC) said that tablets and smartphones would truly begin killing the PC in 2015. The top three items for kids ages 6-12 are iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone. In 2015, that age group will be 10-14.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kids_want_ipads_this_holiday_season.php

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iPad snags 95.7% of all U.S. tablet web traffic - The Next Web

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:06:07 -0430

The iPad has snagged 87.6% of all global tablet web traffic, according to a report from Royal Pingdom.

In regional numbers gleaned from Comscore’s Digital Omnivores series, focusing on mobile devices, the iPad accounted for some 99.5% of tablet web traffic in the U.S. in October.

This is despite the preponderance of competing Android tablets from HTC, Samsung and Motorola, as well as the dozens of smaller manufacturers that make low-end tablets.

Pingdom also used data from StatCounter’s web traffic and OS report on tablet-size devices in the first two weeks of November. The results match up with the Comscore numbers pretty well.

The difference between the U.S. numbers and the global numbers is an interesting point though. The delta could be attributed to the fact that Android is a more popular OS in Europe than it is in the U.S., leading those customers towards alternatives to the iPad.

The market share of iPad versus Android tablet sales is hard to quantify, as Apple reports its sales fairly plainly in its earnings reports, while Google may not even know how many Android tablets have been sold by the hundreds of manufacturers that make them.

At last count, Google’s Android chief Andy Rubin said that there were “a little more than 6 million Android tablets out there running Google’s services”. This would only include those that run the Android Market and other Google products however, something that is not a prerequisite for Android devices.

Meanwhile, the iPad has officially sold somewhere around 40 million units. These numbers would seem to also match up with the Comscore and StatCounter numbers.

iPad domination appears to continue as we roll into the holiday season, during which Apple has predicted an “all-time record” number of iPad sales.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/11/17/the-ipad-garners-95-7-of-all-u-s-tablet-web-traffic-and-88-globally/

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Smartphone Sales Taking Off in Latin America - The Next Web

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:04:23 -0430

One handset out of five sold in Latin America this year was a smartphone, according to the consulting firm Pyramid Research, and the trend is unlikely to stop here. According to Pyramid’s forecasts, by 2016, smartphone sales will account for 46% of all cell phone sales across the region.

While smartphone penetration is lower in Latin America than in other regions, it seems that the category has started to take off. According to Juliana Gomez, Senior Analyst at Pyramid Research, “Latin America’s smartphone sales picked up the pace in 2010 when smartphone sales in the region grew 117% and total handset sales grew 17%.” As a result, the share of smartphones among total sales has increased and will continue to do so, according to this graph:

On the operators’ side, smartphones are a huge opportunity to increase their revenues in a market where the mobile penetration already surpassed 100%. In this context, data represent a growing source of profit for mobile operators – see below the example of America Movil:

Since smartphone adoption is in their own interest, operators have come up with solutions to make these devices more appealing to their customers. One of them was to offer pre-paid 3G data plans, in a region where 82% of plans are pre-paid, according to Pyramid Research.

As in other markets, mobile companies have also worked on offering a larger variety of subsidized smartphone models. It’s no accident that operators’ strategy focuses on affordability. As Gomez pointed out, Latin Americans are heavy users of social networks and most of them would like to own a smartphone as long as they can afford it.

As a result, the research firm expects smartphone sales in Latin America to grow 75.7% in 2011, equaling 31m smartphone units sold and US$6bn in revenue.

http://thenextweb.com/la/2011/11/15/smartphone-sales-taking-off-in-latin-america/#

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Comparando Google Plus con Facebook en una infografía

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:43:46 -0430

Comparando Google Plus con Facebook en una infografía

wwwhatsnew.com | Mar 11th 2011

Sí, las comparaciones son odiosas, pero si hace unos días comparamos Google Plus con Twitter, ahora es el turno de hacerlo con Facebook.

Sin duda con Facebook tiene más semejanzas: podemos publicar multimedia que puede ser comentada por los contactos, elegimos las listas o círculos que podrán leer cada información, tenemos herramientas muy efectivas para comunicarnos en privado… comparaciones que han registrado en www.technobombs.com en forma de infografía que, aún teniendo 3 meses de vida, sigue siendo muy válida en la mayoría de los puntos tratados.

Como podéis ver, todas las funciones son tratadas en ambas redes, listas en una, círculos en otra, hangouts en una, llamadas vía skype en otra, huddles en una, chat clásico en otra, juegos en una.. juegos en otra…

Parece que en funcionalidades hay un empate que se mantendrá mientras las dos sigan actualizándose. Lo que puede inclinar la balanza, desde mi punto de vista, no serán las funciones ofrecidas por una u otra y sí la comunidad que allí se genere y el uso que de la red se haga.

Podemos, por supuesto, usar ambas redes para comunicarnos de forma privada en círculos cerrados de contactos, las dos son extremadamente válidas para eso, y lo continuarán siendo. El tema principal a tratar ahora es si podrá alguna de las dos competir con Twitter a la hora de buscar noticias y asuntos relevantes. Cuando ocurra una noticia en algún lugar del mundo y un ciudadano decida capturarlo con su móvil, ¿dejará de usar Twitter para enviar la información para empezar a usar Facebook o Google Plus?.

Google Plus, puede, Facebook… lo dudo mucho.

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Original Page: http://wwwhatsnew.com/2011/11/03/comparando-google-plus-con-facebook-en-una-infografia/

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La importancia de Internet en la vida de los jóvenes #infografía

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:40:54 -0430

La importancia de Internet en la vida de los jóvenes #infografía

wwwhatsnew.com | Apr 11th 2011

En Cisco publicaron hace unos días una fantástica infografía en español mostrando datos relacionados con la importancia de Internet entre los jóvenes.

El resultado muestra que tanto para estudiantes como para jóvenes profesionales, Internet es una necesidad, ni más ni menos.

[…] uno de cada tres estudiantes universitarios y jóvenes profesionales considera Internet tan importante como las necesidades humanas básicas, tales como agua, aire, alimento y refugio. […] Dos tercios de los estudiantes (66%) y más de la mitad de los empleados (58%) citan a un dispositivo móvil como “la tecnología más importante en sus vidas”. […] más de uno de cada cuatro estudiantes universitarios (27%) dijo que mantenerse actualizado en Facebook era más importante que salir a fiestas, tener citas, escuchar música o estar con los amigos.

Os dejo con la obra de arte que merece especial atención para entender a la nueva generación:

Link: Cisco | Vía geeksroom

Original Page: http://wwwhatsnew.com/2011/11/04/la-importancia-de-internet-en-la-vida-de-los-jovenes-infografia/

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Quora As A Marketplace: Evisors Raises Seed Round To Let Startups Find And

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:48:57 -0430

Quora As A Marketplace: Evisors Raises Seed Round To Let Startups Find And Connect With Experts

by View Author Page, techcrunch.com
November 3rd 2011

Let’s say you’re a first-time entrepreneur. You’ve got a great idea for a product or business, but you don’t know where to start. You don’t know any VCs or angels, maybe your company isn’t right for an incubator, but you want firsthand advice from experts on how to proceed. While there are tons of amazing online resources for entrepreneurs and there’s some terrific expert advice on Quora on an array of entrepreneurial subjects, little of this information is personalized.

This is one example of the value proposition of Evisors, a startup that is building a marketplace of expert advice. Founded in May 2010 by Harvard Business School grads Fredrik Marø, Marc Weiner, Dan Levy, and Wharton grad Christine Apold, Evisors offers on-demand advice, allowing consumers to go beyond their own personal and professional networks to search its database of experienced experts to directly schedule consultations.

The startup soft launched its marketplace in September 2010 behind the idea that cold calls and emails are often ineffective ways to build one’s expert network, and getting answers to your tough questions is far more difficult than it should be. In its early stages, as one can imagine, career and graduate school advice was Evisor’s first big seller, and the startup worked to bring former professors and admissions officers into its fold to give young people their industry expertise as well as advice on job hunting strategies, interview practice, resume and cover letter help, business consulting and career management, etc.

The Evisors network has since expanded to include three main categories: Admissions, business, and career experts, which now counts CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, experienced professionals and business consultants as members of its marketplace.

Earlier this month, Evisors further expanded its offerings to officially include an entrepreneurship network in an effort to give startups seeking expert guidance access to hundreds of entrepreneurs and business advisors. To find an expert, customers use the marketplace’s simple search interface to identify relevant experts, view their profiles and evaluate them based on their qualifications, user reviews, ratings, availability, and, of course, their hourly rates.

Once a user has selected an expert, they can schedule a phone consultation or submit an email inquiry. Experts set their own rates, which range from $30 to more than $500 per consultation depending on things like length of the session, the expert’s education level, career background and experience, and so on.

The startup’s entrepreneurship network features startup experts like investor and author Dave Berkus (best known for his “Berkus Method” of evaluating early-stage investments) who has participated in more than 80 tech investments over the last decade — as well as David Ronick, co-founder of the online startup incubator, Upstart Bootcamp.

Most of these experts, Evisors CEO Fredrik Maro told us, have full-time jobs, so the marketplace is not a primary money-making tool for first time business consultants. Really, it gives industry veterans an opportunity to give back to the community, interact with likeminded people, and share their hard-earned knowledge. That being said, the marketplace provides a nice complement to their salaries, with a few experts having earned over $10,000 over the course of the year.

For those looking for expert advice, there is also the opportunity to take advantage of free consultations, which are primarily a result of new experts joining the community who have been vetted by the Evisors staff but have not yet received a significant feedback rating.

Maro said that he sees Evisors as the next link in the chain after Quora, providing those in need of advice with a middle ground between the opinionators and, say, the mentorship (and equity-taking) of startup incubators. Maro also pointed out that Evisors eats its own dogfood, too — the startup has been using the advice of its experts to help grow its own business. And so far, this method of attack seems to be working, as the startup has seen the number of consultations sold in its marketplace grow nearly tenfold over the same period last year.

Up until recently, Evisors has been bootstrapped, but today the company is officially announcing that it has raised $600,000 from Nebula Ventures (the VC arm of Universum Global, which owns sites like wetfeet.com and doostang.com), as well as angel investors like New York Angels.

Besides taking a small percentage of consultation sales, the startup is also monetizing through affiliate partnerships in which third parties host Evisors widgets to showcase experts relevant to their audiences. These sites earn a referral fee for each consultation sold that emanates from their platforms.

Through its strategic partnership with Nebula Ventures qua Universum, Evisors has partnered with job sites Wetfeet.com and Doostang, as well as company review site Glassdoor.com, among others.

With partnerships and new funding in its pocket, Evisors is setting its sights on becoming the online destination to get subject matter expertise. It still has a long way to go, but it’s off to a good start.

For more, check ‘em out at home here.

Original Page: http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/02/quora-as-a-marketplace-evisors-raises-seed-round-to-let-startups-find-and-connect-with-experts/

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Daily Deals: Beloved by Consumers, Less So by Merchants

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:06:25 -0430

Daily Deals: Beloved by Consumers, Less So by Merchants [INFOGRAPHIC]

by Lauren Indvik, mashable.com
October 31st 2011

There are few things U.S. consumers love more than a bargain, and the spread of daily deals sites has given them plenty of their beloved and then some. Americans will spend an estimated $2 billion on daily deal sites this year alone — a figure that’s expected to double by 2015.

Merchants, however, are telling a different story. While daily deals sites are helping many businesses attract new customers, turning those new arrivals into repeat customers has proved unexpectedly difficult. Furthermore, consumers aren’t spending over the allotted amount of their deals. Businesses are taking a hit as a result.

What will this growing pattern mean for consumers, businesses and daily deals sites? It’s difficult to say. But this infographic seems to make one thing apparent: Merchants are going to need to turn elsewhere if repeat business is what they’re after.

Original Page: http://mashable.com/2011/10/31/daily-deals-infographic-3/

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Infográfico: Las aplicaciones más populares para iPhone

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:50:43 -0430

Infográfico: Las aplicaciones más populares para iPhone

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En nuestro intento por mantener a los lectores informados con los datos más actuales, hemos realizado un infográfico que muestra las aplicaciones más populares para iPhone, en el mercado más grande y representativo del mundo: Estados Unidos. La información corresponde a una serie de reportes de Xyologic para el mes de agosto 2011, en el cual se muestran las mayores descargas en varias tiendas virtuales (como App Store), para diferentes plataformas.

Como era de esperar para las aplicaciones de pago, los juegos son los grandes ganadores en la guerra de descargas. Títulos como Angry Birds, Plants vs. Zombies o Fruit Ninjas fueron las apuestas para los primerísimos lugares. Sin embargo, dos sorpresas destacan por su sorprendente escalada hasta la cima: Words With Friends, que sube desde la posición 21 hasta el codiciado segundo sitio, y Siege Hero que araña el cuarto lugar, luego de ocupar la posición 130.

En cuanto a las descargas gratuitas, son tres las aplicaciones que rompen la hegemonía casi total de los juegos dentro del top 10: Instagram, Facebook y La Biblia, en quinto, séptimo y octavo lugar, respectivamente.

Foto: tnw.mx

Original Page: http://appleweblog.com/2011/10/infografico-las-aplicaciones-mas-populares-para-iphone

Microsoft's Envisioning Lab Reveals The Future Of Productivity

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:07:00 -0430

Microsoft’s Envisioning Lab Reveals The Future Of Productivity

by Kevin Purdy, fastcompany.com
October 30th 2011

The most unbelievable part of Microsoft’s eye-catching Productivity Future Vision video, released earlier this week, isn’t the see-through refrigerator, the software app that discovers a product design breakthrough on its own, or the plants growing on the wall of the ethereally white office. (That last one, actually, is a real office on the Microsoft campus.)

No, the most unbelievable part is how clean every surface is—in the car, in the office, and even in a kitchen where a bake sale project is underway. David Jones, acting director of the video’s creator, Microsoft’s Envisioning Lab, says it’s a common criticism, but then again, nearly every surface can act as a crisp, contextually savvy display. Wouldn’t you keep your counter more clean if you could watch Hulu on it?

We interviewed Jones to glean some insights from the video, and from other work being done at the Envisioning Lab, where the job is figuring out what the future of work and computer interaction might look like, inviting customers in to test it out, and working with other divisions to gather ideas and implement them in Office and other projects—projects like HoloDesk.

Watch the video, then read on to get the details on how that future works.

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To take a stab at showing what we’ll be doing work in the future, you must have to come up with some conception of what we’ll actually be doing then. The work in the video seems pretty high-level, knowledge-based work. Is that something you anticipate a further shift towards?

Yes, we do, but that’s not everybody’s work, necessarily. One of the challenges with the video is asking ourselves, “Who are the characters? Do they need to go to an office to work? What hardware do they use, what software do they use, what does their office look like?”

We went with a green theme, work that was good for the environment, and we ended up choosing a “Greenwall,” a living plant wall that changes the atmosphere of the room. The problem with picking any particular industry—law firm, dental office, manufacturing—is that we want it to be general enough that everyone can relate to it. We have a mom who’s traveling to Johannesburg, a concierge at a hotel, an engineer providing research for a model, workers in that office … we develop the story in quite a bit of detail, actually. But what we tried to do is show people collaborating with one another, analyzing data, and making decisions.

Speech input has a really big role in the video. It’s something Microsoft sees as really important in the future, I’d take it?

The general theme is really more natural user interfaces: speech, gestures, touch.

It’s very noticeable, and the camera angle is distinctly overhead, when it shows one person actually typing on a keyboard.

Typing is one of the fastest ways to input data—test after test shows it. We’ll definitely be typing in the future. But we believe speech recognition is something we’ll see much more of in the future. But you also see a little girl hand-write a note to her mom, and the mom draws a heart shape in the air to deliver to her daughter. The best thing we could do in the future is make it easy to use whatever is the most appropriate venue for your input.

That was a theme that came up with the coverage of (iPhone 4S voice assistant) Siri—that voice input seemed so much better, but people weren’t necessarily comfortable walking down the street, saying out loud, “Remind me to buy expensive chocolate for my wife …”

You’ll notice that (video character) Qin, when he looked at a voicemail in the subway station, it provided him with a transcription of the message, and gave him a text interface to answer, rather than playing it or looking for speech.

Because it knew he was in that subway station.

It knew exactly where he was. Contextual awareness, so that the information is personalized and contextually relevant, and brought right to you. When you see the guy typing in his office, too, you notice that information was brought up to support his point while he was typing.

The second-coolest thing in the video, as I see it, is the bit where Qin, while waiting for the train, gets a list of tasks he could accomplish before his train arrives. That’s pretty nifty.

He enters what we call “Five-Minute Mode” … His devices looks through his email for simple questions he could answer. It looks for a quick voicemail he could listen and respond to. It knows he buys coffee all the time, and it knows there’s a cart right up the stairs. It suggests he call his friend for her birthday.

… People are overwhelmed by the amount of information in their lives. And computers are not quite saying yet, “Here’s what you should be doing with all that information.” We have access to all that data, all that enterprise (of people). Computers should be making people more productive, based on what they know can be done.

The coolest, of course, is the fridge you can see through, that labels everything inside it. How close are we to that?

Actually, fairly close. There’s a transparent OLED display, products with embedded information, linked to a database of recipes …

So, possible, but entirely not affordable.

Not at all affordable, but we wanted to put something fun in there. We wanted to show how you could use contextually relevant information in the most surprising of places.

Privacy isn’t brought up explicitly in the video. Is it something that isn’t a main focus of the lab?

It’s a very important issue, in fact, and we talk about it to customers in the lab constantly. You’ll notice that when Iyaz is traveling in the shuttle, she chooses to share her information with the hotel. (That) you have absolute control over how your information is used is extremely important to us … With that information, the concierge knows how many bags she’ll be bringing, how long she’s been traveling for, when she last ate, so he can provide the best possible service. That’s what’s possible, but privacy is a bit part of that.

Note: Q&A has been condensed and edited.

Original Page: http://www.fastcompany.com/1791645/qa-with-microsofts-envisioning-lab-on-the-future-of-productivity

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A Wearable Computer Turns Any Surface Into A Touchscreen | Co. Design

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:52:19 -0430

A Wearable Computer Turns Any Surface Into A Touchscreen

fastcodesign.com | Oct 19th 2011

Chris Harrison, a PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, is full of interesting interface ideas. One of his latest projects is called OmniTouch, whose prototype design uses a shoulder-worn, depth-sensing camera/projector to create interactive “touchscreens” on anything from a nearby wall to your own forearm.

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The technology is amazing: OmniTouch’s screenless interface can distinguish between a touch and a “click” (i.e., a command to do something), auto-detect the size of the interface surface (e.g., it will project a short strip onto your arm, but a large rectangle onto the wall), and even recognize the orientation of the image in 3-D space (if you tilt your screen-hand toward yourself, it will consider it “private”; a more flat orientation will be deemed “public”). But oh, that rig—are normal people really going to be walking around someday with shoulder mounted screen-guns like the Predator?

Obviously, OmniTouch is a proof-of-concept and Harrison realizes that the physical setup has to be miniaturized and refined to viably offer “Wearable Multitouch Interaction Everywhere.” And the idea of turning any tactile surface into a personal computing device is exciting. But if mainstream computer-interface design is naturally tending toward the transparent and invisible—so intuitive that it quite literally disappears—schemes like OmniTouch still seem complicated and fussy. Any surface you want to “screen-ize” has to be oriented correctly toward a lens with a single perspective, the surface itself has to have appropriate attributes for receiving the projected image, and the image itself has to be clearly visible over a very wide range of lighting conditions. And what happens to the whole idea of public space when every douchebag on the street is splashing their email and Facebook clients onto the nearest wall or Starbucks counter? (You thought unwanted cellphone chatter was bad—what if you caught some perv on the subway reading their morning headlines off the back of your rump?)

Maybe advances in microlensing technology and computational photography will allow entire flexible surfaces to function as cheap, disposable camera/projectors, so worrying about whether your OmniTouch-like device is “pointed” correctly will be moot. But that’s a long way off, and this kind of sci-fi-ized interaction seems more suited to specialty applications (warfighting? EMTs?) than mainstream adoption. That said, Harrison and his cohorts are the ones who will be building the future of human-computer interaction, not armchair observers like me—so whatever he’s working on is worth taking seriously.

Original Page: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665225/a-wearable-computer-that-turns-any-surface-into-a-touchscreen

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Dudamobile – no dudes en crear la versión web móvil de tu sitio web

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:39:12 -0430

Dudamobile – no dudes en crear la versión web móvil de tu sitio web

wwwhatsnew.com | Oct 16th 2011

A pesar de que las pantallas de los smartphones sean cada vez más grandes y de mejor calidad de imagen, eso no justifica para no crear una versión web móvil de una versión web normal. Dudamobile es una interesantísima opción para generar una web móvil partiendo de una web.

El funcionamiento es muy sencillo, tan sólo debemos de ingresar la URL de la web que deseamos crear su versión móvil y esperar unos minutos. Después ya nos queda personalizar nuestra nueva web, en la cual le asignaremos una plantilla de entre las opciones disponibles, que personalizaremos, añadiremos nuevas características, y finalmente revisaremos por si tenemos que modificar algo, finalizando el proceso dándole a publicar.

Además, durante el proceso crearemos nuestra cuenta de usuario, y al final de la publicación, entre otras opciones, nos dan un código para añadir a nuestra web que permita a nuestros visitantes redirigirlos a la versión web móvil en caso de acceder desde dispositivos móviles.

Cabe indicar que también todo dependerá del tipo de cuenta con la que nos registremos, pudiendo acceder a una serie de funciones en la versión gratuita, que es ampliada y mejorada en la opción de pago.

Lo he estado probando por encima, y realmente es fácil de usar, teniendo a un teléfono móvil virtual donde previsualizaremos como quedaría, de forma relativa, nuestra web en estos dispositivos.

Original Page: http://wwwhatsnew.com/2011/10/16/dudamobile-no-dudes-en-crear-la-version-web-movil-de-tu-sitio-web/

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Clickto presenta su versión para Mac

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:52:25 -0430

Clickto presenta su versión para Mac

wwwhatsnew.com | Jun 10th 2011

ClickTo, la aplicación que tanta repercusión ha tenido durante los últimos meses entre usuarios de Windows, ahora llega a Mac con una versión perfecta para este sistema operativo.

Recordemos que se trata de un sistema que nos permite usar y acceder a varios recursos web sin necesidad de utilizar el navegador de Internet, pudiendo así buscar una palabra de un documento office en la Wikipedia, subir fotos directamente a Facebook, añadir notas a Evernote, buscar en Google, consultar en Xing… decenas de integraciones que comentan en clicktoapp.com.

Una forma cada vez más inteligente de tener Internet siempre presente, dentro y fuera del navegador.

Original Page: http://wwwhatsnew.com/2011/10/06/clickto-presenta-su-version-para-mac/

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Speaker Deck – Una sencilla y profesional forma de presentar un PDF en una

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:39:10 -0430

Speaker Deck – Una sencilla y profesional forma de presentar un PDF en una web

wwwhatsnew.com | Jun 10th 2011

Si queréis mostrar un documento pdf en Internet y preferís hacerlo en forma de presentación, Speaker Deck es una buena alternativa.

Se trata de una solución que transforma las páginas en “diapositivas”, permitiendo al lector cambiar entre una y otra de forma sencilla, sin muchos controles que puedan despistarle del objetivo principal: leer el contenido.

Solo tenemos que registrarnos y subir nuestro archivo, permitiendo asociarlo a una categoría específica, hacerlo público para consultarlo en speakerdeck.com y obtener el código para incluirlo en cualquier página web.

En el caso de querer compartirlo podemos especificar una página determinada o la presentación completa, enviándolo, si lo deseamos, a Twitter y Facebook.

Original Page: http://wwwhatsnew.com/2011/10/06/speaker-deck-una-sencilla-y-profesional-forma-de-presentar-un-pdf-en-una-web/

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Crea una infografía con tu perfil profesional

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:05:32 -0430

Re.vu – Crea una infografía con tu perfil profesional

wwwhatsnew.com | Oct 17th 2011

Hay formas y formas de presentar las cosas. En el caso del perfil profesional, hay formas más llamativas y elegantes, y formas menos llamativas y sobrias. Dentro del primer caso vamos a situar a Re.vu, una aplicación que nos permitirá crear una sencilla página donde mostrar de forma diferente nuestro perfil profesional.

Re.vu nos permite generar nuestra URL personalizada donde tendremos una única página en la que mostrar nuestra bio personal, nuestras experiencias laborales a través de un timeline interactivo horizontal, y nuestros estudios. ¿Y cómo añadimos toda esa información? Haciendo uso de Linkedin, que será el primer paso que tengamos que dar, conectar con dicho servicio.

Si no tenemos cuenta en Linkedin o queremos ampliar los datos añadiendo cosas nuevas, podemos hacerlo de manera manual desde nuestro panel de administración.

Finalmente configuraremos el look de nuestra página, donde tenemos una serie de temas visuales aunque podemos aportar nuevos fondos personales para dar un toque diferencial respecto al de otras personas, generando una infografía con toda nuestra vida profesional.

Por tanto, estamos ante un servicio que nos permitirá dar más visibilidad de una forma elegante a nuestro perfil profesional.

Original Page: http://wwwhatsnew.com/2011/10/17/re-vu-una-forma-diferente-de-presentar-tu-perfil-profesional/

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Chime.In: The Social Network That Pays You To Post

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:04:57 -0430

Chime.In: The Social Network That Pays You To Post

huffingtonpost.com | Oct 24th 2011

While Facebook has earned billions of dollars selling ads next to the content uploaded by their 800 million members, users haven’t seen a dime from their posts.

It’s an arrangement that extends across many of the web’s largest social networking sites — and one serial entrepreneur Bill Gross plans to change.

Gross, the CEO of UberMedia, which owns several popular social networking apps, is launching a new social media site on Tuesday, Chime.in, that will effectively pay its users to contribute.

Share with Chime.in and Chime.in will share with you. The site, which allows individuals to post photos, links, videos and text in two thousand character “chimes,” will give users 50 percent of the revenue it earns from selling advertising on their profile pages. Individuals or brands that sell that real estate themselves can keep all of the proceeds from the ads.

“This is a firing shot in social media,” Gross told The Huffington Post. “Finally, the interests of the content creators are aligned with the interests of the publisher because they get something for their hard work.”

Most new social networking sites try to lure users away from rivals with the promise of better perks and more advanced features, but Chime.in is using cool hard cash to ensure people have a stake in investing time into the site and driving viewers its way. This fiscal incentive seeks to address the problem that plagues every new social media site: how to attract users before a critical mass has already joined.

“We’re relying on the crowdsourced efforts of millions of people who are interested in driving traffic to our place,” said Gross of the startup’s growth strategy. “We’re going to have great communities curated by really strong people and they’ll be driving traffic to us. We won’t have to [drive traffic] because they’ll have an economic self-interest.”

In an effort to improve the quality of its videos, YouTube has implemented a similar revenue-sharing strategy that rewards users who upload popular content. Though paying people to post is hardly a sure bet, Gross maintains that money will actually improve the quality of the content on Chime.in.

“When money is involved, you will get a level of seriousness that is not there when there is no money involved,” he said.

Chime.in also offers a solution for brands that have yet to figure out how to leverage their Facebook “likes” or Twitter followers to improve their bottom line. So far, Disney, E! Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Bravo TV have signed up with Chime.in to create branded pages they could eventually use to turn a profit.

“Celebrities, movie studios, TV shows and publishing companies will want to make pages here because unlike with a page on Facebook, they can achieve monetization adjacent to the content itself, not only through a link,” said Gross. “Not everyone follows a link posted on Facebook.”

Gross claims that Chime.in — which he calls an “interest network,” not a social network — further improves on existing social media sites by offering a design that weeds out “noise” and shows only relevant content.

The site allows users to tag their chimes with up to five “interests,” such as “Apple” or “architecture,” and lets people subscribe to updates about a particular topic, essentially a stream of “chimes” that are aggregated based on the tags authors have added to their posts. As on Twitter, users can subscribe to each others’ feeds, though Chime.in offers additional control over what appears in their “chimeline”: Individuals can choose to receive only updates pertaining to a particular subject, so people interested in a pundit’s take on technology won’t be stuck hearing from him about artisanal cheeses from an outing to a farmers’ market.

“This platform is not just about urgent news and keeping up with friends and relatives. It’s about diving into interests,” said Gross. “People are moving away from searching the web to connecting with people and they’ll tell me what I need to know.”

The idea is intriguing, but the execution, at least in the beta version of the site, leaves much to be desired. People can add unrelated tags to their chimes, and a visit to several topics revealed posts about ramen and tomato sauce in a channel ostensibly dedicated to chimes about Google. Chime.in claims its algorithm will “bring quality content to the surface” and prioritize the best chimes, though it’s easy to imagine scammers will find ways to promote low-quality posts—especially with money at stake.

The most interesting aspect of Gross’s pay-you-to-post model may not what it does for Chime.in, but for sites like Facebook and Twitter. When users catch wind of the offer, will they sour on social networking sites that aren’t sharing their loot? The biggest question Chime.in may raise is: Why isn’t Facebook paying me?

SEE what Chime.in looks like before the launch:

Original Page: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/chimein-social-network_n_1016634.html

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